Little Entrepreneur

Yesterday we had a garage sale. We actually have been meaning to have one before Parker was even born but never got around to it. Finally Luke told me he wanted his garage back so it was a garage sale or DI. Since we could use some extra money I decided to give the garage sale a try. The night before Nicholas asked if we could do a lemonade stand soon. I got the fabulous idea to do it while we were having the sale. Who can really resist 3 little cuties selling lemonade? I have to say Nicholas was our #1 sales person. He asked everyone who came if they wanted some lemonade. He wasn't scared at all. Most people just donated money because they didn't want any but the kids still made $13.15. That was their total after I took what it cost me to buy the stuff for it. Since Nicholas did most of the work he got $9, Sammy got $2 and Parker got $1. Parker did nothing but drink about 20 glasses of it and use all of the cups. Nicholas really enjoyed it. We think we have a future salesman in our family. I forgot to take a picture all day and so I dragged him out in the 100 degree heat to get a picture so I could document it.
Just wanted to give all the ladies some advice. Don't ever do a garage sale 71/2 months pregnant and in the 100 degree heat. :)

2 down...2 more to go

Today Sammy had her first day of preschool. She was not excited at all. Sammy is completely different than Nicholas when it comes to school. Nicholas loves to be social and is fine in any environment. With Sammy it takes a while for her to warm up. When I told her she had school today she asked if boys were going to be in her class. I said yes, and she said "well than I don't want to go". She is so not like her mommy in that area. I had to bribe her with starburst to get her to go into the classroom. Of course she started crying and I just gave her a shove and left. I knew she would be fine. She was mostly just excited to wear her her new outfit.

Showing everyone her new clothes

Nicholas really wanted a picture with Sammy. I decided that I better take advantage of just having 1 kid 2 days a week for 2 hours. For the next 2 months it's just me and this little guy:

He is going to love having all my attention. How can I resist a face like that? This kid has no idea he won't be the baby anymore. It makes me a little sad, but so happy that he gets to have a little brother to play with. Hopefully he doesn't turn this new one into a crazy man like him.

A Real Soccer Mom

Yesterday I became a real soccer mom. I knew I was on my way there when we bought our van, when I started carpooling for school, and when I would go through drive thrus because it was dinner time, the kids were starving and I hadn't been home in 3 hours to make a decent meal. Well yesterday I finally received that title.

Nicholas had his first soccer game yesterday. Let me just say it was so much fun! Luke and I didn't come from a family that played or even really watched soccer. I didn't know how I felt when Nicholas said he wanted to play soccer. I know NOTHING about the sport at all. This was the first time Nicholas was going to be on a team where he didn't know anyone. We got really lucky and was put on a great team. Since his birthday is right on the cut off I had the choice to put him on a team where he was the youngest or he could be on a team where he was the oldest. I figured it would be better for him to be the oldest since it was his first time playing this sport. Since he was the the oldest they played him A LOT and he was so tired. Poor boy wasn't used to running so much, but he absolutely loved it, and so did I!!! Even thought they didn't keep score, the game was intense. I was that screaming mom on the sidelines. I had to step away for a little bit because I was getting so worked up. I think I grew like 20 gray hairs as I was watching. Needless to say this sport is way different than baseball. It a nice change and we are so glad Nicholas likes it. Oh and just to brag a little he scored 3 out of the 6 goals that their team made. The score was tied 6-6, yes Luke and I were keeping score. Just call us competitive.

Nicholas made this pose up himself.

That's Nicholas getting ready to score!

In their league there are only 3 players on each team playing, I thought this was a cute picture of the 3 boys waiting to kick the ball.

Running his little heart out.

Quack, quack!

We wanted to do something with the kids on Labor day. We thought about going to Mt. Charleston but the thought of me hiking with this big belly didn't sound appealing. We decided to go feed the ducks but didn't really want to drive to Sunset park where all the bums hangout. Luke remembered there was another place to feed ducks and they had a great water park there too. So at 8:30(yes my kids wake up really early) we were out the door. We wanted to beat the heat. When we got there the ducks were terrified. It might have something to do with Parker chasing them saying QUACK really loud. Once they realized we had food they warmed up to us. Nicholas really understood this time that he needed to break the bread up into pieces so it would last longer. He loved seeing the ducks fight over the pieces he threw in. Sammy was such a mom to them. She would notice that one duck took a piece of bread away and would try to throw a piece to the one who had it stolen. Parker on the other hand was throwing whole pieces on the duck's head. That's our Parker! Two loaves of bread lasted about umm.....20 whole minutes. The kids had fun but they were ready to go over to the water park. They had a lot of fun at the splash park and we promised we would go back because this water park was pretty awesome and there was no one there. Yeah it could have been because it was 9:30 in the morning. Here are some pictures from our family outing. Why oh why can't my kids make normal faces when I take my camera out.

I love this picture. I had a rough day today and just looking at this picture makes me realize how lucky I am. My family is the Bomb! Yes I just "the Bomb", who cares! OH and if you are wondering why you haven't seen many pictures of me lately, it's because I don't take pictures while pregnant. If they are taken they will never make it to this blog...ever!

Poor Sammy!

Since Sammy was born she has had her hair cut by me. Let's just say she never got a good haircut. I'm sure people would look at my daughters hair and wonder what in the world I did to it. I know her bangs were never straight and cut in the wrong places. Also Sammy got my hair. It is so thin and was looking really raggedy long. I finally called my aunt to cut her hair, and we decided to grow her bangs out. They are just too much work. So here is her first real haircut

and the results. What a good looking girl I have. I am so glad I got 1 child that looks like me.

So I had to come back on here and edit this. I totally didn't mean for that last line to sound so conceited.

Meet the newest member of.........

KISS

This is what happens when daddy is in charge of taking kids out of baths. You have to comb this girls hair right or away or it gets our of control. When I asked her to smile she stuck her tongue out..see the resemblance?