Owasso Fire!

Here are a few pics from t-ball this season. Yes, Jacob and Austin are on the same team (was there any doubt?). Don't you just love their uniforms?? They look so cute, um-I mean handsome! This is their 2nd year to play and I could see a great deal of improvement from last year. It is so much fun to watch them play .

Best Buddies.What a swing! If you look close, he has his tongue sticking out. This is his signature now, you know he's concentrating if his tongue is out.

He does pretty well at 1st base. I'm sure he could tell you how many outs he has made. He is a numbers guy :)

Playing catcher, like his dad! He likes getting those outs!

One more....of Jordan

Yes, one more video of Jordan singing.
This post was requested by her Aunt Traci (thanks for the header Trace!).
This is Jordan singing at our church last month.
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten my other child. I'll be posting some of Jacob's t-ball pics soon.

Jordan's Spring Recital

My Girl

Just as I promised (a couple of months ago) ! Here are some of Jordan's pics from her modeling shoot. She did so well and had so much fun! It was hard to pick our favorites.
I am going to brag a little because we are so very proud of her.
She finished her 5th grade year on the A-B honor roll, made above 95% in English both semesters and will be taking honors Social Studies next year. It has been a rough year with her peers this year (has anyone seen the movie "Mean Girls"?) so I am very proud of her being able to stay focused and do so well in school.

We love ya Jordy!

Silver Dollar City Fun

I 'm still here! It has just been super busy. This time of year always is for us. Many family birthdays, which means many trips to Guthrie.
We did manage to go somewhere else besides Guthrie earlier this month. We took the kids to Silver Dollar City. Todd had the whole week off and our original plan was to leave after school on Wed. But Jordan decided to catch some weird bug Saturday after we had gone to Trail Days. She was very sick for 5 days and wasn't completely over it until 7 days later. She would not eat, she was losing weight (and we all know there's not much there to spare) and we could not get her out of bed except for her trips to the restroom every 30 minutes. A trip to the dr, and an antibiotic seemed to turn things around. We think it must have been a bacterial infection she may have caught from the lovely concession stand at the mid-high during Trail Days. Needless to say, I don't think she'll be wanting pizza for a while! Jake and I were safe, we had the hotdogs :)
Once we saw that she was going to be ok, we left a day later than planned.
We came back Sunday in time for Jordan to sing in the evening service at church. She did great and I am so proud of her. I will be trying to post a clip of that soon.

Here they are getting ready to ride the swings. This was Jacob's 1st time. I especially enjoyed this trip because it was the 1st time Jordan could ride these spinning rides with him and not me or their dad. We were very glad for that!

Todd and Jordan rode this winding thing 10 or 15 times! NO THANKS! Jacob rode his 1st big coaster (not this one) on this trip. He LOVES them. It just cracks me up because Jordan just started riding them last year....
He was so upset because he wasn't tall enough for this one. I have to admit though, I was relieved.

My 5 year old did ride the Powder Keg! If you have ever seen this ride you would be impressed. Here is the park's description to give you an idea:
This explosive roller coaster sends riders into a thrill zone within seconds of climbing aboard, launching from 0 to 53 miles per hour in just 2.8 seconds. A thrill ride unlike any other at the theme park, PowderKeg^® combines the shocking speed of the compressed air-launch with spiraling turns, negative gravitational or "G" forces, and "floater" hills at speeds up to 64 miles per hour for a truly wild ride experience.

He debated riding it the whole time we were there. For 2 days he watched Todd and Jordan ride it. Even his dad was reluctant to let him ride, worrying it would be a little too big for him. But he told us he was big enough (because of the sign) and that he wanted to be brave. So he rode it the last day we were there on the last run for the day! So brave!

These are a couple of pics I took for my photography II class I took last month.
We were to take window portraits...just using the light from the window and a reflector. It was fun.
I love Jacobs eyes if I can ever catch them looking at me! He is hardly ever cooperating.
Jordan, on the other hand, loves to pose. She had her 1st professional shoot yesterday for modeling. She did awesome! I will hopefully have those back soon and post a few of them for you all. I tagged along and took notes of some really great places to take pics. They took some really cool pics in Brookside & Utica.

Anyway, these are not "GREAT" but they are some of my firsts in full manual mode! I am rather proud of myself.
Stacy & I are now taking editing classes, so hopefully I will learn how to add that extra something to some of my pics.

Birthday, Zoo, Easter....

There is no rhyme or reason to this post. I have not posted in a while (as some of you have pointed out to me) so I thought I would post a few pics of what has been eating up my time.

The "Easter Bunny" brought the kids scuba gear. Jacob likes to wear his around the house and then he will ask us about 1000 times if we can take him up to the YMCA to try it out. Todd finally did and it went pretty well. Jacob loves to swim under water. The only problem is that he can't get back up to the top of the water. But he's not scared to try so we'll keep working on that, he'll get it in no time, I'm sure.
We took the kids to the zoo on Easter weekend. The zoo has an exhibit set up where you can go feed the parakeets and cockatiels. They give you a stick with seed on the end of it and the little birds come and land on your stick. Well, everything was going fine until one of them landed on Jake's head. He did not like that. He walked around the rest of the time in there with either his hand on his head or his hood on.

The bird lady....

We went to Guthrie to celebrate Todd's brother, Scott's 40th birthday!
Here is how us girls celebrated....we got our hand and feet done.

Jordan and Peyton.

This is Todd's sister, Traci and her daughter Peyton. It was so funny to watch Peyton get her feet done. When she sat up in the chair her feet couldn't reach the water. I know how she feels....

This is the birthday boy and their mom.

This is Jacob with Scott's oldest son Ryan. What good looking guys!