First football game and a busy Saturday!

Well, we had our first football game last night! It went great and the boys were good. We ended up sitting with our Sunday School teachers and JC sat in his lap the entire first half of the game! Drew hung out with Jim until they had to take the band down to warm up. The band performed an awesome show! It was the first performance and if course was not perfect, but it was great and they are going to have a great season! After the performance we hung out with Jim for a while. JC got to play on the drums in his office for a while . . .


He is our little drummer in the making!

Today we got a sleep in a while but had to get going on a busy day!
We had a birthday swim party this morning that just the boys and I went to while Jim worked on yard work. After our swim party we came home for nap time and to prep for a Sunday school party tonight. So it has been a busy day!

Now here we sit watching Billy the Exterminator and winding down for bed. I am just loving that I can sit here and make a quick blog post on my iPad!




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Getting Back in Routine

Well, school is in full swing now. We have our first home football game tonight. Overall things are going good with school. Regular routine has not really been happening though because I have been out of town a good bit in the last two weeks! It is hard to get settled into a routine when the mama is gone so much!



Drew is doing great in school! He loves his teacher and seems to have made the transition to OB schools and the 2nd grade with no problems! He passed the spotlight test, so that has been a new and exciting thing for him. He is making new friends and has at least 3 friends that I know of that go to church with him also. He is also going to Trekkers, the after school program at our church, three days each week. He is really enjoying that and it gives him a chance to get most if his homework done before we get home in the afternoons.




JC is as rough and crazy as ever. In recent weeks he has rolled down the driveway and scratched up his head really good. He is always busy doing something. Here is a pic of the lovely spot on his head . . .



It has healed most of the way now but he has been really bad about picking at it. He is starting to talk more and more clearly every day and gets rather frustrated now when we do not understand what he trying to tell us. He has recently discovered that he loves chocolate milk! His daddy introduced him to that! So now he only wants to drink chocolate milk. He keeps us busy! It is amazing how different two children can be. I never imagined how completely opposite he and Drew's personalities would be. They are both a joy to us and we love them so much!

Jim celebrated his 35th birthday yesterday! We took him out to dinner on Tuesday night and last night we had homemade pizza and some awesome cupcakes for dessert! I got the cupcakes from a friend from high school that I am connected with through Facebook. We had chocolate, red velvet, banana pudding, and carrot cupcakes and they were AWESOME!!!



Here Jim is reading his card from the boys.






Here we a trying to sing Happy Birthday to Jim. As you can see, JC is crying. Apparently he thinks he is not going to get his cupcake or that the candle may burn it up or he is just too impatient to wait all of one minute to get it!




I think it was worth the wait though!




Drew liked them too!




Goofy brothers! JC had to be taken to the tub immediately following the cupcake eating!




Happy Birthday Daddy!

And the party would not have been complete without Leo!



We did have a great night. After dinner and homework and baths were complete Jim and Drew played the Wii for a bit. It was a fun birthday.

Well, as you will see from the signature below I am now blogging from my new iPad! I am LOVING it! All of the special effects on the pics I did on here and it is so easy. I am learning more and more about it every day. I am definitely looking forward to being able to post more often to the blog now!
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First Day of School!

Well, it is here! First day of school! First day of second grade! First day in a brand new school! First day at Olive Branch schools period! Last day that mama takes him tp school!

There are a lot of new things happening for Drew this year. He has made the switch from Hernando Schools to Olive Branch Schools. That is probably the biggest change. We are all excited about it but it causes quite a bit of anxiety too. New schools mean making all new friends. For that reason I am glad we did it now, while he is still so young and can make new friends that he will be able to have all through school. He is also in a brand new school. Our schools only house w grades at a time until they get to Middle and High School. So, he is at Chickasaw Elemantary which has 2nd and 3rd grades at it. He now has to navigate color coded hallways and be more independent. He is ready for it all, I am confident of that, but it still worried this ole mom!

He has a wonderful teacher, Mrs. Samsel, and his assitant teacher is Mrs. Garrison. They share assitants in the 2nd grade so she will not be with them all the time. I am sure it is going to be a fantastic year!

Here he is this morning on his first day!

Such a good big brother! Helping JC get his shoes on!

And now the aggravating big brother, giving JC bunny ears!

Already anxious to pick him up and see how the day went!!