RALLS!

Happy Holidays 2010

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Braylen Turns Five!

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10-18-05

10-16-10

Happy Birthday, Braylen Doyle Ralls!

We Love you very Much!

Summer photos 2010

2010-08-07T18:37:00.001-05:00

Wow! It’s been awhile……

Here are photos of Dayton and Braylen……

Dayton 8yrs!

Braylen 4yrs!

Mommy’s Boys!

Blah!

2010-02-28T20:28:00.001-06:00

I am marking this weekend as one of the worst.

I started feeling bad Friday around 1p.m. and it hung on.

The hubs told me this morning that i can’t wine about it…..

unless i take some kind of meds to make me feel better.

So I took some Tylenol cold and felt lots better…..

but guess what? ….. it’s back. So I'm fixing to take some night time

meds and call it a day!

But i so hate taking meds so if you don't hear from me in a day, a

week or even a month, Please send someone to check on me.

And it’s not a post without pictures of my boys.

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It was preschools turn to do the character kid assembly.

Courtesy is Cool!

I just love to hear their sweet little voices.

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And Dayton’s Basketball season came to an end Thursday night. They won 4 out of 7 games.

xoxo!

Hearts!

2010-02-14T20:04:00.001-06:00

Happy Valentines Day! The boys, Megan and I went to church this morning. The hubs ~~worked~~ at the salvage yard. But he did leave me a card on the table. It sang “I have been blessed”. So sweet! But we still spent the day without him:(

We had a valentines lunch after church and ~~the boys willing~~ took a picture under the arch way.

Megan also cheesed for me too!

I Love these little boys!

Me and My big boy Dayton!

Me and My little boy Braylen!

Me and My niece Megan!

Aren’t they just cute!

Cousins!

And that was our Valentines Day.

XOXO!

Party!

2010-02-11T21:22:00.001-06:00

Braylen’s preschool valentines party.

Braylen said this is the funniest valentine card ever. lol and in his lap he holds his valentine box that we put together late last night.

I only got 1 picture of Dayton at his party. 2nd graders aren’t that excited about parties like the preschoolers.

Happy Valentines Day!

Test!

2010-02-11T20:10:00.001-06:00

just downloaded windows writer again!

another giveaway!

2009-08-10T12:19:00.001-05:00

check out www.jordanandhaydensmommy.blogspot.com for cool giveaway!

End of Summer pics!

2009-07-29T11:06:00.002-05:00

I took pictures of the boys yesterday while it was misting. I wasnt sure if they would turn out. But to me I LOVE them.I couldnt help but share these with you. I edited them with picnik because the free online photoshop was driving me crazy. So there you have it. Thanks picnik!

*I really didnt want this one to be a Cowboy but He sure makes a cute one!*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAYTON!

2009-07-25T07:10:00.007-05:00

July 25,2002

Happy Birthday to you! Today Dayton is 7. It's really hard to believe that 7 years has gone by. But this lil guy here is growing to be the best man ever. Yea I can say that because he's mine. No really I believe he will make some lady happy one day,"once she gets use to her Mother-n-Law!"

Plans for today: Mom make breakfast

Dad takes us up to the mountain for lunch

Party at the park with friends and family

Rodeo tonight!

Yay!

Hospital picture July 2002

10lbs 5oz

21inch

4 weeks old

Lots of hair and it always stuck up!

* Cutie Pie*

He looked so BIG!

The BIG 3!

~Smile~

*He so didnt want to wear this PINK shirt*

(his daddy and grandpa told him that pink is for girls and he wouldnt even use a pink towel.)

This is his school picture last year at the age of 6.

I told myself that I would get his picture made with the numbers until he turned 5 so there you have it.

Happy Birthday Dayton Ray Ralls!

Love you bunches

Mom, Dad, Gavin, and Braylen

Our 4th of July!

2009-07-07T00:15:00.007-05:00

4th of July Parade 2009!

2009-07-07T00:11:00.000-05:00

No Pictures!

2009-06-20T16:30:00.003-05:00

I never post without pictures.

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I DID!

We went to the family day of our reunion this morning at the river and of course my boys wanted to get in. So I take my chair down to the edge of the water. I also have my camera because I never travel without it. I'm sitting in the water and a friend of mine needed some sunscreen for her baby so of course I get up and take her mine. My camera is in my camera bag hanging around my neck when all of a sudden the camera bag flips over and out comes my camera.

####, ****,@@@@! YEA those bad words were running through my head. But I didn't let them slip because of the kiddos.

I'm very lost without it. My SD card still worked. I did get to upload the few pictures I took.

Dayton has his baseball party tonight. Who's gonna remember it without pictures? Not me!

Also Jamie opened his Father's Day gifts when we got home. And Do I have any pictures to show you, of course not.

I'll tell you and you can my up your own picture.

From Braylen a six pack of hershey's chocolate bars. (he picked it out on his own. Said my daddy loves these.)
From Dayton Transformer Movie
From Me a camo game camera with a 2GB SD card.

So there you go a post from me without pictures. :(

Dayton

2009-06-14T21:58:00.002-05:00

* Friday morning: We were getting ready for VBS and Dayton and Braylen were in the shower and I was blow drying my hair. Dayton opens the shower door and says mom I dont feel good and he was as white as a ghost. He starts to fall, so I throw my hair dryer and I grab for him. His eyes start to roll back and I begin screaming at him to stay awake and look at me. I carry him to my bed and wrap a towel around him and he grabs for his throat grasping for air. I continue to tell him to look at me and hang in there.

* We finally make it to the livingroom and I grab the telephone and call Jamie. It goes straight to his voice mail so I call the main office and I tell the lady to have him call me NOW! After I hang up the phone I call his cell again and he answers. Meanwhile I'm holding Dayton up against the porch rail. He opens his eyes and says everything is yellow and then he says I have to throw up. He dry heaves a couple times and then he says he's fine and I sit him down in a chair on the porch and he says he wants some water and ice.

* So I tell him to sit very still and wait for me to get his drink. I run in and get his water. Braylen is still in the shower so I run to the bathroom and turn off the shower and I grabbed a towel and I tell Braylen you are going to have to dry off and get dressed fast. Which I dont think he had a clue of what was going on.

* I get back outside and Dayton is still white. 20 mins has gone by before Jamie gets there. He asked me why didnt I call 911 and to me if I would of called 911 then it meant something BAD! I wasnt ready to admit that it was BAD.

*We took him to a clinic in Mena and they were so nice. They got us in ASAP. They ran an ekg and drew all kinds of blood from my lil man but he did really good. His blood sugar was 90 and blood pressure was good. They put a 24hr heart monitor on him. The doc thought maybe his heart or migraine.

*I was so scared. Never in my life do I want to do that again. I couldnt sleep at all Friday night I walked back and forth to his room to make sure he was still breathing. Finally I climbed in bed with him then thought that I was bothering him so I got in the floor and put my hand on his chest to make sure he was breathing then finally after crying my eyes out I carried him to my bed. I fell asleep and didnt even know it stormed. But at least he was right beside me.

* I've been a crazy mom since. I 'm not letting him do anything without me right beside him. I took him fishing Sat evening. Then we went swimming and he did fine. No spells of any sort.

*Just hopeing they find out what caused the fainting. I would love for things to get back to normal. I'm so tired of being scared.

* And of course I had to get pictures of him and the heart monitor.

* Prayers are welcome and thank you!

New Dog!

2009-06-02T10:49:00.001-05:00

Our Handy Manny! The boys toilet handle broke so I bought a new one and Braylen decides that he can fix it and I never thought anymore about it when he told me that and the next morning when Dayton goes to the bathroom he said mom you didnt fix the handle. But Braylen did? Dayton said but you might want to bring your camera.

This is what I found! Too funny at least he tried,Right!

The new addition to our family! And most of you know my luck with dogs but This one really needed a home. He was givin to us. The boys named him "Bugzy!" We are not sure how old or anything but he is house broke so that was a big plus. He's also a picky eater. No dog food just table food.

So ugly, he's cute!

Ball Games!

2009-06-02T10:34:00.004-05:00

This is Braylen and I at his T-Ball game at Smithville. I wish I took my camera on the field because when he hit the ball he ran so fast and looked so darn cute!

Jamie played in a co-ed softball tourney 5-30-09. He was the pitcher. He did really good but not good enough to win it all. They won one game. But we were there all day.

Dayton hanging out in the dug out with the big people! Wishing he could play!

Braylen and I soaking up the sun! We tanned that day and poor Dayton just burnt..He takes after his dad; a white boy!

This is Braylen and his dad showing us some stunt moves... no wonder my kids always get hurt when they are left with their dad....which I quit doing after he lost my baby at a ball game. Now thats a whole other story.

WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO LATELY!

2009-05-28T12:21:00.000-05:00

FIELD DAY @School 2009!

This is 1 of the events Dayton was in.

Tug-of-war!

His team lost!

Below is pictures of Braylen winning a new bike at field day.

His name got put in the jar because he walked 5miles during a certain period of time.

Both my boys walked 40 miles total. Way to go boys!

The school nurse was over the event and let the 2 people who won the bikes meet her at wolly world to choose a bike.

* To be continued.....

More Ball games!

2009-05-28T12:20:00.000-05:00

1st Teeball with Braylen and Kylie

They played against wickes!

I just love to watch these little ones run and play!

Dayton down and serious. They played in a tournament at DeQueen!

They won 1 out of 3 games!

Gavin batting!

He played in the same tourney and won 1st place!

Way to go Lions!

Rhyen and Jordan also played in the same tournament.

Rhyen is my neice and Jordan is Gavin's sister.

They won 2nd place in the tourney!

Way to go Girls!

Brayden is my husbands cousin and his team played in the tournament and placed 3rd.

It was a very long day of ball games. But I wouldnt change it.

The New Bike!

2009-05-28T12:19:00.000-05:00

This is the day after he won the bike. He was so excited. We went to the park so that he could ride it. Our yard is not flat so no place for him to learn to ride. But after a couple times around the ball court he was a pro!

Of course Dayton had to bring his bike along!

They both were rockin their sunglasses.

Preschool Field Trip 2009!

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This was the end of year field trip for preschool. They went to the wickes visitors center. They got to see animal furs, eat a sack lunch, play at the park and go on a hike. They all had a blast!

This is Braylen playing the quiet game before getting on the bus!

They ranger brought out a snake and told the kids not to touch but guess who did?

Yep, Braylen did. He's not afraid of anything. Which really scares me.

This was on the play ground. Not sure what they call this thing but all the kids loved it.

This is on the bus!

And the group picture of Ms.Stacy's class.

And yes Braylen was mad because I got on to him for throwing rocks.

They had a wonderful time.

Memories!

Preschool Graduation 2009!

2009-05-28T12:16:00.000-05:00

This day was My niece's graduation day and Braylen's day of movin up. Megan will be going to kindergaten in August and Braylen will be back in Preschool. Because his birthday is in October he'll have to go to preschool for 2 1/2 years. Hopefully this will make him SUPER SMART!

Valerie's Graduation Day!

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This is my half sister. I'm 10 yrs older than her. She was the BABY!

Her Graduation day came May 19th 2009! I'm very happy for her.

She is married and expecting a baby in November. So for this day to come it couldnt have come sooner.

This is her with our Dad!

Cousin Emily!

Emily and Braylen!

The Graduate!

Me and Val!

Bobbie Sue ( our sister)

Aunt Val and my boys!

Val and Rhyen!

Val and Leah!

Shelby and Val!

The Sisters!

Val and Laycee!

Victor (our brother)

The diploma!

Koty's Kindergaten Graduation and 6th Birthday Party!

2009-05-28T12:14:00.000-05:00

* Koty getting ready for graduation!

* The walk!

* Koty's party...That's the gift Dayton got him and in the left corner is the gift from Braylen its a turtle. (shell is orange)

* Gotta love the cake!

* and the cupcakes too!

Koty is my nephew. He graduated from Kindergaten on the 22nd of May and turned 6 on the 21st of May. We celerbrated it all on 1 day. Way to go Koty! And Happy Birthday!

Also Koty had a really cool teacher and I'm hopeing she'll still be there in a few more years to be Braylen's teacher. Yeah I'm talking about Kim from The Posey Family. She's really a great teacher!

Award day!

2009-05-28T12:13:00.000-05:00

Dayton and his 1st grade teacher Mrs.Smith!

She did an awesome job!

*Dayton made all A's all year long!

Dayton and the Principle Mrs.K

She is retiring. After 31 yrs in education.

We're gonna miss you!

Gavin posing with his medal!

Dayton and his trophies and medal!

Gavin and Dayton!

* Gavin received: all A honor Roll, Reading counts of 300 plus books and a classroom award.
*Dayton received: all A honor roll, Reading counts of 230 plus books, and Perfect Attendance.

*Dayton will be going into 2nd grade and Gavin will be going into 4th grade in August.

Thursday was their last day of school.
Way to go Boys!

Shelby's Graduation!

2009-05-28T12:12:00.000-05:00

Braylen and Megan @ Shelby's Graduation!

Me and Shelby!

Val and Shelby!

Shelby and her Mom (Eileen)

Shelby and Uncle Dwight!

Shelby and the kiddos!

*Shelby is the husbands cousin! She graduated from Dierks High! She wants to be an Art teacher!

Babysitting!

2009-05-28T12:11:00.000-05:00

I babysat Friday night for my sister-n-law.

Laycee is almost 2 months old.

On Friday night I had 5 kiddos.

That includes all 3 boys of mine and Megan and Laycee.

We went to the graduation at Dierks and then back home.

Megan is never any problem so I just knew that is was gonna be a good weekend.

Until we got to Grannis and Megan says "I'm gonna throw up on myself."

So I pull over and nothing so we head on home.

Laycee has slept all this time and now that it's 10pm she's not ready to sleep.

Finally I get her to sleep and Megan comes and wakes me up to tell that she threw up every where.

So I get that cleaned up and guess who is up again Laycee because she didn't feel me beside her.

*Note her mom holds her all the time so Laycee thinks that you have to be right beside her or holding her all the time.

Okay everything is quiet again and Megan is back to sleep and Laycee finally doses back off.

Oh yeah I hate her pacifier because she couldn't keep it in her mouth because its one of those straight nipple ones that the dentist recommends. grrrr.

So anyways every one is asleep again and then around 2am Megan is back telling me that she has wet the bed this time.

Okay I'll clean it up and you go change again.GRRRRR.

Laycee thank goodness doesn't wake up this time.

Megan is now in a clean bed again.

Around 4 am Laycee wants bottle.

Double GRRRR.

At 6:45 am Kevin is knocking on the door to pick up Gavin....Lovely!

I have not had a wink of sleep!

So after Gavin left I just stayed up.

Victors calls around 8am and comes over around 10am to visit with Megan.

Braylen wakes up and is mad because someone forgot to flush the toilet...so I go flush it and there is poop every where. It was from Megan she had Diarrhea instead of wetting the bed. So nasty!

I thought that that day would never end.

Night #2 Much better I gave Laycee a nice warm bath and bottle around 9 pm and she slept till 4am Wow!

But then the next day I couldn't do anything because she still wanted me to hold her.

So glad the boys are at the age they are now. Ahhhh!

But the pictures below show nothing about the tiring weekend I had.

I got all Happy pictures.

Sitting on the porch and she loved it!

Dayton and Laycee!

Megan My pucker and pooper for the weekend!

What a smile!

Braylen and Laycee!

At 1st she wasn't happy...Then she just laid there!

She loved it outside!

Memorial Day 2009!

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The boys and I rode the 4 wheeler around while Jamie cleaned around the yard.

We stopped at a bridge and I just had to take their picture!

Then at the railroad tracks!

Then Jamie's Uncle Dwight called and invited us over for lunch.
Of course I couldn't resist this pose!

And Dayton all of a sudden wanted to be a Rancher or Farmer what ever they are called and walked out into their pasture with the cows! He fed them so scraps from lunch.... and the cow munched on his hand, It didn't leave a mark but he said Mom that cows tongue is ruff.

We had a great day!

1st of our Summer Vacation 2009!

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*Braylen climbing on a tree that was blown over during all that rain we got!

*Again!

*Dayton and the tree!

*Gavin and the tree!

*All the boys and the tree!

*Dayton fishing in our creek!

Braylen fishing in our creek too!

* This is what Braylen caught!

* Then this little fish!

* Then Dayton finally got a fish!

* This kid is not afraid of anything!

* He tried sneaking the frog in his pocket so he could bring it in the house!

* He's all boy!

* I'm so gonna enjoy our Summer Vacation!

* Never a dull moment here!

* Have a Great Day!

Baseball!

2009-05-14T22:23:00.002-05:00

This was our 6th game of the season. And we finally brought home a Win! Score was 8 to zip! The boys played really go and the other team just wasnt that good. It was like the bad news bears playing the bad news bears. So go get'em boys! I loved seeing their faces with a win. Makes my heart melt.

*I'll have to post a picture later of the winning team. It was great!

It sure changed my mood from earlier today. My co-worker tried to make me feel bad about something she was accused of. And seriously she made it sound really good. Like I was actually invovled. I talked with our Principle and my name was never mentioned over the situation. So a darn rumor had me upset all day over NOTHING!

How can you show up to work knowing that this person lied to you about this situation. And how could you ever trust them again?

*** The boys play again Sat. We are in a tournament. The tourney makes money for a scholarship to go to anyone in the surrounding county that wants to play baseball. It started 4 yrs ago, after a 15 yr old boy killed himself, He loved all sports but BASEBALL was his favorite and now his Dad puts this on in Memory of him.**Such a get scholarship.

Missing Him!

2009-05-12T23:01:00.004-05:00

My husband is gone on a Hunting trip to South Dakota. He left Sunday evening. I thought that it would be a nice little vacation with out him here for a week. Guess i was wrong. Tonight has been rough. It all started when I read the blog from http://kayleighannefreeman.blogspot.com/. That really hit me hard. I can't even imagine what the family is feeling. Then I started uploading more pictures to the slideshow and the songs hit me with a bang. The boys went to bed without being told to.Then the house became very quiet and then I started missing him like crazy. Not sure if I can make it till he gets home. He called today when I was doing my car line and wasn't able to talk. Then I called him back but he didnt have very good service. So that pretty much sucked.

Just wanted to get that off my chest. Thanks for listening or should I say reading.

Breaks my heart!

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Asking for prays for the Freeman Family for their little angel has left home to go be with our heavenly father. http://kayleighannefreeman.blogspot.com/

Busy life!

2009-05-10T22:11:00.007-05:00

*Sorry I haven't blogged lately. Ive been really busy, I havent had time to sit down and blog but yet I have read a bunch of blogs. With baseball season and making a slideshow for preschool and getting donations for the 4th of July events. I wonder how I even get up each day and do it all over again.

*But some how I still manage to get a few pictures of what is taking place around here. So I'm gonna start from this weekend and hopefully keep you more updated than what I have been. So here it goes.

* Friday May the 8th 2009. Braylen gets a booboo at school. He was in class and his teacher tells the kids to get their show-n-tell and him and another little girl get up and run to get their s/n/t and Braylen some how trips over her and hits his eye on the corner of the table. OUCH! So I take him to the walk in clinic and the doc puts super glue on it and makes it so much better.

* Braylen's version of the story: Ms. Tacy (Stacy) said go get your show-n-tell and me and Keira start to run and her tripped me and the table hit me.

Mom: Are we suppose to run in the classroom?

Braylen: No, but Ms.Tacy should of just called one at a time.

(smart boy)

*The conversation on the way to the walk in clinic:

Dad: Braylen let me see your eye.

Braylen: Mom I should of died.

Mom: With tears pouring down her face: What do you mean?

Braylen: I should of died so the angels could come get me and take me to Jesus so he could rebuild me!

Mom: Tears are pouring out faster.

Dad: No,Braylen if its okay with you, We will just keep you.

* Silence the rest of the way there.

*In the room waiting Braylen asked if it was okay to cry when they gave him stitches and of course I tell him yes and he lets out this horrible noise when she puts super glue on him. It was a gurgleing sound. As soon as she was finished he opened his eyes and said lets go home now.

Before the super glue!
After the super glue. You can kinda see a tear. Which I'm not sure if it is a real one. Lol!

* Saturday May 9th. Braylens 1st T-Ball game. He is so excited about playing ball.

*Batter up! He hit the ball everytime. Which remember it sits on a tee all you have to do is swing the bat straight.

*This one cracks me up! He is really serious about getting to base. He's gonna be my little runner and take after his daddy on that part. Hes got some speed too!

*He's headed for home plate. It looks like he maybe stilling base. Thats my boy. He is growing way too fast!

*Mother's Day! This year it came a little early around my house. My mom bought me a laptop, and a freeze. Then on Thursday my husband took us out to eat at Papas. Then on Friday evening he brought home a Uplander aka "minivan." Because our family is way to big for my little ford focus. He also bought me a GPS(tomtom). Only because I missed my Bfs wedding last weekend, because we got lost in Russellvile.
*This morning we got up and the boys each had made me nice things from school. We went to church and the nice little Impact girls team gave the mommies a plant and a pin that read #1 MOM! Thanks girls that was too sweet. Then we went to Jamie's moms and to his grandmas and back home where he began packing for South Dakota. His vacation that he has had planned for a year. So I cant say much. He'll be gone for a week. They pulled out of the driveway at 6:25 pm.

*Below are pictures of My Mothers Day!

Laptop! I can't seem to put it down.

Freezer! The boys love it more than I do. I guess because its new.

The Uplander! Its an '05 model but it only had 50,o00 miles. The previous owner gave top $ for it and hardly drove it. She just wanted something smaller and gave us a great deal. It has leather seats, Dvd player, 6 cd changer, automatic everything and there is so much room.

Mommie and Braylen!

Dayton and Mom!

Mommie and her bestest boys!

The best husband ever!

Aren't they cute?

*Gavin went home with his mom after church. So no pictures with him this go around.

*What a wonderful day!

Megan

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This is my beautiful neice Megan. She is 5 years old. She goes to preschool with Braylen. She will graduate in May. She only comes to school 2 days a week. I forgot about preschool graduation pictures. So she missed taken them at the school. So I took a few yesterday after school. I think they turned out pretty good. But when I showed my brother he said well there is a couple good ones. What the heck, Bro at least I tried. Lol! So I thought I would get your opinion too!

Another Monday!

2009-03-30T21:10:00.004-05:00

PINK eye has kicked our butts around here. Braylen got it the week before Spring Break. Which it took a 3ml bottle of eye drops to get rid of it. Mind you the little bottle cost $65. But was worth every penny. Check out how my little man looked.

* This is Sunday around 2:30.
* This is Sunday night around 10:30 p.m.

* And this is Monday around noon.

~Poor guy, you know that it was painful but he was a real trooper.~

Guess what? Now that Spring Break is over and we have to go back to school. Yep you guessed it Dayton woke up this morning with Pink eye. Thank goodness we have a few drops left. He actually doesn't look that bad. But the school nurse sent us home anyways.

~My turn is coming.~

I'm a new Auntie again!

2009-03-28T16:58:00.003-05:00

At 12:53 this morning Leah my sister-in-law had Laycee. By c-section.She was breech which caused her collar bone to break.She is doing okay. She wasn't due till April 27th. But she was in a hurry to get here. She weighed 7lbs 13oz. She looks just like her daddy. Which is sad but for some reason she can pull off the look. She is just so beautiful! Here are some pictures I took, you can be the judge of her beauty. LOL!

Spring Break @ the Ralls' Place

2009-03-28T16:43:00.003-05:00

Spring Break is almost over for us. Which I seriously didn't get a BREAK! Jamie worked and the boys and I just hung out.
*Monday- I was up at 5:45 to get Megan, my niece. She stays with us while her dad is at work. Dayton had an appointment with the ENT at Talihana. The ENT said that the knot that comes and goes is a lymph node nothing they can do about. WHAT?

**Also when Jamie got home from work Dayton wanted to practice baseball. Here's what happened Dayton and Jamie were playing catch and then they yelled for me to watch. It's gonna be a high ball and then it smacks Dayton right in the forehead.

It was a real baseball too! It made a THUMP!

*This is Kendri, my sister Valerie's niece. She called needing a babysitter for her so of course I said that I would keep her. She is around 18 mos. and wears 4t or 5t outfits. So guess what we did? We went for a walk. She was really an okay kiddo. After she threw up on me and fought about taking a bath.

*Tuesday-Megan came over again. So the day started at 5:45 when she got here. We went to Mena and got a new dryer because my other one was making this horrible screeching noise. I had to get it out of here. Dayton and I played catch for awhile. I think he's gonna be pretty good. We bought the movie "Bolt!" We liked it. Gavin came over and he spent the night.

Megan and Dayton

*Wednesday- Just me and the boys again. On this day we took a 4 mile walk. Which wasn't really all that bad. The older 2 boys complained more than poor little Ol'Braylen. Then they played or should I say the fought about everything. While I cleaned house. Then off to Chruch. Gavin also stayed the night again. Which doesn't happen much anymore.

*Thursday- Another day that started early. Gavin had a dentist appointment in Ft.Smith. His mom picked him up at 8:00 a.m. Jamie worked all night so he needed to sleep so what were we going to do while he sleeps? O' I know another 4 mile walk. Yeah I'm crazy. This time it was just Dayton, Braylen and I. While we were walking I had to keep yelling at Dayton to stay on our side of the road. And this is Braylen's response to that, " yeah Dayton you will get ran over and then It will be just me, right mommy?" Then he says "then I wont have anyone to fight with." I'm fillin' some "Brotherly Love" aren't you?

*Also Thursday night Gavin had baseball practice at DeQueen and Jamie took him. Around 8:30 or so Jamie calls and says that we are under a tornado watch. So I get out the emergancy candles and wait. Hoping that they make it home okay. Then the phone rings again and it's Jamie saying that the radio said that the tornado would be at grannis- wickes area around 9:00 by this time Jamie is at Gillham and it is 8:55. I tell Dayton and Braylen about the tornado and all Braylen kept asking was "when is the pornado coming?"

*Friday- Just the boys and me again. I know we are always together. No breaks when your kiddos don't have grandparents. Another long story, lets not go there. We had errands to run at Mena, which involved a lot of waiting. Which is not good for the boys. They have trouble being still for a few seconds. Lol! So the errands are done and still time to get in some spring\easter pictures. With a bribe to go to the park at vandervoort. Win-Win for me, I can handle that.

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This is after we took the pictures. I thought that they turned out okay. There was mud everywhere but I told them if they took good pictures for me that we would go so we did.

What a Wonderful Weekend!

2009-03-08T22:10:00.002-05:00

This weekend was so nice. The weather was perfect. Saturday Jamie took the boys fishing. He happened to take a picture of Dayton and his fish. If I would have gone there would be more pictures but I didn't go. I decided to get my hair trimmed and get groceries by myself since Jamie had the boys.
I felt lost with out them. I ran into several people that I knew and they were shocked to see me without the boys. I needed a break from them and they also needed a break from me. I also believe that they needed time with just daddy. As soon as I arrived home they both came running out the door. At least they missed me. I know I missed them. It will probably be a long time before that happens again. Now on Sunday we got up ate breakfast and headed to church. I helped in childrens church, which was so fun. I may start helping more often. After church we snacked a little then headed outside where we stayed the majority of the time.

I like this picture of the boys jumping. How my camera caught that I don't know?

We ate M&M ice-cream sandwiches. Yummy!

We took a ride on the 4 wheeler too! Dayton did most of the driving. Really he did.

And the park @ vandervoort. They really need newer stuff. I think I'll complain to the mayor. Lol!

My baseball player. We went to the picnic grounds where the baseball field is and played catch and ran the bases. And yes I ran too!

Braylen is trying to make a fashion statement,I guess?

Brotherly Love!

Spring time and flowers? Braylen just had to give me flowers. I really don't like flowers because they just die. But I put these in a vase. For Braylen's sake.

Hope everyone as a great week.

I know the weekend will be busy so get ready for some more pictures of what goes on around here.

Celerbrating 81 years!

2009-03-08T21:41:00.004-05:00

On Tuesday March 3, 2009. This man celerbrated his 81st birthday. This is Jamie's Grandpa from his Mom's side. We all call him Papa Doc. Most of you may know him because he's a Big Hornet fan. He goes to all home games and some away games.
He also loves the kiddos. Though most aren't related to him they call him Papa Doc. He's the one on halloween night that hands out apple's instead of candy. Lol! He would also do anything for you. A short story about him that makes me laugh is... He came to the preschool last year because he knew I worked there and walked in with a gallon of ice-cream for the kids. He is always doing things like that. LOL!

I don't know why Braylen was sitting in the corner eating. This picture makes me sad. But he did eat everything on his plate. These are pictures of a few people that came to the party.

We all had a blast. There was plenty to eat and 2 cakes so plenty of sweets as well. Oh yeah he also had ice-cream. This man as lived an awesome life. He is one of 10 kids.(I think)

Not sure why I don't have a picture of Dayton and Koty? All of Papa doc's kids were there except 1 she is in Iraq. And most of the grand kids were there.

Lots of pictures!

2009-03-01T14:55:00.007-06:00

This isn't in order but this is what we have been up too lately. Last night Saturday we took the boys to shogun's in texerkana and the had a blast. The didn't eat much nor did I because we are picky eaters. So we actually went for the show. Our cook did really good. He put on a great show exspecially for Braylen. Which didn't try anything.

Braylen and Gavin showing off their chop sticks.

Jamie and Dayton enjoying their meal.

The onion volcano! or choo choo train is what the cook called it for Braylen. The guy even made a train noise as he scooted the onion across the grill.

Braylen tring the soap. I forgot he did try something. Because I told him it tasted like ramon noodles. LOL!

Gavin eating with his chop sticks.

Our cook told Dayton to open up and he tossed fried rice at him, he caught it the second round.

That's the fire he started to start off the night. Braylen kept asking him to make more fire.

"Our chef!"

That's when we 1st got there.

Braylen was sick with strep so we stayed home on Thursday and he played in the bath nearly all day. He loves bubbles.

A very long story about the sketchers. A little boy in Braylen's class has these shoes so Braylen decided he needed them too. The little boy told Braylen that they make you fast. Lol! Okay While Braylen was sick I told him that we would get those shoes if he let the doctor look in his throat and of course he did after that,so we were off to get the shoes. We pulled into Wal-mart parking lot because I am thinking off light up shoes from there. No Braylen says across the street at that store. I ask Stage? He replies yes. So we go to stage and he walks in like he owns the place and goes straight to the shoes and the lady back there says may I help you? Braylen tells her he needs light up sketchers, yeah I was surprised because all he told me were light up shoes. So the lady says you sure know what you want. And asked how old he was, I told her 3. So he found the exact pair like the little boy in his class. $45.00 later. I never spend that much on their shoes because they will just out grow them. But he has worn them since. So I guess they were worth it.

Braylen got Character kid this month. February- the word was Loyalty.

Not sure if that fits him but okay. This was the day he got sick. He coughed the whole time of the assembly. He got hot and throw up from coughing and I told him that we were going to the doctors and he says not till I get on stage. So sweet. So they called his name to go up on stage and he was happy.

The weather was pretty nice last Friday the 20th of February so the boys thought that it was baseball time. We got out the bats, balls and gloves and played around for awhile. Dayton will be playing acual baseball: meaning the ball will be pitched from the picthing machine at 43mph. Scarry for me, but he is excited.

Now for Braylen this is his 1st year of teeball. He will hit the ball off of a tee. But I had loaned out my tee and I havn't got it back yet so I pitched it to him and he did really good. He even knew how to slide. Dayton said that Braylen watches too much T.V. thats how he learned to slide. LOL!!

My lil' ball player!

Another Award!

2009-02-20T17:56:00.011-06:00

THANKS Kim, from The Posey Family. I'm glad you were thinking of me. That makes my day much better. I just hope the weekend goes by slow,I need time to relax.

The rules of this award are:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude!
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.
I nominate:

Veronica Lee-OF MICEand raMEN

Mckmama-my charming kids

Missy R.-confessions of a overweight shopaholic

A Southern Accent

Darcy Smart-Bottom Enterprises

Heather-Life as we know it

Thoughts!

2009-02-19T20:19:00.007-06:00

Okay where does it come from? On the way home from Rhyen's game, Dayton says "mom I dont want you to die." I told him that everyone dies and that we will meet in Heaven one day. And that we arent going to die until we are all gray headed. Then Braylen jumps in and says "mom are you dying?" "I think I dying." Of course I tell him "No I'm not dying and you arent either.""I told him that he isnt ripe enough yet." Then Dayton says "mom I can't stop thinking about it, I am gonna cry if you die." I tell him its okay to cry but once again when it's our turn to die we'll go to Heaven and wait for each other. Lets just think about our time here on Earth now and do all the right things and hope we live forever. Dayton says "I want to die at 100 because that's old!" How else can you explain it? I just hope I go before them because I cant handle stuff like that. Then again I dont want them to be sad for me either. Lets just hope it will be a long to come for us.

Thank you Lord for these wonderful guys you've given me to spend forever with. I love them very much!

Our walk?

2009-02-18T17:15:00.002-06:00

I already posted about our school doing a Family walk thingy. But today we finally made our 1st 5 miles. For ever 5 miles you walk with a Family member, you get your name in a drawing. The weather has been really crappy lately and today was just perfect so we did it! But I have a Question? Does it really count if you are eating while walking? Braylen grabbed a bag of Doritos and Dayton got himself some Oatmeal cookies.

Braylen chowing down!

Dayton walking backwards with his cookies!

So Sweet!

2009-02-17T19:30:00.002-06:00

I got to sub for Mrs.Posey today, she had a workshop. It was fun to be back at kindergarten. I didn't feel very good today but we managed. Actually the kids were pretty good. Some of them colored for me and that really made my day. I not only had them in class but I had them for P.E. and recess. So at P.E. we went to the gym and I made them run and run some more but to them it was all fun and games. Then at recess we colored pictures of the 1st and 16th president. Then after they did that we played with the smart board. Which was really fun to them. I put it on pbskids.com and played a memory game which I let them take turns picking the right one. They had a blast. I hope they are good for you Mrs. Posey. I kinda spoiled them since I hadn't seen them in awhile.

I know I'll miss them. It was so much fun to do something different.

R.I.P Kujo!

2009-02-17T16:21:00.002-06:00

Has most of you know Kujo has gone through alot. But this time he didn't pull through. He liked to chase vehicles as they drove by our place and this time he got hit and didn't make it. Just as we topped the hill to get to our house I see Kujo in the road and I say oh my gosh. Then Dayton looks up and starts to screams "no Kujo" and talk about bringing tears to your eyes. And he continues to call his name because Kujo was just hit and still gasping for life. And every time he did Dayton would scream. Dayton said mom I am praying right now and more tears formed because he's thinking that praying would bring him back. At the moment I knew that he was gone and nothing could bring him back at that point. The main reason to blog this is because I don't understand why someone would hit the dog and leave him there to die. Why not try to move him out of the road, Or phone the people? In this small town we all know each other and know where kids are present so why would you want to leave this for them to see? That was something I was hoping my boys wouldn't have to face until they were older but to late for that. A special thanks to my neighbor who happened to be driving by and I asked her to move him out of the road until Jamie gets home to take care of him. Dayton also said "now I guess he learned his lesson!" When we arrived home Chowder our other dog who was just recently hit by a truck was whining, we think he was trying to tell us about Kujo.

We had visitors for Valentine's Day!

2009-02-15T12:51:00.002-06:00

Saturday Jamie's Aunt came up to visit. She took us out for Breakfast, which was great I didn't have to cook. Other than that Valentine's Day here was just another day. Jamie got me a puppy that sings "how about some hot stuff baby" and candy. Which I loved because it wasn't chocolate or flowers. Then the rest of day was spent with the boys because Jamie had to work. You may think I'm crazy for not wanting flowers or chocolate but I don't want something that is just going to die in a few weeks and I don't eat chocolate unless its with something like carmel or peanut butter. So Valentine's Day was just mainly for the boys even though I was hoping Jamie would of took me out to eat. But that didn't happen because he didn't get home till 7:00. Hope yours was better than ours. I really agree with Kim way over rated.

Annie, Jamie's aunt!

Allison, Jamie's Cousin!

Valentines party @school!

2009-02-15T12:47:00.003-06:00

Dayton's party was 1st. It started at 12:00 til 12:45. Don't ask poor Mrs. Smith said she didn't fill well. I just wanted a picture of her and Dayton for his baby book. They had lots and lots of cookies and candy.

Braylen's party was next. It started @12:30. And boy did they have plenty of sweets. Half way through the party Braylen says"this is the best birthday party ever." So cute! In the picture he is showing off what he got for Valentine's Day. A bear and a bubble machine. Which by the way Braylen said that "I just love this bear."

Gavin's party was last it started at 2:00. Thank goodness I was tired of running around. They had lots of goodies too.

MY LITTLE POOPER!

2009-02-12T19:19:00.002-06:00

Long story here. We are at the gym at Cove for Megan's Cheer Camp and Braylen has to use the bathroom. #1 and #2. So of course I take him to the girls bathroom. Hold on a sec, 1st off Braylen will not use the bathroom if hasn't been flushed.Okay now we are in the girls bathroom and he says he needs to poop too. So I open the door to the stall and he noticed right off the bat the it hadn't been flushed and he begins to cry. So I tell him that it wont flush,just potty. So he sits on the pot and says"guess I'll just wait to poop at home. So I say fine and I help him off the pot. Then we are out watching the girls practice and then they take a break, so at least 30 mins. as gone by and Braylen and Dayton are on the court playing then all of a sudden Braylen yells across the court from behind a door "Mommy I need to poop",I tell him okay go to the bathroom which is on the other side of the door he is behind. As I am walking over to him he yells "mommy I justed farted" and "it's in my pants." What the heck! Remind you that there is other mommy's there at the gym. Talk about my face turning red. So we get in the bathroom and I clean him up and I tell him that he will be getting a spankin with the belt when we get home which makes him cry even louder. As we are taking his nasty undies out to the car,Braylen says"just spank me now because the belt will hurt and your hand wont. I laughed of course because how smart is he. So yes i spanked him with my hand and asked him why he pooped his pants and he says"the bathroom was dirty and gross." I do agree they were pretty nasty. But he hasn't pooped his pants since he was 19mos old.

Family Time!

2009-02-07T11:40:00.003-06:00

Brothers!

Braylen was in trouble,and mad at his daddy.

My handsome Man! What more can I say.

Waiting!

More Family Time!

2009-02-07T11:39:00.003-06:00

We got to Little Rock around 3:30 or so and stood in line until 5:50. The place was crowded. The wait wasn't that bad. I'm not sure if the boys had fun or not. We got home around 2 am. I drove us from Salem because Jamie kept falling asleep. Then I drove really slow because the deer were roaming. I saw 28 of them.

"Brotherly Love"

Braylen was in trouble the whole time we were waiting.

Gavin waiting on the concert to begin.

Dayton saying "not another picture."

Winter Jam 09

2009-02-07T11:38:00.002-06:00

Here are a few of the Bands that were at Winter Fest 09:

I did have a picture of Hawk Nelson and Stephanie Smith but I guess they didn't upload with the rest of them. But anyways they were there too. Hawk Nelson had a good show also.

Winter Jam 09

2009-02-07T11:36:00.003-06:00

toby Mac put on the best show ever. All of my boys were a sleep by this time. It was so loud I can't imagine sleeping through it. A really good song of theirs is 'Lose my soul." If you haven't heard it yet check it out. Or maybe you would like "Gone!" I really enjoyed their Show.

Random Stuff!

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Braylen found this bandana at school and he was so "rockin" it.

Braylen and Kinley at the Super Bowl P-A-R-T-Y! @ The Halls'

We all had a good time. Even though there were lots of "he kicked me" Or "he hit me" And "weave the white on"(leave the light on). The kids were so funny.

Okay the Spelling Bee was Tuesday at Mena. Dayton made it to the 2nd round and I don't know what happened he knows how to spell "small" but got nervous, I guess.

And for Gavin he didn't even make it through the 1st round his word was "honey" and he got up there and said "h-o-n- y" He was so upset. As soon as he came from back stage he said "lets go!" But we made him sit through the rest of 3rd grade.

Maybe next year.

More Random Stuff!

2009-02-05T19:53:00.002-06:00

Both the older boys got new bikes last weekend. It hasn't really been warm enough since then for them to be outside riding them. I'm so ready for warmer weather.

Gavin on a "Razor"

Dayton on a "Rock it"

Playin aroung with My camera. But Braylen is really cheezin it.

So cute!

Ok our school started a walk 5 miles and your name gets put into a drawing for a big prize. So I took a picture of Dayton walking because I wasn't sure if he could make it. When I walked during the summer he had to ride his bike because he just couldn't make it on foot. So we were off on our 2 mile walk for the day and he did it. PHOTO to prove it. But since Monday it has been to windy and cold to walk. But we plan to finish this one out.

Another Picture!

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This picture turned out cute too! Gavin and his expressions? Don't ask me. In almost all the pictures he looks like that?
He says he doesn't like to show his teeth.

Pictures with my New Camera!

2009-01-31T19:15:00.000-06:00

Yeah I know Kristy and Hollie,I stole your background. Sorry! I just couldn't help myself. So what do you think about the pictures? I think my new camera is great. I love it! But then the background and picasa helps the pictures too! Well my weekend is going way to fast. I haven't even bought groceries like I planned to. So what's there to eat??? Thank goodness we got invited over to Jamie's Aunt and Uncle's house for supper. They had some good food. Now I just have to worry about Breakfast? I'm pretty sure we have some breakfast bars to comfort us till I get to Mena. Lol! I hope everyone has a get weekend. What's left of it anyways.

Stitches!

2009-01-30T06:45:00.001-06:00

Here's a First time for Dayton!
He bought himself a knife Wednesday night. I tried talking him out of buying one but since it was his money I let him. Which he already had a couple knifes but my dad"grandpa" dulled them for him. Okay so Yesterday after school Dayton and Braylen are outside playing and I was CLEANING their room and I hear Dayton scream kinda like he was playing and I ran to the front door to see him standing there holding his knife. He said I cut my thumb. Which at the time he didn't show me the cut hand so I'm thinking just a little cut because there was no tears. He knew he wasn't suppose to have the knife if I wasn't around. So I was ready to "Beat him." Then he shows me his other hand and I scream, then he starts to cry. Jamie is at work so I call him because I'm about to go crazy seeing all of the blood. Of course He doesn't answer so I call the main office and I tell the lady to get a hold of Jamie I'm on my way because Dayton just cut his thumb. This whole time I tell him to hold pressure on it. So when we get to Jamie's work the bleeding has stopped. A good thing. Jamie thinks it only needs a butterfly strip but the first aide lady at his work says to take him to get stitches. So we are at the after hour clinic and Dayton is crying not of pain but of fear. He would whisper,"Mom I've never been this scared."Talk about tears forming. Which by the way I didn't cry.I always cry when something happens to my boys but Jamie wasn't there and I knew that I had to be strong for Dayton. "Yeah me" But I was scared too! Okay so the doctor comes in and tells us yes you need stitches. Then Dayton repeats"Mom I've never been this scared" He was shaking. So sad I wanted to trade him places for that moment. But he was actually a Big Boy! He didn't scream just tears rolled down his little face. The doctor also gave him all the tools they used to sow him up. Which Dayton was tickled then. Then we went by Wal-Mart to get a new toy. Now everything was better. When we arrived home Braylen was excited to see him and wanted to know everthing. After Dayton fell asleep Braylen asked "can I kiss my brother"More tears formed! Of course I told him yes! Then Braylen hoppes in his bed. Now hopfully this will be Our only experience of stitches! Oh yeah he got 3 stitches in case you were wondering.

The cut!

The stitches!

My BIG BOY!

My Little Rascal!

2009-01-25T19:17:00.007-06:00

Braylen has fell in Love with the movie The Little Rascals. Probably because he is one. Ha! Anyways he can say a few lines from the movie and I wanted you to see. I think its funny and cute. Sorry the video isn't excatly what i wanted because he did so much better before I got the camera out. Of courses thats usually how it goes. Hope you enjoy. Now that he has seen it on my blog he his saying it and it is perfect. Imagine that, Oh well you can kinda get what I'm talking about.

Here are the real Quotes:

Dear Darla, I hate your stinking guts. You make me vomit. You're scum between my toes! Love, Alfalfa.

Butch: "You thinkin' what I'm thinkin', Woim?" Woim: Yeah, Butch. What're we thinkin' ?"Butch: "How much fun it's gonna be to STOMP those guys in the race

Buckwheat: Ive got two pickles ive got two pickles, ive got two pickles today .. hey hey.. a doo daaa dii daa doo da day!.. ive got tow pickles today! hey hey!

Buckwheat: How bout 2 cents..Porky:Ok

My BIG Baby!

2009-01-25T19:09:00.000-06:00

My mom,"Grandma" came over a few nights back and brought a bag of clothes that she found on clearance at J.P. and a footed p.j. was inside of the bag and after she left Braylen says thats for babies and decided to put it on anyways and then he found his play pacifer. Then he really started acting like a baby. So Cute! Where did those days go?

Everyday since he got the p.j., he comes home from Preschool and says where "my baby soup"(suit).

It's about time.

2009-01-20T17:35:00.002-06:00

This is Braylen holding "Is a star student award." You have to get 5 stars to get this award. To my surprise I didn't even know he had 1 star because every time I pick him up he either has a letter on the board or a color change, which isn't good. He was excited to get this,which made me think we may be starting a new trend of "good behavior." As soon as I walked in the door he says"look mommy, I got a star" So awsome! The reason I titled this one "its about time" is because that's what I said to Braylen when we got to the car about him getting a star. Then when Jamie gets home those were his exact words too! Poor kid, He's just rotten. Okay today when I picked him up he's crying and cranky. When we get home he tells me"He had to sit in time out for hitting someone" I knew MY Star Kiddo wouldn't last long. Just look at his expression in this picture, should I say more. So much for the new trend.

Our luck with dogs!

2009-01-20T17:16:00.000-06:00

**I'm not warning you this time Kim!**
You will only read it anyways!
But our luck with dogs is not good. Chowder our dog we have had since he was born. Got ran over Thursday evening by 1 of our neighbors. He called us to let us know and I went looking for him. Sadly we didn't find him. So for the next several days the boys and I would go walking looking in the woods by our house, No luck. We finally gave up hope for him Sunday after noon. I told the boys that the buzzards would find him.(sad I know) Yesterday on our way home from school Dayton asked if we could walk one more time to see if we could find Chowder. I told him "No." As we turned in our driveway there he was on the porch. Kinda lifeless. Of course Dayton starts crying and then Braylen says "I'm gonna cry too!" At this point we didn't know where he was hurt but we knew that he was hurting. He slowly got up and I told Dayton to go get so feed and has Dayton opened the shed door where the feed was Chowder jumped up and limped to the feed. So happy to see him moving I began to cry too. As you can see his mouth is messed up and he has a gash in is left leg and the right back leg is swollen. But he's not giving up. Jamie & I were the attending Doctors as you can tell. We didn't have anything to wrap his leg with so we used an old t-shirt and duck tape. LOL!

Update on Kujo. He has always looked sad. But he is doing lots better.

I wanted to show off his new collar. It's a John Deere one.

Sunday!

2009-01-18T18:02:00.000-06:00

Today was such a great day. Thanks for all the prayers. Jamie made peace with one of the Family members. I still can't not yet,but in time I will. We are still along way from where we want to go with this situation. But yet I know there is more to life than letting this bother me. That's were those prayers came in I know. I woke up and the problem from the day before was not on my mind. Thanks again.
Okay if you haven't been to the new car wash in Mena you have go. "Baywash"
1. My boys loved it.
2. The smell is great...Braylen says it smells like suckers and bubble gum.
3. The soap is different colors. (cool)
4. Does a great job.
5. $10.00

*** The boys thought I should take pictures.***

Life here Sucks!!!

2009-01-17T12:14:00.002-06:00

I have tried to post a blog about what is going on here at my house but I just keep deleting it. So much to say but not sure you would understand. Just pray that everything gets better for us. Jamie never crys and he has shed more tears over this than I could imagine. Which makes me cry even more to know that he cares for me that much. Crazy to say but I just don't know what to do. The problem has nothing to do with our relationship yet. But its FAMILY problems. Im sure we will make it through but right now it hurts so bad. Hope your weekend is better than mine.

My 28th Birthday!

2009-01-14T19:51:00.005-06:00

My Birthday was okay. Jamie woke me up and told me "Happy Birthday" before he left for work. Then when I got up around 5:45am. I found notes everywhere around the house saying "Happy Bithday, I love you!" Then when I woke Dayton up, He went to the bathroom then pops his head out to tell me "Happy Birthday", so sweet because I didn't think he would remember. Then when we get in the car to leave I found a note by the steering wheel. It reads......Sorry he would kill me if I told anyone. Lets just say I wanted to cry but held it back because I was headed to work and didn't want people to ask why I had been crying. I have to admit my eyes did water. Such a wonderful husband. Couldn't ask for anyone better, for that moment at least. HaHa...joking.

A card from my preschoolers!

Megan, Braylen And Dayton making ME cupcakes.

Dayton mixing the cake mix by hand and then wants to

know where the mixer is?

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Dayton filling the cupcake cups.

Dayton putting icing on the cupcakes.

The finished product. They were yummy.

Megan and Braylen enjoying the party!

Another kid say...

2009-01-12T19:59:00.000-06:00

While I was cooking supper, Braylen asked "Mommy do you love me?" I said "No" to see what he would say and he replys with the same face as in the picture "i thought that you would?" "well I love you Mom" I said how do you show mommy you love her?"Well lets kiss then!"Braylen says. So cute! How could you not Love this Kid?

Braylen set the table for supper and he took his booster chair down and said " I go to scool now!" When supper was ready I asked him if I needed to put his chair back up there and he replys in a BIG boy voice, "No thank you,I'm fine!" Dayton asked "how does he always come up with the cute things to say?"

Dayton and Braylen are taking their baths after supper and Braylen doesn't want Dayton to wash his hair, of course I'm busy cleaning up in the kitchen so I tell Jamie to wash Braylen's hair for him. After Braylen gets out I help him get dressed and I ask "who washed your hair and cleaned your ears?" He replys "my daddy!" I say to him he's a good daddy, right? Braylen replys "I guess so"

My Husband!

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This blog is about my husband. He has asked me several times if I have blogged about him and the answer has always been "no." So I thought that I would tell you about his new hobby. He loves the outdoors as in hunting any type of game but someone told him about trapping animals for their furs. He tried to trap some last season but didn't really have the things to be good at it. So at the end of last season he bought like $200.00 worth of trapping materials. So yeah he is crazy about this. It is alot of work and time. Which I complain about him spending more time out in the woods than at home. Now my boys are following his foot prints and are loving all this outdoor stuff and I have to enjoy it too so that I can spend time with them doing the things they like.

Setting the trap!

His 1st coyote!

Bobcat!

The happy trapper with his bobcat.(It was huge!)

My Spelling Bee Champs!

2009-01-11T21:12:00.000-06:00

WOO HOO!

Dayton brought home the 1st place trophy in the 2009 Van-Cove School Spelling Bee! Dayton and Hayden battled it out, but Dayton did it! Way to Go kiddo! His final word was "under." Now we have to study for county which is in Febuary.

Gavin also won the 3rd grade Spelling Bee. This is his 2nd year of the spelling bee but it still made me nervous to watch. Congrats, Gavin!

WHERE DID I GO WRONG?
I was so HAPPY on Friday both the older boys won the Spelling Bee. The happiness went away when I went down to Preschool to check in on Braylen.......He had his name on the board, his color was on yellow and as soon as I walked in the door his teacher tells Braylen to tell me what he called one of the teachers next door. WHAT THE HECK? I know he's no angel but he's just 3 and that should count somewhere, right? Well, his teacher called the other teacher over from next door and told her to tell me what he called her. She said he called her "retarded", not sure if they miss understood him but I made him tell her he was sorry and hug her, which I hope made her fell better because she looked like it really hurt her feelings for him to say that to her. Oops Sorry Ms.??? I took him to the bathroom and told him that if he couldn't be good at school he would have to go to the babysitters. He said "I will be good!" I just wanted to CRY to know that my son was causing such a mess in preschool.

2009-01-08T20:38:00.000-06:00

Mornings!

My day started out BAD! I got Braylen up and took him to the bathroom an every morning thing and with boys 1st pee is crazy in the mornings. With Braylen he has major pressure anyways.That kid could pee over my car. Seriously! So I helped him pee by sitting him down and holding my hand over it so pee wouldn't go every where. Mind you I'm dressed and ready to go. I ask him if he is through peeing before i move my hand and he says "yeah " taking his word i move my hand and guess what i got PEED on. I started yelling "I thought that you were finished", "what the heck was that?" And covered it back up. Of course he starts crying and i ask him why he was crying ,I was the one who got peed on and he tells me" because you yelled at me!" "Boo who little boy now i have to change"were my thoughts. Mean! I know now that i think about it but that was just gross. My day got better i ate lunch with preschool because Shana had to leave early and they needed a sub so Mrs K asked me if i would sub for her HECK yeah anything to get out of that room for awhile.

Wanting the best for my kids!

Now i'm stressed about the Spelling Bee. Dayton got his words on Monday and The Bee is tomorrow. Scared, nervous and whatever else you can think of. It was his choice and I have pushed him hard to study. I'm not sure if 1st grade is actually Spelling Bee material? .......... Some of those words he hasn't even seen or heard of before. He's a smart kid and I think he will give it his best. But what parent doesn't want their child to finish first? Good Luck Dayton! Jamie says I'm being to hard on him but I have to differ. Dayton chose to be in the Spelling Bee and I think that he has studied hard and It will pay off tomorrow. Watch out 1st graders, Dayton's here to take it all. Yeah sure I have high hopes because I know he can do it. Jamie just doesn't want us to get our feelings hurt if he doesn't make it. I'm gonna get my feelings hurt either way(Happy hurt or Sad hurt) but I think thats part of it.

Praying for tomorrow to go smoother!

Where does it come from?

2009-01-07T17:39:00.000-06:00

Kids say........

We were at Wal-mart and Braylen and I decided we needed to potty as we walked in the door. So as usual we use the handicap stall ( because it's big enough for me and the boys.) I don't like for them to stand outside the stall because I am afraid someone might take them. (Call me CRAZY!) Over Protective, maybe. Back to my point The boys always go to the bathroom with me even at home but for some reason on this day Braylen decides to crack me up. He comments when it is my turn to potty by saying" I can't watch this" and turns around while shielding his eyes. I couldn't help but laugh and hope no one else was in there. I told Dayton to get a picture with my phone.

"Caution Sad!"

Kim, Beware I know how much you love Dogs!

Our dog Kujo was hit by some people that busted in my mailbox right after Halloween. They hit him in the hind leg which broke his hip and caused him to get an infection from his leg rubbing which was nasty but anyway we couldn't afford a vet bill so Jamie took him out in the woods in Vandervoort and shot him. SAD I know but we thought that would be best. Jamie was sad that he had to do that and the boys were very upset too. Today a guy at Jamie's work was talking about a dog that came up to his house limping and that the dog had a scrap under his neck and Jamie asked him to decribe the dog and by his surprise he described Kujo. That makes it even sadder that the dog went though so much and was still alive. Jamie went by the guys house and called for him "Kujo" and he came running. Kujo is now back at home with us. He seems happy but he still favors the back leg. Amazing Dog. Also an interesting note Kujo was an April fools Dog! Plus that just shows you how good of a hunter Jamie is...Joking!

3months old!

This is Kujo on the 1st day at our house!

2009-01-01T17:29:00.000-06:00

Here's Dayton's finger again. It looks gross! I think we may have to take him to the after hours clinic. He doesn't want to go but what do you do?

2009-01-01T16:31:00.000-06:00

I rearranged my bedroom while the boys were napping. This is Braylen giving me 2 thumbs up when he realized what I had done. He says wow Mom you did it good!

2009-01-01T15:07:00.000-06:00

This was my 1st year to stay at home on New Years Eve. Gotta admit it was pretty fun. I made the boys take a nap so that they could celerbrate the New Year with me. It was pretty tough for Dayton. He goes to bed around 8:30- 9:00 every night and wakes up around 6:30- 7:00. We planned to play games, watch movies and shoot off fire works. WE DID IT!

This is Dayton and Gavin playing Connect 4 against Jamie.(don't mind Dayton I don't know what he was thinking.)Lol! Jamie walked away the WINNER!

Our excitment!

1. Braylen was the WINNER in Chutes & Ladders!

2.Dayton won on 1 hand of Go Fish, Crazy 8's and Uno! He also had the Old Maid once.

3. Gavin won 1 hand of Crazy 8's, Go Fish, and Uno! He also had the Old Maid once.

4. I won in the memory game we played with a deck of game cards, and uno, and I guess I was the winner of Old Maid because I never got her.

5. We watched Alvin and the Chipmunks. Braylen has seen this movie so many times he was telling us every part. "Ya watch this it's so funny!"

6. The fire works were not what we expected. The neighbors got their fire works out later and they were so much better. The boys watched them for inside the house.

Next year we'll have to do better, but for our 1st year to celerbrate at home I give it a B+.

For those wondering where Jamie was he was in the recliner sleeping. He fell asleep around 9:00p.m.

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Braylen and Dayton in the helicopter!

A Shout out to Kristy!

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Thanks Girl! I love Picasa3 it is so much fun!

What Picasa Can do!

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What Picasa Can do!

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What Picasa Can do!

2008-12-31T10:32:00.000-06:00

Jealous bones!

2008-12-31T09:10:00.000-06:00

Gavin is mad at me for not posting anything about him. So here is a picture of him in his uncle Leon's helicopter. Christmas day! I told him that i posted a picture of him already in the blog about Christmas at our place, but that wasn't enough. He was wanting me to blog about him and his deer that he got when he was 7 but i can't find the picture. I think i only printed enough for him to put in frames. I may have it on CD somewhere. But he got his 1st deer when he was 7 and it was a spike. This year he has got a numbing head and a doe. He is 9 now.

Not such a good day!

2008-12-31T09:02:00.000-06:00

We went to town yesterday and when we arrived home Dayton jumps outside of the car to go pee. I yelled at him to come shut the door and he is in such a hurry that he shuts his finger in the door. Instead of opening the door he jurks his finger out. He is screaming like crazy. I look at it and at the time it was just bleeding. In the picture it is swollen and bruised on the bottom. I'm not sure if it is broken??? Poor little guy every thing he touched he cried.

Christmas wasn't over for Dayton

2008-12-29T22:22:00.000-06:00

You can tell that it was a little deer!

Braylen with the deer he was so excited!

I just love this picture!

The Hunters!

What a smile!

Dayton was sad that Christmas was over. He said"Mom i don't want Christmas to be over yet" I asked Why and his reply was he wanted more presents and to be with everyone. Well the next day we go hunting which is his last chance to kill a deer for this year. Remind you he's only 6. We drive around in the truck it is rainy nasty out there and we finally come up on a deer. We throw Braylen in the back of the extended cab truck and Dayton gets the gun out the window and fires he kills his first deer. He was so excited with is hand in a fist he pulls it back and says YEAH!! Grinning from ear to ear he jumps out of the pick up to his deer. A young doe...45 lbs to be exact. But to him it was like a 12 pointer. Jamie and I were just as excited if not more. Braylen yells "Date you got me a white tail did ya! We take pictures and head to camp to check the deer and Dayton says " Mom Christmas wasn't over for me, I got me a deer." Gotta love him so sweet.

2008-12-29T22:15:00.000-06:00

This is Braylen, Papa Doc and Dayton

You can tell that he was sick!

Christmas at our house 2008

2008-12-29T21:51:00.000-06:00

It's been awhile since i've been on here. I guess i tell you how Christmas went at our place. It was ok Braylen was sick. We went to bed around 10:30. Santa left presents around 11:30 by the time "he put batteries in the toys that needed them and threw away all the evidence. Braylen wakes up coughing calling "mommy i need you" i carried him to bed with me and it seemed as if i had just dozed off i hear noise coming from the other end of the house so i get up it's 1:10am Gaivn is up reading the letter from Santa getting all of his stuff from under the tree and waking up Dayton to tell him what Santa left....LOL! I tell them to go put everything back the way they found it and go back to sleep...Crazy kids. Then around 5:30 Braylen is coughing again and is ready to get up to see if Santa has came yet? He runs sown the hall yelling SANTA CAME..GET UP! To his suprise the boys aren't excited they tell him we already know.. poor Braylen shot down.. Well the open the presents from MOM & DAD which they had fun and loved all their gifts. Then Jamie made breakfast and off to Papa Doc's(more presents) then to Aunt Ethal's and Aunt Bonnie's for lunch. Then back home where Jamie's family came to open mre presents and then around 3:30 i was packing every Christmas item away for next year...What a relief. Sorry so long. I had to catch up though.

2008-11-16T13:14:00.000-06:00

This is the boys on Braylen's 3rd birthday. We are going to Leah's wedding.

2008-11-16T13:04:00.000-06:00

I'm not sure how this blog thing works but i'm giving it a shot. We are so out of food but i'm not up to going to Mena.The boys have played outside all morning and haven't even thought about food.They will probably be sick 2morrow. Hope not. I'm crossing my fingers. School tomorrow: I think i'll get to be myself. I have been Mrs. Weed lately. Well that is my 1st blog hopefully no one thinks i'm crazy yet.