Our Weekend

We had a busy and fun weekend here and it went way to fast like always. Saturday morning we had bus visitation. We take the 3 kiddos along with us, they mostly like to go, but Saturday was so hot that even I was dragging out there in that heat. Tara loves going. But she is a little confused. She thinks the bus is called bus visitation. So when we get off the bus she yells out, "Where's bus visitation? I get on bus visitation!" :) After bus we went to Taco Bell with the kids and one other guy from our church. On our way there Tara yelled, "I want Taco Bell water!" Thinking the heat was getting to her too! The rest of the afternoon I cleaned while Jeff and the guy from our church played a game then that night another guy from church came over for a bible study and then guitar lessons for Jeff. They made a deal that Jeff would teach him more about the bible and in return, that guy would teach Jeff how to play his guitar. :) I really hope they stick to this b/c I would love for Jeff to learn how to play! :) After their lessons we went out bowling with the kids and the 2 guys from church plus others. Gaber had his first winning game against Siah which made him smile from ear to ear! I helped Tara bowl and we managed to score a 77. :) After bowling we came home and put the kids to bed and rented a movie and had lots of junk food. I felt very blah after all that soda and candy! :) But its so good while eating it!
Sunday we had church, of course, and then we had our all day teen activity. We played softball outside in the 99 degree heat from 1-4pm! They all had fun though and no one got dehydrated, thank God! Then we had church again and after church Tara was able to pull a whole group together to eat at McDonalds. I don't know how she did it! My plans were to go home and eat something small and healthy but she managed to get a group of us there!
Well we had a great weekend and now I'm having troubles getting motivated to do anything on this Monday. I gotta get busy though b/c the guys are coming over again tonight for another bible study and more guitar lessons. Thankfully they are guys and they could care less how clean my floors are or if there is some dust on the table! :)

#10

Today is Jeff and my 10th anniversary! I say this a lot, but time really goes by so fast. I just can't believe we've been married for 10 years and have 3 wonderful children.
We've been threw so much these past 10 years and I'm so thankful for where we are today. I love Jeff so much, I love our family and I love our life together that God has given us.
So now I will try to name what we've done every year to celebrate our anniversary. I think I did this last year, I will try not to peak at my answers from then. :)
1st- in Spokane, WA we went to a waterfall and out to eat
2nd- in Biloxi, MI we left Josiah with some friends for one night and we went to the Six Flags in LA.
3rd- in the Azores, we went out to eat at an Italian place and I was prego with Gaber.
4th- we were in FL for Jeff's sister's wedding. Can't remember really celebrating that one. :(
5th- back in the Azores, pastor's daughter babysat while we ate out somewhere.
6th- in Okinawa, Japan. We celebrated early b/c Jeff was about to deploy. We ate at a yummy place called Arin Karin and then went to the Macaroni Grill for desert.
7th- in Okinawa, prego with Tara. Jeff's parents were visiting us. I think we celebrate at Okuma, a military resort there.
8th- in Okinawa, still :), hmmmm...may have to peak at my answers from before. I can't remember!
9th- in Georgia, and...um...we ate out somewhere. Its funny that I'm forgetting the most recent ones! Sheesh!
10th- we went on a cruise to the Bahamas! Tonight we are taking the kids out to eat with us to the Olive Garden. :)

Maybe someday I will scan some wedding pictures of ours so I can post them. Jeff and I got married back before everyone had digital cameras...man we are old! hahaha

Back to School

The kids and I have been enjoying our break from school work for the past 3 weeks. We had lolo and lola here for about 2 weeks, Jeff and I went on a cruise, and we have already visited the pool countless times. I am determined this summer to help my boys remember what they learned last year by continuing with school through the summer. To my surprise they were actually a little excited to get started again. Today Gaber is doing his English class, which amazingly is one of his favorites. Josiah is working on multiplication today, which has been the hardest thing for him. We have been working on memorizing his multiplication for a while now and he still does not have it down. I've tried so many things, so if anyone out there has a good idea please let me know.
We will still visit our pool every week and enjoy summer but will try to not loose everything this summer too! :) Hopefully we will be ahead of the game by the time we start 1st grade and 4th grade!!!