Pie in the Face

Of course I forgot my camera, but Brett memorized the most bible verses last week (21 to be exact) and got to throw a pie in Commander Harvey's face. Of course this is the highlight of Brett's week! Brett is soooooo amazing!

Spring Picture

Seriously what happened to my 8 pound baby boy??!!

RockStar

"Mom, Brett is my RockStar becauce when he is 48 he is going to kill a spider with a butter knife."

Brett is soooo a RockStar!

MiMi comes on Thursay....

MiMi comes on Thursay....

Brett is counting down by hours

Jake is counting down by days and asks about 20 times a day how many more days

and

Brylee says she is "MiMi's girl"

Wish it was Thursday :)

"Really"

Go ahead ask me what I did on Saturday for 2 hours.......So glad you asked.

It all started when Talli's check engine light came on and had been on for a couple of days. If you are Talli this is not a big deal, if you are me this is huge, you do not drive around with that light on. Off we go to solve the mystery.... Talli in front, me following in the Tahoe so Brylee can nap in her carseat. 3 stops and 2 hours later we make it to Auto Zone. They diagnose her car.....guess what??? all she needed was to put on her gas cap.....you know the one she forgot to put back on a couple of days ago.

Note to Talli~when you get gas don't forget to put the gas cap back on~it can save a couple hours of frustration.
The girl cracks me up.....good thing she is my sister!

All I have to say is "Really"

Brylee's love for all things "Girly"

Brylee had a mishap with her pearl necklace at church~her pearls went flying everywhere and that left her with no necklace.
No need to worry.....Daddy brought a necklace home that belonged to her Great Grandma.

and she wears it daily.

Jake's new name is "JJ"

Jacob had a bit too much red kool-aid and these are pictures after wiping his mouth.
We call him "JJ"~short for Joker Junior from Batman. He loves his new name and look!

And of course when there is a camera in the same room as Brylee~she jumps right in to action.

Oh the Frog Pants!

I love the frog pants! Christy gave them to me before Brylee was even born. They finally fit. Thanks Zoe for sharing your clothes! I know..... she is on the dirty stove. What can I say the girl is fast and was not in the mood for pictures, and I had to have a picture in the frog pants!

She found my camera....

knows how to work it and makes me laugh!

Wordless Wednesdays

My New Blog

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Blast from the Past!

My little cartoon character!

Jake 2 years 8 months

Jacob's Broken Heart

"Mom, my heart is broken." "Why Jake?" "Brylee is crying and she is breaking my heart." These days Jacob has been having a sensitive heart. How sweet is he? I believe the translation is really.... please her make her stop crying she is driving me nuts. But I like the way he puts it!

The best kind of Camping....

No really the best kind, just the right temperature, no bugs, no outdoors. If you know me, then you know this is the only camping I do. Indoor camping!! Jacob was out cold in 2 minutes flat, Brett watched Shrek 3, and Brylee and I were awake until midnight!

Flat Brett

Meet Flat Brett. He traveled all the way to Arizona to spend some time with his Great Grandma and Grandpa. Looks like Flat Brett spent alot of time outdoors. All the students in Brett's class sent their flat selves all around the country. Then they all got to see all the wonderful places the flat people traveled. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for taking such good care of Flat Brett!

If you would like to read about the adventure of Flat Brett, you must click on the picture.

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Oh. No.

Brett came into the kitchen after school and said "Mom is it okay that I sold my SpiderMan comic to Josh at school today?" I say "Let's not do that anymore, okay Brett." And then ask why did Josh have money at school? "Because he brought his coin collection to school." This is not good. Hope we can find the coins that belong to Josh, Brett put them in in his bank.
Ahhhh, a boy after my heart. Making deals at school!

What we do for our kids.....

See the number on Jacob's hand, that is the time I pulled into WestLink Christian Church to enroll Jacob for preschool next year and that is 6 am not pm. That means I woke up at 5 in the morning all for the love of Jake. Good news I was first so that meant I got to enroll first. Bad news I first by about 45 minutes. So the very nice janitor and I got to know each other. They started enrollment at 8 and by 7:15 all the classes were full. Geez talk about competition! And I do consider myself the winner!!!!!......I think I need a nap.

Tuesday.

This blog was passed on to me recently and my heart is breaking.



Please click on the picture above and be in serious prayer for this sweet baby girl and her precious family. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain...
From their blog:
My deepest fears were confirmed. Tomorrow we take our precious daughter home. Her cancer doubled in size in less than a week proving once and for all that it is horribly aggressive and no longer chemo sensitive. We have no idea how to do this but we have no doubt we will be cared for every step of the way. This is all I have in me. Please pray for peace for our children, our parents and our siblings. Tuesday, full of grace, you are our so very loved.

Jake and his lips

Notice the funny thing Jake does with lips. If you even mention his lips the kid keeps his lips puckered all day. Combine that with dry chapped lips and we have a bad situation. You say, give the kid some chapstick. That makes the situation even worse because then he is even more aware of his lips. Pretty sure his first kiss will be a disaster and that is not a bad thing!

All for the love of Brylee

For the last couple of days Jacob has been "taking care" of Brylee. Reading her books, wiping her mouth, getting her dressed, doing her hair, lots of hugs, making sure her every need is met. As of now Brylee does not allow me to do much for her, she yells "Jakey do it" and Jake comes running. I would like to freeze time, I know this will not last forever. There are only two issues I have with this, she wants Jacob to wipe her bottom and Jacob wakes her up way too early in the morning. I say you got her up, she's all yours! Awwww, they melt my heart.