Wordless Wednesday

A coworker created this and sent it to me. Rich is on the right, and David on the left. Just goes to show the sense of humor they have.

My weekend

No pictures from this weekend but here is the run down...

The fun started on Thursday:
Thursday:
We were invited to the Tollefson's for dinner. We had such a great time. Josiah proclaimed that he had "too much fun". We went home all tuckered out. It was such a GREAT time!!
Friday:
David went to Softball, since the game was rained out he hung out with the guys for a while. Josiah and I read a chapter book and then went to sleep.
Saturday:
Shopping trip ti Ikea- so much fun!!! Nap time, Alex's game, bowling time, bed time
Sunday:
Church, putting together Alex's new bed, nap time, and our 3 for 3. Which is were we get together with 3 couples for three months. So we had dinner at the Kochers. Josiah finally warmed up to their dog and didn't want to go.

Another great weekend. I am looking forward to another week full of baseball, AWANA and rest!! Enjoy your Monday!

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OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!! I am Cori, and like Kim, I am a New Kids FREAK. And today they were on the Today Show.




The sad, and scary, thing is- I have a LOT of their memorabilia at my parents house. Posters, buttons, dolls. I CAN'T wait for them to tour- Kim are you in????

Opening Day

Some of you may be thinking- Opening day was earlier in the week for MLB. Well last night was a different kind of Opening Day in our house.... it's Little League season!!!!!!! I love watching Alex play baseball. He tries really hard and has such a good time with the other kids.

I am the offical "book" for his games (scorekeeper) so I only got the chance to get a couple of snap shots. I will get a LOT more in the coming weeks.





Nice hit!!! Alex went 2 for 3. It was a lot of fun. Now David starts Softball on Friday and Josiah's t-ball starts soon (I'm not really sure when). So expect to see a lot more of my "boys of summer".

Alderwood Manor Community Church

A couple of months ago I felt the need to teach my Cubbies about sharing God's love in unique ways. How can they, at age 3 & 4, show God's love to people? Suddenly my brother in laws circumstance came into my mind. He is in Iraq, somewhere, he can't tell us where. He has told us that he's stuck where he is and the only time he gets out is to go to the airport to come home. So I put the two together and thought it would be fun for our kids to provide some toothpaste and other essentials for Nathan and his group of guys, in hopes of using this as a ministry to share God's love in the unique way.

Well, our AWANA commanders got wind of this and suggested that the whole program get behind it. I was so excited. The other club Director's jumped on board and we created a list and encouraged our clubs to help support our troops.

So on Sunday David hauled all the stuff into our living room so I could sort through it. I was OVERWHELMED at they way God worked through this drive. I was speechless (I know most of you can't believe that, but I was). God laid it on my heart that we should share this amazing gift with another solider and sure enough at church our Commander's wife mentioned that another director had suggested another solider to receive some of these items. So we sorted into two piles to make it "even"

Here is a photo before the sort, it was really amazing and to think there are two boxes out of the picture and the floor behind the coffee table is also covered in stuff.



Once again Alderwood has made a difference in someone's life. It is so cool to be a part of something so amazing. I know I am in the right place. It's an amazing place to be.
Now it's on to the loose change drive, my favorite part of the year!!!!! David has volunteered to take a pie in the face for anyone of our friends that is willing to pay for it. I said $25.00 a pie, but he didn't like the idea of more than one, so I guess it goes to the highest bidder. The money goes to our AWANA club in Ghana. I take a pie for the cubbies anyways, so I guess we will be pie buddies. I will try and get a few pictures of past pies.

PS- no need to post comments on the name of the church, I know they like ACC, but it will always be AMCC in my world. but feel free to post other comments I LOVE reading them!!!!!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Kids these days will never know the good ol' days.







Hard to believe it's been 8 years, the explosion happend 8 days after we were married.

Easter

I can't believe I am a week behind in my blog!!!! Oh well, I guess that means there will always be something to post.
I'm not sure how many noticed, but the blog address has changed. I am slowly turning this into an amazing website, so look for fun changes in the coming weeks.

So back to Easter....

The Saturday before Easter we were invited to the Caceres' house for their annual Easter Egg hunt. It was soooo amazing! here are some photos of all the fun!

Here are all the kids lined up, after the dads hid the eggs:



Josiah waiting for the directions & the rules.


All the parents lined up taking photos while Michael begins to explain the rules.


Michael is explaining the special eggs that were hidden. They had a special prize- which we will get into later.



Katrina and her mom enjoying the moment.


I really don't know how they got all those kids to stand there for so long! But they were dismissed by age and off they went.

Josiah and I went around the yard looking for eggs. Each kid had 10 eggs to find, plus a bag of goodies and various candy and blank eggs, including the gold, silver & camo eggs with special prizes.


Someone thought it would be funny to hide Josiah's stuff up high. We had a fun time trying to find them, and he had to come up with ways of getting them down. In this photo he is getting ready to stand on a tree stump next to the tree, but I decided to help him out. We really had a great time wandering the yard.



Meanwhile....
I caught David with sweet little Dakota Lambing in his arms. He took her around to find all her eggs so Shane & Kristi could help their other two kids. For those that know David, know that he doesn't like to hold other people's kids, so I was shocked and so impressed when I looked over and saw that he had done this... what a great guy I have.





Josiah got done and we decided to walk the yard one more time for a prize egg. Josiah spotted something shiney from across the yard, he ran to it and sure enough it was a golden egg.



The prize was $5.00, which to Josiah meant the world to him. He has been saving his own money for a new webkin, but I will get to that story later.


Here is a photo of all the kids that participated in the hunt.


And then this picture just because I looked over and found this so amusing.... Josiah was watching Micah draw on the ground with chalk, but the funny part is the bubble stick in his hands (his prize for the day)and a half eaten chocolate bunny.



Sunday morning I did something I haven't done in years.... I went to service. Usually I am serving somewhere in church, but today I took my boys and got to enjoy service with them. It was so great to be surrounded by the most important people in my life and rejoice that Jesus died on the cross for our sins & on the third day rose again! what an amazing gift He has given us!!!!!!!!!!

Alex after church on Easter Sunday:


and Josiah:


I hope you all had a great Easter as well!!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Another Example...

Another example that we don't break into song NEARLY enough!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Ok Wordless Wednesday is REALLY hard! So today I found some good kid quotes for you to enjoy:

When your mother is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?" it's best not to answer her.
Megham, age 13

You only have one mom, and you should take care of her.
Sean, age 12

When you complain about doing the dishes, you usually get stuck doing them more often.
Nichole, age 14

You should never pick on your sister when she has a baseball bat in her hands.
Joel, age 12

School lunches stick to the wall.
Patrick, age 10

You should never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
Ann, age 15

One of the best ways to find out about a person's character is to play Monopoly with them.
Ellana, age 15

Life is filled with ups and downs but most of the time I'm going sideways.
Leslie, age 11

When I see you, my eyes turn into little hearts. Cameron Age 4

My Trip to Vancouver!

Wow! I have a LOT to blog in the next couple of days.

So I will start with Thursday. On Thursday morning my mom & I headed up to Vancouver BC for our Bryan Adams concert. We made it up there in 90 minutes and had no trouble at the border. It was pure luck. Even though it isn't that far from home, it is really wierd driving in another country. The signs are different and the speed limits aren't followed and there are not nearly as many road signs as we have in Washington. So we spent the day wondering around downtown going into stores we can't afford to shop in and having a great time. I have never spent time in Vancouver, so it was very intersting. By 3:00 pm we both found a starbucks and crashed in the big comfy chairs and enjoyed people watching. It was right across the street from the church where Bryan was playing and we weren't suppose to line up before 6:30.


Well we jumped in line at 5:30, since this guy had been standing there since 3:00- I wasn't going to risk getting a bad seat. So we hung around the church until 8:30! 3 hours in line- I must be crazy. Here are some more great church pictures. I loved this church and the stain glass windows.



So when they finally escorted my line in we got FRONT ROW!!!!!! Now, my camera does NOT take good photos with out a flash. I need to find a camera that does. Anyone have a digital camera that takes good photos in dark places without a flash??? Let me know!!! So a lot of these are out of focus or jacked up- but you get the point: View from my seat, with no zoom.


For the Encore Keith Scott, Bryan's band mate and also cowriter of some of his best songs, came up on stage.

At the end of the concert he came over the the girls a few down from me.

Then he came to ME! I gave him a sharpie & a cd jacket for his autograph. In the photo you can see my pen lid in his mouth- kinda gross, but so cool all the same. LOL.



He asked me what my name was and I told him. He still didn't spell it right but the question mark made it all ok.



It really was am AMAZING concert!!!!!

New Car

Well, we got rid of the Alero in order to save some money and bought a new/used car.
It's a great commuter car. Good gas mileage and hey, it will be a LOT of fun in the summer.

Just a teaser

I have a TON of photos to clean up and look at, so just a teaser for now....

BTW... FRONT ROW BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My own Heaven

For our anniversary David got me a heating mattress pad. We put it on the bed last night and I slept like a baby. It is the most wonderful thing in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. I can't believe it. The only negative is that when David got up this morning his side of the bed was cold, so it wasn't as nice to curl up in his spot. Oh well, I guess I will have to stay on my warm side of the bed. Plus the fact that getting out bed in the morning is going to get really really hard!

New Blog

Ok, I started a blog of "randomness" it may offend at times and it may cause you to think. Bottom line I need a place to vent or to ponder thoughts. I hope ya'll check it often and comment or debate the issue.

Enjoy!

Please note, if you offend easy it probably isn't a place for you. It's just me dumping my mind with stuff that is going on or stuff that I am struggling with. You never know, maybe you have the answer.

Wordless Wednesday

I wish I could explain why I used this photo today....I wanted to put a photo of Bryan on here since the excitement of tomorrow night is building, but when I saw this photo I had to share. I'm not allowed to say where the concert is, but this is the building it's in, so I hope to take a photo similar to this one myself :-).

My Fabulous Weekend!

Ok, so Friday I was back to work. I tried to take it easy but of course, I didn't succeed. So when I got home Josiah & I curled up in bed and watched a movie. It was some nice cuddle time. David went out to do some errands.

Saturday my mom and I headed fort he annual quilt show in Monroe.


I saw some amazing quilts and my mom and I actually found some great quilts and I now have three more on my list to do. I PROMISE not to start them until I am done with the others LOL.

I love this one, it's lady bugs:


Here are some "Scrap quilts" I hope to do some of these once I get my scraps organized. (Now that is really funny).






Then on Saturday night some friends joined us at Benihana's for dinner. It was a lot of fun. Michael & Katrina Caceres celebrated 16 years on friday night and the Jordan's had never been to benihana's so it was a blast. We then ended up at starbucks and laughed the night away.









And one last picture, last weekend we went to Color Me Mine for some fun pottery painting time. So her is the finished product. It was so much fun!! next time i need a bowl :-).

8 Years

Tomorrow marks 8 wonderful years of wedded bliss (at least most of the time). So here is a look back to that wonderful day.









We celebrated on Saturday and I will share those pictures later today.