Summer, swimming, sad, stuff..

Summer - Yes! Loving it!

The boys love sleeping late and playing on the computer and game systems. They love Ron being off right now and taking them to a movie every now and then. They love swimming with us both after I get home from work. (and with the dogs...we have a couple of water dogs it seems) They like Taco Tuesdays from Rosas and Dad grilling burgers, hot dogs, fish and chicken more than just on the weekends.

Here's Kaite looking at the pool..ready to get in!

Why sad you say?

Something ate the yummy grapes growing on the vines in our backyard. Dang! :(

(see previous post for picture of my beautiful long lost grapes)

But, we did get to enjoy some red potatoes we had planted. I guess the critters didn't get to them because they were in the ground. :)

Oh...really cool...Riley and I got to go up to our church's new building. (The old Albertson's on the corner of Morriss and 407 will be The Village Church by the end of this year.) I am on staff in the finance department and they had told us they would be raising a very, very, very large and heavy beam into place last week. We popped by and were able to go just inside the front doors to see what was going on ...it is cool! We use to shop there when it was Albertson's. We also got to go in when they had taken everything out before they started retrofitting the building to be our church. So...to be able to see where it is at about half way through - well...COOL!

Dylan and Riley near the front of the store after all grocery stuff was taken out but before construction began.

Riley near front of building.

Riley in about the same spot as the previous picture.

The large beam is on the ground and was being raised up into the long hole (skylight) in the roof. Apparently it will be in the ceiling of what will be the sanctuary.

Well...other than drawing your attention to the countdowns for our vacation, Ron's birthday and our anniversay on the sidebar...that's about all the newsy/picture stuff I have for now.

P.S. Hope Ron, PaPa Fred, Papa Mitch, Uncle Matt, Uncle Monte, Uncle Dale and Uncle Eddie had a GREAT FATHER'S DAY!!! Love ya'll!!!

Summertime randomness

We love summer! We love water, beach, sand, sun, waves!

Of course we won't make our annual trek to Destin, FL until the first week of August (probably the last time for a while) but we'll still be soaking up sun and water in the our pool out back!

I've got lots of iphone photos to post so here goes some randomness:


mmmmm.....grapes growing in the backyard!




Riley's teacher got married the day after school got out for the summer.




She's so pretty! He just loved having her for a teacher!




Riley and a couple of his classmates/friends at the reception.


Riley and his friend/classmate enjoying cupcakes at the end of year party.


For the teacher's end of the year gift one of the room moms had the idea to put together a cookbook with the kids favorite recipes. Each page had a student's picture then how they think their favorite dish is made and then (written by the parent) how it is really made. She LOVED it! Although she was laughing here she soon shed a sweet tear.


Riley tossing water balloons in a game at the party.


Riley's teacher right in the thick of the game.
(uh...everyone ended up chasing her with the leftover water balloons)

Oh - by the way ... (grandmas and grandpas) ... Dylan brought home his TAKS scores and got commended on all three of his too!


And here - barely seen on the blog - is Kitty Kitty just "hanging around". Her name is actually Clover but she doens't know that. We've always called her Kitty Kitty and I guess she just thinks that is what her name is. :)

So...anyway...here come the lazy but still crazy days of summer! Bring 'em on, I say!!!

Braggin' (mostly for the grandparents sake)

Riley and I were up at the crack of dawn today to get to his school by 7 a.m.. (school doesn't start until 8)

They were having an awards ceremony for students that had 100 or more AR (accelerated reader) points.

Of course one of my maniac readers would get an award like this.

Both the boys LOVE to read! Always have and I pray they always will.


Riley with his certificate and medal. He also got a free dinner at Chili's.


A close up of the medal.

72 students got awards! Riley had a little over 106 points. The top person had 605 points...JEEPERS! I challanged Riley to be the top person next year...hmmm...we'lll see.

On another note. He also brought home his TAKS (Texas Assesment of Knowledge and Skills) test scores today. He got "Commended" on all three tests, reading, writing and math! Translation --- very high marks!

So Proud!!!

Ummm....did I mention that Dylan got "Lamar Leader" this final six weeks at his school? They only award 2 students from each grade level each six weeks this award. And he was one of the ones that got it the final six weeks of school for the 7th grade. The award has to do with good citizenship and grades.

Very Proud!!!

I love these boys so much! I must say - they make their dad and I very, very, very proud to be their parents.

Gotta Run - treating them to a yummy dinner out!

Thankful Thursday

This is not original...I saw it on someone's elses blog and thought that it would be a good exercise for me to remember how blessed I am.

So...this Thursday I am thankful for:

*God

*an AMAZING husband who is a WONDERFUL father to...

*2 sons who make their dad and I VERY proud

*friends who listen

*friends who make me laugh

*a GREAT family

*a job I LOVE

*summer (kids out of school) will soon be here

*holidays that make the work week shorter - more weekend relaxing time!

*a day off alone with my hubby (tomorrow)

There's more I'm sure but these are the few that popped into my head before I headed out the door for my walk/jog tonight.

Boys + pool + day off from school = FUN

3 days off...

We're in the pool!

This is Riley - soaking up some sun and fun!

Last Friday after school and work him and I had some fun in the sun - for the first time this "summer".

I had a little bit better picture I took on my iphone but my finger was in the way...darn.

We're looking forward to many more good times this year but I just had to post a pic of our first foray into the pool.