My Stompin' Grounds: Busy!

I don't have much to say just lots of fun pictures to share. We had a really full and busy weekend and it seems that will continue for us until mid-May. That is when I go back to work and say goodbye to many fun weekends with my family. It is what is best and an answer that we prayed for...still I am trying to grab-up and cherish these last few weekends I will have with Jason and the kids :) OKAY, enough of that...Here we go!!!

Thursday

My sweet Mae-Mae (Lizzie's nickname) had an art show at school!

Friday

Friday we were very busy but I don't really have pictures to show for it...too busy for that as well :) Greg and Teresa came into town for Elizabeth's art show and for Benjamin's 1st baseball game so they were able to take part in our- hurry up and get ready for school routine. I am not sure how many times I heard from Ben that morning about it not being fair that Lizzie gets to stay home with Namaw and Papaw...but eventually I got him to school- or so I thought! Anyway, I came home after dropping him off and straightened up (Jason was on his way home from a week in Dallas), left the kids with the grandparents and headed to my hair appointment (got it all chopped off). While under the dryer I missed a call from the school (can't even get away from them to get my hair done when I DO have someone to watch them :)). When I finally was able to retrieve the message it was from the school. This next part I would completely expect from my Elizabeth but I just was shocked that Ben had this in him. It is amazing...all of a sudden his stomach was hurting and he had a temperature. By the time I called the school back they had already gotten ahold of Jason, who called Teresa to run up there and get him. So as I drove, I was thinking.."what time was that call?" So I check, well...of course....Friday was a beautiful day...so beautiful that I am sure he was running and playing on RECESS just before he had his temp taken! Seriously...now, I don't believe Ben is good enough to have planned the temperature thing out BUT I am shocked that he pulled this one over...more shocked that he had the nerve to even try! As soon as he got home he was fine but got to lay on his bed for a bit and "rest" for a while. We spent the rest of our day grocery shopping, buying baseball pant/socks, enjoying Teresa's chicken and noodles (Lizzie helped) and welcoming a very missed husband and daddy home.

Saturday

Saturday started off with garage sales. Now I must say, if you are going to go garage sale-ing, you must have someone like my mother-in-law with you. She has the absolute best luck at finding stuff and she can talk ANYONE down. :) Below are some of our finds.

To say that I love this mirror doesn't come close to explaining!

We are going to paint it black. Marked $40, Sold for $20!

We got several books for a quarter. The one below we laughed

because we thought it would be perfect for Elizabeth!

These Baby Gap outfits totalled $1

You know you've done good if you can come across our next finds...

Step 2 toys! The toy box was marked $20..She said she couldn't

take less than $15...Sold for $12! NICE :)

We are going to use it to hold outside toys!

Last..and probably the most shocking buy...

for $1

Can you believe that? AND it was filled with all sorts of sand and water toys! AND

it actually recycles the water through and it can be pumped! So fun!

Next we grabbed some lunch and got ready to go cheer for Ben's 1st baseball game. It was lots of fun and he looked adorable in his uniform. I think I may have failed a bit on preparing him on the basics of the game. He did hit the ball and he did score. When I went to the dugout to tell him "good job, you scored" he simply looked at me with a puzzled look and said "I did?". Guess we will work on that some :) He nearly got a boy out at third. His team, The Giants won!

So cute!