Food, Friends and Family

What would I do with out those three things?
Today I realized how interdependent I am on each~



Last week dad brought over a ton of fresh ground beef. I've used it for tacos and tonight we had delish hamburgers!

On Thursday Dayna sent me home with 2 cantaloupe fresh picked from her garden. Well they were in the house less than 24 hours and now they are gone. (fine by me, though...I hate cantaloupe!) I repaid her today with a totally cute pocketbook!

Yesterday my neighbor gave me about 12 jars of canned green beans. Yum, yum! I can wait to crack into a can of garden grown green beans in the middle of winter. Almost makes me wish for snow (well, not yet really!)

All those things came together today in my head and I was realized how truly blessed by God I am! A loving family, great friends and awesome food~ Life is SWEET!

Unsung Hero-My daughter???

There's really nothing "unsung" about her. She is pretty much all attitude and irrationally emotional lately. But somehow she received the unsung hero award for her softball team. Seriously though, she really blossomed this season. She has become more confident and even a little too sure of her self sometimes. Her attitude on the ball field was radically different from her usual "it's all about me" attitude. She cheered mightily for her team mates and shed a few tears when they lost a game. She hustled after the ball and was determined to get a hit when she stepped up to bat. I love seeing that in her!

You have no events scheduled today.

Got this in my inbox today from my Google calendar! How awesome is that???

No baseball practice, no cheerleading practice, no games, no nothing today!

So with all this free time you'd think I'd do some thing productive (especially knowing how nasty this house has gotten) but instead I packed the kids up and we headed to Target. I did need some grocery type stuff to make dinner, but we also picked up a new scooter for Baylee. As Baylee was riding Kaycee's old, beat up scooter around the office today, Jason mentioned that it's kinda sad that she never really gets anything new. Of course she was happy as can be with Kaycee's old scooter, but when I saw one on sale at Target I had to pick it up. Got it home and tried to put it together...not very easy, by the way! She took a few turns around the house with it and said "I like the other one better" URGH!!

Oh well her big brother seems to really be loving the new Dora scooter. (but shhhhh! don't tell any of his friends he is riding a pink Dora scooter!)

Tomorrow is another busy day...filled with lots of time in the car, things to do and places to go, but for tonight I will be relishing my "no events scheduled" day!

Our Weekend in Pictures

These pictures pretty much sum up our weekend. We do alot of NOTHING and it was wonderful! We spent a whole lotta time outside. I even got to finish a book I had been reading! The kids made good use of the swing set and the four-wheelers and dirt bikes. Kaycee ended up with a huge scrape on her knee when she tumbled from the 4-wheeler she was standing up on while driving?!?!?! What kind of parent stands safely on her porch and encourages their children to do stunts on extremely dangerous machines? I did in fact come off the porch though and tried my own stunt....only to be told by my son that he could see my underwear showing out of my jeans the entire time! LOL We also think Hershey got stung by a bee at some point....I could not stop laughing at his swollen lip!!!!

Both C and K had practice today. K is really coming along in her softball skills....just gotta get her to pay attention to what is happening on the field and NOT what her mom may be talking about in the bleachers! LOL We also visited Mom and Dad this evening and I took them a home cooked meal, ugh I mean a really good KFC family meal. All in all it was a nice, slow, relaxing weekend! The kind we haven't had in a long while and I throughly enjoyed it!

Conner found a baby deer (I guess the correct word is fawn) yesterday at our rental house. The mom was no where in sight. Found out today that it died last night so it must have been sick or something,. It sure was cute though!

Conner's 10th Birthday

Conner is 10 years old! His birthday is actually May 30th, but with baseball, recital and softball I put off having a "party" until last weekend. He invited his two best friends over for a sleepover. We had pizza, cake and ice cream and a few presents. We gave him an Ipod and he is totally unresponsive to me now! He's ALWAYS got those ear phones in his ears! His two friends, Jake and Jared, spent the night and I think they stayed up until around 1am. But those three together were really very well behaved. I even got some pics of them that I can't wait to use in their senior slide show in high school!

Washington DC

Uncle Eric took Conner and Kaycee to DC today. They got to see the Washington Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Reflecting Pool, the White House and visited the Air and Space Mueseum. Conner has always wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial.



PS there are 41 steps up to get to the Lincoln Memorial. C and K had a bet on that today! LOL