Miss You

Daddy,

we miss you so much!

Happy Anniversary to us!

8 great years and counting...

to Kem: It stinks that you are in Colorado on this special day but know that I love, love, love you! I am so blessed by how you love me and take care of me. I thank God for you each and every day!

Your gift is waiting here at home for you.

I thought about posting a picture but that would spoil the suprise now wouldn't it? You'll just have to come home saftely to see it. I miss you.

O, captain, our captain...please defend our goal

(For best effects turn up your speaker volume and pause the music player which is playing on the right hand column of this screen ~ near the bottom)

Eric was the captain of the team for this particular day. It happened to be his third game. I promise you he is doing much better! I have a feeling that this is what I looked like when I played softball in high school. I may not have actually looked like that but I can assure you I remember feeling like that! He certainly is entertaining to watch!! Notice Grammie with David, Levi and Skippy in the background...he was giving them a great show. Thanks for coming Grammie!

wecanoecanu

So... we did done got us a canoe!

And not just any canoe but one with a super awesome camo paint job! ***can you hear the sarcasm?

Of course we had to try it out right away so we took it down to the swamp that's by our house. "Camo Canoe" blended right in with all of the green stuff floating in the water.

Even the crocodile was amazed at our ability to sneak up on him!

You just never know what you will find in the waters of the Eastern Shore. All in all it was a fun family trek. David was not super excited about it but he lived. I'm looking forward to canoeing in some cleaner and deeper water next time.

First Game!

Ah...the excitement of the first game!

I'm sorry did I say excitement? I meant chaos...pardon me!

Doesn't he look like the "real deal"? You'd never know he didn't even move while he was "playing"

Just kidding. He was only paralyzed for about 5 minutes while he figured out what was going on. After we told him to just chase the ball he did much better! Could those jerseys be any uglier? I am not kidding when I tell you they are the exact color of a highlighter. The ref called it green but he was trying to be nice! Anyway, we beat the other team (Eric's old school) 4-1. Thank goodness for Andrew and Daniel!!

All Time favorite

One of our all time favorites is homemade ice cream!

This time it was strawberry. Yummmmm!

...And friends to share it with

Who's sad?

Well, the pool came down. I lost the battle of the green when we went away for 5 days so I figured it was time to pack it up. I thought the boys would be sad but I was mistaken. Eric said "wow, thank you so much for taking the pool down, mom. Now we have a whole new place to dig!" Apparently I am the only one who is sad about the pool being gone. Maybe now we can spread out the mountain of dirt!!

Sprinkles

Clearly I need to find a less obvious hiding spot for the SPINKLES!

Shorebirds Baseball

Dad took the "big boys" to a Shorebirds baseball game last night

After the game the kids were allowed to run around the bases. I have no idea who won the game but I heard all about running around the bases and how expensive the food was!

I can hear you thinking "well what did you do with your quiet evening, Tery" to which I will reply...I still had Levi! Actually, Levi and I headed out to Home Depot to buy paint because it was on sale this week and I am buggin' to finally paint the nasty walls in this house. But first I got a phone call so we didn't leave until after 6pm. We were half way to the store when Levi announced he had to "POOP". That child has to poop everytime we are at a store no matter what time of day it is. Sooooooooooo, we spent 20 minutes in the bathroom at Home Depot. By the time we finally got to the paint station the sweet young man there said "Ma'am they will be closing the last register in 2 minutes." And then they turned off the lights. Who knew Home Depot closed at 7:00 on a Sunday. So basically with my quiet-er evening I spent 35 minutes in the car to drive Levi to Home Depot just to do his business and drive home. You're jealous of how much fun I had last night...I know you are!!

First week of school

I know I'm a bit late on this but here is a picture from Eric's first day of school.

I actually forgot to take my camera to the bus stop on the first day of school so these bus pictures are from the second day of school. Would you believe that I have to drive him to the bus stop? It's rediculous! It only takes me 4 extra minutes to drive him to school but he loves the bus...cranky bus driver and all!

The first day of school was awesome! After we got Eric off to school David and Levi decided to be polite to each other and act like the best of friends for the rest of the morning. This is shocking because when Eric is around David is too cool for Levi so they fight. After lunch Levi went straight to sleep. David asked to do a workbook page and then asked to take a nap. It was too funny because it was like he had been waiting all summer for Eric to go back to school so that he could take a nap. They both slept for nearly 3 hours. I had to wake them up at 4:00 to go get Eric off the bus. While they slept I read my Bible in peace and then I walked around the house picking everything up and putting where it belonged. I complained all summer about not being able to get the house "picked up" and I did it all in 2 hours.

The problem with really great things is that they just don't last! Napping was scarce the rest of the week which was frustrating because I feel like I have so much work to do to get ready for MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) this year. Check out our website http://www.oakridgemops.org/ Our leadership team should probably have had the whole upcoming year pretty much planned out by now. But seeing as we have 18 children between the 7 of us we didn't get as much done as I had hoped. I mean really you just have to laugh at that!! However, now it is crunch time...we start September 12th. I lothe the feeling of being behind and letting others down because I am not on track. I've got to let it go. God will provide for this group of women and their children despite what I in my own strength am able (or unable)to accomplish...I am banking on it!