Vacation time yet???

Well it's almost here. WE are so ready. We've gone over the list and checked it twice and now if we could just get the days on the calendar to click on by we'd be on our way. LOL Seems like just yesterday we were heading off to Alaska and here it's been almost a year since then.
I got food for Joe to have while we are gone and gave him his house sitting rules...I pretty sure he thinks I'm crazy. He said Mom I work at the police Dept I think I can remember to lock the doors and windows and how to take care of the house. I'm more worried that he'll be busy watching tv and forget to feed Bear.
Lin is already on vacation so it's very quiet at our house..no screaming Jax what are you doing? Jax what are you into? Jax where are you?? Just quiet. It amazes me how much one little boy can change everything.
John and I are really getting old...I know this because we have been enjoying watching the birds at the feeders. I remember when we would never have had the time or taken the time to watch the birds. LOL

Our weekend

Another weekend has passed much too quickly. I spent time yesterday working on Project Linus and vacuuming the walls in the living room...don't ask!!! Then Dee came over and we went shopping...I had to get a new calculator and I'd been to the store twice before to get one and forgot both times (getting old sucks) anyway we got one and then came home and made some wonderful new candies...I'll get to that later and spent the evening chatting till the boys came home and we had breakfast at 11pm. Today was spent with a trip to Home Depot and 2 trips to Lowes, a stop at my folks to pick up Johns work pants that my mom hemmed for me, at trip to Micheals, Joanns, and the nursery. We bought 2 climbing honeysuckle for the arbor John built came home planted them, filled the new bird feeders and hung them and then John decided to mow again!

Jaxon went to ER last night with green junk coming out of his eyes...He has a double ear infection which has backed up into his eyes and he now has pink eye in both eyes to go with the ears. You know he never does anything half way.
Yesterday he over heard Lin and I talking about if she should get some flowers to put on Drew's grandmas grave while they were in Oklahoma...he said you mean my grandma who died? We said yes he said well what gravey yard is she in anyway??? We of course where laughing and trying to explain to him grave yard not gravey yard but he refuses to call it anything but gravey yard. This child just makes my day!
Hope you got as much done this weekend as we did.

Lindsey and Drew got the boys private swim lessons because neither boy is afraid of the water. Jax has NO FEAR of anything so I'm sure this was a great idea. Each boy gets 30 minutes with their instructor and while one is working with her the other gets to play. There are more pictures and I'll upload some more of them later on. They will have 6 lessons each before their big trip to Texas. Hey while they are there ask Jaxon where he is from...he will most likely tell you Oklahoma City. This has been his story to me all week long. He is missing Maddie to play with so he spends his time bossing everyone around and telling me long stories. I was at Walmart tonight and Jax and Bray were there with Lin, I'm amazed at how different those boys are. Brayden has become this quiet sweet boy and Jax is just well so Lindsey, when she was little. Squeaky and all. I hope you are having a good week getting ready for the big move. See you soon.

Sunshine

Finally this morning there is a bright light in the sky. It is so welcome! John actually mowed yesterday in a light drizzle and that was miserable. John came across a nest of baby bunnies when mowing and almost ran over them. He moved them and has been checking on them every little bit. This morning he took Jaxon out to see them and Jax was thrilled. I told John you like them now but you won't when they are eating all your flowers and plants.

I took Jaxon and Alex outside this afternoon and turned them loose with sidewalk chalk on the driveway and they had a really good time. They drew letter A's all over the driveway. Jaxon also tried to show Alex the baby bunnies that papa showed him earlier in the morning but they were gone.

I made a quilted bag for Brayden's teacher. Bray will give it to her next week on the last day of school. It turned out really cute. I'm going to make a small bag to go with it out of the scraps so she can have it too.

We played hand and foot with Joe an Dee again last night and for the second week in a row Joe beat us all. That must change!

So glad the sun has returned I'd began to think the calendar was wrong and it was April...finally turned the furnace off this morning...we'd been using it at night for the last few weeks.

Jaxon's lastest adventure!

As you can see in the pictures we spent a fun and exciting evening in the ER again with Jaxon. This time we only had to have 2 stitches, unlike the last time when he needed 5 to close up almost the exact same spot. This time it wasn't as deep or wide but still ugly none the less.
Jax, Brayden and Lindsey had gone to the store and bought some food. Lin had carried on load upstairs and set them on the kitchen counter and went back for another load. Jaxon decided that he would climb on the kitchen counter and help himself to the nutter butter cookies...only he fell and hit his chin. He got no cookies!
Jaxon kept telling Lin and I, I need to go to the ER NOW!! We got him there and they mentioned stitches and he was ready to leave. While we were there he entertained everyone by spelling his name and his brothers name, saying his address and phone number and counting to 10 in english and spanish. After they used a syringe to clean out the cut they gave it to him and told him he could take it home for water fights with his brother, he hid behind the counter with it and said he was going to use it on the doctor because he didn't want stitches! This theory didn't work for him though and it was not as easy as last time when he just laid there and was brave and didn't cry. The numbing jell didn't take either and they already had a stitch in before they realized this. He felt both of those stitches! After the doc got done the nurse gave him bubbles, a syringe for water fights and 2 pkg of teddy grahams..one for him and one for him to take to his brother...he ate the first one and then grabbed the other one and said I'm going to eat this one too...Bray won't know. As we are walking out the door he says ok now can we go to Mcdonalds...it's too late to eat at home.

The Yard!

These are pictures of the yard after John worked out there on Saturday. The spira in bloom and the new garden spot...the tomatoes are already blooming. Then there is a picture of the pear tree, I wanted you to see how much it has grown this spring and then the last shot is the new arbor that John made out of the old deck cover. Now he has to decide if he wants to plant vines on it. We were both impressed with the way it turned out.

Jax has been very sick for the last few days...still trying to get better...probably roto virus. My dad had his heart cath and everything seems to be as they expected...they are starting him on some meds and will keep and eye on him but they feel it is best that he not work and stick with the retirement plan.