School Website

I am so exited to share Trever& Tyler's classroom website with you.  Trever is attending 2nd grade with Mrs. Leimer and Tyler is attending Pre-K4 with Mrs. Leimer at Grace Lutheran School.  Roll over the red words, it will be come white, then click to get directly to the pages.  I love the idea of having the newsletter each week online in case it is misplaced and we need to refer to it to complete school lessons.  I am also so excited for the school wide theme this year "Clothed In Christ." The theme is based on Colossian 3:12-14 which states in part "as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourself with compassion and kindness, humility, gentleness and patience." I think it will be a valuable life lesson for both boys to learn to "wear" compassion, kindness, humility and patience each day in place of aggression and selfishness.  We do our best to be examples for our children in how to handle day to day situations but the daily lessons they will receive at Grace will help solidify their responses and shape their behavior.  I am looking forward to a great school year!

Testing My Adobe Skills

I am trying to make side by side pictures so that you can see before and afters of our investment property, 3001 Buttontree Lane.  I have created this picture so far....

What do you think?  Too smushed?  Too hard to draw before and after comparisons? Drop me a comment and tell me what you think...

3001 Buttontree Lane Listed & Under Contract

We have completed our investment property!  Its is a beautiful home and has come out really well!!! Troy and his crew did a fabulous job!  I will do a seperate post of the after pictures for you soon.  Today I wanted to share with you our good news! We had some interest in the property this week before we offically put property up for sale. It was listed on Friday 8/13/10 and we had a signed contract by noon on Saturday 8/14/10! This is wonderful news!  Now we have to pass home inspection and underwriters!  We are coming around the bend and finalizing our first "flip." 

Trever lost his first tooth!

Trever has had an adult tooth growing behind the baby tooth for weeks now. I was getting concerned that I would have to have the dentist pull the baby one since they weren't budging. Tonight I asked Trever to let me check and see if one was wiggly at all. I tugged at the tooth and then it was out. Just like that, in a split second, my first born lost his first tooth.  He is super excited jumping around the house saying "I finally lost a tooth!" He is looking forward to the tooth fairy tonight!

Trever Started Soccer

Trever's soccer season started yesterday. It's Tuesday's and Thursday;s with games on Saturday's..and dare I say even with late evening practices its still Florida hot out there! Putting the heat aside, its a pleasure to watch him play out on the field.  He appears to be in his element. I think he's going to be a pretty good player!

We had to put tennis aside this summer due to our hectic schedule.  I assumed he would pick it back up in mid August when school began again.  However tennis and soccer practice fall on the same day. :(  So the decision was Trever's to make...tennis or soccer?? Trever made the decision to try something different and play soccer.  This choice is bittersweet because he really enjoyed playing tennis and being with his cousins. I look forward to the rest of the season and seeing it unfold.

Wow, does this make me a soccer mom?  Umm ok this just hit me...And this makes me feel older somehow..I always imagined soccer mom's as old mini van driving people.  OMG what a revelation as to where I really am in my own life!  Yea yea I have a mini van and take my kids to soccer, school, etc but I am still young at heart and most certainly am not OLD!  Who care's I turned 30 last month right?  30 is the new 20 right?? RIGHT?  No its not?? I am 30?? Okay I am a 30 year old mom who drives a mini van and takes her kids to soccer..thanks for the reality check. Its worth every minute of the aging to be a wife and mother, even if it makes me a stereo typical soccer mom..

Wore Out!

Tyler hasn't been napping with the summer schedule. Its not the best scenario for this boy that requires a good amount of structure. But none the less he has to give into sleep and he seems to sneak it in in the car.  I don't know he sleeps like this but on the way to and from Pensacola this past weekend he slept like this for over two hours!

Bubbles!

Ahh the kids put shampoo in Meme &  Papa's hot tub then they turned the jets on high.  Thank goodness Papa didn't seem to mind! There was fun had by all the kids!

Bruiser & Tyler..Email from Phone Test

Tyler and Bruiser enjoying a lazy day around the house

Whoo Hoo!  I have entered 2010 and am blogging from my phone!  I have figured it out!  Thanks Katie for testing on your site and inspiring me to figure out how to do it myself! Now I will be able to post more pictures of the boys and our fun activities.

Better Together

Troy and I have been working hard this summer with our first venture into the property investment world. We have also pushed ourselves to be more disciplined with the boys as they get older. These tasks along with the daily stress' of life can sometimes become well...overwhelming. I find ourselves giving each other pep talks on a daily basis. No we aren't whining to one another just simply expressing our feelings and allowing each other to vent. And Thank God that we can vent to one another. There is no better cheerleader in my life than my husband. He is a good man to me and father to my sons.

Often I reference Christian lyrics, but not today. I was toggling through the ipod and came across this oldie but goodie! Jack Johnson..Better Together. And truly Troy and I are a better team than we are individuals. Its always better when we are together.  My favorite line from the song is "It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving; I'll tell you one thing, it's so much better when we're together"

Here are the full lyrics in case you aren't wanting to watch the video!

Better Together by Jack Johnson

There is no combination of words I could put on the postcard

And no song that I could sing, but I can try because this is your heart and this is
Our dreams and they are made out of real things
Like a shoebox of photographs with sepia-toned loving
Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like
Why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving

I'll tell you one thing, it's so much better when we're together
Mmm, so much better when we're together
Yeh, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well it's so much better when we're together
Yeh, it's so much better when we're together

All of these moments just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone when the morning light sings
Or brings new things for tomorrow night you see
They'll be gone too, to many things I have to do
But follow these dreams might find their way into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression, I was somewhere in between
With only two, just me and you, not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be, we'll sit beneath the mango tree now

Yeh, so much better when we're together
Mmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's so much better when we're together
Yeh, so much better when we're together

I believe in memories because they look so,
So pretty when I sleep
And when I wake up you look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing

We're better together
We so much better when we're together
We so much better when we're together