another pretty

a while back on mothers day we (us and siblings) had bracelets made for the grandmothers and great grandmothers, on both sides. that had the birthstones of their kids and grand kids/great grand kids .i had tons left over ,so i made me this one it has the colors from our wedding ,pink for our birthdays and clear(diamond-ha) for the boys .i am kinda proud of me i like it - i would love to wear it but...it is on thread - because i have no idea where to get it made now that the shop that did the others closed .so here it sits all pretty in my kitchen

i got a great deal at Kroger these were 3.00

they smell great !

i think i am in a flowery mood

and what would MY day be without some sort of commotion??

well it would not be my day .the air went out -pant pant .but prayers work because the AC guy had a cancel of sorts so he got to us today instead of OUR appointment -Friday after 5:00

GO AIR CONDITIONING

new family member

A pretty

We grew mammoth sunflowers in Georgia ,and they were so pretty so we planted a pack here. we have a few that have made it in this heat .today we came home and found this little fellow on our baby flower .this was neat for some of us that a butterfly wants to stay to visit,but not so much for others who have a fear of these wild animals .

i thought it was so pretty that i have it as be background on the computer

have a pretty day

too much cuteness

so my brother and husband and everyone else who has seen how many pictures i have on my computer says i need to get a flash drive and take them off so it will go so much faster .so i finally do thinking that i could mail it to their Godmothers and they could get pictures that way and we could just mail it back and forth - no biggie - i went and got a 2G thinking that and the sales lady said oh sure too no problem - i will have plenty of room and still some to spare - ummm no i have filled it up and still have 3 folders to put on !so now i have this thing that is unless to me i need to go buy a bigger one and then i am stuck with this extra the only thing i can think of is to put all of them on the bigger one and just keep this one to put new ones on and mail it back and forth
i have also noticed that most of my blogs are just one gigantic run on sentence - not one bit of proper punctuation

watch what you pray for

i have been meaning to blog about this but it has been a little nutty around here - and when i do sit to blog i forget this - but today an am doing it !
as you know i have had a house of stir crazy boys who have not been able to go outside to burn off all the excess energy they have due to the weather/ozone - my boy really really need to burn off their energy .we found this out early on .Santa even knows it because for their 2nd Christmas he gave them a bounce house .
any who... for a long time in my life i would pray "God please grant me the patience to deal with..." now that i have my boys i have learned that i have been saying that wrong so now i say God please give me the strength to deal with ...
so the other day on one of those days i was having them "run laps" J came into the house to go to the restroom and in the mean time little C did something in the back yard that i needed to correct and as i was coming back into the house i looked up and said God please give me the strength... and J walked by me to go back outside and as he did he looked at me then up at the ceiling and just kept walking .like "OKAY..." now there are bets going that he went outside and said "brother keep it up we almost got her shes talking to the ceiling ,we are almost there "
and i just don't know who's odds i am going to go with on this one

they grow up so fast

so the other day J was sitting in a chair rubbing his little boney chest - i thought feeling his ribs - no - not ribs - as he has explained to me ,daddy and brother several times now in the last week .
he has chest hair and that means that he is really growing up and that i am just got to have to understand that even if he is growing chest hair - hair by the way that will just keep growing and growing till it reaches down to there - he just points down to the ground -i don't know if it will stop at his knees or what .anyway even with the chest hair he will not even leave me he will live here for ever and i can still drive him to work .
i thought that i could wash off the chest hair - it being dog hair stuck on by Popsicle or dirt of some sort ,i was wrong it is still there growing more and more everyday -and no brother does not have any yet because he is the little brother and when HE gets to be as old as J then he will have some too - OK yes everyone in this house does know they are twins - but that still really bugs little C that he is the little brother -so J got a scratch on said chest and needed a band aid -you will probably be just as relieved as he to find out that the scratch was not where the chest hair is but to the right of it - but i was still given instructions on how to put the band aid on so as not to hurt the massive puff of chest hair "cause that would hurt momma "
i have pointed out to him that daddy does not have chest hair down to the ground so he should not really expect that his will ,i was told that he just could because his started to grow when HE was five ,and daddy did not start growing his till later .
see folks he has it all figured out - well except how to get that band aid off

cookie day

so as you know there is nothing to do at my house .no toys, no brother, no games, TV, books, dog or mother to play with . we have had several day of orange level pollution days in a row and so i try to keep them inside . now most of you have boys in your house so you understand how hard it is to keep them in and still get all the energy out of them . they have not been going down to bed very easy at night it is taking longer and longer. there is much more fighting and arguing and the every so often -"well then i am kicking you out of my band "threats . i will admit that a few times i have chosen my sanity over their very health and made them go outside (OK a little on the drama )- if you ask CJ i make them run laps and tell them to just adjust when they ask for food. you have to ask my mom about that one .i am sure that she is working with CPS right now - JD swears that i am sending him out into the rain forest or something just as bug infested . i have to tell you it brings out the sick woman in me to see him run around the yard ducking and dodging and screaming from things i cant see from in the house as i just laugh and laugh -so i in an effort to look better in the CPS reports decided we would make cookies - so we washed hands (only to lick our fingers every time we touched the Cookie dough ) and got started - they made it all the way through ...the first sets of pans - then they were only interested in how long it took for therm to cool so they could eat them - so i was left making the rest all alone - while i bounced back and forth stopping a fight here ,changing a movie out,making one brother invite the other back into the band ,stopping monster trucks from running over littlest pets . oh and burning cookies . now i made this great plan of cookie making so i could only heat the oven once that day because it heats the house up so much so i was stuck in the kitchen after cookies were done cooled and in boys bellies to make dinner and still do all of the above . That's when much to my mistake - i thought the Calvary arrived- no it was just big C home from work so tired and hot that he needed a nap and just wanted to be called for dinner.aaaawwwww

here is the proof that did at least try - please make sure that these pictures end up in my file

PS in case you don't have my moms number to ask about the adjust -

i told him to let his food digest before asking for more

digest - i swear !

aaaagggghhhh

all i can say is aaaggghhh sometimes this man drives me nuts -
love him but aaagggghhhhh!

daddy's vacation

our daddy has been on vacation since the 3rd and will go back tomorrow .we have had tons of fun with him starting with the cats game on the 4th then pool time,


putt putt wednesday ,the zoo thursday
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and then the first trip to six flags for the boys on friday

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we also got to spend some time with our mackyla who stayed all week - she rocks as far as big girls with cooties go .we got to see our cousins that we don't get to spend too much time with and love love love .we ended the fun last night with a family get together at my brothers to say good bye to my brother in law .we have gone gone gone all week it seems but really it was only a few days in a row but the old folks are worn out and the under 30 gang got sleep and recharged !poor daddy got up this morning early and took care of the tree limbs on his moms house and did her gutters ,oh he also took down the pool - it got a few holes ,and moved the basketball goal .so he is done for the rest of the day/week as far as house stuff goes - i am going to spend the day cleaning up from the week of fun so i thought that while the guys have him to keep them entrained (cause there is "nothing to do in this house") i can blog and send you a few pictures of our week .why is it that we wives dont ever get a vacation? even if you take time to veg -out as my mom likes to say . there is still tons of things left to do .
ps while i have been trying to post this i have had to do other things like feed people, stop fights,start movies ,fix things, play - oo oo watch this part mommy -hey hon can you get me ... so this has taken me a good part of the day but if you ask big C i have been in here all day !
leslie

our 4th

we have been to every fort worth cats game on the

fourth of July since the boys have been born.

except when we were in Georgia .

and every year we get a picture of them with dodger the mascot, this year was no different .

it is a great game for a great price . and it is very family orientated . they even let the kids run the bases after the games

and they have a whole kid play area for them ,with bounce houses and everything .the first year the cats were so excited that there were a little over 5,000 people there and now this year there was over 12,000! ok so it is not a ranger game crowd but still ...we had fun ...well all except for little C he had fun till the fireworks - he just cant handle loud noises for the past three years he has cried at fireworks and i have noticed that when they had a school play he would cover his ears when people applauded - so loud noises bug him - now to all who know him you understand how strange that is for me to say - because in my house he IS the loud noise .but hey i just go with it

JULY 4TH

WE HOPE YOU HAVE A SAFE 4TH AND PLEASE REMEMBER OUR TROOPS OUT THERE FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS !