The Best Show On Earth

About a month ago ( I know I am a little behind ) we went to the circus. I still get the same feeling as I did as a kid when I walk in and I love seeing m my kids with the same excitement. Ryan and Kenzie had a great time. Kenzie sat on Scott's lap for 2 hours and laughed, pointed, clapped and was amazed at all that she saw. They were able to pick out one thing and Ryan, of course, got a sword because that is his toy of choice everywhere we go. Kenzie got something with tigers that lights up. It was fun that we got to go and enjoy as a family. What a fun day!!

7 Year Anniversary

August 1st Scott and I celebrated 7 years of marriage. Time flies when you are having fun. This year I surprised Scott and took him to an indoor Rock Climbing place. We had SO much fun. He even commented about how impressed he was with me at how I climbed. This determined girl can climb some mountains. Hahaha well not real ones, but the fake ones were fun. After about an hour and a half we called it quits and headed to our favorite place of all.....Ruth Chris Steak House. We enjoyed a juicy steak and a nice glass of wine. It was a perfect celebration to our wonderful marriage!!!

Amazing Transformation

We have lived in our house for 3 1/2 years and for about that long we have been wanting to do something with the playroom. I never minded the kids getting in there and having fun, but when it was time to clean up it all still looked out of sort. I thought I knew a little bit about how I wanted it to look, but I am a very visual person. I have to see it first then decide whether I like it or not. When you decorating it makes it very hard to not have that "eye" to see how things will eventually come together. BUT I am blessed with WONDERFUL friends who are the opposite of me and have not only the creative gene, but also have this amazing love to "organize" whatever it may be. So this task was right where they love to be.

Misty, Stephanie and I took the kids to a fun place and off we were. The girls took me to Ikea and that is my kind of place. I can see it set out and displayed and then could fall in love with it. After several hours of looking at containers, rugs, fabric, chairs and more we were ready to transform. Another several hours was spent putting all of it together. YIKES we were already tired and the hard part was just beginning. Soon after Steph had to leave and Misty and I had to do "mom" things. Once the kids were in bed we were off to clean out. This is my favorite part. I am anything but a pack rat. I love to get ride of and clean house and that is exactly what we did. Goodwill is going to love it when we come. Finally after 9 hours from start to finish of laughing, frustrations and exhaustion we were DONE and I couldn't be more happy. It is fun and inviting!! It is exactly what I wanted and didn't even know it, but I am glad the girls did. :)

Today Ryan and I were in the kitchen and he runs to the playroom and stands at the door. I asked him what he was doing and he said " I just wanted to look at my new room again. I really like it." And I do too!!! Thanks Misty and Stephanie for working so hard to get us all fixed up!!

The Builders!!

And thanks to my mom who was also there helping us put this together.

Before:

After:

These hand prints are of the haynes and rogers kids and we will continue to fill it up as friends come play. I love that they will have a part in decorating as well.

The Soccer Blog

So soccer was back in the spring, but for some reason I thought I had already blogged about it. Scott tried to show someone at work awhile back and it wasn't there. From then on the joke has been about when I was going to blog about soccer. Finally I remembered to write about it.

Ryan was SO excited that his daddy was one of his coaches. He had all of his friends that he loved on the team so it was the perfect combination. Ryan did great and really worked his way up to the ball almost every time. We were very proud of him and happy that Scott got to do something he has ALWAYS wanted to do. He love coaching Ryan just as much as Ryan loved having him as his coach.

One of the practices

Go Ryan

Getting ready to kick off

Kenzie helping her brother at break time

Vacation Pictures #1

Heading to the gate

Kenzie wanting to say Cheese one more time before we go

Seeing uncle Ron for the first time..

The crew back together again!!

Vacation Pictures #2

Movie night...you can see Ryan and Lola were being a little crazy

Love this Bff picture

Fun at White Sands

Ryan and Lilli sliding down the mountain

Kenzie had fun with the "snow" as she called it

Picnic lunch

You can see our card board box we had for shade

On top of the mountain

Amazing views

Water park at the Haynes

Ready for the zoo

They really did have fun, but this picture show pure exhaustion

Where should we go first?

Look Wowa

Ryan and Kenzie loved the sea lions

Precious