Making my Lunch!

To say that Brandon has a sweet tooth would be quite an understatement. He loves everything sweet and unfortunately not too much in between. He has been obsessed with candy since Halloween and I never seem to be able to put it high enough since he is quite the climber. I caught him today packing his lunch for school.

I think he is going to be a disappointed little boy today when he opens his lunch box and finds that I replaced the candy with a peanut butter sandwich and a banana.

Toddler Logic

In honor of Brandon's 2nd birthday, I thought I would give you some of the toddler logic he came up with the other day.

He wanted something and was whining so I said, "Brandon say the magic word."

Brandon smiled and said "MINE!!"

I think he will fit right in the two year old world!

Happy Birthday to my very special boy!

The Momma Buys It and The Toddler Takes It Away

As I previously mentioned, I went several months this year without a camera. My camera just disappeared on July 4th. I haven't seen it since. I'm still not sure if some child got a hold of it or what. Anyway, I finally decided since school was starting that I needed to get a new camera. My camera that disappeared was not even a year old so that was a hard pill to swallow.

I spent quite a bit of time researching and finally decided to spend a little more money and get the camera with a bigger zoom. I love getting close-ups of my children. I haven't even had my new camera for a month and I'm sad to say - it is no longer working.

How can a camera less than a month old stop working you ask? I guess it would have to do with the purse being left on the table. A certain toddler found the purse, goes through it, takes camera and dunks it a glass of water. The camera still turns on but there is water inside of it and it will not focus on a picture. Do you think I can convince the guys at Best Buy that this wasn't my fault and should be covered under warranty? Yea, probably not.

I think maybe I'm supposed to be learning that I am not supposed to become attached to worldly goods. I should be pretty good at this by now. It seems every time I get something nice or new or clean my house, etc. one of my precious angels on earth finds a way to break, destroy or mess it up. Obviously, I still have a way to go because I'm pretty bummed about the camera.
Here's hoping the folks at Best Buy will take pity on me.

Garrett's 1st soccer game

I guess, technically, Garrett's 1st soccer game was a long time ago. Here he is enjoying one of the many soccer games he has been at through his 4 years.
Today, was the 1st day that Garrett got to join the rankings of a soccer player. Here are some photos of his 1st game.


Ready for action.



Put me in Coach, I was born for this game.
Watch me kick-off.

I'm fast, I can catch you.I can throw the ball in too.Whether Garrett becomes a true soccer player like Allison is yet to be seen, but it was fun to watch the little boy who has been sitting on the sidelines cheering his sister's on, finally get his chance!!

Email

I was working with Caitlyn on her formation this weekend. We started having a converstation about heaven. She proceded to ask me what heaven was like which, of course, I have no good answer for since her guess is as good as mine.

Her response made me smile though. "Momma, when you get to heaven, can you send me an email and tell me what it is like."

I'd like for someone to send me that email too.

MIA

I know, I know. I haven't posted in a very long time. It started out with no camera so there were no pictures to post. Then, it just became my daily life that didn't allow for much more than a facebook status update.

The sad state of affairs is that it has even taken me several tries to send this message out. I now have a new camera and hopefully will be able to find a few minutes to occasionally put a little bit of my life down for the blog world to see.

All in a Days Work

I don't know what it is with this time of the year but it seems like we are hopping from one kids activity to another. This Saturday was no exception as we had our 1st swim meet of the year and Brittany's piano recital.

Here are the 1st place 6 and under girls relay team getting ready for action.

Here is Allison edging out the competition on the breaststroke with an All-star's time!

Brittany on the last leg of her 50 yd breaststroke. Gotta love those 50's!

Caitlyn showing off her backstroking skills!

When then hopped out of the pool, made ourselves look beautiful and headed over for Brittany's piano recital.

Here she is playing Stars and Stripes Forever.