This and that

It's been awhile since my last post. We've been keeping busy, working out, (that would be me, not us) in school for three weeks already, getting into routine, potty training, and having lots of fun in the pool. Here are a mix-match of events.

Our neighbors came over and made us some island drinks, she made special drinks for the kids, complete with pineapple and an umbrella, so sweet of her, and the kids thought it was cool.
They weren't too fond of the drink, so mama added some rum and enjoyed the leftovers!

Arianna's first day of school,
Cor is teaching her how to do her math lesson on the computer


On one of our recent drives we stumbled upon this piece of history. We also found a very old cemetery (people born in the early 1800's, and some Confederate war soldiers were also bury there) A couple was at the cemetery preparing a family plot so we talked to them, and her great, great grandparents were buried there. Quite interesting.

An hour and half later....

...I have pictures, a sore back and a headache!

Up till this year I have been very prompt with getting my kids yearly pictures taken. Instead of taking them individually I thought that I would kills '3 birds with 1 stone'. It turned out not be a bad idea. My sweet, oh so cute, oh such a piece of work little girl aka Julianna made the whole ordeal a headache. We arrive at the studio and two ladies were ready to shot. If you know Julianna than you know that she does not like women very much. No pictures of Julianna were going to be taken. I'm getting frustrated and started wondering what I can do to change the situation...ah, I saw a male in the studio. I recruited him to help out and we were able to get a few good shots mixed in with the endless whining. Finally the pictures were taken and I had to pick the packages/poses. Trying to sort through 84 pictures with a BAD 2 year old was not fun. I bought more shots than I needed but all the different poses were hard to resist. Here are some of the good ones, maybe I should post all the bad ones of Julianna! That guy did A LOT of work to get her to laugh/smile. Once again I'm thankful for men :)













and there you have it, another year of pictures.
Arianna 8 years old
Asher 6 years old
Julianna 2 years old

Congratulations are in order...

My nephew Greg is engaged!! Corrie Rodriguez accepted Greg's proposal this week and they are planning on getting married next summer! We are all so very excited for y'all. Have fun planning your wedding.

where Greg proposed - sunrise

(I stole these pictures from Facebook)