Spencer and Shadow

Spencer's first encounter with a kitty! I took Emily to a friends house for a birthday party and stole one of their kitties until it was time to pick Emily up. Spencer loved the kitty sooo much that he didn't want anyone else to hold it or even touch it. He was really good and nice to the kitty, even though it doesn't look like it in some of the pictures! Shadow was purring the whole time. It makes me want a kitty, but only for a second before I remember how much work it is to have a pet!

I told Spencer to smile and this is what he did!

Giving Shadow a kiss!

First day of School

The kids are in school again! School started Aug 26, so they have been in school for a couple of weeks and so far both of them are loving it. It always make it easy when your kids love going to school. I also like it when school starts, I like the route of it, actually being able to get things done, and not having to hear kids complain about being bored! Anyway, here are a few pictures!

Timmy and Emily getting ready to go!

Emily on her scooter ready to go

Timmy on his scooter ready to go

First Day of School

Here they are eating breakfast. They both had cinnamon toast crunch with chocolate milk (that's too much sugar all at once if you ask me)!

Emily's first day of 1st grade!

Timmy's first day of 3rd grade!

Talking with Spencer

This is a conversation I had with Spencer this morning.

Spencer: Mommy

Me: What?

Spencer: BOO!

Me: AHHHH!

Spencer: SHHHH!

Leah and Justin's Wedding

My little sister Leah got married August 7 and we made a quit trip to Iowa so that we could be there. It was a small sweet wedding, I'm guessing that's what it would have looked like to those who were not part of the behind scences, LOL! Anyway, here are a few pictures for you Leah. I'll try to get a cd of all of them to you soon, I hope you like them!

Justin and Leah Connelly

Dresses for Leahs wedding

This post is mostly for my Mom, but feel free to admire Emily and chuckle at me!

Sleeve of Emily's dress

Sleeve again

Full view of dress

Our neighbor was watching as Timmy took pictures of me and I was very uncomfortable with that, so this is what you get!

Timmy has been Baptized!

Today Timmy was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! I am so proud of Timmy, he is a great kid and I love him so much. He is such a blessing to me! It amazes me how much he has grown and how much he continues to grow every day. The program was wonderful and I only had to get up and chase Spencer down once, which means I got to listen to the whole program.

Jeff and Timmy right before
Timmy was so excited!

All of us right before

When we were all done we went home and had a party with family that included breakfast casseroles and a chocolate fountain! YUMMY!

Timmy with chocolate dribble!

And you wonder why I am blogging so quickly? Aunt Christie took Timmy and Emily home with them to spend a couple of days down there. I'm sure they are going to have a great time with their cousins, I just hope Christie survives it! Thanks Christie I needed a little break! Now I'm off to enjoy the quiet (Spencer is napping)!

Party Time!!

Timmy's birthday party was awesome! I think that I had the most fun at this party, but the kids enjoyed it too! The theme was Make a Splash and boy did we! Timmy said that his favorite part was playing dribble, dribble, drench (we'll get there).

All the boys together

All the boys and their silly faces

Old swampy joined the party, sadly he didn't survive it!

Playing dribble, dribble, drench. It's like duck, duck, goose, but with water. I should have put more of them playing this game on here since it was Timmy's favorite game, darn!

Hose the ball across the line game

It was a fun game, just didn't work as good as I thought it would, needed longer hoses

We played sponge tagI think the boys were secretly having a contest to see who could hit me the most

We even had a melt down that was quickly resolved when I said, "Stop right now, or the party is over!"

Spencer figured out how to hose them down, it was sooo funny

More sponge tag

Slip 'N slide (my favorite part)

More slide picts

Last, but not least was the water balloon fight

I told the boys that if they were going to throw balloons that they would have to help pick them up when we were done, and they did! Look at all those pieces! What a blast!

Happy Birthday Timmy!

We celebrated Timmy's 8th birthday June 17th. I know, I know, it's about time that I got this posted! Anyway, it was a pretty normal day. It started off with chores in the morning, going to the movies that afternoon (we got summer movies passes for Thursdays), dinner, cake and ice-cream, and finished the day off playing with Timmy's new presents!

All the pictures all blurry, but that's what I get for letting Uncle Steven take pictures and not showing him how to focus the camera.

Here is Timmy with his cake that we bought (I almost never buy cakes), but I didn't want to make two cakes, one for us and one for his actual party.

Make a wish and blow out the candles!

We told Timmy to shove his face in the cake and this is what he did!

This picture is funny! Ha, Ha, Ha