Beach 2010

Here are the photos my friend Misti took while we were at the beach. The storm was rolling in and we didn't get as many shots as we wanted but I'm sure glad to have these few memories of my sweet family. (please excuse my terrible wind destroyed hair, the wind was crazy and sand was blowing in our faces like crazy!) Hopefully we can see our beaches look that pretty and clean again!

Colsons Birthday Present

Yesterday I mentioned we were going to get the rest of Colson's present. Well we went to Romancing the Stone in North Little Rock to purchase some hermit crabs. We ended up coming home with 3 little guys, 4 extra shells for them to change into: a spongebob, superman, batman, & spiderman, 2 hermit huts: a baseball and a spiderman, food, coral, a 50lb bag of sand, and all the other goodies that come along with owning crabs. We got them all settled in last night in my parents old aquarium. Colson has had so much fun learning about them and playing with them, (well, until they pinch him.) He also loves the fact they get to live in his room. Here are our new family members, Phineus, Ferb, and Candice (as in the show on Nickelodeon!) They are in the orange, red and yellow shells for now.


















Hope everyone has a good weekend!

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The Party

We had reserved the pool to have Colsons birthday party at. But here lately, we have been having a lot of summer rain showers, (which is very rare, usually at this point in July, everything has already burned up, due to the lack of rain, so I'm not complaning!) and it just so happend to start pouring down rain Sunday afternoon until about 6:30, and the party was at 7. Not just rain, but thunder and lightening too. So I had to make a decision on what we would do. We weren't going to cancel his party, (he would never understand), so I made a call to my friend Jaime who just so happens to own Touchdown Sally's here in Benton, told her the situation, and she told us she would be ready for us to crash her restaraunt at 7:30. She totally saved our party. I called all the parents and all our family and told them the change of plans. We ended up having a great time and the party went perfect! **For the record, we went to the pool to tell the lifeguards what was going on and they told us they understood. We got the restaraunt and not there was nothing but blue skies and no rain the entire party. Go figure!** Here are a few pictures!

Colson turns 5!!

Yes, you read that right! My little Colson is 5 years old! I have no idea how that happened! Its like I blinked and here he is, turning 5, and starting Kindergarten.

Colson turned 5 on July 6th, so we told him he could pick where he wanted to eat. He chose the "Shu-Shu" place, aka Sakura. He loves eating there and he always eats such a good dinner. We met my parents, and my nephew Braden there, and we stopped and picked up his buddy Eli, and had our own little party there.

Jeremiah, Huddy and Me

Colson and Braden waiting for the cooking to begin!

The Birthday Boy

Getting to cook the eggs! He was so excited!

Colson, Braden, and Eli, using the chop sticks as drum sticks

Colson,

Happy Birthday big boy! I love you so much and I'm so proud to be your mommy!

We are going to get the last part of his birthday present tonight. I'll blog about it tomorrow! It will be funny!

My Little Fishie

The second week of June, Colson started swim lessons at Mills Park in Bryant. He loves the water, and has no fear. He loves going all the way under in the pool without holding his nose, but I needed him to learn how to become a swimmer.

Well, we still aren't  "swimmer", but he did learn how to tread water, float on his back, kick his feet, and do arm circles. I am very impressed with what he learned and very pleased with Mills Park.

Colson ended up making some new friends, Jaggar and Nate. I already knew Jaggar and his mom, and we met Nate and his mom,Amy, and have ended up having a few play dates with the boys! They all have so much fun together! Here are some pics from the week!

Colson and Ms. Chelsea

Little Fish

"Soldier"

(Nate on the far left, Jaggar in the middle, and Colson on the end)

"Chicken"

"Airplane"

(this was teaching them how to swim on their back)

Jeremiah turns 33!

I have become so behing on blogging! I have been reading everyone blogs, and commenting, but somehow, I have been overloaded with birthday parties.

I'll start back in June. Jeremiah turned 33 on the 11th, and I decided the week of his birthday, that I was going to throw him a surprise party that weekend. Crazy, I know. I got everything ready, sent him off to the lake Friday and Saturday, and expected him to be home by 5, Saturday night. Well, to brag, I successfully managed to surprise him. He had no idea. We had about 25 people over at the house and had a good evening hanging out, eating, and visiting.

Jeremiah and his brothers.

Show Us Your Life- China Patterns

Kelly, over at Kelly's Korner, is hosting Show Us Your Life- China Patterns. I usually don't join in on these, but I love reading everyones posts, so I thought I would jump on the train this week. And also because I love my China.

This is my fine china. It Mikasa Platinum Crown.

I did not want to register for fine china when we got married, but my mom insisted I should. I never really use my "good stuff", but I know I will be so glad I have it in a few years.

My everyday dishes are my favorite! They are so pretty. They are very Thanksgiving-y, but we use them all the time. I love my extra pieces that are especially for the fall. I also don't have white accent plates, we just have the brown, but I couldn't find a picture of what we actually have. They are Mikasa Countryside Harvest.

Class of 2010

Friday, my big boy graduated preschool. I cannot believe he will be starting Kindergarten in a few short months. He has seriously grown up so fast.

We had the graduation at one of his classmates house. They had a huge backyard and lots of stuff for all the kids to play on. After graduation, they had a picnic and played some more. My sister took pictures of the boys and I filmed it, however, I have no clue how to post the video on here. The graduation was so cute and Mrs. Joyce has done a great job with the kids. We are so thankful we had such a great teacher the past 2 years (even though she informed me she won't get to be Hudson's teacher when he starts preschool).

Colsons Tea Party

Colsons class had thier annual Tea Party on Wednesday. On the paper I got out of his bag it mentioned they could dress up. So I racked my brain on what he could wear and all I could come up with last minute was a tie shirt. I ended up making the boys shirts right before we left the house. (Let me explain,... we were out of town the week before and we didn't get the note till last minute. And I had never been to a tea party to know the dress code and Jeremiah went last year in my place. Don't judge!)

The tea party was so cute and all the kids had a good time. All the kids used great manners and even put the napkin in thier laps. Here are some pictures I got!

Help Moms

I am starting to feel like we should start introducing table food to Hudson. He is 10 months old now and has 4 teeth, 2 uppers and 2 bottoms. I've read some mom blogs that say they did table food at 8-9 months but I just now feel ready.

He does good eating fruit puffs and fruit in his little mashers, but he hates stage 3 food from a jar. Does anyone have any suggestions on when to introduce certain foods first and what to avoid. Please don't suggest french fries.


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