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Visiting Family Part 3
Visiting Family Part 3

One of the many highlights of our trip back home this past October/November was being able to visit family.  We were so happy to be able to stay with family as well, too!  While home, we stayed with my sister and her husband and their brood and also with my mama.  I loved being able [...]

Visiting Family Part 2
Visiting Family Part 2

While we were home on a visit this past October, we went out to my dad and step-mom’s place.  The kids LOVED being out on the farm and visiting Papa Cow and Nana!  It’s so peaceful at their place. In the morning, we went out to the horses and the kids got to feed them [...]

Boo-Boo Chicken’s Birthday
Boo-Boo Chicken’s Birthday

We just had a birthday party for our oldest daughter.  I told her she could invite about a handful or so of friends over and that’s all she knew until the party.  It was a great time!  I loved having the moms stay and hang out and Bailey LOVED having some of her friends over. [...]

Piper’s 3rd Birthday Pool Party
Piper's 3rd Birthday Pool Party

We recently had Piper’s birthday party at the pool.  The weather was perfect and we were so blessed to have a bunch of her friends, new and old, come to celebrate! Happy birthday, Piper Sue!!

End of school year review
End of school year review

I can’t believe how quickly this school year flew by!  It feels like just a couple months ago that I was dropping the kids off for school and being worried that Justice may not remember how to get to his classroom.  Of course he wasn’t worried and he was certain he didn’t want his big [...]

Why I haven’t posted in a grip (or two)
Why I haven't posted in a grip (or two)

I haven’t blogged in a while for a legitimate reason. About two-ish weeks ago I found a little bump on my leg. I thought it was an ingrown hair, so naturally I picked at it. I also thought it was healing just fine…I was wrong! I called Brandon on a Thursday and asked him to [...]

And…the kids are back at school!!!
And...the kids are back at school!!!

Last night it took Bay and Just FOREVER to actually get to sleep.  They both wanted to sleep in their school clothes so they would be ready as soon as they woke up in the morning.  After about 5 whole minutes of explaining why they couldn’t do that, they settled with laying the clothes out [...]

I LOVE days like these!
I LOVE days like these!

Sometimes the best thing to do is just stop what you’re doing and dance.  Take it from my kids.  They know!  I’m pretty sure this was the beginning of  jazz hands. After dinner they immediately went to their room and put on a lame cd…I mean a lovely cd that they adore and are entertained [...]

Craft day, thanks to Grammi Becca!
Craft day, thanks to Grammi Becca!

The kids were SO excited yesterday when our doorbell rang.  They knew it HAD to be the package that Grammi Becca had sent.  They’ve been waiting for it everyday since she told us she sent it and it finally arrived.  You should have seen them.  It was like Christmas in June!  It was awesome.  Thank [...]

Ice Cream, the park, and Pip!
Ice Cream, the park, and Pip!

We had some friends over for dinner last weekend.  The kids were SUPER excited because this meant they definitely got to have ice cream!  I was excited to see friends and enjoy some killer wine.  Anyway, Piper especially LOVED the ice cream.  Bay apparently couldn’t get enough either.  ; ) Then, on Monday morning I [...]

She may be little, but she’ll get you!
She may be little, but she'll get you!

It’s spring break this week and all three kids are home.  It’s been a super relaxing week.  We don’t usually watch a lot of TV, but this week has been filled with cartoons and XBox.  Brandon took out the old XBox and taught Justice how to play Halo and a few more games.  It’s a [...]

One more tooth gone
One more tooth gone

So, Bailey lost one of her big front teeth on Christmas Eve.  Her papa pulled it for her and the other front one has been super loose FORVER, but she won’t let any of us pull it.  She INSISTED that she wanted to pull it.  Finally, on Monday night it was so loose that she [...]

All she wants for Christmas is her one front tooth
All she wants for Christmas is her one front tooth

Bailey lost her front tooth on this Christmas Eve.  She’s been wiggling it all week and hoping it would come out on Christmas day.  She got her wish one day earlier!

Kickin’ Butts and takin’ names
Kickin' Butts and takin' names

Over the past week and a half or so, our son has been not liking his preschool.  He started the year off  doing well.  He liked his class, his teacher, and most of all “the park”.  Well, he recently has been saying that he doesn’t want to go to school and that he wants to [...]

Halloween 2009
Halloween 2009

Halloween 2009 Here are a few pic’s I snapped … well all except the first one Kate took.  Nothing like inflatable slides, bouncy houses, tons of sugar, and some beautiful sunset light to make a great night.  Bay got brave and decided to try the rock wall.  Kate and I were dumbfounded by this deviation [...]

Red Wagon Parade 2009
Red Wagon Parade 2009

This past Saturday, Bailey and I were in the Red Wagon Parade downtown Jacksonville.  Bailey was Pippi Longstocking and I was supposed to be a pirate, even though I don’t look like it.  It was a part of the Jax Kid’s Day which was benefitting Wolfson Children’s Hospital and it was a blast.  Lot’s of [...]

Our girl is growing
Our girl is growing

So, last Thursday Bailey came home from school and had some goldfish crackers for a snack.  After she finished she said, “Mom, I think my tooth is loose”!  I felt it and, sure enough, it was quite loose.  Ever since she was born, I always said that pulling teeth out would be Daddy’s job.  I [...]