just some more pictures

ZOO: A group photo of all of us that went to the Zoo, my kids and me, Mom and dad and my sister Lori's family. And Maddi got her face painted with a butterfly. and another photo of Grandpa and the kids feeding the goats.
MICAH SCHOOL WORK: Micah's wants to be a fireman a chef and a weather man when he grows up....so the science lessons we are currently doing on weather are fun and easy for him. If you ask him something about the weather watch out he is like an encyclopedia......:)
BIKE RIDING: Before 4pm traffic on the road is pretty slow so as long as I can get one other adult out with me I dont mind taking them all bike riding. 2 kids to go before training wheels are another milestone marked off the list of motherhood :()

pics to make up for my lack of posting

We went to the zoo with Frito Lays grandpa works there, Ethan hitched a ride on cousin Stevie's shoulders. Ethan's 4th birthday breakfast OJ fruit and toast his favorite and his new bike. And Grandpa's birthday party (and some of his goofy grandsons) just wanted to let ya know what we've been up to........besides school work! Hopefully things will get easier with schooling quickly cuz I am just about burnt out.

A Bailey sandwich?

 

They LOVE thier big brother....of course he does tend to baby them!
Homeschooling is going Okay. We are all adjusting....I have some pics but just havent downloaded them yet...I will get to that...soon. Ethans b-day is tommorow so I will have pics of that too. later

Lazy summer day

 

I love taking photos of all my kids, but Madeline just seems to be a natural. We were at soccer practice, she was just laying ther soaking up the setting sun. So of course I had to snap a pic.

Micah's dino

here is a close up of Micah's dinosaur that won 2nd place at the fair.

Summers ending :(

The final days fo summer are always busy....we went to the parade in town Bailey and Micah rode on the float for Aunt Ruth's church. Soccer is in full swing and man has it been HOT! Then there is our local fair that we go to every year and the kids never tire of it. They love everything the rides, animal, shops and of course the fish game. We brought home 3 goldfish this year and they are still alive (rare for fair fish) Daddy gave them money to go down the local pet shop and get more fish now we have 8 total and they bought a bunch of stuff for the tank I should get a picture of the kids with the tank in the morning to post. They are really enjoying it.

WE WON!

Micah and I were so excited! Micah entered his painted dinosaur and a photo he took of our cousin Reed, his photo took 1st place and the dino took 2nd at the local fair! He squealed with excitment when he saw his first ribbon. It was cute.
I entered a photo of Maddi (and she says she won the first place ribbon too cuz it is a picture of her) 3 scrapbook pages (all won 2nd place in thier catagories, all shown closer in posts below) and 2 scrapbook albums (both won first place) One was the heritage album of my mother I will take pictures of it when I get it back from the fair and the other album is the one of this summer. I already have some pictures of on my blog here. It was fun to enter these and next year all the kids want to enter things in the fair too.

Summer Day scrapbook

I had fun with this album! If I get it all done (still working on 3 pages that I just seem stuck on) I plan on entering it in the fair. We'll see.

fun scrapbook pages

before and after scrapbook pages. this was so much fun

My Beautiful Girl

 

Tiger Lillies

It is the last days of my tiger lilies :( I look forward to them every year! I am so sad they are almost gone. I took the kids out in the yard today and took 165 pictures of them and the flowers even a picture of my van......I went a little picture crazy. Ethan who usually hates his picture taken was posing and everything. And we all had some silly moments. It was very fun!

2 more Scrap pages

These are 2008 pages I thought I would change it up a bit and do a 12x12 album (I usually do 8.5x11 books) chipboard numbers and candle stampset are more stuff from Tina (thanks again) blue paper is from creative memories, the rest is stamping up stuff. I have had a long afternoon.....I spent 3hrs pulling weeds for my sister....it was hot! But the kids had a blast swimming for 3hrs!!!

Just a few projects I've been working on

I havent really been in my scraproom much just a few minutes here and there (except tonite), but this is what I've been up to. The cards are for when we move... if we ever move! (the house buying thing is driving me NUTS@!) the little blue note card with the bird on it is what slips inside the address card.
The summer scrapbook page is actually Pacific Point, so saffron and tangerine tango, but the picture doesnt look it. Thanks to my fellow SU demo and friend I have some new toys to play with! Thank you thank you Tina! The alphabet set and saffron paper are courtesy of Tina. I also got twinkling H20 from tina and I have been having to much fun playing...my house is now a mess, but I'm a happy momma.

its just life.........

I have so many pictures of Micah when he was little sleeping in some of the wierdest places and positions. this is one of them and it kind of represents how I feel right now....exhausted.
Life has still been busy....some stuff just normal everyday busy things other things like my mom being in the hospital...not so normal and very stressful!!! She was realeased today and has regained a little bit of her eye sight, but has diabetes and is struggling to keep it under control because of the steriods they are giving her for her eyes.Please pray for my mom, that she regains all her eyes sight and that she can get control of her sugar. And pray for me and my sisters as we all have very busy lifes and problems of our own to deal with...

Aside from that I need to send out a BIG apology to "Grandpa William. In the midst of the chaos of life we forgot to send you out a father's day card.....I did make you one though, I just forgot to mail it. So, can you forgive us?
I know its late but we are going to send it out anyways....

say what?

 
The sun kept shinning in Ethan's eyes , but he wanted to sit by Aunt Ruthy so we made a make shift hat. He sat at the table twice as long as the other kids just stuffing his face! When we were done with the picnic and coming in the house He said "I really love these picnic" He is such a cute child.

4th of July picnic

We were all over the place today! Micah was in the parade with the boy scouts. then we had a picnic at mom's with swimming and plenty of calories burnt on the trampoline too. then we went to the fireworks up at the highschool. we got home at 10:20 and Anna spent the night so they are very tired today (Im gonna see if I can get the pictures off britt, I forgot my camera at the parade and fireworks)It was a nice July 4th....except the clean up that had to be done today....my house got trashed!