2 Weeks Full!

Wow what a week last week was! It was SO many things piled into one week it felt like it was 2 weeks!
We started the week with swimming lessons for my 2 Who boys. Tanner-Who just is comfortable in the water he just needs to work on proper technique. He is doing so well and is learning a lot! Now Easton-Who is ok with the water he however is not ok with someone he doesn't know when he can see me. SO...he screamed for most of his lesson, not because of the water as much as because of the fact that it was someone new dunking him under! But they both learned throughout the week and I am very proud of them and thankful for their instructor.  After swimming lessons we went to see How To Train Your Dragon 2. Which was a special surprise for my Dragon fanatic who danced in the car chanting "oh yeah, so cool! Oh yeah, so cool!" Once I told him where we were going. We all loved the movie and highly recommend it!
Tuesday was my birthday. Yes another year older and closer to the Big 30 but not there yet! (I am using any chance I can to remind Mr. Who that he is closer than me!)
Wednesday was a hard day for our family.  We had a funeral service for one of our cousins who lost his 3 year battle to brain cancer at the age of 54. Although it was a difficult time, the service (lead by my uncle) was very good and a true celebration of Gene's life.
Thursday I got to spend the day with our youth group at Splash in the Boro! I really enjoyed it. I even got to slide on some slides. Which I dont get to do with my Whos since we spend our time on the things I am too big to play on! (Gotta have some fun and feel young sometimes right?!)
Friday we had a baby shower/cookout at church for a great new family. I got to do the cake so I spent my time Friday working on it. I was pleased with how it turned out but the part I liked most was seeing the "parents to be" see it!

Last night I got to spend a great evening with my WILD Ministries super heros. This week I have also been working on a project I will post all of my pictures once it is finished! We are off to camp in Alabama and visit Aunt Boo, Uncle Rey, the boys, Grammy and Pa!

Summertime & Cruisin'

Well, I have had so many things that I have wanted to post that I didn't get around to, didn't know how to say, didn't know how to start, or didn't know how to fit it all in one post because it has been so long!
So I decided just to pick up where we are and go on from there. We shall see where it takes us!

We have been out of school for about 1 month now, and it has flown by!! Unfortunately it will be over too soon. BUT we have made the most of the time we have had so far. I was feeling down about my summer accomplishments a couple of weeks ago and the my sweet Mr. Who put it all in perspective for me. :)
We started our summer with VBS! It was a great week! I love doing VBS and I love seeing my sweet Whos singing the songs and talking about the stories. Even my little Who was singing "Yes to VBS" by the middle of the week (LOVE IT)!!

Then we got to spend a few days in Hilton Head with Gram and Granddaddy, my brothers and Madison. We had a great time, as usual! In case you don't know this Mama LOVES the beach...and my Whos are following suit!! 

AND...drumroll please!!....We went on a cruise!
Now this was my first cruise and I ABSOLUTELY loved it! We decided not to take the littlest Who this time (which was very hard for this Mama to do). But it was a good plan (thank you Mr. Who for knowing what would be best and sticking to your guns when I tried to fight it). We got to enjoy spending time with our other Whos, Grammy, Pa, Aunt Bo, Uncle Rey, Dawson, and Grayson. We went to the Bahamas. We made so many memories that I hope will stick in my Whos' minds forever.
The water was beautiful, the sea creatures were interesting (including the sharks and stingrays who invited themselves to swim with us) the food was fabulous, and the company was great! I can't wait to go on another one.



 

My two boy Whos started swimming lesson yesterday with some of their future "school friends" so I am sure we will have some interesting tales from this adventure.

Until next time...enjoy your summer and thank God for your blessings!

A December/Christmas run-through!

Wow! So looking back at my blog history it has been a while (over a month)since my last post. (I feel like I say that a lot...oh well...so goes the life of this Mama and her Whos!) As it has for MANY other people this last month or so has been a crazy whirlwind. We have had many different events and activities happen.

My brother-in-law whom I mentioned in my last post in November is doing really well with his amputation and so are my-sister-in-law and our nephews. We had great Thanksgiving with them at their house in Alabama (which was a BIG deal for me because of my family's large traditions of Thanksgiving).

Then of course December rolled in SUPER FAST whether we were ready for it or not! I had lots of BIG creative plans of things I wanted to do differently this year and unfortunately not very many of them got accomplished (apparently God had other plan I wasn't aware of). I had wanted to do a RAK calendar this year and even attempted to start on one but never got it going! (For those of you who may not know RAK stands for "Random Acts of Kindness...it's something I picked up on from some other Mommy and Teacher blogs I occasionally read). While we didn't get a full month of kindness going we did do one that was really neat for me. We left a dollar on a game at Ci-Ci's pizza while we were out of town and got to see some kids find it as we were leaving the restaurant. I LOVED the look on their faces! !

My hope was too calm our Christmas down in the means of spending money and overloading our kids and family with senseless "stuff" (I know you were all laughing out loud at the calming down Christmas weren't you). I wanted/hoped to do homemade Christmas for family and friends...some happened...some did not!

I was able to make some cute snowman cake-pops for my big-girl Who's class party! But let's just say that cake-pops tend to get the better of me and it never fails that the last week of school before Christmas break always seems to be super busy...even when I think I will have time to bake all the little goodies I want for my Who's teachers! After staying up way past my bed time of 9:30 to finish snowman cake-pops I called it a night with only 1 batch of Oreo balls for all the FABULOUS teachers of my Who's. The next morning at 5am, feeling VERY inadequate as I put 4 Oreo balls into 1 bag for each teacher (which was in no way acceptable). I finished one more batch of Oreo balls AND went to Kroger to buy giftcards for them because they take care of my Who's when I cannot and I do appreciate them way more than just 4 Oreo balls worth!

Another thing we DID accomplish this year was limiting our number of gifts and amount of our gifts for the kids
Each got 3, 2 from Mommy and Daddy and 1 from Santa (thanks to my direct line to the North Pole I was able to get this new tradition to the the elves in the toy shop!) Although Mr. Who, who tends to be more excited about the Who's gifts than they are, was QUITE worried about my suggestion of this new tradition.But it paid off on Christmas morning. All the Whos were HAPPY about their gifts and Tanner-Who said multiple time "this is the best Christmas ever!" (Gotta love it when they help prove me right!) LOL

I am attaching some pictures of 2 homemade gifts I did get around to making for grandparents and Gi-Gi (thanks to Gram)! Can I just say that I LOVE crafting and making cute little things!

Well after Christmas Eve with my Daddy's family, Christmas breakfast at our house, Christmas lunch with my Mama's family, and Christmas low country boil (that's a present right there) on December 28th with Wesley's family (that includes 14 grandkids) all of our Christmas festivities were done.

THEN we got a chance to go to the mountains in NC for a few days this past week! We even got to see SNOW! I will post some pictures of our good-times there too. Thanks Grammy and Pa for letting us go with yall!

Sorry for the lonnnnggg post! I guess that's what happens when I take a month off.