Rise Award/Attendance Award

Congratulations goes to Peyton! This past week I got to go to an assembly at his school where he was awarded the Rise Award for Academic Excellence. It is an award that is voluntary. The kids have to complete 8 of 12 possible goals throughout the year at home to achieve this award. Some of the goals he accomplished are: read 100 books, 1000 minutes of exercise, recite 3 poems to his class, get 100% on 10 or more spelling tests, write his name phone number and address from memory, draw color and label a detailed map of his room with using a compass for directions. Anyway he did a great job, way to go Peyton! The other award he got was an Attendance Award for missing less than 3 days of school all year! Way to go little buddy! He is a trooper when he comes to school. He loves it! He loves learning and is a great reader. We have loved his teacher, Miss Green. She has been so loving and kind and a great teacher. Watch out 2nd grade...Peyton is ready!

what's up

so what is up with shirts getting holes in the stomach? You know the kind I mean....cotton shirts that get tiny little holes right on your lower tummy. What's up with that? Does anyone know the cause? I can't tell you how many shirts that I have had to get rid of because of this. I just got a new cute shirt from Anchor Blue and after one wear...a hole. Arghhhhhh. Please, please tell me if you know why this happens and how to prevent. Oh how I hate the holes!!!!

baby????

As many of you know we are trying to adopt our 3rd child. We've had such great experiences with our other two adoptions and can't wait for a sweet new baby to be added to our family. Our social worker has told us that word of mouth is the best way to find our birth mom, or rather, help her find our family. I put directions on my sidebar on how to look at our profile. If you know anyone who is considering placing a baby for adoption, let them know about us! We just ask that you keep our last name private until we are ready to let them know that information. Thanks everyone for being sensitive to our situation and for keeping us in your prayers!

new season.....new purse

ok so if you know anything about me, you know that I have a ridiculous love of purses and let me tell ya, once you start into the expensive realm, it's hard to go back. It's a sickness really, but one that I whole-heartily embrace. So my friend Ashley has the cutest purses you have EVER seen. It seems like every time I see her at our son(s) baseball and soccer games she has a new fab purse. I spotted a really cute cream purse on her about 2 months ago and fell in love. I of course asked her where she scored such a cute thing and she told me Dillards. I promptly went to the mall only to find out it was a Kate Landry and it was $229. Holy cow! I wasn't expecting that price tag. I sadly said goodbye to that purse and have been on the search for a new summer purse ever since. I did purchase a cute canvas with white patent leather (fake) purse from Target that is white, black and purple that I have been carrying around since April. I really have loved it, but it still wasn't fulfilling my Kate Landry dreams. I wanted something a solid color that had a bit of an edge to it, but was still classy. I have looked and looked and just couldn't find what I was looking for (I wanted the Kate Landry cream patent purse)! So fast forward to today when I went to the mall to help my little sis, Hollie get pictures of my new niece, Aleah. I had about 15 mins to spare so I thought I would stop by Dillards and see if I could see a cute purse. What??? I found the Kate Landry purse on sale for $114! 50% off! I was so excited so I put it on hold so I could call Shane to make sure I could spend that much on a purse and I wanted Hollie's opinion. My Mom showed up at the mall(shocking, I know) and she loved the purse too, and offered to give me my b-day money early (way early-my b-day isn't until aug). So with my Mom subsidizing, I got my purse. Isn't it cute? Don't you love the lining? Thanks Mom and Shane!! It's big, it's chunky, and I love it!!

summertime

can you feel it? it's offically June! Oh-I love summer! We've been working in our yard, getting our annuals and pots planted. Peyton has one more week of school and then we are in offical sleep-in mode! Yeah! I am so excited for swimsuits, sunscreen, days by the pool, PB&J picnics in the backyard, 4th of July in Moroni, camping trips, roasting hot dogs, making smores, dutch ovens (peach cobbler dutch oven), fireworks, late nights with no curfew, grilling, walks around in the neighborhood, swim lessons, summer music, shorts, flip flops, tan legs, cool mornings, running through the sprinklers, oh I could go on. Here's a fun pictures that make me love and laugh about summer. What do you do in summertime?

love you

I just needed to give a shout out to my hubs....love you. Shane has been gone all week to San Antonio for a PA Conf. The last couple of times he has gone to a conf, the kids and I or just Shane and I have gone. We've missed him so much and can't wait to see him this afternoon. He's been gone since Sunday morning and I have to say that I've done pretty good by myself with the kids. The week has gone by pretty fast, however, we are ready for him to be home! Thanks honey for all you do for us. You are an awesome husband and father. Thanks for providing a beautiful home for us to live in and for making it possible that I get to stay home with the kids. Thanks for keeping us on track and always encouraging the best in all of us. Thanks for being a great example to our boys. Thanks for showering me with love and affection. Can't wait to see you today!!!

Hello Dorothy

(Just a couple of my crazy, cute boys. They didn't want to be left out of the picture action)
Just wanted to do a funny post about our goldfish-Dorothy. You may ask yourself "Isn't that the name of Elmo's goldfish??" yes. Yes it is. Connor thought of the name. We won Dorothy last June (yes, I did say last June) at Peyton's school carnival. In fact each of the boys won goldfish, unfortunately Peyton's goldfish died within a day or so as most goldfish do. Dorothy however is a bit crazy and is still going strong even after a new fishbowl, and being changed from hardwater to reverse osmosis water. She (we really don't know if it's a boy or girl, but since it has a girl name we refer to our fish as a she) is very crazy and swims really fast in her bowl every time you walk up to it. Pretty funny. Thanks Dorothy for being a good fish. Our kids love to feed her and get a kick out of having a pet. **warning the photo is a bit blurry because Dorothy won't hold still**