OUR FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL

Caiden and Bailee had a great 1st day of school! They were so pumped up about seeing ALL their friends! As soon as we walked through the door, we saw one of Caiden's baseball buddies, Trey and he said.."Caiden, we are in the same class!!!" Matter of fact, most of the All-Star team is in Caiden's class!! Yes, Caiden as ALL his friends in his class!! I don't know who was MORE excited, me or him! They are even sitting all at the same table in the classroom! What is REALLY funny is that they had the same backpack, shoes, and the same types of binders. His friends in his class are Bo, Tanner Jolley, Trey Mulhern, Chander Bush,and Jacob Mitchum. It was so cute watching them talk about stuff and they were up and down the hall finding other boys. As I have said before, my kids don't want to sit around and watch me fill out papers. Caiden's teacher is Mrs. Thomas, she is GREAT! She goes to our church! Bailee wasn't so lucky, bless our heart, but she got at least 2 friends in her class, and she was happy! I love Bailee, she doesn't have to have a lot of friends, she does better mainly by her self. She would rather play alone in her room with barbies. She has an wonderful imagination and is happy with being herself by herself. She did find most of her friends and she hung out with them. All in All she is HAPPY! Her teacher is Mrs. Tanner and she is so pretty and sweet! I am excited about this school year. I am not working and planned to be at the school A LOT this year. I will be doing Room Mother and eating lunch with the kids, attending their award ceremonies , going on field trips, and what ever I can do. I want to be there for anything my kids do at school. I am glad that I held off on home school. I cannot bring my self to take them out of the school environment. Caiden and Bailee are very active and social children and it scares me to take that enviroment away from them. But they do want to be homeschooled just not right now. I think that I am going to hold off home school till Junior high, for I don't want them in school in that type of enviroment!

Caiden's 5th teacher: Mrs. Thomas

Caiden's Pre-K teacher: Mrs. Vaughn

Bailee's 4th grade teacher: Mrs.Tanner

Bailee's Pre-K teacher: Mrs.Vaughn

Roaming the halls seeing what everyones summer was like
Jacob, Caiden, Bo
Caiden and Trey
Bailee and her friend were happy to see each other!

Bailee has really taken an interest in self-pride. She loves to make her self presentable to others. She is ALWAYS getting into my lipstick, BUT ONLY light colors PLEASE. You are only nine, don't try to grow up too quick!

Breakfast time!

A mother and her children...I was on the brink of tears.. gotta be strong for them, this was a very exciting time for them, I was not about to ruin thier day, that would be selfish of me
Caiden and Bailee
Caiden 1st day of 5th grade
Caiden 1st day of Pre-K
Bailee 1st day of Pre-K

Bailee 1st day of 4th grade

BACK TO SCHOOL PARTY....CONTINUED

YES!!! I have COMPLETE satisfaction on our back to school party!! As I promised, I took the kids swimming at Kay Kay's house!! I was NOT about to let the recent rain spoil our fun.. I was DETERMINED to fill my obligation to these kids!!! We lost one kid, Luke, BUT we gained 2, Bailee's girlfriends!!! They all went to school for our usual 1st day, BUT they were so EXCITED about the rest of the day!! I feel sooo good about our party! I feel that I made ALL their anticipated FUN come true. We all piled up in my car and headed to my mom's house. She has such a GREAT pool, and the kids love to come there..she even promised to have a sleep-over and MORE SWIMMING!! She is planning for a picnic too! That's were me and my mom are alike.. we LOVE to plan parties!! The kids played with water guns and even played some football. I feel soo COMPLETE on our party,, I'm just sad that summer is over.. BUT as all you know.. summer does not end till at least November.. so I'm sure we will end up over at Kay Kay's again!!!

Caiden and Bo..remember... THEY ARE ALWAYS TOGETHER!!
Caiden LOVES football!
YOU ARE UNDER ARREST DUDE!!

I GIVE UP!

We had left over cake.. and it was still soo good!
Bo

Caiden

Can you believe they are twins?!

They has soo much fun with the water guns!
Even the girls joined in
Caiden thought he was 007!

The girls

Shower time!

Of course Caiden had to hog it!
Hunter was letting Caiden know that he WAS NOT showering with him!

Caiden catches the football

Bo catches the football
Hunter tried to catch the football, he has GREAT speed!
Freeze Dance




Bo





Caiden




Hunter

2008 BACK TO SCHOOL PARTY

We had a great Back To School Party!!! Our theme was "Gator Games." These kids all attend Swartz Elementary and our school mascot is a Gator. Their school has an end of the year gator games, BUT i wanted it done my way! I planned to have nothing but games to do for the children. I had sooo much fun planning this party, I think more fun than planning my own children's birthday parties! I decorated in white, blue (school colors) and green! I used some summer stuff like colorful platters and i used summer goody bags filled with candy, neon glow-in-the dark necklaces, various game related toys, water balloons, punch balls. And since it was summer related I got each one a water gun, which they LOVED! I had a beautiful and yummy cake made for this special party. I got the cake from a local bakery, and they have done several cakes for me in the past, and they are the BEST tasting cakes in the world!! I told her want I wanted and she came up with this AWESOME cake. She even took a picture of it to add to her collection of cakes! Thank you Zoey's... you are the best!! The theme was a great one, for boys that is. They did ALL sorts of things. We first went to a local fun center. Excalibur is a great place. The kids did laser tag, go-carts, baseball hitting cages,and played GAMES. We were there for a while and they decided that it was time to eat! We headed home, i pre-ordered Johnny's Pizza. I wanted to get this special kind of pizza because their school has Pizza Pig-outs during the school year and all students who go on this Tuesday night pig-outs get chances to win pizza and cookie parties. So, it was kinda getting them ready for many more Pizza pig-outs to come! After pizza, we lit our relight candles on our cake, it was soo funny to watch the "surprised" look on their faces when they blew the first time and they realized that he was not going to "blow out" They blowed and blowed and finally gave up, there was soo much spit on that cake, I didn't eat a piece of it! We had cake, and they started to go from room to room with games I had set up. I had the Playstation 3 with Guitar Hero in Caiden's room. The WII was set up in Bailee's room. I had the Flat Screen on Little League World Series. I had all sorts of little snacks set up for them too. We had chips, chocolate, Hawaiian Punch, popcorn, and left over pizza, for their munchies at 2:30 am! They did Karote, and traded baseball cards. You are probably wondering why there are no girls here, but I have to tell you that I asked Bailee who is wanted to invite, and she told me this.. "Mom, I don't want to invite anybody, I just want to hang out with the boys." That's my Bailee, she is such a tomboy, just like her aunt Erin! She would rather do "boy" things. BUT, she still loves her barbies and playing dress-up, so she DOES have a femine side to her! I was a little concerned about where they would all sleep, BUT, they all camped out in the living room, with LOTS of blankets and pillows.. AND pillow fights, and MORE eating... they put some food a way... and I need to remember next time to make sure I have more FOOD! They finally fell asleep at 3:50 am, and when i went to check on them, they were SNORING hard! I feel soo good about our party! I planned a lot and my efforts paid off... they told me several times thank you for such a great time. And isn't it all about making them happy! When had planned to go to Kay Kay's house to swim, but with the rain and baseball practice there wasn't enough time allowed... BUT our party is over.. we plan to STILL go swimming the 1st day of school.. lets hope the rain has stopped! I am sad that summer is over...BUT the fun does not stop here... there will be MANY more adventures to come.. MANY more times to have friends over for this and that... There are more parties to come... I feel GOOD about our summer times... they never have to end... they are just BEGINNING........

The fun begins........HERE

Friends Forever



I cannot believe that Caiden did this...he thinks slides are for babies

So many games to choose
Trying to hit the Jack Pot
My Bailee LOVES basketball and she is quite good at it!
They ALL are wanting to hit the Jack-Pot!

They thought they were so cool, now all they need are military trucks

Caiden
Luke
Luke
Bo

They were soo excited and proud of their scores! Bo came in first place..way to go Bo! They loved Laser Tag the best. They wanted to do it again, but I told them that if they wanted to do all the other things that were there, we must move on... and they agreed, they wanted to do EVERYTHING! I love to see kids having fun, it warms my heart that I have the means to make this happen for them!

They were having a contest on who hit the most balls
Hey, Batter Batter...SWING

Batting Cages: BASEBALL, BASEBALL, BASEBALL!!

Waiting for their TURN

Luke
Bo
Hunter
Bailee Grace
Ready for some fun. Caiden would not let me take his picture!!

The boys has soo much fun with the water guns, since this is a summer ending, what not have water toys! They got soaked, but then again they were already wet from the sweat of playing
baseball, football, basketball.... AND just from running CRAZY...boys will be boys!!
A DIRECT HIT
Bubba has to see all the drama!

HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL BOYS

It amazes me HOW MUCH boys can eat, 3 HUGE pizzas and other snacks, they wiped them out!

which kind should i get??

Bo knows...basketball!
Football
Bailee decides to join in the fun!
These boys love sports..lucky for them..I do too

Boys showing affection.... you don't see that often!

Guitar Hero is here and being played ALL NIGHT LONG! The boys love to play just about any game on the playstation. They played baseball and football. Caiden has soo MANY games and they didn't get to play all of them. I love having soo much company! It makes me happy to see them having fun!

They had fun with these cheap little toys from Dollar General
But, I should have got ALL the same colors!

warming up left over pizza... 2:30 am snack



Popcorn Pig-Out 12 am snack

I used "trick" candles! they were so fun to watch!

Water gun fight!

I made this video while riding in the go-cart with Bailee, she was driving! So you are seeing "live" footage! this was soo much fun!I can't remember who came in ist!

Caiden playing fast pitch baseball...I don't think he is ready for it.. needs to stick his level!

I have never seen so much rowdiness in my life!! But they were loving it!