The milestotes come too quickly

OK!!!!!!!!!!! What is a mom to do???? Today, our five year old, Riley read an entire book from front to back, TWICE. UGH!!! Why do they grow so fast. We have been working on "The Eye Book" by Dr. Suess. Tomorrow we have to start a new book.

Casey

Casey is our family dog, we have had her for about 14 years or so. Lately she has been losing weight. Anyway, today, casey went to heaven to be with the others we have lost, so jsut wanted to post some pictures of our sweet baby.

Riley's Garden

Riley has been hounding me lately to let her plant a garden. So we had this little spot in the backyard. the before picture speaks words I care not to hear, but the after picture is fabulous. If you ask riley we planted dragonsnaps and william tell's, but she planted snapdragons and sweet william. It was just the two of us and had a great time. Who knew she would have such a green thumb. She loves to plant things and play flower shop. Kudos to Nanny and Papoo for instilling this in her.

Barbie Bassett

As you can see I added her blog site. I used to work alongside William Bassett when I was with AMR for six years, so I kinda feel like I know her a little. I must say, I find alot of inspiration and joy from her site so I thought I would share it with you. There is a lot of faith in places you least expect it. Congrats to william and barbie as they are expecting thier third child.

Pimples

So this evening we were driving to my parents house with both kids in the car. Riley pipes up in the back and says, "Hey mom did I tell you I saw a pimple today?". Perplexed i asked "what?!". She responded, " you know those pimples that fly up in the sky". HA!!!! They say the METLIFE BLIMP flying over brandon today at thier mamaw's house. How funny is that!!!!

Jamaica Me Crazy!!

Well we made it to and from Jamaica with no real problems. The kids flew very well. For those of you who don't know we went to jamaica for Aunt Krissy wedding and got to stay for five days. We stayed at the all inclusive resort of Beaches. Kudos to the resort. It was exactly as it said, beautiful, serene and VERY kid friendly. This particular resort was seasame street affiliated and Elijah accosted elmo on more than one occasion. Riely was less excited about the characters, but loved the beach and the water park that was on the resort grounds. We were all beach bums!! The wedding went off without a hitch, a wonderful ceremony at just about sunset on the beach. We have so many pictures, sorry can't load them all, but these are just a few. I would reccomend this resort to those with children 10 and under. There were all sorts of water sports, and glass bottom boat rides that are included as well.

What kids say...

Tonight as I was putting our five year old to bed I noticed she was tryinjg hard to sob silently, but she was crying so hard. As I leaned over and asked what was wrong she left me almost speechless. Mommy, I don't want to get old and die, I don't know what its like, will I have blood so my body will stay together? As I cradeled her and tried to explain to her that she was just a baby and did not need to worry of such things, I shuttered. She was literally scared. So I tried to explain that God has prepared a wonderful place for us, and that Jesus will always be there with us to keep us safe, she seemed to be eased some and dozed off to sleep. Definetly something I did not think I would have to explain to my FIVE year old. Geez, what's the with drama at 5!