My Life as a Zookeeper

Monday, July 20, 2009

Aunt Ginger & Uncle Sam's Wedding

On Friday we left for Myrlte Beach again. This time we were going because Jamie's sister was getting married to Sam on Monday. We decided to leave early and spend a little time with the kids alone. We hardly ever go on vacation alone with the kids so it was so nice to just be with them.

On Monday morning we went over to the house Sam's parents were renting in Surfside and headed out to the beach for the wedding at 9am. We thought it might rain but it held out. It was a beautiful wedding and the pictures turned out great. As soon as they cut the cake we drove back to Spartanburg because Jamie had to be at work at 4:30. Congratulations G & Sam!!

A few family beach pictures!! I have never taken pictures of us on the beach before with us not in our bathing suits. They turned out great and one of them may become our Christmas card this year!!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Myrtle Beach 2009

Every year we go to Myrtle Beach the week of July 4th with my dad and step mom. They have a camper and we all stay there and spend the week relaxing. My kids absolutely love the beach. They would spend hours playing in the waves. This year Nana bought them all a boogie board to take with them and they loved it. They spent numerous hours boogie boarding in huge waves.

Jamie also enjoyed playing with them. Me I don't really care for the ocean. I am scared of ocean animals (jellyfish) and don't like the feel of sand all over me. I spent the week laying out in the sun reading. I read 2 books while we were gone. I don't know why but it never seems to be super hot while you are laying out at the beach. The wind off of the ocean is great.

On Sunday we met Jamie's dad and his wife Dianne at Margarataville to celebrate his 60th birthday. We shopped for a litte while at Broadway at the beach and took a few pictures.

The campground we stayed at had a huge water slide that the kids and Jamie went down a few times and they also had a game called Water Wars where you got to shoot water balloons at each other.

On Thursday the campground had a Ice Cream Eating contest and an Oreo Stacking Contest. We decided to enter because what is better than free ice cream and oreos. It was so much fun. Karson came really close to winning her age group she even was eating it with her hands. Jamie won the adult age group. He ate his whole bowl in 2 bites. It was amazing! Next up was oreo stacking. I think I found a new hidden talent. We played this contest in rounds and I kept winning to advance to the next round. In the final round I came in 2nd place with 10 oreos in 5 seconds. The winner had 11. In the first few rounds we had 10 seconds and the most I had were 18. It was so fun!!

Jamie had talked all week about buying a big shovel so he could dig a hole on the beach. So we went to Wings and bought him one and on the last day we were at the beach he dug a huge hole. The tide was really high so it kept trying to come up and fill up his hole with water. He got it so deep that the kids could stand in it and you could barely see their heads. I convinced the boys to let us bury them and it was so cute. They started to panic a little when it was time to get them out because we had to dig them out. People around were looking at us like we were evil parents or something!!

The morning of July 4th my dad found a flyer at the campground that said Freestyle Music Park was having a special that for $17.76/ 4 people could go to the park. This is an awesome deal because it normally cost $35 a person and we all went and parked for $25. The kids had fun riding a few rides.

At 6pm on July 4th the campground had a huge block party out on the beach with singing, watermelon, and fireworks. The kids played in the sand the whole time and they were DIRTY!!! We had so much fun camping with my Dad and hopefully next year we will have our own camper to go in.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Zachary's 5th Birthday

Okay I am officially a procrastinator. My poor 3rd child Zachary turned 5 years old way back on March 8th. On his actual birthday we did go out to eat at Mellow Mushroom with some friends and had a cookie cake but we didn't do presents.

The Birthday Boy and Brynn

We were very busy having our consignment sale and going to Disney around his actual birthday so I didn't plan a party and said I would do it when we got back from Disney but life happened and I didn't get it done. In May when the girls and I went to the Women Of Joy Conference we decided that I should give him a pool party at Tracy's and we even set a date for a Saturday in June. All the kids were so confused about why Zachary was having another birthday already. He himself was confused and thought we were just having a swim party at Ms.Tracy's not a birthday party. I did not get around to inviting anyone from his class but we still had 13 kids and it was so fun. The kids and adults played in the pool all afternoon and Brad even grilled us some fantastic chicken wings for dinner!! Next year I promise to do better:)

Baby Addie loves the pool!!

Zoe doing a flip off the diving board.

Andrew doing a flip!

Brynn splashing

Jake shooting someone with the water gun

Braeden trying to squirt Brynn with water

Zachary playing with the float

Cheetos!!

The girls eating

Andrew and Noah

Yummy cupcakes

Jake eating cheetos

Braeden and Zoe

Getting ready for the candles

His favortie present a Wolverine Costume!!! He put it on as soon as we got home that night, in fact he kept asking when we were going to leave Ms. Tracy's so we could go home and put it on! The boy loves his costumes. Thanks You Brynn:)

Thank You Ms. Tracy and Mr. Brad for letting us use your pool for our late birthday party!! You are the best!!!

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Awards Day

On Monday Andrew's class had an Awards Day Presentation in their classroom. Jamie and I were both able to go. He is always so excited to have us come to his school. He recieved an award for having All A's & B's all year long. He also recieved an award for having Perfect Attendance this school year. I can't believe we didn't miss a day of school all year long. There were many days that he said that he didn't feel well but I sent him to school and he was always fine as soon as school was over. His teacher this year was so nice and had some great things to say about him. She said that he was a great reader and worked hard when giving a task to keep him busy. He has came along way this year with his reading and we are so proud of him. Keep up the good work!!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Andrew's Tooth

Last week Andrew came home from school and said that his top tooth had been hurting and bleeding all day at school. When I looked at it I could tell that one side of it was just hanging and the other side was attached still. I wiggled and he screamed for about 20 minutes and it wouldn't budge. It was still just hanging there. I called the dentist and they said that they could see me the next day at noon. When we got there they ended up pulling both of his top front teeth. It was a major ordeal but I am glad I didn't have to do it. He is my first child to have both of his front teeth missing at the same time and I love it. It is just so cute!!
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Dance Recital

The last Saturday of soccer Karson had to miss her game because it was the day of her dance recital. She has been taking dance from Teele's this year and she loved it. She took a Jazz and Pom Pom class. They learned two dances to preform on the night of her recital. We were only allowed to take pictures during the dress rehearsal the night before but that was okay. At least I got some pictures. Brynn was dancing also so we got to watch her too. Ms. Rhonda and Ella Kate also came to watch her dance along with Nana. She did a great job!! I think this style of dance is for her. She loves to shake her hips!!! After the recital was over we gave her some flowers and took her out to eat at Olive Garden.

K4 Graduation

My baby graduated from K4 this year. I am so sad!! I can't believe that I no longer have a preschooler. I didn't get as emotional during the graduation ceremony as I thought I would but it was sad never the less. I think in August when he starts kindergarten is when it will finally sink in that he is no longer going to school with me everyday.

The night of his program he was so excited because everyone was coming to watch him. He was especially excited because Brynn was coming.

He said that he had to sing very good for her. He sang every song and smiled from ear to ear. My favorite song they sang was I wish I had a little red box to put my mommy in, I'd take her out and KISS KISS KISS and put her back again. That little song just makes me smile everytime I hear it. Ms. Laura does such a great job teaching the kids music that they like!!