saturday...in the park

Danny's game was at 9am. I'm not crazy about morning games, but then you have the rest of your day. Aaron took Brian's hat--the sun was too intense. Danny's team lost--by a controversial call. The whole game was like that--back and forth with bad calls.
Danny had a nice sacrifice bunt. He almost made it to first--whew! it was close. But the runner advanced to third.

"WWWEEEEEE!"

We went to the park later that afternoon.

That was fast!

Don't they look thrilled?

This is actually from Sunday afternoon. Aaron helped me plant some flowers. We got some tomato plants, too! WOOHOO! my favorite!
Now the start of a new week...

yay!

Yay! It's finally Friday! Aaron loves to sit on the porch and wait for Danny to get home from school. He's been walking home and Aaron watches for him. Aaron gets so excited--he runs across the yard and Danny yells his name from up the street.

Yay! Kiera--it worked. I e-mailed my cousin to see how she got her videos to be in the middle of a post--and I did it! Woohoo! As soon as I typed I did it--the Dora song popped into my head--"We did it! We did it!" I love it--NOT!

Anywho, here's Aaron running across the yard and yelling for Danny.

Yay! We had Burger King for dinner. Tonight was the first night I let Aaron dip his own fries in ketchup. He is so grown! He did pretty good but towards the end he was finger painting.

Oh well--look at that happy face!

Time for a little clean up.

Aaron was helping me drink my milkshake--that's right I said it--milkshake--hey, if you're going to eat garbage for dinner-you might as well go for it. And in my defense, I logged an hour and a half at the gym this morning.

Yay! Let's play!

"Sword fight!"
Danny hitting pine cones into the street. How's that for cleaning up the yard?

RTOC Awards Ceremony

Danny's awards ceremony for ROTC was at the High School last night. This is a picture of him and his flight. He's 4th over from the left holding the flag in the front row.
He got 3 ribbons for his uniform--good conduct, attendance, and uniform inspection. He didn't miss one inspection all year. I tried to get pictures, but my camera was NOT cooperating. The bright sun light coming in didn't help either. This is the best picture I had. Danny is saluting after he received his award--so handsome.
Aaron eating a cookie the guy behind us gave him. When he finished, he got up in his chair and pointed to the guy's plate for another one. He did pretty good--he enjoyed all the clapping.
This is Danny's picture from school. I could not get it to rotate for anything--I tried in 3 different screens! Danny has already gone to bed so he can't help me! Just crook your neck--you'll live!

saturday...

I know you must be wondering--has Kerri lost her mind? Why is there a picture of her empty driveway? Why you ask?? Because there is no car. I wrecked my car, Saturday, on the way home from Danny's game. I rear ended a bus! We are all fine! Thankfully! There was not a lot of damage, but I had to be towed! It was awful. Driving through town in a big wrecker with Danny in the middle and Aaron on my lap. I'm waiting to hear from the insurance, today. Here's the real kicker--I was taking the boys home and then going to test drive a Toyota Camry--yeah--that's right--we were trading in my car!

God is good, though--about 3 months ago I got a call from Allstate. They were offering new packages--better insurance for about my price OR the same insurance I already had for a cheaper price. I opted for the better insurance. (I mean I was already paying that anyway) Thank God I did because I didn't have rental coverage before!


"I just can't believe it, Mommy!"

busy sunday

I thought Sundays were supposed to be lazy days--you know the day of rest. Not so much here. I left Aaron with Danny and got some groceries after church. I bought Aaron some of those cups with the straw. He's not real sure about it. He tries to tip it up like a sippy cup.
He started out doing it right. What a big boy!
He liked the cup better after he took it apart. I think he's trying to drink from the bottom of the straw because that's how we give him drinks from our cups when we have straws. Smartie pants!
"Oh yeah. Now we're talkin. The milk falls right in your mouth when you do it this way!"
Does anyone want to guess why I had to call the Poison Control Center before church this morning?? Let me tell you--I was brushing my teeth and I heard, "PSSSHHHTTTT!" I look over and Aaron's mouth is all white and foamy. He had sprayed the air freshener in his mouth! I had just taken it away from him, so he must've thieved it from the bathroom sink. I can't even look away for a second to spit? Any way the PCC said air freshener is mostly water and soap. "He might have a tummy ache-so don't give him any milk for a couple hours-or a rash around his mouth. But other than that, he's fine." Praise the Lord! And they're sending me a magnet for the fridge and some other goodies. I have a feeling the magnet is going to come in handy!
I was cleaning up from dinner and this is how Danny and Aaron were entertaining themselves. I HAD to get a picture. I love Aaron's face in this one!

"Where'd he go?"
Like I said--lazy??

more baseball

Danny had a game this morning--we won! YAY! I'm not sure about the score. I was working concessions. I know the other team didn't score and we did! Danny had a great game and 2 nice hits--with 2 RBI's.

Aaron helped in the concession stand. He tallied up the orders on the calculator!

Here's Madison--her brother, Cam, is on Danny's team and her dad is one of the coaches. She helped me, today, too. I did the money and she did all the leg work. A lot of leg work--chasing Aaron and getting gatorades! She and Aaron have become buddies. They are taking a break and eating ring pops. This was Aaron's first ring pop--and he loved it! I think he was most excited about the fact that a "binky" was actually candy. He was SO sticky!
"MMmmmmmm!"

That's what he kept saying! He was also offering his ring pop to Madison and I--which we politely declined.

One of Danny's at bats. I just love the video of the games.

tornado

This is a picture of one of the tornadoes that came across Suffolk. This was taken by someone at Ruby Tuesday's. The tornado is right behind the hospital--making it's way through Hillpoint Farms.
Unbelievable!!
Here's my tornado! (Please, don't think I'm making light of what happened here on Monday.)
He wears this thing on his head all the time. He thinks it's a hat, but it's part of a stackable toy that you put all the different shapes in.
Did you notice Aaron and Philip have the same outfit? Mamaw loves sleeveless shirts on the babies! Check out those muscles!