Transportation Day!

Transportation Day at Susannah's school was this past Thursday and she had such a blast. From the time that they announced the fun day, Susannah came home and said, "I need a pink and purple airplane!!" We never had to have any other discussion! Aaron built her plane out of one computer tower box....it was so small, I kept saying, "Do you need me to go and get some more cardboard?" "Is that going to be big enough?" Oh. Wife of little faith! Engineer boy used every piece of that box and it was perfect!


The next morning, Aaron took her in the garage to see her airplane and she was sooo excited. We were just hoping that the hole that he cut out was big enough for her to get in her plane! It was perfect and she was grinning from ear to ear!
That day, after ladies bible class, one of my good friends had some leftover pink and purple paint in her garage (thanks, Jill...you are a life saver!!) so we didn't have to make the trip to Wally World! Whoo Hoo!! Little did we know, but a big storm was coming in....We took the plane outside and gave it a good coat of pink spray paint and then it started to rain!! Sus and I ran in the house and she did coat number two in pink enamel paint. Parker was taking his nap, so we spent all afternoon in the garage working on her plane. It was so cute and she had so much fun painting her plane!After the paint dried, Susannah picked every pink and purple flower sticker out of a big sticker book and put them all over her plane! Finished and and no one had to stay up past their bedtime!! I know, a first for me, but I'm getting better as I need my mommy sleep! Aaron went to school with us the next morning to help us deliver the airplane for the big "show off" and there were some really cool cars, planes and even a hot air balloon with real balloons!! It was a fun day and I know Susannah was so proud of her pink and purple airplane!!

Spring Break, Part 2

You guessed it right, we went to Six Flags! We renewed our season passes for 2009 and had a great time with our friends, The Thompsons.

I think this may be the last season for Grace and this ride...I think her feet are dragging!

Parker really likes the roller coasters...it's pretty funny!

Grace was sweet to ride with the little guys on this...she hardly spun them at all.

The girls were waiting in line for the bumper cars and being silly!

Six Flags, first of many visits of 2009!! Whooo Hooo!!

Spring Break, Part 1

I know, I know...I'm behind on spring break posts. So, here you go...

The first morning of spring break, Aaron went to play basketball up at church and on his way home, he picked up donuts for the kids! What a great way to start spring break...we love donuts, but we hardly ever get them. We didn't do much but play outside at home and of course, Grace read. She is on #4 of the Harry Potter series. She read the first 3 books in one week. Now that school has started back, she has slowed down but I know she is already getting excited for the weekend when she can get back to Harry and his friends.


On the second day of spring break, we went with some of our friends to Founder's Park at the DFW Airport. This is about the closest you can get to the airport without paying for a ticket! The airplanes would land so close and the kids thought it was pretty cool. The kids would roll down the hill a couple of times and then stand at the fence at watch the planes land. I love the free days of spring break!
They had a whole afternoon of play with just a blanket, hundreds of ladybugs and of course, their friends. It was a fun and relaxing day.

Quiet time

Aaron was playing on Craigslist and found this cool booth for the playroom upstairs. The kids love that they have a place to color and do crafts. They played up here all afternoon the other day!! Grace took one look at it and said, " Dad, did you buy a Subway booth?" Maybe, but it works great for the playroom!

She is a diamond girl!

Susie's first softball game was Monday night! She was giggling before she even finished getting dressed at 3:30 that afternoon (the game was at 5:30...she was soo excited!) Her little team is so very cute. Four of the little girls on the team are from our church and they are just the sweetest little girls that you would want your kids to hang out with...really...a super sweet bunch of girls (I'm being biased and including Susie in this group, too!) They all had a super time Monday night. Everyone did sooo great!


The coaches are all 4 of the dad's from our church and it's fun to see them all out there on the field together. Ben, the head coach, is simply WONDERFUL. He gets down on the girls level to talk to them and you can tell that they really do listen, well...most of the time! :) He really does have a great talent for working with kids and softball. We are so thankful that they asked Susie to be on their team. I know she will have fun and learn alot this season from coach Ben and the other dads!

Oh and Parker found a big mud pit during the game and was not to happy. It was a dark sticky, kind of gooey mud and of course, we had no wipes or anything (because he is out of diapers!!!) so, we just let it dry and scrubbed him in the tub that night! Little boys!!

I love the weather!!

It has been so very beautiful here the past week. The kids have been playing outside everyday and I LOVE IT!! We washed the car the other day and the kids couldn't get enough of playing in the water.

Busy kids!

Things have been in full swing around here at our house! Susie and Aaron have been going to softball twice a week to get their team ready for their first game on Saturday. She loves spending time with daddy just the two of them and I love it for both of them too! I've been working hard with my friends to get VBS stuff in order...which by the way, I'm so excited about. I love the bible character Joshua. Grace and I sat down the other night and read the first 9 chapters together and it was fun to hear what she thought about all the battles and such. I love reading (actually, listening) with her.

Parker has been busy just being Parker. Man! Little 2 year old boys are always up to something, aren't they? Last week, I didn't hear him for a few minutes...you know...trouble. I went looking for him. He was under the dining room table with a block, yes a block, of cheese. He was eating away on the cheese.

I said, "Parker! What are you doing?"

His response, "I hungry, mama!"

Little stinker!

He is rocking on the potty training. I say training but he has been in big boy underwear for quite some time so I guess we are almost done. I just don't want to jinx ourselves and get too excited. The final step was to wear them to school on Tues./Thurs. and I just didn't put him in real underwear on those days because I thought that if he did get busy and forgot to tell his teachers he needed to go...that would be a HUGE mess for them. So, he has been wearing a pull up on school days. Well...he went to school Tuesday in his SpiderMan underwear and was so very excited. His teachers said that after lunch, he got a worried look and yelled, "I NEED TO GO POOP RIGHT NOW!!" He made it, they just said he was so very funny.

Oh, one more Parker story and I'm done.

In bible class, Parker's teacher, Ms. June had just handed each of the kids a bible and they were talking about the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Then June says to the kids, "Who gave us the Bible?"

You know, the kids are supposed to say, "God did!" or "Jesus did"

Yeah....


Parker yells out, "MS. JUNE!"

Yes, Parker...you are right, Ms. June DID give you the bible in your hand....Silly boy!