How do you hold a baby!!

Cole asked me to come into his room. Then he sweetly asked me, " Mom, how do you hold a baby? Can you show me." Of course I asked if I could take his picture!!

I thought awww how sweet!!

That lasted about 2 seconds or long enough for me to get two pictures.....

Then he informed me

That it was also a guitar and off he went!!

sweetness over and orneriness took over!!

Birthday Cookout!!

Last weekend Mike and I decided to have our families over for a good ole' summer cookout. It just happen to be my mom's birthday, my birthday and Mike birthday, even more a reason to have a party.

We tried out a new bakery

LOVED IT!!!

Mike tried out his new grill and did a great job!!

And I tried out my new camera!!

I'm tired of always lugging around my big Canon

So I decided to give this a try.

So far....So good.

I really like the fact that I can

carry it in my purse and have it

available whenever!!

No, my sister didn't have another baby....

This cute little guy belongs to Mike's brother.

All Almost all the cousins

(minus the 2 older boys and the youngest boy)

Kane found a perfect place

on the slip n slide

Dance 2010

Lauren's Dance Recital was this last weekend. Always makes for a long day with rehearsals in the morning and this time the recital didn't start until 7:30 that night so it was a very long Saturday.  Lauren was excited, she loves to watch "the big girls" dance. Miss Sherry put on a wonderful show and all the girls did a great job.  This is Lauren's third year. I've enjoyed watching her grow.  This year she did Jazz, Tap and Ballet. This is the first year that I felt a little nervous for her. (I wondered if this is how my parents felt before my games???) Obviously for no reason....She smiled, was having fun and did a great job!

Lauren and MissElle

Miss Elle was her dance instructor this year!

This little Cowgirl Outfit was adorable!!

Poor Cole was so tired!!

Although, he had fun actually was a

 very good lil boy during the long recital.

We would often find him next to us dancing as well!!

has it really been a month

Times flies!! Has it really been over a month since my last post??  We've been busy with just our day to day things.  But looking forward to what is coming..... We are getting ready for Dance Recital time and T-ball time. T-ball should keep us busy this season. Both Lauren and Cole are playing.  I ended up coaching Cole's T-ball team.  A team of ten 3-4 year olds.  I'm not sure what I got myself into. Oh my!!!

Lauren just finished her first Volleyball/ Basketball Camp.  The high school coaches/players came to her school for 2 hours on Monday and Tuesday. She enjoyed it. I didn't get a chance to go watch :( 

Her asthma kicked in when I picked her up on Tuesday. I noticed she was having just a little trouble (not bad) I'm really hoping it wasn't from the activity. I really think it was the weather change.  Because it has lasted the last two days. With her....she coughs alot along with the wheezing.  It is either hot or cold, wet or dry and the pollen (need I say more).  I can always count on any change in the weather flaring up her asthma.  I'm still waiting for her to grow out of this!!!!!! So until then it's Claritin in the morning Singulair at night and inhalers as needed!!

Cole is just being Cole!! He is very much into Iron Man right now. Mike took him to the movies the other day. He LOVED it!!

In between the storms we are getting the house painted.  The painter has been prepping the house and I can't wait to see the end result!!

We are going to be celebrating a birthday this weekend. My niece Lexi is turning 6.

It's hard to believe Lauren has 1 week of school left. It's kind of sad. Kindergarten went by really fast!!!

And the rest..... I guess I will just have to start blogging about it!!

So hopefully I will do a better job of keeping this up-to-date!!!

It's a deal, well maybe not!!

When I went in to wake Lauren up this morning.  She wasn't to excited about it and begged to stay home with me today.

So I told her I would make her a deal. If she went to school today, she could stay home with me all day tomorrow.

She asked what day is tomorrow.

Saturday, I replied.

And she responded with the greatest, sweetest big laugh......"Mom, I never go to school on Saturdays!! This is NOT a deal!!

So off to school we went!!

If your looking for me tomorrow.......

I'll be shopping!!!!!

I heard about this HUGE consignment sale that was being held in Tulsa, but I missed the days. I found out that they also have it Springfield as well.  I have never been to one of these. The pictures and the video about it on You Tube, makes it look unbelievable.  So I'm taking my mom and going to see what this is all about.  From the looks of the pictures, its too bad I didn't know about this when my kids were babies (well, maybe that's not a bad thing)  I found a website with some images and thought I would share.

I hope I don't see this line of people tomorrow.

I have know idea what to expect!!

But, their ads show rows and rows and rows and rows and rows ( I think you probably get it) of anything/everything that you could imagine!!

They also show everybody hauling around laudry baskets. So I told mom to load hers up in the back of the car and we'll be heading out in the morning.

So here's to shopping!!

Have a blessed day!!

Wishing you a Happy Easter