A trip to Chuck E. Cheese.

My mom and I decided to take the little ones to Chuck E. Cheese today. We thought since school gets out next week we better go now before it gets crazy. Uncle Luke and Aunt Naomi were off of work and decided to go with us. We were so happy. We all had the best time and we are planning on going again very soon when daddy can go with us.

Their favorite ride was the carousel. We rode it over and over again. My mom and I had to take turns walking next to Captain Drools because we were getting so very dizzy following the carousel around and around and around.


Miss Boss loved it too.They could ride most of the rides together which was very nice.
This girl makes the funniest faces.

Captain Drools loved this little car. He kept talking to Chuck the mouse it was so cute.
Captain Drools' loved riding the horse too.
He wanted to play Skee Ball with Uncle Luke really bad.

Somebody got a haircut!

Well, it has been almost 2 months since Miss Boss gave herself a haircut. I decided this weekend to take her to finally get everything fixed. She was not born with a lot of hair and it has taken her a very long time to grow what little hair she has. This was her first official "professional" haircut. I have trimmed her hair up from time to time (even after the infamous Joe Dirt cut). When we got there she just looked around and as you can tell she was very serious about getting her haircut. She gets so serious about things like this. I have NO IDEA where she gets that from. She did enjoy staring at herself in the mirror the whole time.

What is going on?

It has been such a busy couple of weeks. This time of year is always so very busy for the 2 of us. My hubby and I are both teachers and school is winding down. We are looking forward to the summer and I hopefully will be able to update the blog a little more frequently! Here is what has been going on with us (other than working).......

My brother is in an amazing band....Twin Thunder. They just released a new CD. A couple of weekends ago his band was playing in a little town right out of Nashville. Hubby and I decided we really wanted to go see them play. Any excuse for a road trip. I LOVE road trips. They are always so much fun. We left early Saturday morning and made a few stops on the way to the hotel (mainly for outlet shopping and boiled peanuts, hubby's favorite). We had talked about going into Nashville and spending the day, but spending the afternoon taking a nap sounded better to us since we are getting old and we can't stay up late anymore without a nap. How terrible does that sound..... Well, my brother and his wife showed up a couple of hours later and we went to dinner and off the the bar to see his band play. Since this was the first time I had seen them live (I have heard them in my parents basement for several years) I didn't know what to expect, but they were AMAZING. I was soooooo very proud of him. We had so much fun together. When we got back the next week my sister emailed me an article that was in Performer Magazine about Twin Thunder's debut album.
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c8bb72b#/8c8bb72b/54

This is one of the pictures from our ride back. Sorry. I forgot to take pictures there. I am terrible about remembering to take pictures.

After our trip I was SO ready to get back and see the little ones. I missed them like crazy. It was the longest I had been away without either one of them.

This past week not a whole lot of stuff went on around here. On Thursday we went to Pappy's softball game and had dinner at Dairy Queen. Miss Boss and Captain Drools' both LOVE ice cream.


On Saturday we went to Home Depot. Miss Boss and Captain Drools LOVE riding in the shopping carts there.We have also been very fortunate to spend sometime with our neices. Miss Boss just loves playing with them. They always entertain each other so well.

Playing with Daddy!

I love Springtime. It is one of my favorite times of year. We try and spend as much time as possible outside before it gets way to hot and muggy (not to mention the mosquitoes). However, it is also one of our busiest times of year. School is winding down. This to me means more work in order to get everything ready for the end of school. Jason also coaches high school soccer and this week their season ended. When he is coaching there are A LOT of days that I feel like a single mom. He is leaves in the morning before we wake up and when he gets home I am the only one awake. I know that is hard for him to do sometimes. He likes to call me on his way home to find out if there is an off chance they are awake because he HATES going a whole day without seeing these little ones. We are so happy to have him home in the afternoons to play with us. We are looking forward to spending a whole summer together.

Love Dare

For months my husband and I had heard about the movie Fireproof and that we really needed to watch it. Well, for our Valentine's date this year we rented the movie, put the kids in bed, and watched it. It was so good. I cried through the whole movie. Here is the trailer if you are not familiar with the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K23hSajG2K8




We have luckily had the opportunity to participate in a 40 day Bible study. The Bible study is called Love Dare. Love Dare personally leads you through daily devotionals, records your thoughts and experiences, and ends each day daring you to perform a simple act of love for your spouse. We are currently on Day 3. On Day 1 our first dare was not to say anything negative to one another. On Day 2 we had to continue to not say anything negative and then to preform a random act of kindness for one another. I decided to put away Jason's laundry....this might seem weird to some of you, but he always tells me I have to put mine and everyone elses up so to please not worry about his. He also has more laundry then everyone else combined. (From coaching and work I guess) It took me 30 minutes to put fold, hang up and put away all of his laundry. Last night after dinner I came into the living room and set down and played with the kids while My hubby cleaned the entire kitchen. He washed the counters, put away food, loaded, and unloaded the dishwasher. It was so wonderful. Today is Day 3. Today our dare is to buy our spouse something during the day to let them know we are thinking about them. I must admit I didn't give my husband that much credit. I figured he would just pick me something up on his way home from soccer practice tonight, but to my surprise when I got home from lunch with my family this was waiting in the kitchen for me......



He must have came home during his planning period in order to surprise me. Boy did he surprise me. It was so very nice. I can already tell in 3 days that this is going to be a very big changing point in our marriage! I am very eager to see what else God has in store for us as we continue to grow together. I am sure it is going to get harder (because so far it has been fun). I will try and remember to update on how it is going.

Easter Sunday!

We always have a very busy, but fun Easter. The morning started off my going to check out what the Easter bunny brought the little ones.

Here is Captain Drools basket.



Here is Miss Boss' basket. Lots of paint of course.They each got a pair of sunglasses. Aren't they super cool!
After checking out what the bunny brought we all got ready to go to church. If you notice I tried to slick down Captain Drools' hair. I like it all crazy better though! I love how high his pants are too. Heehee.

This is a typical family picture. Miss Boss is trying to make a funny face and Captain Drools is trying to escape. This is one of my favorite pictures to because this captures them all so well.
Here is my and Miss Boss. I know, I know, a picture of me. Can you believe it? I finally remember to get one.
I walked outside to leave for church and this is how Miss Boss was standing. She looked so stinkin cute I had to take her picture!
After church we went to my Uncles house and had a very yummy lunch and then had an Easter egg hunt. Captain Drools wasn't really interested in what was going on. He kept trying to eat the candy still in the wrapper. I had to throw a few pieces away because they were a slimy mess.
She took egg hunting serious.
Taking a break and having some juice!
Miss Boss was in heaven since there was a swing........
and a sandbox!

A really fun week!!!!

So this post is long. I guess that is what happens when so much happens and I don't blog. Well, last week was Spring Break so we had a whole week off. This is one of the many reasons I am so happy I am a teacher and I married one. We get to spend lots of holidays together and the whole summer. Moving on.......This week we didn't go anywhere or really do anything special. We just enjoyed being together. Here are a few of my pictures from the week.

I woke up one morning to this. I love that they are getting old enough to really enjoy one another. They love playing together now.

Captain Drools has a new skill. He is able to get out of everything. When Miss Boss was little I always wondered if people really used straps on highchairs or shopping carts at the store. Now I know why.

My best friend was in town and we meet at the park for a play date.
Miss Boss stayed in the swing the whole 2.5 hours we were at the park. She is a woman obsessed.


Captain Drools was wiped out from a fun day at the park. He feel asleep in the car.The rest of the week Miss Boss painted. She LOVES to paint. She will paint for hours. Everything she sees she wants to paint. A tree, a flower, people. She is very creative.




These are just from one day. I have stacks and stacks of her paintings and being the pack rat I am, I can't throw them away. As you can tell she loves to paint with the color black! I think it is her favorite color. When I bought her a new carseat I let her chose a pink one with flowers or a black one. She chose black. That's my girl!!!!