Adventure Island 8/5/10

My friend Amanda, invited Tye and I to go with her and some other friends to Adventure Island. We were so excited and said yes! We had a great time, we spent a bunch of time in the kiddie area and went around the lazy river several times. Tye ventured the big slide with Amanda while I watched her son, West. And then we hit the wave pool! It was soooooo cool, the waves were huge and it gave my legs a great workout because you kindof had to push back towards the front so you weren't on the beach before you knew it! lol

Here are Amanda and West getting used to the water.

Mary Ann, Rylee and Tye played in the kiddie wave pool.

Tye heading off to the play equipment.
The boys had to wear life vests for some of the areas so they just kept them on the whole time, much easier. They found this little rock fountain and had a seat just chillin in the water!

Tye posing on the rocks.

Rylee taking his turn.

West loves the camera, when you break it out he now gives this giant cheesy grin! :-) Love those teeth! hehehe

Loving the water of the stream as you enter the park.

Isn't this the cutest little cheeser face you have ever seen?! lol

Ahhhh, the things that make boys happy. lol

The boys found this bridge that the water would run under. They created their own "boats" from the mulch in the flower beds. They each had at least 2 large pieces of mulch and would throw it in on one side of the bridge. Then they would quickly run to the other side and lay down to watch their "boat" come out from under the bridge! lol I think they probably did this for about 30 mins.

Thanks for inviting us Amanda! We had a great time and Tye can't wait to go back (oh and he wants to go ride the roller coasters that he saw while waiting in line to go down the big slide with Amanda. lol He keeps telling me he is going to go ride those roller coasters! LOL He means Busch Gardens.) I tried really hard not to get burned, but of course I did. My shoulders and upper back and chest were burnt. Luckily not too bad and I healed pretty quickly. lol It was lots of fun and exhausting! lol We came home and took a little nap! :-)

Smarty Pants 8/20/10

Today when we got back from the YMCA, I noticed that some of the papers from the recycle bin had blown out onto the road. So I asked Tye if he would pick them up. As he was picking them up I thought I heard the garbage truck coming. I told Tye to "hurry because the garbage truck is coming!" Well it wasn't the garbage truck but the Fed Ex truck (and sadly not for us! lol). When he finished and we were walking up to the house Tye says to me, "Mommy, your hypothesis was wrong!" WHAT?! lol Where in the world did you hear that?! lol He told me Dinosaur Train (a PBS show). Too funny!!!

Then he told Kevin later, "Daddy I have a hypothesis". I don't even know what his hypothesis was because Kevin asked the same thing as me and so we got sidetracked by that! lol

By the way, there is a scientist guy on Dinosaur train that talks about hypothesises and dinosaurs. That is how he learned the word. lol

What a smarty pants! lol

Tye's Pictures 8/14/10

My friend's sister in law, Lori, came down to take the baby's pictures. He turned one in July. So while she was here I asked her pretty please to take a few of Tye. She did a great job considering he was having a hard time with it. There were lots of bugs out and the sun was in his eyes. I did not have a couple of hours of prepping him that he was going to have his pictures taken so he wasn't so cooperative.

I love this one, it looks like he is praying! :-)

Yeah this is my boy, wild and crazy! lol

Then she did this cute, collection of the pictures! Didn't it turn out cute?!
Thanks Lori!!!! We really appreciate it!

YMCA (sing it with me now! lol)

For a couple of months Kevin has been talking about doing Judo again. He really wanted Tye to do it with him. So I started researching and Kevin's old Judo instructor still has his school in town. He was very happy about that. When I looked into the price it was going to be $50 for 10 lessons for Tye and $80 for 10 lessons for Kevin, so about $50 a month for both of them to do just Judo.

But I also noticed that they said if you were a member of the local YMCA that you can do it for free there. So I started researching that too. It is more expensive per month for the Y but then all three of us can do something more than just Judo.

On Monday August 16th, we headed on down to the Y and signed up. We took a tour of the facility closest to our house. There is another one that is only about 1-2 miles further away in a different direction. So that is awesome. It has a water park there too (with slides and all sorts of kids playing area). They have a rock climbing wall. A HUGE kids area for those under 7. Then a game room for kids over 7. It really is a great place.

When we signed up I had heard about scholarships, so I decided what the heck I am going to ask about it and if we qualify great, if not, no big deal. We qualified for a pretty good scholarship based on last years tax returns (sometimes being out of work for 6 months does have its benefits! lol). So now for the same price as just the Judo we all three get to do things!!!!

I have gone at least three times a week since then. I have done two classes there that have KILLED me! lol And we get some free personal trainer type appointments to start out with! We all love it. And when I can I will post some pictures of the boys doing Judo. :-)

Summer Movie Camp 08/10/10

The final movie for the summer movie camp at AMC Theatres was How to Train Your Dragon. We had not seen this movie so we were SUPER EXCITED!!! Especially since Tye has been into dragons and dinosaurs lately.


Last week I bought tickets because I knew it was going to be a popular one. My friend Amanda had said that she wanted to go so I went ahead and bought her a ticket too (since they are only $1 it was no big deal! lol). But then she was unable to go and she had mentioned to our other friend Mary Ann about it. So I called Mary Ann and told her that I had an extra ticket and did her and her son Riley want to go with us. She thought it would be fun, so we all went together! Tye thought it was cool to have a friend with him to watch the movie. We also got the kids combo pack so he thought that was even better! lol

The movie was great, some funny parts that I think most of the kids didn't get but the adults did! lol So it was a good movie for everyone in the family! I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it!

Afterwards, I remembered that I had some coupons for free kids meals at Chick-Fil-A so we all headed there. The boys played on the playground and Mary Ann and I were able to talk. It was a great day!

Bull Riding 8/6/10

Our home teacher and friend Mark talked about wanting to go to a rodeo. So we did some researching to see if there were any around. We found one that was about an hour away and kept saying we were going to go. But we have never really gotten it pulled together. Well then I found this local rodeo that is just down the street. They do it the first and third Friday of each month. So we planned for it the first Friday in August and Mark and Kara joined us!

My only problem with it was that it started later than we had expected, but it is all good. We had fun! It was actually a bull riding tournament as opposed to an actual rodeo, but we still thought it was great. Tye thought it was way cool to see the bulls jumping and snorting! lol

When we first got there, we had some yummy food. Pulled pork sandwiches, chips and a drink and Tye had a corn dog.

Sorry it was pretty dark out and the lights were not good for picture taking. But here are a few of the pictures I got that were not in the total darkness yet.

Here are my boys!

Kara and Mark

They gave away free ice pops and Tye went hunting one down! lol

They had a calf riding opportunity for the kids, but Tye said NO WAY!!! Maybe next time. And yes, there will probably be a next time because Mark has decided he is going to train so he can do the bull riding! lol They have these amatuer riders that anyone can do it (if it is your dream or just on your bucket list they say! lol). So Mark really wants to do it. Kara said she won't be there to watch him. lol He is planning on the first of October and Kevin was joking around about doing it, but Mark thought he was serious. lol Ummmm, not Kevin! lol But we will be there to support Mark if he goes through with it. :-)

We really had a great time even if it wasn't a whole rodeo! lol