Over the months!

So I know I am a little behind on posting! I have been really busy with the kids sports and my classes right now have been harder due to the fact that I have had algebra for the last 9 weeks and just started my next nine weeks in the second part of the algebra. Math has always been a challenge for me so it takes me a long time for me to get my homework done each week. I am on the computer at least 4 hours a day doing my algebra homework it becomes very frustrating and overwhelming for me so I don't have a lot of time for much else. The kids finished with sports for a few months so we get a break from that! Cooper did great in his first year of football and he can't wait for it to start again. He watches football on TV with his dad all the time and I have found him upstairs watching it by himself he loves FOOTBALL!!! Hunter had a great year. This was his fourth year and he has improved each year it is so fun to watch him play! I am completely a football mom!! Hunter played at Autzen Stadium again and his team won which was awesome because they had several injuries on their team towards the end. Savannah played soccer and volleyball which she is good at too she gets in there and that is great! I wish there was a more advanced place for her to play that is close so that she could learn more. Thanksgiving we went up to Grants Pass where Rob's mom lives and we had Thanksgiving dinner at his Uncle's in Medford. It was nice to see them all and we enjoyed our time there. I was supper excited to have a new niece make her appearance on my birthday!! It will be awesome to share a birthday with Lydia each year because she is extremely special to our family! While in Medford I had Rob's Aunt take family pictures because we have not had any done in awhile I think Sierra was a baby last time. So here are some pictures from over the last couple months!!

Selena Gomez!

So for Savannah's birthday we got her tickets to see Selena Gomez! She came here to our state fair and Savannah was pretty excited! So here some pictures of the concert don't really have close ups of Selena my zoom lens is broken but there is a good one of Savannah when Selena comes out on the stage! Yes she is crying!! It was fun and we had a great time even though it was hot. Some of the pictures are sideways sorry but couldn't get them to rotate after downloading them ugh!! Savannah is singing and dancing away!!

My Project!!

So for awhile now I have been wanting to refinish our kitchen table and chairs! It needed it badly since this table and chairs are the ones Mom and Dad gave us and it was the same table and chairs we had growing up it has been well used! I live the table it is big enough for us but needed some freshen up. So I decided to start it today. So I am not all the way finished but wanted to share my pictures. I still need to do the chairs and figure out how to repair so of the chairs that have broken rails. I love how the table turned out and I am in love with it now!! Now the chairs as you can see I wanted to see what it would look like with black legs but I am gonna stick with white. I am not done so when it is complete I will post the finished pictures. But I am liking how it is looking.

Emerald Game

So I purchased a package for tickets to the Em's which is the baseball team here in Eugene. So Rob and the three oldest went to the game with him. The package was for four tickets on Groupon I love this new site I have gotten so pretty good deals from it! And they got to take a picture with the mascot and got to watch batting practice before the game. They were all pretty excited and had a lot fun! The kids also had cupcakes at the game and that is why their mouths are blue.

Beach in Florence

Here are a few pictures I took of the kids when we went to the beach the next day on our way home from camping. I didn't get to walk along the beach because of my foot it was way to hard and hurt to much. But I wanted some cute pics of the kids on the beach.

Camping at Sutton!

So the weekend after Savannah's birthday we went camping and tubing. We went camping at Sutton Campground out in Florence on the coast. We went with 8 other families and we had a blast. Two of the friends have boats and our friends Aunt lives at Mercer Lake which is a little private community that has their own lake. So we all got to go tubing and the kids got to try it for the first time. Sierra didn't of course but Sage didn't even want to try but Cooper did and he loved it. I even went tubing but didn't last long I ended up cutting my foot on the router of the boat and it hurt and is just now finally healing. I didn't have to get stitches but had to get a tetanus shot and had have it cleaned really good. The kids had a blast and we were pretty tired when we got home! I just remember my favorite memories of trips we took as a family and they were when we went camping so I want the kids to have those memories too! And camping is not as expensive as other trips so we can do that now!

Savannah's Birthday!

Savannah's birthday was July 19th and I had this whole treasure hunt planned out all based around Selena Gomez because she is coming to the State Fair here and we got her tickets to her concert for Savannah for her birthday! In the collage the big picture is where she opened her gift and saw the concert tickets! Needless to say my treasure hunt got ruined when I woke up that morning to make sure the time of the movie was the same and saw that the movie is no longer playing in the theater! I was so bummed! The treasure hunt at one point lead to taking her and her friend and Sage to see the movie Selena Gomez just came out with called Monte Carlo so my plans had to change so I ended up taking them to get manicures instead. So it all worked out and the treasure hunt ended at Cold Stone creamery where we met Grammy, Niki, Ethan, Tiffany, Adam, Brandi, Daniel and Gracie! It was fun and the cousins had fun playing in the courtyard area by the ice cream place!

Catching up!!

So I am a little behind on posting so I thought I would take some time today and catch up! Tiffany showed a site called PicNic that Jessie showed her when she was in Canada for Grandpa's funeral and I love it and makes it so much easier and not have to download a bunch of individual pictures so I have a lot of collage pictures to share! So I will get started! I have been pretty busy with the kids out of school and still going to school myself. This Summer has gone by pretty fast so that is good for me anyway.

Cooper is turning 5!

Wow I can't believe he is five and will be in kindergarten. Oh and he gets to play football like Hunter which he is very excited about! June 2 Cooper joined our family and has blessed us with his very serious nature. He is stubborn little thing but he is sweet too! Cooper hope you have a wonderful birthday! He is having his birthday party this Saturday at the same place Sage had hers I will try to remember to post pictures I forgot to post any from Sage's.

Cooper's Preschool Graduation!

So it is very hard for me to believe that next year I will have four kids in school elementary school. Things will be pretty crazy with conferences and stuff more so than they are now! Well Cooper graduated from preschool last week he was pretty excited and says my summer has started. He is getting so big! Here are some pictures from his graduation night.

Visit to see Ashton!

Okay so I am a little behind on posting but I have been pretty busy between the kids and school. So we just got back yesterday from a quick trip to Redding, California we went there to see Robs son that he had from a previous relationship. We use to see his son every weekend until Savannah was born then his mom made it impossible to see him. So it is good that we have contact with him now and we planned a trip to go see him. His name is Ashton and he is 12 years old. This is the first time the kids have met him. It went very well and the kids had a great time. They can't wait to see him again! They shed some tears when we dropped him off. They were pretty all pretty sad. So here are some pictures from the trip. So we went bowling, swimming and to a park that Rob and I took Ashton to when he was 2 and played so the pictures are from those different activities. They loved being in the water the most!

Sage is turning 7!!

Wow my kids are growing up to fast!! Today is Sage's Birthday and she will be 7! She is sweet girl who loves to dance and sing! I really need to get a video camera so that I can start taping her when she is dancing and do it without her knowing! Well here are some pictures of her!!!

Scrapbook weekend!

So I had to make a post about my weekend last week! I just have been busy and haven't had a chance to. Well I went to the Scrapbook Convention in Portland with my mom and I will tell you had the best time and have decided that is what I want for my birthday and Christmas this year too! I know this is silly but I don't have any pictures to post from that weekend but as I get my projects from the weekend finished I will post them! It was great to spend the weekend with mom and I am so glad we got to go together! I think this is been the first time I have ever done something with mom by myself and no else in a very long time so it was nice. It was exciting because I won a ton of stuff! Each class has door prizes and then there is door prizes in the vendor area as well. I won something 7 times between my classes and the vendor area! It was so cool! I guess it was just my lucky day!! It would be fun to get more of the sisters that scrapbook to come next year!I really enjoyed! Oh wait I said that already!

My Baby is not a Baby Anymore!

Today is Sierra's birthday she is turning 3! I can not believe how fast time flies! She is not a baby anymore and this does make me sad. I get pretty emotional about it. We had a birthday party yesterday. It was a Super Why theme she loves the show it is on PBS and it is pretty cute. I made cupcakes with Starbursts cut up into squares for carrots and sixlets candies in green to look like peas. I think they turned out pretty cute! The Princess Presto on the show says Peas and Carrots Carrots and Peas Open the book please please! So that is where that idea came from. Here is some pictures from the party and then of Sierra over her three years! Posted late due to power outage here!

Target and Safeway Trip!

I just had to share the awesome job I did on my shopping trip to get some things at Target and Safeway. Yesterday I went through my coupon binder(yes I said binder) and got all my coupons together that I was going use at Target and Safeway so that once the kids were off to school I could run in to town and get some things. When I was at Target they had some great stuff on clearance that I grabbed too because it was a good deal. The pictures are not very clear I don't know why I couldn't get them clearer but I spent 45.00 dollars for all of that!! This is what I got!
Target
Finish Dishwasher Tabs
Jet Dry for Dishwasher
Bottle of Fabric Softener
Purex 3-1
2 toothbrushes
2 bottles of shampoo
1 bottle of conditioner
Bottle of Ibuprofen
bottle of kids Ibuprofen
Box of 60 count Tampax
Envelopes
Tyson Chicken strips
Dentyne 3 pack gum
3 boxes of 22 pouches of Quaker instant oatmeal(girls love this for breakfast)
8 crest toothpastes
Safeway

3 bags of Ore Ida french fries
3 bags of Gourton Fish sticks

I think I did great!! And now have some stock up stuff too!!