another tooth lost....

Reece lost his 4th tooth today at school! He was so excited to lose it at school because he got a little treasure chest box to put the tooth in. It was SO ready to come out over the weekend but he wouldn't let me pull it.. So apparently before recess he had blood dripping from his mouth and the tooth came out. yuck! He was pretty happy. LOVE his toothless smile ;)

Back To School 2010

Reece--2nd grade



AJ--5th grade

My toothless sweetie!! :)

AJ--very excited for 5th grade

Reece was very goofy this morning. The past 2 years (kindergarten and 1st grade) he would puddle up when I dropped him off in his classroom... This year he just went right in and sat down, looked a little nervous but he did not cry! We did have a long talk yesterday that it was time to be big and not cry about school! So glad he was having a good morning! Just hope he had a great day!

more goofiness

Chocolate Brown Bedspread For Sale

King Size bedspread w/the 4 decorative pillows and 2 pillow shams. $50 for all

The decorative pillows are 2 brown w/cream squares and then the other 2 are brown/cream/lt blue stripe silk fabric. The pillow shams are the same fabric/color as the bedspread

The bedspread is a polyester material (kinda feels silky)

I got this at Target a couple years ago...I do love the look but was ready for a change! I was at Target last week and found a new bedspread that I love!! (love target!!)

I was going to put it away and save it to put in my next yard sale but I don't want to have to store for a whole year because I won't have another sale until next summer!

by the way, this is a Queen bed but we have a pillow top mattress so i always buy King comforters/bedspreads so it fits the whole mattress on both sides!!

East Coast~~Summer 2010

The end of June, first part of July we went to Maryland to visit my Uncle Jack and Aunt Kathy. They live in Maryland and have a shore house in Chincoteague, VA. We stayed at their house a few days and then went to the shore house for a few days. The boys had a blast at the beach, tubing behind the boat, & riding on the jet skis.

We buried AJ in the sand.

Reece and Jake building a sand castle.

AJ on the boogie board. love the look on his face :)

The shore house was beautiful with great places for photo ops...

I gave the boys a ride on the jet ski. AJ wanted to drive it but you have to be 16. They were a little scary but fun!!

Taking off on the jet ski...

My cousin Kristan was getting us all set up for the jet ski ride. I think the boys were impressed that momma drove them pretty fast. You felt like you were going to tip on the waves but the faster you go over the waves the smoother it was. I had a lot of fun driving them!!

The boys were patiently waiting in the boat to go out tubing. Unfortunately I have no pictures of them on the tube. I didn't take my camera out on the boat. AJ and Brooklynn were on the tube once by themselves and they flipped in to the water. Jake and Bradley and Mark took a ride together and Jake flipped off. Luckily when I was on it and when Reece was on it the tube didn't flip and we didn't go in the water!!! I don't mind getting in the ocean for a little bit but not too long!!

AJ on the kayak...

The boys out front of the shore house...the weather was beautiful the weekend we were there!!

Reece was chillin in the Margarita chair.

We had a great time on our vacation. To end the vacation we went home the northern route and went to Hershey Park. The kids loved it but it was 102 degrees the day we went. yuck! Reece did a roller coaster that went upside down, he normally doesn't like roller coasters but we made him try it and he LOVED it. I will post pics of Hershey Park later....

LegoLand!!!

On our recent trip to Chicago we made it to LegoLand.

Of course we went to Chicago mainly to go to the Cubs game but when we found out there was a LegoLand nearby we had to take a trip there! It was quite a trip though! We didn't realize it was 36 miles away from our hotel in downtown Chicago. It is in Schaumberg, IL. We took the L-train for a very long distance and then had to get on a bus to take us to LegoLand. It was quite an experience, one that the boys thought was pretty cool!!

This is them outside the entrance to LegoLand.


These were LEGO replicas of all the HUGE Chicago buildings

AJ and LEGO Hagrid from Harry Potter.

Jake and LEGO Hagrid.

Reece with a LEGO Hippo

More of the LEGO buildings. (for some reason the pics are not in order)

The boys on the small ride inside of LegoLand. It was pretty cool.

AJ with a little LEGO dude

Reece (monkey) with a LEGO monkey in the background.

AJ and Reece with a LEGO Tiger

Me and the boys with the LEGO buildings. Sears Tower is the tallest one. We actually went to Sears Tower on Sunday of our trips. (pics of that later)

Reece with a LEGO Giraffe

Me and the boys with LEGO Indiana Jones

Jake and AJ with LEGO Indiana Jones

Jake and the boys with LEGO Batman

Reece with LEGO R2D2

AJ and Reece with LEGO Darth Vader....notice Reece's shirt :)

This is the ride that we went on. It was basically a sit down ride that took you through a bunch of LEGO creations.

Reece inside of a LEGO Lion's mouth

Reece creating something

This is the boys AFTER shopping, both of them had HUGE LEGO bags! Of course they took their own spending money that they had been saving for a few months. They did get to take a "class" and learn to build a creation and then was able to buy their creation. Of course they got a LEGO of the Sears Tower, among many others!

Waiting on the bus to take us back to the train to take us back to the hotel..... luckily we only had to wait about 20 mins for the bus. When we headed to LegoLand we waited 45 minutes for the bus. I am not a very patient person so having to rely on other transportion besides myself was a little difficult for me. We had a great time but am so glad to be able to hop in my own car and drive anywhere! However, we were NOT going to drive in the Chicago traffic and pay to park everywhere we went!!

Cubs Game

In the hotel room Thursday night. Not sure what Reece is doing....AJ is reading.
The Cubs game was at 1:20 Friday. This is the view from our hotel room. We have a great view of downtown Chicago.

AJ and Reece waiting on the L-train to take us to the game....

The boys got passes to go down on the field before the game started and watch batting practice. It was very cool....Jake and I had to wait in the 1-2 rows. I think Jake was jealous...he wanted to go on the field too!!

AJ got a new jersey at the game.. Reece got a new hat.

Both the boys caught a ball during batting practice. They had their Sharpie ready to get autographs but no one came over to sign..... oh well, it was still a very neat experience!

We had great seats, great weather, and a great time!!

Jake and I while the boys were on the field.