Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Summer on the Boat! Love Freedom Boat Club
Jax NOT loving the experience on the tube!! He did warm up!
Harley loves the boat
Boat ride to Hula Hut with Lawson's favorite bridge in the background...it's right off 360.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Halloween in May
Jax found the dress up bin in the garage. He even thought Harley would want to participate.
Seriously?
Never, ever would I have allowed this with either of my first kiddos. However, this started when I was carrying Harley in my arm full of other things. I looked down and she was was drinking out of my sweet tea. I don't let her do it often. But she was at Mama Don's house this afternoon. I snapped this picture after I had left my drink in the floor. 
It's Summer!
The kids - and me- are in desperate need of a tan. Well its time! This was just before our first visit to one of our favorite summer spots, Bella Mar Pool! YAY. We've already logged in many hours there so far. (don't you wish you could be that 'comfortable' without a shirt on in front of a camera!) HA. 
Chapel at LTUMP
This is Jax's Preschool Chapel Songs. He practiced them ALOT at home! He even tried to teach them to Lawson. He loved his teachers this year as well as his classmates. He took a special liking to Ian (they are standing next to each other). Jax is on the second row kind of in the middle. He has a green and white stripe shirt on with red headphones on the shirt. In all the videos below, he's not singing! He even told me when he got home that he didn't say one word up there. It was a great program. More pics of preschool to follow- I'm catching up!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Happy 30th Bday!
I know I turned 30 in October. But I've never shared with you the amazing gift my Mom got me. She's been collecting my favorite t-shirts since I was a kid. She cut out all of the images on them and made a quilt. It's funny looking at this picture, because I think it was actually taken when she lived in Alaska and that's Jay in front of the quilt! It means so much to me. I can't wait to do the same for my kids. Thanks, Mom! 
Sweet Lawson
Lawson, as many of you know, has had some issues with allergies and his skin. He has a rash that most kids can just get rid of on their own. However, combined with his eczema, he cannot. Therefore, we've been going to the dermatologist to have his 'spots' removed. They burn them off. We have to rush home and give him a bath to get the medicine off. He's very uncomfortable for the rest of the day. We've probably had 100 of them removed since our first session. They were on his neck, face, back, belly and now are on his legs. So ready for this sweet boy to be ALL better. We all pray for his complete healing and agree on it quite regularly. When we say, "Jesus", Lawson says, "Heal Me, AMEN"! This was Lawson after one of his sessions. 
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Dance Party
OK, blog readers. Few of you as there are this was one of my favorite memories of 2009. When we first started planning Lawson's 2nd birthday party I was thinking along the lines of a fireman party. We live within 200 yards of the neighborhood fire department and Lawson's interest in fire trucks has grown over the past year. However, Wade had a different plan all together (as you can imagine). That began our grand plans for a dance party. Lawson loves music and instruments and yes, dancing.
We decided early on that the basic party invitation wasn't going to do. Given our obvious era for early rap we decided to rewrite Vanilla Ice's, Ice Ice Baby. Below is what we came up with:
Let's stop! Celebrate, no dissin
Jax is back with his brand new addition,
Lawson! Gotta b-day in December,
Twelve twelve every year, It's easy to remember
Throw down! Honky tonk it's a party
Sunday the 6th at 4 it gets started
Cake! Balloons, & juice boxes,
Don't come late cause we'll all be rockin...
No Dairy Ice Cream at da Lombard's, da Lombard's
No Dairy Ice Cream at da Lombard's, da Lombard's
So, we invited the cousins to the house and told them to dress up as a rapper, boy band member, or rocker. The result was hilarious. We had a name that tune game, a kiddy mosh pit, and called it Lawson's Double Dip Dance Party. We called it Double Dip because everything that was served could be dipped in one of several dipping sauces. It was a blast and the kids loved.
We ended our time with Lawson's favorite all time song, We Will Rock You by Queen. He loved...so, we loved it.
Monday, April 12, 2010
What the "H"?
Jax has always been quite the "helper". He wants to help with everything. If I'm cooking, he wants to cook. If I'm cleaning, he wants to clean. If Wade's mowing the lawn, he wants to do the same. I think this is a good thing in the long run. For now, it's a bit overwhelming. If I thought my kids could do these tasks, believe me, I would be running quite the sweat shop at my house. I would also be having more kids. To the contrary, they usually just slow down the process.
This particular day I was working on making Harley's bow holder. I had seen them for sale but thought I could make one for much cheaper. Jax, of course, asked if he could help. I said "yes" as usual. He did a great job and the result was spectacular.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Sherry's Magic
Sherry is our uber-amazing babysitter we stumbled upon a few months ago. She's the kind of babysitter that makes you question whether she's better with your kids than you are. When Sherry keeps the kids we always return home to a cleaner house than we left. Some how our kids seem smarter and more polite, our laundry is miraculously folded neatly, and the house smells like soap.
We've recently found out she has yet another amazing gift. She's a photographer. She's taken several shots of the kids so we thought we would share a few of them.
Playing Catch-Up
With the onslot of Facebook and Twitter and various other social media outlets I'm afraid we've let our Blog go. We were embarrassed to see that our last post was Halloween of last year. So, we're ready to pick up where we left off. Our lives have moved on but our blog hasn't. We hope to spend the next couple of weeks getting everyone caught up. We'll be looking back at the last 5 months and reliving the fun times and memories of our lives. We hope you enjoy...we did.
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