Busy Busy

Ashlyn has become the busy little bee this year. She is loving soccer and dance class. She started dance in June and is currently on her second week of soccer. She is one of two girls on the soccer team. The other girl is a fellow homeschooler we met at the dance school.
















She gets pretty tired out there running around and being that it's 9:00 am and probably 85 degrees doesn't help matters. The heat seems much more intense this year and the bugs in Richlands would send the ones at our house scurrying in a hurry,eeech.






























Here is my little clown, Devin, He is something else. He has officially entered the whiny three year old stage of life. I didn't have fond memories of it from the first time and this time definitely isn't leaving a positive lasting impression. We are currently trying to be on a school schedule and do all of our stuff daily, we are 1/1 so far. Hopefully we keep it up. Ashlyn is able to sound words out more quickly and even is recognizing words in her environment. I am so proud of her. Devin is starting the random counting that I remember Ashlyn doing, the 1,4,6,9,10. He actually helped me count to 20 in the car the other day, it was just me and him and i was very surprised at all the numbers he knew.

Antonio is due for a visit in about 36 days (not that i am counting or anything) and we are so excited. We plan to visit the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, Va and then we are going to also have some time to ourselves overnight. The only time we left our kids overnight was when Devin was born so this will be interesting, I am excited. Take care everyone

My 5 Month Project

When we first decided to move into our new house I knew I wanted the kids to have bunkbeds. Sop after we got moved out of the old house i went and bought new mattresses and a bunkbed. On the way home I was chatting with my friend and she told me she could make bunkbeds for much cheaper. So I went and cancelled my purchase and set forth on my adventure. You woldnt think it would be too much work to sand, stain (4 coats), and polyurithain (2 coats), but let me tell ya it is. So the project finally got finished about 2 or 3 weeks ago, only to be followed by a bat of hand, foot, and mouth virus that whipped throught the whole family. But that is another blog in and of it's self, so here is a picture of our finished beds.

The Adventures of FLower Girl and Spiderman

Ashlyn and Devin or should I say flower girl and spiderman were posing for the camera. I know Devin looks like a little rapper but that was not the pose he was going for. They had so much fun















The rest of the photos are of Ashlyn tying her bunnies ears. I thought it was precious, and it is awesome to see her getting closer to tying her shoes!!
















































THe most beautiful part of this was, it was all her idea, I didnt have to force her to learn, and as you can see by this picture she is so proud of herself. I thank God for allowing me to homeschool.!!!!!!!

Not Much to Talk About...............

I have a few friends who have made some comments on me never blogging (you know who you are VA and MD) so I thought I might really surprise them and blog twice in one week. Watch out now!!!!

We have had a really nice week so far. We've been gone from the house a lot, which is good cause i hate being lonely and with hubby gone there are a lot of the lonley's going on here. Yesterday me and a friend ran into each other in Richlands so we had dinner with them and didn't get home till bed time, perfect for us. And today me and another friend took our kids to the aquarium. It was a lot of fun. We got to see the river otters get fed. The workers fed them live gold fish, celery w/ peanut butter, and pine cones filled with banana chips. One of the otters was real partial to the celery and the other to the fish. It was really funny watching the one swim after the gold fish, aahhh nature (well man made) at its finest. We also got to watch one of the workers clean one of the fish tanks. Of course this was one of the highlights of the day for the kids. I touched lots of sting rays and picked up a lot of inhabited sea shells. There were a lot of staff around to explain things and give lots of info. It was a really nice day that ended w/ some Ben and Jerry's ice cream and Taco Bell for dinner. We were gone all day and it was fabulous. Tomorrow I am going for a facial, I actually meant to cancel it cause i wanted to go to the Chiropractor instead but i spaced it off and am to late to cancel. Maybe next pay check i will get my spine aligned. I know it seems like the priorities are a little backwards but hey i didn't write it down and therefore i spaced it off.

Anyways i will post some pictures of the aquarium when my friend forwards them to me, cause guess what didn't even think to bring the darn camera, aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh save me from the madness LOL.

Until next time folks.....................

Playing Catch Up

The kids were looking extra cute this morning before church so i though i would take pictures. Devin is no longer capable of smiling like a normal child (not that i have ever considered nor wanted them to be classified as normal, LOL) he insists on the funny faces in all pictures.

It has been awhile since i blogged. Getting quiet time on the computer is near impossible unless it is 11:25 pm and i try not to be up this late, but usually fail cause something is needing to be finished. So here i am blogging, aahhh.

But we had a great visit it from great friends this week, it was so great not being the only adult in the house. The kids did good and really enjoyed each other. we are planning a trip up to Virginia to see them for a few days and also to Maryland to visit some other friends who we haven't seen in over four years. I have lots of planning to do between now and then, but i am so excited to get out and be gone for awhile.

What else is new.................oh Devin had a birthday in April so he is now 3 and Ashlyn had 3 loos teeth. I believe she will hang on to them for awhile cause they seem to hurt her a little so she doesn't want them messed with much. Tonight though i convinced her to eat her baby carrots with those front teeth and we wiggled them lots. I am really excited about seeing what she looks like toothless. We are trying to plug away at school, too this last week off of official studies, but i know they still learned a lot more than in they were sitting in a class room all day for 5 days. Any who i should get to bed before 1200 am sneaks up on me. Love ya all