Oh my, having 3 boys in the house is driving me crazy at times. Having the bif boys wrestling in a small house is not a good combination….sounds like the house is going to break into! Then we would need some cutting tools to fix the house that the boys broke. They have always been accused of breaking things, it started at the young age of a year old!!
I will put some pictures on of my oldest’s 16th birthday party!
Joel and Ben
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My little dream came true at Christmas time during my visit with my family. My brother had traded, something for something else and ended up with an ipod touch and I ended up with it. He had remembered from the fall that I had wanted one, mainly because of the camera!! I really like it, I won’t let my boys touch it!
So here’s some pictures from that time….
Michael and Leah
Andy and Nevaeh
So now I have a sixteen year old and he thinks his knowledge has magically grown just because of the number. The cool thing is that he is maturing while the other fourteen year old is following the same path. UGH…..but both boys are wonderful despite their hormones raging and not knowing how to control themselves.
Oh I did give my oldest a birthday party, I mean I had to, being sixteem is big. So we had 12 friends and a family (that is like our family), ate pizza, snacks, and played the couch game all together….it was fun, more importantly he had fun. And no he didn’t get one of those RC cars, I’m sure that would have made him smile but we want him to save up for his own car.
We helped with buying him a pair of $100 tennis shoes and upgraded his cell phone……
Well I’m at Snowcamp with 41 teenagers!! We are 5 hours from our home and having lots of fun without the snow. There’s maybe a half inch of snow and lot of brown grass. The last 3 years we have been here, we have always have bunches of snow. Oh well change is good for us even if we don’t like it.
We are staying at the same lodge, it’s extremely nice with a nice cozy fireplace….it will save on the pennsylvania electricity but we are in Iowa.
Will have pictures soon!!
I wanted to see if I could download a video….I did it. But it’s not the one I wanted, it was too big so I will have to figure that out. This is my oldest a couple of years at SMI. The kids loved the place where we stayed. Big yard, big house, and big pond with a rope swing, equals a lot of fun for the kids!! You can cover pool, I mean cover the pool when you have a big pond to swim in, it’s wide open!
I will try to put more videos on soon.
My hubby has been working day and night the last few days, which makes cooking alot easier! For instance, tonight we had angus hot dogs and french fries, the perfect meal for the boys, oh I put out carrot sticks too, there’s the vegetable!
My hubby is working at Menards, building something inside the store, not a barcode scanner but he has a certain amount of time to get it done, the man is working his tail off. I’m glad though he is still making time to work out at the gym. He started that consistently about 2 months ago with his friend Dillon. He is looking good!!
He just got home at 9:30…..”nobody knows”!!
My youngest son and my 2 nieces!
This night I went to my nephew basketball game and my youngest son won’t let just anyone hug him but he will let these two lovely ladies. He is so picky these days with his looks, being touched, how you respond to him in public! Where is my little boy? He would always give me hugs and I could hug him anytime I wanted. Things change and they grow up. I could beat him up with an industrial rubber hose but to no avail. All of this is normal boy stuff and I know he will settle down when his hormones calm down. Until then I will still make him obey, be respectful, and give him his space.
I hate going to funerals, which in itself is a dumb thing to say! I mean who loves funerals? But I did go to Bob’s funeral and the family had all 3 of his pastors that he has had throughout his life. Since he was a christian, it was a more joyful occasion than most. He had never been married and most of his life his health has not been good. I do know now he has a new body and is perfect in the arms of his Savior!
I learn alot more about him this day and found out he collected trains and when his apartment was full of them, he would give them away and start a collection of something else. I don’t think he collected clawfoot tubs in his lifetime.
My lesson in this, is to pay more attention when an older person missing a Sunday!
image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace
