summer time=family reunions

The kids and I headed over to a family reunion

last Saturday for Trenton's mom's family.

"The Marshall's"

It was her turn to plan it,

 & I must say she; along with her sisters, did a great job!

It was at the fair grounds so there was lots of room to run & play.

They rented a few boucney slides,

had some fun games,

and of course lots of yummy food!

Here the kids are with Grandma Marshall,

also these are WATER balloons the kids are holding!

I am so glad they didn't throw them at each other!

(Someone might have lost a head!)

M & B playing on the slides.

T attempted to ride one of those big bouncey balls down the slide-

needless to say it did not work!

I was in charge of keeping the water balloons safe.

After lunch most of our gang passed out in the cool shade.

Trenton's Grandma is the BEST!

She is so funny & my kids just love her!







a few sillies

B was in desperate need of a haircut,

I had been out running errands & came home to this 'do'.

He was really proud!

Needless to say both boys were sheered the next morning.

M drew this picture of her & I.

We are cheer leading.

So cute!

We finally have a complete sidewalk from one end

of our little street to the other.

M and her cousin took their first ride down it on Monday.

They had so much fun!

The next morning M went out to play

& came in to tell me she had gone down

"4 more times!!" 

On Tuesday and Wednesday I had the pleasure of the stomach flu.

Such a good time!

(The Mr. and T had it over the past weekend)

Anyway, M & I went to watch B's baseball game from the

comfort of the car on Wednesday night.

She got pretty bored and was finding different ways to

amuse herself.  The camera on my phone became on of them.

What a little ham!



this father's day brought to you by pinterest

The boys will be spending some time with their cousins,

so we celebrated Father's Day tonight.

I made this banner for last Father's Day &

was glad I kept it around for this year.

We had a yum-o dinner.

I made Mt. Dew cupcakes-they tasted good,

but are almost too ugly to eat.

I don't know what happened-I have never had cupcakes

come out with a huge dent in the middle.

The taste is good, but not my favorite.

I would say this was a fun, novelty one time recipe.

I found some darling printable cards,

did a 'World's Best Pop' bag with root beer,

popcorn, pop tarts & a blow pop.

I made a cute sheet that the kids filled in about Trenton.

(Their answers were darling-I may have to post them.)

All of these were ideas I swiped from Pinterest.

I am running out of gift ideas for my main squeeze,

so I sent away his old high school sports videos

 to be put on to DVD's.

We also got him a new watch-

I'm not sure how much he likes it,

but it's the thought that counts, right?

It was a fun night, and he gets to spend the

weekend playing softball so a pretty great

Father's Day if I do say so myself.

So here's my shout out to the man who rocks my world:

I love your guts baby!

Thank you for taking such good care of me,

and being the bestest daddy to our

3 little chickens!

I am grateful for every day I am blessed to be your Mrs.



wilma jean, i love you

My dad turned 60 in March &

we are throwing him a belated

birthday party the end of this month.

(shh, it's a surprise)

I don't know if it's all the prep for that,

and the thought of getting his siblings, cousins

& other yea-who's together that has me thinking

 a lot about my grandparents (his parents) lately.

I can't even describe how much I loved them. . .

still do in fact.

My granny was my favorite-

I know your not suppose to pick favorites with family members,

but it is true-she is my very fave!

I think in all families there are ones

who just 'get' each other.

We did that for each other.

I feel so sad that my little chickens don't have the

blessing of feeling the incredible love she had for her family,

but I know that by knowing me they know her.

They know how much I love a good visit with a dear friend,

that's Wilma.

They know that I think a full belly equals a happy person,

that's Wilma.

They know that I like to curl up on the couch and

get lost in a book, a magazine or pinterest,

that's Wilma.

(well, pinterest for me & the national enquirer for her)

They have Elvis, Frankie Valli & Bobby Darin

downloaded on their ipods,

that's Wilma.

They know that I hate wearing shoes,

that's Wilma.

They know that I'm going to squeeze them, kiss them,

and love on them most of the day,

that's Wilma.

And they know that I hold family above everything else,

that's Wilma.

I love these old pictures of them.

They were always so in love.

Such an amazing example of what a good marriage is.

My Grandad was the coolest!

He always had the funniest stories,

he was always, always happy &

usually whistling.

He taught us funny (and slightly off color) limericks.

He let us play in his 'man cave' with all his cool stuff.

He was my grannies chaperon,

because she never had a drivers license.

He taught us to love Indy car racing,

and took us for rides in 'the bus'.

We was the strong silent type,

I remember him just standing back, taking it all in

with a huge grin on his face.

I am so grateful that I am their grand daughter.

I am grateful for every moment I spent with them.

I am grateful that my kids get a piece of them in my dad.

And, mostly I am grateful that we will all be together again one day.





bare footin'

Our Miss M had her spring dance recital last night.

Her class danced to an old jazz song

by Robert Parker

"Barefootin"

It was really cute.

Goofing off & waiting to get things started.

She was so impressed with her jumps off

the stage for me!

And here they go. . .

Cute dancing cousins!

Some of M's cute friends.

She was so excited to get flowers!

Good job M!

We are so proud of you!

Also she is playing T-ball.

Her first game was last Saturday.

She said "Girl baseball players DO NOT wear hats!"

I guess her team mates didn't get that memo!

Such a silly billy sometimes!





randoms

T had a double header on Saturday.

They won both games,

we shopped at Target & ate

at Red lobster

so it was well worth the trip!

I watch him play & just can't believe

how big he is!

I swore we were watching him play T-ball yesterday.

He has some awesome friends!

They are so goofy together!

These two inhaled a chocolate lava cookie

with ice cream like a Hoover vacuum!

Even big boys like super hero's!

Little green tomatoes today,

big yummy red ones tomorrow.

(well not exactly tomorrow, but were getting closer Dad!)

Sunday we took a walk to the park.

The boys played catch,

M played on the playground & swings,

we picked mulberries and ended up with purple fingers.

It was a good way to end the day.

This is my grandma's old house.

It's in our neighborhood &

I just love going by it!

The tree in the front yard is huge.

I have so many great memories of

my grandma & grandpa in this house.

This morning was our first official day of summer!

I did a "welcome to summer" breakfast

of bacon & eggs as a surprise for the kids when they woke up.

We got them each a few fun, easy summer reads, and

their favorite "scratch-it's".

This is by far the moment of the week

(and it's only Monday!)

M is fascinated with my parents apricot tree.

She brings home apricots everyday to ask me if they are ready.

This has been going on since they were tiny & green.

They are now getting pretty close,

and she was sure today that they were ready.

She brought some in & cut them open,

but they were still bitter.

Well, my little girl is pretty good at making lemonade

when life hands her lemons so this is what she says to me:

"Mama were going to use the apricots as little boats

in the bath tub for my squinkies.

It's an idea I got from Pinterest."

I about fell over laughing!







summer has arrived

This last week of school has been pretty low key.

The boys each only had 1 baseball game this week,

and a few small school activities.

M was glad to hang at home with me.

She has taken a liking to

'Doc McStuffins'.

I made her, her very own doctor bag,

complete with band aids, a measuring tape,

medicine syringes, gloves, a magnifying glass,

tweezers & all sorts of goodies.

She loves to take care of our 'boo-boo's'.

While the boys were at baseball we went for sno-cones.

M got a BIG one!

Coconut is YUM-O!

On Thursday B had Pet Day at school.

We loaded up Pip & headed down.

When we arrived there were 9 pets-

1 cat, 1 ferret & 7 dogs!

After Pip's incident with the dog & power pole she

defines the term "Scardy-Cat"!

We moved quite a ways away from the dogs,

but this is as far as she would venture out of her

pet taxi.

(So grateful we borrowed the carrier for her!)

Today was the last day of school.

B's teacher did some fun awards &

volunteer appreciation.

He received the

"Best at getting the Teacher off subject award"

So funny! That's totally our B!

He will get you talking, and then ask question after question

until you don't remember what you started talking

about in the first place.

He had such an amazing teacher!

Ms. H is genuinely caring & attentive to each of her students.

She put in the extra mile to help B with his reading,

we love & appreciate her so much for that!

Balloon send off to welcome in the summer!

T also had a wonderful teacher!

He really developed a great relationship with her.

I didn't realize the picture was blurred until we got home-

oops!

Thank you Mrs. P! You made 5th grade awesome!

After school today we had a party for some friends that are moving.

They have boys both our boys ages,

so we are really going to miss them!

It was a really fun party!

I think we had about 40 kids there!

We just held it at our aquatic center,

and set up a tent with lots of goodies.

Such silly boys!

Little Bubby Boy hanging out

Miss M playing in the fountains

We love you DM!

This picture was nearly impossible to get!

Such a great group of kids!

So excited summer is here!