Sleeping beauties...

At this point in my life, I do not believe in sleepovers with friends. Call it my super paranoia or just my strong desire to protect my kids. Too many things can happen and so until I truly feel comfortable letting my kids sleep over at someone elses house or them having friends over here, we have late nights. The kids can have friends over, play, watch a movie, eat treats but then at 11:00 or bedtime, whichever comes first, friends all go home. However my kids like to have "sleepovers" in each others rooms and giggle and have fun. They think this is so fun and want to do this all the time. I went in to wake them up the other morning and this is what I found. Why are they always such angels when they are asleep?

Hair today gone tomorrow

Caden always wants us to buzz his hair. I happen to think it looks much cuter with a hair style. So, to compromise, I let him shave it the last day of school each year. This way it has a chance to grow back before school starts the next year. This year we decided to shave a little mohawk for fun. We sent him to the babysitters with it like that for kicks. When Caden came home I asked him what they said about his hair. He said "yeah they didn't like it so much." Tonja's daughter Kaitlin couldn't figure it out. She said it didn't even look good and she wanted to trim it for him. I laughed and said we just did it to see what people said and we were shaving it off that night. Caden was a little sad though :)

Happy Fathers Day

I wanted to take a second to say Happy Fathers Day to Matt. He is such an amazing dad. Both of my kids adore him and want to be just like him. From their mannerisms to their likes and dislikes, they want to be like daddy. Matt had such a hard life growing up and that is what makes it even more amazing that he is so great. He loves Caden and Isaac so much and would do anything for them. As we all know, there is a difference between being a father and being a daddy. He always has their best interest at heart. He teaches them things like mechanical stuff but also life lessons and cares about their education by giving them tools to help them learn. So much is uncertain in this world anymore but one thing is for sure and that is the fact that he is always there for the boys and he is always there for me. I truly do not know what I would do if he were ever not in my life and I thank God each day that I have him. He works hard to provide for them and does many things to create awesome memories that I hope they will never forget. I wish that every child had such a great Daddy. I want him to know just how much I appreciate all that he does for me because I don't always tell him. Happy Fathers Day Matt, I love you!

It's graduation day

Isaac had his pre-school graduation at the end of May. It was so cute and he did such a good job. Miss Tonja had a program and they had speaking parts and sang songs. It started with the pledge of allegiance. I think Isaac truly thinks that "please sit down" are the last three words! He won't believe me that it is not acually part of the pledge - oh well. He is really shy in front of people but did so good. He still has one more year of pre-school so this was more of an advancement program. Tonja's daughter Lindee made a really cute power point presentation with pictures of the kids throughout the year and it had music to it. Talk about bringing tears to your eyes. The first song on it was Let them be little by Billy Dean. I think that is what it's called. Anyway here are some pics of the big day.

Bowling

Sparetime bowling

Bowling

We took the kids bowling for the first time. We did the bumpers for Isaac but Caden refused. However, he was not happy that he kept getting gutter balls. What's funny is Caden is a pro at bowling on the Wii. He can get strikes without even looking. It was pretty funny to watch Isaac dance after each time he bowled. He won actually. Only by a couple of points though and it's because he was first, right Matt? Love you.

STAYCATION

This past weekend we had 4 days off together. We were going to borrow a friends motorhome and go camping but the weather was supposed to be crappy and even though we would be indoors, we did not want to be stuck inside for 4 days with 2 active boys. So, we decided to stay around here and do fun things. We let the kids stay up late every night, rented movies, let them have sleepovers in each others rooms. The first night we decided to go to Prairie Schooner. We thought they would really enjoy the atmosphere with all the animals, starry skies, and eating in a covered wagon. They loved every minute of it. I'm sure we won't go back for a long time but it was worth it for the memories made. Some other things we did was Hogle zoo, The living planet aquarium, Biaggi's italian restaurant at Gateway, bowling, drove to snow basin (gondola rides don't start for two weeks) and walked around and admired the beauty, went for treats like slurpees and frozen lemonade. Matt works on Saturdays so we never really get to spend a whole day doing fun stuff so we had a great time. I hope that we made some great memories for our children.

Ten things I'm grateful for this week

1. People who inspire me to be better.
2. My friendship with my mom.
3. Having a job that I enjoy (mostly).
4. So you think you can dance - I love that show!
5. Summer weather that's not too hot yet.
6. Good neighbors who watch out for each other.
7. A husband that helps me out so much.
8. Vacation days with my family.
9. Gluten free pizza at Biaggi's - HEAVEN.
10. The beauty of nature.

Thought for the week

"Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you're not!"