That didn't go so well

Whatever Bree does,

Jacob must do too.

This picture is blurry because I wanted to capture the moment but yet not really let him eat the paint.  It didn't work.  You'll see later.

Oh yes, quite upset.  The blue paint didn't taste so good so lets try the green...

...then the brown!

Tiny handprints grow so fast

Their awkward groping soon will clasp

A ball, a book, a sweetheart's hand,

A diploma, briefcase, a wedding band.

Tiny handprints grow so strong

It doesn't take them very long

To snap a shirt, to paint, to draw

To work hard , to drive a car

Tiny handprints grow to be

A person that is quite unique

A wonderful mix of so many things

With his own feelings, thought and dreams

Tiny handprints grow to rely

On his parents to bring him up just right

His parents pray that when he's grown

He'll say their job has been well done

Tiny handprints are ours to love

The sweetest gift from God above

A miracle that never is surpassed

How sad they grow up way to fast -

 

       -Author Unknown

Thats my girl!

Not only did she fall asleep reading a book (so proud) but she fell asleep reading a Christmas book!  Thats my girl.

Merry Christmas in July!

Boys will be boys

What else are you supposed to do in the puddle at the end of the driveway after the only rain we've had for weeks upon weeks??

Gotta love accidental belly flops!

Thats right, buddy.  Brush it off, brush it off!

Growin' Up

WATCH OUT:

Cool dude sleeping!

Summer Experiences #1.5

This was supposed to be on the same post as the first fishing video but youtube was taking forever to load it so it had to wait.  Enjoy!

Summer Experiences #2

Whats a summer without strawberries??

We only had this many picked when a storm rolled in.  We ran for cover then decided it would just be easier and drier to just go to the fruit farms store and bought already picked strawberries.

Up next: J-A-M!

Summer Experiences #1

Whats summer without a little fishing?

One...

One is the loniest number that you'll ever grow...

Siblings

"To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time."

 

Its sum-sum-summertime!

This is an excerpt from another blogger that nailed the point of summer right on the head.  Its not about being involved in every activity under the sun.  Its not about rushing from picnic to family gathering to party after party just to rush home, get baths and shoved into bed.  Its about enjoying all the little moments that make summer the season that is engrained in every memory of your childhood.  Its a time to throw schedules out the window (mostly), live life on the edge, and show the children of today what our summers used to be like.


"Summer will be about slowing down, sleeping in, picking strawberries, making jam, maybe the zoo and maybe the pool, definitely the beach and probably the playground.

  We'll hunt for frogs, ride bikes, make s'mores, build forts, keep dirt forever lodged in fingernails.

 We'll stay up too late reading books and get up too early to eat pancakes. We'll smell like chlorine and sunscreen for days at a time, and not once, never, not even a little bit, will we regret it."

As you spend time with you family on your extra day off work on Memorial Day weekend...

As you bar-b-que on your Memorial Day weekend...

As you enjoy your Memorial Day weekend...

As you pack for your Memorial Day weekend...

As you prepare for your Memorial Day Weekend...

You just couldn't pay me enough

However if you dare my son to do it I'll take pictures.

Have you ever been this thirsty?

Don't forgot that Bree was so thirsty one time she did this.

Sunny days will come again

Until then sit back...


 relax ...


and imagine all the fun I had brushing her hair when we got home.

Aprils New Years Resolutions

I went to the store the yesterday to buy milk and I noticed the date on the carton was stamped May 26th.  May 26th?!?  How can that be?  Thats, like, forever away.  Then it hit me.  May 26th is only two weeks away and I have not blogged once the entire month.  Sorry about that.  Time seems to be slipping by faster and faster these days. Work, home, clean, gym, clean, sleep, work, gym, home, clean, sleep, gym, clean, work....  You get the drift.  Its hectic.

April New Years Resolutions went as following:

Coupons:

Coupons have become a daily part of my life.  Clipping.  Sorting.  Comparing ads. Purging expired coupons.  WAIT A MINUTE!!  Don't throw away those coupons you never got around to using.  Did you know that people in the army, military and so on can use coupons for up to 90 days past the expiration date?!  What a wonderful way to help those who are serving our country.  You can google coupons for military and you'll get a wide variety of addresses to send your neglected, unused coupons.  Most of them ask you to sort coupons into baggies of edible and non-edible products before mailing them.  I even went as far as clipping EVERY coupon I wouldn't use from the inserts and mailed those too.

New Blog

Some of you might have noticed along the left side there is a new button that says Homemade Memories.  That is (yet another) blog I've started.  Its nothing that will be updated on any kind of regular basis.  There is generally a lot of crafting going on in this house and the new blog gives me a way to share it all with you.  Maybe it'll spark some creative gene in your body.  Feel free to steal ideas and modify them.  Just be sure to email me pictures of finished projects!

Box Tops

I was able to give another 52 box tops to the schools this month!  That was mostly due to a special at Meijer this month that if you bought 5 pillsbury products (which I had coupons for) you recieved a voucher for the schools worth 20 box tops!  Awesome!  Now if only I could get better at cutting the Campbell labels for the schools too.

Weigh-Less

As everyone does, whether its written on paper or just a mental note, I too made a New Years resolution to weigh less this year.  From January to mid-April I somewhat watched what I ate and tried to get to the gym on a regular basis.  But honestly, as any mother of two little ones can vouch, watching what you eat means, eating whatever is laying on the counter or can be eaten as you load the kids into the car to take to the sitters in attempts to get to work on time.  And hitting the gym on a regular basis...well that just doesn't happen in real life.  Not unless you go to bed at the same time as your children and get up before the birds.  Yeah.  Thats not happening.  Jacob has only been sleeping through the night since March 23rd and my body has still not caught up on the years worth of sleep it was deprived of.  So since I wasn't doing myself much good on my own I went back to what I know works.  Weight Watchers.  Yup, thats right.  I joined Weight Watchers (again, for maybe the 9th or 10th time) on April 28th and will *hopefully* be keeping you all up to date on my progress along the way.  My first week back (May 5th) I lost 3.6 pounds!