June 30th

Tonight was the first night of Baker's Babes, the plan is for the College/Young Adult gals to get together every Wednesday night for free pie and fellowship. I say free pie because we have a restaurant here in town who for the past year or so has offered free pie with the purchase of a menu item....until they decided to change it two weeks ago. Ugh. I wasn't very happy and I slightly let them know (no comments from you people who think I am rude to waitresses). Their menu still advertised the old deal and we thought about pressing the issue but I made the call to just let it be. So Baker's Square won't be graced by our appearance every Wednesday. We still will get together but have decided to change the location each week, starting with Starbucks next week. One thing was decided for sure tonight...Baker's Square can take away our free pie but they're not taking away our name, we're still the Baker's Babes!!

June 29th

Our friend Jon is on vacation this week and he was gracious enough to come spend four hours at our house today. Steve's bike hasn't work since last summer and Jon and Steve worked on it today. We have good news and bad news. They got it to run, but only if Jon was feeding it gas. They came up with some pretty creative ways to make it so Steve could ride, but needless to say it is still parked in our driveway. They did find the part they think needs to be replaced. I so hope they can get the part so Steve can get his bike up and running. AND I am so thankful for friends! Jon is seriously the nicest guy you could ever meet and we are so thankful he and Heather are a part of our lives!

June 28th

My camera was packed and then not charged the past two days, so sorry for no picture. I will make up for it tonight!

We had some great Audrey time tonight. And let me tell you, those two cracked Steve and I up all night. We went on a wagon ride (a favorite past time from camp this year) and they belly laughed the entire time at each other. I even caught them holding hands....three times.

When we got home we had a popsicle break, they may or may not have had two each. If they did have two, I most certainly would have been smart enough to give them the same color each time, so that it would look like they only had one in the pictures. But that would have been only IF I gave them two.

We came inside because the bugs were so bad and the kiddos kept themselves entertained with Cael hiding and Audrey finding him. The best part about it was that Cael hid in the same spot every time, and Audrey laughed so hard each time she found him. My favorite part about the night was all the snuggles, hugs and kisses I got from little Miss Audrey. I was afraid after spending so much time together at camp and then me leaving for 10 days that she would forget that we had become friends. No need to worry, she and I are friends forever....I hope.

June 25th

What I am NOT going to miss about Weiner. Can you guess what they are?

And what I AM going to miss about Weiner....

June 24th

Happy Birthday To Me!!

Cael helped my mom made my cake this morning then tonight she let him decorate it all by himself. I LOVED it! He also sang Happy Birthday to me about 20 times. Now talk about melting a momma's heart!!

Because it's my birthday I get to include two pictures. Mainly because I want to share a story with you.

Tonight was "Penny Night" at VBS. A big contest between the boys and the girls....and of course, the girls won, resulting in Kain getting a pie in his face! My dad went to the bank earlier this evening and the banker informed him that because of our penny night the bank was out of pennies!! He then went to the pick some things up at the grocery store in town and found out that they were out of pennies also. I LOVE IT!! I also love this little town!

How is it even possible that my baby is old enough for Vacation Bible School? Okay, well he isn't really old enough....it's for ages 3 and up. But hey, when your Pop Pop is the preacher you get special treatment.

BUT STILL...he is growing up way to fast for this momma!

June 22nd

I have two pictures today. Check out the bug bites on Caels arm. His entire body is covered, poor little guy. Something in my parents yard is biting him up. They aren't you normal bites that you get from these ginormous mosquitoes (or as Dad call them now that he is back in Weiner, sketters) buzzing around here. They aren't slowing him down, although he does want us to "scratch" him all the time.

We had another great night at VBS, 12 more kids tonight than last night. Not to shabby for this little town! This is one of my favorite kids, Rylan...I seriously want to pack him up and bring him home with me!

June 21st

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Now let's move on.

Beth was packing up to leave Thursday morning to head home after spending the week with us and it hit me that I should be going with her. So after about 10 minutes of deliberating and making some phone calls the decision was made and I was headed to Arkansas. We tried to surprise my parents but my dad ruined it for himself on Thursday and then my brother told my mom on Friday. My family is horrible at keeping secrets! But we have had a great time so far and yesterday was spent with almost the entire family (minus my hubby). We couldn't remember the last time Dad was with all his kids on Father's Day. So while I was missing Steve, it was so nice to spend the day with my Dad...the best Dad ever! :)

Tonight VBS started at Weiner and I am so excited to be here and be part of it! Everyone had such a good time and I am excited to see what the week brings. My camera died and I don't have my battery charger so I am borrowing my brothers Olympus. It's a much nicer camera than I have but proof that Canon is WAY better in the user friendly category. My goal tomorrow is to figure out how to use it...wish me luck.

Here is a picture of two of my favorite girls. They are in the pre-school group and ad.ori.able. Hopefully tomorrow I will have a picture of Cael enjoying his first VBS ever!

June 12, 2010

So I am cheating. But I had to post a picture so I could prove Daniel and BJ wrong. (although they are going to claim this doesn't count). Camp starts tomorrow so everything is packed and ready to go, including my cable to download pictures. If I were to post a picture from today it would be of our garage sale (that I made almost $350 at) or of my beautiful sister in law who is here to spend the week with us. She is going to be on Cael duty during camp....I am so excited she is here.

Here is a picture of my surprise cake that I made for Memorial Day. My first attempt did not turn out very well. This time it was a huge success and everyone loved it!

June 12,2010

Just for you Emily, thanks for the motivation!!!

Tonight we had our College/Young Adult ABF cookout. I knew going into it we would have a good time. Little did I know just how good of time we would have. On several occasions I was laughing so hard I could hardly breath. Four words; Cacaw, Cacaw and Silent Football. This is not even half of the group we could have. If everyone decides to show up to an event at the same time we are going to pack the house!

I am so blessed to have fellowship on a weekly basis with this group of people. I am their "teacher", but almost every week they teach me something. It was great to hang out outside of our normal time on Sunday Mornings.

Until next time...keep practicing your thwacks!!