Gaining weight wasn't enough for me to get motivated!

After nagging for so long, Dave finally gave in. Last Sunday while in Beaumont, Dave and I went to pick up a few things to get me motivated enough to start waking up at 4:45 a.m. to jog. After we spent all that money on some clothes, a nano and a watch, Dave said: "All right, no more excuses, I'll call you tomorrow to see how your first jog went." Well, he called Monday and I had to fess up to the fact that I didn't jog. In my defense, I didn't jog because, according to the Running Program I'm following, Monday's are my days off (along with Wednesdays AND Fridays.) Hey, it's not a bad little deal I've got going here. If you are interested, let me know and I'll hook you up with the training program I'm using :0). All this to say, I've ran twice this week! After spending all that money, I hope I can stick with this "I want to start running again like I used to" kick I've been in for a while now.

Dirty Rain

It was raining mud on Tuesday evening in San Anotnio. At first I thought it was just the fact that Papaw's car was so dirty that all the dirt was being washed off down the windshield. After I got out of the car, I noticed that every car looked just like Papaw's. I looked up to the sky and I saw big brown clouds. I've never seen anything like this before!

Natalia is safe!

This morning, while the kids were watching TV, sweet little innocent Natalia was messing with the TV and the TV fell onto the floor. Thank the Lord that everybody is fine! (Hopefully Grannie was not too upset and took some pictures so I can post them later :0))

Annual Easter Egg Hunt @ the Ivey's

Oh we had so much fun! We had a chance to see other people we normally don't get to see very often and the kids had fun fishing, riding the boat and of course, getting those easter eggs. Natalia went her own way with Hannah. Those two are inseparable! It's a miracle I got pictures of her. Carson, this year, decided he only wanted blue easter eggs in his "easter bucket" and Luke, well, he almost missed the easter egg hunt because he was too busy fishing with Daddy.


But, after the easter egg hunt they all got to go fishing and they all caught fish! Carson was a little disappointed that we didn't cook the fish he caught though.

Official Carpenters

Now, they are official! This past weekend, the kids built a periscope at Lowe's. They received their apron, which of course, they were so proud of it that they wore it all day. They also got their patch for this particular project that I am supposed to sew on their apron. I'm glad my mom was with us because one against three does not work!

Luke might not be a trumpet player, but watch what he can say!

The conversation keeps coming up...

While in the car, Daddy was talking with the kids and for some reason this conversation came up again.

Daddy: "Now, you know kids, like Papaw always says, 'We don't smoke, we don't drink and we don't ride motorcyles."

Natalia with a confused look in her face: "What? We can't even drink water or nothing?"