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Been a while!

Wow! I can't believe it has been almost a month since I have posted. I was really going to try to post regularly, but life got busy around here. So, for tonight I will leave you with some bullets about our happenings lately. Hopefully later this week I will be back with a better post :)

• I took the kiddos on a trip to Houston. We stopped in Dallas and stayed a night with my aunt and uncle. So fun :)
• Had a blast in Houston. Got to see some old friends, played at the pool, went to the zoo and got to do some shopping!
• Matt's mom rode back to PC with me, which was really nice. We ended up doing the whole drive in 1 day b/c I was so ready to be home. The kiddos did great!
• I taught VBS this year. I don't think I have done that since I was in high school. I got to teach the kiddos going into 3rd grade in the fall. We had a blast...well, I did anyway :)
• Our church had the parent/child dedication on Father's Day. We had both our kiddos dedicated. Matt's parents were able to be here for that and his g-ma and aunt/uncle came to church with us that day! It was a great reminder for me and to keep my purpose as a mother in the forefront of my mind.
• Matt found out that he will be a general engineer for the refinery, which means we will be staying in PC for another 3 years. After that, who knows!
• I have begun couponing. It is slightly addicting and since I am new at this whole thing it takes me forever to figure out my grocery trips. I hope it begins to get easier b/c I really don't have time to spend hours every week figuring all this out ;)
  
• This weekend we were able to just stay home and enjoy some time together as a family. It was nice to relax for a bit.
• For the 4th we will be going to Little Rock to visit some good friends! Lots of good times are coming :)

Well, I think that I hit the high points of the past 3 weeks! I will try to be better about updating and hopefully getting back to my Tot School posts next week!!

Tot School

25 months

With the holiday on Monday and preparing for our trip to Houston we only did Tot School 1 day this week. It was a fun day and I was glad Moo-Bear and I got to spend some time together!

We painted with red and blue :)

I got this file folder game from Confessions of a Homeschooler. She wasn't really that into it, but she knew how to match the colors.

We played with our bead set we recently got from Amazon. The beads are pretty small so it was kind of difficult for her to string them, but she loved all the shapes and letters.
I bought these flag toothpicks and we stuck them into a piece of styrofoam. She thought that was pretty fun!

I also had some foam stars that are red, white and blue. We worked on sorting them by color.

I got this star shaped ice-cube tray from Wal-mart so we used it to count beads.


We just got to Houston on Friday and are having a great time. i talked the in-laws into going to IKEa today to do a little Tot School shopping I had both kiddos with us and Moo-Bear was really whiny so I didn't get to look around as much as I wanted to, but managed to find a few things. I got some cute ice-cube trays, some fun containers and the best find was some fabric for $1.99 a yard. I am going to make her a tee-pee for Christmas and the fabric was a wonderful price!! Can't wait to work on it sometime :)

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My Birthday Weekend

My parents came from Indiana this weekend to celebrate my 28th birthday! It was great having them here. Maddie loved playing with her grandma and grandpa and it was also the first time my dad got to meet baby Michael. We ate out, hung out at the house, did some shopping, went to the park, played in the pool in the backyard, killed a snake (well my dad and Matt did), played games and just had a great time together! Here are some pics. to highlight their visit!



Mom had a lot of fun playing with Maddie!

Maddie and grandpa on the monkey bars!

We call our sweet boy Little Buddy. When i found these socks I just *had* to buy them!

Me and my sweet Moo-Bear!

Watching a ladybug crawl on her arm.

Grandma and her sweet grand babies!

Grandpa and his grand babies.

Grandpa bought her these sunglasses and she loved them. She wore them all weekend!

Don't you love her outfit? Swimsuit, tutu and heels. What more do you need?

Trying to get a good picture, but Moo-Bear was being goofy.

This is only the 2nd family picture we have taken since little buddy was born!

Tot School

Moo-Bear is 25 months

This was a very busy week at our house. On Monday we went to the zoo with our MOPS group. It didn't go so well. I think Moo-Bear was still tired from our quick trip to LR so she was very whiny, etc. So, we didn't end up staying very long. Her favorite part was feeding the giraffes. Unfortunately, we did that first and then she thought we got to feed all the animals. Of course, that brought many tears when I had to repeatedly tell her we didn't get to feed any more animals. Anyway, my parents came on Thursday and are leaving tomorrow. With all that we only got 2 days of Tot School in and even on those days we didn't do much! But, it was a wonderful week anyway!

The big bear at the zoo. He just paced back and forth. poor thing was so sweaty :(

Moo-Bear and her good friend watching the animals!

My Little Buddy. He was such a good boy at the zoo. Hardly fussed at all :)

She also loved watching the elephant do tricks. It hopped on 3 feet, turned in circles, and waved bye-bye with his trunk!

Me and my sweet girl enjoying the zoo!

She thought it was so cool to feed the giraffes :)

I love how you can see the goldfish in her mouth.

Since we went to the zoo on Monday I decided to find some zoo things for her to do. I had these foam zoo stickers from Hobby Lobby and I put one on a file folder and she matched the other one.

I got these animal print craft sticks (I think Hobby Lobby) and then used old yogurt containers. She had to sort them by pattern. She did pretty well with this, but I think I gave her too many sticks b/c after about 20 she just wanted to fling them around the room!

A close-up of the activity!

We pulled out the golf tee, again. I tried to get her to put blue on one pegboard and red on the other, but she didn't want to do that. Someday (when I have time) I am going to make this golf tee activity from Fun Frugal Mommy for her to do.

finally, we got out the Noah's Ark Little People to play with in the rice. I figured these were animals we saw at the zoo and something fun for her to do!

She kept eating the uncooked rice ;)

Playing with the Little People.

I had to include a picture of my little man. He doesn't do Tot School yet, but this was his first time in the jumperoo. He likes it as long as big sister doesn't bounce it for him :)

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