Its Fall Yall!! :)

Wowza!  I can't even believe how long it's been since I've written on here!  I really do enjoy looking back on these blogs, so I'm gonna TRY to stay caught up....we'll see!!  Lol!

As for big news, Jace started pre-k this year!!!  What??  I don't know how he's grown up so fast, but he is getting so big and he has learned to go potty all by himself!  That's big news too! :)  Triston started 2nd grade & carter started 1st grade!  Triston is in mrs andersons class & carters in mrs fowlers class!  I love both teachers & im glad I'm gonna get to know mrs Anderson better this yeAr!  Here's a few first day of school pics for everybody!!

 ***Jace was NOT shy at all!  So he went right up to the other kids and started chatting it up with them.  he even went through this boys backpack, LOL! 

 

 

 

 

So I was gonna be carters Homeroom mom this year bc I was Tristons last year.  So I went to the homeroom Mom meeting last week, and Mrs Anderson didn't have a Homeroom Mom. So I decided to do both! I may never make that decision again, but I think it will be good! Josh goes to everything, so he will be a lot of help!!  The only part of the year that would be difficult is the fall Festival, which I already worked out! We are going to combine classes and do a maze for our booth!  I'm excited & I know I will have lots of help! :)  check back with me in May to see if I made it ;) lol!

In other news, thru the summer we went to chuckee cheese with Babaw and grandad and Jobug quite a bit!  We always had a great time, so towards the end of summer the boys were sad bc they didn't want it to end! So on Labor Day the boys were outta school so we made one final trip to chuckee cheese!!  Babaw was insanely generous and got us 700 tokens to spend!!!  That's over 100 tokens a person!!  CRAZY AWESOME!!  I don't mean to brag or anything, but I have pretty much mastered some of the games at il chuckees!!  Lol!  One in particular is my favorite! The REACTOR!!  And I just so happen to win a lot of tickets when I play!  I have also taught carter to join me!! :) ;)  so on Labor Day josh joined us & he thought he could get more tickets than I could!!  HA!!!  That did NOT happen!!  Lol! ;)  but with josh an I both playing the boys had a little over 5,000 tickets!!  Whoop!!  Not that I don't think that place is a waste of money, but it's a fun waste of money, haha!!  Babaw is getting all the kids tokens for Christmas!!  Yay!!  Hopefully I'll get a few too!! ;)

 

As for other news, were still living with mom and dad!  Their house is getting closer and closer to done.  Mark (the builder) says should be about 6 weeks.  We'll see!  Lol! There are so many areas of the house that are so cluttered, so it will be nice to have space for everything & actually have a house again! :) it's tough right now, but it'll be worth it!  I'm sure 4 loud kids isn't exactly "home sweet home" for mom and dad either, so it's a bit of give and take on both ends!!  Im trying to slow down on my wreaths so we can paint our coffee table and moms bed and table and crystal her mirror, but it seems like every time I'm almost caught up I get a surge of orders.  I can't complain, but I am gonna just tell people I'm 3 weeks out, so that I can work on MY stuff!!  So needless to say, I'm sure this holiday season coming up will be super busy tryin to get wreath orders done and tryin to get my house and moms house all decorated and set up!  Should be an interesting time!! :)

 

This past Sunday we took the kids up to cha while josh and dad did their life group!  Kyndal was fearless as always!  Jace did so well climbing the rock wall and stuff!  The big boys are both just crazy on those toys out there!  They look like little monkey swinging from toy to toy!  Crazy! But they all had fun!!  :). That's kind of all I can think of to update you on!  So I guess that's all for now!  Hopefully ill write again sooner rather than later!!
 

Emilys wedding, 4th of July, and more...

Well, I am going to update here, so there will be a ton of pictures on this one too!  Just letting you know in advance ;)

Emilys wedding went great!!  The kids did awesome and they looked GREAT!!  :)  I was so nervous as we were in the back waiting to walk out! OMG!  We waited in a TINY little area and Jace and Kyndal were DONE in there and so they were not holding my hand and fussing like crazy and I was just trying to prepare for them to not even walk down the aisle the way they were acting there for a minute.  But when it came right down to it, they did awesome!!  Kyndal jerked her hand away from Jace about halfway down the aisle and I tried to catch her attention up at the front and just called her name and fortunately she snapped back into it and grabbed his hand and came the rest of the way!!  Jace gave Chas a high five as he got down to the front.  It was cute!!  :)  heres a few pics...

 

Next up, is the fourth of July! That evening, we went to Nancys house and she had a cute "photobooth" area set up for us to take pictures in front of.  I love it when she does that!!  Its so cute :) :)  So of course we got lots of pics from there.  Then after we left there, we came home and Jace did fireworks with Josh til the Midwest City fireworks show came on...which of course was super delayed.  The kids stayed up for it and I am pretty sure they loved it! :)  heres more pics...

 

So the next thing that happened, on July 8th, Grandad accidently hit Babaw with his car.  It was a bad situation. :(  They were going to the café and Babaw cant get in on her side of the car, so granddad always backs out for her.  So she motioned him back and I don't really know what happened after that, but Grandad said he backed out and then waited for her and a guy from across the street came to his window and told him "Mister, do you know there is a lady under your car?"  So anyhow, she was bleeding from her head really bad and they called an ambulance to come get her.  They took her to OU Medical and mom and I were on our way as quickly as we could.  We had just dropped off the boys at daycare and so thankfully we were already out and about.  I only have one pic from that day and it is of Jace and Granddad, right after granddad got up to the hospital with us.  I like this one :)

 

The next day was Josh and I's anniversary!  We kept it really low key, lol!  All we did was go have dinner at Olive Garden and then we drove around and talked for a bit! :)  It was a great 4th anniversary!!  4 going on 40 as my dad said! :) :)  pics...

Josh and I had taken several pics and Jace ran outside and was like "i want to smile for a picture momma" so I took a quick one with him too! :) :)  Hes so cute!!

 

Lastly, ill update on my crafts, then I will be done! :)  Here is what ive done since I updated last...

 

Not quite done with this one yet! :)  But figured id put it up anways! :)

 

OKAY, that is about all from me!  I cant think of anything else big that has happened!  Today we are going swimming with jenni Couser and her boys!  We are all really excited!  This is coming after a long past 2 days of throwing up in my household!!  Sunday morning, Carter threw up in the car on the way to church, then Triston threw up after naptime. Triston threw up all over his mattress and it went all the way thru the mattress.  So we cleaned up the sheets and then took the mattress outside to let it air out in the sun for a bit.  Then after that, Carter threw up again, he didn't make it to the bathroom....didn't even make it off the carpet, so we had MORE cleaning up to do.  THEN for the last time, after dinner, Triston threw up in his room as he was trying to get down the bunkbed stairs, he made it to the carpet and lost it.  So yet again, MORE clean up!  So we gave them bowls to have by their beds just in case they threw up over night.  Fortunately they didn't.  But the next morning, Jace woke up throwing up.  Awesome, right?!  lol!!  So we are all better now and READY TO SWIM!!