wanna go for a ride?

Well the box man(ups) made Cael's day on Saturday, he delivered the new shifter for his Rhino. He could not wait until he could ride it again. We started to have problems on Easter with it only running in reverse. We think that it could of been the fact that he would shift in the middle of driving it! Well anyway after Casey took it apart about a million times he finally gave in and called to have a new one sent. Cael was so excited to have it fixed, he even had Kaitlyn all worked up to go for a ride. They had such a good time driving the neighborhood showing it to all the kids. Cael is getting really good to look forward while he drives. At first he tried to take out all the cars on our street, but now he can drive pretty strait. They drove for a while and then Kaitlyn said she needed jumping lessons. So they would drive - jump- drive-jump. They are such good friends and it is nice to have cousins so close.

Tagged

I was tagged by Marcy. The rules are as follows: List 3 Joys, 3 Fears, 3 Goals, 3 Current Obsessions, and 3 Random Surprising Facts About Yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.

Joys
1. Spending time with Casey and Kids
2. Our family Saturday morning Dr. Pepper run
3. watching PBR (especially Guilherme Marchi)

Fears
1. Change
2. Guilhermie Marchi getting hurt before the end of the season (ha ha)
3. my family getting hurt/sick

Goals
1. To have a girls night out with Jen (my best bud) at least once a month
2. To finish my heritage book before the end of the summer
3. To play with my kids more.

Current Obsessions
1. Blogging/photoshop
2. PBR
3. Shopping

Random Surprising Facts
1. Casey does 99% of our cooking.
2. I have a fear of deep water and Big Fish.
3. I hate American Idol, (please don't send me any hate emails about this because I will never watch the show! ha ha ha)

Tag
1. Machelle
2. Marissa
3. Natasha
4. Natalie P
5. Mandi

Big Brother

I've decided that you have to be tough to have an older brother who loves you soooo much! Kensie gets this look on her face every time Cael comes close to her. It's like she's preparing herself for whats to come. He just can't get enough of her and is always in her face kissing, hugging, and playing with her ears and toes. I've even caught him running his toy grinder on her face, he said "but she likes it". Kensie just gave a grin and I'm sure was relieved that I had saved her before her nose was gone. He just can't wait until she can really play with him and I'm sure when that day comes she will have learned how to defend herself.

Mini-me

I just couldn't resist posting this cute picture of Cael mowing with Casey. The older Cael gets the more he loves to help. He helps me in the house too, except for he draws the line at the bathrooms (dang-it), but he loves to vacuum and that can come in handy! I read a quote once that said "help this good doesn't come cheap" and that is so true! Cael never forgets the stuff he helps out with around the house and will remind us during every trip to Walmart or Greenline. We decided we are going to start a chore chart so that we can stretch out the rewards {wink} and make him realize that he needs to earn his toys not just expect them. We're going to try it, but I'm not guaranteeing anything. (maybe I can teach him how to do laundry????) Kensie also had her first bath in the big tub. She finally can sit up strong enough and loved every minute. She just kicked and squealed the whole time. She is getting to be such a big girl!

6 Months Old

I forgot to post that last week my baby had her half birthday. She is now 6 months old and I don't know where time goes.

She is such a happy baby and has been a breeze.

Here are her stats:

weight 16 lbs 9 oz

Sits up

rolls from stomach to back

holds her own bottle

giggles

smiles at anyone who will talk to her

pulls hair

eating baby food

sleeps through the night

plays with her toys (mostly Caels)

loves to feel grass/trees

talks with a serious face

gives hugs/kisses

loves to look at herself in the mirror

Memorial Weekend 2008

memory >noun (pl. memories) 1 the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. 2 a person or thing remembered. 3 the length of time over which people's memory extends

Here are just a few of our family members we remembered this year. Some we knew, some we didn't, but I always enjoy going to the cemetery and thinking about them. These pictures I'm using in my heritage book that I'm hoping to complete in the near future. The first two are Casey's grandpa Worwood & Smith then my grandma Jarrett and then my uncle Mark Jarrett who died 34 years ago yesterday. Doing family history has made me more aware that I need to learn from the past to better the future. I am so grateful for the people before me and all we can learn from their lives.

For the past couple years we've not went anywhere for the long weekend. Mostly because the weather will never cooperate. We've found that it's a good weekend to get the house ready for the summer. Every year we try to have a project we want to get done. There is always a long list and we never get it all done, but we usually spend the whole weekend busy and this year was no exception. Our main project was to get the bark in our flower beds. We underestimated this as usual, but we took our time and made sure that it was the way we wanted it. We ran up north Saturday morning to get our first load, by our calculations we thought we would need around 6 truck loads. It's a good thing we went and picked it up instead of had it delivered because our first load did more than half of what we needed. On our way home from getting it we had some problems with Gary's truck and ended up having to be towed back to Gary & Linda's house. That made Cael's day by getting to ride in Bert's big tow truck. We thought once we got home we could start unloading the bark, until we realized that the bark was in back of the broken truck. So Casey started to unload it onto a trailer and then hauled it up to our house. This added a lot of extra time and left us with no time to run back up for another load. From the way it looks we should only need one more load about 1/3 of what we had planned on! {hopefully our kids don't get our math skills}.

With the weekend having on and off storms Cael was having major energy issues and luckily my mom invited him down for a sleep over on Sunday. He was sick of being in the house, but with Gavyn at grandma's this helped him burn some of his energy he had bottled up. We went and got him this morning and had breakfast with my family before they headed up to the cemetery for the veteran ceremony my dad was in. It was such a good weekend and I wish it wasn't over but back to work tomorrow and we can look forward to next weekend.

what time is it?

This is what we look like after a night of the stomach flu! after 3 weeks of my kids being sick with colds, we finally got hit with the flu bug. Yuck! Last night after Cael got home from the farm he started to throw-up, then about an hour later it got me and around 10 pm it hit Casey. The baby had not been eating very well over the weekend and had been up all night the night before, so hopefully she is over it. She slept all night while the rest of the family was up! I'm so thankful she slept because we were all to sick to take care of her! It's times like this that makes me grateful for my health. Day in and day out it rarely will cross my mind about how lucky I am that i feel great and are able to take care of my family. What a blessing!

It has been so nice and hot outside that we have not spent much time in the house. That is probably why we didn't notice that our A/C was not working. Casey said he would have paid a $1,000 dollars last night to get it working! Being sick and hot are not a good combination. I'm not going to complain about the weather because my kids our loving it especially Cael who has had a major bout of Cabin Fever!