The best thing about blogging is going back and looking at how life was year by year.
I wanted to blog how I have spent my summer so far....
This picture above just tells a huge story. First, the faces are typical. My kids will do anything to make me laugh. They fill my heart with such joy! I cannot imagine life without them and I'm glad we got to share the whole summer together. Second, the shirts tell another story that fills my summer - WWE wrestling. As you can tell from all our pictures and previous posts, my kids are obsessed. Netflix has added over 100 videos from WWE archives so every Tuesday and Wednesday night we try to find a new one to watch - and every other day of the week live wrestling is on TV. I would do anything to see these smiling faces :)
Some of our best moments this summer have been in our new pool. When we bought this house in October 2010, the pool had already been winterized. We have never had a pool at our home and I had never ventured out with the boys to a pool - because I cannot swim. So, for us to have a pool in the backyard makes for alot of swim time for my kids. They have the most fun when their daddy is here to join them. Sometimes I will wait until he is almost off work and let them get in so that they can be pleasantly suprised when he jumps in after work! Blaze has been working on swimming without a life jacket and swimming underwater and Ace has been doing better about learning to swim without depending on his life jacket and opening his eyes underwater. I am so very proud of them - and I think our next house will have to have a pool!
Some of our best moments this summer have been in our new pool. When we bought this house in October 2010, the pool had already been winterized. We have never had a pool at our home and I had never ventured out with the boys to a pool - because I cannot swim. So, for us to have a pool in the backyard makes for alot of swim time for my kids. They have the most fun when their daddy is here to join them. Sometimes I will wait until he is almost off work and let them get in so that they can be pleasantly suprised when he jumps in after work! Blaze has been working on swimming without a life jacket and swimming underwater and Ace has been doing better about learning to swim without depending on his life jacket and opening his eyes underwater. I am so very proud of them - and I think our next house will have to have a pool!
According to this picture, we have done alot of hoarding this summer - ha! I have spent ALOT of time going through all of our stuff and trying to sell it or give it away. I didn't realize after two kids and eight years together, just how much stuff we had accumulated. There is not enough storage space in this home (a must for the next home) so my guest room/office has become a nightmare. Alot of the next few days this summer will be spent giving away more stuff and getting some of this stuff packed up for when we do get our house sold and move (post to come).
I have been doing ALOT of bargain shopping - mainly for interior design decor to giveaway or use in my own home. I am starting school for Interior Design and I find myself buying great deals everywhere I go. This could be another reason for the uber messy guest room :)
The picture above, I found at Hobby Lobby. It had a price tag of $259. It has my favorite bible verse and this picture does not give it justice at all. The best part is that I bought this picture for $29! It is huge and will work perfect in our master bedroom - that is if I can ever convince my husband to hang my pictures. Yes hubby, i'm talking about you on my blog again.
This has been an amazing, fun filled summer with a few bad days in between. I will not be one of these blog mom who says that everyday we do art, go to the park, eat home cooked meals, and have adventurous filled days. Some days we eat junk food, watch movies, and stay in our pajamas. Some days just getting out of bed is hard for me because of my depression, but these two faces above are my reason for living - and it gives me hope - and fills me with thankfulness that God thought enough to give me these two perfect, smart, funny, charming, amazing little boys. I cannot wait to see what the rest of the summer brings for the Jackson family! :)
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