Vacation!!!!

So for the first time ever Jacob and I went on a vacation all by our big selves!!! And I must say it was wonderful. We spent 5 days on this....

Enjoying things like this....

Having fun doing things like this....

Relaxing like this....


Needless to say we had a wonderful time. I am so thankful that we have wonderful parents who were willing to keep Ace so that we could enjoy a vacation. Now if I can convince Jacob that we really didn't go by ourselves and that we still had one baby with us the whole time......maybe I can talk him into another vacation in a year or two! :)
So glad I married this man....

A little of this and a little of that....

I have several things that I need to blog about! So I'll start with today. We had a wonderful first day back at Sonshine School! I have a wonderful group of kiddos. This was probably the most smooth first day of school, sonshine or public school, that I have every had! Austin has two wonderful teachers this year. They are both very good with kids. So yay for a successful first day! After Sonshine School we went for another ultrasound. We have had one that showed a girl and they were checking again today but today little girl did NOT want to move around at all. We still got some good pictures of her and enjoyed seeing her. After we go home this evening Austin and I made cookies together and he ate two! It has been a wonderful day but.....I'm pooped!

On a different note....This is just plain funny and I should have blogged about it the other night when it happened but I didn't get the chance. Jacob and Austin were playing in the living room. And when I say playing, I mean like boys playing and wrestling. Well Jacob tooted really loud which is not unusual around here but normally I give him a dirty look and Austin just ignores him. Not this time. Austin says "uh oh, I pooped". Jacob then says "no Austin that was Daddy". Which Austin replies "daddy pooped"? Then Jacob has to explain that nobody pooped that he just tooted and that everybody still has clean pants. I'm still laughing.

I should write about how hormonal/irritated I've been and tell a few things on myself since I've posted all about Jacob's problem. But I'm in a good mood and I don't think I want to go there tonight!

Lazy Saturday

I love days like today! We have been busy and gone so much on the weekends I honestly can't remember the last time we were all home together on the weekend without much to do. Last night we all laid on the couch together and watched The Land Before Time. Ace loves that movie right now. Jake also got to feel our little girl moving last night while we were on the couch. I've been feeling her move for a couple of weeks now and she was very active last night, maybe she likes The Land Before Time too!!! :) Anyways, it was so nice to just sit together and watch a good movie. This morning we all slept in a bit and then did some errands, came home ate lunch, took naps, and now we are watching some OU football. I know it doesn't sound like much of a weekend but I am loving every minute of our family time that is just the three of us. I have also enjoyed watching Ace and Jake interact. Ace has this new thing that he grabs your finger and starts pulling you somewhere in the house saying "show you". He does it to me all day but it's fun to watch him "show" his dad things. His favorite thing to "show you" are his animal toys in his room. He likes to "show you" the animals and tell you the sound they make. So to the point of this post...we are having a wonderful, relaxing, uneventful weekend and are loving it. We hope you are having a great weekend too!

Labor Day Weekend

If you are like me your weekends never turn out as you plan for them to. For the first time in a while we had nothing going on and I was looking forward to a relaxing weekend with my two favorite boys! However, plans changed and that is okay. That's life. On Saturday morning my mom called. She was at my sisters house and my sister was sick and they were putting my grandad in the hospital. So she stayed with my sister and I and my two favorite boys headed to D-town to check on my grandparents. Jacob and ACE went on to spend the weekend with his parents (thanks again for letting them stay with you guys). I spent the weekend with my grandparents. My grandmother still cannot drive since she shattered her shoulder about 5 weeks ago. So I made many trips from the hospital to their house. When I found out that I was needed there I thought...there goes my relaxing weekend. I feel terrible that I even had that thought. I love my grandparents but I also love my boys. What I thought was going to be a frustrating change of plans turned out to be a wonderful weekend. I got to spend a bunch of quaility time with each of my grandparents individually. I have not had that in a long time. My grandmother who always goes to bed early stayed up late talking to me at night. And my grandad who doesn't always get to say much (since granny is the talker) got to tell me all kinds of stories. I found out so much about him that I never knew! I always knew he had a sense of humor but he was down right hilarious! Even being sick he made the best of it. So even though my plans were changed I am so thankful that God blessed me with such a wonderful opportunity to spend time with two people that I have always admired, loved, and looked up to. I hope you were as blessed by God on your Labor Day as I was!

Where to begin????

I thought I would enjoying blogging but I'm not sure I do. I find it overwhelming. I have been gone so much lately. By the time I'm home and sit down in front of the computer so much has happened I don't even know where to begin. I know so often I say my life is great. It truly is. My husband has not complained once about how much ACE and I have been gone while he has stayed home and worked so that we can go on our adventures. Are adventures will be coming to an end soon. SS is about to start back. Austin and I both love SS. I am looking forward to getting back into a routine. Just when I think our lives might be slowing down it seems like the speed up. Here is a little list of things that are going on most of I am looking forward to but others I am nervous about:
-SS starting back
-J and I go on vacation - excited/nervous about being away from ACE
-Ace has surgery- so nervous about this- he has trigger finger and will be in a splint for two weeks...it will be a long long two weeks.
-Then the Holidays will be hitting - Yay we love family time!
- Then January we are having a baby girl!
Maybe I'll try to blog about some of this along the way!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. We sure are and wish you the same!
Now back to life and getting on with the rest of my day! :)
I'll leave you with a recent pic of my favorite little man:

Great Weekend!

Once again we spent another weekend with family! It was wonderful as always. I cried as we left because I never want to leave when we are down. It is always so relaxing. One of the things I enjoyed most this weekend was spending time with this girl.....





I had no idea when I married Jacob that I was going to have another sister instead of sister-in-law. So Dani...thanks for letting me crawl into bed with you and watch tv on Saturday morning and talk about randomness, thanks for floating with me in the pool, thanks for putting up with playing games with me even though I'm terrible and its 1AM in the morning, and most of all thanks for being you! I am going to miss her like crazy when she goes to Harding this next month! I'm stopping there before the tears come just thinking about it! Love you loads and thanks for being a wonderful sister to me and aunt to ACE!

hmm....

Where should I begin? We have been so busy over the past few weeks I don't even know where to begin! We celebrated Austin's 2nd Birthday over the 4th of July weekend with family. The whole weekend was wonderful. Jacob had a 3 day weekend so we got to spend some extra time in Waurika. I love family time! It's been a while since Dani, David, and Jacob were all home at the same time. We had a blast all hanging out together. They played a lot of Wii and we also played a lot of the Megatouch game (its a game that has a touch screen). We didn't get much swimming in due to lots of rain but we enjoyed being in the house together! Austin as always got plenty of attention. He enjoyed his favorite sleeping spot in Waurika (in the middle of grandmommy and papa frank). He also enjoyed being spoiled rotten by his Aunt Dani and Uncle David. He loves them both so much! Austin's new thing right now is saying the bedtime prayer himself. You can't always understand everything but every once and a while you understand a name and you can always understand the AMEN at the end. Well last night he was for sure praying for his Aunt Dani. It was so plain and so cute!
The other thing we have been up to is we spent about a week in Duncan. My grandmother had a garage sale during the world's largest garage sale and Jacob and I put some stuff in there. So Austin and I went down to price things and help with the sale. We enjoyed spending time with my parents and grandparents! Austin also enjoyed a 2 days with his Grandmommy while we actually had the garage sale going on. (Thanks Val for watching him!) I use to hate garage sales and dreaded the thought of my mom and grandmother having one but this time....we had so much fun together!
Well I really feel like I'm just babbling. I have nothing really important to write about. My life may not be that exciting to many but I think it is pretty great. As I was praying tonight I was thanking God for blessing me so much. I sometimes get so down and frustrated with things then I realize how great I really do have it and how God has done so much for me and my family! I hope that you are able to see all the blessings He has done for you! Think about it......and have you thanked God lately?