GWU Gathering

Last weekend we went to Salisbury (Dan Nicholas Park) to meet up with some friends from college... most of who we haven't seen since graduation. It was so much fun to see everyone! We rented a shelter, had a cookout, played a lot & caught up on the past 10+ years. This park was a really cool place to go. It's definitely worth the trip there with all they have to offer. We rode a train, a carousel, mined for gems (the kids really loved that), walked a couple trails, played on a huge playground and lots more was offered there that we didn't even participate in. It was an exhausting, but very fun day! I think this gathering might be in the works for coming years as well.

(PS...This was a different group of people than "my girls" from college. I talk to most of them on a regular basis.)

T-ball has started

Oh the joys of t-ball season :-~ (can you tell that I SOOOO love it... not!) Carter's games have started & now bring on the heat...of course. Last year he played & we either roasted in the heat like peanuts or ran for our lives from the pop up thunderstorms that drenched us. I really do support my kids in their choice of sport, but for some reason, t-ball is my least favorite. I absolutely think baseball is such a boring sport to watch & when you put 15 little kids on a ball team that don't hit the ball very well & play a game of a lot of toss & masses run to the ball & then run back to wherever the coach tell them to plant themselves... it's just not very appealing to me. However, Carter is one of the older ones on his team and he's pretty good I must admit, so I'm going to like it. He's done really well in his first couple games & I'm feeling he may get a homer this year... afterall, it is a really short field. He's hit it to the fence several times already & that's just for starters. What makes it bad is that the games are an hour & a half. I mean really?! They are 5 & 6 year olds. It's hard enough to hold their attention for 30 minutes. But whatever, I'm not a pro at planning that kind of stuff, so maybe I don't know. Here's some pictures to enjoy of my little red-head...and one of the bat boy. :-)

Umm... where did the year go?

Am I the only one that thinks this year has flown by?  I mean, it's May 1... really?  Seems like the kids just started school a couple months ago.  Carter was asking the other day when he would turn 7.  I told him Chandler's birthday was in a few weeks & then his birthday was 5 weeks after that & then we would be going to the beach a couple weeks after that... and then school starts back a couple weeks after that !?!   What?  I just spoke the whole summer away in one sentence.  

I remember vividly when I started thinking time was flying by.  It was the summer after my freshman year in college.  I remember going to the beach with some of my girlfriends and thinking "wow, this year really went by fast".  Since then, it feels like a couple blinks... but reality is that it's been 15 years!  I know the older you get the faster time flies, but man.  

Speaking of college. I'm going to a college-reunion-sort-of tomorrow.  A group of us connected via Facebook & one of the girls said "let's get together"... so we are!  I am so excited!  It's been probably 12 or more years since I've seen some of these people.  Don't worry, I'll take plenty of pictures... for those of you that care :-)

Speaking of pictures... here's a few from last week.

Transportation Day at the preschool... Kensley & John Michael with one of our friend police officers, Mark

This is our small group (minus one couple).  We had our final meeting last Sunday night... a cookout & we had a blast. 

PTO Spring Spectacular program at the school

  Carter & his friend Peyton 

Kensley felt the need to participate from the audience... ha!

Chandler at the Spring Spectacular

Thursday was Doughnuts for Dad at Kensley's preschool

For more viewing pleasure...

...I present the second installment of Kensley performing. Well, today not so much in front of a crowd, but just me... Mommy. I laughed so hard & I could just eat her up.


By the way, she's singing "Down by the station, early in the morning, see the busy trucks all in a row, hear the truck driver calling to the passenger, honk, honk, honk & off we go". No so much those words, but that's what it's "supposed" to say, or at least what I sing to her. The second song is Twinkle, Twinkle little star & the other songs are from her princess book that she tries to sing to, but yet again, words are not exactly there yet. Lastly, an encore performance from the preschool program of the Joy song.... Kensley's edit.

Enjoy!

Preschool Chapel Program

Kensley LOVES preschool. She thrives in it & I'm so glad. She's a very outgoing little kid & has come out of her shell a good bit in the past months since starting school. Last week the preschool did a program for the parents of all the songs they've been learning in chapel. Kensley loves to sing and has practiced a good bit at home. Here's a video of her program.
(Sorry, it's a little long... )

Who decides this?

I came across a link today that sparked my interest. The title is

Pure Torture on the Ears

10 songs that make your ears beg for mercy.

And one of the songs listed is "We Built this City" by Starship. Okay, that song does not make me beg for mercy... I loved that song back in the 80's and would still listen to it now! I think I remember it being on the movie "Mannequin" with Andrew McCarthy. I also liked their song "Sara"... I actually have it on on my iPod. So, I wonder... who makes these articles & why do they get to decide this?

Argh... blow me away me heartys!

Well, that title has really nothing to do whatsoever with my post, but it's so windy today, I just had to put it. On to more important matters... well, not really, but lets get on with this. Lots of random thoughts roaming around in my head today, so I will share.

I'm on twitter now. Not really sure what to do with it, but I'm there. I will tweet once in a while. Next.....

I've been randomly thinking about something that I pass everyday on the road to my house. At the end of one of the driveways of a house, there are 2 green gargoyles. ??? Really? I mean, do people really do that? It's not like they are cool & go with some kind of theme of the house, they are just there... red tongues & all. And it's really not even a driveway b/c the house is right on the road. This house also has a life-size knight in full body, on their front porch.... and restaurant-one-piece-tables in the front lawn. I seriously need to take a picture sometime. It all makes me think of Ghostbusters every time I pass by.
Next....

Spring break last week gave me some serious cravings for summer. The weather (minus the wind) being so pretty & something about the spring air.... I just love it! I'm ready for no homework & sleeping in.
Next....

Me & the family went to play golf last Friday. Rather amusing. I DON'T play golf, but I do try once in a while. It's more like I whiff a few times & then if I'm lucky, one of the whiffs catches the ball & it bounces a few yards out & then I try again. Here's some pictures:


Last.... Who's watching American Idol? It's getting down to the nail-biting time where I start to get mad because people are getting voted off. Yeah, I know there is only one winner, but still, it's so hard to see your faves in the bottom 3 and tonight, I'm really going to get stressed. My faves are Matt & Danny. I'm wishing that Anoop & Lil would get the heck outta there. I dislike Adam very much, but I know he's probably going to the end. I can't help that, but I can vote. I vote for my faves as many times as I can get through in a row. Paula has to be on somekind of meds because she's really weirding me out this year. Here stange comments & her shakeyness when they get a close up of her is ewwww to watch. So I'll be glued to the TV tonight to see who's going home. I hope my votes for Matt this week helped.

That's all for now. More pics from last week.

Playing at the park



Just love those little pigtails...