Thursday, March 28, 2024

Dress Up Days, 4-H, Springfield, Lite-Brite, Carnival, and Open House

 I have a bunch of random photos from my phone that I am grouping together for this post. Ali dressed up for the 101st day of school as a dalmation dog. All three kids dressed up the Friday before the Super Bowl. Both Bryce and Blaine did their talk and demonstration during their February 4-H meeting. Bryce gave his talk on photography and Blaine gave his talk on Model Rockets. On Monday, February 19th, we traveled to Springfield with Mamaw and Papa and the Johnson Family to go to the Lincoln Museum and the Lincoln Tombs. During the Boys basketball game on February 19th both Bryce and Blaine were announced with their basketball teams. While the boys were away at the high school boys basketball tournament in Champaign, Ali and Jayla came to my school carnival with Mamaw and Papa. And finally, the kids had their annual open house at their school on March 14th. Bryce created a display with his friend Beau on their science experiment, Blaine made a display with his friend Lincoln about famous people born in Illinois, and Ali made an Artic display with a penguin and a google slide in the background. 











70th Anniversary Party

 On Saturday February 24th, we celebrated Grandma D and Grandpa Carl's 70th anniversary at Bounce Back in Galesburg since Grandma was still there recovering from a fall in January. Bryce and I used our new cake tools to make them a cake and it turned out pretty cute! It was a fun afternoon with family. How blessed we are to have such great role models in our lives. 






Daddy/Daughter Dance and Mother/Son Dance

 On Saturday, February 24th the PTO hosted their very first Daddy/Daughter Dance in the cafeteria. Ali wanted to get all dressed up and even wanted to put on her lipstick she used for her tumbling meet. I crimped her hair and she was so excited for a fun night with daddy! She of course had fun with her friends too! A few weeks later on Saturday March 16th, they had a Mother/Son Dance in the cafeteria as well. It was a glow theme and Blaine and I had a great time. Bryce had a scrimmage baseball game that day but he wasn't too keen on the idea of going with us anyway. He is getting to that age where he is a little bit too cool! Blaine had a great time with his buddies and with his mom too! 






Saturday, February 17, 2024

Funny Stories

 I found an old journal that I was keeping notes about while reading my bible and I found some random stories that I had written down. I believe they were from 2018. 

Whenever I hug Blaine and say, "Oh my sweet baby boy." He always says "Oh my sweet baby girl." 

The boys got a harmonica for Christmas one year and one night Blaine found it under the couch when we were getting ready to go to bed. Ali was already upstairs sleeping. When Blaine started to play it, Shane and I both shouted "No!" at the same time. Blaine said, "What? It's beautiful." And it actually was! 

While listening to Ali play in her room we hear her say, "Do you wanna play or do you wanna die?"

Blaine was scared to go down to the basement by himself and Bryce and I refused to go down with him. Ali got off of the Ipad and said, "I will go down with you." She put her arm around his shoulder and walked down with him. 

While listening to my podcasts during my morning commute to work, I like to write down quotes that I like. Here are a few that really stuck with me. 

"Why am I complaining about something that someone else is praying for?"

"If you're not making today the best day of your life then what are you even doing?" -Russell Dickerson


Saturday, January 13, 2024

Random Pictures

 A few days ago, Bryce was planning to go to a 4-H photography session until this big blizzard hit. I got out our Nikon camera so that we could take it with us and I found some really great pictures from this past June. Each kid had the camera at some point because we were taking photos to enter in the contest during Ag Day in Williamsfield. Some of them turned out pretty cute!