118

FINALLY....closing in on a week of picking it out, I finally got my new car.  Yea!  No more battery problems and unreliable transportation!  Now I need to buy some seat protectors for the hooligans

Day 117

We had a lazy day at home...went to church but that's about it.  I gave in after days of begging to make cookies with E.  She takes it very seriously, and needed reassurance that her spacing, line placement and cookie dough ball size were all going as expected.  Love my mini-me ;)

Day 116

We went to Veterans Park this morning to burn off some energy---I wish it wasn't quite as far for us because the kids love it there, and there are so many parts to explore.

                                               The kids loved the soldier statues

 especially Jack...he inspected each one carefully--paying closest attention to                                              the marine, of course---Daddy :) Which I know is not this guy. 

                                   Reid and Jack also found some puddles to jump and splash in....

Day 115

Pinterest pin of the week....bacon cheddar potato rounds!

I made these tonight for dinner....yes, it's technically just an appetizer probably, but we had it for dinner :)

Here's all you need:

It also calls for chopped green onion, but I didn't have any....
Slice your potatoes into 1/2 in rounds, and brush both sides with butter. Bake at 400 for 15 min on each side or golden brown on both sides.

 Remove and sprinkle bacon and cheese- put back into oven until cheese is melted. Serve with your dip of choice (ranch for me, ketchup for Jerry and kiddos)

                                 Start to finish 35 minutes...and it was YUMMY!

Day 114

I am so thankful that my kids get along a lot of the time. I know that sometime in the not so distant future they will maybe want nothing to do with each other---E will be too big to play baby games, watch baby shows or  too girl to play with boy toys. But for now---they like the same things and play with the same toys.Now, please don't think they don't scream and fight and cry---because they do!  But it's not ALL the time :)  This morning after waking them up, I caught them pretending with the Wiggles. The Wiggles will never die at our house, it seems. Which, actually, is fine with me. I much prefer them over the heinous shows on Nick and Disney (non preschool).  I've seen them twice in concert and had a great time both shows. I <3 Anthony!  ha

Day 113

Today was Elizabeth's music presentation at school. They played some instruments for us, demonstrated pitch and tempo and did some cute songs with motions. The good news, I got a front row seat.  The bad news: she was on the back row the whole time, so not great for picture taking.  

Sweet Sadie on the drums

Precious Wynn

Day 112

I thought the sky and crescent moon were pretty tonight....it was a great shade of blue before dark

Day 111

It was REALLY windy and chilly today...Jerry decided to take advantage of probably one of our last cool evenings and use the fire pit.  The kids loved roasting marshmallows and throwing in sticks.

Delicious!

Day 110

I am loving the new service our church is doing on Sunday nights...our message today and tonight in more than one setting and multiple times led me towards tonight's blog post. If  you are looking for something new, something different, or even if you aren't sure you're looking at all...I  invite you to come with me one Sunday--Small group at 9:45, modern worship at 11:02 and our new service at 6:30, Amplified Worship.  Those of you that were with me at any of these times, yea for stepping out of my zone and into our new zone!

Day 109 Birthdays

We celebrated birthdays at both ends of the spectrum today... Kaitlyn's 2nd birthday was first at the Oak Mountain petting farm and then on to my grandmother's 87th birthday at the Oaks.

Jack's face about sums up his feelings toward all things nature...especially these goats and sheep

Day 108

This is what happens when mommy is home alone for a few hours....sorry kids!  You'll never miss it....

Day 107

We had a fun day at Meadow View today...the Mobile Dairy Classroom came to visit groups of our students and the kids LOVED it!   http://southwestdairyfarmers.com/mobile_dairy  We got to meet Petunia the cow and learn all about where milk comes from!  It was also farm/western wear day in PE, complete with homemade milkshakes! Here are a couple of phone pictures from the presentation. 

                                 and yes.....she squirted the kids with Petunia's milk.  yikes