First day of school! Yahoooo

Sweet freedom! School has started and I don't know who is more excited my kids or me. This is the first year that I don't have kids at home. It has been lovely if I do say so myself! A couple weeks before spencer, payton, aaron and mady started, cameron started high school. I think i was more nervous than he was. He wouldn't let me walk him into high school. I would have loved to walk him to his first class and give him a smoochy, but he didn't go for that. I got the "I love you mama!" And it was very quietly whispered as he got out of the car! 2 Weeks later the other 4 started. When I asked them if they needed me to walk them to the back they all said "no mom we are good!" I was shocked. I was a stark difference from when aaron started kindergarten. He refused to go to school. As flag ceremony started his kindergarten teacher pryed his hands off my leg and I took off running for the car. I laugh about it now, but seriously at the time it was most annoying to have the only child screaming his head off yelling for me. I jumped in the car dukes of hazzard style and took off. I wanted to yell out the window "Bye sucker", but that may have been too much and maybe a little dramatic! Nontheless this year was a lot better than that. Mady didn't even want me to take her to her line. I was a proud mom watching my kids walk off by themselves. It is great to see my kids having the confidence to do things on their own. Not needing me to hold their hand every step of the way. It was a great first day of school!!!

Bills birthday

The same weekend as aaron's birthday we had Bill (my father in law) come up for his birthday. He went to chuckee cheese with us. I think he had fun. After that we came home and he let Aaron and mady paint his nails. He was quite a good sport. He also had a treasure hunt. We had his favorite dinner which is biscuits and gravy. He also requested a chocolate cake. When i suggested the 4 layer chocolate cake that my family loves he agreed that would be a good choice. He stayed with us for the weekend. I also gave him a birthday haircut. He was set for the weekend.
Bye the way, we got to listen to him play the guitar and sing. He sounds exactly like Johnny cash. Mady loves sitting on the floor and listening to him sing. He does a great job of it.

Aaron boy had his 9th birthday! yahoooo

We had another birthday in our house. In fact the month of august is quite busy in our house with birthdays. We have one every week the entire month of august. Its a busy birthday month. Aaron wanted to go to chuckee cheese this year for his birthday. He was quite excited about that. He got to pick one friend to go with us. He also wanted to have an omlet for breakfast and his very own treasure hunt. After all that we went to chuckee cheese. He also wanted to do Bahama bucks after the pizza. I would have thought that that was too much but he loved it. At bahama bucks he got to have a snowball fight. That is something they do. It's kind of fun and my kids love it. That is the only snow they get all year long! He said he had a great birthday and he was a happy kid when he went to bed that night!

Oh no another Teenager!!!

My spencee turned 13. I have another teenager in my house. He had a good birthday with family. We are still trying to figure out a day to have his "big 13th birthday party". We had a planned a couple of days that friends couldn't come on. So sometime this month we are taking him and his friends to fiddle sticks. He is looking forward to it. It has go-carts, bumper boats, golf stuff, arcade games, food. It's just kind of a fun little place to go. Especially for boys!!!
He got to pick what he wanted for breakfast and dinner. We had chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and he requested spaghetti with bread. He also got to pick his favorite cake which is the chocolate cake that is 4 layers and in between the layers is shaved chocolate bar and whipping cream. It is quite yummy!

My little sugy turned 6!

My little mady turned 6 in August. She was pretty specific with what she wanted to do for her birthday. She wanted just a couple of friends to come. She wanted to go swimming and have nachos for her birthday. She wanted to frost her own cupcakes and have a treasure hunt. So. we did all that. She had 2 friends come to her party. We went swimming for about an hour. When we got home she and her friends went on a treasure hunt in the house. They thought it was great fun. What they found was all the makings for the cupcakes and a little extra. They made nachos and had fun making their own cupcakes. The colors were pretty interesting. But they had a blast!