I’ve been playing with my camera again and thought I’d share a few pictures I’ve taken of Chase yesterday and today. This one was taken through my kitchen window. Chase will do just about anything to escape to the driveway and ride his bike. He’s all decked out in his backwards baseball cap and rubber boots.
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Geez.... no wonder I'm tired. My brain is working overtime... all the time.
I looked out my kitchen window the other day and here’s what I saw… a monkey in my tree.
I raced outside to get a closer look, but it was so fast!
I tried to lure it down by offering it food, but it continued to make faces at me and make monkey sounds.
It took a lot of coaxing (OK, threats), but I finally got it down. I think it would have stayed there all day if I’d left it alone.
(Warning: LOOOONNNNGGGG post… I probably should have broken this into two)
Some weeks allow me lots of time to keep up on my blogging, while others not so much. This week was the latter, although I’m not sure why. It hasn’t been particularly busy, except for Sydney’s dance performance this week, but here’s a recap.
Last Sunday, we visited a new church, thanks to a friend at my work who invited us. I’ve really been struggling to find a church that I like for me and for my kids. My long time church had awesome praise and worship and I really enjoyed the pastor, but the kids program was a bit chaotic. I hadn’t been for awhile and the kids were just terrified the day I decided to start going again. I don’t think I’d been sitting for 10 minutes before my number was being displayed on the overhead. At that point, we just had to leave. Chase was NOT happy!
Then, I decided a top priority for me was a good kids program, so I started going to a large Baptist church on our side of town in August 08. The kids program seemed very organized, which made me (and the kids) a little more comfortable. The praise & worship was better than I expected, but still not as exciting and uplifting as I knew it could be. The pastor was always interesting and informative, but really lacked the passion that I was looking for.
Back to what I’d started to say…. last Sunday, we tried a new church. Now, I’m not ready to sign up to be a member or pledge myself to the kids ministry, but I’m excited to report that the kids classes weren’t too crazy, the praise and worship was awesome and the pastor definitely had passion! Taylor, who has never wanted to go to church, at least not since he’s been a teenager, is on a retreat this weekend with the Sr. High kids that he met last Sunday. Can you believe it? Can I get a “PRAISE GOD”!?! We basically had to drag him in there, force him to go the youth service and the next thing I know, he’s begging to go on a retreat! He has called me a couple of times since they left on Friday afternoon and sounds like he’s having a good time.
My plan is to go again tomorrow, so I’d better wrap this up and get to bed, so I‘ve got no excuses… like being tired in the morning.
Oh… I promised a recap….
Sunday afternoon after church, we took Taylor out for a two hour drive. He’s doing great and continues to improve each time he goes out. We also took the entire family to see “Up”. I really enjoyed the movie, even if parts were really sad. I don’t think Sydney and Chase liked it at all. I really like the Pixar movies, but the last one we took the whole family to see was Wall-E and it wasn’t any better. My kids need something a little more exciting to keep them watching for an hour and half. I’ll give it 4 out of 5 stars for Me and Taylor and 1 out of 5 for Syd & Chase.
Jason spent the better part of this week painting the garage. He has done an excellent job and the colors we chose look great. It seems like forever ago we were driving around looking at houses to see what color scheme we would like best. We carried all those little paint color cards and when we found a house we liked, we’d take turns jumping out and comparing the cards to the colors on the house until we found a combination we could both agree on.
He’s so creative with the paint, don’t you think???
All he has left to do is the rock on the front. My sweetie did an awesome job! The paint on the side is the same as the front. The sun makes it look so much lighter than it really is. It’s more like the picture above.
Today was Sydney’s dance performance. Here are a few pics from today. Here she is with other girls from her group before the show. They kept them all in a big room with crayons and books to keep them occupied. It really worked out well.
We weren’t allowed to film during the performance since they were having it professionally done. I don’t think we were supposed to take pictures either, so we waiting until afterwards to get a picture of Sydney with all the flowers she got. As usual, just no cooperation for a picture.
Sydney also had a couple of special guests come to see her perform. Lynsey used to work at the kids’ daycare, mostly in Chase’s room, which explains why he flirted with her throughout the performance and acted so shy when he saw she was there. It was totally cute.
Also, Jason’s Mom was there. I think she really enjoyed getting to see Sydney perform. Sydney was sick of pictures at this point, but Chase is still somewhat willing.
And finally, Mom makes it into a picture. (Thanks Jason!)
Am I a procrastinator or what? Rachel at Once a Upon a Miracle tagged me in this post back in May and here I am, IN JUNE, finally posting.
8 Things I Look Forward To:
8 Things I Did Yesterday:
8 Things I Wish I Could Do:
8 Shows I Watch:
8 Bloggers I Tagged: (You other folks are far more social than I am, so some of you are being tagged for the second time!)
One last thing….
It’s a milestone and a giveaway! If you haven’t already, head over to Heather’s blog “adventures of aidanpod” and wish her congratulations on her 200th post and enter her cool giveaway! Congrats Heather!
Happiness is having your own blog so you can post whatever you want…. as random as it may be. My life has been fairly random lately, so this is pretty spot on. This week’s highlights consist of organizing the garage… Would you take a look at the spider we found in there. (He’s been hiding since Taylor was in the 4th grade)
On Monday, we had a little fun at work. All of the projects are wrapping up since it’s the end of the biennium and we had an hour or so to celebrate the teams’ successes. The entertainment consisted of two project teams battling it out at Family Feud. If you’ve seen the show, you know how it goes. If you haven’t, please come out from the rock you’ve been under and turn on the TV. I won’t say which team won, because that’s really not the point of the whole thing. (that and I’m a bad loser). Here I am, going head to head with the opposing team – My question was “One hundred models were surveyed. What did they say was the ugliest part of their body?” I scored the #1 answer with “FEET”!
On some other random day this week, that I can’t remember, Jason decided to finally spray the wasps that have decided to call our house their home. The way he setup the ladder in the back of the truck, climbed directly under the wasp nest and sprayed straight over his head looked like I might get some pretty action packed pics. But, his plan was a success and we’re wasp free… at least on that corner of the house.
Today, Sydney had her last ballet class before their performance next weekend. Since I cut her hair pretty short a month or so ago, I was a little concerned that I wouldn’t be able to get it into a bun, so we had a little trial run this afternoon. Needless to say, there was lots of yelling and screaming because once the gel is in her hair, it’s practically impossible to comb without pulling. I hope the professional photographer gets a good picture of her next Saturday because she wouldn’t do a thing for me. Here’s the best of the bunch and it turned out very blue (because I had my white balance set for indoors and we were outside), so I switched it to black and white.
Here’s a more typical shot from our little photo shoot, just so you can see the silly goose I’m working with. She has the cutest purple costume. They took measurement back in January and someone hand made them for the girls. Isn’t it gorgeous? I thought it was neat that I took ballet for about a year when I was little and my outfit was purple, too.
Ok, so it’s really been about 7 and a half years since we started dating, but we’ve been married 5 years today. I’ve been looking though our wedding album remembering the week we spent on our cruise to the Caribbean. We got married at our first port of call, Montego Bay, Jamaica. I am so happy to say that my Mom and Dad were there with us. It wouldn’t have been the same without them. Also, our friends Greg and Sandra went with us. It was certainly an adventure at times just as the past 5 years have been, but I truly feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I really have so much more I'd like to say about that, but I wanted to post a couple of pictures today and it's time for bed.
Jason and I one night at dinner…
My Dad and I …
The entire wedding party….
Jason and I…
Did I mention that it’s HOT in Jamaica in June? You have no idea how tempted I was to jump in that pool!
