A little crafty!

I just made these to put up in Emmy's newly pink room.  Thought I would share them with you all!

Family Pictures!

We finally got around to our pictures this year!  It seems like we always wait until it's snowing before we get a chance to do them, but this year I was actually on the ball!  My SIL Devynn moved back so now we have another (my brother Trevor does them too!) wonderful photographer to take our pictures for us!  Check out her blog here!  If you live in the area check out her work you will not be disappointed!  Trust me!  We ended up having a very uncooperative almost 2 year old to add to the fun of the shoot!  She wouldn't go to anyone but me!  Hence I am holding her in every picture.  And I am not completely thrilled with my wardrobe choice!  (We are having more pictures done in a few weeks to make up for it!)  But I still think they were great!  Thanks again Devynn for putting up with me!

It's that time again....

School started today I am doing the happy dance as I write this!  Not because my kids are going to be gone all day long, but because I no longer have to listen to the arguments or tell them multiple times no when they ask for something while we are at the grocery store.  I am happy with their teachers, and hope they feel the same way!  They even have some friends in their classes this year which I am grateful for!  I really hope they enjoy Grades 4 and 2, and that Emmy has fun in her second year of preschool!  It was a little gloomy this morning so we bundled up a little for back to school pictures but here they are!

Birthday time is here again!

I guess I should back track and update on Emmy's party before I get to Hadley's.  Her birthday was a couple of months ago!  I know I am terrible that I didn't blog about it then!  But hey here it is now and that is all that matters.  My kids don't get a friends birthday until they turn 6, so until that time we have a family birthday.  We invited everyone that was close by and celebrated her 4th Birthday!  I am still trying to figure out how she is already 4.  I even told her she couldn't have any more birthday's which kind of upset her!  Here are some pics of her day!

The very excited Birthday Girl waiting to open presents

The sorry excuse for a cake!

My Goofy Girl! I had to include this just because I don't know how she was able to do this!

Hadley is now 9. Yup I can't believe it either! This year was also a family party but only one set of Grandparents were able to join us for supper! Thanks Grandma and Papa! Hadley chose the restaurant. After eating she opened her presents!

She was pretty excited about this one as you can see!

After dinner we hit the fair for a couple of hours, then it was back home for cake! Again another sorry excuse! I guess I will have to redeem myself next year!

She said she had a good time! I really hope she did!

So here it is!

I feel like summer just got here and now we are less than a week from starting the new school year!  We have been keeping pretty busy with the everyday things, but did take some time for a little family get away!  The kids always have a blast when we head south of the border, and for some reason the weather is always just a little bit nicer!  We kept it pretty low key and the camera didn't even come out until the last day!  But it was for a good reason!  At least to Rawley it was!

Hadley had to get in on the action of holding the crawfish as well.

And of course I have to include a picture of Sweet little Emmy!

I am pretty sure we could have left her with Pat's aunt and uncle and they would have been completely fine with it!

All in all a fun, much needed vacation!  Let the school year begin!

I'm not going to play catch up!

I just looked at this and realized it has been 3 months since my last entry.  Let's just say things have been a little crazy around our house as of late.  Between spur of the moment trips to Las Vegas to visit my sister, tons of school activities and projects, and Judo tournaments.  I don't think I have had even 2 seconds to sit down at the computer to make an entry.  So I have decided to keep things short and sweet from here on out.  I will blog when I can, and include pictures when I can, but I can honestly say that things will be less and less exciting on here!  Hopefully that will make me feel a little bit better about myself!  And hopefully any of you that actually still check this will still take a look every once and a while!

Spring Snow?

We always get snow the beginning of Spring around here. I have learned not to jump the gun when the weather starts turning warm because we tend to have one last snow storm of the season to give us a little reminder of what we just went through for the last 6 months. I am really hoping this is that storm. Not a huge storm but enough to put a slight damper on my weekend. This also was not welcomed news considering I was running a race Saturday night! Turned out to be just fine for running. Not to cold and the snow was actually kind of pretty! This was my second year running this exact race, and I was able to take 6 minutes off my time from last year. My time was 38 minutes and a few seconds or so. Can't remember exactly and don't want to look it up! It was nice to have Pat and my mom cheer me on this time, and even see me cross the finish.

Monday after school I sent the kids outside to play in the snow, because I knew it wouldn't last. It was perfect snowman building snow which is rare around these parts. Rawley made a great snow monster and I wanted to share him with all of you.