Took these pics several weeks-a month ago, but love looking at how much these two can enjoy each other.

And in case you are wondering...they don't always run around in just underwear!

Happy Birthday!

Our little man turned 4 on Sunday. Where is the little one year old who would fall asleep on my chest every night? He's growing up way too fast and I love the little boy he is becoming. He's sweet, smart, and so funny. Such a ball of constant energy, and the best big brother. Melts me still with those big brown eyes. He loves going to church and constantly talks about Jesus. He loves to sing...at the top of his lungs. Could eat blueberries, apples w/peanut butter, and tacos for every meal. Constantly asks me "Why?" I seriously bet I hear it 100x's a day! Gives the best hugs. At night when I check on him before I go to bed, I thank God for making him just for us, we are truly blessed!

Big Changes

Our best friends who live in AR now stopped by and stayed for a night last week. Isaac is 5 months older than Hudson and Hollynn is only 4 weeks older than Grace, how awesome is that!

Mandy's cell phone is way cooler than mine and took all of these pics.

To say these two had a blast together is an understatement. They stayed up til almost 2 a.m. playing since Mandy and Ryan didn't get here until after 11 that night. Jason and I were laughing at them as we listened to them on the monitor that night. We put their beds next to each other in the floor and they just giggled and then it just stopped and they were out!

I have only a few minutes to share some big changes coming our way. I'll try to be more detailed in a later post. Jason has accepted a job as a youth pastor at Friendship FWB, which is about the same distance we travel now to go to Bethel. There are so many emotions wrapped up in this. It's exciting and scary all in the same breath. We are very sad to leave the place we've called home for 8 1/2 years, we knew it would happen one day, but that doesn't make it any easier. But the people at Friendship have been very encouraging and seem to be excited. So with a little tear in my eye, I'm looking forward to this adventure, Jason is too! Hudson already has made a few friends there and I think the transition on him will be easier than I had originally thought. Jason starts August 1st. He will continue to have Carney Lawn Care as well. Please pray for us as we take this big step!

What We've Been Up To...

He loved this hat from VBS and obviously loved the sucker he had that night, too!

If I had a dollar for every time he laughs this hard, I'd be a millionaire!

Jason gets home tonight from his second mission trip this summer, we are ready for him to be home! We are surprising him with an ipad 2 and we cleaned, unpacked, and organized his office for him, I can't wait to see his reaction! His office was pretty much a bunch of boxes and papers and I figured he wouldn't get to it until winter, so me and the kids spent 3 nights in there working then Will and Casey came over and put together book shelves and hung things on the wall. I'll have to take pics.

We've been staying busy and doing fun stuff this summer, last year I wasn't exactly Mrs. Fun so I've enjoyed getting to do fun stuff with the little man and lady. We've seen three movies so far, Cars 2 by far his favorite. We went to Holiday World a few weeks ago and it was awesome, I can't wait to go back next year. I've never seen Hudson so tired as he was on the way home, but he had a BLAST! There are 2 more blastball games left, and our boy is definitely the team clown!

Hollynn update...I'm not sure if she's going to skip crawling or not. She does this weird army crawl but she rolls up on her left hip and pushes herself forward, it's quite funny. But she does it just so she can get close enough to something to pull herself up. She is much more concerned with standing and walking (holding your hand) than she is crawling. She is starting to balance some without holding your hands. She LOVES any animal, I mean jump up and down squeal when she gets close enough to pet them. I'm hoping we will have our fence up by the end of this month so the dogs can come home, they kids will both love that as will I, Jason well...not so much.

And I've been busy training and teaching. I'm up to teaching almost 30 people a week (so much for not adding new people, huh :) and I have a nice group of training horses in. Three of them I will eventually show, so that's always exciting. I am so blessed with a job that my children can come to and they both love being outside!

That's all for now, a sweet little boy just crawled up in my lat, and Jason's almost home :D

Blastball!

As corny as it sounds, blastball really is a blast! Hot but lots of fun. He has 6 weeks of games and these pics are from his first one. The funny thing is when it's his turn to bat he runs so fast up to the plate but when he hits it and everybody is yelling ruuunnnn, he moves more like the turtle! Then when he gets to base, it honks, so he jumps up and down on it several times. At one point during the game he pulled his hat down over his face and walked around like a mummy! I just sit there and laugh, if that's one thing this child can do, it's get a laugh out of you!

Just like last night when we were on our way home from the horse show, he was getting Hollynn to say mama (yes, mama is her first word, it's awesome! I'm going to try and post a video of it). She said mamamamamama and then he said, "Mom, she said it!" I said, "Well, you are such a good teacher." To which he says: Hollynn, you want me to teach you spanish? Say gatto (not sure if I'm spelling it right, but it's cat in spanish). Say gatto. I asked him what does that mean? And in his best buzz lightyear voice he says, "It means to infiniti and beyond"!

Creek

Don't worry, he's blowing bubbles not drinking!

This girl loves water!

May...

I get winked at quite often!

She has two teeth coming through the top to match her two on the bottom! She now weighs 20.4 oz and had a third round of immunizations. She of course did not have the one that she is allergic to but I was still nervous about them. She did great. Fell asleep on the way home then she loves baths so they got one when we got home and the rest of the day you wouldn't have known she had 2 shots, she wasn't even fussy.

His corner of the play room, his favorite room in the house.

Usually when I lay her down she wakes up (unless it's her one long nap of the day), but not this night. So they both enjoyed a short nap. Doesn't her hair look like the color of his go tee (or however you spell it). He has some red in it and sometimes when I look at her I think she has a hint of red in her hair.

Oh, and better late than never, Happy Birthday to Jason (it was Monday). He is now the big 27! Are we getting old or what?

Kiddos...

These two have some serious fun with my cooking spoons!

Swimming lessons were a blast for him. He did really good except he kills me how he is such a talker and always has a story to tell. I finally told his swim teachers that they just needed to tell him to do something instead of ask him. You ask him a question and he can somehow get from holding his breath under water to the booboo on his leg to tractors, etc. He NEVER stops talking!

These two are crazy about each other. Most of the time if she can just touch him she giggles. And he loves to make her laugh. Needless to say most of our days have LOTS of laughs in them :)

How cute is this camo?! My friend Lisa made if for her and I love to dress her in it and take her to the barn, my little county girl!

Spring Time...

This is our neighbor, Hannah, she went with us to our church's Easter Egg Hunt, they had a blast on the slides.

I love headbands, I think all I need is an orange one and we'll have all the colors :)

Peas, anyone? She was getting sleepy, but I'm sure she managed to finish her food :)

There are lots of deer, lions, bears, dinosaurs, etc. in our house. Thankfully we have sharp shooter H!