School, A Baptizing, And a Giveaway!

School starts this week!! (worth repeating) School starts this week!!! I think I'm more excited about it than my  girls! ;-) Taylor will start 4th grade, makes my stomach turn a bit-she's growing up too fast! Emma will start 1st grade. All I can say is...WATCH OUT 1st grade, she's coming!!  Addison is also starting "school"...actually a mother's day out program.  She doesn't start until next week but we are SUPER DUPER excited about it!! I won't know what to do having only one child to take care of for a few hours! But I'm sure I'll manage JUST fine!

Other exciting news...Taylor is being baptized on Sunday afternoon! Nathan's Papaw is baptizing her.  The baptismal service is at the Ouachita River.  She asked me last night if  there are gators in the river. Ha! Mayyyybe one too many episodes of Swamp People?!?! 


We sure have been enjoying the cooler (90's would be considered COOL) weather lately! A great break from the 115's and even 117 one day.  The kids have played outside a lot more the past few days.  On Saturday, Nathan and I were outside playing ball with them.  Addison snuck up behind Nathan, grabbed the legs of his athletic shorts and YANKED them down to his ankles! Since he was holding Macy on his shoulders at the time he couldn't let go of her to pull them up.  He was in a predicament!! We have a semi-private back yard...privacy fences on the sides but it backs up to the 3rd tee box on a golf course (it's SATURDAY, remember) and there's only a black coated chain link fence in back...and  some other backyards beyond the golf course.  He was laughing so hard and yelling at me to come help him.  I'm not sure what possessed her to do that...I think it was an accident maybe but then after seeing all of our reactions (Taylor & Emma were rolling in the grass laughing) she just kept trying to do it again and again. 

I found out today that we are among the less fortunate.  As Emma was deciding what to have for breakfast this morning, she plopped down on the bar stool and wailed, "It's TERRIBLE to be poor! We don't even have any BREAKFAST!" ...sob, sob...  OH, that child! She has absolutely no idea about anything outside of her own little "Emma World!"  Just to clear it up, we DO have food in our house...bananas, apples, strawberries, grapes, pop tarts, oatmeal, 27 boxes of cereal!! -just to name a few! She just "didn't have enough choices!"  I know, SHE AIN'T RIGHT!

Moving on to more exciting news...
I was contacted by a digital scrapbooking company and they want me to host a GIVEAWAY here on my blog!!  I have downloaded their software and have begun to test it out and play around with it. It's really cool! One page I did even has a video embedded into it that plays when you open the page. You can turn your pages into calendars and also make greeting cards as well!  I'm super excited about this as I am YEARS  behind on my scrapbooking! I can either print out my album, have it bound into a book or keep the album on a disc.  I can also share my album online or through email with family/friends.  In addition to the free  software giveaway, they're giving me $10 discount codes to share with everyone! My next post (within a few days) will be the giveaway post! Stay tuned for that!!

Hope you have a great week!