{First Day of Summer...}

Today is the boys' first full official day of summer! Yay! I am so excited to spend time with them & figure out things to do together. I also don't mind the idea of sleeping in once in a while! lol :-D

I have some pics that I've been meaning to post....my computer is acting weird AGAIN...so I'm using my sister's laptop now...so we'll see how much I can get done on it. :-)

{Pizza with the Principle}

This year with Mr A has been pretty rough to say the least....the past month and a half hasn't been too bad though...phew...so imagine our excitment when he came home with a letter stating that he got picked to have pizza with the principle in her office....this is a good thing! lol He has also been bringing home Cub Awards which mean that he was seen doing good and/or nice things. :-D

WAY TO GO MR A!!!!

{Happy Birthday Mr E!}

Today, our oldest turned 9....yes, I said 9....already...wow the time flies by!
I really liked the list on your birthday thing that I have seen else where here in blogland....I did one for The Mr. on his birthday, and I really enjoyed that. SO, I'm gonna do one for Mr E....9 because he turned 9. lol

1. We are so proud of the accomplishments you have done this year in school.
2. We love to see your love of baseball, and how much you've grown in such a short time with a sport you enjoy.
3. We admire the talent that you have with your art skills.
4. You are an awesome brother that is caring and proud.
5. We love your love of Heavenly Father and your desire to be a good example.
6. We love watching you grow into the young man that you are becoming.
7. We are proud of the choices that you make in order to learn and grow.
8. We enjoy how much you love family time...like going to the park together, or playing RockBand as a family, or even wathcing a movie...as long as we are together.
9. You are amazing, and we are proud to have you as a son. We thank Heavenly Father to have choosen us to be your parents.

{Mr E's Official Baseball Picture}

We got Mr E's pictures today too. I love the pictures, but I'm not as happy with the package. The boys had different photographers for their teams, and when they got them taken I thought I would like Mr E's better....not sure why, but now that we have them...I really like what the photographer for Mr A's team put together for us. That's okay, cuz next year I'll make sure that Korie does their team pictures. :-D

{Mr A's Official Baseball Pictures}

Here's the pictures that we paid to get taken with Mr A's team. They took some really cute team pictures too, but I didn't want to post other people's kids without them knowing...so you get these adorable pictures of Mr A. :-D I was able to take some pictures myself too but I haven't had much time lately in general, so I haven't gone through them yet. I'm trying though. :-) My favorite is the one of him with the mask on. :-D

Luvs!

{Door Knobs & Couches}

Yesterday I caught Little Mr trying to open the garage door....he was reaching up on his tippy tippy toes and reaching really hard....but he was touching the door knob! He is getting so tall now, and getting into so many things! lol And then last night, I was sitting on the couch and he crawled up and sat next to me and was just chillin like he does that all the time! lol TOO CUTE! :-)

{Coloring Easter Eggs}

{First Time Driving}

I couldn't pass up this perfect opportunity for a picture :-) Safeway had this car cart & Mr T wanted to ride in it & Little Mr hasn't been in one before :-) Soo I let them even though those things wreck havoc on my back! Lol They are too cute! :-D

{Mr T's "Baseball Practice"}

This is where Mr T basically lives while we are at Mr E's & Mr A's baseball practices. I am SO glad that there is a playground that he can play at during practice. It makes things somewhat less stressfull.....I said somewhat lol

{My Love & I}

This pic was taken after we did our family pics-they were with Mom & Dad, & my sister & her family (coming soon) :-D I really liked this pic of us so I thought I'd share :-D

{College Spring Break}

OH.MY.GOSH!!!

Okay, so Here's my excitment!

Thursday: we get to pick up AMANDA & ANNA from the airport!!!! YAY!
Saturday: we get to pick up SERENA from the airport!!!! YAY!

Well, I'm not as excited for them to be leaving but Anna and Serena will go back on Wednesday. And Amanda is staying with us until SUNDAY! hehe hehe hehe

I really just had to share that with ya'll LOL

{Menu Board}

At one of my trips to Jo-Anns (I was getting textile medium for the tshirts I made) I found a really cool material....it's peel and stick chalk board, it comes in green, black...AND BLUE!!! I was SO excited to see this is blue. lol And I knew EXACTLY what I could do with it! :-) I have this frame that use to have a mirror in it, but the mirror broke years ago....and my brother made it into a bulletin board for me when he was visiting me when I had Mr T...and he did a great job. BUT I've fallen in love with spray paint....lol....andI knew what I could do with this now. :-) Here is the before picture........

Before:

So before I get to my after picture I'll tell ya what I did. :-) I took apart the bulletin that my brother made for me....and I spray painted the frame part (this was my first spray paint job...I don't know why but spray paint has always intimidated me....but not anymore! lol) Then I took the peel and stick and put it on the piece of cardboard that my brother had already used for the bulletin board...it didn't quite cover the whole area, but I had some cardstock that was a real close match that I covered the area at the very top with...and you can hardly even tell. :-) I then took some wide ribbon from my stash and wrapped it around the frame and tied it. I put the backing back on and screwed the frame back together...then I took the ribbon and nailed it into the top of the door, wrapped it back down and tied a pretty bow. Now the boys don't have to ask what we're having for dinner! lol They can read it! :-) It's hanging on my pantry door in my kitchen.....doesn't it look pretty next to my pretty apron that my mommy got me? :-) I love it! :-D

After:

{We are a LUCKY bunch}

{LUCKY}

I have been reading a lot of different blogs about making designs for making your own shirts....I really liked this idea....and it got me thinking. I like it when we have matching shirts for things, YES I am one of THOSE. lol And we don't really have the money to be buying matching shirts for all six of us all the time. So I wanted to come up with something that didn't cost much. I had these shirts from a project that I had intended to do last year lol And I have my cricut machine, and I also have craft paint....so all I had to do was buy the textile medium to turn the paint I already have into fabric paint.....so for about $5 I was able to make six shirts! Not too bad! :-) I did a mask style instead of a stencil....it was easier for me to do with the cricut. I cut out the letters from scrap cardstock that I wanted in the font and size for each shirt....I backed each letter with repositional glue and let that dry...then put them on the shirt, and just sponged over them with black paint that was mixed according to the directions on the bottle of the textile medium...let the paint dry some then peeled off the letters and then let the paint dry all the way, and heat set the shirts. :-)

Here's the boys' shirts

And mine & Tommy's :-D

{Daddy"s New Hat}

This story starts off track lol Just thought I'd let ya know :-)
We needed to get WA plates for our truck....they expire this month...so I looked online when, where, how, and what we needed to get it done. To make a long story shorter...lol...it took a while. So The Mr was already up late and we had accomplished as much as we could for the day with the truck. I asked him if he would like to take me out to lunch at my favorite restaurant. :-) He said that he wouldn't mind that too much. lol So we headed over to Olive Garden for lunch.....but when we pulled up the parking lot was empty and the sign said they didn't open until 11 and it was 10:45.....so we headed to the mall to kill some time. I actually thought that The Mr just wanted to eat there instead. lol We dallied got a game...The Mr got me a cover for my phone that I've needed....and while I was picking that out Mr T took The Mr into a store to look around. They ended up in Zumies looking at hats. Mr T really liked these hats....."Daddy, you should get this one" So, Mr T wanted to show me the hat that Daddy should get. lol he brought me right to them lol and I took a pic of the two of them together :-)


I have always like these types of hats, and I think that Thr Mr looks really good in it. hehe So he got the one that Mr T had picked out. lol They are just SO cute together! :-DHere is Mr T wearing Daddy's new hat!!! :-D