Out and About.............................

Today I spent the day with my two teenagers(Zach is technically still a preteen, he is 12 but in 6 months it is official) shopping at the mall! We had a great time looking for new clothes for school. Zach actually got more today then Breanna, which is usually not the case( don't get me wrong she would have bought alot more if I had allowed)! Breanna would have loved to have bought like 4 pair of shoes but I held her to 1 pair of shoes, a jacket, 2 belts and a pair of shorts! Zach bought 2 pair of shorts and 3 shirts, which are really going to be worn immediatly as he is growing like a weed and shorts that we bought 3 months ago are already too small!!!!!!!

As you can see in the picture, Zach is just a tad bit taller than Breanna and he is loving it!!!!! They are only 22 months apart and he has been waiting for the day that he would one day be taller than his older sister and it is finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The day that he is taller than me is just around the corner as you can see in the picure below,this will be a sad day for me, just one more obvious fact that he is growing up!!!!

They are always so good to pose for Mom!

I wonder when he will be taller than me?

If you are wondering where Jacob was, the answer is school. He started on Monday, July 23rd. Breanna and Zach start on Aug. 13th. We have two school systems in our town(I won't even go there) the city only has elementary schools and also has some of those schools on an alternative schedule(go for 9 weeks and off for 2 weeks, we get 7 weeks in the sumer). We actully like this schedule but, all the middle and high schools are owned by the county and they all are on a traditional calendar! So that puts us on 2 different school schedules, fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We did miss our best buddy(this is actually one of our nicknames for Jacob) today while we were out, but he was having fun in school! Today was ice cream sundae day for his class , yum yum!!!!!!!!!!!

My big second grader posing for the traditional 1st day of school picture!!

The weekend is hours away, yeah! Have a great one and I will share more later, who knows what the weekend holds!

Kathy

AND SO IT BEGINS..................................

After reading the blogs of others for months and getting a few friends to start their own blogs, I am finally writing my first post ON MY OWN BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so not a computer savvy person, but I am a scrapbooker and since all my family lives somewhere other than here ,I thought this would be a good way to keep them up to date with our lives! I am also starting this blog for myself to record what is going on in my busy life as a wife and mother of three! Since I never seem to sit down and journal, I am hoping that this will become my journal so to speak and help me to remember all the everyday happenings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The days seem to pass quickly as I have become so aware over the last several months!My daughter will be starting Highschool in just a few short weeks! Breanna is the oldest of my three children, and it seems like yesterday that she was born, then toddling around and then starting kindergarten, but how did we get to HIGHSCHOOL???????????? I also have two boys, Zach is 12 going into seventh grade and Jacob(my baby) is 7 and is in second grade!

It still feels like I should be the mother of two elementary school children and an infant, but somehow time has gone by and I am here, with my beautiful teenager and handsome middle and elementary school age boys! The title of this blog is what I strive to do, EMBRACE THE EVERYDAY, because the everyday seems to go by too fast and I want to make sure I am present for what each day holds!!!!!!!!!

This is Zach, Breanna and Jacob in May before Breanna's guitar recital!!!!!!!! I have to say they are quite cute!!!!!!!!!!! I will post again soon!

Kathy