Fabulous times!!

Woohoo!!  Jess is home!!  She got here last Wednesday, and we've pretty much gone non stop since then.  It's exciting when she comes home b/c we do lots of things that otherwise we would not be doing.  Family time with everyone is greatly increased, and we all get together and play games and hang out.  We have had a great time!  I guess it was Friday evening when we all went to mom and dad's and played a little game called corn hole...or Bag-O, whichever it is.  It was a blast!  Jess and I were on a killer winning streak until I miscalculated the score and lost it for us!  And I heard about it all weekend long.  But oh well...that's the only time we got to play b/c of this friggin RAIN!   Are you kidding me w/that? Ugh!  The weather has been so great, and then Jess comes home and it rains the whole dang time!  So unfortunately Lucas Caden's 2 baseball games scheduled during Jess's trip were both canceled.  Not cool!

Saturday night we got to have a date night!  Rob and I met Jess and Jenn at La Huerta along with Jered and a group of his friends for a bit.  Then me, Rob, Jess and Jenn headed to 21 West End for a fabulous dinner!  We had SO MUCH FUN!  It was much needed.  I never get to hang with those girls, and Rob got a pretty good dose of what it's like to be around the 3 of us in high gear.  It was a blast! 

I'm gonna do a post about our Easter festivities tonight.  Hope this gets you off to a great start for your week!!

Life :)

I forgot to mention that having 3 acres requires mowing...which I love to do!  I think it is so nice to be outside, smelling the fresh grass and getting in lots of time to think.   I've only mowed a couple  of times so I don't have a true handle on the terrain here...haha!  Seriously though, here is a result of my experience.

I've got a big SUV now, and I knew I could pull that mower out with it.  So I pulled that big ole thing out in the yard and VOILA!!

That's right...got it stuck, too!  Since Rob was out of town, I had to call my dad over to pull both out.  What a fabulous start to my Sunday, right!  Pretty comical I thought.  After that fiasco, I drove up to Rogers to play a tennis match.  I played singles and won and our team won so it was great!  Perhaps the best part of the day was that Jered babysat Camryn for like 5 hours and survived it!  I'm gonna say that's by far the longest amount of time my brother has been around any of my kids by himself!!  What an accomplishment :)

This is outside our house flying kites.  It's been so darn windy and Rob got the boys some HUGE kites!

Here are Cash and Camryn flying his big kite and Rob and Lucas Caden in the background flying his.  We are having the best spring out here!!  Rob took a bunch of pics yesterday that I will post hopefully tomorrow.  And our kitchen is ALMOST finished being renovated.  So exciting!!!   Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend b/c I know we are :)

First Spring in the new home!

Yay!!!  It's our first spring to spend in the new home and it is fabulous!!  We are still doing some remodeling and the kitchen will be done in just a few days.  Pardon my grammatical errors on this post, b/c Camryn is sitting in my lap 'helping.'  So life here is going terrific.  All of Rob's hard work digging holes and planting bulbs last fall has finally paid off b/c we have lots of tulips popping up!

There is a whole lot going on around here...Lucas Caden has started tee ball!  It is quite exciting, except I am maybe a bit crazy about it.  It's hard not to be since I've played sports since I was 4.  But I'm really enjoying watching him, and I think he is liking it.  We have all gone to all of the practices which I think is good for Cash b/c he is learning a little bit.  There are some kids on his team that are REALLY good!  They have their first game Monday night so we are excited. 

This past week we have had quite a bit more work done on the house.  It is all coming together so beautifully!  Granite has been installed, backsplash is almost done, and faucets are pretty much all in as well!  I'm gonna post kitchen pics once it is completed.  Hopefully that'll be Sunday!  So, while the kitchen has been under constuction, we have had to find other places to eat (not that I'm a big chef, anyway).  But we did have a fantastic picnic at the Nature Center last Friday evening.  I'm telling ya, there's nothing much to do out there but we all just love it!  We had a picnic, then played around for a bit.  After that it was time to go do what every little tee baller has to do....buy a helmet!  Lucas Caden was so excited to get his helmet.  So we headed ot Academy and got it along with a pair of pants and a red belt!  Yay!!  And Cash got to get a new pair of Spider Man shoes :)

Well, I have a crying baby sitting on my lap b/c she wants mommy's attention so I'm gonna blog more after she goes to bed...including pics of the boys! 

As promised...pictures!!

Busy busy busy

Life is so busy right now!  I'm telling ya!  This past week was pretty darn good, but as I said, very busy.  I can't even remember much about the week, other than the weekend.  Friday afternoon, I got sick at my stomach and ended up throwing up all night.  It was not fun...mostly because that meant I couldn't spend any time with my family that night.  So my parents came over to watch the kids b/c Rob was out of town at a meeting.  He got home that night around 9:00, and I went on to sleep b/c I was not feeling worth a flip.  So Saturday morning me got up and headed to Lewis Cafeteria for breakfast.  Yummy!! 

After that it was time to get ready for Lucas Caden's first tee ball practice.  He practiced at noon on Saturday.  It was pretty dang hot, and they practiced for an hour and a half, which I thought was WAY TOO LONG for kids that are 5 and 6!  But he hung in there.   About 45 minutes into it, he was exhausted and sat down.  But he got back up and finished strong!  That afternoon we went to Mulberry, and the boys took a nap. 

Rob, Camryn, and I headed to Little Rock b/c I had 3 tennis matches down there.  I am thinking my tennis days are gonna be over soon with the kids getting bigger and all, so I'm trying to play this year.  We had a good, fun weekend.  Last night, we went to dinner at Maccaroni Grill for dinner which was delicious!  Had 2 matches today in LR then headed home. 

So it's about bed time, and I'm sleepy!  I will post a pics only post tomorrow.  Rob has taken a bunch of pics of the back yard where he planted flowers so I'm gonna put those up.  Hope you all have a great day!!

JW