I am so BLESSED

I thank God for my family!!!

We had a STAYcation at their Grandpa's cabin this past weekend. I think this is my new favorite picture!
I'll post more later! We had a campfire with smores, THEY slept in a tent (I in my cabin)!!! We learned to play the game Risk! Simple and good family fun!

First Day of School

First Day Of School!!!

My BABY is in the back with an orange shirt!!!

I cannot believe he is in 6th grade!

AHHHHHHH.....

where did the years go????

and No, I do not have pictures of the girls.

I know, bad mother, shoot me, put me away (I need the vacation).

My Campers Returned

Sorry for the delay! My campers were gone all week and I was a free Mama!


They had a blast! They have all lost their voices from screaming so much! They have tons of candy they purchased from the canteen and lots of treasures in my washing machine!


I hosted a spend the night party for my peeps at the cabin! WE had a blast! Played Phase 10 until all hours of the night, slept late then went shopping!!! We had so much fun together we decided to buy Kenny Chesney tickets for this Sunday. Husband caught wind of what we were doing and was absolutely deflated. He had been working on hosting a radio remote at work and was trying to get free tickets! and HE DID!!! AND WE ARE GOING THIS SUNDAY!


I am just a little bit excited!!!! We bought the People magazine this week to read up on Kenny and his amazing boat (I know...smutt and trash). I feel so in the know! My Mama would be proud I am up to date with "Current Events." ha! She always gets so frustrated that I do not keep up with the news. It is too depressing.
We went to Atlanta for the fourth! It was great! We went out to dinner on Thursday night for an adult dinner and took the children to the new Aquarium on Friday! Amazingly it was not as crowded as I had thought it would be. They loved going through it!

Later that night we went to Lennox for the fireworks! It was such a great show! Mike Mike had a "blast" with all of the grandbabies on his hotel bed...

This week the children have VBS and Music Week at our old church! I have a course I am taking on Wednesday, so the timing is great! I redid some of the girls bedroom since my sister needs her bunkbeds back for her four children since her husband needs an office since he works from home now! I bought new bedding and organized things! I'll post pictures later!

Still ebaying! Had a fun week!

July Is Upon Us

We are finally slowing up for a couple of days! We have been on the go since school let out. We are going to spend the fourth with Husband's family like we traditionally do! The children look so forward to that!

The week of July 7th, ALL of the children are going to church camp - THE SAME WEEK, at the SAME TIME!!!! Husband and I have been on trips without them, but we have never been at the house for more than a night without them! I am so excited! I probably won't get a thing accomplished while they are gone! I need to "plan" my days carefully! Not too much, but at least something!!

I turned in my application to take the Substitute Teacher Course. I figure I spend so much time at the school already, might as well get paid for some of it! I had to request my transcript - WOW! Blast form the past! I miss those days in our apartment, but not the classes! Don't tell my children, but I was not the best student! I made all A's and B's after I met their daddy the begining of my junior year, but before that...Lawsy Mercy... Mama, you should have had my hide for some of those grades. Hopefully my Freshman year will not hinder me getting a call to be a substitute teacher for third grade! How would I ever explain that to the children? "Do as I say, not as I did???"

Great-Grandmother feed him a DOUGHNUT!
Here we are getting slathered-up for the Water Park!