Happy Memorial Day

Van and Petey were in the Memorial Day parade this morning with the cub scouts.

It was hot!

Van carried the cub scouts flag.

Petey passed out flags.

Ollie with his flag.

Tatum with her flag.

The kids had fun, but were ready to get home and out of the heat.

garage sale find

I found this blanket at a garage sale for $2.00

I love it. The colors are so pretty.

It has become the family favorite blanket too.

Ollie's play

We went to Ollie's end of the year play this morning.

Ollie was in the play Are You My Mother and he played a boat.

Here he is with his teacher.

and keeping it real, here he is yawning

here he is saying his line.

"I am not your mother. I am a boat. toot toot!" 

yes he said "toot toot" and it was cute!

here is daddy and Ollie with his boat.

Petey's sculpture

Yesterday Petey came home with this sculpture that he made in art class.

It is a football player throwing the ball.

So cute.

Petey loves it and I do too.

So proud of you Petey!

getting real

Let's get real for a minute, I HATE pictures of myself.

It's true. 

I never like the way I look.

In my mind and in the mirror I think I look one way, then I see myself in a picture and I look another.

I hate it. I am just one of those people that do not look good in pictures. 

It is not just weight either ,( I typically think that I look like I did before I had my first child.)

Haha

It is also my hair or makeup, or a combination of the two.

I style my hair in the mirror and I love it. Then I see a picture of it and it doesn't look like the same hair.

This is my current facebook picture:

( I do like my hair in this one)

I probably took at least five if not ten pictures just to get a picture I like.

Am I crazy? yes probably.

I didn't even want to post the pictures of me in my last post, but I did.

here are a couple more pictures, more facebook profile pictures so you know that I think these are the best ones.

I am always making funny expressions or have one eye squinted too.

here I am with bangs, glad I grew those out.

here I am with Petey.

Do you like pictures of yourself, or am I the only crazy one out there?

Tatum's graduation

Tatum graduated from pre- school last night.

They wore caps and gowns and the whole works.

not sure how I feel about the whole caps and gowns especially when the principal introduced the class of 2025!

Where has the time gone?

 Tatum is sad that school is over for the year. 

Don't worry, she'll get over that.

here she is with her Daddy.

( yes, she was thrilled to have her picture taken.)

 Tatum and I, not sure what I am looking at.

can't stop watching it!

seriously, I cannot stop watching this trailer, I can't wait!

"I'm certainly glad to see you, as well" 

I haven't posted the last couple of weeks of flag football pictures, so I picked a few of my favorites to share.

Petey has really enjoyed playing flag football and only has two games left.

Go Petey.

Dairy Queen

Thursday I walked to Dairy Queen with Tatum and her class.

 

Tatum and her friend Morgan.

leaving school

blooming roses

My roses are blooming.

There are more roses this year then there has been the previous four years.

They are so beautiful.

oh, I have been editing my pictures at PicMonkey

take me out to the ball game

Last Friday night Josh took Petey to the Reds baseball game.

Here is the picture of them I took before they left.

( taken with my phone)

and here is a picture Josh sent to me on my phone

Petey had fun!

strawberry pie

I made two strawberry pies today after Tatum and I hauled a bunch home.

here is one of them

here is the recipe I used.

Strawberry Pie

1 (9 inch) pie crust, baked

 1 quart fresh strawberries

 1 cup white sugar

3 tablespoons cornstarch

 3/4 cup water

 Add half of strawberries in baked pie shell. Mash remaining berries and combine with sugar in a medium saucepan. Place saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring frequently.

In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and water. Gradually stir cornstarch mixture into boiling strawberry mixture. Reduce heat and simmer mixture until thickened, about 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour mixture over berries in pie shell. Chill for several hours before serving.

I added whip cream after the pie was chilled.

Enjoy. 


I am linking up here today:

 

picking strawberries

Tatum and I took off to our local farm to pick strawberries this morning.

She enjoyed it.

every strawberry she picked was " looks at this cute little one"

our bucket, we piled a few more on top!

and guess who couldn't wait till we got home to eat one.