Today is another pretty day here in Virginia.  I went for a walk earlier, everything was still wet from the rain we had this morning.  It was humid.  But a good walk!

I did come up with a St. Patrick's day card, not the best, but it will work.  I only made 3, and I let Jack, Sam and her friend make one each.  I didn't have much green.

  I have been looking at the Stampin' Up website, I love their stuff!  Saw a couple of things I wanted in the Clearance section! =)


I went to Jack's school and hung out for a bit.  The teacher and I wanted to get a class photo.  The school doesn't do them... they just to a school photo.  So I was glad to do it! =)


Well, it's almost time to go get the kiddos!  Happy Tuesday!

Sunny day,

Monday, March 12th 2012...

It is a beautiful day today, the sun is shinning and the birds are singing!  I went for a nice walk.   Came home and updated my iPod for better walking music tomorrow.  =)

I am going to try and make a couple St. Patty day cards, I'll keep up updated on them!

I am listing to the dog snore and the hamster eat!

We had a great weekend!  Saturday, we went to the Library, they were having an Anime festival.  There were all kinds of people dressed up, and dancing out if front of the Library.  Jack loved it!  Then I over heard at 1pm they where having SUMO wrestling!!  So Jack was really excited for that!  Samantha and her friend wrestled each other it was awesome!  Bummer was I didn't have my phone it was dead!  So Sam's friend got a couple of pictures for me!  =)

Then we went to the movies and saw the Lorax, it was good and I loved all the colors in it =)

Sunday, Jack and I just hung around here, we did go grocery shopping.  Jack played in the backyard with the golf set he got at the store, too bad he was just beating my flowers with the club tho.

He is always giving me flowers, he is so sweet. <3

March 9, 2012

Wow!! It has been a while! I am going to try and get back into writing on the blog!

So lets see here.... Today it is raining and chilly outside. The traffic was awful getting the kids to school. My hubby is out of town for business. So I am listing to the dog snore and the clock tick-tock. I am going to try and feed my creative side today, it's been too long and I miss it dearly. I am thinking of updating Samantha's school scrapbook! I need to work on my dad's birthday gift. He is turning 60 the end of this month! I got the idea off Pinterest! This is the website http://nothingbutbonfires.com/2011/06/sixty-years-memories

I hope he likes it! I haven't gotten letters from his sisters yet tho, I am hoping that they are working on it!

Both my kiddos are doing good! Jack has a girlfriend her name is Madeline, he announced the other evening that he kissed her on the playground! He is so stinking cute!

Samantha is doing great in school, working extra hard, still obsessing over hair and make-up but I guess that is to be expected from a 13 yr old!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Friday!

Jack is the BIG # 4!

I really can't believe Jack is four! They do really grow way too fast! For his birthday on the 27th, we went to a park in the morning so I could get my dream picture of him holding balloons. Then we went to another park with friends, for fun and cupcakes! Then we came home had pizza and opened gifts and had cake! He had a great day! Then on Saturday, we went to the pool at Papa's and then came home had burgers, with Papa and Brenda, then opened more gifts and had some brownies that Brenda made for Jack!

Summer is here!!

SUMMER IS HERE! The kids are out of school!
Samantha's last day was June 16th, so this coming week will be our first full week of summer!

This is Samantha and her friend, on the last day heading out the door!


It is going to be a challenge to keep her busy this summer.

Jack is doing great, all boy keeping me on my toes all the time still! A few nights ago he had a dream about the Ice cream truck. (BUT HE HATES ICE CREAM) But in his dream I guess I was upstairs and wouldn't go outside with him to get him any. So every night as he is laying down to go to sleep he says "come to me in my dreams, Ice cream truck!" over and over! It is so funny! He will help me read at night. We read at least 3 books a night, his favorites are Go Dogs GO! and The going to bed book.

Here is Jack playing with Dominos!

We have done our Summer 2011 list of things we would like to do this summer.
We might add to it later, but this is what we have so far...

Also did some playing around with my camera, got some pretty good pictures of Jack! It was fun!

One last picture, I took the kids to get ice cream, I have been wanting to go to this one ice cream place that had this Huge Chair! It SCREAMS SUMMER!

Teacher Appreciation Week...

I found some awesome blogs with lots of amazing ideas for Teacher Appreciation week!
They are also great gift ideas for anyone really!

First: at how does she?
I really LOVE these pads of paper and that you can get 6 done for a little bit of money! Also love the idea of letting the kids decorate the sides of it!

Second: at Gluesticks I just Love the Cute Brown Bag Apple Gift Sacks!

Third: at Skip to my Lu These are so cute to put in a pot of flowers!

Forth: at Anything but perfect, really cute idea get a tumbler (bed bath & beyond) and put a gift card to Starbucks inside!

These are what Samantha and I made for her teacher's! She was mad that I didn't have all the supplies Sunday to finish them up. OH, my she had to wait one more day to deliver them!

I think they turned out good!

VIsit from my parents

We had a good visit. They stayed at the beach. Sam spent the night once with them. Wish they would have stayed closer to the house or with us. We just didn't really get to spend as much time with them as I thought we would have. Everyday they came over around 10am never went out to breakfast Really wanted to take them to the Broken Egg Bistro. I love it there! They didn't want to plan anything so it was, fly by the seat of your pants. I much rather plan. The Monday they were here we went to Yorktown (my dad picked). We got there and everything was closed on Mondays! One day we went to the beach didn't last 30 minutes had to leave because Samantha was sick. (ok with me, it was really windy down there and Jack was screaming, from getting slapped with sand) They could have came back to the house with me and just hung out.

Then they went back to the hotel around 3pm daily. Except the day we cooked out at Jim & Brenda's.