Summer Update

WOW Summer has just flown by and I have been feeling so overwhelmed with all my kids at the house running around. Lots has happened this summer and I wish I could take the time to layout the summer for ya'll but,it is just to late at night for that.

A few weeks ago My husbands cousin got married. We went down to the wedding( it was at the beach) It was a fun night away from the kids and we really enjoyed oursleves. Here is a pic from the wedding.....



Spending time at the beach has been a BIG summer activity for us. We took the kids to the Beach for the fourth of July. Jocelyn Loved it so much! She took her flip flpos off right away and danced in the sand like tinkerbell. THe boys liked the beach but Jocelyn LOVED IT. A few weeks later we had soem good friends come home from Indonesia for a visit. They had a big beach Bash. My kids had such a good time. Riley was really into wave boarding. Bruce took all the kids way out in the water. I of course stayed close to the beach. I hate all the sea weed in the water it creeps me out!











This has been our most "classic" summer. SOmetimes life gets so hectic that I can't find time to eat much less slow down and enjoy my life. There have been many ocasions this summer where I have been able to relax with my kids and spend summer the way I remember spending it as a child. We have been to the pool. the library, had popsicles every week. With my kids getting older doing regular activities has gotten easier and easier and I have enjoed the freedom that has given us.

I hope all of you are enjoying summer as much as we have been!

MISS ME???

Quick update.... We have been so sick! We have had pink eye, strep, bronchitis, pneumonia, double ear infections, and sinus infections.... I hope I did not leave anything out!

Life has been a blur. Here are some pics to update you better

These ar epics of Jocelyn and Bruce at the Dads and Dolls Luau Date night at church!






Here is Bruce and I on a rare date night to see John Fogerty at the Rodeo!


This is Riley on Story book day at school!

Graham finally got his first haircut!



Here are a few of my fave easter pics!







Here is a new fave of Graham. He has Jocelyn's sunglasses, Riley's hat and his own 2 pacifiers!


Riley Lost a tooth! It is his first one!


Okay! Whew! You are sorta caught up now, I will post again this week so watch for news from the fam!

Have a blessed day!

Hello Faithful readers!

Hello there all and sorry for the delay in a new post!

It is of course the fault of the terrible twosome. Which one to blame though remains a mystery.

I always blog on my laptop that I keep in the living room. I am in complete view of all my kiddos. Howeever, one of them knocked it off the coffee table bending the prong to the cord. ANd NOW it does not recognize that it is plugged in. So Now I have to Blog from the upstairs computer in the office. and having to leave my kiddos to do that is not a good idea!

Other than the broken computer, not much has been going on here.

We have Rodeo tickets this week so I will post soon and let ya'll now how things go. We are excited to see what happens there. We are seeing John fogerty ( of CCR fame) and then Toby Keith.

Sorry for the short post, I do not have much time!

Jersey Boys

At the last minute my dad and step mom had an extra ticket to see Jersey Boys! I was so excited to see it( and it was an awesome show) However, I should warn those of you who might want to see it also that the language is AWFUL! Someone had mentioned to me that it was bad, but I was still shocked when I heard it come out of an actors mouth on the stage! It is F-this and F-that. At first it really throws you off, but after awhile the shock is over. My Step moms good friend lives in Jersey and she said they really do talk like that to each other.

Jersey boys is the story of Frankie Vallie and the four seasons. I realized how much I loved their music. So my step mom ordered us some CDS. I can hardley wait until they get here!

Happy Belated valentine's day!!

Here are some pics showing ya'll what the kids and I gave Bruce for Valentine's day.








I really love the thought of valentine's day But I really do NOT like the pressure it puts on people. My hubby knows he is going to be in big trouble if he buys me 80 dollar rose that next week will be back down to 10 dollars. It just seems like such a waste. We have made kind of a silly tradition instead.

We spend less than 10 dollars( we got him this picture frame and the pics in it for $1.36 plus tax!) I got a hilarious card! Then we make Breakfast for dinner( heart shaped pancakes) it is a HUGE hit with our Kids!

I am a Big Girl Now!

Jocelyn turned 3! The day after Jocelyn got her stitches out was here 3rd Birthday! We took her out for dinner to get her favorite thing Mexican food! She Loves Beans and cheese! and of course T-T's( which are actually tortillas). She ate so good! Her big brother Riley gave her a very sweet toast ( his idea) it only took 4+ attempts of glass banging to finally get the toast out, but he did it! It was such a big kid thing to do!

Here he is Deep in thought during the toast!


Jocelyn was so happy that all her Grandparents had come to have dinner with her! She loves Mexican food and we usually give her little piles of her favorites. On this night we looked over and she was loading pieces of tortilla up with Queso and beans and then wrapping it up like an enchilada! She was shoveling it right in. I guess we can move on to more grown up food for her!


Graham is also a super eater! This night though he did something so funny! After he dropped his fork he tried a new way of eating.



I guess this is the mess we get for trying to teach him NOT to eat with his hands!

This week Jocelyn also got her big Girl bed! She slept fine all night! We had no problems and no falling out. Things are changing here in our house! It feels so good to be leaving the baby side of life, but it also feels kind of sad! All part of growing up!

STITCHES!!!!

I am Very sorry for the long pause in my blogging.

Blogging is a little bit therapeutic for me. I often find Humor in our lives, but it usually takes a good week or so after the act for it to be funny to me. With blogging I have found the humor so much faster. All of this is leading to the great reason for the lack of posts.

We had a terrible thing happen and It has been 2 weeks and I am just now able to bring myself to blog about the STITCHES!

My beautiful daughter was climbing on a wooden bed frame to a day bed at her great grandmothers house. Bruce and I were in the bathroom painting and pulling off wallpaper. When her Great grandmother brings her into to us. Jocelyn looks like a vampire! She has blood gushing out of both sides of her mouth. ( that area bleeds so much). It was hard to tell where the blood was coming from exactley. We ran to the kitchen and blotted the blood away and put some ice on her mouth. We couldn't tell if she had bit through her lip with her bottom teeth or her top. We rushed her to the ER and they took us right back to give us the bad news. She needed STITCHES! or her BEAUTIFUL face! The ER dr also told us it was one of the worst places to have a cut on the face. SHe crossed over aand cut both lip and regular skin. He said it would definitely leave a scar. WE paged the plastic surgeon who could not get there for another three Hours! ( which was actually four hours by the time he showed up)

I will spare ya'll the sad details of the stitches and the IV and the throwing up in the car on the way home. and i will leave you with just some pics of her lip.

Here she is 15 or so hours AFTER it happened



And here she is 2 days later




and here she is at her first dental appointment ever to check out her VERY bruised gums and her slightly loose teeth!



And here she is so Brave 5 days later when she got her stitches removed



So many things have happened since then that I have a lot to blog about and to catch ya'll all up on! But I will let this settle a day or two before I get back to posts a usual