Good Bye Brown MSH!

Goodbye Brown Married Student Housing!

Tonight will be the last night that we spend in this place. I am excited to move on just because I feel like this is a good move for us. Our new place is pretty average, however it is about 200 square feet bigger. I know that does not sound like a lot but at this point i will take what I can get. I am happy that tomorrow is the day and we will not have to be living surrounded by boxes. Well maybe for a few more days but then we are done at least until the next big move. I am hoping for good weather and that everything moves quickly!

becareful when it says DELUXE!

As most of you know we are moving. We have this little ice cream place that we really like and will occasionally go to. However since we are moving we thought we would make one last visit for a while. I told Sargento on the way there, that I was going to try something different. I usually get this crunch cone that is delicious. So I randomly picked something off the menu called Sundae Deluxe. I thought it meant that it had like extra whip cream or something. Oh no.. Check this bad boy out. I ended up throwing half out because it was just to much. But what I ate was yummy. Here's to our favorite ice cream place. Hope to see you in the future~

Now that is a deluxe Sundae!!!

Local Damage

I needed to take a break from packing and cleaning and so I loaded the boys up in the car and went for a little drive. I obviously could not go into the towns where the tornados hit because they were baracaded off for just the residence to get in. I think that was a good thing to give the people time to collect what was left without tons of people watching and carrying on. So we tried to stay out of the way and stay on country roads. This is just some of the damage and we were just where the outside of the tordnado was. This little town is about ten minutes from where we live now.

You can see where the tornado just took the tops off of the trees.

You can see the cement slab where the farm house used to be.

That is a tractor trailor in the background.

This is the same shot just a little closer.

Again you can see the bottom of the trees. It was just amazing what a tornado can do.

These poor people lost their roof.

These two pictures just make me so sad. The top one is where their house was. The bottom one is the top of their house clear over by the road. It took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at.

Sadly this is a family's house that goes to church with us. I just can't imagine. She is nine months pregnant and they were going to move in July. My heart just goes out to them.
This picture just amazes me. Their cars where in their garage. You can see the bottom of their garage door still in place. That is just incredible. I still can not get over the damage.

This was another house that just took my breath away. You can see the little girls room and her bed. It looks like the side of their house was just ripped off. So strange. The house next door to this one was completely fine. No damage at all. It is just so scary how a tornado can hit one house and completely destroy it and then skip right over another one.

Hopefully no one is upset by this blog. I just thought I would post pictures because I could not get over the damage. I know that the family that we went to church with is safe and that they are being taken care of. I am thankful for that. They will be in our prayers!

Tornados, Thunderstorms & Singing in the basement!

Poor Sargento. Tonight we went out to his parents house to celebrate his birthday. We were just about to start singing him happy birthday and the tornado sirens went off. You will notice we were all singing with his lone candle in the background. I had to stop tapping because Curls knocked a glass off the dresser and there was glass everywhere.. Arg.. The weather here has been awful tonight. We were down in the basement three different times. Some people from our church lost their house and both their cars. I just can not imagine what that must be like for them. Not to mention she is 9 months pregnant. Anyways I was going to post all these fun pictures of Sargento's party. However this is us singing to him from his brothers room in his parents basement. Hopefully next year will be a little less eventful!

On the way home I tried to get a shot of the bad weather that was behind us but you can not really tell how ominous it looked.

Our First BBQ of the Year!

Our friends the Williams had a group of about 4 couples over tonight for a BBQ! It was perfect. It was supposed to rain, but it ended up being perfect weather. We had so much fun and of course I took a ton of pictures! If you want to see the majority of them you can click here! The food was delicious and we really enjoyed talking with everyone! The boys relaxing on the hammock!
Stacy helping Ollie knock that loose tooth out =)
Jaren chillen in the grass!
I love love love Isaacs face " Stuck in the middle with you" only he does not look to excited!

All the girls in the wagon together!

Isaac enjoying his ice cream~

Thanks guys for a great night!

Today I wish I was......

HERE!

I wish I was standing there watching one of my oldest friends walk in side with her soon to be new husband. I wish i was there to see her dress and help with what ever she needed. But I am not.. and that makes me a little sad.
Today one of my oldest friends is getting married. I tried to get out there but it just did not work out. I woke up this morning thinking about her. There is an hour difference between us so I am wondering if she is up yet. I am guessing if she was anything like me she did not sleep much last night. I believe they are getting married at 10:00am which would be 11:00 here. Oh how I wish I could be there to celebrate with her. We always said we would be there when the other got married but sometimes life just does not work out that way. Oh well, I hope they have beautiful weather and I am sure no matter what happens this will be the best day for them. Congrats Sam and Jean.. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

I'ma gonna Wiiin!

Mario Kart has taken over our house. Ok not really, but we do play it every now and then and I have to admit that I am the Queen. To prove my point when Sargento came home today, he brought a crown for me. I wore it proudly as I stomped him this afternoon at Peach Beach, one of the many race tracks!

(This is my crown!)

Sargentos sister came over today and wanted to play so we had a good time playing Mario Kart with each other! Here are some pictures!

As you can tell it has become a family event! It really is pretty fun.

We also had fun today with our little friend coming over. It was a last minute thing, but the boys loved it. I even ended up braving the grocery store with all three, and it went pretty well. When we came home from the store the kids were playing and I went in the boys room and this is what I found. Our little buddy sure thought this was fun. He was on it for the rest of the day. I might just have to tell his mom to keep an eye out at garage sales for the musical zebra!

(I love that in the video you can see everyone's feet bouncing right along with him)

All in all we had a much better day than yesterday.. and the best part is Sargento gets to be home with us tonight.. We always love that!

sick of ~

This post might sound a little whiny but I am super sick of looking at boxes. Thats all there is everywhere in our house. I am so ready to carry them out, put them on a u-haul and send them to the new place. I just want to get rid of stuff that we don't use, get stuff out so I can clean this place and be done with it. I am sick of living here. I have not really enjoyed married student housing, except for being so close to our friendly neighbors. That has been pleasant. But other than that I have hated our tiny fridge, tiny stove.. tiny everything. Not being able to park anywhere near our house. Argg. Well I guess I can but not Sargento and not our guests. I think I am just cranky because it has been a long day. Do you guys ever have days where you are just blah by the end of the day. Well I guess I should be happy. Just a few more days and it will all be over. The countdown is on. I am looking forward to this weekend. A fun BBQ with friends and another celebration of Sargento's Birthday.. I am sure things will start looking up tomorrow!

A night of Birthday Fun!

Tonight we celebrated Sargento's birthday. Sargento is not a super big cake person so I just made a few cupcakes. I think the kids were more excited than we were but we wanted to sing to him, so it was fun. I am laughing so hard in this video because Sargento did not know I was recording and i thought, why is he getting up. Anyways Rewind did burn his finger a little, but nothing big. It was a good party after all! Here are some pics of the big party.

Sargento got to go see the new Narnia movie for his birthday but he also took some of the birthday money he got and bought Mario cart for the wii. If any of you have the wii. Mario Cart is a great investment. Fun for the whole family. I like to be princess peach.. she is the only girl. Sargento likes to pick among the different other characters. But I have to admit something.. I beat him constantly and he hates it. I come in first place almost every time. I am not even that big of a video game person. In fact I hardly ever play but almost every time with a few exceptions I beat the pants off of him. Oh well even on his birthday .. Girls rule and boys Drool ! lol just kidding! Someday he will be able to beat me with lots of practice! =)

Happy Happy Birthday Sargento!

Happy 28th Sargento!

Well I guess everyone can tell what today is. That's right, it is my hubby's birthday! It's funny because I was talking about him with my mom the other night. I thought my mom described him the best I had heard in a while. She said Sargento is always like a breath of fresh air. I have to agree. He is always just himself. Very honest, very true to who he is, and not really concerned with what others think. That may not sound like a big deal but I think that it is. I think because he is secure with who he is, it allows him to be one of the most fun people to be around. He is so funny and smart, but loves to act like a little kid right along with our boys. I think that is one of the things I love the most about him. He is so great with the boys.

It's funny, I know that I have heard some of my other friends say this too, but even though I have only known him for 6 years, sometimes when I look back it is hard to imagine that he was not right there with me. Sometimes I think that it is funny we had ended up together. I know I have posted our engagement story so I won't share that again, but when he first got back we could just say their were a few people fighting for his attention. He was this cute guy that had just gotten back from Brazil. All of the girls wanted to get to know him and I thought I did not want any part of that. I have never been one to get in a cat fight over a guy! So he was home for about a year, and then I guess it finally clicked for both of us that maybe we should go out with each other since we had a lot in common and always enjoyed each others company! Well that day that he asked me out has made all the difference in my world and I am eternally grateful for him.

Happy Birthday Honey!

I love you!

Birthday Cheese Cake!

Today Garran got a surprise cheese cake from some of our good friends the Williams. It was blueberry his favorite. This is what happened after he discovered it in the fridge!

Just kidding it was delicious! Thanks for the great surprise guys!

playing with our friendly neighbors!

Yesterday we got to play with our friendly neighbors. Curls just loves Mei Mei. (in the purple shirt) Anytime they see each other the run to each other and hug while yelling each others name! I know Curls will be sad when we move away from them, both the boys will. He loves playing with their family. I guess I will just have to work hard at setting up playdates.. Maybe when lil shep has a doctors appointment the girls can come play since we will be kind of close!

Mei Mei on the horse! (I am using the nicknames from their family blog!)

(While I was taking PB's picture, she said "my aunt lets me say stinky feet when she takes my picture)

Rewind just making noise!

Group shot!

PB pretending to be MO from Doodlebops!

The Pictures below are all of LIL SHEP! He is just so smiley I love taking his picture! What a cute kid!~

I think Sargento is getting into blogging!

So recently every time Sargento sees something funny he says "thats going on the blog"! He asked me to add this little number that he found on youtube. He thought it was hilarious.. I guess it is just a youtube kind of day!

ENJOY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD7zSLaSXRc&feature=user

Sargento's New Theme Song!

Sargento loves this song. It comes on Disney and he and the boys laugh and sing. It cracks me up. Sargento says this is the best song!

Sargento's New Theme Song =)

He always sings this song when it comes on the Disney channel. He and the boys dance around and sing.. It is funny.

How to be~

Today I was at church and one of the lessons touched on how we are given gifts/talents to help us raise our children. Immdiately I started to think of what mine may be. I always think it is easy to look around the room and see the women that you know and think oooh she is really good at that with her kids or ohh i wish i was more like that with my kids. But the fact is that my kids have me and not those other wonderful ladies. I was thinking that I am sure I have gifts/talents that help me to be a mom to both of the boys, but today as I was sitting through the lesson I thought that I could do alot more to improve on those to be better. I always have good intentions but am not always the best at following through. If I could give myself a title that would be it. QUEEN OF GOOD INTENTIONS! I try to do what I have planned but it does not always work out. I need to be better at that. So anyways that is my new goal for the month of June! I am going to try and follow through with my good intentions which I am hoping will make me a better mom but will also help me reach one of my other goals which is to be more service oriented. (I think this post was more for me than any of you.. I think I just needed to clear my head.. ever had those days?)

A date for SArgenTos Birthday!

Just thought I would post about Sargento and I going on a date today. Sargento's sister came over to watch the boys and we went to go see the new Narnia movie. I have to say that I liked the first one, but I think I liked this one even more. We had a nice time. We decided this would be part of Sargento's birthday celebration. When his birthday comes around.. he likes to say that he gets to celebrate all week long. I think he just likes all the extra attention=) Anyways we recommend this movie if anyone is thinking about it!