Labor Day Weekend

Yea a three day weekend. And what NO plans!?! Not one single one? Double yea! Or maybe triple yea!

I managed to get off early on Friday and had enough time to pick up Jace from school. He was surprised and it took him a minute to figure out which car to go to! He says I was also pulled up in the wrong spot…

From school, we went and signed him up for Extreme Soccer. After two years of waiting, he can finally play! He’s very excited and practices using his basketball as a soccer ball. Somehow at the house, we have two basketballs but no soccer balls. I think we need to correct this soon! We hung out at the house Friday night and made plans to go to the farmer’s market first thing Saturday morning.

The farmer’s market is held every Saturday until October 30 in the parking lot of the downtown public library in Beaumont. We have wanted to check it out so with nothing else on the agenda, we went for it! We ended up with 2 kinds of home-made bread, a jar of pickles, 7 or 8 canning pears, and a watermelon. Mama went with us and bought even more stuff. We had a delicious supper that night: fried okra, fried green tomatoes, fried long-horn cutlets, corn, and rosemary bread. Delicious! …Not healthy, but delicious!

I did a lot of reading on Saturday while I encouraged Jace to play by himself. I’ve never seen a kid that would rather stare at me than get his toys and play. At one point, he was willing to go through his toys and give some away as long as I’d do it with him! Ummm, No! Not how I want to spend my weekend!! He finally found a dart gun and started shooting things outside. That was fun until it got stuck on the roof!

Sunday was Tyler’s and my first attempt at teaching Sunday School. I think it went well. Since it was Labor Day weekend, we only had 3 other people in the class. Well, I hope it was because it was Labor Day weekend! They might have run for the hills when they found out we’d be teaching! Sunday was concluded with an afternoon nap and then more reading for me. My boss gave me the second book in a trilogy and I was hooked!! It was one of those you couldn’t stop reading.

Monday was a pajama day!! Naturally, Jace was excited. He loves pajama days (basically, he stays in his pj’s all day) because it means he doesn’t have to go anywhere! I don’t know where he gets it from, but he’s definitely a homebody!!!

It lasted almost all day. He started karate again so he changed into his gi, went to karate, came home, took a shower, and got back into pajamas! During the day, we played a game of Phase 10 Dice and Jace won, again. Not just by a little either! This kid is lucky. Think I could smuggle him into a casino? He must have all the luck that Tyler and I don’t! Maybe he can at least pick the lotto numbers…. it’s worth a shot right?!?!?!

2008 Photo Book

My how time flies. Has it really been two years since...
...Jace's Dump Truck birthday party?
...we took the kids to Tug Boat Island?
...we had our first end of the school year party for Mallori after Pre-K?
...we took Jace to the circus?
...Mallori started kindergarten?
...we evacuate for Gustav and then stayed for Ike?
...Mallori played her first session of soccer?
...Jace tried to shoot a gun for the first time?
...Mallori's carnival party!?!?!
...it snowed for the first time in Southeast Texas in forever?
...the kids got their 4-wheeler?
...I had Lauren take our family pictures at Tyrell park in our cereal shirts? (Maybe it's time to retire that shirt! I think I've worn it at least once every weekend since then!)

I guess it has!

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Suzie Homemake

Lately I've been taking an interest in things that never interested me before. Take for example home decorating. I've always had a less is more attitude with decorating. I attribute this to my mother who tends to go over the top when it comes to this stuff and decorates are redecorates quite often! However, now that we have moved to our house here in Evadale, I'm feeling the need to decorate. It actually started when we put our other house for sale.... yea not good timing!

I thought I would share a few of my "projects" with you. First up is our bathroom. We started out with a jungle theme in our first house because the tile was green. When we moved to our second house, we stuck with the theme in the kids bathroom because we had the stuff :) Same idea here. Here's some of the basic pieces we already had.

Add in 4 custom drawn jungle pictures by two new and upcoming artist...

Giraffe with Gorillas & Snake with Baby Snakes by Jace

Large Snakes Hanging from Trees by Mallori

Elephant with Frog Eating a Butterfly by Jace

In the rain forest you will find... by Mallori

Add them all together and you get....

I think they turned out as a cute addition to an otherwise boring wall!

Next, in my things that Amy is trying her hand at, you get to see what I did to make this colorful mess!