My Crazy Jumper!

I decided that Noah need a post all of his own. So I took my good camera to the pool the other day, and I love how quick I can take pics of them and catch them in mid air in their jumps. These pictures just make me laugh!! Noah was having so much fun jumping as crazy as he could!

This second one has got to be my very favorite!!

Homeschooling book

I wanted to recommend a book to all you homeschool moms, or even if you are thinking about it. One of our clients from last year that got married was homeschooled along with 2 of his brothers their whole life. Their mom, Marilyn Rockett has been very active with a homeschool group in Virginia, and she has written a book. I have not read it, but I am about to order it. I am very excited for her, and it was great to meet her son, someone has turned out to be a great man, and he now has a wife that is one of the nicest people I have ever met. Ms. Rockett also has a website..... www.marilynrockett.com if you want to check her out.

Her book is called "Homeschooling at the speed of life" you can get it through amazon, and maybe through her website too. Click here to see The book.

On my way.......

To register my kids for school! I have struggled with this all year long! My heart very much wants to homeschool my kids.....but like my kids say to me...."my brain won't let me!" I have pretty much been a basket case since we moved to Little Rock, and can't seem to cope with anything. I can't focus to teach them and things are so chaotic all the time. So, we have decided that it is in everyone's best interest to put them in school. I have decided to just start Noah over in Kindergarten, b/c I don't want him to be behind in anyway. So, he and Leah will be in the same grade, and I know they will spend their entire life answering the question..."Are you twins?" I told them they could just say yes if they wanted to! They are only 10 months apart, and have been a lot like twins anyway, so I think this will work out well. I am also going to get Rachel in preschool. I HOPE to get her in the same school they are in, that would be great!

Please pray for me....I have REALLY been struggling, and it has taken a lot just for me to take this step of putting them in school. I just think...it isn't doing them a lot of good keeping them at home protecting them from the world, when their mom at home is crazy as a loon! I really have been hard on myself for not being able to do this, and I carry guilt for putting them in school, but have also felt horrible all year b/c I haven't taught them the way I should.

I am so thankful though, for this year that we have all had together. Even though it has be CRAZY, we have done a lot of fun things together, and gotten closer as a family. Next week will mark one year since Clay quit his job at the bank to be home with the business. We have done more things as a family this year, than I did with my family my entire life, and I am so grateful for that!

Family Time....

Not sure what Rachel was doing back there, but it cracks me up!

We took a quick road trip to Hot Springs on Sunday to go back to the Mid America Museum. We have gotten our money's worth out of our family pass to the Museum of Discovery, that is for sure!

So, I have really been slumming it lately....no makeup, not fixing my hair, spending half the day in my p.j.'s.....so, Sunday I actually got up and got ready....and even had a new outfit to wear. The girls actually had their hair washed and matching clothes too, so I said I wanted a pic of us girls. Well...Clay made his usual face when I suggested pictures....and I said...Oh, you only take my picture when I look like crap, and that is all I have to remember me with the kids! Then, I didn't say anything else about it. We went to the mountain tower, and on the way up, he pulled off, and said, everyone get out....we are taking a picture! I just wish he had of been in it! Then, I did get one of them 4 outside the tower. Someone did walk by then and offer to take a picture, but I know that Clay doesn't like people touching his camera...(he really doesn't trust me either! LOL)

I just have to say, that Rachel is the biggest nut! She makes the silliest faces, but then will also have the biggest smile when we are taking pictures!

Anyway, thank you to my great husband for getting some pictures of us!

Necklaces

It is hard to tell in this picture, but the kids are modeling their new necklaces that we made. We found some seashells on vacation that had little holes in the top, so that is what is hanging in the center of the necklace. I let them decorate them however they wanted to with my beads, and they had a lot of fun. Rachel made her a bracelet, but as usual lost interest quickly, so she wasn't in the picture.

Disney Princesses on Ice

Noah's friend Asher.
All the Disney couples during the last song
Ariel and Flounder
This was during the finale, the fireworks were really cool, but a little scrary inside a building!

One of our neighbors invited us to attend Disney Princesses on Ice with them last Sunday. Now, I did not want to pay what it cost for me and 3 kids to go, especially since we just got back from vacation, but, I have always wanted to go, and since it is the first time anyone from Little Rock has invited us somewhere, I decided we could go. I really enjoyed it!! I am a fan of ice skating, and I have always loved the Disney movies. I just had my small camera in my purse, the battery was almost dead, and I couldn't get my settings to change to what I wanted, but I got a couple that turned out o.k. My only complaint....I bought the kids these snow cones during intermission, and they were making the BIGGEST mess, and I was so distracted by that, I missed a lot of the second half! I will know better if there is ever a next time!

Kids Easter pics....well sort of

We have not been very regular with attending church lately. It has been a frustrating and overwhelming search for us to find a new church home since we moved. We were on vacation on Easter, and then sick the next week, so this past Sunday was the first chance I have gotten to get the kids dressed up in spring dresses to go to church, and we actually got ready with time to spare, so we ran outside real quick to take a picture. As we were out there, my neighbor (that is Jewish) asked if it were Easter, and I thought a minute, and then said, well, yes for us, it is! So Rachel was all ready for the picture until I said for everyone to put there arms around each other, and then you see the result. Finally after a lot of coaxing, I convinced her to get back in the picture for one.

We were excited when we arrived at the new church we were trying out, b/c coming out of the earlier service was Clay's cousin and wife. We didn't realize they attended there, they used to go to church with us in Monticello before they moved. So, I thought, well, that is a sign that this will be the one, but I am not sure. It was huge, nobody spoke to us, and they had a guest speaker that we didn't care for. So.....I don't know. We have both been praying as we are both ready after living here for 7 months to have a church and attend regularly. It really makes me miss our church in Monticello. I had been so ready for a change, find one with a lot of people our age, but now I really miss the comfort of knowing everyone and them feeling like our family.