It’s all happening!

“It’s all happening!” is a quote from one of my favorite movies! (Almost Famous) And it keeps coming to my head right now as I am knee deep in plans for the Learning Center. I have been working with planning and zoning, state license and welfare people, setting up registration dates, classroom layouts and measuring up staffing possibilities. So I think “It’s all happening” pretty much sums it up. When I begin to think about the year long process that this has been, it almost brings me to tears! Please keep me in your prayers as I am moving forward on this journey. I’m sorry I have not updated in a while…I have been a bit busy! 

TY Update:

So most people know this about TY but if you don’t…Ty has been an infomercial junkie since he was VERY little. I remember as a tiny kid him pointing to the TV and telling me we needed to buy something they were selling on TV! So of course Topsy Turvy was a must! Except one serious issue he doesn’t eat tomatoes! But of course they don’t just sell tomato ones!!!! The have Strawberry ones too!!! So Ty is officially a Strawberry farmer!! He waters them everyday after school!! :) And there are a lot showing up already!

Here is a video of his solo in the church program…the song was Bullfrogs & Butterflies:

School gets out next Friday and he is looking forward to that, and the pool opening on Monday!!

LYLA update:

Lyla is a busy bug! Sometimes I wonder if I should delegate some of the things I need to get done to her because she is into EVERYTHING! She is trying to walk! Yup you heard me! She keeps taking one step and then she doesn’t quite know what to do after that so she drops down and crawls. But it is only a matter of weeks where she takes off. She is smart & sassy and hears NO a lot! Often it is “No mouth Lyla Bug” But the good news is she listens pretty good! …I said PRETTY GOOD!!

Stay tuned for news of walking :)

Hope everyone is doing great!

2 Teeth

I was beginning to think we were going to have to get Lyla dentures before she went to kindergarten, but good news is she cut 2 teeth this weekend!

Bad News,…TWO TEETH IN ONE WEEKEND!!!

I will try and get a picture but don’t count on it. :)

Coming SOON!

KIDZone Learning Center will be coming to a College Church near us….

I just got word that we passed the final process in the approval process and we have set an opening date! Which is crazy for me to think that this random idea that I had is going to become a reality!! Please pray for me and all the people involved as we move forward we have A LOT to do!!

OPENING AUGUST 2nd, 2010!

Thanks everyone for your support, and thank you Juan for the amazing logo!

Riddin’ along in my ESCALADE!

A LOT of folks helped make this one possible!!!….

For the fundraiser that Ty did for school, if you got to a certain level you got to go in a limo to lunch at Wahooz (it’s a kind of Chuck E. Cheese of sorts) Ty was VERY, VERY Excited for it!! I got to go over and take pictures as they left….

They were ridding in style in a white Escalade

All the kids lined up in front of the limo. (Ty is at the far right in the red shirt)   

He smiled despite the fact that it hurts to smile with that shiner. (That is his buddy Tanner in the stripes, telling me it’s too bright for pictures)

Can you see him peeking out there in the red shirt.

Thanks so much to everyone who supported him in his endeavor to raise money for his school. He did a great job and got some really great prizes! Ty raised $756.00 by himself. He will be talking about this one for a long time to come!!

(and this wasn’t event the top prize!)

 

Houston we have a shiner!

Tonight the baseball team had a double header. DUMB idea for a bunch of 1st and 2nd graders, anyway and it doesn’t help when your kid takes a ball to the face during warm ups! But apparently it is the secret to getting Ty’s head in the game because his first at bat he got a double and then made a great catch at second base! His coaches were teasing him that they are going to have to throw balls at him before each game. And now they are nick named him their prize fighter.

….Alright it looks MUCH worse than it really ended up being!! Plus it doesn’t help that he is milking it a little with the sad face! After a little ice and some Advil it looked much better, it will probably hurt tomorrow though!

Tomorrow he goes on a Limo ride as a prize for selling so much for the fundraiser! They pick him up at school at 11am. He is SO excited!

Put me in coach!

Every time I place an order for sports pictures I think that we shouldn’t buy too much since there will be many many seasons ahead of us! But this picture just seems special, because it is the first with Daddy as one of the coaches!!

Recognize that coach in the middle???

Happy Mother’s Day

Hope everyone has a wonderful Mother’s Day!

I woke up to Matt asking me what I wanted for breakfast. (I still can’t eat on one side) We are going to spend the day working in our yard, and sprucing up the front. We are spending some money on the outside of the house this year.

Yesterday we had the back part of our property prepped for the installation of grass. If you haven't seen our house we have a creek behind our house, which we LOVE! It make our yard seem bigger because there isn’t a house smack behind us. And actually our property goes to the middle of the creek but we just had weeds from our iron fence to the creek and we are going to put grass all the way to the creek so that it is easier to maintain and we can enjoy the ducks that hang out back there. So Uncle Doug came yesterday to till it up for us and he let Ty ride on the tractor while he did it. It was pretty cool to watch Doug maneuver that thing…You can tell it was not his first time at the Rodeo. Ty had a blast.

So I figured I wouldn’t do Mother’s day justice if I didn’t post a picture of both kids. So here you go. Here’s Lyla… 

Hope everyone has a great Mother’s Day today!!