Counting Down to Esther's Wedding.....

Esther and Eivaen's wedding is October 10th, 2010!

We are all nailing down last minute details before next week's rush to start packing!!!

Still to do:
Buy Thomas and Tyler a new suit.
Catch Thomas up on missed homework from sick days before he misses homework for the trip.
Dry Clean Sam's Suit.
Figure out rather to mail MJ's giant fluffy slip or stuff it in it's own suitcase...
Pack Pack Pack
100 Things I can't remember right now.

Mom had Surgery Saturday!

9/17/10 MJ - My Mom found out today that she has to have her gall bladder removed tomorrow! She had been having stomach pains and nausea for awhile, and this past Tuesday she was up all night long with pain and getting sick! Finally today she went in to the doctor, and he sent her to get an ultrasound of her gall bladder. They've kept her overnight.


Update: 9/19/10 Mom had her surgery Saturday morning and it went great! They said it was just in time! She got home at 8:30pm last night and doesn't even have to go back for a check up until 2 weeks from now!

Thomas Read a Book

So, Thomas read his first whole book! Tuesday night actually. 9/7/10. It was one of the little BOB phonics books. It was called, "Sam". They've been working on site words in school, so it was fun for him to see words he knew, and be able to sound out the rest. He had been reading little parts of other books I was reading to him, but this was the first one he read all himself.

He's pretty proud of himself!!!

I tried to upload a video of it, but it was too long! :-) It takes a while to read a book when you are 5!

:-)

MJ

Back to Reality

St. Simons More Pictures

Thomas had a Reading Party on the Beach for his Summer Reading Program!

Grace Twirling on the Beach!

This is the GA Sea Turtle Rehab Center.

Here are Thomas and Grace in their own little room!

Day 1 & 2 of the Beach Trip!

This was taken at the wedding on July 31st of Graham and Sarah. They had tiny bubble containers and the kids loved blowing bubbles while the Bride was having dinner. She seemed to enjoy it too. There were several other kids there also blowing bubbles. The only real problem was that she had also provided tiny cardboard boxes with red bows that she intended her guests to fill with whichever candy they liked -either mints or Hershey's kisses. The kids ate the candy and then filled the boxes with bubble solution! You can just imagine had that went..... But they never figured out that it was simply not going to work. So, between the 5 of them, they emptied all the bubble bottles on the table!

This picture was taken on Aug. 2nd! This is the first time David has seen the ocean! He loved it! Thomas and Grace enjoyed being at the ocean with their Aunt Leslie and Uncle Bob and of course Uncle Jon! They didn't quite understand the concept that their cousin was really too little to play, but that's ok, he didn't seem to mind!

Little bitty Gracie, and the Great Big Sea.

I sent these back with my blackberry, but it posts them in random order! This one is at the wedding again. Grace was wearing my hat. It was hot, but not too sunny, so all in all a great day. She is showing Grammy here how her Princess, "her name is Sleeping Beauty" is sitting in her chair getting ready to watch the wedding.

Working hard on those sand castles, it takes a lot of sand you know. Especially when Grace keeps flattening the thing over and over!

Here are 2 more wedding photos! We initially sat down on a whole row on the Bride's side. It was agreed that we should probably move, so we up and switched sides. One of her family thought it was funny, and as I passed, I said, "Well, we wouldn't want the bride to think we like her or anything..." She laughed. But poor Sam had gone to the car to get the wedding card we left there, and when he got back, just as the Grandmas were being seated, he had to look all over for us. Then I elegantly waved like crazy, and he had to walk around the back and come sit down. :-)

Now, the best part of the wedding is when the pastor said, "Graham, you may kiss your wife" and then when he did, Grace (in row 3) yelled, "Ewww Yucky!" He didn't hear, but Sarah did and looked out and giggled. I was soooo embarrassed and it was soooo funny! Sam and I both put our hands over our mouths and I mouthed "I'm sorry!" to the bride. She enjoyed it I think. Graham's Mom heard and loved it.

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I Printed My Blog

I have printed out my entire blog! It was soooo long. I didn't know I'd written a book!

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