Transformer

Dylan has a week long pre-school summer camp this week. Each day is learning about a different thing. One day it was China, so they made chinese hats and fans, learned karate and had fortune cookies. Today was Transformer day - they had a cake shaped like a transformer and got their faces painted.

Dylan's 5th Birthday!

For Dylan's birthday, we had a small party (8 kids) at our house. I made him a cake in the shape of a #5, with Toy Story stuff on it. The kids came over and had cake, opened presents, then hit at a piniata. We had a quick rain storm that blew over fast and then they played in the little pool and basically fought over the toys. Later that night, Papa Jones and Grandma Bert came over and brought more presents! He also got a visit from his Grandma & Grandpa Dorman, who came to visit the weekend before his birthday. Alyssa bought him this huge blow-up ball that you can get in the middle of and roll around. He thinks it's great! Lots of fun!

My new bike

ON a whim, I decided to by myself a present. This is a Raleigh beach cruiser. I really like it! It's really comfortable - instead of leaning over you can sit up straight. It's very pretty. The picture doesn't give it justice - it's a sea green (pale) with some pretty browns and beiges on it. I love it!

T-Ball

Dylan's first experience of team sports! It has been fun - he isn't as excited about it as we are, but he does pretty good. He is on a co-ed team with kids ages 3-5. They don't take it too seriously, which is good. He really wants to catch every ball that gets hit. It's usually like tackle football, everybody piles on top of the ball. And as you can imagine, attention spans don't last long, so there's always either a tantrum, some karate going on, etc. Pretty funny!

Summer 2011

So this year, we moved my garden (and expanded it) to a more sunny area! I'm seeing alot of better growth this year! So far I'm growing: peas, carrots, corn, onions, garlic, zinnias, pumpkin, watermelon, tomatoes, potatoes, beets, radishes, cucumber. After we cleared out the junk under our deck and put it in the shed, we made it into a little patio area and bought a new table/chair set for it. It's been really nice (shady all day) and we also hung some cute outdoor lights to light up at night. We also bought a fire pit and have had a couple fires with marshmallow roasting and all!

New Shed

Last year, we tore down our shed in the backyard. it was old and falling apart, and in a very inconvenient place. However, when we went to get a new shed, they were more expensive than we thought. So we went without, but our garage was getting really crowded. So this year, we hired my friend Carmen and her husband to build us a new one. It's very spacious and has cleared out alot of junk for us!

Old Friends

In June, my old friend from high school came to visit. Melissa lives in Phoenix now so we don't see eachother too often. She came and stayed for 4 days with her little girl, Lily. She's about a year younger than Dylan. They got along pretty well. They fought over toys alot and Dylan was really glad when she finally left. So other than that we had a really fun visit!

Shaving Cream

Eddy did it again ! While Dylan slept he put shaving cream all over his face. Poor guy - I wasn't home for this one.

Kites!

Dylan's cousins, Burkley & Brecken, came for a visit (with their parents!)!! It was a really fun visit, but the weather didn't cooperate much. So we took advantage of the wind and went kite flying. Dylan lost interest pretty quick, but got some cute pictures!

Easter

This year for Easter, Eddy had to work. But the Easter Bunny still came and left Dylan lots of bug hunting goodies and yummy treats! Then we went to church where they had an Easter Egg Hunt. Then off to Papa Jones' for a potluck and an egg hunt! Tons of fun!

MOPS fun!

As most of you know, I'm involved in MOPS (mother's of pre-schoolers). THis year, we chose the Shepherd's Inn as our charity. They are an organization that helps young women with unplanned pregnancies. They held a huge fundraiser today and our MOPS put together a team to compete! It was me, Carmen, Heather and Frances! Heather and Carmen made our cute t-shirts with the MOPS logo on it. The competition included fun events such as diaper changing relay, packing a diaper bag the fastest, drinking apple juice from a baby bottle the fastest and my personal favorite was when I had to be the mom with a baby doll on my hip, cell phone to my ear, hanging 5 pieces of clothing on a clothesline while memorizing 4 different words. While I'm doing this a team member from a nother team is sitting at my feet, yelling "Mom" repeatedly! We came in 3rd on that one - it was fun! The one that nearly killed me (being as out of shape as I am) was when we had to put a quarter between our knees and hop (or waddle) across the gym, then drop the penny in the mason jar. We each had to do 3 times, but by the 2nd time thru I was about to die! We did pretty good though - 10 out of 12 quarters in the jar! All in all , our team came in 2nd in a group of 11 teams. We won some really nice prizes and goodie bags and had alot of fun and alot of laughs. Some of the husbands, and their friends formed a group , "the Go-Daddies" pictured here. But of course we kicked their butts! lol

New Hairdo!

Dylan and Eddy went to get their haircuts last week, and a boy in front of Dylan got a "faux hawk" so Dylan decided he wanted one too! This is a pretty crazy do, but it looks normal if we don't gel it up and spike it.

Bruiser Visits

For a few days, we kept Bruiser (Grandpa Jones' dog). He came and stayed at our house. Him and Josey played for the first little while until Josey realized he wasn't leaving anytime soon. She was less than thrilled after that. He slept with Dylan each night and supposedly "jumped in the bathtub" with him. I didn't see it so i can't vouch for the truth in that statement. lol