I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

Our family has grown since last updating this blog 3 years ago. Since I am under no delusion that this is more a journal for myself and my family then anything else, I will keep my explanation short as to why i have been absent. simply put LIFE, happened. When last I left you we had just completed our first year in 4H and were getting ready for school.

Since then we have been involved in ATA Tae Kwon, DO, Special Olympics, Boy Scouts, 4H for 2 kids, Girl Scouts, various school (PTO) committees finding a new job for both Andy and I as well as adding a new little treasure to our lives. I think that covers it...maybe.

Life has not slowed down or gotten easier. In fact we are busier then ever, but I personally need this blog back and running. If nothing else for personal venting time. Whether I gain followers or not does not matter, I want to chronicle my little families journey through the world.

T-BALL AND JULY 4TH

JULY FOURTH- We spent the day at the docks with Andy's parents and Uncle Bruce. It was a blast. Uncle Bruce brought up 4 coolers of fresh shrimp and Crayfish. We chased Izzy and Xander with the Crayfish. They were frozen at that point, but they were still alive! Apparently they go into stasis, and we thawed them out to cook them. Really mean! But the shrimp were gone, and so just yummy. Xander pulled the whiskers off of one of them while it was asleep. AHHHH! Izzy held them a few times before they woke up, then when they started to move and after a few minutes of watching them she was brave again. Xander stuck his hand in the cooler of them all moving and liberated I think about 6 of them. They were happy and grateful I am sure. Dimon wanted to smash them, so we didn't let him touch to much. Izzy much to my surprise helped cook them. She just picked them up (with tongs) and put them in the pot. She was quite the little cook. Xan helped liberate a few cooked one as well. But we had a good time. We also fed the geese off the dock with Grammy's help (otherwise known as Chi-chi). Xan really liked that. Dimon was sleeping when we did that. But it was a fun day, and later that night we went to see the fireworks at the bypass with my parents. We had fun and we even inherited a chair that someone left at the fireworks. (Good thing too, because our Colts foldy chairs broke.


Next on the agenda was Tball for Izzy. It was only a 6 week thing, but it was twice a week and she had a blast. She went from being afraind of the ball being thrown at

her face, which her daddy hit her first time out! Right in the nose! Very sad. But she recovered by the end of the 6 weeks she was tagging people out and catching the ball with no fear! She has a great arm and can throw really far. She also has a decent hit. Xander and Dimon sat on the sidelines an cheered. They were really good the whole six weeks. here are some pics of them. Xan loved the mulch and pulling the bark off the trees. He also really liked the playground that was across the field. Dimon would fight to get onto the field to play with the balls. Imagine that Di wanted the tballs! So we spent a lot of time holding him. My fave picture of Xan is the next one of him playing with his stuffed animals. He would set them in the tree (an evergreen) and watch them bounce on the branch. It was too cute! Iz got a trophy at the end of the 6 weeks and she is so proud. She tells everyone with this cheesey grin that she won! We are very proud of her. Next on the list for her is soccer and Karate. ( I think) Xan will do another round of gymnastics ,and I think Di is going to start gymnastics as well. So it should be an exciting fall!



Next interesting thing on the list for catch up is my friend Jenrie. She came home from an archeological school in Montana to find the floor in her room ripped up down to the subfloor! It was insane and her lovely landlady says after 3 days of her being home and moving in with us "Oh my husband laid down a drop cloth on the floor so you should be able to put a bed in there now." Oh my gosh!!!!! So she is living with us till her new lease in her new place starts on the 15th. Its kinda nice to have another adult in the house. I'm gonna be in a lot of trouble when she leaves. We all have a lot of fun, though she may never have kids after living in our crazy house! Love ya Jenrie! The above picture is of us playing throw the ball with a sheet.

Xander's Occutpational Therapist, Scott moved away to work in Louisville. And so at the goodbye party A Sundae to Remember we took a couple of shots. Here they are! Xan is missing him alot, and he said his name for the first time that day. AHAHAHAH.

Lets see what else has happened this summer..... Oh we had kittens!Naru our lovable fuzzy> person (the smaller one) had 5 kittens. 4 white ones and one little grey tiger calico. These are the only pictures I have of them, not sure how that happened. they were playing in the dryer the other day and out came the camera!




The one to the right is the one we are keeping. He doesn't have a name yet. We'll let ya know.
I think that catches us up for now. Let me know if I missed anything! love ya all!