August..... where to begin?.....

so we all know that i have crafting lately.  well, here is something that i have been making TONS of!  they are so fast and easy, i love it.  so does jellybean.  we are wearing these nearly everyday!  if you want any let me know- i just need color preferences!

and then it became peach season here in east texas.  my FAVORITE fruit ever i think.  the smell is so intoxicating, and the flavor it heavenly!!  now i just need the guts to start canning.  hopefully next year my life will make more sense, and i will be able to get the guts and time to make jam and can some of these golden bits of heaven!

and here is my darling daughters room.  yes she loves pink.  so this room is perfect for her.  well, we decided to move kids around, and that included monkey and jellybean switching rooms.

there is NO WAY ever i would put my boy in this room.

so i primed.

                                                                   
                                                                          taped........

and painted white.... taped again......

painted GREEN, taped again.....

and then painted NAVY BLUE!!!!!  and i LOVE this room!  it looks AWESOME!!!! 

                                                 and here is my tower of tape..... it was GINORMOUS!!!!!

and here are my babies.  my two big kids on their first day of school.  they were so excited for this day to finally come.  they had been begging to go!  i had been dreading this day.  how did they get so big so fast?  were they nervous?  would they like it?  would they do well?  jellybean had implied that she was kinda nervous and chunk suddenly had a tummy ache, but then their marvelous father gave them a special priesthood blessing.  a fathers blessing.  sometimes i think its more for the mom then the kids.  but afterwards, jellybean was not apprehensive and chunk was feeling much better!  it was awesome.  they have does awesomely. 

*DISCLAIMER*  in my folders on my comp the pictures are rotated correctly, load them here, and they switch back.  no clue why!  and i have even tried to load it a separate time!  so from here on out, the portrait style ones are kinda funky.  i will have to see if i can fix it later- or if anyone has any clue of what to do let me know!  SORRY!

he is so sweet, nearly every morning he says he doesnt want to go, he drags his feet and eats slowly.  but, he is the first one dressed, first one with his shoes on, and gushing when i pick him up at the end of the day.  lol  Jan McCoy is his teacher, and she is the greatest ever.

jellybean here LOVES her kindergarten class.  Nesha Cox is her teacher, and they get along great.  at one point she sent a note home saying that jellybean is such a great example, and thanks for that!  it was really sweet.  she is getting along well in her class and thriving.

one day i was putting my groceries away, and i was about to put stuff in my pantry, and there was a snake!!!!  it was tiny.  shorter then a pencil.  pathetic yes.  so it sat there, like that till laura actually came and got it outside.  joe came and released it into the great wild wild wilderness when he got home from work.

see how small?  yes- i am a nerd that it freaked me out so much.  oh well.

she is such a good big sister.  she is so good about playing with her brothers!  and they love her for it!  its so cute- when i have to wake monkey up to get her, he is really upset.  then i ask if he wants to go get sister, and he cant get his shoes on fast enough!  lol  i like that they love each other!

so remember the rained out water park trip?  well- they finally go to go!!!  they LOVED it and talked about it for like 2 weeks!  it was so cute!!  here is the happy bunch....

drink break.....

 so the next day- despite all the liquid they did drink, and sun block they applied and re-applied. they they did ger a bit burned. they were sun sick the next day.  i felt really bad for poor chunk.  he still loved it but kinda miserable.  jellybean was fine though- i guess it was the hair?

then joey and i decided that we needed a little "stay-cation".  we had some friends from austin that we were meeting in dallas, and ghent and ash were meeting in dallas too (this was before they left).  anyway- we were all going to meet on saturday.  so we decided to get a hotel in downtown dallas and have fun with the kids friday night.  cuz hotel are the 'greatest place ever mom and dad!'  here is a picture of sweet jellybean on the way to dallas- the others were sleeping...and i have to say, this is one of her best picture.  she isnt squinting in anticipation of the flash!  i LOVE her!

then, when at a hotel one MUST swim in the pool.  we were at the Sheraton, and this pool was on the 4th floor.  that was cool. here they are!

if you count 9 windows up.... that is our room there on the corner.  it was really nice and awesome.  this was z's view.  he chilled on the cabana bed....

see......

i love that i caught this mid throw!  she thought it was the coolest thing ever to be tossed like this.  chunk.... not so much....

i did get in for a bit...... but monkey likes his dad more right now.  i put him in time-out more..... his dad works and therefore timeouts are done more by me...

that night we went to Mid-Evil Times.  and they LOVED it!!!!  it was sooooooo awesome and fun!  but i totally forgot to take the camera in- so all the pictures are on the phone.  and i am waiting for the phones owner *cough-joe-cough* to send them to me like he said........  but lets just say, monkey enjoyed it the most out of everyone.  it was adorable!

anyway- so saturday we met Brent and Virgina and their little girl Kaylee, and Ghent and Ashely at the Dallas Aquarium.  it was awesome.  (i was going to put their pictures all up and stuff, but i forgot to ask.... so we will add if allowed later).  anyway- here is chunk and jellybean.  they couldnt look at everything fast enough!  we are going to go again next year z will appreciate it then too, monkey even more, and jellybean and chunk can maybe slow down a bit.

the best daddy in the whole world explaining.....

monkeys attempt at a fishie face!  how cute is that?!!?

me....

it was so fun to be able to spend the day with friends!  they kids loved it and the grown-ups loved it too!  i think a repeat is in the works!

now that its september and school has started- its football season.  and in our house- that means more then just college of nfl...... that mean TIGER  football games!!!!!  we are huge fans and are at nearly every game.  here joe decided that we should go out to eat for lunch.  so the 4 of us were eating and i decided to take a picture.... i absolutely love the look of adoration on monkey as he looks at his dad....

how sweet is that?!?!

anyway that night was the first game of the season!

they asked soooooo many question.  it was like they totally forgot everything they ever knew about football!  thats ok.

i think this is a good picture of the 4 of us....

but the weather was PERFECT  for it!  i loved it!  too bad it didnt last!

but i am happy to report that the tigers won that game and has won all games since!  there is a reason we've won state the past 2 years!  =D

well there you go!  the highlights of august!  i will be getting to september soon!

hope you enjoy the novel!   lol

*xoxo*

me