our fun weekend with mimi started with a trip to mckinney trade days.  the kids love looking at the puppies, we love looking at everything else

 

then we decieded to head home and make some strawberry freezer jam and homemade rolls

mimi's calculations were a little off and we ended up making BOWLS of jam(i think 7 bowls to be exact)

and then there were the rolls-we had a little trouble to start off with and then we figured it out!

don't they look like heaven!!

freezer jam queen herself!!  it's she pretty!!

next it was off to play a game of twister with the little man!

which lasted all of about two minutes-i think it took longer to set up the game then he played, 

so then we decieded to play Hi Ho Cherry O

that went a little better, but still he has the attention span of a fruit fly!!!  we practiced a lot of folded arms waiting for our turn!

by now the bread was ready(the jam wasn't set yet but it still tasted GOOOOD)

we may or may not have eaten the whole pan of hot rolls......

then last of all to complete a fun day with mimi it was story time!

and a little snuggle with satchmo

and then it was bottle time and off to bed for the little kiddo's while mimi and i sewed!!  what a day, thanks mimi for all the fun!!

How to buckle your carseat; 

directions are as follows

1st Step

get arms into straps(much more difficult then may appear)

2nd Step

 Buckle top snap-takes lots of concentration to get all the fingers in the right spot.

3rd Step

now get both buckles on the bottom in.

4th Step

SQUEEZE AND PUUSSSH!
(and don't get frustrated if they
don't go in right away)


Final Step

Smile because you are proud of yourself-well it looks like we forgot that step, oh well he buckled himself!!  It is so helpful and it gets him in his carseat really fast.



He is really growing by leaps and bounds and sometimes I look at him and see him as a 16 year old who doesn't want to snuggle his mom any more or doesn't ask for my kisses and it makes me sad and scared and excited all at the same time.   Stay sweet my baby boy!  Today he told me diapers were yucky and he is a big boy! 

My Menu Wall!!!

I am so excited about my new Menu Wall!  I got the window at McKinney Trade Days for $12-i did the happy,happy, joy, joy dance!!!  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it when I bought it, but by the time i got to the car i knew exactly what i wanted to do- A MENU BOARD!!!  I have a dry erase board  but it is so ugly i have never hung it up!

So then i came home and was trying to come up with some more ideas for my big empty wall and low and behold Under The Table and Dreaming just did a post of her kitchen, SOOO I copied it~heehee!

now how do i cover that ugly useless intercom box???  it's messing up the look!!  Shalene is going to cut me some vinyl to put on my  menu board-did i mention i am in love with this?  i love that the panes are so big i could put our whole schedule for each day if i was so inclined!

Today during nap time I made these with the tutorial from Prudent Baby, it was so easy and I recycled older towels that were a little stained.  Hopefully this will help me keep track of our towels while we pool hop this summer!

patiently waiting!

yummy!

hopefully we will get alot of use out of these in the next couple months and cut down on loads of laundry I have to do!

the most amazing fact of the whole process is that my sewing mess is all cleaned up and put away already!

Our fun day at the park in pictures!

This little girl can give a LOOK!!!  or a scream(if you've spent any time with her YOU know what i am talking about) to get what she wants or if she feels like she is being wronged in any way, shape, or form!

splash time in the tub is so much fun with a splash proof camera!

Another day at the zoo.....

 she's got the key's, phone and purse...she's ready to go people!!!

this was the BEST idea all day!!  They were perfect!!  Did I mention they were wonderful today(which if you knew my week last week with my little man, you would have thought he was replaced with another child!!)  They held hands and walked nicely ALL DAY!! 

Then Caroline decided to take charge!

and well that didn't work out to well....she had her own idea of where she wanted to go! no where!

Look at that love!!! 

a little armadillo pett'n'

tortoise ride'n'

Then off to laugh(belly laugh) at the leap'n' lizards!

they were laughing so hard, and the lizard were literally leaping over each other back and forth!

Tick tock tick tock whose afraid of a bog ol' crock??

watch out Ry he might get you!!

tonight was the night!!  i put ryan to bed in his crib, he climb out, and i told him to go back to bed-well he went to bed-in his big boy bed!!!  i was so excited, he did it all on his own, i just had to get a picture!

we will see if nap time goes that smoothly too

Look at this happy girl!!!

a panoramic view of our family room-ooohh,aaaahhhh!

this is my new living room sofa!  well new to me and i love it!! $60 bucks for the sofa and $5 coffee table

my homemade strawberry shortcake that i made for mother's day!

the pretty roses jared got me for our anniversary!

my handsome boy who is WAY to busy!

look at those blue eyes!

I'm so excited!!! I got a new camera!!!!  Jared got me an Olympus Tough!!  Just what I needed a camera i can drop and take in the water with me!! 

I can't wait to go swimming or maybe scuba diving some time.....hint, hint, ; )

Pictures will soon follow, i just had to share the news!!

I never thought that Caroline and Ryan looked alike but this picture proves me wrong-if I hadn't taken this picture myself i wouldn't have know who this picture was of!

i don't know if anyone else feels this way, but for some reason my day just doesn't feel complete without a trip to Target-i'm just saying