Ahhh....all is right again.

Big T was gone all of this past week on a trip with the youth from our church. He had a great time but we sure did miss him around here! Thankfully, now:

We are all back together again!

How disappointing...

I always take the kids with me when I vote. They have all been going since birth. I think it is important for them to see that we can make a difference.

So, today, I loaded them all up and we headed out to vote. Tricky T was disappointed that not only were we not going BOATING, but that Abraham Lincoln wasn't even on the ballot at all.

Poor kid. What a let down!

*sniff, sniff* - Pass the Kleenex, please.

Today was a huge milestone and I am very proud of myself for not bawling at church. Today was our baby's last day in the nursery. Starting next Sunday, ALL THREE of our kids will be in the children's department (for one year, then C will start youth but I am not even going to let myself go there yet - oh my). I know I say it all the time but really, people, where has the time gone? I am surely not old enough to have kids in Kindy, 2nd, and 5th grade. I still remember being in the youth department and looking up to college kids, thinking they were SO old. Or babysitting and calling the mom Mrs. XYZ and having her asking me to call her by her first name but I could never bring myself to it because she was so much older than me and that would be rude. Now, I am that mom cringing when people call me Mrs. XYZ. I would like to publicly apologize to that mom for never using her first name!

Today, it's Kindergarten:

Tomorrow, she'll be wanting the keys to the car:

Off to work on my slow-down-the-time machine!

Going Bananas!!!

I was given 2 crates of bananas today from a produce company in town. It didn't look like as many as it was until we got them home and in the kitchen and started to freeze some. Let me tell you that it is a BUNCH of bananas (pun intended). So we started playing....

As I mentioned in my post earlier, my sister and her family are here visiting this week. Here she is with her hubby :)

I love you bunches too, guys :) And remember when my other sister visited a few months back? Today we are missing her bunches!

Now, if you are close by, PLEASE come get some of these silly bananas tomorrow before I go (more) bananas!

I'll be back...

Summer is in full swing around here and my blog(s) are being neglected.  Captain C went to church camp, we went camping again last weekend, and my sister and her family are here visiting for the week from AL. It has been a fun month...but busy! Today, we stopped by one of my dad's favorite diners to eat lunch and wished he were here to share it with us.

Don't give up on me...I'll be back :)

Boys!

Oh goodness. We went to the library to pick up some new books today and C brought his pile over to me. Guess which book he started reading ON the way home? Nice!

Good night.

Almost every night, without fail, Tricky T comes down about 10 minutes after he is put to bed and says:

Every night we tell him that of course he can't sleep standing here talking to us and send him back to bed. He goes upstairs and sleeps soundly until 9 or so the next morning...at least an hour after P is up and 2 hours after C is up. He clearly needs sleep but always wants to sleep with us or on the couch downstairs. Silly kid.

PS. the sides of his hair are just about long enough that we can cut off the mohawk to match without him being bald. It has been fun but I am ready for it to be gone now.

Totally off topic

But I now have as many posts in 2010 as I did in all of 2009 and it is only July 9th.

That's all. I just noticed that and wanted to share ;)

raining cont'.

Much happier now that she can play in it.

And by play in it, I meant play-in-it! Good thing she had that umbrella so she didn't get wet.



And not related to P...but I liked this shot too. (click on it to enlarge it)

Raining

Princess P was watching the rain fall out the back door today and I had to take a picture or three ;)

She's getting so big.

Fun Friday Foto - Dog Days of Summer

WonderMutt likes to feel like Queen of the World by "sneaking" onto the picnic table whenever we let her our back. You can see her through the window just basking in the sun like she owns the place. I thought that was an appropriate picture for today's theme :) Captain C had just woke up and the others were still sleeping so we ran out back and took a few pictures. But I couldn't pick just one picture from our little shoot so am adding a few extras...just for fun.

She tilts her head like this when you talk silly to her. Love it.

Too cool for school ;)