Oh.....Those Eyes

Man I have cute kids.

A Little Leverage

I am just keeping this pictures so that I can show his future girlfriends.  I am such a sweeeeeet mom.

Flooding 2011

We have had a lot of rain lately.  I mean a lot of rain.  Monday I had to go get the kids early from school because all the roads were flooding. The boys wanted to go see the flooding right past our house but I was a little nervous by the time we got to the house and wasn't willing to take them.    I don't do well driving when there is water coming up to the bottom of my doors.   The boys thought all the water was totally coooooool.  When Tim got home from work he took the boys down the road just a little ways.  He is just a cool dad like that unlike their mother.  These pictures were taken literally about and eighth of a mile from my front porch.  You could stand on my porch and see the water.

Noah - GT

This year Noah was invited to be in Gifted and Talented.  Tim and I were both in GT in high school which really meant you made good grades and your parents were willing to pay for you to go on a trip once a year.  I don't actually remember having to do any work for it.  OOOOOHHHH how things have changed.

Our family, and I do mean the whole family, has had to spend more time on homework for GT than all other classes put together.

The latest homework was that Noah had to do a country report.  He chose Australia.

Tim and Noah putting his board together.  It was my job to use the cricket to cut out the letters for the board.

The final product.  This represents many hours of work.

They had a international family night that the whole family went to.  Each child's family made something to eat from the country that their child's report was on.  We made mango moose.  It was okay.

The children dressed up and did a three minute oral presentation of their country.

As we drove up I think Tim's exact words were  "This is for the nerds right?"  And I was thinking we really don't belong here.  We are cool,  Right?  Or have we totally fooled ourselves.

Anyway we are glad we got the project completed and on to the next project.  I am really hoping that Noah doesn't want to do this next year.  His comment to me about not doing it next year was "mom, I really, really, reeeeeeally want to do it just next year because we will actually get to take a trip". 

Like son like parents.  lol

Underwear is Fun to Wear

Ti has no interest whatsoever in learning to use the pottie.  We are trying to make underwear a big deal.  He is not so much seeing it.  Tonight after his bath he decided he wanted to wear underwear for a little while.  I am proud to say that he wore them about 5 minutes and he didn't have an accident.  woohoo that is better than the last time.

I have been a bad blogger and I really don't see it improving much.  I feel like I am running every minute of the day that I am not asleep. We have finished all of our fostering classes.  We are just waiting on our home study now.  They are thinking by the end of May we should have a placement.  We are hard at work getting everything ready in our home.

We are turning my office into the bedroom.  I have the PINK paint bought, PINK bedding and the white bed is ready to be put up.  We aren't going to know what to do with all the pink in this house.  I think it is all going to be super cute.  I hope she feels loved while she is with us.  We are totally okay with adopting but we must go into it with the mindset that this child will be going home and we are just taking care of her while her parents get things straightened out.  We are trying to prepare our own kids also.  They know that this child will probably go back to live with her family and will be with us just for a while. 

The other night after seeing something on the news about children being taken into foster care Tim and I started talking about our future child.  It made me think about the child God has planned for us.  It made me pray for her protection right now.  It is amazing how God starts preparing your heart for what he has in store for your family before it is even set into motion.

There are a few things that we are going to have to change such as the above picture.  Once we have a guest in the house the boys will need to start wearing more clothes.  So no more underwear pictures for us. 

Update....My dad is home and doing well.  He is still in some pain from the surgery but we have high hopes that this will go away soon.  Please continue to pray for his complete healing.

Well I have to get up early for work in the morning so to all a good night.

Spring Break 2010

We took off Thursday night of Spring break to do something fun with the kids.  We had our PRIDE training starting Friday so we did not have a lot of time.  Thursday night we headed to Rogers to spend the night in Uncle Matt's motel because it has an indoor pool.  The boys love to swim so if possible swimming is always involved when we are in vacation mode.  They chose to eat Colton's for super that night.  Ti an I stayed in the room that night while the big boys went for their swim because it was his bedtime.  Needless to say he was still awake when the big boys got back to the room. 

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The next morning we went and ate breakfast in the lounge and then went swimming again.  Just to let you know it is really hard to get a good picture in a steamy room.  We left the motel around 11:30 to go watch a movie.  We watched Mars needs Moms.  It was good.  Had a great message to.  I do believe that Ti might have ate is weight in popcorn.  He watched the whole movie and ate popcorn through out the whole time.  Going to the movies is something we usually don't ever do since it is so expensive.  The boys think this is a huge treat

After the movie we went bowling.  We stopped by fast lanes but obviously everyone else that was off on spring break was there also, so we left and went to the Springdale bowling alley.  Since we had training the next day, pops met us there to take the boys home with him to spend the night.

Ti had had just to much fun in one day. 

It was a very short get away but we had a great time.

BY THE WAY.....Tim wanted me to let everyone know that he is mating socks while I did this post.  Don't you feel sorry for him.  Someone has to do the family scrapbooking and someone has to mate socks.  I just chose the best job.  Somehow socks multilply as they set in our laundry baskets.

A Little of This and a Little of That

Well nothing much has been going on lately so I haven't had much to blog about.  But since I am at home today with a sickie I am thinking, surely I can think of something to blog about.  So here's everything I know.

My dad and mom leave Sunday for Florida.  You might remember this post "He is interested in the details".  We are continuing to pray for a miracle.  The God that created this great universe will choose to use these doctors to give dad relief from the pain he has endured for many years.  BUT if he doesn't I will continue to praise him for his goodness and mercy that are new everyday.

Yes, I did mention a sickie at my house.  Ti has diarrhea again.  Imagine that (sarcasm font).  We are not for sure if it is a virus or maybe it could be that I let him eat a half of peanut butter sandwich on Sunday.  But he really, really liked it.  The symptoms didn't start till Tuesday morning so I am not for sure what is causing it.  It is BAD,  I mean real BAD.  We are in that mode of changing clothes throughout the day.

But he is so stinking cute.  I took this pic with one of my new lenses.  Loving it!!!  When you ask Ti if he wants to get his picture taken he looks at you, smiles and says "cheese".  He is saying anything and everything these days.  The other day when we were picking them up from the grandparents he was saying McDonald's.  Is it bad that he learns to say McDonald's after a weekend with the grandparents? lol

The other day I caught these two boys hanging out together.

Andrew is starting to figure this whole reading thing out.  Insert "proud momma".  You will notice that Ti has his book upside down.  He is multi talented like that.

This is where I should be able to transition into a totally different subject, but doggone it (is that how you spell that...you know what I mean)  I just can't think of a way.

Foster/Adoption update:  We are now CPR and First Aid Certified.  Next weekend we will go to our first PRIDE training skip a weekend and then go to our last training.  It is looking like about the middle of April we should be done with everything.  We are excited about what God has in store for us.  

Baseball is fixing to start up and hopefully there will be a lot of smiles to be taken a picture of. 

Well folks that is all I got.  I have learned one thing today, if I had to stay home everyday I would be as big as a barn.  I have some chocolate chips cookies calling my name.  Of course all the laundry I am having to do is calling my name also. 

Just Because:   Karen helped me out this morning by keeping Ti while I had to go to the dentist.  She is the saint that had to take care of one of those clothing changes I was talking about.  Did I mention it was bad......