friday funnies

eben: mom! look what i did!! (in a super cocky voice) "i'm so goooood."

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emily jane: eben, shoot me!

eben: ok. here ya go. pow!

(emily jane falls down "dead". then takes a drink from her cup)

eben: emily jane! you can't drink when you're dead! you have to wait until you're alive again!

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wordless wednesday

wordless wednesday

our first day of school!

so in order to pay for my new car...i am teaching preschool this year...the 3 year class 4 days a week. i tried to teach kindergarten on tuesday and i'm SO not teaching kindergartners! but wednesday went MUCH better. my class is wonderful and it should be a fun year!

here's a couple pics of the kids the morning of the first day - they were quite excited! and marie wouldn't stand still to save her life...but that's actually pretty normal for her!

MY NEW CAR!!!

its s 2009 mazda mazda5...the color is galaxy gray...has seating for 6...power everything (except seats and doors)...even has climate control...gets over 27 mpg...and I LOVE IT! i've never had a new car before, so its quite exciting!! hooray for me!!! we're going to take it on a road in october down to my grandpa's house for our real family vacation...i'm excited!

NASCAR

so for our mini end of summer vacation, we took the kids to the zoo (which i forgot my camera in the car OOPS!) and then took ourselves to the nascar race in atlanta! it was SO much fun...we just might make that an annual thing. :) it was louder than i thought - hence the nice ear muffs in our pictures, and the people who attend races (which i guess now includes us?) our quite...um...colorful?? heh...part of the fun was watching those die hard race fans consume their beverages. ;)


gearing up to go...testing out the racing equipment the night before the race




eben also tested out rhett's racing equipment (he was listening to Yo Gabba Gabba)...so incredibly priceless!! he couldn't hear a thing we were saying!


here with my hubby! how exciting!


dad and rhett - gordan vs. johnson - let's see who wins!


boogity! boogity! boogity!!!


listening to the broadcast so we know what's going on...and saving our hearing!


it was so loud!!!!!!

car wash...workin' at the car wash...

this was the kids' first car wash...and they had a BLAST! rhett said eben's favorite part was spraying his sister and watching her scream...i don't think that ever gets old for big brothers!! marie and i hung out inside and washed the windows...or at least i washed the windows. ;)

monkey joes

one of my kids' all time favorite places is monkey joes...they LOVE it! we took our friend jake with us this time. :) emily jane made him go down the slide - doesn't he look like he just loves it too? HA!

marie my little walker

so i'm playing catch up on my blog - its been a month or so...

this is a video of when marie really started taking off walking. she's such a big girl now - no more little baby...sigh...but her age is such fun right now. :) so i'm enjoying it even if she isn't my little snuggly baby any longer.