As the deer......

I pulled up to work this morning about 6:20....here's what greeted me in the field adjacent to our building....... Three deer feasting........What I was instantly reminded of is one of my favorite scripture verses....

Psalm 42:1; As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.



~CB~

Have we fallen off the face of the earth?

No--we're still here...it has just been incredibly busy around my house!! I'll be posting (I hope) several posts this week on a wedding...a field trip....the end of a year x2....big changes.....and who knows what other pictures I'll find on my camera. I MIGHT MIGHT MIGHT even do a giveaway........

Who knows?!?!?!?!

Stay tuned!

~CB~

Down on the Farm.....

Here's what our days (and nights) look like 'round here these days......




~CB~

Baseball-Baseball-Baseball

I've been remiss in posting about the baseball banquet held a few weeks ago to honor the baseball team at the high school. Since hubby is an Assistant Coach we attend and get to share in the team's special night.

Hubby LOVES baseball. LOVES IT LOVES IT LOVES IT. Me? Not so much. I can do with or without it to be honest. I like to watch it and I enjoy going to the games, but the late nights he's out there with those kids as opposed to his own, and all the extra time that goes with it is just not for me. It just so happens that my best friend's husband is the Head Coach, so she and I get to vent to each other about "baseball wives stuff" and know what the other is going through! ha!
Our great and wonderful Coaches.........
This year, the guest speaker was Ed McPadden (sp?) who is now a 32 year coaching veteran as well as the Athletic Director for Marion County schools. When Hubby was in high school, he played against McPadden's team and McPadden did say he remembered Cecil......I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but either way--hubby was remembered, ha-ha.


Here is the hubs and one of the players.......whose family is also friends with ours and actually, related "down the line"...........an all-around good kid and very respectful.

Overall, a great ending to a good year of ball playing........and secretly, I'm glad it's over (shhh! don't tell!)

~CB~

W-W-Watermelon

It's that time of year again when I see buses coming and going in front of the house--and one of these beauties comes home with the hubby.....
We started loading this week (praise the Lord!), and the boys always eat the first one from the field! It's a tradition. And you know how I feel about tradition. You don't mess with tradition. Cecil took the boys out on our back porch and they cut open the melon........


And let the eating commence!!!!!!!!!!




Happy Watermelon Season!

~CB~

Reading!

I LOVE to read! It's no secret that when I was growing up if my Mom couldn't find me, she would come look in my room and I'd be lying on my bed reading! I still love to read! When I found out I was having boys my heart (sort of) sank because what boy do you know that prefers reading to frogs and snakes? Yeah--not many! ha-ha........

Nolan's teacher had been telling me that he could read, but I had not seen him in "action". Since then, he's had reading homework every night and OH MY can he READ?!?!?! He is reading fairly hard words too!

Here's what I caught him reading tonight!
Let me tell you how my "Mama heart" swelled with pride when I heard him reading books and getting the words right! He has a wonderful Kindergarten teacher and I'm so excited for him to move to First grade!




My "baby" can READ!!!!!!!!

~CB~

A SPONTANEOUS trip--

Yup--the title said SPONTANEOUS. I've never done a SPONTANEOUS thing in my life. By nature, I'm a planner, an organizer, a director, of sorts. If it doesn't go on my schedule, it doesn't get done. Yes, most of the time, I miss the roses--I'm too busy doing "more important" things to stop and smell the roses.

On Friday, I decided that my week had been "rough". And ROUGH it was. Too much to write about here. Suffice to say that I was about to check myself into Vista and BEG them for a 6x6 padded room. My insurance company even covers that kind of thing. I've looked. See? I'm even planning for that?!?! Ha-ha! I like to be prepared.

When I got off work Friday, I called the hubby and said "let's go to Disney for a few hours." And his response was "are you serious?" The man knows me well. What can I say? He knows if it's not planned, then I don't do it. Nope--no siree. No plan--no action. It's how I roll. We have passes to Disney, so we can go anytime we want and to be honest, it wasn't the hottest day of the year, so I knew we wouldn't die of heat exhaustion at 7pm!

Anyhow. I got home and we decided that I needed a break from reality and so we loaded up the kids who were beyond excited at this point--and headed to our favorite, the Magic Kingdom! We took the Ferry over the park and were ready to hit the rides!

ALL my BOYS ready for the Magic Kingdom

too much to ask for them to look AT the camera?

One of my kids' favorite rides is Thunder Mountain Railroad....we discovered there were no waits for any of the rides (thank you LORD!) and we were able to get directly on several rides with NO wait! YAHOO! We rode Thunder Mountain twice in a row!




After a few more rides, it was time to settle in for the FIREWORKS! My boys were SO Excited because they have only seen the fireworks ONE other time! (it's past their bedtime and you know that I PLAN to have them in bed when we're there overnight, so they never get to see the fireworks)...no comments on how I'm a bad mother please....I know--mean momma!

The boys picked the perfect spot to see them....and were READY!



And I cannot explain to you how these next several pictures just melt my heart!! I know in 10 or 15 years when we're having an exceptionally bad day, we'll look back on these pictures.......and remember our SPONTANEOUS trip to Disney!





~CB~