Kellyn's First Haircut!

Yesterday I had a hair appointment. Being honest mostly to get my hair washed, but it needed a fresh trim. Maddie and Kellyn went with me. Maddie wouldn't have anyone touch her hair, which isn't surprising. I may have forced a trim for Kellyn, she won't let me pull her hair back and her bangs were all in her face. Once she settled down she sat nicely in the chair where I watched her little mullet curls go away. But her hair is still curly! She did great, now I should probably buy a baby book to put her little hair in....

Pleasant Valley VBS

My Aunt Linda asked my Dad to reprise his roll as Mr. VBS at their church in Little Rock so the kiddos tagged along. Which gave Jeremy, Drew, and I some quality time together where we enjoyed a few dinners out and a couple of movies! Apparently on Sunday at VBS Cooper led a prayer that was heartfelt and left all the adults in the room asking whose kid that was! So I'm so proud that what we've been teaching him at home is getting through to him. They talked about the prodigal son, and Cooper said he would never leave Jesus, I pray all the time that is the case! All 3 kiddos stayed with Jeni and Necon; Kellyn was supposed to stay with my parents, but apparently she grabbed her little backpack and walked right into Jeni's so they kept her too! Necon took a few pics and sent them to me!















The other boy in the photo above is Necon's sisters boy, who apparently is now a "cousin" to us! I love that my kids are getting to see their cousins so much this summer; Levi is even coming to OKC for Pee-wee camp now!!

Donut day....

Is National Donut day even a real thing? Well we did it up right just in case! Our 3 older kids are with my parents in Arkansas attending VBS at Pleasant Valley Church of Christ so Jeremy, Drew, and I went to a movie. We were going to grab dinner on the way. As we are driving thru Ark City he made a comment about wanting to try this donut shop....well it was open and they severed dinner. So why not?




Yes that is a donut burger, and it was good....


We topped things off with a coconut and an Oreo cake donut, both fabulous!


And now I should probably go run about 10 miles or so! Hope you all enjoyed your donut day!

Bandwagon finders....

After several post from my dear friend Katie I decided to check into this Geochaching. So last weekend I checked and there were to my surprise several caches in Newkirk. So the kids and I started out on our hunting! Our first was walking distance from our house...












Unfortunately it was a little disappointing cause we couldn't climb to get it. I probably could've but given recent histories with broken bones we opted out. So we went back home to collect Maddie and Drew and we drove to a couple more that we were able to find!












So we will see how many more we go after. I downloaded the free app cause I thought it might be fun to do on occasion when we needed out of the house!
Then I started working at the Enid Courthouse just for a few weeks and now I'm so tired and worn out! I'll be lucky if I have clean clothes to wear next week! So our next adventure may be put on hold for a while!

Last Day of School!

Last Friday was our last day of school at Newkirk. We are so proud of all that Cooper accomplished in Kindergarten! We are prayerfully and thoughtfully considering the best plan for him for 1st Grade. He is such a smart boy so we want him to continue to enjoy school and not be bored if he has nothing to do. We have a lot of options and I'm sure we will figure out what is best for him in the long run! Meanwhile the last day of school is Big Blast....lots of fun and blowup toys on the football field! A Newkirk Alum came over to watch the younger kids so I could go help out for a couple of hours!












I got a Happy Summer cookie cake that Kellyn go into early, luckily when she stepped on it the lid was still on!



Saturday we went to graduation to watch Dylan, Tanner, and Andrew graduate. Lucky for me it was only an hour. We will sure miss those boys next year!

No 2014 Graduation is complete without a selfie...before the "moving of the tassels" the guy actually said, "but first, let me take a selfie!" I thought it was pretty clever!

The only picture I got with one of the boys....my kids were in a hurry to get to Edmond to get to Arkansas, but they really do love Tanner!

Neighbors....

The family that lives across the street from my parents daughter got married Sunday. My mom offered my services last fall to help out. (Which I was totally okay with) So I got set up to cater the wedding for them. Initially months ago when we talked about this for some reason I was under the impression of a smaller wedding, like around 100. Well originally this came up cause I had just done the breakfast reception and the bride really liked that. The grooms parents didn't feel the same way; I get it, Sunday night and they are actually from Canada so a lot of international visitors. We settled on roast, mashed potatoes, carrots, green beans, French bread, and salad at our meeting in March. I may have been off on my number thinking by 150, so 250 was our magic number. Naturally I blew it off like it was no big deal....I was freaking out a little inside. I recruited my 2 best girls, bought some more chaffing dishes, and went to making my list. A week ago the brides mother and I made a trip to Sam's to purchase most of the food and I stored it in a friends garage fridge all week. We prepped some Saturday night and spent Sunday cooking! 15 bags of carrots, 15 bags of green beans, 10 bags of salad, 6 bags of chicken tenders, 63 lbs of roast, and 100 lbs of red potatoes we fed a lot of people seamlessly! A huge thanks to my dad who took my 2 older kids to Arkansas, my mom who kept the 2 younger ones, a friend who attended the wedding with my mom so I could feed Drew, and my 2 besties Brittany and Jenny for making this possible! Also to MRCC for letting me use a couple of kitchens! We were thrilled to serve "quality food" as some guest called it and be a blessing to the Bride and her family on her special day! We may need to make some business cards cause as of right now I've got no catering events lined up, but if you know of someone send them our way! I promise to treat them right!
















All that was leftover....can't be mad at that!









And thanks to this guy for making our cake cutting experience the best ever!



Best DJ ever!

Happy Birthday Maddie!!

Maddie turned 4 today....4! I can't believe it's been 4 years since we had our first baby girl (and it probably isn't enough time to have had 2 kids since right?!) I took her to Starbucks to get chocolate milk (she had to twist my arm) where she choose white milk this morning. Then we kept her party pretty low key and when we asked her where she wanted to go for her birthday dinner she said the cupcake place! Well, Jeremy mentioned Texas Roadhouse in Stillwater and she was excited about that. My mom met us there with cupcakes from "the cupcake place" and her BFF Molly! I didn't tell her Molly was coming so it was pretty exciting when they saw each other! I try to get her and Molly together because I like her mom, there is a friend for Kellyn, and I wish I had a good girl friend growing up. I did here and there but I only talk to about 2 from college (1 being Molly's mom!) and 1 from after college. It may be a long shot that she and Molly stay good friends especially with us not living in the same town. But I hope we continue to cultivate a great friendship between them, since they call each other cousins and Molly and Emmy call my mom grandma I guess we are doing a good job! It was a great day and we topped it off with her "big bike" so now she pretty much isn't going to bed!















She of course wanted a Frozen birthday and they did pretty good considering everything Frozen is gone....so we are still in search of a Elsa Ice Princess Doll and of course the Elsa dress, but for now these dolls will do!