After 4 weeks of once per week guitar lessons, I must say, I’m quite impressed by this boys skills.
He wanted to share what he’s learned so far.
Song list (in order of appearance):
Twinkle Twinkle
Happy Birthday
Boogie Everywhere
Hit me with your best shot
Eye of the Tiger
Turn up the Music (Lemonade Mouth)
Wild Thing
Breakthrough (Lemonade Mouth)
We Three Kings
Tell him what you think!!
Gracie did her last 10 months of preschool at home with me. We were looking back through old scrapbooks a while back and she noticed the boys’ preschool graduation pictures and wondered why she didn’t get to do that. So, I went online, ordered a cap and gown set and we decided to have her a preschool graduation at home.
Here she is saying the Pledge of Allegiance while my niece Ela holds the flag.
Getting her diploma.
We also celebrated her 5th birthday since we had our family together.
Here’s the cake she picked out.
After all of the festivities, we decided it was time to take the kids to the pool to cool off!
Here’s my nephew Tre
Gracie
Rhett
Braden
Meghan and Gracie looking sweet for the camera!
We were so glad to have Meghan with us for 2 weeks while she participated in the MASH program.
My niece Ela
Here’s my brother aka Poppy blowing up a raft. A parents’ work is never done :)
Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate Gracie’s graduation and birthday. We had a great day!!
We finally got to take our camper out for the first time this year. We went to a new campground and we had a great time.
They had a giant jumping pillow and that is where our kids spent most of their time.
We enjoyed breakfast outside before it got too hot.
The theme for the weekend was Pirates! The kids had a great time with all of the crafts and activities.
“Walk the Plank”. They had to reach the end of the balance beam while blindfolded and being sprayed with water.
Pirate Hats!
Costume contest.
Costume contest winners!! Our family received a 50% off gift certificate for our next trip there. Yay!
Glow in the dark boy.
We had SOOO much fun!! Can’t wait for our next outing!!!
I have a new brother in Christ today! 7-27-11
RHETT!!!
He’s been asking questions for a while now and I’ve just been answering his questions, praying for him and telling him to let me know when he’s ready.
He came home from VBS today with some fresh questions and wanted to talk about asking Jesus into his heart. I told him again, “you just tell me when you’re ready”.
About 5 minutes later, he came into the kitchen, where I was doing dishes, with a folded up note. He told me that after he left the room, I could look at the note.
As I read the words he wrote, tears filled my eyes. He walked back into the kitchen and when he saw that I had read the note, he had a huge smile on his face.
We went and sat on my bed and shut the door so we could have quiet to talk and for about 30 minutes, we talked and asked each other questions.
My boy that has never had an attention span longer than 5 minutes, sat riveted on my every word with a big smile on his face. I probably could’ve explained things to him for another hour and he never would’ve even squirmed. He was very interested in what we were talking about.
After our conversation, I knew he was ready.
He prayed the sweetest, most mature prayer I’d ever heard him pray and I wish I would’ve captured the look on his face when he said, “Amen”, opened his eyes and looked up at me. He almost looked like he was glowing!
We snuggled up as I prayed for him and then we just had a sweet few moments of me crying and him giggling.
He was so excited, he couldn’t wait to tell his brother and his Daddy and then he wanted to call everyone! He even told me he wanted me to put it on the blog so everyone would know!
I’ll never forget this day!
Thank you Lord!! I can’t wait to see what you do in this sweet boy’s life!
In 2007, we bought a 27’ travel trailer. We have taken many camping trips in it and we love it. We don’t get to take it out as much as we’d like these days, but it’s always there if we get a chance to go somewhere.
I thought I’d give you a tour!
Standing at the front door. Couch folds down into a bed.
“Master Bedroom”
Dining table also makes into a bed.
Bottom couch folds into a bed. One of the boys fell out of the top bunk a couple years ago (even with a bed rail), so no one sleeps up there these days. We usually use the space to store things out of the way- kids clothes, etc.
TINY bathroom. That’s the one thing I wish I could change-- I wish it was bigger.
There you have it… our home on wheels!
I play Bunco once a month with a group of friends from back home. (Sometimes my schedule doesn’t allow for me to make the trip on a weeknight, but I go as often as I can.) Our group loves to dress up and have a good time.
This month Tasha hosted and had a pirate theme. It was so fun!
After the games, we had some fun taking pics before I headed home.
Buddies since the 4th grade and still best of friends.
What a blessing!!
Do you see Jack Sparrow?? That’s Tasha’s Mom! She always goes all out on her costumes! She won best dressed (obviously!)
It was hard, but after just 3 days, we said goodbye to the beach and the heavenly condo that we’d so happily called home for 3 glorious days.
One last picture of the view from the living room. Just so we don’t forget.
Posing for a picture by a palm tree while Daddy loaded up the van.
Our van is the best road trip vehicle! There are 2 tvs that can either show the same thing, or 2 different things. Gracie was watching her movies on the front tv and the boys had their game cube hooked up to play video games in the back.
They hardly made a peep for the 14 or so hours it took in the car to get from here to there.
On the way back, we decided to stop and stay the night in Vicksburg instead of driving straight through. We were all relaxed from a nice few days of vacation, the last thing we wanted was to rush back home and be exhausted when we got back home.
The hotel had an indoor pool and the kids were very happy to be able to get out of the car and into the pool!
Here’s a pic of Braden practicing his swimming. He had me timing him to see how fast he could swim the length of the pool.
And here’s the other 2 wild munchkins :) They wanted me to get them jumping in the pool together. My battery died on my camera, so my phone was all I had.
What a great vacation! We hope to be able to repeat it sometime!
I’ve already told my husband that he is not allowed to wait more than 2 years between taking time off for vacation anymore. We’ll see how well that works… :)
