One Life to Love...: June 2013

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Father's Day 2013

For Father's Day this year, we got to spend the day together as a family. We went to church, to brunch at the Tech club (with Poppa, JJ, Aunt Rachy and the Stone's), and then swimming together that afternoon! It was a great day and we hope daddy knows how much he is loved. Here is our favorite 10 things about dad:

10. He is the best tickler in the house. He can even tickle mommy and make her laugh until she's crying.

9. He has super powers. Really, there is NOTHING he cannot do. Well, except maybe birth a child and walk on water.

8. He is strong and can carry us around for rides in the laundry basket, he can make us fly onto the bed, and he can give us shoulder rides whenever we want.

7. He makes the best scrambled eggs on the planet. Either that, or we are just used to mommy's really BAD scrambled eggs, which makes his even better!

6. He loves spending time outside with us. Whether we want him to play catch with us, play football or basketball or go on walks, he's up for it!

5. He's a family man. He loves just being with his family.

4. He is the hardest worker we know. He works tirelessly for our family. He provides very well for us. He allows mommy to stay home with us everyday and tend to our needs at home. Without him, life would be much much different.

3. He's fun! He loves to shake things up and make us laugh.

2. He encourages us to be polite, well behaved kids. Sometimes he's hard on the boys, but we ALL know it's because he loves them and cares about what they act like and who they are becoming as they grow older.

1. He's a wonderful leader for our family. He leads us in all aspects of our family. Sometimes mom tries to be the leader, but dad is the one who is called to lead, and he does a fantastic job and has lead us well.

We LOVE you daddy! Happy Father's Day!!!

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Rangers: City Tourney

The past couple of weeks has been filled with baseball! John's Western team (RANGERS) have been playing in the city tournament....and they did awesome! They were the 5th (last) seed from the Western division, so expectations weren't super high, but we were thrilled they made the tournament. Well, this team kicked it into high gear and did SO good. They made it to the 3 final teams left in the tournament. They lost last night in a VERY close one, to a team who had beaten them 3 other times. We had them down going into the last inning, they got last bat and caught up and scored the winning run. It was a great game and they all did awesome. The guys who always got good hits got great hits, and the ones that didn't usually get hits, got good hits! They all really improved and have nothing to be down about, and everything to be proud of! John played first the whole season and a little SS in the last game. He did awesome. I actually lost count of his home runs. I hope POPS is saving his dollars!!!

Monday, June 10, 2013

great intentions

So Ryan has been out of town for the past 2 weeks for Graduate Banking School at SMU. He got back last Friday! (whew, we survived!)

I had the BEST intentions of using my "ME" time to catch up on blogging, update the boys Shutterfly yearly books, catch up on invitations (I accomplished this, for the most part), read a book or 2, and catch up on some rest (which I did somewhat). I failed miserably at the blogging and book part. I LOVE working late in the night and early into the morning. It's quiet and dark and no one is asking me to do things or get them food or milk, or this or that. It's the only time of day it's quiet, so I work and really enjoy being a night owl. I don't do it too often, because I do like to go to bed with my husband but some nights when he crashes early, I take advantage.

So I thought since I'd be going to bed alone for 2 weeks, that was almost 14 nights of lots of productive hours. Boy, was I wrong. Turns out being a single parent, once the kids are in bed, YOU TURN INTO A PUMPKIN. I seriously couldn't do anything but get in bed, no TV, no book, and crash. I was exhausted by night time. You single parents out there, you are my HEROES. I have no idea how you do it. I did enjoy the first few days of "singleness" and I was honest with Ryan about that (I think he enjoyed it too) but by about day 4, I needed back up. My children were driving me crazy, I was tired and frustrated, and tired and stretched and tired. Get it? I probably don't give my husband enough credit, but he apparently does a LOT. My trash piled up, our lawn got super long, and bath duty everynight made me realize what a huge part of this partnership thing we have going called Parenthood.

Anywho, here's a rundown of our weeks. We tried our hardest to stay busy and have some fun. We ate out almost every night (I refuse to cook when he's not here), and we ate lots of PB&J's for lunch. I had a fun 2 weeks with my 2 youngest boys, but we sure were glad when daddy (and Johnny!) got home! What did we do? So glad you asked!

We played with our friends down the street and played in the water, the slip n slide, and even washed daddy's truck! We ate too many popsicles to count!

We found a turtle in our front yard one night....sadly, it was gone from our backyard the next morning.

We got simpled out and laughed until we cried while playing with a butterfly net!

We swung at a friend's house. And ate chocolate ice cream, obviously!

Braidy was given his first ever trophy!

We had lots of picnics in the front yard. This was dinner at Cane's....our favorite!

We had a TOY wash! All of our toys in our side yard were filthy, so we washed them. In our jammies, no less!

We had some slumber parties in mom's bed!

We went to see Uncle Ty, and we all tried sneaking in the U-Haul that was moving them to Ft. Worth.

Quin scored some great hand-me-down Thomas rainboots....and you've never seen a happier little boy!

We had J&J come over while their parents went out one night. We made our own pizzas, jumped on the trampoline, watched a little of a movie, had S'more pizza outside with a few other friends and had a very loud screaming contest.