Lauren's 5!!!

Her beautiful cake!!!
Liam and Lauren are playing a game...they are singing a song together.

Lauren's mom (Eunice) and cousin

Happy Birthday!!

Happy times!

Eunice and Exavier

I let the boys pick her gift. I didn't want to get this microphone but they begged.

I'm glad I got it. She loved it.

Happy Birthday Lauren!!

We love you!!!

Sometimes

Today I took Liam to get his hair cut. Liam asked me if I would stand by him while she cut his hair. I stood there until Beau had to go potty. When we came back I listened to his conversation.
Great Clips lady – How old is your brother?
Liam – He is 3.
Great Clips lady – Are you guys buddies?
Liam – Sometimes.
Great Clips lady – Do you have another brother or sister?
Liam – yes, he is 15.
Great Clips lady – Are you buddies with him?
Liam – Sometimes.
Then Beau said Liam I love you.
To that Liam looks at the lady very seriously and says Sometimes Beau wants me and I don’t want him and sometimes I want Beau and he doesn’t want me. Sometimes we want to play with each other at the same time….that is when we have fun.
I turned around and laughed…I also noticed 2 other mom’s having a good laugh. One of the other moms said I can’t believe he is carrying on a conversation with her. Her son said about 2 words to the person cutting his hair.

Three Girls!

Austin invited April to come over and hang out today. She came and brought two friends. I tried to give them as much privacy as possible. Liam and Beau wanted to hang out with them so badly...so we made cookies.

Sadly it was very windy today and Austin opened the front door, the wind popped open the closet door so hard it broke the door stop right into the door. That is the second door that has happened to.

Cookie left overs

I made some cookies today with a little help. Beau came to help me clean up the bowls.
Beau got the sugar cookie bowl.

Liam helped me make chocolate chocolate chip cookies.

His reward for helping...the bowl!!!

Coupons!

So far this year we have saved $877.98 on groceries. I'm going to step up my coupon use this week. We get coupons from a neighbor who only uses a couple and our Sunday paper. I also get some from www.couponsuzy.com. A friend of ours is using another website to help her get more items for free. It cost $12 a year. She has been doing it for several months and feels like she saves almost twice what she was before. I wanted to make sure it was going to continue to be a great savings before I signed up for it. I'm going to sign up this week. I hope to report that we ar getting even more free things in the next couple weeks.

Life is Short..

Today I worked at a different Target. A local store lost an employee. The funeral was today at 3. I was reminded how short life is and how important it is to tell those you love how you feel. I try to tell my boys and Handsome I love them several times a day. Take a moment and tell your loved ones how much you love them.

Rain No Garden

We have gotten rain almost everyday this week. We are yet again putting off building the raised garden until next weekend. I’m thankful for the rain we are getting but I would like to get the garden started.

My strawberry plants in the pots up front already have some flowers on them!!! I’m looking forward to my first taste of our front porch strawberries!!

I would like to add some rain barrels to our house this year. I think that might have to wait until next year. I would like to at least get one next year but two would be even better!!