Sneaky Sneaky

My daughter amazed me last night. Seriously, she's too smart for her own good. We treated some friends to Chik-fil-a last night and I got a large lemonade because I was incredibly thirsty. I had only drank about 1/4 of it before having to nurse, entertain, what have you. When I came back, it was gone.

I knew my daughter was behind it, but I didn't know how good. She swiped my drink, put it in her grocery basket and covered it up with other items. This enabled her to carry it around in front of my nose without me noticing it. She'd take it into various rooms to drink it, cover it back up, and go about her way. It wasn't until I saw a drip trail behind her that I suspected anything.

I must say, I was pretty impressed. It was good.

Play Day

A friend of mine owns an indoor play center a couple of towns away. I've seen her clean, so I'm not too worried about the germs. If it had been a seedy place and I didn't know the owner, then absolutely not. But, it's the same place that we had Auds' birthday party and where she had taken classes so I'm okay with it.

They have an open play time where you can come in, pay for the kid to play, and stay in the nice, safe, air conditioned place as long as you want to. Amen.

Typically, Auds runs around like crazy and TB either sleeps or lays down. He's been sitting since the beginning of the month now, so I decided to let him play, too.

There is this circular thing on wheels that I stuck him in. He LOVED it!

Woo-hoo!!!

Ooooh, what's that over there, Mommy?

Here he is declaring his love for it and playing with the balls that his sister threw in for him to play.

And this is what happens when Auds realizes that it moves.

It was a fun day. I love these kids.

MIscellany

"The helmet of salvation and the sword of truth!"

I swear my little girl ran around screaming that one night while we were cooking. It was great. haha

My kids love each other. It's cute.

Family's First Camp Meeting

Every year, there is a huge camp meeting in our state where all of the people from our organization can get together to hear wonderful preaching, participate in great prayer, and get some fabulous worship on. Heck, even people not in our organization. It's open to whomever wants to come. They have them in every state, but ours is big. It's a good few thousand people every single service.

The first time I went was when I spoke about 5 or 6 years ago. I met Nona Freeman. If you don't know who that is, look into her. She was Amazing - with a capital "a." I hadn't gone since.

My husband decided this year that we needed to go as a family. So, go we went.

I whipped out my iPhone to take pictures of my kids for their first camp meeting.

You can still see the bites on my poor baby girl's face.

My handsome little man.

Not the best quality, but at least I captured the moment.

I'm not gonna lie, I was in tears. But not at the preaching - TB was too fussy and Auds wanted to take too many bathroom breaks for me to hear.

The beginning of the service had kids from an orphanage singing and testifying. God put it on my heart two-ish years ago that we should adopt from this orphanage as they take the rejects that no one else wants. An Antioch, if you will. When I first looked into it, I fell in love with a little boy. But, I was pregnant for Auds at that time and we were about to move and things were just crazy. So, we put it off. It's been on my heart for a while, and I keep praying about timing.

Well, the little boy that I fell in love with was there and he testified. I knew it was him before they even introduced him. The moment I saw him my heart leaped. My eyes watered. And I dug out my checkbook to write a check to support his care, even if I couldn't adopt him right then on the spot. I swear, had they let me, I would have run up there, swooped him in my arms and had my husband go pickup another car seat to take him home.

So, I'm still praying about that. Maybe one day in the future, in God's timing, that little boy will come home with us. Gah, I'm crying writing this.

Sunday Fun Fun Day

So, one recent Sunday, there was a big fun day at a friend's house complete with a volleyball tournament, bouncy house, bbq contest and a whole lot of people.

Here's TB watching his daddy play in the volleyball tournament.

And my husband playing. He's in the front in the blue.

Auds getting help to take her shoes off to get in the bouncy house.

Having fun.

Bouncing around.

And she climbed in and out a million times.

And putting her shoes on to go back inside so she can...

Spin on the table. Oh, that daughter of mine.

Catch-Up

I haven't posted. I'm a bad blogger.

So, I'll be bombarding you with the haps.

This is what Auds' face looked like July 5th:

Yup. That's my sweet angel. This is what happens when she gets bit by mosquito bites. She had three bites on her poor cheek.

It looks worse than it was. She felt fine. The swelling eventually went down.

She was back to sass in no time.

Oh, yeah.

Happy Fourth of July!

We initially had plans to BBQ with some fantastic people, but illness ensued and they were cancelled. It's okay, we've got a rain check, people!

So, instead we headed down to Avery Island and avoided the insane mosquitos. There are only 5 pictures of us there because we were running for our lives. There are, however, landscape shots on my business blog if you really want to see them.

Auds in her Fourth of July dress I made in front of the arch to get to Buddha.

My men. TB isn't mad, he had just woken up.

3/4 of us. Aren't they just so cute?

The whole lot of us. Yes, we did dress in red, white and blue to be cheesy and patriotic. I realize it's eccentric. But I think it's cute. And there's plenty of ammo for the "crazy things Mom mad the kids do" discussions with their future therapists. Just kidding about that last part. I hope.

We then went to a plantation where my kids - yes, both the 5 month old and the 2 year old - went through a guided tour of the house with minimal talking, no touching and no meltdowns. Can I get a hallelujah?! It was amazing.

Since everything in the house was original to the first owners, I wasn't allowed to take any pictures of the inside. But I did get a couple of everyone outside. It was, however, 100+ degrees, so we didn't stay outside too long.

Auds trimming the garden with her fan.

Walking the grounds.

And, of course, she found a stick.

I had intended to use the grounds as a backdrop for his five month pictures, but he decided that his sister and her stick were much more interesting than me trying to preserve memories.

Look at the sweat on her. We weren't even outside half an hour.

He didn't like the heat either.

Happy Fourth!

Sunday Fun Day

I meant to post this yesterday, but blogger was giving me fits. Our church had a family fun day for the 4th a day early and we had a blast! I could show you the pictures I took of everyone as church photographer, but you just want to see my babies, right?

Checking out crawfish holes.

"How do you work this thing?"

"Like this?"

"Cheese!"

Look at that chunk!

Chewing HARD on his fingers.

All.the.time.

Stealing Honey's Gatorade. Her shirt was completely orange!

My dreamy, handsome men.

Little ladies man.

Stealing Mommy's lemons to make...

Her own lemonade!

She really did drink it.

Isn't she adorable?