Our 4th of July!

This year to celebrate the 4th of July we spent most of our afternoon outside with the Carters. The kids played on the Slip-N-Slide and sprinkler while the adults played some washers!

Peyton cracked me up all day! He did the silliest things!

Andi had a little too much power in her slide this time! Too funny!

Cameron made the mistake of starting to push the kids down the slide and got stuck doing it for a while!

Papa Jim, Jordan has a new Texan phrase we need to share with you...While zipping down the slip-n-slide he yells "This is DAARRRN TOOTIN' FUN!"!!! For those of you that don't know the background to why this is so funny to me, I will share the story. I was the first one of the family to be born and raised in Texas, the rest of them are from Iowa. I have always been teased for my Texas twang! One day I told Papa Jim that it was "daarrnn chilly" outside. That is been a phrase the whole family continues to use! I Love that MY son has the same twang I have!

After we played in the sun, we dryed off and grilled some dogs and had a picnic in our backyard. Harley really liked the droppings when we finally let her back outside!

Soni had a great time playing on the slide!

After dinner us big kids played another round of washers. The first game was boys against girls, the next game was Buckleys against Carters. Sam and I had our own little competition going to see which one of us would be able to get the most points. Sam kicked my butt! Not only did she kill me in our competition, she is the reason her team won, she scored nearly all their points! She was quite proud of herself and did a little happy dance in the back yard! Too bad I didn't catch it on video!

I hope everyone had as a great of a day as we did! God Bless America!

A long awaited update in pictures....

We went camping as a family for the first time! It was so much fun! We borrowed my dad's camper and spent the weekend out at Lake Lavon. Cam Cam came by the last day to play washers and get his scrapbook I made him for graduation. We can't wait to go again!

Jordan had a friend stay the night for the first time after we went to the Rough Riders baseball game with his tball team. The kids got to go out on the field before the game and get announced and then run around the bases at the end of the game. When it came time to run the bases, Jordan and Ashton went out and ran from 1st to 2nd, 3rd and then home plate. They were all supposed to be done when they got home, but Jordan didn't realize this and went running on to 1st again. He did this 2 more times until finally the girls standing at home had to block him and lead him up the stairs to me. I was trying to yell his name, Jeff was trying and so was Ashton. As he was running around the second or third time he was hold his chest b/c he was out of breath, but just kept going. What a ham!

We went to the first event at the new cowboys stadium! It was amazing! George Strait, Reba, Blake Shelton and Leann Womack. We had a great time and the stadium is fabulous!

Spring TBall-Pirates

I DON'T!!!!

We were driving to Granny's Thursday afternoon and I was too busy thinking about all the crap I have to get done to realize what song was on the radio until I hear Jordan's comments in the back...



This song was playing and Jo yells, "I don't!!!"
Me: "You don't what?"
Jo: "What he wants to do."
Me: "What does he want to do?"
Jo: "You know!"
Me: "No, honey I wasn't listening"
Jo: "Kiss a gir, I don't want to do that"
Me: "Ohhhh, okay."
Jo: "Except you mommy."
Me: "Why b/c I'm not a girl?"
Jo: "No you are a girl. I don't want to kiss a girl I don't know like he does!"

Too funny!

Jordan's Birthday Party....little late I know!

Jordan's party was nearly a month ago but, here are the pictures! It was Nascar Race Day so we rented out a building here in town and I taped off a race track for the kids to race their big wheels and I borrowed some scooters from coach for the bigger kids! Jordan got some great stuff from some great friends! Thank you to everyone!

I really hate the way the 8's on the car turned out, but other than that I was proud of my first Nascar cake!

Let's go racin'!!!

Jeff wanted to play with the big kids! Too bad he LOST!!

Jo just wanted money to buy his Wii and cars! lol (by the way, he ended up with enough to buy the Wii)

Sarah and Hayley!!!

Sorry...

I know I haven't posted in a LONG TIME...but I still don't have time to sit down and catch you up! I do have to share this stinkin cute experience at teeball yesterday. It was not my kid, in fact, we have only had 3 practices so I don't even know the kid's name, but it was funny!

Our coach is extremly organized and a great coach. He has two assistants and breaks the kids up into groups and rotates them after the first couple of warm ups. One of the warm ups was game where the kids get in a line at short stop and he hit a ground ball to them. In his words "if you field the ball cleanly, you get to go back to the line; if not, you have to sit out." The first kid steps up and coach hits the ball. The kid catches the ball and yells..."IT FEELS CLEAN!" So stinkin cute!!! I guess the coach didn't realize he needed to explain the phrase first!

Anyway, that is about all I have time for tonight...or I guess this morning. I'm tired and need to get to bed. I will get some pictures posted soon and play "ketchup" again!

P.S. Wish Jeff a Happy Birthday on Friday!

P.S.S Jordan isn't crying at teeball this season...well he cried a little today, but not about teeball. I sent him to go get a ball and somebody took it from him. All was good in a minute flat...nothing like his frist season of teeball! Pray it stays great!

I've decided!

My family needs a Wii! I know what you may think; it is just a gaming system really and we have a PS2 from when I was in high school that still works, Jordan has the original Nintendo that Uncle Jay and Aunt Reese gave him, oh and Jordan got a Nintendo DS from Nana and Staci for his 4th birthday! But really we NEED a Wii.
My sister stayed the night with us and brought along her Wii last night...yes it is very portable! Although, she did totally forget the actual controllers you kind of have to have to play the dang thing; but it was okay, Cameron from next door saved the day!!! He brought over not only his controllers, but I pleaded for him to bring his Mario Kart game and wheels too! OH MY GOSH!!! WE NEED A WII!! I say this for my physical and emotional mentality! It gives you a great workout, that's the physical part...But it was also the most free fun Jeff and I had together in the longest time! Not to mention, I was finally able to beat him in bowling in our lifetimes! Just because it was not real, does not mean I did not beat him!!! And of course I had to do my little happy dance every time I did good! We laughed and laughed...my poor sister shut the door so she could get some sleep around 10:30 but ya know... We just had too much fun and I think we NEED one!

Rants and Raves for the week so far!

Let's start with some good stuff!

I took Jordan to builderbear (build a bear) for his Valentine's present and he had so much fun! He named it Jo =) I will take a picture of him and Jo when he gets feeling better and post it.

We ate a Texas Road House Friday night...great food! One of our favorites, if you haven't been, you need to try it!

We went to Ashton's birthday party on Saturday. Ashton is Jordan's new sitter's son; they are the same age and get along really well!

Cam Cam's baseball team had a dinner, silent auction and live auction event on Saturday that seemed to earn them a lot of money for the season! We had a good time and Jordan was very well behaved!

Now I need to rant...

Jordan has the flu! Not fun!

When I went to fill his tamaflu at CVS they let me turn it in and go home to wait 3 hours, just to find out they were all out of tamaflu and have been all week! Wonderful!
Walmart did have Tamaflu for $75!!!!!!!! My gosh! This sucks!

It is bittersweet that I am home for at least 3 days with Jo, but I have no more days at work so I am getting docked and his Valentine's party is Thursday, don't know if we will be able to make it =(

The stupid campus bookstore at Commerce had their shelf labeled wrong for one of my classes and I bought the wrong book. I had a quiz due Monday night and realized I had the wrong book on Sunday night!

I went to explain what had happened to the bookstore manager and she was a word I should not post for the world to read! I wanted to hop over her little desk and beat her with the unneeded textbook! But I didn't, instead I had to sell the book back for a measly $24 when I bought it last week for $115. Then I had to turn around and buy the right book for $105. Don't you just love that? ARGGG

Jordan's fever got up to 104.5 last night and Jeff and I were freaking!

The President's speech thing last night ruined the dvr recording of The Bachelor so now Sam and I will have to watch it on the computer with no skipping commercials!!!

Let's end with some more Raves...

The girl working the counter at the bookstore felt bad for me and gave me $20 pay for the book. I felt bad taking it, but she says she understands this stuff isn't fair and she does it all the time.

Sam and Aubrey have been real helpful with the stupid fever issue and have been super sweet calling to check on Jo the past couple of days.

Mrs. Kayla, the new sitter, is too sweet. When I called to let her know Jordan had the flu she told me that the kids had already decided they wanted to make brownies when Jordan did get to come back to make him feel better! Isn't that just so sweet!?

Sorry this post was a little different that normal, but that is what has consumed our lives this week! 12 hours of school and 40 hours of work just doesn't leave me much time to post, but I will try! We will be started teeball again this season so I will have some cute pictures to post then!!