How great thou Art?

Last week, I took the kids to an art class at our local arts park. It was for 2 hours & for ages 3-5. My friend, Courtenay, took her son Abe as well. She & I took off once we dropped them off & went to eat lunch. It was a nice, much needed break. Plus, I don't get to see Court that often, so it is always fun to catch up with her.

The kids loved going & have talked about it ever since. As they get older, they will be able to go to the more advanced classes where they make pottery & things like that. Mental Note: No replicating the "Ghost" scene, Abe & Isabel!!

The Arts Park Building

Jasper
That little red-head is Abe. And Isabel is next to him in the orange dress.

Jonah

She's so stinkin' cute

I'm not sure what she was doing here, but it looks like she is on the catwalk.

Jasper

Waiting patiently in line to collect their work

And off she goes

Abe with his art

Jonah picking his up

Look Mama!

I love this picture of my boys!

How cute are these kiddos!?

Abe, Jas & Jonah

A few pieces of their art

Some funny moments from the past week

Instead of sharing how bad my kids have been acting this week, I thought I'd share some funny things :)

Last Saturday night, we went to a festival in a very small town where some of my family are from. It is only about 10 minutes or less from us. Anyway, there was a giant bounce house that the kids wanted to play in. It was $2 for a certain amount of minutes. Isabel didn't go in. Jasper did & so did Jonah. However, Jonah came right back out. I wondered why & then I saw what grabbed his attention from the bounce house...a fan! If you know my Jonah well, you know he is obsessed with fans. And when I say "obsessed", I don't mean, "Oh, the kid likes fans." It was very hot & the people who were running the house had a fan pointed on them. I had to stick to Jonah's side to make sure he didn't turn it off since it wasn't our fan. It killed him to not touch it. Jasper finally started to crawl out, as his time was up. As I was paying attention to him, I notice Jonah walked to the back of this bounce house. I knew immediately what was going to happen. I took off to the back & then heard...silence...no humming from the running air. And at that time, the bounce house caved in. Thank God no kids were inside. Jonah had turned off the fan that runs the house. I wanted to crawl in a hole. Luckily, the people were super nice & understanding. And they said, "Well you were right...he really does like fans!"

Yesterday, I dropped the kids off at an art class. It was for 2 hours. My friend, Courtenay, dropped her son, Abe, off as well. The class was for 3-5 year olds. The art park is located next to our local library. So when I got them from their class, we went to the library to return some books & movies. I've since decided that I need someone to go with me. It isn't worth it for me to have to chase down Jonah & constantly say, "Stay right here, kids! Stay here! Hey! Stay here..right next to me!" And no joke, I had sweat rolling down my face. Nice. After we got some kids books, we went upstairs to get a few movies & a book that Nate requested. We took the elevator back down. As soon as the door opened, there were 2 kids waiting to get on. I'm guessing they were brother & sister. They looked to be around 8 to 9 years old. They were chubby kiddos with the big belly's. Jasper says, "Oh hi!" They both say, "Well, hi!" The girl comments about how cute they are. I tell them Thank you & they got on the elevator. Jasper then turns around, points straight at them & says, "Do they got baby's in their belly's?" Eeekkk! As soon as I heard "baby's", I knew what he was going to say. So I laughed...loudly & nervously & said, "Haha! Bye Bye!" hoping & praying they didn't hear him. I'm pretty sure they did.

When Nate got home last night, I was ready to head for the door. Like I said, rough week for me. I stopped at the Red Barn to get some gas & a fountain pop. I pumped the fuel & went in to get my pop & pay. I paid for my pop, got back in the van & drove away. I noticed in my side mirror that the guy from the gas station was chasing me down. I stopped & rolled down my window like, "Why are you chasing me, nut job?" He says, "Didn't you get gas!!?" Oops. Yes, that I did. I turned around, went back inside & paid for the gas. He was nice about it. I apologized and thanked him for not calling the cops on me. Although, a night in jail does sound a bit tempting....

Similar?

The famous "Naked Cowboy" in New York

The famous "Jasper Wright"

Does this make me a Republican?

I'm kidding...but nope, I'm still a liberal.

In the past 4 years, my kids have not owned toy guns. I will admit, when I went to Arizona I did buy them cheap little outlaw guns. You can't go to the West & not buy cowboy guns. And then, my sister bought them guns for their birthday. I'm okay with it because they still look like cowboy & Indian guns. But I'm sure this will be the last set of guns they own. I know, that probably isn't reality. So don't mark my word on that.

Honestly, my kids didn't even know how to use them until a while back when we were visiting a friend. And you know who you are :) They still don't use the term "shot". They say, "I'm gonna shock you." And I'm fine with them thinking that.

Don't mess with her!

How are you supposed to take a sheriff seriously when he is in his underwear?

Why didn't I notice this before?

My sister has told me about this cart before. But it wasn't until I pulled in to Walmart today & saw one in the cart corral, that I realized I could actually put all three of my kids in one cart! Woohoo! No more pushing one cart & pulling one beside me. The only thing I have to worry about now is how fast I can get thru the grocery store before the 2 sitting in front of the one, start kicking that one.

My kids know safety

As I was sitting outside with the kiddos, I noticed they had brought a friend out. I looked in the back of the ride on tractor & noticed they had pulled out one of our extra booster seats from the garage. They wanted Buzz to ride with them, but they wanted to make sure he had a car seat.

Birthday Pics!

In a previous post, I mentioned that the trips had their 4th birthday. We had a good party. For the second year in a row, I've tried to book our local pool. This pool was completely redone a couple of years ago & it is awesome. However, there are waaayyyyy to many people there on any given day & I fear taking my kids alone to it. So, you are able to rent it out, privately, for a fee. Welp, the first available date was at the end of this month. So my last minute solution was to have the party at our church. It worked out perfect. The kids could run around, play with toys, etc.

The cute cake!

The singing was too loud for Isabel

Me & the Mr. ~ He kinda looks like my body guard, huh?

Me & my sissy

Nate's dad & Nate's grandma

Izzy & Nick

Our good friends! Brian, Courtaney & their kids, Cainan, Simon & Abe

Me & Jonah after I kissed his boo boo

Comforting my sweet Jonah

My dad & my nephew, Kisen

Kisen!

Rhonda (dad's lady), dad, Ash & our Grandma

Nick & Will

My niece, Kayla Marie (who by the way, was an awesome help to me that day. Can't wait till she's able to babysit! :)

Nate with his BFF Brian & Cainan & Jonah

Not sure what Jasper was saying to Granny

Jonah checking out the cards

Abe

Brian

Stylin' Jo Jo

Amber & Kisen

Aaron & Ash

Grandma & Iz

Cainan