Vacation.....staycation

This week the hubby and I have been enjoying each others company....hubs couldn't get vacation when the kiddos are on spring break so we took a week to stay in town and do things during the day together while kiddos were in school....yea us!

we have eaten lunch at some of our favorite places.....
went to the movies..... 
hung out together and acted like teenagers again......  :)

we only have a few days left and hmmm....what will we get into?


more to come.....with pics included of some projects that have gotten done....yippee!


I leave you with an adorable video of miss thang "cooking".....have a great thursday....

Where has 2011 gone?

I cannot believe that it is already March 1st!  I feel like I just finished cleaning up all the christmas wrapping paper and decorations....february was not a great month for our household in the health department.  it seems we have been plagued with some virus, infection, or asthma related illness since nearly the beginning of february.  i am glad to see march come and with that means we will be springing forward in just a matter of days....yippee!  i definitely miss having sunlight into the evening hours and have so longed for that for a while now.

i fell off the 21 days of organization wagon on day two when all the illness came rushing through our front door...i think it was totally the devil preventing me from decluttering our home so that we could open our home up for small groups at our church. ok, enough of giving the devil any time in print...

I am vowing to do a better job of blogging this month, i promise! 
until tomorrow....

Birthday Celebration!

My oldest is turning 12 today and I cannot believe how time has flown!  I feel like I had him just a few years ago!  It is bittersweet to think about this being his last year of "official childhood" since next year he will become a teenager....yikes!  I won't apologize for gloating about him for a few lines either...lol!  He has become such a great young man and Cliff and I are so proud of him!  He is a very energetic boy with lots of hobbies......soccer, BMX racing, playing trombone, drawing, and building with lego's...i truly believe he may become an architect....i have never seen someone put together an 800 piece lego set in just under 2 hours...he amazes me!  Most importantly though, he is a child of God and he is already beginning to truly see the difference between the worldly and those who live for Christ!  It has required some tough conversations that I thought wouldn't come until many years later, but unfortunately that is what our world has come to.  It breaks my heart to think of the struggles that he is facing in middle school that I never encountered until high school or college.  He is a strong young man with a good head on his shoulders and I know that God has great things planned for his life....i can't wait to see what they are and where God will lead him (insert my goofy smile from ear to ear)....just a few pics from the last year of my little boy turning into a young man.....

 

 

5th grade graduation present

Hunter and his buddy Caleb at camp

at the beach over the summer

at a BMX race in Maryland...he's in 1st!

his 1st place trophy from Maryland

Hunter gets his trombone.....

Hunter's first day of Middle School

Happy Grandparents Day!!

Happy Grandparents Day-XOXOXO

To all of our grandparents....real and surrogate....
I miss you when we're not together
I'm growing up so fast
see how big I've gotten
since you saw me last?
As I grow, I'll change a lot,
the years will fly right by.
You'll wonder how I grew so quick
when and where and why?
So look at this picture or
hang it on your wall and
memories will come back of us
when we were very small.
love~
hunter and piper