Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts

Thursday, September 22, 2016

two games down!



We've been practicing baseball and now it is time for the games to begin.  Since it's fall baseball there will be no more practice and only games.  Two games a week every week for a month.  

This week we won both games!!!  

It is so fun to watch these boys play.  I'm so proud of Hayden.  I know he is tired after school.  It was to be tough to focus all day long and then go to baseball and focus on that too.  

We are loving watching him and now I am just hoping for more fall like weather so we can enjoy the games without sweating.  It's this time of the year in Texas that I'm ready for FALL!

Monday, January 18, 2016

in our pajamas


This post is a post in which every sentence should be followed by

IN OUR PAJAMAS!!


Ready, set, GO......




This weekend was freezing cold her in Georgia.  We pretty much hibernated all weekend long and didn't leave the house.  We are on a 'saving money' mission and so we did everything fun here at home we could think of.


We played Life!


They played Legos and the used a Home Depot box to set up Lego scenes.



We did gymnastics and worked on our flexibility.


We read books.


We played on our iPads.


We ate decorator dogs, otherwise known as hot dogs with all kinds of toppings.


We played poker.


Hayden kicked his feet back while eating popcorn.


We played multiple games of checkers.


The mini chef made cupcakes.


They were cute and tasted amazing!


We had a fun weekend just the four of us...... In our pajamas!

Monday, November 23, 2015

go carts, rope course and games


We went on a fun adventure to ride go carts!


Hayden was so proud to take his very own helmet!  I'm so happy he could use it.


The kids had a fun time flying around the track.  Hayden went fast and Layla was more consevative like her momma.






Layla rode with me and she was annoyed by how slow I went. ha!


Gary and Hayden zipped around the track and ended up getting into a minor collision.  I knew it would happen.  They're such dare-devils. 



Layla got all tethered up and headed up to the ropes course.  She was so brave and rocked that thing.  






We watched the virtual pirates movie. When the kids told me it was a roller coaster feel I was scared I'd barf, but it was so fun.  We shot all the pirates as they tried to attack us.



What a fun day with friends!  We're so blessed!


Friday, August 28, 2015

doozie of an itchy week


It seems like lately Friday evenings are my favorite blog time.  I'm doing good at recapping all our week full of stuff.



Monday found Hayden super itchy and with a horrible yucky rash all over his face.  We started an antibiotic for him and he still has red on his face, but the peely flaky rash is gone.  Thank goodness.  He still had a red face on Wednesday and that just happen to be school portrait day.  Good grief.  What gives? LOL!



Hayden didn't actually feel bad, so he was kind of going out of his mind buy Monday afternoon.  We read books, and played video games and snuggled and by the time Layla got home he was driving Lego cars on Lily's sleeping body.  He begged me to go play outside, but when he sweats it makes his face worse.  Eczema is no freakin' joke y'all.  Just when I feel like we have it all figured out, something new comes up with him and his skin.  We are learning and praying someday soon he will outgrow his dermatitis. 



I woke up Monday with a touch of poison something.  I didn't know what it was at first so I took a roller-ball of essential oils to my arm all day Monday.  Well looking back that wasn't the best idea.  The roller ball is now in the trash can and I have it all over and it got much worse than this photo. (you'll thank me for not posting a recent nasty pic)  I'm pretty sure I spread it and scratched it spreading it more.  I can make myself not scratch all day long, but I'm a total night scratcher.  I wake up scratching and then I can't go back to sleep.  Even with benadryl.  I look like a mess and feel the same.  I have it on both arms, my neck, face and ears.  I have it in my belly button and a touch on my foot.  

I now know that I got it on Saturday while trimming a few branches from an oak tree in the front yard.  Gary had this new trimmer tool from our neighbor and I said, "We should trim these low branches real quick, you cut and I'll bag them!"  BAD IDEA ANGIE.  Gosh I'm so mad at myself and I HURT!  Lesson learned there for sure!



Tuesday and Wednesday are blur days for me because I was so itchy and sleep deprived.  The kids busted out planks on Wednesday night and I cracked up at Daisy.  She looks like their planking coach.


Thursday night Gary got home and the angels were singing.  The kids were so happy to see their daddy and have someone home that wasn't so cranky and itchy.  Hayden gladly carried Gary's bag into the house!


Lily was happy to see dad home too and all the dogs and all the kids had a wrestle party in the basement.  I watched because no one wants to touch me lately.  hahaha!


Gary got one look at me Thursday when he got home and told me to head to the doctor on Friday morning.  You see, I tend to be an over reactor.  At times I have a little bit of hypochondriac in me.  I thought maybe I was just being a wiener and I really thought I could get better with some of Hayden's steroid cream.  Well, I was wrong.  The doctor and the nurse were nicely grossed out by me and I got a shot in the butt and and a pill and they sent me home to bed.  
I don't know if I've ever had a steroid shot, but whooaa it was wild.  I felt queasy and out of it for about 15 minutes in the the doctors office.  I also took a high dose of prescription benadryl {that was the pill} and that mixed with she shot made me coo-coo.  I drove straight home, ate a sandwich and slept until the bus dropped the kids off.  
I'm thankful for modern medicine fixing me up, but I have a sensitive system when it comes to drugs.  I swear I was seeing purple elephants floating on clouds.  I'm not looking forward to the upcoming prednizone doses, but I'm also thankful the purple elephants have left my mind. LOL!  I've taken prednizone before and it makes me clean house and organize like a mad woman. If you need me in the next 15 days I'll be cleaning and eating the house down.


We broke our Friday night dinner out habit and stayed home since I was out of it.  We played a game of family monopoly and Daisy Mae was my broker.  She knew I needed help counting my money.  Seriously, she just laid right on my stuff.  These goofy dogs.  They're the best!  Hopefully I got through this post without to many run on sentances and garbldy-goop!  Have a good weekend! ;-)

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Aloha Party!


Today was Hayden's first grade end of school Aloha party.  The kids played tons of games including pineapple bowling, tube races and bag jump which in my day was the potato sack race.

They ate a fun lunch of pizza and cupcakes in the classroom.  I'm so thankful I was able to be there!  I can't believe they only have two days left.  Ssummer is so close.  Tomorrow Layla has her fourth grade party.  I'm about to have a second grader and a fifth grader!  Oh my!



Wednesday, December 31, 2014

friends and bean boozled


Our friends came in from Ohio to visit us in our new town!



  The kids played Bean Boozled.  Have you heard of Bean Boozled?  It is hilariously funny.  



It's also pretty gross too. 

Here's how it works:

 There is a box of jelly beans and a spinner.  There are tons of jelly beans and some are nasty flavors like barf, moldy cheese and skunk spray. Those can be confused with pleasant tasting jelly beans of the same colors.  Barf can be mistaken for Tutti Fruity and you don't know what you get until you taste it, because the color of the jelly bean is the same. So, you spin the spinner and hope your jellybean is licorice and not skunk spray.  In my opinion both of those are losers.  You may also get blueberry or toothpaste flavored jelly beans.  The spinner displays the color you must pick with two possible flavors.  One yucky and one yummy!



  Just be prepared for lots of laughs and have a napkin on hand if the bean is too nasty for you!
(ordered on Amazon)


The kiddos are having so much fun being together, and I'm having fun with my bestie too!!



Tuesday, April 8, 2014

family game night


I have to be honest.  I don't like the toddler games we have played in years past.  Candyland and Shutes n Ladders get old fast, because I think the kids cheat.  These cames don't challege us and then I get bored.  I'm competitive and want to play more challenging games. Heck,  I'm even tired of HeadBands.  

Gary and I decided to introduce the kids to dominos.  Hayden loves couting and he has been begging to play dominos again since we first played.  We had a blast playing Jenga.  I'm ready to teach the kids Hearts and Spades too!


He's so serious, but then the tower fell.....


And then we started all over again!


What are your favorite 'bigger' family games?