My Laundry Helper

Brett is determined to help me every time I do the laundry.  He's so good to unload the dryer and he loves it when I hand him things from the washer to put in the dryer.  The whole time he keeps saying, "help, help."  Then he waits for it to be time to close the dryer door and he gives it a big bang and then we give each other a high five.  I'm so glad that he's around to make this work a whole lot more enjoyable!

A Birthday/Father's Day Post

I had a birthday.  Hooray!  

We had my family over for what I called a "Great Big Texas Dinner."  That's the fancy way to say that we had ribs, rolls, Texas Roadhouse butter, potato casserole, celery sticks spread with cream cheese and chopped olives, and watermelon.  My mom made my favorite dessert, Evil Dessert.  It's an ice-cream cake that I can't get enough of.  

Now onto the Father's Day part of this post.  Here's my man.  He's a fancy basketball player.  Look at his forward and backwards action with the hoop.  Wow!

He's our hero.  He takes the boys out to play after dinner when there's finally shade in the front yard.  It's been so hot here, so what else do you do but run through the sprinklers with dad?

Here's some cute ones of the boys playing out front on another day.  Notice the glove on Grant's hand. That boy and gloves!  But it's kind of funny because it's just one glove...kind of like Michael Jackson.  And no, we are not related.  At least I didn't think we were.  :)

But this is probably my favorite picture...BEDTIME (One of the best times of the day.)!  Brett's been getting in on the bedtime stories lately.  Usually he'd just go to bed with a simple song and no fuss.  Now he joins Grant for his routine.  So cute!  They love to have Dad read the books and Mom to sing the songs.  

As you can see, our Dad is pretty special to us.  Happy Father's Day Keith!  We're so happy to have you!

Peaches 2013

One of the fun things we did when my sister was in town was picking peaches at Schnepf Farms.  We went early in the morning to beat the heat, but it was still pretty hot in the sun!  You can see in a couple of the pictures, that Grant wore his special "peach picking glove."  That boy and gloves!  He just loves to wear them!

My Mom came too.  Isn't this a sweet picture of her and her peach picking grandkids?  Looks like little Ellie had enough of the heat!

I had to capture this moment.  This is typical Brett lately....one thumb in his mouth, and one finger on his belly button.

Until next year, peaches!  Actually, we'll see.  Our new little peach tree is doing quite well.  Maybe we'll have one more year before we can pick our own peaches!  Hooray!

Last Day of School

It's so nice to have Grant home all day now.  I'm sure I'll be ready to send him back by the end of the summer, but for now we are enjoying not having to get up and go every morning.  His preschool class had a little celebration that parents were invited to attend on the last day.  His class sang the cutest songs.  I video taped it...or so I thought.  When I went to watch it later, I realized that I'd been recording at the wrong times and only got the applause between all of the songs.  I'm still heart broken over it.  But what can I do?  Better luck next time, huh?

Cousins gone home

My sister and her family left yesterday morning after a fun week here.  Now the boys and I are nursing colds. 

More fun to come!

P.S. I love that my neighborhood Boy Scouts put up flags in the neighborhood for holidays for a fundraiser.  It's so nice to see our country's beautiful flag lining the streets.

Happy Friday!

I'm so glad the weekend is here!  We are having a garage sale in the morning, and then my sister and her family are coming for a whole week!  We have been going through our house and getting rid of the stuff that we haven't used or don't have a need for anymore.  Where does this stuff come from?!  It will be nice to send it on it's way to another home.  Hopefully someone else needs it.  I think the craziest part has been my closet.  I went through my clothes when we moved, but I was able to get rid of a whole lot more again this week.  Clothes are crazy that way.  Sometimes they just end up not fitting like they did in the fitting room, or they make you feel awkward when you really go out and wear them, or they never fit the same after having kids!

Another thing I went through was the one bin I have of my memory stuff.  Every time I go through that thing I throw more out.  I'm down to my year books, a shoe box of pictures, and a couple other things.

It feels so good to not be storing things that are just taking up needed space in our home.  I'm so glad to have a husband who is always on board with getting rid of clutter and getting our home more organized.  It's a beautiful thing!

Summer is around the corner (Well, it's kind of here already)!  Hope you have a productive weekend too!