How Is This For Totally Random?

Jade made this video of herself while we were vacationing in Florida... LOL. We found it when we got home and were going through the camera.. We sure laughed hard.

Whats On My Camera..

This week our kids and our cows are doing really well. Ian is enjoying Jr. High this year and he seems to really like his teachers. Except for the one who just makes them study.. she doesn't teach anything at all. He is on the Jr. High Football team and spends a great portion of his free time at practice or games. We are hoping to be able to see him play this Wednesday. Jade is doing really well in 4Th grade. Her teacher is awesome and I can tell she really enjoys having Jade in her class. She asked Jade to try out for student counsel. So this weekend Adam helped Jade write her speech. She is really looking forward to doing that, and she also tried out for Chorus. She found out on Friday she made it! She is SO excited about this. Andrew and Aiden are just growing up like weeds. They are both starting to talk quite a bit now, and sometimes Aiden will rattle off a whole little sentence and we will look at each other and be like.. "Did He Just Say..." and the other will be like yeah, I totally heard that. They are learning the ABC song now and can you say ELMO. The boys Loves Elmo. We need to get them an Elmo only video. Aiden is not doing so good with his physical therapy. When I take him to the office to drop him off, he makes himself so upset that he keeps throwing up. :( Starting this week, they are going to be coming gout to our house again till he can get to know this girl a little better. Adam and I are just sitting back lately and realizing that our kids are growing up really fast. Time is just flying by for us lately. The cows we took over to Grammy and Poppy's house were welcomed with open arms. I have been teasing Adams Mom a little bit about picking up a pig and a few goats, etc.. just to see what her response would be. I have come to the conclusion they would except anyone or anything with a happy heart. She said it just makes their Farm a Real Farm. The kids that live there all seem to really like them also. They seem to be happy and healthy and stinky.

Take a look at this piece of crap spider that I walked into my garage and found. This thing was HUGE. If I were crazy enough to measure it, it would probably have been 3 inches long. It does look a little shriveled in this pic because the fumes from the nail polish remover killed it.

Aiden going down the slide all by himself {he crashed and burned towards the bottom}

This is the first time Andrew was able to master the slide without his overprotective parents..

{some of you may see Adam hanging out close behind him in this picture.. that is just your imagination}

So while we were at the park we walked over by this HUGE tree and I was looking at all the little droppings all over the ground and it dawned on me that they were Hickory Nuts. Tons and tons of Hickory Nutsall over the ground just going to go to waste. I decided to grab a baggy from the car and take some home with me. Here they are drying out. How cool is that!? I am pretty excited to add some of these to my wonderful collection of freezer food storage. You never know when you are going to need some walnuts so you can make some delicious chocolate chip & walnut cookies...

RaiN RaiN Go AwaY

As I was working on getting Aiden out of the truck today and unloading everything I look over and Andrew was sitting in a mud puddle. Geez... Here are the boys playing in the only mud puddle at our house. After the initial sick gross dirty wetness, I figured I would just let them play in it for a little while. For some reason, day after day, it has been raining here. All last week and I think it is suppose to be all of this week too. I would like to place an order for a change of weather. A nice 80 degree sunny fall day would be awesome!

Got Some Cows Today ...LOL

Adam approached me mid morning to ask if I wanted to take a ride down the road and check out some cows... I just laughed at him it was such a far out idea.. LOL. They were priced totally cheap and we have been thinking of investing in food storage for the family this way. Well, we now have two cows.. LOL. We had a wild ride picking them up and getting them over to Grammys and Poppys but, they are there safe and sound. Here are some pics:

Sea World - Orlando Style - Part 2

Warning. Picture Overload Following.

I kept talking about Shamu before we went to SW. Jade kept asking me who Shamu was... now she knows. ...lol.

Shamu

Here are some pics of the whale going around the pool splashing water out at the crowd.. the last one I snapped as she was splashing us. I had no idea it was coming.. glad it didn't ruin the camera.

YikeS

Riding the Whale.

Ready for his applause

Riding the Teacups

Riding the Carousal

They were shaking hands.

South Pole to see the Penguins Good Bye to Sea World... see you next time.

We had a wonderful time at SW and will always remember this trip. We feel so blessed that we were able to take our family on this fun outing.

Sea World - Orlando Style

Some how Jade figured out that Sea World was in FL before we left on our trip. Adam and I were going to surprise the kids with a trip to Disney World... until she had this realization. Once she got it in her head there was no getting it out. We even tried to bribe her with "whatever she wanted"... nothin. She just wanted to go to Sea World. ..lol. We woke up early one morning {7:00 am sharp to the sounds of our little Aiden}, and headed off to Orlando for the day. We got there around 10:30 or so. Then, thanks only to me, we had to waste precious fun time waiting in the line for WAY TO LONG, to buy our tickets. I have no idea how long we waited, but... it was not cool. I am pretty sure Adam asked me to purchase the tickets online like 10 times.. did I do it, no?! And why not? I have no answer. Anyways, back to the fun. The first thing we did was went in and watched the Dolphin show. Jade LOVED it. We decided that right then and there, we could see her in her future job/career. She was taking it all in and you could see it all over her face. She will be one of those lucky enough to swim with the whales/dolphins etc. at Sea World. ...just you wait and see. By the second or third thing we did we were all dripping in yucky hotness. It was Hot.

FEEDING THE DOLPHINS

For a big wopping $7 you can buy 4 fish to feed the dolphins. Jade got to participate. She loved it. Here are a few more pics:

Next we went and saw the Elmo & Friends show just for Aiden. He loves Elmo. He was so happy to see him in person and had the hugest smile on his face. It was adorable.