One Fun Day

Friday the 13th was a GREAT day!

It started off bright & early in Ft.Worth at Texas Motor Speedway.  Darin received a "race" from ~a certain someone~ for Valentine's Day & PreBirthday.  It was on his bucket list.....he told me after the fact!  Now he can check it off.  He loved it and that thrilled me!

Then............I GRADUATED!!!!

Ok, now what!?  I will go to school for 2 more years and then hopefully - get a job!!!  I'm thrilled.

I am thankful for all the support from my family & friends.  I can be a real toot while trying to maintain A's in school, work, be a mom, friend, etc.  I would be lying if I didn't find myself overwhelmed more times than not.  I know it will be worth it in the end.  ((The best part of my graduation - Logan was SO proud.  And really, it's all for him.  My desire is to be an example to him.))

Getting His Helmet On



Ready to Go

He is READY

Mom, Logan, & My Dad ~ I Love My Family!

Logan, T, Darin, & Jackson

The Boys Had All They Could Stand

3rd Grade Field Trip

Making Candles!

Making Ice Cream!

Learning to Square Dance!

The 3rd graders went on a field trip to the Little Log School House and we (yes!  I did too!) had so much fun.  The children made candles and ice cream - the old fashioned way -, learned to square dance and walk on stilts, played old fashioned games, and went to school and got a little taste of no electricity and stict rules!  We ended the day with a picnic.

 It was a great day!

If God Had Given Me the Chance......

When I was praying for a child,
God placed deep in you;
Everything I longed for,
And made all my dreams come true.

If God had given me the chance,
To search the world for a son;
My search would end when I found you.
You are the perfect one.

My parents love getting pictures of Logan and me. 

I do NOT like having pictures taken of me - it just does not feel natural.  I always GASP when looking at pictures of myself - hoping I don't really look like THAT (ugh!).  Logan on the other hand LOVES having his picture taken and usually tells the photographer how he wants to pose! 

These are a few of the pictures taken of us for Christmas!

AWANA Hobo Night 2010

Each year we have Hobo night at AWANA. 

This tends to be one of the clubbers favorite theme nights

(mine too!). 

We get to eat beans and hot dogs...YUMMY! 

I must say~ these are some of the cutest Hobo's I've ever seen!

Ok!  Maybe the Hobo on the right isn't very cute but the boys above are!

Halloween 2010

Ha!  YES!  Let's go back just a couple of months to Halloween. 

 I know - I know - I am terribly behind but I will do my best to catch up!

These are some of my favorite pictures from Halloween this year.  Logan was invited to go Trick-or-Treating with one of his best buds and friends.  They had a great time!

After playing a FUN whip cream game!!!!

Still Ticking~

Oh my ~ where has the time gone?  It has been 2+ months since posting and a lot has happened!  Instead of posting one event at a time to catch up - I will post one post to catch you up on everything!  I KNOW you just can't wait!  (haha).

Stay tuned.....

Oh

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Happy New Year

and

MANY Blessings to You & Yours in the Coming Year!

NINE

Little Man is NINE!

Where do the YEARS go?

This year I decided that we weren't going to have a HUGE party like we have the past eight years.  I thought something much smaller would be better so Logan invited NINE friends to SLEEPOVER (I know, WHAT WAS I THINKING!?!?).   Honestly, I couldn't have asked for a better group of boys.  I am ALMOST ready to do it again!

We had a campfire (supervised by dad, Mr. Phillip, Mrs. Vikki, & Jackie ~ thank yall!) where we cooked hot dogs and smores ~ we had plenty of chips, plenty of drinks, and yummy cookie cake (with the coolest #9 sparkler candle).  We had activities going on everywhere ~ outside we had acrobats on the trampoline, skateboarders, bike riders, runners and inside we had video games going on three different tv's plus the DS's and DSi's that were brought!  (Thank you for the trampoline supervision Carly!)  (Thank you Mom for saving the night and running into town and purchasing the correct controller for the XBox and thank you Lara & Shannon for sticking around and helping inside.) (And thank you to all that came ~ adults & children ~ that made Logan's birthday so special.)

Around midnight, when I couldn't go any longer I coaxed all the boys to the living room so we could watch How To Train a Dragon.  I just knew that laying down would get the boys calmed and ready to sleep but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - I had to coax them to sleep....around 2 a.m.  I got a really good nights sleep - until they were ready to go again at 6:30 a.m.  Oh boy!  To be NINE again!

Monday, Logan's actual birthday, I took cookies to his class for his classmates to enjoy.  I'm so thankful that Hudson PEP allows us to do such a thing!   And, to top the day off, Logan was treated to Papacita's for supper.  The staff sang to him and he wasn't so sure what to think about that ~ he was a bit embarrassed!

All in all I believe that this years celebration was a success!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE MAN!!