Swimming

We went swimming for the first time in our community pool yesterday. All the kids had a blast, except for Quinn who did not want anything to do with it. He loves water but only if its warm. It was a little cold but really not that bad...lol. He had fun once he got out and ran around.

Garden

This is my first year growing a garden and it is actually growing! I am so proud of it. I hope things start growing on those plants. I am growing beans, peas, tomatoes, carrots, onions, cucumbers, crookneck sqash, and swisschard. I am a little sad about my swiss chard because one day I had a ton of it growing and then the next day 3/4's of it was gone. So tomorrow I am going to go get some more seeds so I can have swiss chard because that is my absolute favorite. I also got some raspberry starters from a friend who dug them up for me. They are not doing so great right now, but hopefully with some TLC they will come out of whatever harm I did to them...lol

Jonathan Sleeping

So the other day the kids found this empty box and decided that they would make a boat with this box. So this is the turnout of it. We told the kids it was time for bed, and we went up to see if they were asleep and this is were we found Jonathan. Yep, sleeping in his boat box. To funny. Kids are so silly.

Shandeigh's school play

Tonight, Shandeigh had a school play and it was on bugs. It was really cute. Here is a couple of pictures and a video of her singing.

Look what I made

So at enrichment tonight, we made place mat purses. What do you think? I think it turned out SO CUTE!

Mother's Day

So I have to tell you how my Mother's Day went. I thought it was so special. My children are the best! Ok so first thing in the morning, Shandeigh wakes up and comes in my room and says Happy Mother's day and hands me all this stuff. Here are the pictures.

This is a flower she made and a neck warmer with rice in it, that has a lavender smell.
She made the rice bag all by herself and was so proud to tell me that
she got to use a sewing machine all by herself. She did a very
GOOD job! She is turning into such a young lady.

This is a cute card she made me and I have to share what it says and the pictures she made.
This first page says "I remember when".........
(the picture is of a Mom standing up to a cupboard looking at flowers that she got and the circle says "perfect girl")

this says...This book is dedicated to my Mother because she loves my no matter what.
Coypright@2008 Shandeigh..


Sorry this one is kind of blurry, but it says...I remember when... you taught me to make cookies.
(the picture is of a mom and daughter and the mom is holding a pan of cookies)

and how much you love me!

I know you try you best to show you love. I try to put my love
in everything I do.

this is the little flap that she made on the same page as the last.
It says....and I love you more than anything!

I love you! (in case you could not see it..lol)

This is the back and last page. It is a Mom with a tear in her eye. Wow that made me cry just
typing it.
Ok so yeah she is the sweetest girl. She also made me waffles.
She has never used the waffle machine, so I had to help her, but the
waffles were all mixed up and ready to pour in the waffle maker. She also was such
a big help in everything. She did not even complain once when I asked her to do something.

All the kids got the coupons at church and gave them to me. Shandeigh and Jonathan
begged me to give the one of them to do. So they were all torn up
before I could take a picture, so this is actually Paden's colored one. I have to tell you
about Jonathan. Well you see he is pretty shy getting up in front of people. Today
the primary got up and sang and I could not get Jonathan to go up there.
I never hear him sing period. I dont know if he just does not like his voice or what.
So one of these coupons says sing a song or two. So I tore it off and gave it to him.
I told him I wanted to sing I am a child of God. He did the whole shy, roll of the eye thing,
and then started to sing it. He sang it so cute and really meant it. It was so touching
to hear my Jonathan sing to me. He did so good and I told him he needed
to sing more often to me, because I really liked it.

After church we all got in the car to come home, and Paden says, Happy Mother's Day Mommy!
I said thank you and he handed me this card. I said oh this is so nice of you to color and give this to me. He say well actually mom, this is not your card. It is for Daddy, Jonathan, Shandeigh,

Quinn, me, and Mommy. He is so cute and funny. I just had to laugh. I assumed

that because there was a family on the picture is why he said that..lol

He is so special in his own little way.

So after church I got home and Eric started making dinner. I was so estatic about that. I actually just got to sit on the couch and watch him cook for once. It was such a special treat. He made the best food ever. I wish he would do it more often...hint hint. Alright so that was my Mother's day in a nutshell and it was so special to me.
P.S. I said nothing about Quinn. I do have to say this week has been the first week that he has actually played and has been content and not screaming and crying all day. This really is the first for me since he has been born. Good thing he is so cute or else I dont know what I would have done with him..lol..just kidding. We love our little Quinn and would not know what to do without his special spirit.

Shandeigh did it!

We cut off all of Shandeigh's hair. She was really excited to do it. We are donating her hair to the locks of love. She is such a sweet girl and loves to do kind things for people. So here is the pictures. I almost forgot to take pictures of the before. So while i have it half way cut off, I snapped a photo. I really think her short hair turned out really cute. I was actually kind of sad to see all that long hair go, but it will grow back.