6 years

I can't believe that it has been 6 years already....where does all the time go?

Jeremy,

I love you, you have made my life so wonderful. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for us. Thank you so much for being such an amazing husband and father. I am truly blessed to have you in my life.

Road Trip

A couple of days ago I was talking to my sister Keri, she is getting ready to move to Alabama for her job. The best part is that she will be able to come visit before she has to go that far away. I will be going with her on the drive over there so she doesn't have to drive alone. I am so excited! There will be fun stops along the way like Mt. Rushmore, Devils Tower, and Nauvoo. A couple places that I have not been before and one that I have always wanted to go back to. I will be flying home on the 29th of Aug, just a few short days before my baby starts school.

There will be lots of pictures when I get back, but I was just so excited that I needed to blog about it lol.

Sleeplessness

How is it that all daylong while I'm running around, trying to keep up with a 5 year old that only has 1 speed (super fast), barely able to stay awake that when the time comes to go to bed I'm stuck lying there staring at the ceiling?

So, since it's 1 in the morning and I'm wide awake I figured that I should use this time to update.

Summer has hit us (finally) and Walker is enjoying every minute of it, he is almost always outside on his bike or in the "kiddie" pool or playing with the neighbor kids. I'm so grateful for an apartment with a yard, and not to mention the church parking lot across the street that has become the best place to try to teach him how to ride his bike without training wheels. I have to admit that I am so nervous about taking them off his bike, and thought that I had hid it very well. However he is adamently against removing them. He tells me that he can go faster with them on, they are his "power boosters". School will be starting in about a month and I'm dreading and looking forward to him going to kindergarten. I'm still in shock that he is old enough (maybe it's denial), I have waited for this time to come forever it seems, and now I'm not ready to let him go.

I can't wait to see how much more he learns, we have been working on what we call pre-school time (basically me sitting down with him and some printouts of letters numbers and recently started small books) for several years, and he still amazes me with what he has learned. Just tonight he came up and told me what our phone number was, I haven't even really focused on that yet.

Jeremy is still plugging along at Wal~Mart and trying to survive the remodel of the store, he comes home almost everyday with a new story about what department has been torn apart and scattered across the store. I think that he will be so glad when it is done. I do have to admit that I don't like to go in there while they are working on the remodel, its a mess and things are hard to find.

I have hopes to be able to go camping at the end of the month around Jeremy's birthday with the family, I think Walker would really enjoy it since his only outdoor sleeping experience was in our backyard just a couple weeks ago. Being a typical boy I am sure that there will be lots of dirt and mud involved, but the experience is worth it. I spent many wonderful summers camping and I want to be able to share that with him.

I am grateful everyday for everything that I get to share with Walker, I feel like I missed out so much when he was younger and I was working, I value being able to stay home with him and see him grow. Honestly, this is the best job I could ever have, and he reminds me of that every day.

4th of July Outfits

Once again my friend and neighbor and I decided to make all the kids matching outfits for the 4th.

this is the group minus one

Our friends girls Megan, Katie, Erynn, Melissa's neice Kaycee

Melissa's son Alex, her neice Ashlynn her daughter Gaby and Walker

and our neighbor Chelsea's son Hunter

and ofcourse one of Walker

A day at the river

Walker and I decided since the weather was nice that we would pack a picnic lunch and go to the river and eat and feed the ducks/geese.

He had a blast throwing the bread and he made it all the way around the greenbelt, Im so proud of him!

The gaggle of geese in the flooded area of the greenbelt

The rainbow that Walker saw and made me stop and turn around to see, it is pretty awesome

Walker thought it was really cool to feed the geese and that the baby ones would walk close up to him to get the bread

Some of the greenbelt has flooded and the kids and ducks/geese alike are loving it

Yard Sale Woes

The big day arrived and the weather was beautiful, I couldn't have asked for a nicer day for a yard sale. We had managed to figure out how to turn off the sprinklers so our stuff didn't get soaked over night on Thursday, and we started setting up tables and putting out the items that wouldn't be damaged by the dew. Friday morning was amazing and people started driving up around 6:30, a little early but we had most of it out there for them to look at. Friday was a success and then we looked at the weather for Saturday.....tunderstorms.

Decided to play it by ear and woke up at 5 Saturday morning to cloudy skies but no rain, so the set up process began all over again. It was much slower on Saturday and we had to stop earlier than planned due to the rain (wasn't much but enough that it was getting everything wet).

It was an interesting experience, one that I don't care to relive again anytime soon.

Sayings of a 5 year old

After spending a few greatly needed hours with "the girls" , and talking about our kids and all the crazy things they say and do I remembered something that Walker said to me the other day and I just had to share it.

Walker- "Mom, you have the best job in the world"

Lisa- "Really, whats that?"

Walker- "Taking care of ME!"

What would I do without him????