5.30.2014

Stratton’s Pre-K Program

Thursday Night the Valley View Pre-K students had a program. The kids came out class by class and sang a song and then each child received an award. It was very cute! Stratton’s class sang “Oh what a Miracle” and I was so proud of how good he did! He had been telling us all week that he was scared to be on the stage in front of so many people, but he did great!

I can’t believe the year is already over!!

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Thursday at 6:30 is a tough time to get everyone home, cleaned up and out the door!! I wanted to get a picture of the whole family but Arden was in the middle of her “witching hour” fit that she has every day!

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Stratton and his teacher Mrs. Jenni!

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Sister didn’t like him not being with us!

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She was in a mood, but was really interested in all the people!

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Stratton’s Class; Mrs. Jenni and Mrs. Joyce’s Class

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He’s the 3rd from the left

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Getting their Awards

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Stratton got “Best Puzzle Worker”

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Big guy with his award

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After the program Gigi and Pops and Nan and Pa came over to the house and we had an ice cream cake!

We are just so proud of the progress Stratton has made this year. The credit really goes to the teachers though! I know this must be a tough age to teach! He has learned so much this year and now is ready for Kindergarten!

5.28.2014

A little back tracking. . .

I feel like I am always playing catch up these days!

Since Mother’s day (the last time I posted) we have been super busy! Here’s a brief rundown. . .

 

Miss Moody these days!!

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Memorial Day Weekend:

Archer’s 4th Birthday Party

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Cutie Pie!

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And Our Handsome Son. We are so proud.

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Can you say M.O.O.D.Y.

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Sweet Cousins!

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Memorial Day at home (Jarrod had to work of course)

The kids playing farm

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Arden loves to color!

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See he can be sweet. . .

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It has rained SO MUCH, we haven’t played outside much!

But when we do Arden loves the sandbox!

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I think she just likes the sand! My girl!!

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5.13.2014

The past week and Mother's Day weekend

Another week has gone by and I can't believe it's almost the middle of May. Last week was a busy one with work, school, 2 baseball games, church, Mother's Day shopping and prepping and then Saturday morning a quick trip to Memphis with Lori to the Jewelry show before heading to the Ridge for the rest of the weekend. We had a good Mother's Day with both sides of my family. Jarrod and the kids made a trip to Sissy's on Saturday (can you believe he was brave enough to take them to a jewelry store?!?!) and they got me some new clips for my pandora bracelet. Stratton was so excited since he got to pick them out. He can't keep a secret though! It's probably the last time J takes him shopping! 

Nan and Pa sent them cool new shoes!
And yes. She is wearing sweat bands. . .still. What am I going to do with her??

Arden playing in the dirty clothes hamper

She is such a girl!! I got her this Minnie Mouse dress in Memphis and as soon as she saw it she started shucking her clothes off!! She wanted to wear it now! I love it!! She's saying "eeezzz" translation; "Cheese".


Stratton did this at school! So funny! 


Kiddos before church Sunday. I am so blessed to be their mommy!


5.05.2014

Easy Weekend

We didn’t have any plans, but this will be the last weekend for that! The next month is very busy!  Friday night we went to Lazzari’s to eat. Stratton has been requesting it for 2 weeks now. Then we ran to Wal-mart. Saturday Jarrod worked till about 2pm. I tried to keep the kids preoccupied inside so I could do laundry! When Jarrod got home and everyone got up from their naps we played outside for awhile and had dinner at Fat City. We had lots of family time!

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Arden likes to mow!

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Saturday was really nice. We spent some time outside playing with Sadey.

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Everybody loves daddy!!

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I love this picture. It just shows you how tiny Arden is compared to her daddy!

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Sunday at church Juliet, Arden and Stratton all matched in their blue gingham!

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They looked so cute. However getting a decent pic of all of them wasn’t happening!

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How adorable are they?? I will show this picture at their wedding someday!

5.01.2014

Just life

Nothing too exciting going on with us this past week. Jarrod and I did get a night away in Little Rock while the kids got to stay with Nan and Pa!

On the road, eating french fries!

They play well . . . For a maximum of 2 seconds!!

Arden likes to sit in Stratton's lap- makes me laugh, she's as wide as he is!

Sunday night around 2am, during the 2nd tornado warning! I can't believe my kids can sleep through such loud, booming thunder!!


I made Stratton put his baseball helmet on since we really don't have a safecplace to go! He was scared and wanted to leave it on even after we were in the clear!


Arden wouldn't putbon the bicycle helmet Sunday night when I wanted her to, but she wore it around Monday morning while we were getting ready for school- of course!


Stratton's 2nd year of Buddy Ball (t-ball) has started! Their first game on Monday night was rained out, but they went ahead and played Tuesday night despite the mud! He had a good time, although we are not happy with the way the program is being ran this year. It's insane. They are playing 3 games on one field at the same time. Two games are played in the outfields so they don't have dugouts or bleechers. So if you are coming to watch bring your lawn chairs, otherwise you'll be standing. Ridiculous. And they make us pay to get in?!? Such a rip off!! We have games every Monday and Tuesday night from now till the middle of June. We'll see how it goes. I hope it gets better!


We don't have a whole lot going on this weekend. It's Jarrod's weekend to work. I need to clean out closets! It's amazing to me how much "stuff" the kids aquire! Hopefully, once school is out we can plan a garage sale in Searcy! Its been almost 2 years, I think, and its way overdue!!