Our Lil' Razorback

Ready or not, he's turning one! Yes, our lil' razorback, Logan, will be 1 year old on the 23rd of this month. We are throwing him a razorback themed party this Friday night to celebrate with family and a few friends. We had to have the party a little early due to other weekend events this month.

I took some pics of Logan in his smocked razorback outfit in our front yard yesterday evening. I was trying to get some good pics to frame for the party. It. Was. Hard. Every time I would sit him down on this little blanket he would get up and start walking around. I'm sure the neighbors thought I was crazy!

I put several little puffs (similar to cheerios) on his blanket and in this pic there is one stuck to his face. So cute!

My little cutie! Can't wait for the party. I'm a little stressed how everything is going to get done this week between cleaning the house, grocery shopping, and decorating for the party, but I'm trying to just take it one day at a time. It's a busy week! Not to mention...
My man of almost 4 years has a birthday TOMORROW. I know he thinks that I've forgotten about him as I am busy preparing for Logan's party this weekend, but he is wrong. I have some sweet things planned for him as well. I mean, without him, Logan's little cuteness wouldn't exist!

Lights On & All Aboard!

I want to blog about this so I'll remember it. Madison is in a little routine of turning the light AND fan on in her room when she wakes up each morning or from a nap each day. She gets her little plastic chair from her vanity and moves it to the door and stands up on it to reach the light switch. I can always just look under the door to see if any light is shining through to find out whether she is awake or not.

If it's morning time, she will knock on the door and shout out, "All Aboard" or "MAMA" until I come get her. She gets the "all aboard" phrase from the Disney channel. They say "all aboard" on a choo choo train commercial/show. Funny thing is, she doesn't really say "all aboarD." She says, "all aboarT." With a T on the end. I've tried to tell her that it has a D on the end, but I guess it's cuter to hear her end the word with a T.

This afternoon Gabe and I are going to F-ville to meet up with some of his old Russellville church friends growing up. We are going to do a little shopping beforehand, and then meet up for dinner. Madison is spending the night with my parents and Logan is spending the night with Gabe's parents. Sounds like a fun time to me!

Oh, be careful little lips what you say

I've been thinking about what I wanted to say in this post and this song just came to my mind. I remember singing this song as a little child. The words are oh, so true! Isn't it neat how childrens' songs have such good and true words and stay in your heart forever!

Well, I have a confession to make. I say "bad words." Not cuss words, but "bad words" for kids. Most of my close friends' kids are probably not to this stage yet, but who knows maybe they are. My kid is a parrot. A genius parrot at that! What comes out of my mouth, comes out of her mouth. This week she said dang it! And she's said shut up! And she's said gosh! Gosh isn't really a bad word, but it's close to taking the Lord's name in vain so I've taught her not to say it. Well, problem is... I say these words. I don't say shut up very often, but when I'm stressed and frazzled to the limit and about to pop, I admit...I say it. Now, dang it and gosh are MY words! I say them all the time and really have to watch myself around Madison.

Oh, be careful little lips what you say.
Oh, be careful little lips what you say.
For the Father up above is looking down in love,
Oh, be careful little lips what you say.

When Madison says one of the words I tell her that it's a bad word and we are not supposed to say it. I confess that Momma says this word sometimes and she shouldn't. It's just so hard!!! Anyone out there relate?

Swimming Buddies

We went swimming last night with one of Gabe's friends that has two little girls. Anna Kate and Madison had a fun time together swimming and eating chips. I thought this picture was too cute!

On another note, I wrote a post on my cousin's wedding, but I wrote it on Saturday and saved it so you'll have to scroll down to read it. For some reason the post did not pop to the top.

Mrs. Jordan Roe

My beautiful cousin, Jennifer, got married a little over a month ago. The kids and I traveled down to TX with my mom for the wedding. The kids did pretty good in the car. I think they enjoyed having their Grandma in the car with them.

This. Trip. Was. Soo. Hard!!! One thing I learned from this trip. It's way more work!!! It's way more work keeping your small kids at others' houses. Their houses are NOT baby proof like yours and you can never relax! My mom helped prepare & decorate for the wedding so she was always at the church. That left me and the kids (no dad!) alone at someone's house. For LONG periods of time. With NO highchairs to contain them. I usually didn't get a shower until someone showed up to help me with the kids. One day I just didn't even bother because I literally didn't have a moment free from the kids. It was one of the most stressful trips I've taken! (Sigh!) It's crazy to sit back and think about how much life changes once you have kids. Children are wonderful and I wouldn't trade it for the world, but life is definately not about me anymore. It's such a selfless role...to be a parent.

I was glad once the wedding was finally over! It was a beautiful wedding and Jennifer looked absolutely stunning! But, I was glad to finally have Grandma rescue me! It would have been one thing if Gabe was there to help, but it was just me this time.

My Mom and I sang "Your Grace Still Amazes Me" by Phillips, Craig and Dean in the wedding. It's a song we know by heart. We've sung it many times before. It was an honor singing in Jennifer's wedding.

Beautiful wedding pictures taken by Tryston Hines! Congrats Jordan and Jennifer. I wish you many, many years of happiness together!

Celebration on the Lake

Grandma decided she wanted to celebrate her birthday out on the lake and we thought that sounded like a great idea too! (especially since we had only been out one other time this summer! Madison sure looked cute all decked out in her turquoise suit, glasses, and bow!

Here she is in the lake with Aunt Melissa. She had a good time despite the ridiculous heat and warm bath water!!!

Logan had a high time eating all of the yummy snacks. This boy doesn't joke around when it comes to food and he's trying more and more of it these days!

We had engine issues with the boat (for really the 1st time ever) and weren't able to tube as we had hoped, so we just layed around in the very warm water. It was pretty stinkin' hot! We ordered pizza and made homemade ice cream and came back to the house to enjoy!

Happy Birthday, Grandma! Hope you had a great one.

VBS Catch-Up...Big Apple Adventure

I worked in our Preschool VBS this year with my friend, Melissa. She has a little boy, Beckett, the same age as Madison and we decided to work in their class, AKA the 1.5-2 year olds. We thought it would to be neat to watch them interact with their friends and do all of the VBS activities. Well, not such a good idea! Our kids were extra clingy all week and wanted to be held by Momma! That is so not how they normally are so we decided that next year we won't be serving in their class! It's not fair to the other kids in the class and they need to go have fun and participate with all of the other kids.

Despite the clinginess, we still had a great time with the kids. We took long buggy rides... Aren't they cute? Can you imagine having a whole buggy of your own? Umm, NO I cannot! And thanks, I don't want to!

We did a little rocking...

We did a little snacking...

We played instruments and listened to music...
We changed a LOT of diapers...

We made some cute crafts...

We beaded some necklaces...

We played outside on the playground...
We listened to stories about Jesus...

I was really curious how the kids would respond to story time, but they actually listened really well. The story teachers usually had them do a couple of activities afterwards to pass up time and those were always a little challenging and a bit chaotic. Our kids were just a little bit too small for real games!

One of the activities was to get in a taxi. We only had two takers!

And we hid in the cubbies... This was so cute because we didn't put them there. A few just plopped down there and then we put the rest of the kids in for a very cute photo!

We had a good time this year. Madison and I actually only did VBS up until Wednesday because we left Thursday morning for my cousin, Jennifer's wedding in TX. I didn't mind skipping out two days early. Whew! VBS wears a momma out!!!