Mother's Day Request

The one thing I asked for on Mother's Day was a picture with my kiddos. We have very few pictures of me with the kids. I often joke/drop subtle hints to Adam that if I were to die the kids wouldn't remember what I looked like because we don't have many pictures of me with them. So we got our picture, after about 20 attempts. It is virtually impossible to get everyone to cooperate at the same time! Not perfect but I'll take it!

My Mother's Day Card

Here's my card from Bryson:




It says- Happy Mother's Day- I love (you) like God loves you!

I thought this was the sweetest thing. He brought the card Friday from school and he was so excited about it! He found a hiding spot for it right away and made me close my eyes so I wouldn't see it. I honestly thought he would forget about it until Sunday, but first thing this morning I was awoken by the pounding of feet up our steps and the boys beaming ear to ear as they shouted Happy Mother's Day! What a great start to my day.

Happy Mother's Day to everyone!

Our Shopping Excursion

2 free 5x7 pics of kids at Picture People for Mother's Day for the grandmoms. . . Free!

2 pairs of flip flops (or as Addie would say Tip Tops) from Old Navy . . . Free (because of a lovely $5 off coupon I got in the mail. Which the cashier and manager didn't know how to use, so my kids kept trying to dismantle the manikans while we waited for 15 minutes)!

60% of pack of underware from Target because a certain little girl had an accident . . . $3.56

2 pairs of sneakers for Tanyon from Stride Rite only . . . $23.00

Reward time at 3 different parks . . .

An argued filled trip to Sam's Club (an older man said Happy Mother's Day and I wanted to say Baa Humbug!) . . .

Several trips to different bathrooms . . .

All the hair that I lost because of the stress . . . worth it! (I think)

Play Ball!

Today was Opening Day for our local baseball league. All of the teams are assembled and each of the kids gets their name annouced as they run onto the field. Great idea, but the whole process is very long! On top of the length of the ceremony, it was extremely hot! We went from 50 degree weather to 88 degree weather over the course of 3 days! Addie was EXTREMELY bothered by the heat so I didn't get the best of pictures, but at least it's documented.


This is Bryson's 2nd year playing baseball.


Tanyon is so excited that he gets to play this year. Check out the seriousness as he runs onto the field!


In an attempt to save money, I snapped pictures of the boys as the photographer was taking pics. I figured I could make my own wallet pics.

Tan's hat makes his poor ears stick out. They gave all of the kids adult hats. Must have been a man who made the orders :)

The boys with their Daddy. They love having him help coach! I'm sad that Bryson's eyes are closed!!

The 2010 Rockies- they had several players missing. Bryson said he was lucky because he got to hold the bats! He is the only kindergartner on the team. He's doing a pretty good job holding his own!

The 2010 Reds- check out the faces of the kids in the front row, it will make you giggle! I have been so proud of Tanyon so far this season! Some of the kids on his team display less than desirable behavior, but he chooses to avoid it! It is great to see that he can think through the choices his making- away from the house at least. :) He told us the other day- so and so is not my friend. Why I asked. Because so and so was punching so and so in the back. But I didn't join in because I wanted to make Jesus happy! :) Brought a tear to my eye, and then we talked about showing kindness to so and so but not joining in when he's making bad choices.

As we signed the boys up for the season, Adam and I chose to bump Bryson up a level since he had already played 1 year of tbll. We knew that catching was an issue with him, but the boys last year on his team that had played 2 years of tbll were bored out of their minds. So far it seems like we made the right choice but when we have 4 nights of baseball a week I start to think we were crazy for doing so! But sports has always been a big part of Adam and I's life and we really are enjoying that our kids are getting big enough to enter this stage of life.