GardenTime!

Whew! What a night. Well it's taken awhile to get it out, but alas the garden is in the ground. The kids had a great time helping to dig holes for the tomatoes and planting beans and corn. They couldn't wait to get their watermelons in the ground. These 2 kids do LOVE their watermelons. We are also planting spinach. I told them it is popeye spinach, so I hope they will eat it. They do love popeye spinach from a can, so we will see what they think of spinach outta the garden. They were very happy to plant their pickels as well! Yes timmy kept calling them pickels, would not accept that they were actually cuccumbers LOL!

They were also very happy to help plant the corn also. I do have to say I am very happy I have 2 kids that for the most part do love veggies!

We have a few other things to add, but we did get the bulk of it done. I can now sit and drool in anticipation for all the tomatoes that are gonna come on as well as all the other great things. It's gonna be a good summer!

Memorial Day Weekend.

Normally on Memorial Day weekend Travis and I travel 2 hours away to the Show Me 100 Dirt race. However, this year Elizabeth's ballet recital took place on the same night as the race, so Travis and his cousin traveled to the race while we went to the recital. It was fine with me though as I didn't have to get home at 3 or 4 am and be dragging my butt all day today.

Today the kids have been playing out in the water for the first time this year. The weather really hasn't let them play in the water yet this year, but today it's nice and humid so It made for perfect slip n slid weather! They do love the outdoors and the sun and fun. I just wished they weren't so fair skinned....it's hard for them to be out too long. Elizabeth wanted to sun bathe, which was fine for a few minutes, she didn't stay at it long anyway. LOL!

Recital Time

Well another year of ballet has been brought to an end. Elizabeth has really progressed this year. I was so proud of her, she was able to do all her dances without watching either her feet or the other girls' feet! LOL!

The recital went really well. Everything was so perfect and I can't wait to watch the video. Being a stage mom and a tap mom it makes it very difficult to actually watch the show. So we only get to look thru the Curtain from the sides.

All of the costumes were very pretty and made the girls look like lil princesses!

Reading

Elizabeth loves to read. So the other night her and Timmy were sitting in the recliner reading their new books. It was so sweet to watch her read to her little brother. I had to capture the moment with pictures, which they got mad at me for doing, but I was just so proud that she was taking the time to read to her brother. Oh and she was reading his race car books vs. her usual princess books.

The end of Pre-school

Well at least for this year.

Timmy had his last day on Wednesday and they had a bike party. He had a blast. Kept asking all week whether today was his bike party today. So then when Wednesday arrived, I got him up and went to drop him off at daycare and the tears started up in his eyes and he said, "but today is my bike party." I told him yes but not till time for pre-school which isn't till Noon like always. I said Grandma will pick you up and I will meet you there with your bike! So he was fine.

I arrived at the party and he and grandma were already there so since they were a bit early they went to the park area first and played. When I got there he rolled his bike to the parking area and we headed inside. All the kids were so excited and wanted to start their party, but they had to wait for everyone to arrive. After everyone got there the rules were explained to them and off they went.

They were so tired by the end of the party. It was just so cute.

Here are a few pics from the day.

My Digital Scrapbooking.

This is something that I am Loving to do these days. I recently started digital scrapbooking and am having a great time with all that you can do with it. I have downloaded so many things off the internet and it is just so much fun to play with all you can do with it.

Here are a few of the pages that I created recently

May 18, 2008

Well I have finally got a computer that I can access this all the time now!

Here is a picture of timmy "fixing" his bike. He loves to jack it up and work on hit. He is definatly my silly boy!

I wrote out a long post from Mother's Day but the computer wouldn't let me post it.
So I guess I will just make a small mention of all the great things that both of the kids made at school for me. I had a card, a My mom's the best mom in the world letter, coupons and a few other things. Travis got me ink for the printer.....I guess it's at least something. I don't know why men just don't realize that something kinda personal makes a better present. But oh well at least it wasn't a steam cleaner or garbage disposal, as I have gotten those for past Mday presents...

The kids have been busy. The end of the school year is fast approaching. Timmy's last day is this wendesday. He graduated to bull frogs at pre-school last week and was able to spend the entire night at grandpa's because he didn't need mom to come pick him up at 10pm because he was now a bullfrog! YEAH!!!

Elizabeth has this week and then has to go back after Memorial day for a couple more days. Lovely winter we had has extended the school year.

She is going to the Zoo on Friday and grandma is going to suprise her by meeting her there. I know they will all have so much fun.

2008 Skills Night

Last night was skills night at Elizabeth's school. I'd never heard of skills night so wasn't real sure what to expect.

Well Let me tell you I smiled from ear to ear all night. Her group started at 7:15 and it said to arrive early so that you could walk around the school and look at all of their art projects that they had done throughout the year. So we got there around 630. Well it didn't take too long to check out the art. So we stood in the hall with the other 300 plus parents, grandparents, aunt's, uncle's and KIDS. Elizabeth in full fashion was bouncing off the walls in anticipation for her big night.

So we get into the gym and the kids are running about. We found seats for us and take our seats. Then the curtain that seperates the cafeteria from the gym comes down. So in a bit and a lot of squirming from timmy. The show FINALLY starts. We started out with everyone having to stand and say the pledge of alligance. Then the "mini-singer" sang the National Anthem and then the whole group goes into singing a whole montage of patriotic songs. Mr. B (the music teacher) had the whole group of kids doing such a great job. He is the best music teacher these kids could ever ask for.

So then after the singing was over they start JAMMIN. Mr. B put on some music and the PE teacher, Mr. Snyder starts having the kids on the floor doing all sorts of things they have been doing. It was just so neat. The kids that were on the stage were dancing to the music playing and Mr. B comes out in his tails and Multi Color Hair! The kids have so much fun with him.

So after about 45 minutes the whole thing winds down, and we usher out of the gym. So what do my 2 little reds do. They walk off hand in hand down the hall. Elizabeth being the proud big sister she is and showing Timmy all about her school. These kids suprise me at every turn of the day.

So we went out to eat afterwards and both the kids were pretty good. We went to a mexican restaurant, and the waitress, mexican, was giving Elizabeth spanish lessons. She was such a nice lady!

Well Here I sit.

Blogging. Who'd ever thought that I'D be blogging. So when most of my online world friends all had them, I decided to throw the towel in the ring. I know little about blog's so I thought why not google blog and see what it says.

So this is what wikipedia says on the subject "A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs"

So here I sit.

I guess maybe this will be a good substitute for my lack of uhhhhh making baby books for the kids. I started books for both, however have not maintained them at all. Sorry Kids but seriously you will understand some day when you have your own kids. It's not easy to take care of kids, take care of your house and work all in the same day.

I try to do the best I can, but unfortunatly you have a VERY unorganized mother. Again I say sorry now. But I am trying. So hopefully I can make up for my lacking (or should I say slacking) in other area's, by doing it here.

I recently got into digital scrapbooking, which I love to do, but unfortunatly don't have all the time for it that I would love to have. I would love to buy a laptop computer that I could have just for my digi life. It would be so much easier to not only get computer time at home but also be able to devote one computer to all the information that is required for digital scrapbooking!