Oh My......Where Do I Start????

Well, I guess with a HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the wonderful men in my life!!! Lester, Poppy and Richard -- hope you have a very happy day and we love you all!

Now, on to other business. Ahem, so it's been a little bit since I last posted - but that isn't to say that I haven't been busy. Let's do this with pictures, and as few words as possible, shall we? ;)

I transformed this....

into this:

And two of these....

into these:


Spent some time with friends at the Outer Banks,

Drove to our next duty station and
found an amazing home to live in:


Spent two and sometimes three nights a week
at baseball, and ended the season 10-0, yip yip!
[thanks to AMAZING coaches!]

Attended a preschool commencement,


Felt like doing this after being
released from Primary [at church]:



Celebrated the end of school/beginning
of summer:

And welcomed a family of
Eastern Bluebirds that are
new tenants in our birdhouse:

Boy, am I wiped out! I have just over three weeks to finish everything on my to-do list before our house is packed up and moved to our new station and until Lester is home for his R&R.....and I'm making great progress!

Off to the races

Happy Easter to all Family and Friends! :)

Corben participated in his very first Pinewood Derby [Cub Scouts] yesterday after spending a pair of days getting his car ready. I should have left more time to get it ready, but we did what we could and had fun doing it. After some fantastic tips from Poppy we were ready to roll. Corben's "Spitfire" was the fastest in his Wolf Den, and the second fastest of all the cars. For our first time building a car, it fared better than we could have imagined. Just wait until next year...... :D

"The Spitfire"

The first race of the day.....
The race for 1st - the gold car was the fastest
The scoreboard - each tic mark is a win...woohooo!
Second overall :)

Racer boy and his winning car!

Don't You Love It When...

You start what you think will be a minor task and take less than an hour but then morphs into a labor intensive/time gobbling monster? Yeah, that's how I spent most of my day today and all because I got a new frying pan.

I bought a new 12 inch family skillet [adore it] and the only place it would fit was in the drawer under my oven. After settling it there, there was no room left for the other skillets/frying pans I have. So they sat on my counter for the last week or so gathering dust. I thought "oh, I'll just switch the pans to my lazy susan cupboard, and move the baking things to the pan cupboard -- easy!" Not so, not so - the more I thought about the baking notions, the more I wanted them above the counter for easy access, but that would mean I'd have to empty a third cupboard. So I put it off this whole week, and left the pans on the counter.

Today, I decided to just swap the cupboards. After fighting with the shelves and getting my arm stuck, nothing fit right. Then I opened my spice cupboard and got frustrated with it.....so I ended up emptying FOUR different cupboards onto all my counters. It looked like my kitchen threw up:
It took about 4 hours of sorting, rearranging, editing and cleaning but the end result is AMAZING! I love it and wish I had done this soooo long ago. I'm so glad I changed everything and got it exactly the way I want it, since we'll be moving in a few months! Isn't that how life goes?? ;]


oh -- and a quick shout out to my Brother and Sister-in-law for the birth of nephew #4......may he have a name soon! love ya ;]

Party of the DECADE!!!

Corben was invited to a friend's birthday part which seriously [in my book] is now the party of the decade. Near our home there is an indoor parachuting facility - basically a big wind tunnel and this is where we attended the party. Each child that was invited had two one-minute "flights" in the tunnel. SO AWESOME!!! Corben was beside himself with excitement before the party, and after all he could say was, "when can we do this again??" We WILL go back!! I can hardly wait :D

A Sweet and Fruity Valentine Treat

Well this post is definitely better late than never....Lester sent us this amazing treat for Valentines day. We loved it and munched on it for about a week before it was gone. [it was almost too pretty to eat-anyone who knows me well knows I have problems with eating pretty things b/c I like to keep them forever] The first thing to disappear was the chocolate covered strawberries. Thank you Daddy and we love you! :)