A is 30 plus 1

Today was A's 30 plus 1 Birthday..... yes I know that is 31, however, last year for A's big 30 I wanted to throw a huge bash. My plans were sidelined by a wonderful event, T's Adoption. We were so crazed thinking that we would be able to finalize any day that A's Birthday slipped up on us. Last year we celebrated with family at my aunt's house and combined A's big day with my cousin's 28th B-day.

Today there was two 6 month olds, a 22 month old (T), two 3 year olds, a four and a six year old; A was loving it, adult conversation with the hum of kids laughing. The great part about it was that all of the kids got along great and there was no fighting for toys. Since A teaches Pre-K and is with kids all day long he was really enjoying the adult conversation and at the same time being with his hearts desire, KIDS!!!! All of the kids love Mr. A (5 of the kids here, besides T, were from the Daycare).

It was family and friends galore, I was exhausted after doing the final clean and being the social butterfly!

On a side note, A's aunt and uncle were here and they went with my mom to get T's big boy bed! A's dad and sister put it together. My goal is to have T in it by his 2nd B-day in September.

Happy Birthday A!!!!

Father's Day

Father's Day was a wonderful day for my sweet hubby, besides the fact that I did NOT get his present wrapped...... T was into the giving daddy a present, he gladly brought daddy his gift to him (a set of golf balls) and giggled as he gave it to him.

We came home after church and had a relaxing afternoon and then ran a couple of errands and stopped by A's parents to drop of his dad's father's day gift and his mom's birthday gift..... T even "helped" while I wrapped the gifts for A's parents, he deposited a couple of things in the sack to A's mom from my gift closet.

T has such a wonderful daddy, I married such a wonderful man. He's a little silly, a little cute (actually, he's VERY HANDSOME) and a little mischievous, and most importantly A SOLID CHRISTIAN MAN, he stands for what is right in all things and makes no bones about he is 100% mine and T's FOREVER!!!!

Last year he lost his job and decided what's a dad to do but follow his heart and he went back to teaching Pre-K and a position happened to be available at T's Daycare so he gets to be with T all day long. They see each other off and on all day! I don't know alot of women that could be with a bunch of kids under Kindergarten all day and still love being with there own toddler!!!!!

T and daddy are the best of friends! They chase each other, dance together, kiss and hug mommy together! I love to just sit back and watch them both laugh at whatever they are doing, in the end I'm laughing also. Sometimes I listen to the conversations between A and T and A tells him "let's pray" and T repeats "pray" or A will say "let's get ready for church" and T says "church." Most mornings the first thing we hear from T is "DADDY" and if we don't appear PRONTO we hear "MOMMY" and then sometimes we hear giggling (which makes me giggle)!

But I know that Daddy is the first thing on his mind and at this time in T's life I would not have it any other way, because MY HUSBAND is a man of HONOR, VALOR and tries everyday to live as Christ and what I see is a little boy already wanting to be with and act like such a great man of God and it warms this mommy's heart that T is already learning to do the right things.

NAPS and Birthdays for A AND America

Yesterday was not only the 230th Birthday for our Country, it was the 30th B-Day of my sweet Hubby.

Here's how our day went, T woke up at 5:15 and fell back asleep at 5:30 until 7:15 got up had breakfast, a bath and got his teeth brushed for the 1st time (Daddy was convinced that this would not go over well, however, T loved it). By this time it was 8:30 and T was ready for his morning nap, he slept until 11:15 so mommy and daddy ate breakfast, daddy watched t.v. while mommy balanced the checkbook, played on the internet and took a LONG bath. Then when T woke up he had lunch and played awhile and seemed tired again at 12:30 so it was back to bed for his afternoon nap, he slept until 3:15. Mommy and daddy watched a little t.v. and took a nap also. We left at 4:30 for our SONIC run and then met up with A's parents to go to my Aunt Helen's house for a party with about 20 family members from A's side and my side celebrating A's B-Day, my cousin's B-Day and of course our Country's B-Day....... The party was over by 8:15 and we headed home and T was down for the night before we even got home. A went to the neighbor's for fireworks while mommy, Josie and Faith went to bed. I'm exhausted just thinking about all that NAPPING.... he he he. I hope you all had a great 4th.

Our schedules are so varied right now it was such a blessing to just get to spend an entire day TOGETHER.

Love to all - AL