One Proud Mama

Our campfire...very basic

I worked till 3pm on Saturday, about 2pm my babies surprised me at work to show me the most handsome little mohawks that daddy fixed for the boys. After I got off we all met at "the lakes." The kids played at the park for a while while daddy fished, then I bribed my oldest to go for a two mile walk for pizza! He had been begging daddy all day for some Pizza Hut! We ended up getting Little Ceasers and taking it home. I stopped at McDonlads for a Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad because I didn't need the extra calories.

After dinner the kids and I went outside to play. My mom, sister, & her family all live in the downstairs apartment, so my niece Miranda came out to play too. I decided to gather sticks for a bomb fire in our make shift fire pit. Joel came down to get it started and played for a while. He was playing with the gasoline, he put on a little show for the kids... making little fire trails and throwing the fire...they loved every minute of it! All I could think was Stop, Drop, & Roll!

I have a love/hate relationship with fire. In August 2006 our house caught on fire in the middle of the night. God was definitely watching over us that night. My sister fell asleep in the living room and I was feeling sick before bed so my mom took my 8 month old son to her room to make sure I slept. All of the adults made it out of the house with some smoke inhalation, Landon was absolutely fine and untouched.

My Mothers Day Dinner

Mothers Day was a pretty simple day at our house. Emily walked around the house screaming "Happy Day Mommy!" Landon used half a rim of printer paper to make me 12+ Mothers Day cards. One card said "I love Momy" I thought it was so cute. (At one point while trying to surprise me with a card he yelled "I forget how do you spell love?"
We had lunch at a local family owed restaurant, which is normally great but they were sooooo slow. After 55 minutes of waiting on our food to come out I started questioning the waitress. Once the food came up it was pretty good. After the lastest lunch ever my hubby bought us cake pops and coffee from Stabucks.
I can honestly say my kids are addicted to Starbucks (just for the sweet treats...mommy needs the coffee!) After Starbucks my hubby headed home and watched UFC all afternoon long. I stayed in the bedroom with the kids and pouted since I was hoping Joel would have had the kids surprise me with something. After I snapped out on my crabby stage I made dinner, but since we had such a late lunch I wasn't hungry and didn't really wanna cook so I made brownies. Yep brownies for dinner! I thought that I would score some major cool mom points, but rather my 6 year old was very adamant that this was dessert and he wanted food. I tried telling him it was meatloaf and mashed potatoes...he wouldn't buy it!

Ready for kick off, Landon is still glowing from his goal!

Yesterday Landon had a soccer game which I firgured would be canceled since it rained 2 days straight. Only 4 memebers from each team showed. I thought "Oh my word this will be the longest game ever." There are 8 kids on each team & 4 kids sit out while the others pay each quarter. Landon is a larger fellow...tallest in his class, heavest on his team, is clumsy as all get out, and would rather be eating. Last season he stopped durning the last quarter mid play and shouts "Is it snack time yet?"
 

Proud mommy with her loves

They start the game and our little FireBalls were in it to win it, I was so scared that they would get tired early since they were playing so hard so early and they wouldnt have a chance to sit out. They would not give up the ball at all & the only time the other team got a goal...it just happened to be in ours! Landon landed on his face at least once but got right back up. 3rd quarter Landon had an open shot so he kicked that ball as hard as he could and made a picture perfect goal. He was totally shocked! He stopped and locked eyes with me with the cutest little crocked smile as if to say "Did I just do that?" Then once it registered with him and he realized that everyone was cheering for him he started jumping up & down and gave everyone on each team a hi-5. Durning the minute water break he sat down and said very loudly "I am the biggest kid here!" Coach Dave came back with "Thats right so get out there and take control some more." And thats just what he did, he got back out there made another goal and had an assits.