Happy St. Patrick's Day

Went to eat lunch with Cade today and was surrounded by a sea of green! Nearly every child was wearing something green! The only green I had on was the thread to one of the buttons on my shirt which I made sure to point out to the kids! They said it was enough green (thank goodness) and the fact that I had green lettuce on my hamburger helped! Kids are funny! Holiday's are so much fun! I was told an announcement was made before school saying "there would be no pinching"! Hope the announcement worked!


The boys enjoying a green snack


The cupcakes I made for Cade to take to school today!

Wedding Weekend

Friday afternoon my friend Arika and I headed to Mississippi to spend the night with some of our college girl friends and to see one of them get married. We had a good trip over and stopped in Memphis to run in target for a few things. It hit me when I got out of the car that I had forgotten to grab my clothes for the wedding. Really not all the surprising coming from me but still very aggravating. We are 1 1/2 hours from home at this point so what could I do....I could buy a new outfit!! Wasn't in the plans for the trip but who doesn't like new clothes!! Didn't take me long to pick something out..that's a first...and we continued on our way. We arrived just as they were finishing up rehearsal and headed to eat. We timed that perfect!! We enjoyed eating with Beth and everyone else and then headed to the house for hours of talking and catching up. When I say hours of talking and catching up I seriously mean hours! We stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morning laughing and talking and then got up at 7! I'm a person who really loves to sleep but it was well worth missing some sleep to get to hang out with that group of girls!


Dede (my college roommate), Arika, Malaika, Amanda (didn't stay the night with us), me, and then Beth is in the front.


We were all in Bradfield dorm in school. We had a lot of fun times.


Beth looked so pretty and was just so happy!


This was taken during the ceremony. I just love how happy she looks!

Trip to the farm!

Yesterday Cade was out of school due to a staff development day for Chad so we headed to Savannah to visit Papa and Clara Ruth. Happened to be on a day I didn't have any extra kiddos so it worked out great! The boys always love going to the farm. It was rainy yesterday so I wasn't sure we would get to go outside much but we did get out for a little while. One thing the boys always want to do while at Papa's house is ride the 4-wheeler. Just so happened that the 4-wheeler was in the shop this trip so they got to go for a ride behind the lawn mower this time. I even got in on the fun! I decided after that ride that the saying "Nothing Runs Like A Deere' is so true! That lawn mower pulled a trailer, me, and the boys all over the place..including through the creek! I was impressed! My sister Amanda came out and had lunch with us! I enjoyed getting to visit with her for a while. We enjoyed the trip and the boys are looking forward to going back.





Before heading home the boys made "moon cookies" with Clara Ruth. They even got a mini lesson on the different stages of the moon and about Neil Armstrong landing on the moon...ha! They turned out good and we are still enjoying them today.
We stopped by to visit with the cousins before coming home. It was a good day!

I just ate ALL that!

At supper Cooper was dipping his carrots in ranch and "painting" his raw zucchini squash. Chad said "look at Cooper painting his squash" to which Cade responded, "SQUASH!, That's not squash, I don't even like squash and I just ate all that!! It's really cucumbers!" Hilarious!! Looks like cucumbers but is NOT cucumbers! I think he may like squash after all!

Cake Thief!

I was busy earlier tonight cleaning and getting ready to head to Chad's moms house to eat and hang out. I walked in the kitchen and found Cooper up on a stool having himself a little snack. We were just about to eat supper. Guess he was hungry and thought leftover birthday cake would be the perfect thing to eat! Sneaky! Just noticed when looking at these pictures that he came in from outside with grass all in his hair. I'm sure that got in the cake too! Yum!

I said, "Cooper Thompson, what are you doing?" He said, "I just wanted to eat some tate (cake)!" I see that!


Guilty!!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

As most of you know this week was Dr. Seuss's birthday. I for one love Dr. Seuss books. My kids love them too. My kids can sit through even the longest Dr. Seuss books (and some are really long!) and not get bored. I'm sure it's due to the silliness, repetition, and rhyming they see and hear. Whatever the reason I'm glad they love these books. We did a few activities this week to celebrate Dr. Seuss!

On Tuesday we had a birthday party for Dr. Seuss at story time. The kids enjoyed cake and juice boxes for snack after listening to a few Dr. Seuss books read to them by our librarian.


Made these cookies for Cade to take to school and share with his class. We all enjoyed some of them here at the house too. If you can't tell, there are red and blue fish to go along with the book. I also did some Seuss hats! They aren't perfect looking by any means but they work!


Did this craft to go along with "10 Apples Up On Top"!


And of course there has to be green eggs!! No ham this time though!!

Right Way or Wrong Way?

Guess that depends on how you look at it!! I had a very hard time trying to convince Cooper that he was wearing the Hulk mask backwards. Actually I never could convince him! When I put it on the correct way he would take it off and say he wanted it the other way. I tried explaining that we couldn't tell who he was with it on that way. I guess when he had it on backwards he could see the Hulk face which made it seem right to him! Funny how little minds think!