tides game

Friday night we went to a Tides double header with our church. It was lots of fun. 

As you can see, the stadium was not very crowded, so the kids could run around as much as they liked.

Pretty sure these two didn't watch 30 seconds of the game!

They were trying to catch peanuts, not foul balls :)

 About half way through the first game our group went up to the picnic area for a cookout.  There was a nice big green space for the kids to run and play and plenty of food for everyone.  It was a great place to enjoy the rest of game one, which lasted 4 hours!  The last inning was a nail bitter and of course I heard the screams of the crowed from the bathroom (which is a place I visited far too often with my soda drinking 4 year old!) when the Tides scored the winning run!  Oh, well, at least they won :)  We didn't stick around for the second game, which lasted another 4 hours and didn't end until 1:23am!

I know I've been really delinquent on blog posting.  I have not been taking too many pictures, since I only have a zoom lens for my camera right now, so not so much to post.  We are getting ready to start work on the kitchen remodel in the next couple weeks, so I will be sure to post pictures of the progress.

park day

The kids and I are spending a few days at my parents.  Today we spent the morning at the park...

Addie is quite a climber

Emmy's first time on the carousel

All smiles after a long, loud wait in line for the train ride.  There was a middle school group there too.  Funny, Regan said "I never realized how well you've taught us to behave until I saw how badly those kids were behaving!"

no more painted sub flooring!

It's official!  We are at the very least getting new floors in the Little White Schoolhouse! I placed my deposit on enough bamboo to floor the entire house! 

We are still awaiting bids on kitchen stuff, but I hope we will have come to a decision by this time next week!

snip, snip, snip

First off, my camera got dropped a couple weeks ago and my regular lens is broken :(  So I am stuck with a zoom lens, photo booth, or my Driod camera for taking pictures until we decide what to do about the camera/lens. So, excuse the poor quality photos and all that mess behind me in the first few photos!

Anyway, I've been thinking about cutting my hair for over a month now, but just kept going back and forth about exactly how much I should cut.  This morning I decided I couldn't wait any longer so I called and made an appointment with a stylist my friend had recommended.    I basically went in and said, "I don't know what I want to do, just cut it however you think would look best!" 

I ended up donating 12 inches of hair!

Tallulah keeps telling me I look like my sister, Sherri.  It won't ever look like this again, b/c I am a wash and go kinda girl.  I can't wait to see how it looks "unstyled".

Addie has been asking me to cut her hear for awhile now.  She said she wanted it like Tallulah's hair.  I have been avoiding it because I love her long hair, but while I was out...

she decided to take matters into her own hands!

Cutting a 4 year old hair is not for the faint of heart.  This is not my best work, but it was the best I could do with a little girl who could not hold her head still or straight!  She love it, and that is all that really matters!

dreaming

The hubby and I have been talking about possibly redoing our kitchen and maybe even putting down some real flooring (we ripped out all the carpet in the house and painted the sub floors awhile back).  I haven't blogged about it because I am still not sure when/if it will happen, but I have been spending a good bit of time the last month or so researching and talking to contractors and cabinet companies etc.   So, I though it might be fun to share some of the things that have inspired my plans so far...

We want to take down the wall between the kitchen and dining room and have a nice big peninsula like this:

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I love these built in hutches: 

 

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back splash

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This is one of the counters I like:

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I LOVE LOVE LOVE these stools, but I have not convinced the hubby yet that we need rainbow stools for our peninsula.

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If you want to see more kitchen inspiration check out my kitchen pinterest board :)

preschool picnic

Addie had her end of year picnic at preschool this week.  Every year they have a moon bounce, pony rides, and a petting zoo followed by a pizza on the lawn.  The whole family is welcome to attend and the kids even get in on some of the fun activities (although my kids are getting a little big for pony rides).

Addie wasn't into the pony rides or the moon bounce, but she loved the play ground.

And Emmy loved the bubble tables :)

Watching the ponies.

Emmaline loved the ponies... until I tried to put her on one!

There were baby chicks...

And the highlight of the day was watching this goat give birth to two babies!

I can't believe we've reached the end of the school year already!  Next week is graduation!

geocaching

Recently the hubby and the kids decided to try some geocaching at the wildlife preserve down the road from us.  I was away for the weekend, so I missed out on their first adventure, but last Sunday, on a whim, we decided to go look for another cache at a park near our house.  Really, the kids were driving me crazy whining and fighting and we all needed a change of venue, so I grabbed the camera, sent everyone to the bathroom, and we quickly jumped into the van and headed out.  It was late and we were totally unprepared for the search.  Somehow Emmy made it out of the house with rain boots on that do not stay on her feet, which meant that she had to be carried the whole time, and Regan and Tallulah were wearing flip flops!

It took us quite awhile to even find a path into the woods, but we did eventually find a way in.  We then spent the next 45 minutes trying to find the cache, all the while swatting at mosquitoes and pushing briers out of our path.  We never did find the box, but since we had left Regan and Adelaide at the playground beside the woods we figured we better find our way back out of the woods.  Luckily the way out proved easier than the way in, but we were picking ticks off of us for the next 24 hours and poor Emmy has welts all over her body from the mosquitoes!  I don't think we will go back after that cache again, but I think we will try geocaching again :)