And ...........the rest of the story

The ladies retreat was WONDERFUL and so refreshing. We went to Eureka Springs! We got there right about noon on Friday so we ladies were hungry. After scouring part of the town and finding some.........interesting eateries........we settled on a burger joint of sorts. Three of us had gotten nachos that were HUGE, we could all three have split one, and they were definately unique ;)  So here are the ladies with me chowing while I was picking mine up at the window. 

Ashley thought her daughter would get a kick out of her being on the Trolly so we took a great pic. 
This was me and Ashley's sister Britinee.
Our group of three musketeers for the weekend. 
Melody and I a few minutes before service started. 
It was a GREAT weekend and I came back sooooo refreshed! Already looking forward to the next one ;)

2 days with Daddy

Our church had a ladies retreat this last weekend that I was able to attend so David had the kids all to himself. I left Friday morning about 7am and had arranged friends to keep the kids while David worked so the fun began for him about 6:30pm :) He took the kids to the Will Rogers and Gun museums in Claremore than after naps they went to play putt-putt while waiting for me to get in. The kids had a blast and of course think that things must always be this cool when only Dad is home! LOL 

The kids on the tank in front of the Gun museum. 
Since Micah couldn't get in on all the tank climbing he decided it'd be fun to spin on a poll :)

The kids on the rock statue of the Will Rogers museum. 
Brianna got to do a puppet show...... and Micah wanted to get in on it too :)



All the kids in front of the cave at the miniture golf club. Ethan insisted dad take this picture as "mom took one here" :) LOL 

I made the comment only Dad would have them all sit on the ground for a pic like this and he promply told me that they were waiting for the group in front of them to finish the next hole ;)

Needless to say they all had a blast!! Everyone was fed, dressed in matching closes and happy, what more can I ask for? I have a GREAT husband!!

Early risers

So it's 7:20am and my two youngest boys are up, eaten breakfast and Caleb is dressed for school! Now mind you we had church last night and they didn't get to bed till about 9:30pm.......I guess they'll take good naps huh? Since they were up and ready to go I let them watch t.v. (I usually don't do this in the morning) so here they are laying together in my bed watching JoJo.

Me and the Boys

With Brianna at a birthday party and Micah at home napping (with a friend watching him) the boys and I were headed to a playdate for boys.... well that was the plan anyways. We called the host mom since we were going to be running a bit late. She informed us that no one had ended up showing up so maybe we should arrange it another time.........so the dilemma was what to do since they boys had been so excited. We decided to head for ice cream and see if we could figure out what to do from there. Well we decided on Putt Putt :) I think they had a great time despite the looks on their faces when we started. They were indeed excited and were just ready to get to playing rather than taking pictures :)

Field Trip

We have been studying government/politics so we took a fieldtrip to the local Election board office. The kids and I both learned alot. Until then I never really thought about all the behind the scenes work for elections. The kids learned about registering to vote, who's eligible, and a little about absentee ballots. 

After an explination about how the machines here in Oklahoma work the kids got to fill out a sample ballot for entertainers here. 

These were the bags set up with materials for each poll location in this district. It's really amazing how much they have to store in between each election and the level of organization they have to maintain.

Tired of the zoo yet?

Well, if you can't tell we've made alot of trips to the zoo lately :) Between having perfect weather and having a zoo friends pass (making it free to get in) it's been a great source of entertainment! LOL So I won't give a bunch of narration, just some pics :)

Mmmmm good!

Well, after she stayed with Nannie and PawPaw this summer for 2 weeks, Brianna has been wanting to cook some of the recipes she was given to bring home with her :) She got to make one item one night when we had a sitter here but she'd REALLY been dying to make Nannie's famous banana pudding. I've been very skeptical and nervous about it as not being a very experianced cook and LOVING Nannie's I just didn't know if we could make it as good ;) Well we had "Keeper of the Faith" on Monday night so we decided to attempt making it.

Brianna mixing the vanilla pudding for the dish.

Caleb helped out by spreading out the bananas and nilla wafers :)
Wahlah! Despite the fact that neither Brianna nor I had ever made meringe and really had no idea what I was doing it turned out pretty darn good if I do say so myself!