Saturday, August 28, 2010

Fair Fun

Ok..I'll admit..I Did go to the fair 3 times this year! haha I can't help it! Me and Erica went on Sunday just to eat. Yes I typed that right, you just cannot get enough of fair food! Yum! Then Wednesday night for the concert, then I ended up getting off 1/2 day on Thursday so we decided to take Landon over and let him see the animals and ride some rides. First stop was the horses, and they were absolutely beautiful! I would love to live on a farm and just have all kinds of animals!

This horse was extra friendly! She had her head out wanting everyone to pet her, and had her nose laying on her owners shoulder, when she saw Landon looking at her and waving she came over and nudged him to pet her! He got a big kick out of that!
I love walking through the sheeps and goats because I just love hearin them make all their noises. I wanted to take this little fella right home with us!
I couldn't get over how big th pigs were! You always just think of the cute little pink ones! (Kristin we took this pic for you!)
Next stop-Tractors. Landon was in heaven! I think his daddy enjoyed looking at them just as much! haha
We made our way over to the rides, and bought a sheet of tickets. I had to ride a few things with him, but once he got going he wanted to do it all by himself. We used up our tickets, and Landon was on the verge of having a metldown in the heat we decided it was time to go back to the van and head back to Virginia! He was asleep before we even made it out of the fairgrounds, so Jonathan stopped at the driving range and hit some golf balls while Landon slept in the van. As usual, I enjoyed the fair and can't wait till text year!




It's a Jeep Thing...

I kept Emma one afternoon so her Mommy could do a photoshoot so we went up to Landon's Grammy & PawPaws to play. We keep his jeep up there since there's more places to ride it there so him and Emma rode around for quite a while. We could def be in trouble in about 14 years! haha






Jason Aldean/Easton Corbin

As SOON as they released who would be at the West Va State Fair this year I had it marked on my calender with a big red sharpie when Jason Aldean tickets went on sale! I have been dying to see him because he is def one of my favorite country artists! I ended up getting 3 tickets becuase we had th plan to take Landon since his Favorite songs in the whole world are Big Green tractor and Hicktown. Unfortunately, the day before the concert the weather forcast was Not looking good. It was a 90% chance of rain, heavy at times, and I just couldn't picture us sitting outside with a 2 year old until 11 at night. Jonathan decided he would stay home with Landon, so me, Ashley, Scott, Brittany and Neil loaded up my van and headed to the fair. We brought poncho's in case it started rainin, and lucky for us it never got really bad. We had track seats, 12th row and they were AWESOME! We were Directly in front of the stage and I had a perfect view ;) Somethin about that cowboy hat, tight jeans and guitar just does somethin for me. HaHa! It was one of the best concerts I've ever been too and I hope I get to see him again sometime. Easton Corbin was his opening act and he was pretty awesome too. I LOVE the fair concerts!!






Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Funny things

I felt like I needed to document this past weekend because it was quite the interesting one. I feel like when these things happen I'll remember forever, but I thought I better blog about it since I cant' remember what I had for dinner the night before most of the time! Saturday was a lazy day around our house, Jonathan had to work so me and Landon just hung out and played. Well, played he did. I was downstairs cleaning up the mountain of toys in the living room, when he comes down from his room and says "Look mom" and has some sort of white lotion/cream on his face and all over his hands. My first thought was he had got into his miracle cream again and Oscar was covered in it. So I ask him what he had done and he says "come on, I'll show you!" As we walked up the steps I ask him if he's going to get in trouble for whatever he did and he started to run up in front of me. Guilty as charged. I walk into his room to find a creamy, lotiony, absolute MESS on his little puzzle stool that has his name as the puzzle And the carpet! He thought it was a good idea to push the stool over to his dresser, get in the top drawer, and proceed to get out every Desitin, Aquaphor, Sunscreen, Nose Saline, clear Desitin, and various other things and squeeze all of the tubes onto his stool! I'm talkin like 3 inch thick MESS! Down in the holes of the puzzle, and then smeared on the carpet where it was on his hands and he tried to get it off. I am a firm beleiver in discipling my child. He did get a spanking and I made him sit on his bed while I attempted to clean the mess up, all while he is sobbing, "mommy, I want you, Mommy I need my blank, Mommy I'm sorry, Mommy Mommy Mommy" I proceeded to ask if he understood how bad this was, and that he shouldn't do things like that, and back to "mommy I understand, Mommy I'll never do it again" all while still sobbing. I just stood firm and let him cry. (I know some of you are thinking "holy crap she's a mean mom" but if you let them get by with things, they will push you over and over) In the meantime I call his daddy so he can tell him what he did, and he refuses to tell him. So while I'm still cleaning, under sobs, I hear "mommmm (sob sob sob) your my herooooo (sob sob sob)" At that point I had to walk out of the room and laugh. Where do 2 year olds learn this stuff?!

Moving on to Sunday morning! We have had a bit of an ant issue in our kitchen, and Jonathan has decided that clorox spray cleaner takes them out. Well sometimes Daddy's forget to put things where little boys can't get to them--so begins my next adventure. Jonathan is in the basement doing his reloading, and I am upstairs picking up(see a trend here?) and I hear this strange noise. I go downstairs to find Landon sitting in the chair right in front of our kitchen tv(its a little flat screen) spraying the clorox spray DIRECTLY onto it! "Look mom, I'm killin the bugs!" UGHHHH!! So, he gets a whippin, and I send him upstairs to his room. I yell for Jonathan and he is cool as a cucumber. (strange I know) and he goes upstairs to talk to him while I clean up the mess. Our counters are super clean now, as well as the tv screen. He tells him that he can't do things like that, and he should've asked one of us before trying to spray something and he says "i understand" Then he does the "death march" (we call it that because when our wiener dog gets in trouble he hangs his head and walks real slow away from us) to me and says "mom I'm sorry, I'll never do it again" and Jonathan sends him back to his room for a "time out" about 5 minutes later I hear him playing his guitar and singing 'rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.....' ahhh..the joys of a little boy :)

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Vacation Bible School

Last week our church held Vacation Bible School from 6-8:30 every evening. It was rough getting off work, picking up Landon, then having him fed and at the church by 6, but we managed it do it! The theme was Saddle Ridge Ranch and all the kids really enjoyed it! "Saddle ridge raaaaaaaanch!" was in my head all week long, and Landon caught on to the songs super fast. He sang them all and did the motions and just had a good time with it. I put him in the preschool class because I thought he would do better with Abbie, and we invited his friend Jackson who is 3, so we figured he'd do good in with them. Every night they did the pledge to the American flag, the Christian flag, and the Bible, and apparently he was paying more attention than I thought, because the other night he told me and jonathan to pay attention it was time for the Bible pledge! It's so funny how they soak up So much information and I'm glad he enjoyed Bible school so much! He keeps asking when we are going to go back!

This was Landon's class on the last night. They had just come in from singin.. Landon loves Paige, and somehow managed to get her to do all his crafts he didn't wanna do for him..haha..
Tiffany took all the kids pics in this and had them printed for us on the last day
Each child gets points all week and then is allowed to go to the "store" and buy stuff. With the little ones we just had them shop for them and deliver the bags to our classroom! Worked out VERY will for the little ones. Here's Landon in his new cowboy hat and bandana. We had an awesome time at Saddle Ridge Ranch!

Working on their lesson for the night..
This was during song time, and them sitting on the pew lasted about .5 seconds! They were up and dancing around for the whole 15 minutes!

Monday, July 5, 2010

Happy 4th Of July!

We headed up to Dave & Betsy's for our annual 4th of July picnic. This year there were over 30 people there, family & friends, and we enjoyed ourselves. I think the 4th is my favorite holiday because I love when family/friends get together, i love cookout food, and I Love fireworks! Landon thought the whole thing was pretty cool as well! We were all actually dressed pretty patriotic!
We had about 6 dogs total for the cookout..hey they're family too!
Landon takin Abbie for a spin in his jeep..

A group shot of all the sister in laws.

Me & Lori decided to go for a spin on the 4wheeler too! haha

Me & Oscar watching Jonathans firework show!
We don't have to go to the park to see the Fireworks display, just go to the top of Dave & Betsy's road. Well of course the whole crew wanted to ride the 4wheeler down!

Ahhhhh..Love it!

I totally forgot that I had bought Sparklers for the kids until almost 10pm! Luckily they got a chance to play with them, and it was Landon's first experience with one. After he figured out you don't hold it close to your shirt and you don't try to touch people with them it was smooth sailing!

Happy Independence Day!

Red White & Blue Parade


This year to add to the usual 4th of July activities one of our local radio station dj's- Big Al Howard came up with an idea to put a parade together to honor all of the soldiers that are fighting and have fought for our country. His brother was killed in Iraq and he began an organization called "Operation Never Forget" where busts of fallen soldiers are made to honor them. When a soldier from a small town gets killed or wounded in wartime it's like everyone somehow has a link to them. The parade marshalls were family of the fallen soldiers, or even soldiers that had been wounded. Jonathan was asked to drive his vehicle in the parade and he had LCorp Will Chapmen who was wounded in action. My eyes fill with tears anytime I see a military person being honored, and people stand up and clap. We owe them Everything and sometimes they just don't get the thanks they deserve. Jonathans grandfather is a retired Marine, and was able to come from the nursing home to watch the parade, and he said as they drove by him, Will's dad said "look at that gentleman smiling!" It was grandaddy Keith, and Jonathan proceeded to tell them that he served in the marines in World War II. One of my best friends, Stan , was part of the 3rd Infantry Divison that were among the first to go into Iraq and my heart flls up for him when he would tell me stories. Some of my best memories are him calling me from Iraq in the afternoon(which was 230AM United States time) and would be like "oh no, did I wake your dad up?!" In walmart one day after talking to him and his new wife I walked off and turned around to see him bending down and shaking the hand of an elderly man with a WWII vet hat on, and saying "Thank you sir" needless to say I left the store in tears. We can't thank all the veterens, soldiers now, and future soldiers enough. Because of them we are free.

Wow..that turned into more than I set out to write, but it's something I feel strongly about. Take time every night to pray for our troups. Whew..now back to the parade. There ended up being over 100 entries in the first parade and Big Al did an awesome job. Of course the Rhinestone Rockers were in the parade AND we got 1st place in the marching unit! We danced to Rodney Atkins -It's America song, and even tho some of us didnt' make it the whole parade in the 95degree heat I thought it turned out well!

Here is a pic I stole from my friend Ashley who took picturse of all th parade entries!

Our Rhinestone Rocker truck all decked out!