Mornings at home....

  Most of you who have children will totally understand this post and others may not.  If you do not have children, this is what you have to look forward to!

Saturday morning at 6:59am;

Titus at my door- "Mom, when are you getting up?"

Me- "I dunno, let me sleep."

7:12am

Titus- "Mom, I let you sleep in.  Can you get up now?"

Me- "Titus, please go play for a bit.  I will get up soon."

Titus- "Uuuugh!  Ok, then can I wake up the brothers?"

Me- "No, go play quietly and do not wake anybody up. It is too early"

7:30am

Titus- "Mom.  I'm hungry!  Get up!  I'm HUNGRY!!"

Me- "Fine..... I'm getting up....."

(I lay there not moving, Titus doesn't leave either.)

30 seconds later.....

Titus- "Mom, you are STILL not getting up! Fine, I will go get the brothers...."

Me- "FINE! I'm up, I'm up!

Finally, I was up.  Titus got his breakfast and not 5 minutes after I got up, so did the brothers.  I should have just let Titus wake them up!

So this is how the mornings go around here.  Somewhat different dialogue, but always the same result.  I am up wayyy too early.....

A look around.........

  I was out in my yard earlier and as I started to really look around I saw several funny things.
I can only imagine what kind of stories were going on when all of the plastic yard tools ended up in the flowering bush near "the boys club" as it is called around here.See picture below.......

I also saw some digging going on! We LOVE diggerz at the King house! Clearly some construction needed done here. Well done!! See below....

OH NO!!!! It looks like one of the dump trucks crashed!! What happened!? I hope the driver is ok! A GIANT puppy perhaps!???

Well, I am not sure what you think, but I am wondering if Puppy did it! Innocent or Guilty? You decide!!

It appears there was a lot of dirty fun having outside today! It also looks like Puppy had some fun as well! So now you have it, a few things you will likely find around my yard on any given day! Always something fun going on here! Until next time...........

WOW! Fast forward 4 Years!

    Hello friends and family! Sorry about the NOT posting for the last 4 years! Life got away from me! 

     This last year has been an unforeseen adventure! We started the year off with a bathroom remodel in our new house that took 6 months, but was well worth the wait. We stripped it down to the frame and started fresh. (Except, we left the tub) We now have a very spa like feel to the main bathroom and it is Beautiful! Nick has such vision and skill. We also painted Titus’ room, built a tree house and built a car port. The boys are in heaven with their tree house and spent several weekends this summer sleeping in their tent in the tree house.

Nick and I have been married for 5 years! He is such an amazing, Godly man! I couldn’t ask for anything more! We have some small home improvements planned for this next year, we’ll see if they stay small. (Nick gets a vision, and can’t help himself!) I am working at American Aquarium Products and am learning a lot about aquarium and pond maintenance, as well as fish diseases and how to cure them. We also added an addition to our family late last year! He is a medium sized dog named Wrink. He is a Pugalier, (half Pug half King Charles Cavalier) and he is such a delight! Still doing some annoying puppy things, but that soon will pass! 

Taylor is 10 years old! Heavens, how time flies! He is 10 this year, and has a “friend who is a girl” but not a girl friend. They have a secret club and they draw each other pictures!  Too sweet! He is loving school, and is part of an after school Lego robotics club, and was also one of 12 kids chosen for Brain Bowl (Battle of smarts). He has also been recognized by the state of Oregon as “Intellectually Gifted”.  He is still playing the violin and he really enjoys it! Such talent!

Arthur is now 9 years old and really enjoys reading, enough to earn recognition with an Advanced Reader Award at his school and has been able to focus on building Bionicles and Lego space stations! He still wants to be a Paleontologist and is currently studying Volcano’s and how they work. Last year he did an impressive report on Dinosaurs. He included a lot of information, I even learned some things!  He will be great I'm sure of it!

Titus is 4 and it is showing! The 2’s are terrific compared to the 4’s, but we are enjoying the challenge! He is in a Pre K class this year and can now write his name and is recognizing several letters and numbers! He is enjoying school, and his favorite day is Tuesday. Tuesday is “bag day” and they bring something in a bag that starts with the letter of the week. They then give clues about what it is and see who can guess! Titus is very outgoing and loves making new friends. When we pull up to his school all the kids come running, screaming “Titus is here! Hi, Titus!” It is fun to see him growing into such a fun person!

I think thats it for catching up here! I will post more frequently!