Dogs life

Some days I just wish I had a dogs life...of course that's in my house where dogs are treated like humans. Emma has forever been in love with animals. She has a special connection with animals, especially dogs. She has compassion for the smallest creature and gets very upset when you squish the tiniest thing, unless it's a spider. Spiders freak her out and of course wasps but who does like a wasp? I digress... Anyway I found her yesterday like this in the mud room. She was happy as a lark in her horse pjs, watching pound puppies on my kindle fire, drinking cranberry juice, with a spoon I might add. Judge for yourself... For just a moment she was enjoying a dogs life, minus the spoon and tv of course.

Baseball

Oh my! Our game tonight was in the cold wet rain! Do you think these pants will ever come clean? Yikes! Thank heavens for 2 uniforms cause tomorrows double header is gonna be a muddy one too! Baseball=Laundry! Good job Jake on second base tonight! Shivering in the rain (55*) and still playing his heart out! That's my boy!

Mighty minds

Tonight was Jake's third grade program at school. It was a cute 30 minute musical called Mighty Minds. It's a cute musical about test taking... Seeing as how tcaps are next week it was very fitting! We went and ate pizza in the cafeteria before the show. The kids were so excited! They love their school! Jake did awesome and performed the heck out of the songs and movements. We do love our music, even though he has rhythm like his dad... Poor kid! Here are a few pics of him in action (from my phone, so not the best) but we bought a video the school was having made and he got a picture made with all the mighty minds, which were played by the third grade teachers! Very funny!

Super wacky!

Today is wacky day at school, so the kids get to dress in wacky/ tacky clothes and crazy hair! Jake is like no biggie, but Emma decided she wanted to make this shirt... Her own design! I even let her use the cool touch glue gun with supervision... Kills me to give up control but she is determined to do
It herself. She also wants to put many pony tails in her hair stuffed with toys. We are a strange creature full of many ideas! So glad she likes to use her imagination! Never know where that can take her. Dream big little girl! Why do girls love this stuff and ( most) boys could care less? I just threw together some miss match stuff for him. He did add to spike his hair and he was good to go! He thought the coolest part was wearing miss match shoes! Funny! Here is the finished product!

Spring pic

Here are my sweet babies spring school pictures. Where did those sweet baby cheeks go to? Can't believe how big they ate getting! At this point I just want time to slow down!

And so it goes... March 2012

And so it goes...

Who would think that Emma would be the First one with a cast? Yes she wears that badge of honor. Wednesday she fell wrong on her hand at gymnastics and fractured to base of her fifth metacarpal. Cute pink cast. She was intrigued at first but soon figured out how much it has impacted her life. She was most worried about not being able to write well at school. Too funny! Most of us wouldn't worry about that but she is a pleaser and does love her teacher ms barbara . She wore first pink one for a week and then we return to see how it's doing. It was determined she had a buckle fracture at her 5th metacarpal. New cast for 3-4 weeks. And so it goes...
Mark hit a beaver with my Prius this week. Crazy how things happen but at least he and jake weren't hurt because it was a really big beaver! Torn my front bumper up and the whole fender well apart! Who woulda thunk it?
And so it goes...

June 2011 Lamb camp!

Emma went to lamb camp this year at Munford high. She and Natalie had a great time and named their lamb Loudy! They learned everything about lambs and how to care and feed them. She's right in her element when it comes to animals! At the end they were able to show their lambs and even as hot as it was she was beaming with pride!

Black belt (July 2011)

July 2011 jake got his 1st degree black belt!! So proud of him!!
Jake and Master Ko.

Dog days

Just some sweet pics of my precious dogs doing dog stuff and looking so cute! Notice the hole in the arm of the leather couch... Rudy was chewing his bone he found and didn't know he was including the arm of couch... Too late when I noticed. Something else to fix!

Read across America (march 2012)

This week at school was read across America in conjunction with dr suess's birthday! The kids were allowed to dress up as their favorite dr suess character. We love to read and love dr suess do here's who the kids decided to be... Very appropriate don't ya think?

Stop... Beaver time

Yes I said beaver! Can't believe it but mark and jake took my car to fultz for batting practice and on the way hit a beaver. You know you live in the country when you hit a beaver in the road. Only problem with this scenario is that mark was driving my Prius... Ouch! Beaver versus Prius and both lose! 1600$ in damage to my Prius and beaver is in heaven now! Crazy I know but true! Entire fender well torn out. Pics of damage! Can't imagine what a deer could do if a beaver can do this!

March blows in

March has blown right in! These windy spring days have been busy. Jake started his first season with the Rosemark reds baseball competitive team. This is a big change year! It's now kid pitch and all the rules have changed! It's now situational baseball including stealing bases! Wow so much to learn. He's handled it like a pro, as usual! The coaches include Everett, chad, Ryan and mark! All great dads who are working so hard to get the boys ready! Jake is doing some pitching and learning very fast! He does love his baseball! Got hit for the first time this season this Saturday... He was very tough and shook it off really well! Me on the other hand wanted to beat that pitcher up for hitting my baby in the back! I guess alls fair in love and baseball! Pics to follow soon!

Pesky elves (Dec. 2011)

The elves are back and making their messes as usual! Here are just a few of their antics this year! Enjoy!

Valentines love

Happy valentines day! Love makes the world go round... Love , live, laugh... Love is a many splendid thing... All you need is love... The list goes on and on but today I'm thankful for love! The love of my husband, family ,kids, and dogs! I'm do blessed to feel such love to be loved! I love my kids so much it hurts! They are such wonderful people with such big hearts. They are my heart. I'm just the proudest mom on the planet. I can't forget my husband. I would be lost without you. You keep me from going crazy. You always support me and make me feel loved. I can't imagine what I did good to deserve you. Thank you for loving me and giving me a wonderful life together. I have to include my family... Bridget and mark, my mom and dad, and sean. You guys have always supported me and given me endless love. I know this love has shaped me into the person I am today. Thank you and I love you!