My Night Owl

Ava has always been a late nighter, but since the summer has begun it was only gotten worse.
She has slept with me ALWAYS, since she was a baby, and I dont want that to change ever, maybe when she gets married one day but not any sooner than that! I love her snuggled up next to me, she is the best bed partner ever!!! We lay in bed at night and she will be like "mommy I love your eyes, they are so pretty" or she will say "I love your hair" And my poor hair will be all over the place. She is always complimenting me , even when I look like PURE CRAPOLA. She is my sweetheart and my mommas girl.

It is now 24 minutes past Midnight and where is Ava? In bed one might thinik? No she is sitting on my bed watching WOW WOW WUZBY. I have tried turning tv off , no luck she will lay in the dark until I come get in bed which is about 1. I have tried music, which doesnt work. The child does not take a nap during the day either so you figure by this time she would be dragging. It just blows my mind. Any suggestions on how to get her to fall asleep before 1 or 2 in the morning? I mean yes its nice to have her sleep in til 11:00 but I like for night time to be my peaceful quiet time. Please refrain from saying "put her in her own bed" because I don't want that , I love her in my bed and she will be here as long as she likes. Anyway, I am about to get ready to crawl in bed next to the owl and cuddle with her and get my nighy night smootch. How precious can a 3 year old be?

Goodnight All

Not Me! Monday

Before Ady's Dr. Appointment today, I did not leave a bit early so Ady and I could feast on the new Marble Slab Ice Cream.

We Also DID NOT have chocolate sprinkles added to our vanilla, why would I do that when I am trying to lose weight ?

I also did not leave Ady in the car real quick -doors locked might I had, for a few minutes while I ran into Walgreens, what kind of crazy mother would do that? Not me, no way!

I have not been counting down the hours, minutes, seconds for Jon and Kate Plus 8, why would I be that engrossed in someone else's life? No way thats not me!

I did not scream and shout for joy when I found out the games were cancelled tonight, why would I not want to be out in the 100 degree heat?

Swimming is great for...

Takin it Easy!






Exploring








Looking Beautiful







Floating






And the best part of all...Soaking your Papa!

Sam A. Baker

Sam A. Baker is such an amazing place, minus the camping in a tent part, thats just really not too easy when you have a 15 month old coming along for the trip. If Ady and Ava were the only kids there it would have worked out great. We did stay til late and roasted marshmellos on the campfire and did all that campy stuff. The best part of the whole trip was defin. the kids playing in the river. I had so much fun taking their pics. Kanon was amazed how he could sit in the rocks and play with the water, he could have sat there all day, and I could have sat there all day watching him. It was a wonderful day with my kiddos. One of those days that makes me realize how blessed I am. I am so in love with my kids and each one of their personalities, they are so much fun and I can't wait to experience all the fun things in life that are to come! Enjoy our pictures, there are several more I will add in another post, didn't wanna overwhelm ya b/c I was really snaphappy that day.

Been slacking on my blogging this week, boy has it been hot. Seems like it either is storming and having severe weather or its 95 degrees, something in between would be so great! My brother and his family are at Panama City Beach this week, we are having a sad week without Luke. He keeps me constantly laughing and is so much fun to hang out with. We can't wait til their return and to see his Florida tan :)

Mr. Blue Eyes

I have so many pics to post from our trip to Sam A Baker, but I am so exhausted so wanted to leave you with one tonight. Its of my Mr. Blue Eyes Kanon. He sure did love the water, which was shocking to me, I figured he would be like his sisters at that age but I am so happy he proved me wrong. Here he is, the love of my life!!!

Hi Ho Hi Ho

Its off to the woods we go......


Headed off to Sam A Baker, wish me luck. not sure how a sleeping bag and 3 kids are gonna work out, but its worth a shot!

Wordless Wednesday

3 Amigos

After all the:

tantrums

diapers

slobber

hair pulling

biting

pushing

shoving

toy stealing

boyfriend stealing haha

name calling

slamming doors

no brothers allowed

no sisters allowed

cooties

slobbery kisses

superman capes

bugs

Tag

sword fights

dolls

chasing

sleeping bags and flashlights

screaming

noogies

Baseball Games

boogies

talking on the phone

boys boys boys

girls girls girls

and many other things that will come throughout the years with you 3. I hope and pray that you 3 Amigos will be the very best of friends forever.

Laughter

"If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever..."

Summer Nights

Its been a few days since I have blogged, we have been busy playing outside. We spend the majority of our summer days/evenings outside doing lots of activites. One night my friend Tara came over and brought her 2 kidds Reese and Jagger. She looked through tons of my yardsale stuff and all the kids played. Ady, Ava, Reese and Jagger were later joined by Peyton, Parker and Carson. They played with sidewalk chalk, bubbles, riding trikes, bikes, and Ady's new ranger which was a huge hit! Ady thought she was big stuff buckeling in all her passengers and taking them for 3 spins around the house! Later on Reese and Jagger came in with the girls for a while and played and played and played some more. Jagger and Ady play so well together, she can't wait until they come back for another play night!

This weekend we had a sleepover. My mom came to my house after work and joined all my kids plus Luke & Lawson. They had so much fun that day!!! They swam, played on the swingset, jumped on the trampoline, ate Mickey D's and even got a snowcone! I think we are keeping the snowcone stand in business this summer, but its so hard to resist...its just that good!!! To top our evening off I took Luke, Ady and Ava to see the movie "UP", which might I add , was FABULOUS! A great movie for kids and adults. It had me laughing one minute and fighting tears back the next.

Summer has been a blast so far and like I have said before...it has just started! We are loving our days with Luke so much, that has been such a blessing! Him and Ady are having so much fun together and I am trying to keep their summer filled with activities, if you have any fun ideas please feel free to leave them on my comments. Kanon was asleep during the whole event-poor guy. He has been having a hard time with teething, the whole weekend him and Ava have been so snotty and coughing their little heads off. There is nothing worse than having a cold in the summer, its just not right! I will leave you guys with some pics of our Summer Night
Reese giving Ady some love

Tara getting her some bargains haha

Ady and her buddy Jagger

How cute is she?


Ady taking Jagger for a ride

Jagger riding the trike

Ava and Reese

Adyson's new ride

Not Me Monday

* I did not make a "bribe box" for my nephew and 2 girls, it is not filled with tons of their favorite toys, and I would never reward them with those toys only if they helped me pick up misses and even sweep at times, that would be child labor right? Not me, no way Jose.

* I did not have thoughts of spanking my son after not once, but two times of taking his clothes off and pooping in his bed, the first time he had mashed it all around, and peed making it into a slop. The second time it was like a hamburger patty and he threw it out onto the floor. I would never think anything bad of my sweet little Kanon, no way, he is way too precious for a spanking, or a time out.

* I did not take the kids multiple times to the snow cone stand just because really Mama wanted one. It was all the kids ideas, I can control myself from sweets, especially light, crunchy grape and strawberry snow cones, yum.

* I did not do any late night shopping this week with my credit card, No way would I have got on Gymboree and baby gap and filled my online cart full of goodies for my kids. I already know they have way too many clothes and would never buy all that stuff just so they can basically sit in the closet with all the rest of their thousands of clothes, I have way too much self control to be a shopaholic.

* I also did not buy my daughter *Ady* a new riding toy months before her birthday. Im the type of mom that waits to give gifts on their birthday not months before, even though it would be so much fun to see her ride this new 24 volt ATV the whole summer long, I would never break down and get it early, Not me, maybe some of you would but no way not me.