My version of Footprints in the Sand

I have a whole new view of the Footprints in the Sand poem. As you see, Grace had a great time today playing Chef. She was in her room so long I had to keep checking on her to make sure everything was on the up and up. Obviously I gave her to much time by herself. She comes running out to me and says "mommy, come look. I made paw prints like Blue (Blues Clues). As I round the corner into the living room I see she has indeed made prints from the living room, down the hall, and into her bedroom. No not of sand, but poop!!! Since we have just potty trained she had been going "Commando" this afternoon...obviously an error in judgment on my part! After I cleaned the trail of poop, all the while trying to keep my one year old from stepping in it, I thought how nice it would be to be a "work out of the house" mom!!!! Not that I would really want to at this time in my kids life, but it did seem awfully tempting!!!!
Hope I gave you a laugh! Love you all!

A Day At the Beach

With Darin over in Thailand for two weeks, my dad decided to come visit us in Va. Today we ventured out with the three kids and one of Kyle's friends to Sandbridge Beach. The kids all loved the water. Bethany had a blast in the waves. Kyle and Brandon were very gracious to let Grace build a sand castle with them. Then we went to Pungo Pizza for lunch. We had a great day!

Official Start to the Summer

We have just finished our first week of summer vacation and I think it's off to a great start. We had all three kids in Vacation Bible School at our Church, Deep Creek Baptist Church. Grace especially loved the praise music and learning all the motions to the songs. Kyle enjoyed the competitions throughout the week and was glad to find a few kids on his "team" from school and soccer. Bethany did well in the nursery while I helped with the opening rally!
Darin is off for an impromptu trip to Thailand for two weeks so pray all of his travels are safe and no problems arise! He has not seen his dad in two years so he is very excited to go!
Hoping my kids aren't bored to tears this week after such a hectic schedule last week!!!

Just beginning!!!!!

I have to admit I shyed away from blogging for a long time thinking how self indulgent it would be to devote an entire website to talk about myself and my family. After all, is anyone that interested really? But as I viewed my friends blogs and researched it (minimally), I found it might be a really good way to keep in touch with family and friends located all over the world. Since Darin is in the military we move around almost every two years. Our most current news is that it looks like we will be moving to Singapore in the next few months. So I thought this might be the perfect time to enter the land of blogging. So, be patient. I'm new to all this!!!