a skating party and a few other things

 about 2 months ago i took the kids to their first ever skating party. okay so i'm a bad mom! i just didn't think they were ready and i didn't want to take them to the skating rink in albany so late in the day cause you know bad stuff happens over there after dark...and during the day...actually all the time! anyway here we go!

is she just the cutest thing on skates or WHAT!!??

there was a really cool clown there and  her name was sunshine. she made the most amazing balloon animals/figures. she made rivers a flower and later on she made her a monkey climbing a palm tree complete with coconuts!!! sadly enough i don't have a picture of that one :( it was so cool!

every time i saw jake whizz by this is what it looked like! really! he was good and it's a thousand wonders that he didn't break something that day! he seems to not be a quitter! :)

and who in a million years woulda EVER guessed that ben would ask sunshine to make him a balloon fishin pole....complete with a fish!you can't see it really well but there's even a reel on there!! COOL!

see? what did i tell ya? blur.....cause that's how he roll's..haha...get it? that's how he ROLL"S...... 

And Ben, well......notsomuch. Everytime Map looked up Ben was at the other end of the rink, on the floor and couldn't get up. He was done with that!

and here's the skate princess/fairy. too cute  :)

i almost forgot to tell ya about the face painter. she also was awesome and brilliant! i think her name is Ms. Ponda? from moultrie? i think. anyway, she didn't have the normal "paint" she had like powder or something that was eyeshadowlike and she had water to wet her brush and wiped it inthe powder. it went on so smoothly and prettily. as you can see. and she wasn't like all those other face painters. ms. ponda was "with a quickness" i would not be afraid to say she painted like 10 kids faces in less than 15 minutes! seriously!

and how cool is jake? she turned him into a tiger in less than 2 minutes! awesome i tellya!

and i know ben is gonna surprise you all! can you believe he asked for a SNAKE!? what? i just knew he'd say FISH! fooled me! he was hidin like a snake in the grass!

here they are goin in to see grandma and pa. i told them they had to walk in the house backwards so they couldn't see them comin in the door.....so they did! all the way up the steps and into the house!

the next few pictures have absolutely nothin to do with the skating party. they are just some i threw in. here's one of a pillowcase "shirt" . i just thought it would be cute. i had one of my "visions" . this case was also only a quarter!

this is what the pillowcase dresses look like on an actual little girl....versus hangin on a clothesline :)

and i know this picture is a little odd but i was just wonderin if i' the only mom out there that will do just about ANYTHING to make her kids happy? including parking dead in front of city of tifton workers to watch them dig up the middle of 20th street? i mean seriously? have i COMPLETELY lost my mind? you know we sat there for probably 30-45 minutes watchin them? and in complete silence i might add! just sayin.

Happy 4th of July...in August...sorry :)

okay, okay, i'm a little behind i know but i'm about to catch you up to date.

this is the Perry, Cook, Cox, Sears, Merrit and Allen 4th of July weekend.

St. George Island, Fla. the absolute most beautiful beach in the world...to us anyway! and this is why...this is a look to the east...

     and this my friend, is to the west :)

my kids can run and play and swim and run and play and swim some more! no people, no crowds, no scantily clad girls/women/hoochies and no alcohol. and did i mention that this is 4th of July weekend!!?? yeah baby! it seriously makes you think and has the feel that you are on your own private island. I LOVE IT!     

here's map and the babes. it looks a little yuck in the background, but hey, this is florida! rain in one area and five minutes or 100 steps in the other direction and it's sunny! this picture was taken on the beach down at the state park where we camped.....for a puny $25 a night! oh yeah!

this is on the beach down the way in front of my aunt and uncle's house (no they don't rent, they actually live on this island that i personally classify as a tiny piece of heaven on earth)

here's map with the birds. i was actually throwin food behind him as he walked and they kept tryin to peck at him. he didn't see me do it so he didn't know why they were after him!

here's the middle man and my aunt. he came outta the water just long enough to get a snack. gotta have snacks at the beach!

 not sure what jake had going on here.....contemplatin his next move i guess. i think they were tryin to catch tiny fish in a net. they had to scope them out first.

 back down at the state park on our nightly beach walk, the kids decided they'd pose for some pictures. i told them they needed to sit up and smile....i got them when they all said "cheese" at the same time. not much luck so we tried again!

 i got 'em to sit up straight and smile but not quiet what i was hopin for!

oh well :) makes me laugh anyway!

much easier with one kid. too bad i didn't have one of her pillowcase dresses on her!

 okay, this is actually July 4th. these next few pictures will need a little expalining.

at st. george island, on the 4th of july, they always have a parade. this is by far no ordinary parade. it's a golf cart WATER parade!!!! the participants and the bystanders/watchers can wet each other with water hoses, water guns, water balloons or anything else you can come up with (well, anything that won't cause bodily harm to anyone)

this is just the beginning and the boys are ready. i was lucky enough to find them all matchin outfits. aren't they the cutest!? the boys have their supersoakers in hand and these things are awesome!

this boy was ON IT!  he was chasin them down the street!

this next picture may seem kinda weird like "why would she take a blurry picture of an ICE cooler?" ya wanna know why? cause when those poor unsuspecting paraders closed their eyes that night, that's what they saw! think about it: what fun would a water parade be with lukewarm water? and what goes in an ICE cooler? THAT'S RIGHT! we filled our cooler with two bags of ice and THEN finished it off with water!

these kids were oblivious to what was waiting for them!

 even the older people with the american flags and nowhere to run

jake and ben had pity for NOONE!!

 and little did they know that by the time the parade was over they'd have NO friends!!

this guy was my favorite! he was like "yeah! i'm big and bad! squirt me with water!!"  he squealed like a girl when jake got him square with that ICE water. HILARIOUS!

after the parade, we went down to the beach and stayed the rest of the day and into the nite.

the dark clouds finally went away and it turned out to be a warm and beautiful day! i was so sad that we would be leaving the next day. why does time have to go by sooooo fast? it seems like all we did was sit on the beach! isn't time supposed to stand still when you aren't moving?

baby girls eyes seemed to turn this crystal blue color when we were there. i guess that's what happens when you turn in to a mermaid!

no matter where we are, ben has to have some dirt to dig in! he was in heaven! and so was i cause this dirt didn't turn the bottom of his feet black!

see? i told ya it was a beautiful day! the birds even came out to tell us bye!

 and by the looks of this picture, map may or may not have just lost his swim trunks  :)

time for fireworks!!!

i think between 3 families, we had around 500 glow sticks/necklaces/braclets

in these two picture, i think there are like only 1/4th of the whole crew here. the others were shooting fireworks, catchin ghost crabs, or walkin down the beach.....who knows....i do know one thing, they all glowed in the dark! and the whole weekend was SO much fun!  :)

thank heaven for little girls :)

Did I ever tell all of you that God gave me a real life earth angel?  If you don't believe it then just take a look.  Here she is. 

 I really don' know how else you could explain it. And what's even more amazing is the story of how she came to me/we/us. All i can say is "Shout to the Lord".

Makes me cry everytime I hear it! It's my testimony song :)

did i also mention that this little angel isn't afaid of anything!?

including but not limited to

ALLIGATORS!!!

 and of course SNAKES!!

begin again?

well, i didn't know quiet where to start so here i am. this is a little of what i did in my spare time over the summer. as you can tell by how much i blogged, i didn't have THAT much spare time! what do you expect with three kids! we've been on the go....those pictures and blogs to follow.

                                  i made several pillowcase dresses

 most of the cases/dresses you see here were bought from an awesome thrift store near where we live. i got most of them for like a quarter! and the ribbon at wal-mart was only $2 and i had enough for a matching satin flower or a bow. i absolutely LOVE pillowcase dresses i love how they are so simple and flowey on little girls. the white notsobusy ones are my favorites :)

guess who!?

Yeah, it's me again! and by the way, did I mention that I HATE computers. some may say "it's not the computer, it's the user" but I BEG TO DIFFER!!! I am NOT the fastest typer in the world so it should be able to keep up! I also don't like to blog unless I can add pretty pictures.....I'm not sure if it's my computer being old as the hills or the fact that i live 10 miles past the middle of nowhere.....you decide. anyway, map said he's gonna look in to a new one but I'm concerned that the faster the computer the costlier? more costly? whatever! I don't have a clue about buyin a new computer. we'll see.
I got scolded this past week for being behind on my blogging so I decided I'd "check in" with everyone.
I'm really gonna try to get allllllllllll of the past months pictures added to my "slow as molasses" computer and get some bloggin done. just hang in there and don't give up on me! <3