Easter eggs:)

The boys and I decorated Easter eggs today. This was our first time to ever do this and they had so much fun:) It was such a beautiful day so we decided to have an early hunt.

Today was also the first day of my Spring Break!! Cam is taking off a few days next week and we're taking the boys diamond digging. We're hoping the boys will find enough to pay for college;). They actually have a lot of practice digging up worms.

Sweet ramblings..

Andrew had been playing with a couple of older kiddos at his grandmommy's house and when he came in he said, "I heard a lot of mean things out there". Cameron said, "you did??" and he said, "yea, I heard a lot of butts" :)

This morning Parker came into our room and was complaining about Andrew. He said, "Andrew said that I don't know everything". I said, "well, you know a lot of things... mommy and daddy don't know everything either". He said, "yes, you do because God said so". This week we've been talking a lot about Philipians 4:13, "I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength". Parker was just a little confused:)

so thankful....

I love my job and I'm so thankful that God has given me the opportunity to be a part of my students' lives. I care so much about them, probably to a fault. I had a new kid enroll in my class about a week ago so I could help him catch up on work and pull up his grades. When I get a new kid I always ask them several questions to get to know them. I asked who he lived with and he said his cousin. I asked why he didn't live his parents and he said his father just died a few months ago of cancer. My heart just sank for him. From my observations I could tell he moved around a lot, probably living in poverty and had no direction in life. There seems to be no one in his life for him to look to for guidance. I only had him for a little over a week and he only attended school twice in that week. Toward the end of the week, he came by my room to have me sign his withdrawal papers. I was so sad. He was moving again. I told him as I signed his forms that he may think I'm silly but that I was truly going to be praying for him and that I prayed that he would find purpose and be able to see the importance of school for his future. I'm so thankful to God for the opportunity to meet this young man and I'm so thankful for the burden God has given me for him.

i can't WAIT!

I was looking through some old pics on the computer and came across a couple of swimming pics last summer. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL SUMMER TIME!! (yea, sure maybe part of the reason is because I'm a teacher:)
One of my favorite things is being out at the pool and listening to some Kirk Franklin music:) I love to swim and so do the boys:) Now, I'm sure it will be a little challenging with little Piper but hopefully we'll still be able to get out to the pool a lot this summer.

Mod Mum Sling

There's a sling give away over at Ellinghouse blog. It's super cute . I'm hoping to get a wrap or sling for little Piper. You can check out all of the cool Mod Mum slings here.

Diaper Discounts:)

So I've been researching for MONTHS about cloth diapering and really, really want to do this with Piper, especially while we're at home. I think I've picked the diaper that I want to use Bum Genius 3.0 but they're really expensive (actually all of them are) but it makes me feel better when I think of what we're saving in the long run.
Since I'm sooo cheap I've really been trying to find a way to pay less for these diapers and have found a great discount. If you're a new customer at diapers.com and spend $25.00 then you get $10.00 off using the coupon code GoCityKids. Also, if you spend $50.00 you get free shipping. So the bum genius diapers are $18.00 each. I bought 3 of them and got $10.00 off and free shipping:) so it brought the diapers down to about $14.50 a diaper. I'm going to ask mom and Cam's mom to log on and buy some so they can get the same deal!!:) I'm hoping to accumulate about 20 cloth diapers. Oh by the way, the diapers are one size fits all, they have these super cool snap things that make them fit 7-35 lbs.

Getting ready for baby:)

So we have about 8 weeks left until little Piper comes:) We've been working on some stuff in her room. Last night we bought some letters from Hobby Lobby and painted them today. Aren't they sweet? They match our polka dot bedding perfectly:)



Since she'll be using Parker's room and he and Andrew will share a room, we decided to let them sleep together last night. What an adventure!! It was so sweet sitting outside of their door and hearing their conversation. They stayed up talking for an hour and a half. We're going to try to let them stay together some on the weekends just to get them use to it.
Here's a sweet pic of them after they called all the Spiderman troops together:)