Friday, September 30, 2011

The Things We Do!!

I'm a little excited to see Jimmy's response in the morning...

He has his first fourth grade Book Report due in the morning.
He read the second Percy Jackson book,
'The Sea of Monsters'
He really enjoyed the book and loves the series. They have to do a different type of report each month on different themed books. The themes have been decided by his teacher for the year already and this month was the students choice. He decided for this months report he would do the book in a bag. I told him that I would help with his work this year but that he had to do the work and ask me for the help when he needed it. So he has done the work and put all the things together. He asked me if I could print out a couple of pictures for him and that is all he needed. So that is what I did... and then a little special surprise for him... 
I had seen a great tutorial about printing pictures onto paper snack bags. So I went on the hunt and found it again, here, and then printed this surprise for him. :)
When he gets up in the morning I'm going to have him cut out his pictures and then place them in his bag in his backpack, and when he pulls the bag out.... there it will be already replaced with his items in it. :) 
Here are some pictures with how it turned out!!





Good Luck BABE!!!
I LOVE YOU!!!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Catch Up Time...

Well it's that time again that I have realized (again) that I am extremely behind in my posts... This however does not mean that I am going to put everything in one post. I am going to work on it as I can, especially like tonight when I can't sleep. I do want this as our family journal, so I'm going to pick out the high lights from our summer and probably our year. I was going to go in order, but I'm not promising anything... lol  :)

The first and biggest update that I need to post is
  OUR ADOPTION DAY!!
I can't believe that I haven't posted this yet, I know that it's been a busy time around here but I feel really badly that I haven't posted about our day yet. I did post a lot on Facebook about it, but really it's not quite the same.
I really want to get my blog caught up and kept up!! For me and my family...


It was such a beautiful and happy day for our family!!!
Thank you to all those that have been there, with and for us, during our journey!! 
We are VERY BLESSED with wonderful people in our lives!!

Birthday Season

Well it's Birthday season around here... It starts out with Eric's Birthday today, Chris's next month, Jimmy's in November, and Chad's Mom in December. Add the Holidays mixed in there of course, it's a busy time for all.. :)
Here are some pictures from Eric's Birthday!!



This was our family party at Grandma's!!
I think that he had a good time!!
Actually we all did!! :D

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Fun at Grandma's


The boys are having fun playing in Grandma's desert!! :) and now Dad is having them run laps up and down the long, long, driveway!!! Can we say burn some energy!! :)

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