Free Float Night @ Sonic

Tonight Sonic is giving away free floats from 8pm-Midnight. I know its late but it's summer so I am going after church.

Summer has started in the Gabbard house.

It's summer summer summer tiiiiiime! It's not officially yet but we are in Texas and it feels like summer most of the year. I set up the pool yesterday and pulled all the outside toys out of storage.

Kaden Chillaxing he built himself a man cave contraption.

LFA Picnic

Our church picnic was today and it was fun! Good food, games, and people around.

Karson did not want to wear his hat.

The 3 legged race.

The little guys grin is sweet.

LFA X Games

Fun picnic = A dirty Kaden and a pooped Karson

The Race.... It was funny but my laugh is annoying so I would advise you turn down the sound.

After the picnic Kaden played across the street in a kiddie pool with like 7 neighborhood kids. We met a new neighbor that has a boy a couple of months younger than Kaden. They got along great. I think he has a new friend. After all that Tim and Kaden went to the movies to see Up tonight. Kaden was so excited about it. When he came home he said "the TV screen was fuge" meaning huge.

I stayed home with Karson and we had a good time playing chase and giving piggy back rides.

I'm Blocked

I have writers block right now and no idea's. Just a normal week with my boys.

Good Find - Leap Frog DVD's

A couple of years ago I bought this DVD for Kaden. He watched it all the time and knew most of his letters and the sounds they make going into Pre-K. At his Pre-school graduation his teacher recommended it to the parents who's kid's were struggling with letter recognition and sounds. Kaden still likes to watch it. You can find the Leap Frog series at Target and Walmart for around $10.00.

Kaden has been struggling with number recognition so I bought the Leap Frog Math Circus. We are working on a number a week right now till he can recognize 1-10. He has no problem counting to 20 but recognizing number 6-10 has been hard for him. The 6,8,9 all look alike to him.

There are a few more Leap Frog DVD's that help with early reading skills too.

Good Find

Free fresh flowers... in my yard. Who knew. I have a rose bush by the side of my house. It is a wild one that grows up so the pretty ones are on top. I decided to do something daring so I started pulling the branches down and clipping. I almost got smacked in the face a few times with wild flying tangled branches but the final product was worth the danger of a thorn in my face.

Karsee Crockett

For Tim's Birthday we went to the Boardwalk in Shreveport LA to eat and then took the boys to the Bass Pro Shop. I put this hat on Karsee and he walked around with a big smile entertaining us and anybody that happened to walk by.

The Grocery Game

I have decided to get our grocery budget under control. With the rising cost of food I am going to take on this challenge. It has been some work but it has already paid off.

A few tips...

- I am buying more generic. Only certain generics not all are the way to go. I also have brand loyalty to certain brands.

- I follow a few blogs that have taught me a few tricks to this game.

- I buy the Dallas paper because it has better coupons in it.


This week I saved close to 50.00 on my grocery bill.

Blogs to follow.

http://www.dealseekingmom.com/

http://moneysavingmethods.blogspot.com/

http://www.moneysavingmom.com/money_saving_mom/

http://athriftymom.com/

http://rinehart4.blogspot.com/

http://hip2save.blogspot.com/

http://www.southernsavers.com/

http://www.mypennypile.com/

http://www.growingupgabel.com/

http://beingfrugal.net/

http://www.chicshopperchick.com/

Gladiation

I named this post gladiation because it is what Kaden has been excited about for days and that is also the way he says graduation . Kaden graduated from pre-k yesterday.

The class did a presentation for the parents.

Something happened to my camera as Kaden recieved his diploma. So when I ever get around to my boys scrapbooks this is what I have.

Kaden and his teachers.

Prep work for the big day.

Some days as a Mom you clean up a mess and then kiss a booboo and then make a bed and then have to judge who took the toy from who or who started it and then pick up a toy you just stepped on and then do bath time and end up soaked more than the kids you were bathing and then put tired kiddos to bed.





AND THEN there are the other days when you wake up and make birthday cards for Daddy because we love him so much.

AND THEN make a video singing happy birthday.

AND THEN make a special trip to the store to buy a brownie mix and icecream for Daddy.

AND THEN cut many strips of paper to make chains because Kaden has cool ideas like that.

AND THEN cook dinner while the boys are quietly playing together and SHARING.

Monday was such a nice day the boys and I shared together I loved having so many little helping hands to make a Birthday special for Tim.