Lady Ellice

We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday. Wow, Last year we went the week before Halloween and it as cold and there was no one there, and not alot of pumpkins left. this eyar it was nice weather and there were a ton of people there. Laurana loved the bunnies, chickens and the goats. She wanted to get in with the goat. she loved the big spider haybale. and she had fun wiht daddy in the corn maze and the haybale maze. all in all it was a delightful trip and I can't wait to do it again next year.

So here we have Laurana teaching everyone how to play cornhole at the church picnic. As per usual the church picnic and hte "walk to remember" were on the same day. being really tired from a week at work, and Laurana teething, we dcided taht we were goint to just do the picnic. besides the walk and seeing Hope's grave are always really hard and we wanted to try to focus on Lala this year.

Tea Party with mommy.

So last night, brad has the stomach flu, not feeling to great, and I was cramping pretty bad, so we were laying on the couch and laurana was playing on the floor. then she went into our bedroom and came back out... no noise so we didn't worry. then she sat on the floor and started saying..yea, yea, yea, mom, yea, yea, yea, mom... so I got up to look and she had very carefully taken every last tissue out of the box of tissues from daddy's bed side. I think she was telling us that she wanted a little more of our attention than we were giving. :)

So I got a temp job (in teacher terms a long term subsitute position) There is a storng chance that it could be come permanat so please pray. in other news Laurana is cute, and adorable, and growing in leaps an bounds. she is talking some. using words, and babbling about stuff. We can'tunderstand most of what she says but I think that one day it will all of a sudden start making sense.

Well this weekend has been packed. Saturday we had a UK game, awith good friends and family over to watch. It was a blast and UK won which makes it even more fun. Laurana did pretty good for not having had a afternoon nap. Sunday we taught nursery, which they had a lesson they wanted us to teach to 1st graders. Which was halairous cause they were all looking at brad like.. what are you talking about dude. but we put them all at the table gave them cherrios and balls and they sat through the whole lesson. Brad however was completely overwhelemed by that many toddlers, so I need to find a new nursery buddy. He is so stressed during the week he doesn't need stress on the week end. then sunday afternoon we went to Lykins park and got to see a concert. the country music singer Justin moore was there.. very good music, then there was also funnel cake and snow cones which is what fairs are about. Phyllis and Eric had fired oreos. then after lots of sining and getting very very c...

Things here have been interesting. Brad's job has changed this year, and I would nto say for the better. At his last school were he worked as an asst. the teachers and admin. didn't respect or treat him well. At this school his teachers and Admin like him and want him to succeed, but the distcit person who deals with the students he works with and his supervising teacher are unsure what to do and being a structured kind of guy the crazyness is stressing him out. this is also a very physically demanding job and where brad is a asthmatic and severe allergies physicallity is not his strong area. needless to say he is tired and worn at the end of each day. I am adjusting to being at home. as you can see from the video Laurana loves to help me clean and do laundry. we are getting along well. think she is transitioning from a 2 nap schedule to a 1 nap schedule. I miss teaching. I really wish that I was in the class room, but I love spending time with LAurana it is a catch 22. We shal...

Went to the re-enactment of the battle of Richmond. Laurana liked it alittle, daddy liked it alot. Laurana eventually was kissing her hand and waving goodbye to the cannons cause they were so loud. she liked the Fry Bread and the homemade soda.

Family Pictures with Brad's side of the family.

So last week, my first week as a stay at home, did not go as I planed, I felt like I got nothing done, nothing cleaned, not fixed, and didn't do as many neat things with laurana as I felt I should have... so after a little self relization I decided to give this week a new chance, and so far it has gone much better. Yesterday we painted our nail, and cleaned. today, I replaced a kitchen faucet, sewed and hung some curtians, got to see a friend, and spend a great morning with Princess La-la. I feel better about life today although I am still looking for full time work, I am going to enjoy and use all the time I have at home wiht my Princess.

So since I am home, we have decided to start introducing potty training to Laurana. WE are NOT pushing hte matter yet as she is still pretty young for formal training. However a couple of times a day she likes to go and sit on the potty and read a book. Two times now she has peepeed in the potty. WE had a big celebration, and let her flush to peepee away. she thinks we are weird but keeps trying to get on the potty herself so we are going to keep going. SHe has a bad habit of trying to get on the potty right after she has poopyed, so that one might need some work.

Baby girl is getting so big. Summer comes to and end soon, but since I don't have a position yet, I will get to spend some time at home with the baby girl.

We took baby to the zoo. She loved the big animals, lions, rhino's (she was pregnant) elephants, giraffes, those kind of things as well as the little meercats that ran right up to her in the window and almost seemed like they were talking to her. All in all we were tired but she seeme dto have a blast. and she liked the sheep (yes, shelley I know we can come to your farm and feed sheep and goats and such,) but she liked it. and the video is of her favorite teething past time.. table chewing.

My beautiful baby girl got her 1 year pictures back. we got htem the weekend of fourth of July thus the patrotic theame and teh beach fun.