Today

Today I attended a funeral for a 5 year old boy. He was the son of a good family friend. He was accidentally shot because someone was careless with their gun. The service was sad. It made me come home and hold and kiss my kids a little more. Life is precious. You never know what is going to happen. I am so grateful that my family is mine forever. I love knowing that if something were to ever happen to any of us that we will see them again. What a great feeling that is. It made me sad that the parents of this child don't have the know or understand the plan of salvation. These kids and my husband are my life

I'm a lucky girl.

Kiddos in the Rain

Last week we had a day where we had crazy amounts of rain. It was awesome. It took me 20 minutes just to drop my kids of at the front of the school. We live like 2 minutes from the school. The streets were flooded. We loved every minute of it. After I dropped Nicholas and Sammy off, I let Parker and Noah play outside. Pretty sure they thought I was the coolest mom ever.

Too bad it's way too hot again. Blah!

Parker Loves Preschool

Parker started preschool this week. This will be his last year of preschool. Parker thrives on a schedule. If he is kept busy he never gets in trouble. His teachers tell me he is good so I will take their word for it. I love this kid. He makes me laugh and has grown up quite a bit in the last couple months. He was very excited to finally go to school after seeing his 2 older siblings go the past 2 weeks.

Of course Parker couldn't make a normal face. This kid is a mini me of Luke. If you look at pictures of Luke when he was younger he is never making a normal face.

And of course Noah jumps in. He wouldn't get out. This kid thinks he is 5.

Look at him go..........

Parker has learned to ride his bike without training wheels. Well he actually learned how to a month ago but I completely forgot to blog about it. For Christmas last year his cousin Jack got one of  these .Parker was very confused that his cousin didn't have pedals. After a very short time his cousin Jack learned how to ride a real bike and boy did that push Parker. He asked if he could have a bike like Jack's. Luke ended up just taking his pedals off of his bike and Parker learned how to balance and in no time was riding his bike. I wish we would have done this with the other kids. We are hoping this kind of pushes Sammy to learn, but I have a feeling her very cautious personality will prove us wrong. She does everything on her own time, which is fine. So if you have a 3 year old I would totally recommend doing this and you will be amazed! I mean look at this cutie go!

Other than that things are really good around here. Two of my kids are back in school and Parker starts next week. My schedule is back and I couldn't be happier. I am able to have more of a scheduled workout routine which makes a happy mama(except when I have to wake up at 5:10 am). So obviously a happy mom makes happy kids right? Yes, it's good. My house stays cleaner and there is way less TV around here. Luke starts his new job in 2 weeks. He is so excited. It's hard watching your husband do a job that he really dislikes. I am proud of him for getting this great opportunity. He will be working with Shell Oil company, which is a great company and the benefits and pay are 10 times better than UPS. Looks like I will be spending more of my time at Target....kidding. Also a good friend of mine had a baby a couple days ago and I saw her when she was a day old. It was so fun to be around a newborn again. The best part was that I walked away from the baby not being baby hungry. That never happens. I always want a baby after seeing a newborn. It was a good feeling.

A Few Randoms

We love our new house. It's bigger and has so many kids in the neighborhood. Our house is right next to the park. You can see about 10 bunnies chilling in the park many times a day. We also have a lot of chipmunks. Seriously people I feel like I am like Snow White. All these little creatures hang out in my backyard. I am tempted to sing to them in hopes that they help me clean my house. Wishful thinking, I know. One day I had was going through my fridge and saw some veggies and fruit that were on the verge on going bad. Instead of throwing them away we tossed them out on our backyard porch. Minutes later we saw this


 
The kids love it and Parker is very quick to tell me who is Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. These things eat anything. It's been a fun thing for the kids to see. They get really close to our door and Noah usually scares them away by screaming at the top of his lungs.

We have 9 am church. I love it because my kids never sleep in past 7 so it's a prefect time for our family. My only complaint is it makes for a loooong Sunday in the summer months. Last Sunday we decided to do a craft with our family. Actually it was Luke's idea. We each decorated a paper doll that resembles us. They all did such a great job and it was a fun family thing to do together. May I introduce the Lund Family

 Good looking bunch, don't you think? My favorite thing about this family is they don't say a word. They are always smiling and never talking back. How awesome is that? Notice Nick's shirt has a J on it. Can you guess what that means?

Good or Bad Mother?

So today was the first day of school for Sammy and Nicholas. Sammy is in Kindergarten and Nicholas is in second grade. I am one of those mothers that gets excited for my kids to go to school. I love the break and I think my kids love it too. I am a much happier mom when I have a schedule. In the last couple weeks I have seen so many status updates on Facebook about how sad moms are that their children are going to school. How they will miss them and yada yada. Listen I love my kids and love being with them. But I also love school and the break it gives me to get things done. Do I miss my kids when they are in school? Honestly? Not really. Doesn't mean I am not really excited to see them when they come home. I remember waiting for Nicholas to get home and how excited I was to see him and talk about his day. It makes me a better mom to my kids having that little break and my kids really love school so they love going and don't ever fight me.

I can't believe Nicholas is in 2nd grade. It seems like yesterday he was this cute little thing

And now he has turned into this handsome, sweet, and independent boy.

Sammy is going into Kindergarten. Like Nicholas I swear she was just this chubby adorable baby

And now she is a shy,wonderful, and beautiful Kindergartner.

 Now seeing Sammy go to class was a little harder for me than Nicholas. You could tell Sammy was timid and scared, but she did great going in. I'm sure she won't be like her older brother who told me he was fine the 2nd day of school, and I didn't need need to walk him. I have a feeling I will have to walk her the first couple weeks. That's okay. Here are some shots we took of the kids on their first day.

Noah had to get in on the photos too.

It was sooo hot so Sammy sat down until the opened her classroom

 
 I know there are more pictures of Sammy than Nick. Luke took Nick and I stayed with Sammy. I told him to take some pictures and he only took 3. That's a man for you. I can't wait to see what this school year has for our family. It's going to be a busy one. One kid in 2nd grade, one in Kinder, and one in preschool. We will also have 2 in a music class, one in flag football, one in dance, and another one in karate. I am getting tired just thinking about it. Wish us luck!

UNLV Baseball Camp

My Dad pulled some strings and got Nick into UNLV's basbeball camp. I was a little nervous leaving him for 4 hours at a camp with strangers. I have never done anything like that. Luckily my Dad or Luke was there for some of it. Nick loved it so much. Are we surprised? Not at all. It was a very HOT week. Like 105 and he never once complained about having to go. On the last day he told me he was sad he couldn't go anymore. He was the youngest kid there but he worked his butt off and kept up pretty good with the rest of the kids. He learned so much.Here he is up to bat and playing 3rd. I forgot a camera so I made Luke take them on his phone.



 
On the last day of camp they let the kids swim at the UNLV indoor pool. They had a high dive and they let Sammy and Parker on it too. I was very surprised Sammy jumped off of it. She is usually so cautious. Parker on the other hand had no problem doing it over and over and over again. I was a little nervous at first because the pool was 14 feet deep. Every time he jumped all the coaches would run over to help him thinking he was going to drown. They couldn't believe a 4 year old would jump off this thing and still want to go on it. They obviously don't know Parker very well.


 
 
At the very end of it they gave Nick a t shirt, which he was waiting all week for. They had extras so they gave them to the other kids too.
 
Parker thought he was pretty cool and asked if he could go to camp next year. Thanks Dad for setting this up! I love seeing my kids do stuff they love.