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!!!

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!!

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

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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Well here it is 4:15 in the morning and I haven't been to sleep yet and no matter how hard I try I can't seem to. 

Chad is leaving tomorrow~well today now~ for work in TX. This was a very tough decision for us, but one that we feel strongly is the right one for us. It is going to in the long run bless our family, even though the next few months will probably be tough ones. We have never had Chad gone for work since we got the boys, not like before when it was just the two of us. I know that we can do it and I know the Lord will bless us. The boys are doing good because we have had time to prepare for him leaving but the past couple of days they have expressed how sad they are and that they are going to miss him so much. They understand that it is a decision we all made together as a family and they understand why we made it. They show such strength and character I'm so proud of them. I love all of my boys (Big and Small) and know together with the Lord, our family and friends we will make it successfully through this next stage of our lives. 

SEVEN PEAKS 

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We were given passes to use for 2 weeks, and even though we didn't get to use them as much as we would have liked to due to the boys having colds and not feeling their best, we did get a couple fun days in!!

Jimmy is having a blast playing his games after not doing so over the past 6 months. Chad was playing with him and its so cute to hear them "gamer talk", buts especially to hear Jimmy giving Chad "instructions on here he needs to be and for him to listen to him ...lol...

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