What a week! We are all so tired because we have gotten to bed late every night except Monday.
Tuesday we ended up having to go to Jasper because I suddenly realized Brycen needed new cleats because his were way too small from last year (he jumped from an 11 to a 13). We ate in Jasper and went to Hibbitt's (where his dad insisted he needed a new glove, bag, and numerous other baseball items instead of just the cleats we went after!). Then we had to go to Home Depot and to Walmart.
Wednesday morning Corbin and I met Beth and Theo at the park to get my tshirt and give her some things for their no tag adoption fundraiser and to play of course :) It was so nice to finally hang out in person! Honestly, I think I prefer to already "know" someone so well before actually meeting- it makes it so much less awkward. :) It was a fun morning. Corbin and I took Ryan lunch and then went home and played outside some more. I completely forgot to take pictures at the park even though I had my camera. Corbin keeps me too busy to get out my camera as much anymore even though I almost always have it with me.

Corbin loves to "bat" :)
I can't believe he is so bigPlaying with Bubba's bat- he loves anything of Bubba's lol!

My other little man!
He had his first practice Wednesday evening.
He moved up to minor league with a pitching machine this year.
He says it is way more fun and he loved it!
He did great too so hopefully it will be a fun season!
Ryan is coaching and he said it was MUCH more fun to coach this age group b/c he didn't feel so much like he was babysitting, but actually playing baseball lol!
Corbin had a blast at practice too just running around and playing in the dirt.
We are just LOVING this weather (minus all the allergies it is giving us!).

Ribbon wreath I made for Mya's birthday.

For her pretty new room

Jayce, Hailey, Mya, and B at Mya's party last Sun.

Corbin was much too busy for picture taking :)

Last night we had B's spring program at school- it was beach themed and so cute!

This just shows you what a ham he is... look at everyone looking at him b/c he was being goofy!

Triptyn, Brycen, Nolan, Haylie, and Payton before their 1st grade spring program

With their sunshines & sunglasses on stage during the program!

Tonight we're going to hang out with the DeCoursey's and tomorrow my cousin Brooke and I are going to meet my mom in Edinburgh to go shopping. I'm off all next week for B's spring break and I'm soooooo looking forward to a full week off with my boys! Hopefully I can catch up on some rest too not having to get up so early!

More Blurriness

I actually do have a few pictures on my real camera, BUT right as I went to snap a really cute picture of B on his 4wheeler yesterday my batteries died... I meant to pick some up at Walmart on Friday, but of course I forgot... so I'm with out batteries for a few days (I have to get them before Thurs, b/c that's Brycen's spring program!).

Last Tuesday evening we made last minute plans to have supper at my parents. It was a quick event, but the boys enjoyed riding on "the buggy" (my dad's souped up golf cart). I let Brycen take me on a ride and thought I might die... the boy loves to live on the wild side (and I'm scared of him getting his license!). Eeekkk!! When we got home I thought Corbin felt warm and sure enough he had a temp of 102. He woke up gagging on his drainage in the night and it was a long night for us! Wednesday morning I called the Dr. b/c even with meds his temp was staying around 101. We got into the NP at 2pm (I love that lady!) and sure enough Corbin had a slight ear infect. and a really bad sore throat. He was so miserable that all day/night Wed. and all day Thurs. he really just layed around (which is SO not him- he usually goes 200MPH!). By Thursday night his atb's had kicked in and he was feeling better!

Anyway, Wednesday Brycen had Joey get off the bus with him at our house and they played and played (and did their homework like good little boys with little complaint!) before church that evening. It was B's last week he can go to youth on Wednesday b/c baseball practices start this week (we've already had a few baseball related things to do) and they are on Wednesdays from 6-8! Bummer! He really loves youth and so I'm sad he'll be missing out. I was glad he got to take a friend this week for his last week. Those boys got sooo muddy in the creek that I had to have them both shower & give Joey clean clothes to wear to church lol! Don't worry I washed up all his things before I took him home so his mom didn't think I'm awful, haha!

Thursday I was home with a sick Corbin.

Friday I came into work & then had to leave at noon to go get Corbin b/c he broke out in a rash/blisters all over. He looked awful. I gave him benadryl when we got home and it cleared up pretty quickly. By the time the dr's office got back from lunch it was pretty well all gone. They didn't think it was his atb's since he hadn't had them since the morning before (I was waiting to give them to him at supper time that evening). Still not sure what caused it so I guess we'll be watching for it again and just hope it was a freak thing... he hadn't had anything different to eat or anything. Friday evening Ryan was a little late getting home, but we went ahead to Princeton and ate and went to Menards & Walmart. We didn't get home until late and we unloaded our stuff and crashed into bed!

Saturday morning I got up and did a little bit of laundry. When Ryan got home we loaded up the boys and went to town to take our trash/recycling & run to Pamida to get a couple things. We decided since it was so pretty and we didn't have much on the agenda to stop by the Evans RV (just to look around). They have a pretty new building and the boys had fun looking in the big huge RV's (with fireplaces and flat screen tv's no less!). We went home and worked/played outside. Ryan got up more lights in the garage. He was sad to not be able to get the dirt work and grass seed planted that he wanted to, but he did still get a lot accomplished outside (pretty sure our property is going to be a longggggggg (maybe never ending?) project!). We were outside all day and evening. Corbin did go inside and take a nap. He layed on his bed and fell asleep while I was making some sandwiches. He must of been worn out! That night we watched the IU game and I made Mya's birthday present (picture on my real camera).

Yesterday morning we got up and went to church & then to John & Sonya's for Mya's FOURTH (can't believe that) birthday party. It was fun and such a pretty day. We came home and changed and went back outside to play until after six. My house is really suffering from all this pretty weather, but I'm trying not to notice (even though it's honestly driving me crazy) so that I can enjoy these pretty days with my sweet boys!

We are looking forward to a few more days of this summer like weather! I know my house is going to get even dirtier and my laundry is going to pile up even more (and I'm not exaggerating when I say this NEVER happens- I have issues with a clean house and dirty laundry). I'm trying to overcome them! lol . It's supposed to rain later in the week so I'll catch up then :)

Here are a few blurry pictures off of my phone- if you've made it this far in my rambling you deserve to see some cuteness :)

Corbin loves to wear B's baseball helmet around-- backwards of course :)

A few weeks ago B had a church thing at his friends church on a Fri night and Corbin got to hang w/ momma and daddy for a few hours by himself. He seemed SO big that night!

This is what I found when I went to wake up the boys this morning.
They had both crawled in our bed when Daddy left for work this morning- they went back to sleep snuggling each other!
Melt.my.heart!
It was hard to wake them up when they looked sooo comfy!

Great Weekend

We had an amazing weekend. In my book it was PERFECT. We did NOTHING special, but the weather was beautiful and it was time spent w/ my three main men- so it was perfect! I didn't take any pictures b/c I was too busy enjoying the time and getting projects done around the house.

Friday evening we went to Princeton and ate supper & went to Wal-Mart. It has started to become our Friday night ritual. It gets our groceries done before the weekend starts & is low key so we have a chance to just eat & shop and be with each other. I hate walmart, but going w/ the entire family has actually made it more enjoyable. We are all full and in good moods and Princeton walmart is hardly ever busy so we take our time and let B look at guns or whatever sporting equipment he is eyeing that week and just laugh and have a good evening- even at walmart!

Right when we walked in the door we had some surprise visitors- Ryan's friend Spaulding and his wife Jo Ann- she is about to pop any day with their sweet baby girl. It was soo good to chat with them for an hour or so! We don't see them very often.

Saturday mornings Ryan usually goes into work from about 5 until 9 or 10am... this Saturday a machine broke and he didn't get home until almost 1pm. The boys and I snuggled and played in the morning & then around lunch time as I was cleaning up I decided to tackle reorganizing/decluttering the kitchen. It has been on my "To Do" list for quite awhile- I did the bathrooms a couple weeks ago and purging just happens to be one of my fave things as does organizing- in this case re organizing. When we moved in our island wasn't finished so I felt like things were sort of hodge podged and while I have a lot of kitchen cabinets I was not using some of them very wisely! I moved some things around and straightened some others and I'm very happy with the results :) I'm a nerd I know. I cleaned out the fridge and the pantry too so I feel like the kitchen has a fresh start :) Last week I had bought a valance to hang up and I got that hung up. It feels much more "homey".

When Ryan got home around 1pm Corbin was napping so B & Ryan went outside to work and clean out Ryan's truck, clean in the garage etc. etc. We all have spring fever! While they were doing that I cleaned out toys that Corbin has outgrown and added them to my collection of things I had purged from the kitchen. I also decluttered in the office area of the laundry room. The cabinets of that desk area seem to be magnets for junk since it's near our "drop area" right when we walk in the door. Plus, I've been keeping a lot of craft supplies in the cabinets and we all know how those can get out of hand! I came up with a tote and two diaper boxes full of things to get rid of... If you would of asked me if I had that much in my upstairs to get rid of I would of said no way! About the time I finished Corbin woke up and we went outside to play the rest of the evening. We went inside and showered/bathed quickly and ran into town to rent movies and wash Ryan's truck and we ate at China Wok (two nights in a row of not having to cook- sounds good in my book!). When we got home we watched Soul Surfer- what a good family movie that talks a lot about faith. Very inspiring!

Yesterday we missed church- silly time change- living on the line of two time zones and having crazy cell phones doesn't always work well... Ryan hung up my curtains I had bought for the living room and for Corbin's room. He also hung a few things on the wall in the living room. I'm finally starting to get brave and decorate just a little! I had resisted the curtains, but it does look more inviting in each of the rooms we have put curtains in. I still need to get some for B's room and my bathroom and a valance for the glass door in the laundry room that will lead out to the deck (whenever that gets done!). We then went outside and played all day!! Ryan swept out the van for me so that was a nice treat. We rode 4wheelers and the neighbor boys came over to play. I got caught up around the house while C napped. We finished off our evening by watching another movie- it was called My Own Love Song and it was crazy. B said, "It didn't even tell the whole story and my teacher says you have to tell the WHOLE STORY or no one knows what you're talking about..." Lol I have to agree with him- it was a weird movie.

So now that I've bored ya'll to death with my boring (but great to me) weekend I'll stop! I basically just want to type out these things so that I can look back on these not so exciting, but love filled memories of my sweet family.

Outside Weather

This post is picture overload- partly b/c they are so cute I couldn't decide which ones to share and partly b/c they are the only pictures I have to share :)

Last Wednesday on my day at home Corbin and I went outside to play for awhile before his nap time. "Awhile" turned into a long while b/c he was having so much fun. It worked well b/c he fell asleep on the couch before I could even get his shoes off once we went inside!

He loves to play ball :)

And pretend to ride the 4wheeler :)

We walked down to the mail box- where did Corby's eyes go?!

There they are :)

I just love this boy!

And off he goes- I'm not that slow- this boy just flat out RUNS everywhere he goes and boy is he quick!

Petting Bob (Bob Cat) umm yah B named him! lol

Bob is an outside cat that is soooo tame.

He lets the boys love on him and Corbin drag him around etc...

Sliding :)

I just can't resist that sweet face!

After Corbin's nap brother got home from school and we went back outside to play.

The sun had come out and it was soooo nice out!

We played some more ball :)

My big boy shooting hoops :)

watching it swish!

I can't believe how big he is...

just so grown up.

Love him so much.

Running to "shoot" the ball!

He definitely thinks he is much older than just turned 2!

We haven't been up to a whole lot this past week. Just the normal work/school/activities etc... This past weekend Ryan got to go to a clay pigeon shoot with some of his good friends so he was excited about that. The boys & I hung out at home and cleaned (fun stuff, I tell ya!). We relaxed and played the rest of the weekend though!

I'm excited to be off the next two days (our babysitter has to go to the dentist Thurs. so I'm taking an extra day off). I'm so excited about this spring because I have a lot of time off coming up! I think it's supposed to be really nice tomorrow so I'm sure we'll have more fun playing outside! (Now if only our yard wasn't soooo muddy- that's the downside!).

Baseball season starts tonight for Brycen- yay! He is excited about that!

Blurry Phone Pics

I need to get my "real" camera out again b/c I don't think I have since Corbin's party maybe! Gee Whiz! We haven't been doing anything too exciting though & nights are so busy. Anyway I was looking through my phone and came across some pictures I thought I'd share just because. They are all blurry, but oh well- life's kind of like that isn't it... not perfect, a little blurry, but still fun to share :)

I made some laundry detergent last week- this is before it had set up. I've been using it for a week now and I think it cleans great. Next time I think I'll only use 1/2- 3/4 bar of soap b/c mine got a little thick. Still works okay I just have to urge it to come out of the jug lol!

Corbin has started to want things on like a hat or the goggles- he's so cute it just cracks me up!

I caught him mid "cheese"- he is so fast with saying it it's hard to catch the actual smile!

We did hair cuts last week and Brycen wanted his "really short"... yikes! Momma's not a huge fan of how short it is (and I really like their hair SHORT).... this was a little extreme though.... better than the shaved head that he requested though :) lol Thankfully his hair grows super fast and it is already much better looking!

Corbin has been repeatedly falling asleep on his big brother lately(who sweetly rubs his head while watching a movie) -- easy way to get him to nap :)

Showing his two bottom missing teeth (this was before C's party)

Happy Boy! :)

Just being real with ya'll- I went back to my diet cokes. Saturday afternoon it had been three days and I was STILL miserable so I gave in. As I read more and more on aspertane I truely believe it is an "addiction" of sorts and people I've read about have taken around 1 month to feel better. I do want to stop drinking the diet and wean myself, but it's going to have to be "weaning" not cold turkey b/c I can't feel that awful for a whole month!

Still no facebook though and I have to say I'm rather enjoying the little extra bit of peace it has brought to my life.

Addiction

Cutting out this diet coke addiction is NOT fun stuff. My head is pounding and I'm so tired from having no caffeine I could just lay my head down on my desk and go to sleep. Normally, I'm not a "tired" person. Once I get up and go and I'm good! I'm draggggginnngggggg. I had a fight with myself in my head this morning on my way to work. I wanted one so badly that I was like Ohhh who cares just go get one... it doesn't matter, but I know I can fight through these feelings and will end up feeling even better, but right now it's terrible.

While I laugh and say I'm having with drawls from my "drug" of choice, it really does make me stop and think that if it is THIS HARD (and I'm not exaggerating when I say it is all I've thought of all day!) for me to quit diet coke- I can't imagine how hard it is for people who are addicted to drugs/alcohol. Wow. I can't say I've ever given it too much thought before on what a hold it must actually have over their lives. I've tried today to just pray for those people and what they go through each day today as I get just a little glimpse into how hard it must be. If nothing else it has made me more empathetic towards them. In my job I see a lot of drug and alcohol dependent people and I can't say I've been very empathetic in the past.

I'm off to enjoy the weekend with my family and hopefully will be able to get past this hump of having a headache and slump of feeling so tired. Happy weekend friends :)

FB & DC

Okay, so I'm not Catholic (or a religion that practices lent)... BUT I'm a Christian who has some bad habits that could use this as a time to get more into The Word... be more "present" and be more productive... So when I logged on to facebook yesterday & saw that a friend was giving up FB for lent I thought to myself that I should too.

I will say that I've contemplated it quite a bit in the past. While I find that FB has many useful attributes like staying in contact with people I don't see too often etc... It also has negative ones like wasting my precious time (that I complain I don't have enough of) etc... I do mainly get on FB at work during down time (in between court hearings etc), BUT I'm sure I'll get more done like clean out my filing cabinets and those boring little jobs that I just put off b/c they aren't things that really HAVE to be done. I can also log onto biblegateway.com and get more into the word at work instead of getting on FB. While I will miss certain people and seeing their posts there are many things I won't miss.

I will see how it goes and if I go back to it or not.

I have found that on this first full day of work w/ out facebook I'm a little lost! I keep clicking on the page out of habit to log in and then think, "Oh yah I'm not on FB anymore!". Wow, you know it's a habit when you click the button and don't even think about it.

I also am giving up Diet Coke. Mainly b/c I drink entirely TOO much and I know it's not good for me. When I say too much I mean I don't drink anything BESIDES diet coke. eeekkkkk! I'm looking forward to cutting the addiction (which I have done before, but have always gone back to it), but not so much the headache I'm already getting. I know it won't last too long though so I'll pray my way through it :) I'll be healthier in the long run and who knows maybe it'll motivate me to work out or even eat healthier (lol, yah right, I probably shouldn't try to work on too many bad habits at once!). I've had a bottle of lemonade today & a cup of Hi-C... while I know those aren't the healthiest things either I'm for sure going to have to work my way into drinking water, bleck!

Okay, so a very random post, but the more people to hold me accountable the more likely I'm to stick with it! When I told Ryan I was giving up FB & DC he laughed at me and said "yah right."... so supportive, lol!