Summer FUN

It has been a VERY busy summer for us so far and it is REALLY hard to believe that June is almost over! I have been hard at work on the launch of KIDZone Learning Center while continuing to go to school and take care of kids. You know the usual.  I wanted to share with everyone some fun pictures of this great weekend that we had.

On Friday I watched 5 school aged kids!!! Yup I may have lost my mind! But never fear I have not gone that nuts! I hired a college girl to come and help me, so I was able to leave Lyla with Rhonda (the girl I hired) and I was able to take all of the kids to the pool. We picked up a neighbor kid on the way to the pool because you know if you are already watching 5 what’s one more??

The kids had a blast, there was a close friend of ours there with her kids and her two nieces so I had all of the kids line up on the wall and let me take there picture. It was a pretty overcast day but it was still very warm.

While they were up on the wall they were whining that they were cold, so I told them to

JUMP!

It was a very good time. This morning we got up and we went to the Nampa farmers market. There was a car show there today, and we had a blast as a family walking around and looking at the cars. They downtown Nampa area was having a big drawing if you just filled out the paper with your name and address you would get entered into a drawing for $100 and if you ran around collecting stamps from all of the business you would get put into a drawing for $300, so we gave it to Ty and he was on a mission to get all of the stamps, so we filled up our card with all of the stamps, so wish us luck!! :)

There was one particular car that Ty loved there. It was a VERY nice woody. He wouldn’t let me take his picture by it so I nabbed a picture of him and Matt looking at it.

Then he took a picture of me and Matt in front of it 

It was a great weekend! I have to hit the books and get some studying now so I hope everyone is doing great!

These Little feet were made for…

WALKIN!….

AND THAT’S JUST WHAT THEY’LL DO

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!