Happy Mothers Day!

Thank-you Mommy!!

Yes, its Mother's Day and my Mommy sent me flowers!

My absolute favorites too~

Gerbera Daisy's


I have never seen a white an pink one before and thought this was
very unique and beautiful below!
Loovvvvve it!!!!



I have a very nice mommy indeed to think about me
on Mothers Day...
I love you Mommy and appreciate the beautiful bouquet of
my favorite colorful Daisys.
They make me smile and feel happy just looking at them~
You made my Mothers Day~
Thank-you!

Love your Baby-Girl~
Somer Jane

A May Picnic Play Day~

Since we've had some time off school/work due to the Flood of 2010.

We decided to take a moment and enjoy God's gift of sunshine today

with a picnic and some baseball.

The kids above having a bonding moment just chillin' & eating

and having a conversation together.

Makes my heart smile! ;-)

Below racing...poor 'Lyza can't keep up with big Bro~

My handsome man Hayden~

My beautiful Princess 'Lyza~

Hey there country bumpkins,

put your Shoes back on!

I just bought Hayden a glove and a practice bat,

in hopes that I can get him signed up for baseball next year.

So far, he has really loved playing catch and having batting practice.

Maybe by next year, he'll be ready to play with the rules and we

can actually have him in a team sport!

He gets soo excited about it, so we'll see~

(It would make Momma happy since I played for 9 years!)

My blue-eyed baby boy~ I love you!

I love you too my little Princess 'Lyza Jane!

We thank-you God for protecting us during the Flood of 2010 that

hit all around us but we we're safe in your hands.

We do pray for the many lives that this disaster has affected,

we hope that the sun will shine in your life again soon!

Life is short, never miss a moment!

Somer Jane

ps. Don't miss the video of our picnic I took below,

my kids always make me laugh!

My Award-Winning Actress in the Making~

I thought this was funny...I was really trying to just get a video of the two of them telling me their real ages and names to look back on one day and they came up with this crazy stuff all on their own!

I just played along with it and thought it was hilarious... they have the acting gene for sure!

The Flood of 2010 in Middle Tennessee~

On May 2 & 3rd

My state went through the Flood of 2010!

It was something I've never seen in my lifetime here

and I pray it will not happen again in my children's lifetime.

Here below in the first video shows scenes of the River

right before it took over the businesses on Riverside Dr. the very next day~

Historic Dunbar Cave Area is where my children love to go

feed the ducks during the summertime.

Below in the video is the actual road we drive down that

was taken over by Swan Lake.

(Question: How does a Duck cross the road?)

Some pictures of all the destruction of the city below~

My son looking at one of the city parks we liked to visit

during the summer that is now under water~

Thank goodness my family was not affected by this horrible disaster.

We have been praying for all the families that have been though.

May God Bless Tennessee!

Somer Jane

Hayden the MOUSE??!! ha ha

Sooo my son Hayden yells to me from the other room...

"Mommmm, look I'm a MOUSE!!!"

Im like a mouse huh,

I turn around as he walks in the room and this is

the MOUSE I see below!!!

Of course I find this hysterical that he came up with this

"Mouse Dress-up" costume all by himself and I just laugh hard!

Of course I also think to myself...is this a glimpse of what his college days will be like?!

Hmmm, don't know...but either way I have this pic to

embarrass the heck out of him one day down the road!

(Also I might need to start hiding my bras...I mean MOUSE EARS!!)

ha ha ha

I just love my funny guy sometimes~

Somer Jane

How to Train a Dragon~

I took Hayden to see the movie above in 3D...

it was really cute.

I now want my very own pet dragon to fly around on! hee

This movie will be a keeper when it comes out on DVD.

The kids got How to train you Dragon happy meals from Mickey D's

they turned into VIKING helmets too!

Super cool idea Mickey D's if I do say so myself~

Hayden always the wise-guy thought his VIKING happy meal

helmet was better styled like this...

what a funny guy I have!

Overall the "How to Train a Dragon" was a good movie and my son

Hayden really enjoyed it as much as I did! hee ;-)

Gotta check it out one matinee afternoon~

'Toothless' the main black dragon character was soo cute!

Somer Jane

Rivers & Spires Festival 2010~

This is one of my favorite festivals to go have some FREE fun!

The Rivers & Spires Festival ROCKS!

Every April I have my calendar marked way ahead and plan what

night I'm going to take my kids and enjoy the sights, sounds and

wonderful FOOD the festival has to offer.

I'm soo thankful to the city of Clarksville for putting on such a

spectacular FREE event for the public...thank-you!

Here are some of the pics we took while enjoying the night of festivities:

Hayden won a free Ice cream coupon from spinning

the ChickFilA wheel of fortune...

here he is posing with the COW mascot~

Trying to loop some steer horns~


My best friend Heather & her daughter Meara met us up later at the
festival to have some fun...here we are~ all smiles to see each other!

Hayden sliding down the titanic slide...
its really high once you get up there!

Hayden milking the pretend cow~
"Betsy"

We got our face painted with a red snake this year~

He thought it was cool it went all around his face.

Hayden with his friend Meara modeling their face paintings~

Planting a pumpkin seed at one of the fun stations~

(we took it home and transported it to our garden so

hopefully we have have a pumpkin come October!)

Playing a reading musical cake walk type game at this station~
(Its really great how the community all comes out to participate)

They won a free book of choice from the reading association

which was really nice and something we will use!!

(Thanks)

Decorating a crown hat at another fun station~

Modeling the completed crowns and playing another duck pond game

trying to win more prizes!!

( I love my sons crown...he is such a boy and just slapped some things

on the crown like with no theme or thought, but he was happy...

Meara his friend...really took a long time with much thought and

theme to hers and it was very pretty too!

This definitely shows the differences in the sexes at a young age...

I thought it was cute both their crowns matched their personality! )
After the funnel cakes and jumpy inflatables,

the crafts and the free candy,

After the free loot was completely

gathered and everything was mostly played on...

we all went for a late dinner over to Wendys.

It was a very fun and ALMOST totally free evening!

Thank-you to my best friend Heather for making a date with us,

(and sharing her funnel cake...well at least a bite...hee hee JK)

Thank-you also to the city for putting on another great year of FREE FUN!!

It was a BLAST!!!

Hayden was passed out after 5 mins of the car ride home!

I took this pic when we got in our driveway...

I thought it showed how hard he played that night,

but he had a ton of fun! ;-)
Thanks again Rivers & Spires Festival for another wonderful year!

Somer Jane

MY BLOG BUTTON!!!!

Ok it only took me like 5 hours to get the darn code exactly right

to make the blog button appear semi-normal, (hee hee jk)

All the while my kids begging to go outside to play while momma saying 5 more minutes till mommy has this right and we can go outside~

WHEW...but...here it is!!!

MY BLOG BUTTON~

Yeah Im soo proud, so please feel free to add this button to your blogs!And come back to visit us often to see what adventures we're getting into~Somer Jane

ps. Thanks to my friend Heather who inspired me to get one! ;-)

Easter 2010~

We first celebrated our Easter morning with opening of

the Easter baskets to

discover what the Easter Bunny left them...

They were soo excited to get some goodies!

After the baskets they could hardly wait to get through breakfast

so they could hunt for eggs in the backyard...

we had to tell them the sun needed to come out first! ;-)

The kids dont get alot of candy anymore, so they were trying to stuff

as much as possible in their mouths at once!! (crazy animals) ;-)


We had a dinner at Nanny's house and the few pics
below are from over there~
Elyza is looking for some eggs at Nanny's Easter Egg Hunt below

She found some!
Hayden was hopping all over the place...
but he won the Golden Prize Egg in the end!
I was proud of him for finding the Golden Egg.
He won a huge chocolate bunny!
(Not that he got to eat it all...I'm not crazy man!)
Here is a pic below of all the second cousins that were at the Easter Hunt~
Oldest to youngest:
Chance, Brennan, Kaiden, Hayden, McKenzie, Gabriel & lil' Lyza
Brother & Sisterly Love....awlllll



This is from our Easter lunch at My-Hopes house~
She always has a nice spread and little Egg Hunt for the kids.
The kids love going over My-Hopes house.
Lyza egg hunting

Looking through her Easter Basket goodies from My-Hope~

Hayden found an egg~

Wow a whole $1 bill for the GOLDEN EGG he found...

he was excited, he loves money!

~My Princess and me Easter 2010~

~My Prince and Me Easter 2010~

We had a very blessed Easter day!

The kids were actually 'Angels' most of the day too,

which was like an Easter gift in itself! ;-)

My kids are growing up too fast, soon they will be too old

for all this Easter Egg hunting business...sniff sniff!

I take each moment as it is though, I only wished it lasted longer!

I hope that you and your family had a very special Easter Sunday!

Until next year~

Happy Easter!

Somer Jane