Beach fun!

Every year we take a family beach trip with my sister and her family and my parents to Oak Island. It is so much fun especially since she has two boys the same age as my two. They are best friends and have a blast together. We always stay in one big house and leave with tons of fun memories together from the week. Here are some of my favorite photos!

Ryan loved his boogie board and actually maneuvered it quite well!

He loved the water and handled himself really well this year in it.

Scott was too funny on the beach. He sat, wandered, shoved sand, and mostly stayed out of the water.

Blake enjoying the water as well.

Scott did LOVE being in the water with Josh and his papaw.

Movie watching in the afternoon was crucial to the sanity of all!

Best buds

Colby is sooo tall! He is 2 months younger than Ryan.

Scott and Blake. Blake is 4 months younger than Scott.

Fun on the ferry!

Me and Jarrett

Sweet brothers.

Family photo!

Family feet!

Brother love.

All four.

They definitely didn't keep these clothes dry!

Lara and her family.

Beautiful view! We were right next to the pier.

Blake and papaw. Love this picture.

Great great memories together. So thankful for our time and for each other! I love my family!

Yuppy Girl hauls in a Lunker!

I am not much of a fishing person. I am what Phil Robertson would call a "Yuppy Girl." Not that I mind fishing, camping, or hiking...its just that I have only been camping and fishing like 2 times in my life so I end up feeling a little out of my element in the outdoors. Not to mention that bugs have a major attraction to my skin. So when Josh asked if I wanted to go fishing at his grandpas with the boys I thought, "That would be a great thing for you and the boys to do!" He encouraged me to go saying that I should and would regret it if I didn't with the boys. So, I decided to go. And so here is our fishing trip in pictures....

As you can see, even a "yuppy girl" can end up catching a big one! We had a great time and I'm so glad that I went. Lots of memories as you can see and the boys had a blast. Glad I didn't miss it! =)

Funny Ryan Story

Ok, Ryan has grown up listening to a large variety of music... classical, 80s, old country music, christian rap, christian praise and worship..and the list goes on and on. Josh and I have pretty different tastes in music so I guess that's why. There is one song that Ryan loves called "Louisiana Saturday Night." It's an OLD country song that goes like this:

                  "Well you get down the fiddle, and you get down the bow
                    Take off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
                    Dance in the kitchen till the mornin' light
                           Louisiana Saturday night!"

It's a funny song. Well, he's been singing it lately but only one part of the song OVER and OVER. It seems to have gotten stuck in his head. I wouldn't have thought a thing about it except that particular part of the song is this:

"When the kin folk leave and the kids get fed, me and my woman gonna slip off to bed"...and then it goes on to say "Have a little fun when we turn out the lights... Louisiana Saturday Night!"

 Ryan kept singing over and over again "Me and my woman gonna slip off to bed" and then laughing.  I ignored it for a while, but after several days of hearing it I began to wonder why that part of the song seemed to be so interesting to him! The kid is 4 but catches things super quick and is pretty perceptive for his age. Could he possibly understand what the song was talking about?? The more I thought about it, the more I wondered and the more I wondered the more concerned I got! lol - So I finally stopped ignoring it and asked him!

Me - Ryan, why do you keep singing that part of the song over and over again?
R - Cause it's funny mom. They slip off the bed. They fall off.  (laughing) It's funny.
Me - (laughing) You're right Ryan. That is funny.

 It just shows you that they, even though perceptive, are thinking completely different things than we think they are.  lol

Preschool Plants!

Plants! We did plant activities for two weeks and still didn't finish all of it! It was so much fun. It wore me completely out though, because we haven't picked back up since! lol =) This week I am planning to do some patriotic stuff with them for the 4th.  Here are a few pictures from our plant unit!

Little artist!

In this picture, we were pretending to be a seed growing into a plant. It was really funny!

Regular phonics work

Scott decided to join him for some cutting practice. (a beautiful moment!)

Tracing practice!

Plant sort!

Seed groups and skip counting by 5s.

We planted bean seeds and they finally came up around 5 days later.

It was exciting to watch them grow!

Play doh patterns

Cereal box puzzle for print awareness

Took him a few minutes!

Addition number sentences with my help.

Loved this book! Definitely want to get it again in the Fall.  It shows the whole cycle of the seed to the pumpkin and then back again. 

This was another really good one like the one above.

This book had beautiful illustrations and showed how the seeds from one flower can make dozens.

And of course this one had to be read!

This one was a really heart warming story about a tree and how it became part of a family.

All the books came from the OF library and they were all really good to base most of our plant learning off of. All the other activities were from confessionsofahomeschooler.com and 1plus1plus1equals1.net. It was so much fun, my fav. theme yet! Thankful for these precious memories!