Dug Free Week!

This week at Bryce's school is drug free week, as well as other schools I'm told. Every day we have had a different dress up theme. Monday was wear red day, Tuesday camo day, Wednesday cowboy day, Thursday silly sock day, and Friday jersey day. We dressed up everyday so far, but today was by far the cutest. I will post some pics later on. He decided to wear hid blue plaid shirt with jeans, cow print chaps, boots and of course his black cowboy hat! He LOVED it, and was SOOO cute!

The Weekend

This past weekend was tiring, to say the least. I was on call for work and that left Shaun with the boys. Saturday, I woke up to get the boys and myself ready for Bryce's football game and was called out for a case that started at 9:00. I helped Shaun finish getting them ready and then headed to work. My mom, Shaun, Jace, Danny, and Janice were all in attendance for Bryce's game and said he did awesome. Hiked the ball and got to run it and almost made a touchdown except for one little guy who finally ran him down just short of the touchdown. Hate I missed it. After the game MiMi and Paw took the boys to their house for the night and Shaun and I had a nice afternoon after I got home from work. He has been dying to go play golf so I went with him and played the part of "caddy". Basically, I drove the cart and fought mosquitos, lol. We headed home and cooked supper and while he watched the game I read a book. Never have been one for football on TV. Sunday I got called back in and when I got home we headed to get the boys after their birthday party adventure where they had great fun. Maybe next weekend will be a little more relaxing. Yeah, right!

Flag Football

Bryce has started flag football this fall. We talked about it and he decided he wanted to play. He is playing through the YMCA and we have 12 boys on our team at Lakeshore. He has had fun practicing and we've had fun watching him although sometimes he gets bored and we have to have "pep talks" as I laike to call them, lol. We had our first game September 23 at ULM and he played really well. Our last game he did even better. Can't wait for Jace to be old enough to play since we have to hold him the whole time to keep him off the field and out of the way of the boys playing. LOL

Reads Lately

I've been very busy lately it seems with Bryce in school now, working 5 days a week, and Jace in mother's day out and at stephanies, and Bryce also playing flag footbal we are one busy family. Anyway, I've only gotten the chance to really sit down and read one book lately and I got it from Lindsey from www.pigtailsandparsely.blogspot.com. It's called This Side Of Heaven and it's a total tearjerker. Hope you like it!

Wine Tasting!

No, I didn't attend a wine tasting as the title implies. Instead I have found a wine that I like the taste of. YAY!! I've never been much of a wine connoisseur since I have never been able to stand the taste of the wines I've been asked to try. Well, all that changed this past weekend. Shaun cousin, Jennifer, text me Saturday night and asked if we would like to bring the boys over and let the kids roast some smoars in their firepit and play for a while. Sure, so we headed over to their place. The ladies decided to pull out the wine and instantly I was refusing. I don't like wine! But finally Jennifer convinced me to just try it, so I did and then I had my own glass after that, and then we went to get more, lol. We had a great time roasting marshmellows and drinking our mascato fireside. Can't wait to do it again!

Pumpkin Patch

This year for our annual pumpkin patch adventure we went back to Curry's for a great time. They have added some new attractions and the kids had a blast! We were met by my husbands sister and her husband and child and his cousins and their kids. The boys had fun playing in the hay, feeding the goats, and picking pumpkins. We came home with 6 pumkins, plenty to carve!!

Back to School

Well, Bryce is 4 so we all know what that means, school time. UGH! My baby should not be this old yet, he just shouldn't. Anyway, Pre-K at Lakeshore is where he will be. I'm still in so much shock! My mom and I took the boys shopping Friday and finished up buying uniforms. Jace of course had to have at least one set also and got to pick his out. He decided on a yellow polo and navy shorts, LOL! It won't be long before we will be doing all this over again for him. My babies are growing up WAY to fast! But between my mom and mother-in-law we have all our supplies already! YAY!

One of those days!

Have you ever had one of those days where you think that the cosmos must have aligned, and not to your favor? Yesterday was my day.

Everything was fine. Got the boys up, got them to Mrs. Stephanies for daycare, came home to write a paper for school. After I really got to looking at my grades in this one certain nursing class, I realized I wasn't doing as hot as I thought I was. So, after much soul searching, tears, and disappointment in myself, I have decided to withdraw completely from this semester. I have had a VERY hard time dealing with this. It seems like failure to me. How I was able to just drop classes without a care when I was 18 I don't know. I dropped more classes then than babies do sippy cups. I just don't know how to feel about this.

Anyway, I spent most of the rest of the day moping around feeling disappointed. Finally I relized that I don't have any more assignments or due dates to worry with for at least 3 months and that lifted a HUGE weight off my shoulders. A little relief.

I started cooking around 5:00 and when Shaun got home I decided to go get the boys around 5:30. Our new puppy Chopper has been staying outside since he cannot get over being alone at night inside. Usually, when we crank our cars he takes off in a full sprint from the vehicles. Not this time however. He decided he would stay under Shaun's truck while I backed out and OVER HIM!!! OMG, I have never been so scared in my life!! I jumped out of the truck thinking he was going to be dying under it. After many tears, AGAIN, I took him to Monroe Animal Health on 165 north to Dr. West, who was so great and let me bring him in right at closing. After X-rays, she decided he may not have any broken bones but that they would keep him just to make sure.

I got a call this morning from them. They said he is much better, actually putting weight on his back right leg and she will be sending him home this afternoon. THANK YOU GOD!!! You answer prayers!

So, after making it home and eating, I decided it was bath time for mommy. Well, how exactly do you take a bath in a one bathroom home with two boys and a husband without locking the door? Answer: you don't. First Bryce needed a hug. Really? A hug? I'm in the tub!! SHAUN!!! Come get them please!
Then Jace needs something 10 minutes later and won't leave! SHAUN!! Come get him please! Well after this last time when daddy was aggravated and mommy was slap wore out, I got out. And then it was bedtime for the boys.

Bryce has recently figured out that if he starts at bedtime saying he wants something to drink and eat and he wants to give you a hug and a kiss and he needs this and that, that he will get to stay up an extra 5 minutes. We have been trying to crack down on this by making him eat when the rest of us do, but there are many night where he ABSOLUTELY refuses. So, being HATEFUL, MEAN, UGLY parents we send him to be "hungry". Yeah right!!! Last night he started in and we told him NO!  30minuets later he was STILL crying and screaming how he was hungry and mommy had had enough. Opening the door into their room from the hall with my left had on the door landed my fingers in between it and the other door in their room from the kitchen. I literally thought I had broken all my fingers on my left hand. They are bruised and swollen today and terribly sore but hey will be fine.

After this it was book time, chocolate pudding time (fat free of course), and bedtime.

I really hope that yesterday was my terrible day for years to come. I don't know how I made it through!! I'm sure my mom was SOOOO tired of me calling her and crying. Today will be MUCH better, cause I'm gonna make it better!!

Another edition of my beautiful life!

Jace is 2!!

WOW! I can't believe this has gotten here so fast. Jace is 2. It seems unreal, like I was just holding him in my arms, and waking up for midnight feedings. But no, he now walks and talks and has his own little ATTITUDE! LOL. If you've ever been around him you know what I mean. He doesn't hesitate to let you know EXACTLY how he feels. This will prove to be a very interesting 16 more years or so. Ha! Anyway, we had his party at our house with a ball theme (what else?), that he absolutely loved. He is all about balls, any kind will do, baseballs, footballs, he doesn't care. Mostly just family showed, and that was nice. I'm sure starting next year we will have kids running everywhere for Bryce's birthday, so just to be able to enjoy family was good. He received so much stuff its hard to name it all. Books, clothes, movies, bath stuff and a few toys. He was super excited about it all. We had so much fun and made memories to last a lifetime!

Valentines Day

So this year for Valentines Day the boys had parties at both MDO and Mrs. Stephanies. I asked Bryce to choose which one he wanted to go to as they couldn't attend both, and he chose Mrs. Stephanie's. Fine with me it didn't matter, they had a blast. So for valentines, I had seen some cute ideas on Pinterest and decided to try one with Bryce, Jace is still too young to do much with pictures. Monday night I grabbed my phone, since my camera is down right now, and we took some really cute pictures which I will post later on. Let me say, it was hilarious the pictures we took. So, after many kissy face shots we finally got one I could work with. While Shaun put the boys in the bed, I worked on Valentines for their party. Pictures, ziploc bags, hershey's kisses, and some staples later I was finally done with 12 of them. Jace took some generic ones for this year maybe next year we can do something fun with him as well. Stephanie and Jessica had a fit over them because they were so cute, as well as the grandma's of course. It's never not cute if it's your grandchild, right? Let me know what you think!

Bryce is 4!!

My my how time flies. Isn't that the saying? Well, it's true. I can't believe my oldest, little man is 4 already! It seems like just yesterday I was holding him in my arms and rocking him in the rocker. He has gotten so big so fast. He will be starting Pre-K this year in August, sniff sniff, breaks mommas heart.

Anyway, enough about my emotions ;)! He wanted a monster trucks party for his birthday this year so we got a big monster trucks cake and decorations and had it at Excalibur again this year. He loved it so much last year we decided to do it again. This year was no different, he had a blast as well as most of the other kids. I think some of the parents had fun to. He got everything from clothes to movies to a police robot car that transforms and shoots darts (thanks Heather, I will remember when Farrah has a birthday, JK). Anyway, he played and played and played and did not want to leave when it was FINALLY time to go. He and Jace didn't even make it home, and they sacked out in the car. It was a great time for all of us and even though he will be a year older, I can't wait to do it again next year.