Layla's Classwork

and she's modest too!

My dirty little secret

Here is my dirty little secret. I wore a thong to church last Sunday...my dress just looked better without my underwear showing through!!

Hahaha!! As you can see from the pictures the thong in question is used to make a too low front more modest. I found that they work GREAT in this capacity.

I cut the back out (what little back there is) leaving it in a triangular shape. Holding the triangle upside down I tuck/tie the two side to my bra straps and then tuck the bottom of the triangle under the front of my bra. It is perfect.

I bought this three pack from a local store for $2.48...it had a little orange sticker on it, so it was cheaper than it had been!

My big boy turned 8!!!

Austin turned 8 years old on Easter.

We had a Gameboy cake Saturday with the Crowl's.

Austin had to get his hair cut before he gets baptized. This is the after picture!

YEAH!!!!!!

Jason got into the Harford Community College Accelerated Nursing Program!!

He will start school in the end of May and go to school through the next two summers.

He should graduate with an Associates' Degree and be a RN in August of 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

(This picture is Jason's grandmother Marmie, we visited with Marmie and Pop-pop while in Florida. Marmie raised Jason for the first couple years of his life.)

Mickey Mouse's House

I debated for a long time about Disney....Is it really worth all that money (we are talking about $400 for our family admissions alone)? But finally I decided that we needed to do it. It was the best day EVER. We were there at 9am when they opened and left after the nightly fireworks that night. The kids LOVED IT. We didn't have many lines to wait in. We were able to ride every ride that we had wanted to.

Vacation Post 2--Celebration Fountain

We found this really cool fountain that came up out of the ground and went one afternoon to let the kids play in it. It was pretty chilly, with all of the adults in jeans and jackets, but the kids had a great time playing in the water.

Grandma and Grandpa found a baby alligator in the river right next to the fountain.

Vacation-Post 1-Boggy Creek

We have a timeshare. We have paid a lot of money each year for the last three years for this time share. We were about to loose a week because we haven't been able to take a vacation in the last three years, so we just did it.

We spent the last week in Florida with my parents. It was FABULOUS!!! I will post a few different posts about some of the fun activities we did.

Mom and Dad took us on an air boat ride! It was incredible. We rode through shallow water over top of the water grass and other plants. We saw two different Alligators, and a bunch of other animals. It was so cool!

Things that mom always says

The other day I was in my bedroom folding laundry, the children were playing just outside the closed door and I overheard the following conversation:

Loud talking and playing....

Austin: Quiet, you know what mom always says....

Silence from the two smaller children

Austin: "Go play in the basement!"

Ryan: No, mom always says, "Go fart in the bathroom."


So I will go down in history as the mom who tells her stinky kids to go play in the basement, or do their business in the bathroom...the worst part is, they were both right, I do say those things all the time!

Old Bathroom...

Two years ago Jason noticed that our bathroom floor was looking strange...come to find out that the shower had never been properly sealed and that for three years it had been leaking...Now we were stuck with a rotten master bathroom floor! Jason, being Jason, decided to remodel the bathroom instead of just fixing the problem. He made the shower twice as big and moved the toilet over which meant he had to move the walls in the laundry room that he built a few years before. After almost two years he is mostly done!!! See below for the after pics. I love it!

NEW Bathroom!!!

This is our new bathroom. The walls behind the toilet are not finished yet, but everything else is! WE LOVE IT!!!