My Favorite Thing

My oh my, it has been way to long since I have posted anything on this here blog. I figured I better get caught up before the baby arrives in three weeks. Did I mention we are having a baby? My new goal will be to post at least one time a week. This will hopefully be a realistic goal given what chaos is coming to our home. Maybe I should just teach Chesney and Logan how to blog and they can take over. Maybe not.

Starting things up again is a photo of my favorite thing in my house. This little figurine sits on my window sill above my kitchen sink. I recieved this sweet thing from one of my favorite people in the world, my aunt/godmother Margene. I don't remember the occassion- birthday or christmas, but it has been sitting there above my sink for almost 10 years.

And I smile everytime I look at her.
Thanks Auntie Margene for always brightening my day.

Happy 6th Birthday, Little Man!

My baby turned 6 on May 28th. It is such a bittersweet feeling to have your children growing up. Even though Logan still loves to hang (cling) with his mama, he has grown so much this year. He is nearly finished with kindergarten and it is amazing to look through his work over the year and see so much progress. The fact that he reads and writes still amazes me.
You may be growing up, big boy- but you will always be my favorite little guy.

Logan's birthday meal request was raw carrots, chicken on the bone, and mac and cheese. yummy!

On Logan's birthday our niece Anna stayed with us for the weekend. It was fun to have her with us to celebrate Logans day.

She did have a hard time keeping her chair under her. Of course, I had to snap a picture before rescuing her.

What a great kid!

Did we get em"?

Our little unwanted guest. We have a striped gopher that has been living in our yard. Actually I think we have a few, but whose counting. How do you get rid of them? we tried to smoke them out, droped a little smoke bomb down the holes. We haven't seen them since- but that doesn't mean they aren't still there.

Everything is blooming

Spring is lovely, isn't it. everything is turning green and blooms are popping up everywhere. We can go outside and run around in the grass without shoes on.

My tulips did not disappoint me this spring, they came up beautifully, don't you think?

Our cherry tree is coming along nicely

And provided the birds don't get them again this year- we should have lots of apples in the Autumn

All my Lily plants are doing well and in about a month those should be in full bloom also.

Let the best man win

"It's all tied up at fun to fun" Well thats not really how it went down but I love that line from "How I Met Your Mother"

Chesney's soccer team played My neice, Abby's team on what will be remembered as the "coldest and wettest, most awful day to watch soccer" But it was fun anyway. Chesney is in the orange with the striped hat and Abby is in the purple shirt with the purple track pants in.

The girls played great but in the end the orange team squeaked out a victory that week.

Logan's Spring Concert

The kindergarten held a Spring music concert and boy was it adorable, and emotional. They sang lots of songs and then had a slide show of that they have done over the year. I was in tears by the end.

These are all the kids in Logan's class- there are 4 kindie classes at the school

Mother's Day

It now seems like Mother's Day was so very long ago but I wanted to share Chesney's poem with you. Friday before mothers day I went to babysit for one of my nieces and when I pulled into the garage afterwards I found this on the chalkboard in the garage.

It says:

Look at this mom!

My poem

When I'm sleeping in my bed, I rest my sleepy head.

When my mom comes home, my mouth just never roams.

If my mom went away, I would never stay.

So very sweet


Then Sunday, after a nice breakfast in bed, We flew some kites. Chesney and Dueys was really far up in the sky. They had to attach more line to the kite to get it higher.

And there it is- just a speck in the sky. took them forever to get it back

I love being a mom!

My nearly finished kitchen

After adding and changing a few things in our kitchen it is nearly complete and I am really loving it. My new island in the middle filled the space nicely and gave me another work surface to use. You like?

Duey built me this island. Oh how I love it. I asked for it 9 years ago and voila- here it is. Made of solid hickory wood and topped with granite. It definitely completed the space.

And here is the new backsplash we installed. it is a combination of glass and stone tiles and really made it a bit more interesting than the boring beige the wall was before.

Just need to replace the appliances with stainless steel after these konk out and it will look great.

I really enjoy being in there now and hope the rest of our projects are finished before the September arrival of our little bub.