Easter

O.K. Aunt Judy told Jeremy she was mad because I hadn't posted the Easter pics yet. I'm sorry. I'll put them up now. Hey, better late than never! We had a great Easter. Nana and Pawpaw came over earlier in the weekend and we were able to play with them and take them to Cock of the Walk...yummy! On Easter day we ate lunch with the college students who were here for the holiday. Since Easter didn't fall on Spring Break weekend a lot of them couldn't go home. So a bunch of us got together and cooked a potluck for them. It was fun. We had them hide Easter eggs for our kids and while they were doing that we hid eggs for them. Inside THEIR eggs were lots of coupons that local businesses had donated to them. They really got some good stuff! You should have seen the kids racing for the eggs...both the little kids and the BIG kids. I don't know who was more excited!!! Enjoy the pics.

This past week!

I want to thank all of you for praying for the Kyser family this past week. It's been a very difficult and heartbreaking week. But God has given us a very strong, loving family and most importantly He's given us His strong, loving arms. We are now back in Mississippi and getting back into some sort of routine. Here are some pics of this past week. We went to the Montgomery zoo (which btw, puts the Jackson zoo to shame!) and tried to do some fun stuff with the kids. We really enjoyed all of our family time this past week. I hope you enjoy the pics!

Privacy

O.K. a friend of mine brought up some scary information about child pornography, etc. due to their kids pictures being on blogs and on the internet. I hate to delete my blog completely but it's not worth my children's safety. I am going to try out this new privacy setting first to see how it works. I've invited people from my email list to view the blog. It can now (supposedly) only be viewed by people I invite. I don't have everyone's email address though so I may have some upset friends/family for a while. Hopefully they'll email me and find out what's going on. Please let me know how this works. If it's too much trouble I'll just delete. BTW...most of these pics that I post are also on facebook, in which I also have high security settings. So if you'd like to be my friend on fb just ask!

I'm just trying this out. My children's safety is of utmost importance, of course. But I want to be able to share with family and friends about my children. So I hope this works.

Jill

Beth Moore Conference!

I was blessed to be able to go with a group of ladies from my church to hear Beth Moore this past weekend! What a joy that was, both to be away from home on a girl's retreat and to be hearing a Word from one of my favorite Bible study ladies. We had an amazing time. God truly blessed us this weekend. Beth taught on 1 Thes. 5:11-19. I especially love vs. 16-18, "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." Thank you, Lord for wonderful, Godly friends to help guide me through your Word.

One crazy night!

Last night was a crazy upon crazy night. Tink has ballet in another town on Monday's so we leave at 3:30 for dance. She had a soccer game re-scheduled for last night that I found out about at lunch time. So we changed from dance clothes to soccer clothes in the car and I took her straight to the game. Once I dropped her off I had to run across the street to the ball park for Man-Man's first t-ball game. He was so excited! I remember his first game last year he was so scared he wouldn't even bat. But this year he was all about it! It made it even more fun that Miss Jessica came to pick him up from his game to take him skating! I'm not sure which he was more excited about!!!

I made it back from t-ball in order to watch the second half of Tink's soccer game. They are a great little team who only lost one game this year (and that was by one point!). They had a team party at Chick-fil-A after the game so we rushed over there for supper. What a crazy...but fun day! Who says homeschooled kids aren't socialized???!!! We just do it when/and with whom we want. That, my friend, is the difference!

Enjoy the pics.

Jill

Spring Break Playdate!

Soup of the Day!

Note: title provided by Dee Dee!


I honestly don't know how to begin this post. But as Jeremy was retelling this story to me I knew immediately it would be on the blog.

Today was a georgeous day! The kids played outside for most of the afternoon after helping me clean out closets this morning (yes, I must be getting Spring fever)! Anyway, I went down the road to mom's to mow her yard and Jeremy stayed with the kids who were playing outside(I begged to mow the yard... one whole hour with no kids!). It was heavenly!! Beautiful breeze, sun going down, peace and quiet!!! Ahhhh!!! Anyway, Jeremy walked up to mom's house towards the end and brought Princess so she could ride home with me on the riding lawn mower (you didn't actually think I was push mowing did you?). As we were walking home Jeremy said Man-Man was inside in time-out. I could see a little sly grin escaping from Jeremy's lips. "What did he do?" I asked not sure I wanted to know the answer.

Well, Tink, Man-Man, Princess, Emma (a friend visiting from Texas), and Drew (a neighbor) were playing outside while Jeremy was talking to another neighbor. Evidently they all decided to raid my kitchen bowls to make soup. Usually this soup consists of leaves, twigs, sticks, berries, and water. Well, evidently the water was a problem to find today. Now, why they didn't walk back inside and fill the bowls with water from the sink I'll never know. But apparently my son decided to supply everyone's soup with his own water. Oh, yes! His OWN water!

See, I'm an only child. I had a couple of boy cousins who were like brothers but I don't ever remember them peeing on thing...or in things. I know that this is just something little boys do but I'm so grateful that Jeremy was the one that the other kids ran to to tattle on. I know it was all he could do to keep from laughing (as well as our neighbor to whom Jeremy was talking) as he talked to Man-Man and put him in time out. Oh, this little boy is surely teaching me things! I am just trying to imagine the thought process that led him to decide on this course of action. I mean, I know the girls didn't come up with it. And Drew, bless his heart, is probably ruined for life (I'm sure boys in India don't act like that!) So that leaves my son as the instigator and designer of this plan. Oh, my! What could be next?

Jill

Update: It was revealed to me today by big sis that infact it was Drew that told Man-Man to pee in the pot. Tink was very upset with Drew because "he was the one that told (Man-Man) to do it and then he was the one that went and told on him when he did"! We had a good lesson in not doing everything our friends tell us to do. :)