This little light of mine!

Check out these DARLING pictures of

Miss Blakley!

YUM!

Looks like she has had enough!

Amelia~ thanks for the pictures! You are my photographer HERO! luvs

1st day of School

Tanner on his 1st day of 4th grade!

What a little stud!

Troy on his 1st day of 1st grade!

My little man!

Carter on his 1st day of Kindergarten.

My little cutie!

Carter's teacher gave us this poem:

(try reading it without crying like I did)

The First Day

I gave you a little wink and smile

As you entered my room today.

For I know how hard it is to leave

and know your child must stay.

You've been with them for five years now

and have been their loving guide.

But now, alas, the time has come

to leave them at my side.

Just know that as you drive away

and tears down your cheek may flow,

I'll love them as I do my own

and help them learn and grow.

For as a parent, I too know

how quickly the years pass.

It seems just yesterday that I

took my first child to class.

So please put your mind at ease

and cry those tears no more.

For I will love them and take them in

when you leave them at my door.

Our last week of SUMMER!

*WARNING: Long Post*

(with lots of pictures)

All three of my boys start school tomorrow. sniff sniff

We have been trying to stuff as much fun into our last week as we can.

We have hit 3 different pools.

Swam our little hearts out!

Tristin and Jessica

Blakley trying to escape from the pool.

Tanner and Clint on the platform.

Seconds before jumping!

Tristin and Tanner

The kids even made their own pool........a MUD pool!

They were covered from head to toe in sand.

Yep that's right! They're dragging their heads in muddy water!

We went and saw Shrek 4 at the dollar theater. I even splurged and bought drinks and a LARGE popcorn. Kids were in HEAVEN!

We have had lots of sleepovers with cousins.

With lots of late night campfires!

S'MORES anyone?

Love this picture!!!

Carter is tricking Brooks. He was telling him that he is going potty in the bucket. They were both giggling so hard:) Between giggles, Brooks would ask "R U Really?" He didn't, but he loved tricking Brooks. Funny Kids!

We went to Clint's company party.

CARNIVAL STYLE!

Complete with bounce houses, face painting, sno-cones, cotton candy and balloons

Any of course,

no summer would be complete without some of these:

I am so sad to see our summer come to an end,

but bring on the next chapter in our lives!

My little Twilight Man

Carter: (while wrestling Troy) "Troy, get off me! You're not my soul-mate!"

Mom: "Hey Carter, do you know what a soul-mate is?

Carter: "Yeah"

Mom: "OK, who's mom's soul-mate?"

Carter: "DAD! But when Dad dies then Edward will be your soul-mate."

Carter is my little Twilight lover. He LOVES the movie and it makes his day when you sit down and watch it with him. He knows all of the characters by name, but his favorite is JACOB. He wants to become a werewolf one day. OH NO! The other day, he was sitting in his room watching a movie and he felt warm. I asked him if he felt OK because he was getting warm. His face just lit up and he said "it's cuz I'm Jacob." Oh Silly Carter!

We love you!

Lesson Learned...Hopefully!

Lately, it seems like our boys have been extremely whiny about everything and anything. It seems like when they want something, they want it right then. And work for it...are you kidding? Well even though, Clint and I are to blame for the way are kids are. Tonight, we finally had enough! Clint sat Tanner down and talk to him about the importance of being thankful. He sent him to his room afterwards to think about what they talked about and to write a list of things he was grateful for. After a little bit, this is what he came downstairs with:

Tanner's letter in his own words:

Tanner's things hes thankfall for,

I am thankfall for my family, my tv, my close (clothes), my shirt, my shoes, my XBOX, my books, my home, my cars, my toys, my money, my dad, my mom, my school, my yard, my bikes, my bed, my bathroom, my food, my movies, my frij (fridge), my body, the C4 sistum (system), and how you are so so so nice to me, and I am thankful for the bills you pay and my pants and the things that you buy for me and the things you do for me. When I really think how cool of parents I got it just shocks me and you probly say "we are not that good" but you really are the best ever to walk the earth and I have the best brothers and sister in the world. But when I say things are bad about you I still love you and I am so so so sorry for being so unthankfall and I would go across the world for you and our family. I love you guys so so so so so much that I can't even tell you.

Love Tanner P

Tanner~You are such a sweet boy! I love the letter that you wrote to us tonight. I think our whole family needs to try a little harder to be more thankful. Let's all work harder on that -k-

I love you tons! xoxo Mom