No glasses for now...

I took Kenna to the Eye Dr. yesterday and what we found out is that most kids are far sighted until the age of 6 (this is why you will see kids get really close to the books that they are looking at). But because Kenna has to fluctuate from looking at her school work to looking at the white board the muscles in her eyes (which aren't fully developed) don't relax enough for her to see far away with out it being blurry. So she is not near sighted, she just needs to relax! Just kidding! =) There isn't much they can do to correct it, her eyes will just need to figure it out, unless of course it gets worse. If that happens then she will need glasses for reading her school work but not to see long distances. So the curse of her parents hasn't really hit her at a young age! Which I asked about that too and he said that just because Jay & I were nearly blind that doesn't mean any of our kids will have bad eye sight at all. So there is hope!

The Rivalry Begins!

Jaxon's best friend Mitchell is also playing football in the same league. We desperately tried to get them on the same team but to no avail. Last year they weren't on the same team either so we knew our chances were slim that it would happen this year. Last year they didn't even play each other but not this year! GAME 1: Lineberry (Jaxon's team) VS. Meridian Red (Mitchell's team). We were so excited when we found out and that made the anticipation of the game even more fun! I was talking to Steph (Mitchell's mom) on the phone and Jaxon told me to tell her to tell Mitchell that "he was going down!" Of course he says this with a huge grin on his face. And Mitch replies back "No way dude, our defense is awesome!". They had a great time taunting each other in the days before the game. So game day arrives and wouldn't you know it, both teams are RED, and not two different shades of RED, the same, with the same white letters on it too! But even funnier was when the boys saw each other in their jerseys they realized they were the same number!!! #24. Too funny. Of course they thought that was "awesome". With Jay coaching Steph and I sat on the sidelines and yelled for both teams! Jaxon & Mitchell never came in contact with each other because they never played opposite each other but they had a blast seeing each other out there. Jaxon's team won by two touch downs and he was a gracious winner. He slapped Mitch on the back and told him "great game" and then pointed out all the good pulls that Mitchell had. It tickles me pink to see my boy be such an encourager to other on and off the field. Jaxon had some awesome pulls one which I got a picture of. Check it out below. He had one interception and two passes thrown to him which he caught. He pulled something like 12 flags and he hustled like it was the championship game! Oh, I love football!

Jaxon & Coach (what a hottie Jaxon has for a coach)

Jaxon is the guy closest to the kid with the ball...

And now he's the guy on the ground who just pulled this kids flag! Nice Pull! I was of course Screamin!

Jaxon & Mitch

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"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"

Missy Moo is loosing her teeth left & right! Last Wednesday she lost her first top front tooth and the next day she lost the other. It is the cutest thing to hear her talk....she has a whistle and a slur that wasn't there before but is SO adorable. Here are the pics to prove it! She is too cute!

One top tooth gone!

The next day when she got home from school she smiled and her other front tooth was all crooked so we decided to take it too! She wanted Jaxon to take a picture of her getting her tooth pulled out, so here it is!

Who knew toothless could be so adorable!

Goodbye Lover

Kenna came home today from school & said:

"Teah is a goodbye lover!"

"What's that?" I asked

"You know someone who loves to say goodbye" she says with a look on her face as if I have no brain.

"she says goodbye to everyone...even people she doesn't know....that's a goodbye lover!"

Now I am informed!

Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day Weekend in Bend Oregon....Beautiful!

Here I am kicking booty in Horse Shoes. Jay was so frustrated that I was beating him that his throws kept getting worse and worse! He didn't know I had this hidden talent!

I just really like this picture. =)

My 4 little dirty campers!

Huddy found lots of "coconuts" on our nature walk. I tried to tell them they were pine cones but he wouldn't have it...they were coconuts.

Here's Missy Moo singing her heart out, on a log, down by the river. Who needs TV when you have Kenna...she's more entertaining then any show.

Jay's sister Kelli & her boys (Marcos & Lucas) camped with us one day.

Here are all the cousins (-Ty). They had a great time playing together as you can see!

Jay & Kenna walking on top of this HUGE tree that had fallen to the ground. Of course I didn't take a picture of the tree so you could see how big it was...just believe me. It was big and they all had fun climbing on it.

Huddy loved wearing his hood around.

Nothing better than warm Cinnamon rolls by the campfire to get your morning started! Yum!

It's smore time!

The kids had a blast roasting marshmallows together. We laughed hard when they would have a perfectly roasted mallow and then it would fall off into the fire, or catch on fire, or drop into the dirt! Very entertaining!

Here is the whole gang together. This doesn't happen very often so it was great to get a picture of Jay's moms side of the family all together. To bad there is a big sun spot on the right side of the picture.

Hudson, Lucas, Ty, Kenna, Jaxon & Marcos

Kenna & Lucas are the same age and they had a great time playing together. They really like to do a lot of the same things. Here they built a fort in Gramma Kris' back yard. Huddy played to but then tore the tent down because he didn't want the other kids to play in it. Stinker!

KaChow!

We were driving to Bend this weekend and ran into a thunder and lightning storm. It was pretty phenomenal...so for an hour or so we all looked out the windows trying to see the lightning bolts strike. Well, Hudson saw a flash and he yells:

"I saw Lightnings KaChow thing, Dad!" Lightning is Lightning McQueen from the movie CARS.

We all laughed and then we tried to tell him that the light he sees is called lightning. He didn't get it. To Hudson the lightning he saw was the sticker on Lightning McQueen that goes "KaCHow!"

These are the things I want to remember!

Kid Quotes

Kenna Quotes:

"Hi Sweet girl, how was your day?" I asked after she just got home from school.
"Good, but I'm DRIPPY SWEATY!" she says as she lifts her school uniform up over her head to cool off!


Kenna: "Mom, Dillan & another boy got sent to the principles office today."
Mom: "Why"
Kenna: "Cause they were BLURTIN and BLURTIN all over the place."
(when you speak out in class without raising your hand its called a Blurt)

Jaxon Quotes:

Jaxon: "Mom, were learning about the Human Body this year...its kind of gross."
Mom: "Why is it gross?"
Jaxon: "because were talking about intestines and you know the pee pee area"
Mom: "you mean the penis?"
Jaxon: "No not that, it starts with a K."
Mom: sightly confused "you mean the kidneys?"
Jaxon: "Yeah! Isn't that gross?"
Mom: TOTAL LAUGHTER BROKE OUT! And then we had to have an anatomy talk! Fun times!

Jaxon: "Then after learning about the Human Body, we read our bible passage for the day and it said NAKED two times! and everyone in the class was giggling"
Mom: "were you giggling?"
Jaxon: "Well yeah...she said Naked! But then Ms. Owings said "get your giggles out cause its in here a few more times" so we all started laughing harder!"

He says this in disbelief! It was a big day for my 8 year old boy and all this "uncomfortable talk". Again, I cracked up, in fact I'm still laughing about it!

The First Day of School

Up at 6:15

Breakfast at 7:00

Pictures at 7:15

In the car by 7:25

The time I got to spend with these two this summer was a time I will never get back. As I know they need to go to school to learn and to grow, I cant help but miss them so much. Sure there's a little more freedom, not as many people talking to me all day long, not as many needs to be met, but the first day of school always makes me realize how fast time goes by.

Jaxon & Kenna,

I pray that you would grow in the knowledge of the Lord, that you would act on what you know to be true, that you would grow to be more responsible. I pray that you would enjoy learning, enjoy your teachers, your classmates and your school. We know this is where the Lord wants you and we look forward to seeing how the Lord will grow you this year. You are both so unique and I pray that your strengths would be used and that you would grow in your weaknesses so that you would be balanced in life. I pray that you would take what we have taught you and that you would choose your friends wisely, that you would befriend those who don't have many friends, and that you would be a Christ like example in your class and a blessing to your teacher by putting others first. I love you both more than I could ever express.

Love,

Mommy

I love seeing my kids all decked out in their little uniforms!

Kenna with her loads of school supplies for the first day of school.


Here's my little moo sitting in her big first grader desk! This year instead of 3 girls total in her class there are 11 girls! She gets to sit by 4 of them for the first quarter! I'm so excited for her to make new friends this year.

Here's my big 3rd grader sitting in his new desk.

They made it home! Both of them had a great day and loved their new teachers. Yippee!

We celebrated the first day of school by having warm chocolate chip cookies when they got home. As they sat and ate their cookies they told me all about their new classes. Kenna said she got poked in the eye with the American flag because the girl who was holding it was so excited about being line leader that she started swing it back and forth and accidentally hit Kenna in the eye! She said she didn't cry because she was so embarrassed that everyone was looking at her! She was laughing about it so I feel I can too! Jaxon was excited to show me his Bible Brain teaser that I couldn't even do! Its scary to think that my 3rd grader is smarter than I am!

It's Football Time!!!!

Can I just tell you how thrilled I am that my boy loves to play football?! I get butterflies just thinking about it! It must be the cheerleader in me that gets so excited! And this year I have reason to be even more excited because Jay is coaching Jaxon's team! Talk about being nervous. Now I'm not just nervous for Jaxon, Im nervous for Jay too! Anyway...the boys had their Jamboree on Saturday and it was SOOOOOOO exciting. Since Jay is the coach he felt it was best to play Jaxon on defense for the first go around. You don't want to start the season off with parents being mad at you because you play your son at Quarterback (which Jaxon could easily play...if Jay wont say it, I will!). So we really weren't expecting much action for him other than pulling flags. But low and behold...the last play of the game Jaxon intercepts the ball and runs for a touch down! WHOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!! Yes, I was a screamin! Our offense scored 2 touchdowns and our defense intercepted the ball twice to score two more touchdowns. We won 4-0 (its flag, they don't keep score, just how many times you scored). Jay was thrilled. Nothing like getting the first game over with. Hopefully this year will see more action than last. Also, Mark Gould (a good friend we go to church with) is Jay's assistant coach, so we have fun watching him interact with the kids too. Lets go Sabertooths! (its kind of hard to say but our sponsor is an orthodontist)! If any of you want a schedule let me know! I LOVE FOOTBALL!

I can say that up until last year this was something I never knew I would have to do...boil a mouth guard and help my kid press it into his mouth. Thank goodness for directions.

Here's Jaxon waiting in line for pictures before the Jamboree.

Here is part of Jaxon & Jay's fan club...the other fan is behind the camera! =)

I know you cant see anything here but Jaxon's team is red and he is playing defense. I wasn't willing to give up the shade I was sitting in to get good pictures...Hud & Ty wouldn't have tolerated that well!

But I did just buy a stand for my camera so that I can get better pictures come game time...so check back later for action packed pictures!

Here is Jaxon with his defensive coach Mark. He must be doing something right...defense scored twice!! HOOT HOOT!

Women's Luau

Before we left for Hawaii our church had a Luau for women only and I hosted it at our house. Here are some pictures from our very fun time together! It was a great time of fellowship and getting to know each other better! Thanks to all the ladies who came and all the ladies who put it together.

We had pulled pork, salad, Hawaiian rolls, fruit & yummy island drinks.

There were 45 women total!

Its amazing how many women will swim when there isn't a man to be found!

We were visited by "Elvis" who serenaded us with some oldies.

This is the relay that we did. These ladies had to dress up in this very authentic hula out fit, shake the maracas and run! It was hilarious!

Part of the relay was swimming across the pool in while in the inner tube! Go Megan!

What's a Luau with out a hula! Way to go Elaine...she was awesome!

Here are Suzy & Carris in the watermelon eating contest!