{ end of another year }

Another school year that is.

 My young man, Jon is now a real Senior in High School.  Oh my goodness is it going to get busy now. 

Jack is sad to leave 3rd grade as he loves his teacher- Mrs Altman.

But he is excited to see what will happen next year.

Sophie is just excited school is out and wonders about next year.

So, it is time to enjoy the summer and worry about school in a mere 5 weeks when our year round calendar starts back up..till then...bring on the fun.   CANNON BALL !!!

white wednesday

My favorite white- 

Sophie dressed in white with my fave flower from my kids- dandelion.

She's making her wish.

What is your wish?

tammy

linking to:

faded charm

Jack is 9

Happy Birthday little man.
Wow has it been 9 years already?
You have brought so much joy to my life. I love you more than you will ever know.

You arrived so tiny and small.   

Your brothers had to have you do everything they did. 

  

Look at those adorable blue eyes..what a cutie patootie.

  

Your first trip to the beach and you loved playing in the sand even then. 

Happy first birthday- such a wonderful mess.

A nature boy from day one.

You loved your own little house.

Beach time again- does it get any better?

The beginning of your nascar love- even if sissy had to join in. 

  

This is what I'm talking about . 

First golf tournament with daddy.

  

 The beginnings of your own hairstyle- hair with an attitude. 

 Daredevil to the core.

Your first bike race. 

 Ahh my little karate kid.

Bball time in North Carolina baby. 

 Follow that with soccer.

 Being General Patton for famous American day.

Always reaching new heights.  

(fortunately for my heart when I'm not around)

You sure have brought so much joy to my life Jack.

You are growing into such a fine and fun young man. 

We all love you very much-

mom

{ spring intersession }

I'm back.

 I want to thank everyone for all the wonderful comments, well wishes and prayers for our family while hubby is gone. 

 During my blogging break we had intersession so fun was had by all. 

Jack had his first sleepover. 

Yep, all night long video gaming. 

  

The kids went skating with daddy and their dog, Boone. 

  

Sophie was able to play with her friend Hagan.  

Hagan was having her spring break - what made this so cool was she was on break from Alaska.  
  

Can you tell they played hard? 

  

Then the last bit of fun before school was 

GREAT WOLF LODGE..

Who would have thought bunk beds could be so much fun? 

  

 Fountains all the time.

  

 A bit of brother and sister bonding time.

  

 Time to go home - she's wiped out. 

  

A blast was had by all.  

sneak peek.

Going to be back up and posting tomorrow; but here is a sneak peek at 

what we've been up to. 

a little of this a little of that...

I bet you thought I had died or at least moved away haven't you?  

No such luck :)  

I have been dealing with sickie kids.  

All four came down with strep the beginning of February so two weeks of tons of meds.  Then cold weather hit making it so hard to work on furniture.  

Then when we thought we were free the little ones came down with some crud again. 

Arrgghhhhh 

In that time we've been doing a bit of this:

 Don't you dress up in your princess clothes when you are ill?

 Sucking on icee pops, laying on the sofa and watching Ed, Edd and Eddie makes everyone feel better.

They go back to school tomorrow.  So I get to clean the house and get rid of all those nasty germs.  Ahh to smell bleach - that is my kind of clean :)

She's 7...

Sophie, the princess, turned 7 on Saturday.  She was such a great little lady.  She had a tea party for her friends and it was a fairy themed tea party at that. 

And I might be biased but they are a cute bunch of fairies. 

 They all learned the proper way to drink tea even though they had pink lemonade in their tea pots.  They had little finger sandwiches of turkey and cheese and peanut butter and nanas.  

 Here they are being taught by Miss Christina of Afternoon Tea - the nuances of a proper tea.  (Notice that pretty chalkboard- yep I made it. )

 It's that time..Time to turn 7.  

 She had a great day with lots of family, friends and wonderful gifts.

How did she grow so fast?  This little girl now - from this little baby then. 

Happy Birthday my little princess.  I love you more than you will ever know.  You bring me sunshine every day and I thank the Lord for you all the time.  

What a gift I got with you- Good things certainly did come to me while waiting.  I got you. 

love you much, mommy