Interests:Loving Jesus, Spending time with my sweet husband Stephen, Being a mommy, Adoption, Scrapbooking, Home Schooling, Reading, Watching NCIS and Cooking (ok they did not have a spot for "Addictions" so I'm adding my own category: Addictions -- totally addicted to Adoption!) Expertise:Cleaning up messes!! Occupation:Stay at home Mommy
Stephen took the day off last Thursday to go tubing with us down the New River. We had a fabulous time. It was a tiny bit on the cool side…70 degrees, but the sun did peak out from behind the clouds for a few hours and that was nice. Since it was so cool, I decided that Ben and Natalie would be much happier playing on the bank of the river. Natalie does not care for being cold. So Stephen took the boys down the river first. They had a lot of fun!! Jeremiah’s tube was tied to Stephen’s so Jeremiah could not float away. The current was not very strong, so it made for a nice ride. My mom keep the babies, so I was able to go down river on the second trip. Sadly the wind really picked up and was blowing upstream, so we had to actually paddle to get to our campsite!!
I cannot believe that my first baby is four years old!! It feels like he’s graduated from toddler-hood into little boyhood. Sniff!! It's sad and exciting all at the same time.
One of our birthday traditions is to let the kids pick out what they want for each of the meals on their birthday. This is what Jeremiah picked.
Breakfast: Little potatoes (cubed fried potatoes), eggs, biscuits and apple juice.
Lunch: tortilla wraps with pepperoni, grapes, carrots (yes, he asked for carrots), and Cheeto Puffs
Dinner: Tacos
And for dessert Jeremiah picked out a chocolate tiger cake made with ice cream.
Jeremiah was so excited about his birthday this year! He really got into the treasure hunt for his gifts and was so excited about his cake. When he saw the cake he looked up at me and said, “oh thank you mommy for making me the tiger cake!!” It was so sweet. We gave Jeremiah his big gift (his bike) several months ago, so on his birthday he got smaller gifts. His favorite by far were the motorcycle (from Carlos) and the Monster Truck (from Natalie), both Dollar Store gifts…..So I’m thinking Dollar Store here we come for next year!!
I love summer time…..it’s my favorite time of the year :) And this summer we’ve been having so much fun!! It’s so much easier to enjoy the summer when all your children are walking….not that I don’t love having babies, but it really is fun having “big kids”. The past few weeks have been so jam packed that today I purposefully decided to have a happy home day. And it’s been good! Good for me, good for the kids and good for my house.
So here’s the low-down on what we’ve been doing:
We celebrated Jeremiah’s birthday at the end of June.
Last Thursday we went tubing down the New River with cousins and friends.
Last Friday we went to Wet-n-Wild…..a water park. We had lots of fun even though it was super busy….holiday weekend. I’ve not taken my camera on any of our trips to Wet-n-Wild, but plan to next time!!
We celebrated Independence Day with my mom on the 4th
On Tuesday my mom joined the kids and me for a fun day at Wet-n-Wild and my sister Elizabeth came with her two girls.
Natalie’s new car seat arrived on Wednesday.
Thursday (as in yesterday) we went to the lake with more cousins and had a marvelous time.
So once I started loading the pictures for all this fun, I realized I had 21+ pictures….way too much for one post….
I had such a fabulous time in Colorado. It was so great to see my sister (in law) Michelle and her family and a bonus I got to see my brother for a few hours too! I did miss Stephen and my kids like crazy, but I told Stephen it was a little bit of a relief to know that I can function as a human being and not just as a mommy. Sometimes I think that my life is so wrapped up with my children that I forget that I’m actually a person named Sarah….not just Queen Mommy. So it was great for me to go and be free of those mommy responsibilities for a few days. And I had SUCH a fun time celebrating with Michelle.
We started out Michelle’s birthday celebration with a fabulous dinner at the Melting Pot. It was beyond delicious and an experience all of it’s own. The dinner took around 3 hours, but it was so good! The desserts alone were worth going!! My favorite dipping chocolate was called Yin and Yang….oh man it was….ok, so words just won’t do!!
Ok, so I’m getting slightly ahead of myself since we did not start with the dessert, but with the cheese. The best cheese was the spinach and artichoke. We had all different types of bread, chips, apples, carrots for dipping. It was yummy. Then a salad. Then the meats and veggies. Since we had two fondue pots for cooking we got to choose two different types of broth. The broth spices (my favorite was the garlic and something else I don’t remember) that gave the meat and veggies a great flavor. And then the dessert…..and I won’t keep on going with how good that was.
Our party
After the Melting Pot we went line dancing. The first place we went was kind of a dud. We stayed a while but decided that the atmosphere just was not our style. So we headed over to a new location. Even though the line dancing was much different than what I had done before it was still a lot of fun. I had forgotten how much I like dancing. Now I did not say I was good at dancing, because I have zero coordination, but it is so much fun!!
We had one other stop, but got lost trying to find it, so since it was almost 1 A.M. we decided to call it quits and head home!
Sometimes I think that my life is so wrapped up with my children that I forget that I’m actually a person named Sarah….not just Queen Mommy. So it was great for me to go and be free of those mommy responsibilities for a few days. And I had 
