Some fun pictures

Cassie and Jared


Cassie playing in dough

Jared being a gnome

Brennan being a gnome, I didn't realize it was sideways

Our friends Kendra and Kaitlyn

Kullen, Jared and Brennan playing under Julie's moving truck.

Jared

two pictures

We went to the zoo today, I love the zoo, I get to see all the cool animals and the best part is the elephants of course.


Here we are, all six of us. Jason is usually taking the picture so this time we got him in the picture. If you look above his head you see the giraffe, that guy was a ham, we were talking to him and he came right up to us and was posing. It's funny that he is in this picture.

This is me and my mom.

Yes she is young and beautiful :)

It's great to have her here visiting.

Fun workshop

We went to Build-a-Bear workshop for the first time. Cassie wanted one for her birthday so we were going there to get her present. I had no idea what it was going to be like, it is awesome. You pick your animal, stuff it, they sew it up, fluff it and accessorize. You also name it and get an official birth certificate.
I recommend it to anyone who hasn't been there.



This is Jared's bear his name is Stuffy. The machine stopped working and Jared's was hand stuffed, he helped stuff it. He built the lego background as soon as we got home.

This is Cassie with her bear Haley.

Here I am, my mom insisted on buying me an elephant, I couldn't resist.

His name is Rebel and his shirt has a guitar on it and says rock-n-roll.

He is so soft and fluffy and cute and cuddly, I think he is my cutest elephant yet and I have alot.

Fun, fun, fun :)

Beautiful summer day

We went to an awesome park in Nashville, it had lots of people and beautiful scenery. I'm just sharing a couple pics right now.

There is a trail around the pond where people can walk, run, jog etc. It is one mile around, we just walked a little ways and stopped to feed the ducks and the pigeons.

Here are my sweet little people although they aren't that little anymore.

Here we are :)

Yes my 13 yr old is almost as tall as me, heck the 10 yr old isn't far behind. I just found out he was standing on a hill but he is only a few inches shorter than I am.

After we left here we went to a little drive up type ice cream stand. Everyone ordered ice cream but I ordered sweet potato fries. Oh my gosh they are awesome, I have got to make some at home.

Then we went to another park because Jared wanted to go to the playground. The park we were at had a playground but it was packed.

There were a lot of people at the next park too but we were able to have enough room. There were some cute little tikes there and they came up and asked me to help them on the monkey bars. If you help one all of a sudden you have a line of kids wanting to do it.

I told Jason I must look trustworthy because they came right up to me like they knew me, he said they can tell you're a mom.

We were there awhile and Jared wanted to swing but they were never open, so we waited because he wouldn't leave happy if he didn't get to swing.

The swings finally became available and he was ready to go after that.

We drove through downtown for a bit, the nightlife there is booming. Jason and I really need a night out someday. The kids like to look at all of the big buildings and lights. There is an A T &T building and they call it the bat building because it looks like batman.

On the way home we saw a beautiful full moon, I tried to get a shot while driving but that wasn't happening.

We got off the freeway and found a place to stop right over the lake.

Just gorgeous!

Then we headed home, it was a great time.

Tea Party

Cassie's grandma sent her this doll in the mail. My mother in law's friend made the doll and grandpa made the clothes.
She named her Sacagawea.

It's tea time :)

Cassie asked me to get the other porcelain dolls down out of my closet. If you could see my closet this was no easy task.

Three of those dolls belonged to my sister and one is mine and the other is Cassie's.

She is loving her new doll, she is carrying her around like a baby and we found some baby socks to put on her feet.

NOT back to school

School started today, well yesterday now, my days run different than most, I never go to bed the same day I wake up.

We decided to go swimming at a friend's house, they are homeschoolers.

You can see that they were having fun, why waste away in a classroom when you can live.

Close to nature

Jason and Kieran went fishing and they saw some deer .



Here is the fawn.

Here is mom.

Kieran was only about 10 feet away right here. The deer were not afraid of them at all, they must be used to people.

Check out this baby fish that Kieran caught.

Sweet

Last week Jared was busily working on something that he didn't want me to see and he didn't want any help. He messed up several times and was quite upset, he kept going into the bathroom with paper and scissors. He apparently got it right because on my birthday he called to me and proceeded to pull something out from under my bed. Considering that I felt horrible on my birthday this brought tears to my eyes because I know how hard he worked on cutting it out.


Here are my boys on Mother's Day, it was unseasonably cold, Cassie didn't want her picture taken.

This is Brenny and Jared with Boomer and Petie.

To my most favorite fool in the world

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

What happened to Spring?

I'm pretty sure we were wearing shorts at the zoo last weekend. This is just a dusting but it is like really freakin cold.

Beautiful Winter Day

We went to the park today and had a great time. It was sunny and probably around 55 degrees. Here are my little explorers.

This is a creek that runs along the back of the park.

The kids had a blast in this truck.

There's Brennan.

This picture is blurry because the camera focused on the trees but I included it anyway.

Lego Baseball

What to do on a rainy day?

Bat legos around...

Sleeping Beauty

Awww this is the life....

What? I wasn't really sleeping, LOL!

Happy Thanksgiving

Awesome apple pie.

Kids in the kitchen.

Just about ready to eat.

After dinner the kids were playing with left over dough and it escalated quickly. Cassie is covered in flour, Brennan was too he looked wicked cool and I thought Kieran got a pic but he didn't, oh well. There was flour everywhere...

Jared helped to clean up.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my blogger buds!

I hope everyone had a wonderful day filled with blessings.

We stayed home and had dinner with ourselves, this is the first time in 5 years, we used to go to our families in NY. Last year we went to our friends so it was nice to stay home but different too.