Giveaway!

Found this on Brandy's blog and had to jump in! Go here: http://itsallaboutthebow.blogspot.com and find out how you can enter to win super cute hair bows! They are adorable!!

More Becka birthday...

Blowing out her sparkler candles!

This gift was wrapped in about 15 layers of paper, lol!

Giant cupcake, anyone?

Olive fingers!!!

Great Wolf Lodge!

We had a fun and crazy two days, one night at the Great Wolf Lodge! It is a hotel/indoor water park, and has lots of other fun things. You could spend a lot of time (and money) there! The big kids got to do MagiQuest." Basically, it is a game where you have a magic wand and go on different "quests" and "adventures" throughout the first 5 floors of the hotel. Battling dragons, looking for Pixies, etc. Almost everything (pictures on the walls, statues, decorations) lights up and/or talks to them when they wave their wands at it. here is an arcade, a kids and an adult spa, a game room for the kids/teens, "cub club" for the little kids, tons of little shops and restaurants. They have storytime at bedtime for the little kids. It was seriously crazy! Go here: http://www.greatwolf.com/grandmound/lodge to see more! The kids loved the water park also. It is indoor, and kept right around 85 degrees. There is a wave pool, kiddie area, several slides, a fun clubhouse type structure, other pools...LOTS of fun. Becka and Jake loved the bucket that dumped 1,000 gallons of water on the clubhouse every few minutes. Rachie enjoyed the smaller slides in the kiddie pool. Everyone liked the wave pool! I only put a few pictures up here, but I have more on my dropshots. www.dropshots.com/punkinmama. Email me if you need the password. I think most everyone who reads my blog already has it though...

Happy Birthday Becka!!

Becka is 11 years old now! This year we had something extra special planned. We got up on her birthday, opened her presents and then headed to the Great Wolf Lodge as a family for the night. I will post pictures of that in a bit. These pictures are of Becka opening her gifts. She got an iPod shuffle, a Nike duffle bag, fun new bookmark, her annual "Growing in Grace" Precious Moments figurine, and a fun photo collage frame for her bedroom. Jake and Rachie gave her a pair of biking gloves that she has been wanting since last summer. Pretty lucky kid!!

*ETA* I was too lazy to edit these pictures, so sorry about the scary red eye!

Last day of school!

Here are my kiddos on the last day of school this year. Jake is now a 2nd grader, and Becka is a 6th grader! I don't feel old enough to have a child in middle school. Someone please tell me I don't look it either, ok?

Growing up!

Today was the 5th grade promotion. Becka is officially a 6th grader! Only one more day of school and the kids are done for the summer. I wonder how Jake will feel without his big sister at the same school as him every day? This picture is Becka and one of her best friends, Cearah. Rachie wanted to be in the picture also. :)

Fighting for our garden!

The war rages on! We will be victorious! Those squirrels will rue the day they decided to eat our veggies! OK, well, maybe not, but I can hope, right? Here is our very patriotic garden...full of pretty fluttery things that we hope will frighten the squirrels into finding their daily ration of greens somewhere else! Hope it works, otherwise I have a lot of very chubby squirrels laughing at me...