Kindergaten

I registered Brent for Kindergarten today. I can't believe it's already that time. Before I know it he will be out of the house every day.

I'm sort of looking forward to it, but I know I will alos miss him very much.

I got to meet some of the school staff last night during a parent meeting. Unfortunately both Kindergarten teachers are retiring this year.

Brent is very excited to be able to go on a bus. We had the chance to pick up one of his cousins twice from the bus now and he loved it.

On another note I finished my parent Slide Show today. Now I just need to figure out how to burn it onto a DVD. Any advice out there?

I've done it once before, but can't seem to remember how anymore.

Anyway, here is a picture of us that we took this morning. It will be the last slide on Oma and Opa's DVD.

RUB A DUB DUB

Dylan got to go in the big tub with Brent for the first time yesterday. He loved it, Brent loved it and so did I.

Recently he started to splash so much in the sink that I had to mop up the water of the floor after each bath. That got really old very fast.

Here is a picture of the two of them from last night.

Okay, I’m going to be doing something different today.
I will be participating in one of those blog things that spreads like a virus.
I got it from Alissa over at Life’s Little Adventures. Here’s how it goes:
If you’d like to take part, be one of the first three to comment mentioning that you’re signing up for the PIF exchange. You’ll have to agree to this pledge:
I, [insert your name here] will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange, and who make the same pledge on their own blogs.
Let's see how many people actually read my blog.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I know I know it's been a long time without an update. It just seems like I never have more hten 5 minutes to myself, which doesn't give me much time for anything.

I can hardly keep up with the household, never mind take care of myself.

Anyway, enough with the pitty party. We had a great Christmas. It was nice to have Dylan around. he's just old enough to enjoy the lights on the tree, the paper on the presents and the needles that are soooo soooo prickly.

Yes, he loved the tree. Especially playing bumper cars with his walker. Once he hit the tree he loved trying the needles. Never much liked them though.

Next there were the presents, or should we say the paper. Seems like all I ever did is take colored chunks out of his mouth. Here he is with the tasiest one.

All in all I'd say he had a great time.

Now as far as Brent is concerned, he was sooo much into Christmas this year he couldn't even wait for us to get out of bed to open presents. Yes, by the time I got into the livingroom he had already opened 3 presents and was so very excited about all of them. But who could be mad at a 5 year old boy that was grinning from ear to ear? Not me anyway.

Here he is with Dylan under the tree.

Can't wait to see what 2008 will bring for the Pierce Family.

But one thing I'm sure of is that it will be filled with lots of love for two precious little boys.

BRENT'S ANATOMY

We went to a playdate yesterday and the two older cousins were playing Silly six pin bowling. After playing for a little while htey decided they needed and audience to cheer htem on, so they sat down at hte table and started drawing. Suddenly laughter broke out. I was feeding Dylan so I couldn't check it right out.

I asked Brent's cousin what was going on and she started laughing even harder.

Then I asked Brent to show me his picture and he ran away with it.

Now I knew something was up.

Here is the picture he drew. Guess he's figured out that people are built differently. :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We had a great day today. As usual we went to my inlaws house to have turkey. We had a full house. 28 people in all. We were supposed to have 36 but some dropped out.

We had two turkeys. One 31.5 lbs, the other 32lbs.

Of course we have more then enough left overs for the next few weeks now.

Dylan had a great time at his first Thanksgiving. He got to try a few things, but I think the food had too much texture, as he made quite the faces.

I also took some pictures for a friend of mine for her Christmas Cards. I don't want to share the one she liked as I don't want to give it away. However I took this great picture of her husband with her son that I am

totally in love with.

Hope everybody else had a great Thanksgiving too.

Helping one horse at a time


So I just got off the phone with a lady who runs a theraputic riding program. My vet told me about it when Quinn had his shots on Thursday and I thought, what a great idea for a wonderful horse.
They are coming out sometime next week to take a look at him and if they like him would take him on a trial basis for at least 60 days.
I will be able to visit with him once in a while.

I am feeling really good about this, so I'm hoping this will work and he will be able to do some good. He's been a great friend and companion to mee. for 12 years and it will be hard to let him go, but knowing he will be able to help other people might make it easier.

Here is a link to the program if you are interested.
http://miracles-in-motion.org/

Rain, rain go away

Kind of feeling blah today too. It's been raining all day so far and I feel tired and annoyed.

Need to get the barn done so my horse has a clean stall to come into tonight.

Speaking of my horse. I love the guy, but lately have been having a hard time to get the motivation to go do something with him. He's 26 years old and pretty much retired.

He lives in a "castle" that my husband and his business partner built for me and my neighbor.

Both of our horses moved in there in the fall of 2002.

Unfortunately her horse passed away in the spring, so only my horse is living there now.

I keep playing with the idea of leasing him out or sending him somewhere to become a companion horse. Well, Brent overheard me the other day and got very upset.

I think he still misses Babe, my neighbors horse and doesn't quite understand the difference of Quinn living somewhere else and Babe passing away.

Needless to say, I'm pretty torn of what to do with him.

I just keep thinking that it won't be much fun having to dress the kids 2-3 times a day to go to the barn and take care of him.

Here is a picture of him.

And here is one of Babe and him together when they first moved in.

Halloween

Another year has gone by.

Brent had a lot of fun trick or treating yesterday.

What a loot he collected.

Here is a picture of him and his friends in our town.

Dylan ended up spending the evening with Nana and Grandpa while we went out.

Doesn't he make a great pumpkin?

My, my, my it's been ages since I've written in here.

I've had great intentions, but my 5 year old and my 5 month old are keeping me quite busy.

Seems the only time I get a chance to really get on the computer is after they both go to bed.

Then of course there have been the late nights of watching the World Series.

I am so excited the Red Sox pulled off another title. Now lets resign Mike Lowell :)

Anyway, here is what's going on in my life. Eric has been in Missisippi building houses for some families that lost them during Katrina. He's finally coming back after a 10 day trip. Last I talked to him he was about 3 hours away.

Before that he's been on several short trips to Arizon and Maine.

His feet are getting better, although he will probably never be the same. It's really hard on him too as he feels very useless at times. Hope that his new business takes off and gets his mind off his "handicap".

Me, I've been trying to take care of the kids, my horse, the house and for the last week my friends cats as they were on a trip too. Can you say busy mama?

Also last week I did a photo shoot for Brent's preschool. I think the pictures came out great.

Here are a few samples.

Now to today. It was just gorgeous outside so I took the boys into the yard for a photo shoot. I got so many nice shots, I'm not even sure which one I like the best.

Here is one of Brent

One of Dylan

And one of the two of them together (which may turn into my Christmas Card picture this year)

Okay, here we go. Let's give this blogging a try.

As you can see by the picture of my blog, we live on top of a hill, that also houses a putting green. Not the cheapest hobby to have with all the upkeep, but lots of fun in the summer.

There is hardly ever a weekend where there aren't a few people up here putting around golf balls.

On the weekend closest to July 4th we even have an actual tournament called the Apple Hill Open, after my hsuaband and his partneres company.

This year we held the 5th annual open. I could'nt find a good picture from this year, so I included one from last year. Things get pretty crazy around here that weekend. between setting up the day before and tearing down the after, it turns into quite the long weekend.

The golf tournament itself starts at 10 am and usually runs until 6pm.

After that we've started also having a Texas hold'em tournament which runs into the early morning hours.

Here are a couple more pictures from this years event.