Brett's New Responsibility

Brett has a new job around our house now that he's nine...Drew taught him how to cut the grass. He did amazingly well for his first time. And he really seemed to enjoy it. Poor kid, he'll soon learn to hate it I'm sure! But he strapped his iPod around his arm and seemed to have fun. After he finished, he said he was pretty tired.

Make a postcard - it's easy!

12 Years and Going Strong!

Drew & I just celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary (15 years now if you include dating, too). A few months ago, Drew's dad and his wife offered to watch the kids for our anniversary. Since we were taking them to Atlanta for the night, we decided it would be fun to just stay there in Buckhead. We shopped (poor Drew...I wore him out shopping) & went to dinner and a movie. It was low-key but we had the best time together.

The kids had a ball, too. They were taken by Grandpa and Gran to a go-cart racetrack and had so much fun racing cars.

P.S. The song playing on my blog now (Crazy Love) was the song we danced to at our wedding reception...not the same version, though!

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade!

I got a fabulous juicer a few years ago, and ever since then, the kids have wanted fresh squeezed lemonade. They would watch me make fresh oj in the mornings, so Brett had the idea to try making lemonade. After finding and perfecting a great recipe for homemade lemonade, it's become a staple in our refrigerator! Well, we've taken it to a new level...last year Jared was determined to grow a lemon tree. He took a seed from a lemon we had just squeezed, planted it, named it Bob, and watered it often. He was so disappointed when a tree didn't appear. We took the kids to buy a lemon tree and planted it on Sunday. I sure hope we get some lemons out of it! They are imagining us running out of lemonade and not having to wait for me to get to the store to buy more lemons before we can make more...they said they'll just walk outside and pick me some lemons to squeeze!

Yeah! We can all chew bubblegum again!

Brett had his braces taken off today at 1PM. What an exciting day around here! He was most excited about chewing bubblegum (the good kind, not the sugarfree kind that a babysitter made him aware he could chew with braces). And Jared was just as happy for him because he gave up bubblegum with him to help "ease the pain".

As many of you know, Brett has just completed the second step to our many step process of correcting his teeth (those of you that don't know, it's a long story, but thankfully one that can be fixed over the years - a condition he was born with). Anyway, we thought the next step after the braces would be bonding of the lower teeth to fill in the gaps of his tiny teeth. The orthodontist has now reconsidered now that the braces are off and thinks it is best to wait a while. He said the longer we hold off and not mess with those bottom baby teeth, the longer they will last until we have to make permanent changes. I was a little disappointed, I was ready for the next step to make them look as normal as possible. But his point, too, was that now that his bite is corrected, the bottom teeth are not as noticable.

And poor Brett too just realized (or rather, just sunk in) that he will be back for braces again, at least for the upper teeth once the permanent teeth finally push through. He has 10 teeth right now trying to come on thru.

I'm having a surprised Bubblegum Bash for him with the kids on the street on Friday...I asked all of them to bring him a pack of gum. Not a big "ta-do", but he needs some kind of celebration!

Easter Greetings!

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday! It didn't seem like Easter to me, though, because Jared had a fever and I stayed home with him. It wasn't the same since church wasn't involved. But my other two handsome men went on to church without us. And my were they dashing in the Easter duds! After church we had the Nappiers over for our 2nd annual Easter lunch together. Only this year, one was missing - Kimbell was in the Bahamas with his grandmother! We missed having him around.

Happy Easter!

Our Breckenridge Trip

We had a blast in Breckenridge! The scenery was unbelievable, and it was so much fun to see snow for the first time! It obviously wasn't a first for Drew, but it was a first for me and the boys! I have been trying to send out a smilebox with all of our vacation photos, but smilebox isn't coorporating with me for some reason - I keep getting error messages when I try to send it! And I've been trying on and off since Tuesday night! We just got back from Destin a few hours ago, and now that we're unpacked, fed and settled in for the night, I thought I would try to send my smilebox again, but nope - nothing! I need to get my computer expert (aka Drew) to take a look at it for me. I'll attach a photo from the trip, though on my blog. Okay, as I'm typing this blog, I sent myself an old smilebox I created a while back, and it sent just fine. It must be something with this new smilebox design. I'm too tired tonight, and Drew's waiting on me to catch up on LOTS of TV downstairs on TIVO. So, I'll try again tomorrow.