Sonic

I am an addict. A coke addict. Sonic to be exact, but my spare change has gone towards other things lately, so my lovely addiction has had to be curbed. How sad am I ;)

Driving past Sonic yesterday morning on the way to the store Q says "mom, I really need a coke today. I am so firsty I could die." I say sorry to my dear child who has to my knowledge never been given even a sip (in the effort to stop this addiction at the source...ahem, me) to which he replied "but mom, it is such a coke day."

He was right...I should have stopped.

Time is flying by

The past weeks have flown by. I keep thinking that I will update and post and so far, well, you can see how great I have been at that!

The top picture is poor Q on the first day of school. Suffice it to say that he is missing 'the brothers' and has become my little shadow (okay, so he has literally been attached to my hip since birth, but still...)

I love the sun looks in the bus picture. I tried to rearrange the pics, but so far not so good, so they are out of order...oh well. Our most recent family photo :) I love that NO ONE has to be smiling and you can tell Carson isn't :)

H on the first day of school. Usually these sunflowers are so much taller, but the weird weather this spring made my flowers short. He is enjoying middle school so far, but is tired of waiting for little brothers to get out of the bathrooms to get ready (which has resulted in many mornings of missed bus!)

This pic of C running kind of cracks me up because I was running behind him to which Tyler said 'mom, I didn't know you could run.' Nice.

Football and fall soccer have started, but that's a whole nother post about standing around :)

First things first

I have been informed that I never announced what ended up

happening with Cody's team. These guys did awesome. They were plagued by a few errors that cost them one game and I think Cody must have had a record of some sort because he was hit 5 (FIVE) times. Twice by the same team in sequential at bats...the only team that beat them. Huh...suspicious me thinks. He took a short turn as pitcher and played 3rd and short stop. He was awesome at short stop. Now, I realize that Jeff and I were not there, but I KNOW he did well because we listened to the radio guy. Plus, he's Cody, which makes all the difference in the world ;)

They ended up second. Not too shabby considering the last game was rained out for a whole day and the guys were so tired. I'm pretty sure we're proud of him.

pins and needles

This is what I feel like I am sitting on :) There is a way to 'watch' Cody's games on the computer, so guess what I have been doing all day...shhhh, don't tell my boss. She may send me home early. HA!

They are up 10-1 bottom of the 7th...Cody hit a 3 run homer, as did another guy on the team (the gametracker doesn't do them justice...they are much taller than the little guys it shows on the field!) so proud of these guys. It's much cooler to know someone on a team like this than just be randomly cheering for any old team...

Super Sunday!!

We were able to head up to Bozeman Sunday after church to see our nephew Cody play in an American Legion tournament. I can't wait to share photos, but I can't wait even more to tell everyone that his team WON and now they are headed to NC to play in the world series for AL. So excited! Congrats, Cody and good luck!
I will post photos soon :)

So the picture of Cody and Tyler is kind of funny. Tyler is the same age Cody was when Jeff and I got married...he's grown a bit in 10 years, hasn't he. :) Ty loves his big Cody cousin. Poor Cody had pitched 126 pitches in the Saturday game and Ty (the smallish 67# kid) was trying to hang off his pitching arm. Jeff wanted a picture taken of he and Cody a few years ago mentioning that it would probably be the last picture taken with Cody being the shorter of the two...he is in fact taller now...and possibly in better shape...who am I kidding? He is in better shape :) The next one is of Cody's homerun hit. The cool thing, we have that ball :) Signed even. I have to say I'm pretty pleased with the pictures. I wonder if they need a team photographer for the series this weekend??? It would just cost a plane ticket and lodging...and well, possibly my marriage if I were to leave Jeff home...

Have I ever mentioned how much I enjoy baseball?

Sad day

Two days ago my sweet little long tail lizard passed on to heaven.

We had services for him and I cried. Like a baby. Over a lizard.

I know that he wasn't a cuddly little creature, but he was stinkin' cute and always made me smile. Plus, my boys and Jeff got him for me for my birthday because they knew how much I would like one.

You can see most of him here, part of his tail goes behind the branch where one of the anoles is.

Bye, Mike. You are already missed.

Today is a cleaning day.

Wish us luck. It could get nasty.