Happy Valentine's Day!

Buddy had his basketball game this morning and the team was alittle sluggish. I think their candy high of the last couple of days caught up to them. Buddy says the other team was really tall and they did seem to out rebound them most of the game. But it was fun and the boys are improving so much and have a good time.

At home, we are getting a new furnace today. Our old 32 year old one finally lite its last pilot light a week ago and that was it. Luckly the weathers been great this week, except for today, so that we were able to schedule a new installment today.

Yeah we have heat again!

I was very impressed with the efficiency of these guys installing this monster. It only took 5 hours.

And I want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day. We love and miss you all so much!

P.S. Six Years Ago, my water would be breaking at 1:30 AM! It seems like yesterday.

Ultimate Weigh-Loss Challenge

The Man is on a diet as of Jan 1 and on the 11th of January, we measured his waistline as our marker (we don't own a scale). I spared you the photo of the hairy beast, and I will today as well. And so now its time for the second measurement. Drum roll, please...

Its been 1 month and 2 days since the first measurement, and we are happy to report his waistline has shrunk an inch. Yep, a whole inch. Way to go, babe! We are proud of you, keep up the good work.

Valentine's Party!

Buddy had his Valentine's Party at school today and the Little Guy and I were invited. Little Guy loves going into Buddy's classroom and seeing all his friends. He gets so excited and has a great time. The party was fun and seeing all the kids valentine bags and valentines were precious. Its always fun going into his classroom.

While we were at school, we were also notified that Little Guy got into preschool. YEAH!!! We are so excited about this. It really looked like there wouldn't be a spot for him, but it turns out that we are in. He'll start in August in the 3 year old class, so we've got lots of goals between now and then. He's almost counting to 10, so it won't take much to get him there. He will repeat the ABCs but doesn't know them yet, so we'll be working on that and of course the biggie, POTTY TRAINING! I've stopped trying for now, but as soon as the weather gets warmer and he can run around in underwear or nude, then we'll go for it all the way. Hope you have a great Valentine's Day!

He's so Talented!

As you've read my Buddy is an athlete. He plays all kinds of sports and is good at them, but that's not all he can do. He can also create ART. Not just kindergarten art, but real ART. Ok, so I'm bias. His school is hosting their Valentine's Party tomorrow and so tonight we make Valentine's.

First, store bought valentines are not an option.

Secondly, I know we shouldn't have waited until the night before, but he hadn't decided on his design and media. Paint, foam, paper? Lots of choices had to me made. Finally he decided on paper cards, a traditional approach.

Using my Cricut and punches, I cut out a lot of hearts and flowers in non-traditional valentine colors. Lots of blues, greens and oranges, verses the pink and red (girl colors). Using my handy-dandy Xyron sticker maker, I was able to make several sticker sheets for him to use. This made the process so easy. All he had to do was sign his name and decorate. He was so proud and they turned out really cute. I hope he has fun handing them out tomorrow. Happy Valentine's Day!

First Storms of the Season

Unless you've been under a rock, you've probably heard about the severe weather OK had today. Multiple tornadoes touch down around OKC (Oklahoma City). We were very fortunate here and didn't get anything too serious. With that said, we did experience some wrath in the form of a leaking roof. UGH!

So you know I've been trying to move my scrapbooking studio to the sunroom, so I can have the natural light and space. I'm was almost done with this transformation when it happened.

The Leak.

Inches, I'm talking like 2 inches away from my paper stash the drips land. Some of my paper did get wet from the splashing, before we grabbed the bucket. It wasn't a major leak but a drip, drip, drip. So now what? Move the scrapbooking area, fix the roof, tear off the sunroom??? The possiblities. The Man says he'll be getting on the roof Saturday, pray for him.

This is for Grandpa

Yesterday, the Man watched several hours of the PGA tour. It seems like it was on all day actually. Buddy would watch for a little while then go play, come back through and watch some more. The Man actually got out pencil and paper to explain how to keep score in golf, and although Buddy has no concept of negative numbers he did seem to grasp the idea of number of strokes and par. And knowing Buddy, our little athlete extraordinaire, it didn't take him long to head outside with a little golf ball and start his own game.

He came in to eat supper then back outside again. He finally runs in the house and begs the Man to come play HIS golf game with him. So off they go outside at sunset to play golf in the front yard. I followed then had to come back in to get the camera. Buddy had used a stick and dug a little hole in the yard and took one of the pink flags and placed it beside the hole. It was adorable seeing him use his stick and hit the golf ball in this hole. He actually concentrate a few times and putted it right in there. Needless to say, the Man and Buddy had a blast playing golf in the front yard with sticks and the new hole.

***Note: Grandpa bought the pink flags and placed two at each in-ground sprinkler head near the driveway so I wouldn't run over the sprinklers and break them. Just another example of my backing up skills. And yes, that is duct tape you see on the flag. Little Guy had torn the flag off so it had to be repaired. You might be a redneck if...

It's 70 degrees....

Its super warm here and I'm loving it. This is the perfect weather, gentle breeze and in the lower 70s. ahhh! if it would only last....

After church the boys and the Man decided to wash the truck and van. So off they go to get wet and make a mess. I couldn't resist taking some photos of the Little Guy washing the truck pretty good. He was very intent on getting it clean. Buddy was in charge of wheels and did a wonderful job, although he didn't want his pic taken. He was too busy cleaning.