aNoTHeR PRoJeCT

Here is something else I have been working on. This was my practice one, I am making some Halloween ones for prizes for a chili cook-off next month.

ProJecTs i HaVe BeeN wOrKiNg On

I made this chore chart for Braydon. The little peices with the chores will have velcro on them so we can take them off and on and move them around. Hopefully it will work out. I have been on a "cricut craze" lately and have been trying my hand at being creative. It's not working all that well, but these turned out ok, I think.

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BaTh TiMe & PoTTiEs!

The little stinker-winker. She loves bath time. She lays herself flat in the tub so the water is on her whole little body.

This is a new thing. (yes, I know her skirt is still on, I guess you can call this a dry-run, haha) She has been asking to go "potty!" So we put her on the potty and let her try. Yes, we take her pants and diaper off (unlike THIS pic) so she can actually try. I have no idea why they are on this time.

She thinks she is so big!

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oDDs & eNDs

A few random pics.....Last saturday we went to Callaway Beach with our friends. It was a blast. The kids loved digging in the sand. Not the best of pics, but whatever.

I love this one though!

Braydon building a sand fort with his best bud!

This was just too funny not to throw in here. Braydon has his adult teeth in in the front, so they are a little bigger than his baby teeth.

And just to clarify, Braydon's teeth don't really look like that. He put corn on them.....I realized after I posted this that you might not be able to tell from the picture. Hahaha!!!

AmBrIA's RanDoMnEsS

Here is what little Ambria has been up to lately. Putting any and ALL clothes she finds on her legs. She will just keep on layering until she can't possibly fit anymore. Once I even found her with about 4 swim diapers on, needless to say she couldn't walk to well.

She thinks she is SO computer savvy. I wonder how old she thinks she is in her mind?? We catch her here all the time, it's pretty funny. She will put her little hand on the mouse and "click".

More mischeif. We were all in the front yard one evening and we turn around and Ambria has wondered off, so we go around the house searching for her and this is where we found her. The little stinker! She loves the pool, and just decided to jump right in, clothes on and all. so now obviously we have to keep and even closer "eye" on her outside.

What? 3rd Grade?? Already?!?!?!

Today, my little boy started THIRD grade!! Wasn't he JUST in Kindergarten??? I was able to get a few pictures of the event, however, VERY few because I was specifically told what was and wasn't allowed so as not to embarrass him this year. He has never let me forget about the first day of 2nd grade so I had very specific guidelines that I was required to stay within. First, any hugging in the car (before we enter the school) was acceptable, granted, there were no other kids looking. Second, I was to get all my "I love you's" and "I'll miss you's " out before entering the school where his friends would, in fact, be. Third, If I MUST say goodbye while he is in his classroom, there is no hugging or TOUCHING, just a goodbye and then LEAVE. And above all, do a quick check around the room to make sure no other kids were looking before attempting anything!! So here is the "on the way to school" picture...... Here he is waiting to go to the classroom. The other kids were all talking and destracted so I was allowed to take this photo.

When we got to the classroom, he went and found a seat right next to his best bud, Kaden. And proceeded to empty his backpack. Now, he WAS with me when we bought all his school supplies, but apparently paid absolutley NO attention to what I was putting in the cart, because he opened up his backpack full of the supplies and it was like Christmas morning. He was so excited and surprised at everything he pulled out of there, you'de think he'd never before seen a pencil case, or index cards.........silly kid!

I asked them to both look at me and smile for the picture and they, of course, were too cool for school so this is what I got. But, hey I guess I should just be happy with I did get, because this was, in fact, an unauthorized photo outside the designated "picture time" window. My, how kids change right before our eyes!!!!

Dallas Or Bust, Baby!

So my sister in law, Marqae, and I spent a week in Dallas for the annual Mary Kay Seminar and we had a blast. It was awesome just to spend a week of "Marqae Time", but the seminar was very good also. We learned SO much and they had some really fun entertainment, like for instance, the "man angels" as shown below. Aren't they graceful??? He he he! Marqae and I all dressed up for Awards Night. Sure wish I was one of the lucky random winners from the audience who won the trip to Disney World or the $1000 cash or countless other prizes.

This is Day 1 and we got to tour the Mary Kay corprate Office. It is HUGE!!! and super NICE. We even got to see Mary Kay's office.

This was taken on our tour of the manufacturing building where they make all the products. It was actually a very intersting tour, and of course so fun. It probably would have been better if we didn't have to be in skirts and heals the ENTIRE time. Needless to say we both have very tight leg muscles now....Thanks Marqae for an awesome time!!! It seems like it went by too fast though.

A Day With Uncle Clint

Our brother in law, Clint got to come from Korea to Alabama for a few days for some training, so we of course made the 4 hour drive up to Huntsville to see him for a day. It was so good to see him and hang out for a while. We just wish we would have been able to see Katie and Morgan too. We went out to eat and swam at the hotel. It was a lot of fun! Below is Braydon eating his steak. This kid thinks he's too big for kids meals anymore so he got to order a big meal. He ordered steak and LOVED it! Ambria wanted in on some of that action. She grabbed the steak off Jason's plate and started nibbling on it. She would just suck on the meat, I guess she really liked the flavor.

It was so CUTE how both the kids took to Uncle Clint right away. Ambria is usually a little picky who she goes to, but she would just come to Clint and just hug him and snuggle with him. I was lucky enough to get this picture of them after she went over to him and just layed on his shoulder for a while. So cute!! I didn't get a picture of it, but Braydon did the same thing to him.

Here's Braydon and Clint. And yes Jason made a camio in this shot, can you find him?

Thanks for hangin out with us, Clint. We miss you guys!! Can't wait to meet up in Washington. (hopefully)

Fun and Fireworks

On Saturday Fort Benning had their 4th of July Celebration. They usually do it a week before the 4th cause a lot of people go out of town. This is one of the things that the military is just great at. They DEFINATLY know how to celebrate. Nobody does the 4th like the Army! They have a huge celebration with food, a live band (usually someone famous), games, a whole bunch of the big blow up bouncers and slides (which the kids could play on all they wanted free of chargs), and of course a big fireworks show. And the best part is, it's all FREE!! (Except for the food, of course). Here's Ambria LOVING the fireworks, she was cheering and clapping the whole time. Braydon with his friends Kaleb and Kaden. We had to force them to look up from their

game boy DS's to smile for this picture. Kristin and me. Let's keep in mind people that it was extremely hot and humid and any makeup I was wearing had smeered and sweated right off my face. Kristin, of course looks great!

Callaway Beach

On Friday we went to the beach with Kristin and her family. It was Kaleb and Kaden's (Braydon's Best Bud) birthdays. So we decided to head to the lake and have some fun. They had big blow up slides and trampolines on the water that we got to play with. It was a little hard to climb up those things, but way fun to slide down. I felt a little old when Braydon climbed right up the tall slide and made it look easy and I struggled to get up. Haha. By the way, sorry Kristin for falling on you!!! HAHA I just think this is cute......

Here we are. We could not get Braydon over to join in the picture, he was having tooo much fun with his friends.

Braydon and his best buddy, Kaden. Jason calls them the "A-dens"