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I ♥ Faces – Week 27 – Sports and Pets

I haven’t participated in an I ♥ Faces weekly challenge for a while so I’m jumping back in and hoping I can keep up with it a little better.  This weeks themes are “Sports in Action” and “Pets”.  For my sports photo I pulled up an old one of Zach and his Daddy playing football.  Even though it’s a little out of focus, I think the best part of this photo is the look on Daddy’s face as Zach tries to throw the ball.

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For the Pets category, here’s a cute photo of my Chihuahua/Mini Fox Terrier mix. She keeps things lively around here!

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Four Years Goes Fast

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Zach on his 4th Birthday

Happy Birthday to my big 4-year-old boy! You’ve helped make the last four years the best of my life.

(Yeah, the mushy mommy post is still coming as soon as I find the time to write it!)

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A Much Needed Vacation

So I know it’s been like two weeks since I updated this thing, but I have good reasons.  I was on VACATION! A glorious, relaxing, no-internet kind of vacation.  We drove down to Texas to attend Hubby’s cousin’s wedding (with no A/C in the car!) which was fabulous.  Then spent the next week just chilling out at a cabin on Lake O’ The Pines with the in-laws.  We had so much fun.  Evie loved playing with her cousin Mikayla.  Zach got to go fishing for the first time with Papa.  We all went swimming in the warm lake water, rode around on a pontoon boat, relaxed, and just enjoyed each other’s company.  It was just what we needed.

I took about a bazillion photos (ok, more like 500) which you can see the best of on Flickr, but here are a few of my favorites:

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Evie & Daddy

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Hubby with his Dad and Brother

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Zach Fishing

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Evie begging for “up”

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My beautiful niece Mikayla

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Zach on the boat

This week we’re adjusting back to our “normal” schedules, catching up on tons of laundry, and preparing for another quick trip out of town and a big birthday party this weekend.  I’m hoping things will slow down soon so I can get back to regular posting here.  However,  it appears that while we were gone my baby girl turned 15-months-old and somehow my other baby is turning 4 years(!) old on Friday, so you can expect some mushy Mama stuff the rest of the week!

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Summer Goes Too Fast

What? You say it’s been a week already since I posted last? Nonsense.  Oh, wait.  It has.  Let’s just say I’ve been a little busy.  It’s not even officially summer yet and I already feel like it’s almost gone.  We’re hitting that fun time of year when Hubby’s work suddenly picks up and he works late nearly every night.  This leaves me to try to cook dinner by myself for two little screaming banshees who are starving when I pick them up from day care.  Then they must have baths because they are filthy from playing outside in the dirt.  Then they want to watch TV, read books, wrestle, hold me, play games, have a snack, and all kinds of other requests, cleverly delaying bed time because it isn’t dark yet!  Therefore, bed time gets pushed back nearly every night almost an hour past when it should be which means that I lose my precious me time and by the time I do get there my brain is fried.  Oh, and on top of that Evie is cutting her molars (3 in one week!) and has been more cranky and clingy than usual too.

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I have all these post ideas in my head, but I just can’t seem to find the time or the mental energy to get them out.  I owe Miss Evie a 14 month letter, which I have started and can’t seem to finish.  I have several one line drafts that haven’t progressed at all.  Plus, I started thinking about the fact that Zachary will be 4 years old next month and I am sitting around wondering how in the heck that happened?  He was just a baby, like last week right?  And holy cow, I have another birthday party to plan and haven’t even started!

Regardless of how stressed out I am, we did manage to cram in some fun over Memorial Day weekend (which is the real point of this post).  Thanks to Jenny over at Savvy Source, we got some free tickets to Jiggle Jam.  We took the kids on Saturday, which just happened to be probably the hottest day of the year so far.  Besides the fact that we spent the entire day melting in the sun, we had a lot of fun.  Evie loved the music and Zach enjoyed playing in the bounce houses and fountains.  We met up with Cagey and her two adorable kiddos for a while, which I really enjoyed.  It was great to see them outside of the computer screen for a change!  The kids’ babysitter, her sister, and nephews were there as well and we enjoyed visiting with them too.

Trying to peek at Anjali's bellyEvie likes bellies. Anjali is not amused!

On Sunday, we headed up north to visit my dad and his wife at her parents’ home.  They were staying there for the weekend and invited us up for a BBQ.  My brother and sister and their families were there as well and we had a great time playing with the kids and just enjoying each other’s company.

Evie and her Ball

Monday we stayed home and celebrated Memorial Day by cleaning the house.  Exciting, huh?  It had to be done, so it was nice that we had an extra day to fit it in.

Oh, and I should also mention that I read an entire book over the weekend.  I only mention it because this is not something I normally do.  It usually takes me about a month to find the time to read an entire book.  This one, however, I just could not put down.  Now I can’t wait to get my hands on the follow-up.  I’ve been doing a lot more reading lately and I’m really enjoying it.  I guess it’s the one good thing that comes from Hubby staying up late at night playing WoW.

And a few more pics for good measure…
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My adorable niece, Caitlin

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The girls messing up the T-ball game

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A cute picture turned into an awesome picture thanks to the editing skillz of my friend Jen

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I ♥ Faces – Week 17 – Hats

This week’s I ♥ Faces weekly challenge requires a hat in the photo. I swear sometimes these photos just happen at the right time. We were playing around the other night at home and Evie kept trying to put her brother’s pajama pants on her head (she loves to dig in the laundry baskets!) so I put them on her like a hat. She loved it! She kept laughing and every time they came off she wanted them back on. I grabbed the camera, snapped a few shots, and ended up with this one that I absolutely love. Even though it’s not a traditional “hat” I thought it was perfect for this week’s photo entry.

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I ♥ Faces – Week 16 – Reflection

I’m getting my entry in at the last minute for this week’s I ♥ Faces weekly challenge. This week’s photo isn’t the best, but when I saw the week’s theme I decided I had to use it. Last weekend we went to the park and Zach loved looking at his reflection in this silly mirror.

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Don’t forget to check out the other entries over at I ♥ Faces! There are some great ones this week!

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