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Thanksgiving Thursday

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1.I am thankful for my life.
2. I am thankful for being raised in a christian home. I see so many people who just didnt have that same oppurtunity as me and I feel sorry for them.
3.I am thankful for being able to raise my kids in a christian home.
4. I am thankful for my hubby’s brilliance. He suggested he build a wall unit in my office to hold my computer, sewing machine, serger, curriculum, paperwork, bible class materials, and my endless  office supplies.
5. I am thankful for my strawberries plants. They look they might be producing this year!!! 
6. I am thankful for my kids who are eager to help me weed my garden this morning.
7. I am thankful for our 4H group that meets today…Chloe will be giving her 2nd out of 18 speeches today.
8. I am thankful for being sick yesterday…I lost 4 pounds.
9. I am thankful for the GREAT book I am reading Passionate Housewives Desperate for God. Such a great book!!!!!!! I highly recommend to EVERY women.
10. I am thankful for waking up early this morning, now I can get so much more done for this busy day of , weeding the garden, 4H, homeschool soccer, farmers market, skills soccer, and ballet. Obviously something is not going to happen…probably the farmers market….which I love and is only open to today!! Oh well..May is almost over!!!! And so are most of these activities!!
Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul’s Birthday Party at Chuck E Cheese Part 2

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Okay I wanted to add more pics..:):) For some reason I cant ever remember the order in which to add pictures to get the order I want. So these were supposed to be the other way around..that okay:)

Blake checking in for ticket drop off and token pick up..:)

Kids hanging out…This picture is funny to me because if Camye sees me with the camera…she stops and poses until I take the picture.>!!!
Girls being silly…

Blake forcing Paul to have his picture taken with Chuck E..for some reason Camye and Paul are scared of stuffed mice..big or small.???
Paul’s Scooby Dooby Doo cake..I let him pick his cake out:)

Paul’s Birthday at Chuck E Cheese

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My baby has turned 4 ..he said at Chuck E Cheese he felt like a kid now instead of a baby. BUT my baby still crawled in bed with me last night at 2am…

Everyone had so much at Chuck E Cheese as I am sure you can see in the pics..:)
Here he is opening his presents from Grandma and Grandpa.

Always winking for the camera.:)

Daddy helping Paul ride the bike into the air..he LOVED that!:)
Paul with the only thing present he has asked for …A SWIMMING POOL!!!!
Enjoying his cake…:) A scooby doo cake..

Mondays Menu Planning 5/25

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Here it is…

MOnday- Out of town….at a picnic. But I did prepare Tastefully simple Spinach dip and beer bread and a pasta salad
Tuesday- Headed to Chuck E Cheese for Paul’s 4th birthday.
Wednesday- Chicken Fajitas with peppers, onions and rice
Thursday- Hamburgers, Corn on the Cob
Friday- Homemade Pizza Braid
Saturday- Chicken Penne Pasta
Sunday- Leftovers but at our life group I will probably serve another Tastefully Simple dip and another beer bread.

Look forward to reading yours!!!

Sew Much Fun

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My sewing machine has been broken for 2 years. I teach a sewing class at a christian camp each summer. I let the little girls sew on it 2 years ago, and after they were done it would only sew backwards. I love my sewing machine SEW much that I was nervous to just let anyone touch it. It is computerized and it just made me nervous!! So today I got the machines out and cleaned and oiled them myself !!!!! AND guess what..I fixed it!!
The girls were ecstatic..so we got out the sewing books and started planning. We also pulled out all my fabric and MAN OH MAN..do I have a stash????!!!!!
So we started with this book…the girls chose to make little drawstring bags. 

Camye looking adorable…
Chloe was extremely proud of her sewing skills…even after 2 years.
Here they are!!!! Camye was made slightly larger to hold her ballet slippers and Chloe was made to the size the pattern called for to hold her Bath & Body Works.

Stay tuned….Sewing can be very addicting!! And we have several projects planned!:)

MOPS Moppets Brunch

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Chloe has been a MOPPET worker for the first time this year. She gets community service for volunteering at our MOPS group. We just had our end of the year MOPPETS brunch to honor all our MOPPETS workers. It was alot of fun!!

Recieving her gift and certificate…
And below you will see the Grape Slushie group I belonged too. Our theme for MOPS this year, was Welcome to the MOPS carnival. So each discussion group got a name…ours being Grape Slushie and we earned Queens of the Carnival for this year because we earned more tickets than everyone else!! YAY!!

I am sad to say that I may not be returning to MOPS next year, I am needing to take something off of the schedule. MOPS may be one of them. We will see if I can stay away though when it starts. I am still doing the summer time bible study though:):)

Thanksgiving Thursday

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I almost forgot….Here it is…
1. I am thankful for my loving family.
2. I am thankful for my awesome deals I got at the “early” Memorial Day sale at the Tanger outlets!!
3. I am thankful for homeschooling, I am not sure where public school would fit into our schedule.
4. I am thankful for watermelons, cantalopes and honeydew melons that are all showing up on shelves near me!!!
5. I am thankful for my hubby for wanting to plan our trip to the beach in June.
6. I am thankful for my cousin Sandy for planning a Memorial Day picnic when I will be in WV.
7. I am thankful for my aunt Lori’s willingness to be set up on a blind date!!!!
8. I am thankful for skills soccer, homeschool soccer, ballet, and  4H,  but is summer here yet??!!
9. I am thankful for air conditioning..yes already.
10. I am thankful for living in the country!!! Our dogs are really bad…:):)

Thanksgiving Thursday

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I am thankful for….

1. My hubbys new mower…he deserves it!!
2. losing 7 pounds since Monday. I love this diet. 7 more to go.
3. getting our camp papers and seeing that I am now the head sewing teacher!! Surprise Surprise!!! Need to get planning on that.
4. Paul, who informed us he needs to go to Chuck E Cheese on this birthday because he needs to go where kids can be kids not babies. !!!! My baby doesnt want to be baby!!!
5. Paul, who informed me he knew how to read last night because he can read STOP signs. Cute.
6. our chiropractor, Camye has whiplash from our trampoline. She has been treating her weekley and its helping.
7. for our garden. We planted it on Mothers day and it is huge and we have lots of different things in it this year. 27 tomato plants, 18 pepper plants, 25 potatoe plants,12 zucchinni, 12 squash, 8 spaghetti squash, lima beans, green beans, corn, lettuce, sunflowers, cucumbers, watermelons, cantalope
8. the farmers market…which opens today!!!! I love doing most of my grocery shopping there. Keeps us eating healthier.
9. school being over…we have been relaxing all day long this week. As soon as soccer and ballet are over…summer is here..
10. Camye who says she is teaching Paul to read this summer!!!

Hubby’s New Toy….

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This is my fabulous husbands new toy!! I call it a toy because of his reaction. He was soooo giddily (is that a word) excited. We have 12 acres and even though we only 2-3 acres. It is hilly. It usually takes him every Saturday to mow it and Sunday afternoons are spent weeding. It really takes alot out of a guy. Also we only had a small push mower. Last week, he borrowed a friends from church like this and it took him 2 hours to do the entire yard!!!!! We were so ecstatic!! So he won this one on ebay…and now he will have more time to spend with his family.:):):)::)

Okay someone else turned 32 …

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….so my kids check out my blog every once in awhile and noticed that I had only blogged their dad’s birthday.

Yes I turned 32 on Mothers day!! It was such a wonderful day!! My husband and kids sure know how to pamper their mother. It was a great day!!!:):) And spoil her…the gifts this year were out of this world!! Thanks kiddos and your wonderful Daddy!!