Kindergarten wrapping up.

Kindergarten is finishing up & boy did they have some fun stuff planned. The entire last week of school was nothing but movies & parties. They all earned it. It was a great year.

Field Trip: Jackson went on his 1st school field trip. They went to Carlton Farms. I was lucky enough to go with him. We saw several farm animals, Ms. Foskey got to milk a cow & then the kids got to play on a "farm" slide. Pictures will show the slide. It's pretty cool. I think the kids liked this the best.

PTA Performance: On the last PTA meeting of the year the kindergarten class performs. Jackson was very excited about this. They sang about 3 or 4 songs. Jackson was on the end of the row so we could really see him. He's such a performer.

Field Day: This was our favorite. I remember field day from when I was little and I think Jackson loved it as well. Nathan & I spent the day with the class. It was a little hard for Nathan because he couldn't do any of the games but he was the official team supporter. Ms. Foskey's class won for Kindergarten & they were so excited!!

Awards Day: This was a tuff one. Knowing that his 1st year of school was coming to an end, it just hit me hard. This was also his teacher's last year for at least a year. She is going to El Salvador to be a missionary so she was teary eyed all day too. Jackson got his awards for learning all his sight words & reading all his readers for the year. Then she had her candy bar awards. Jackson got the Babe Ruth award because he is all about baseball. Very fitting. I gave her the gift I made for her from the parents & she seemed to really like it. After the awards we had a picnic lunch with the class. Grammie & Nanny got to take the day off & spend it with us which made the day even more special.

Last Day of School: This wasn't as bad as I thought. The kids watched movies all day and after lunch we had ice cream & any or all the toppings you could think of. Ms. Foskey thanked all the parents for all their work thru out the year & then had a gift for me. She didn't need to do that. I helped because I wanted to but it was very nice of her. It was a great year & I hope next year is better than this one.

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Jason's birthday fell on a work day this year & this bummed Jackson out. He thought it was just wrong that Daddy had to work on his birthday. So I told Jackson that we would make it very special for him. We cooked his favorite dinner and to find out what it was a few days before Daddy's birthday on the way home from a baseball game Jackson asked Daddy what is your favorite dinner? Jason knew what was up & said ziti. I whispered no, it has to be spaghetti. I didn't have the stuff to make ziti. So Jason said spaghetti. Jackson responds with "Oh, ok. I just wanted to know for no real reason. I was just talking to ya." Love that kid.

So dinner is made, cake for dessert & then we had to decorate. This got the boys very excited. I didn't have much decorations but we made good with what we had. Daddy came home & was very surprised & happy. It was the best part of his day.

Easter 2011

First. I can't add any pictures yet. Our computer died & most of the pics are on that computer & I have not had time to take it to the computer fixer guy. So once I do that I will come back & upload pics. Until then.....

It has been really cure hearing Jackson tell Nathan about the Easter bunny. He tells him about having their wagons empty so the bunny can fill them with so much really cool stuff he says. So of course this makes Nathan really excited. So we decided to the boys to see the Easter bunny. We met Erica & Codie there so maybe Nathan wouldn't be scared if Codie came. Wrong. He wanted nothing to do with the bunny. So that was a bust or I thought. The boys wanted to ride the train beside the bunny so after lunch we headed back to the bunny area & I told Nathan. You have to sit on the bunny's lap or you can't ride the train. OK. He ran & jumped on the bunny's lap like they were best friends. Crazy child.

At school on the Friday before Easter Jackson's class had an Easter egg hunt. Me & a couple parents had to hide about 120 eggs is a very small area. So it really wasn't hiding as much as laying them on the ground. It's ok. The kids had a great time.

Easter morning was fun. Jason was at work but I took a ton of pictures. The boys were so excited about their wagons and surprisingly didn't care about the candy as much as the airplanes they got. I was shocked!! I think they ate maybe 2 pieces each & then they were off playing & watching the new movie the Easter Bunny brought them. What a great morning!!

On Easter Sunday we headed over to Mom's for an Easter lunch with the family & then an egg hunt for the little kids. It was nice except Jason had to work. He stopped by when he got off work so he was able to spend some of Easter Sunday with us.

We thought the day was over til we got home & our neighbors had family over who come & play with Jackson everytime they are over. So of course they wanted to play and Jackson had been good so off he went. It ended up being a long day but a blessed day. It was spent with family & friends & no drama!!

109 Cans

Everyone who knows me knows how I love a good deal & love to use coupons. Well I have Jackson on board too. I am not as crazy as some coupon lovers but I do buy in bulk but I don't stockpile to the point it's pushing me out of my house. I give all the excess to the food bank. Well Jackson asked me all about the food bank & on his own he decided he wanted to collect for the food bank. I told him what a great idea and he needed to set a goal. He came up with 109 cans of food. Don't ask where that number came from because I have no idea but that is his goal.

On Friday we took his first load to the food bank. I wanted him to be able to go so he can see where the food goes & who he is helping. He had 27 cans (or anything that was donated) which totaled 41 pounds of food. (we weighed Jackson & he weighed 42 pounds) They gave him a receipt for his donation & told him thanks. So he still has a way to go to get to that 109 goal.

I am so proud of you Jackson!! You have such a huge heart!!!


Jackson with his 1st donation.

100th Day of Kindergarten!!

For the 100th day of school Jackson's teacher asked everyone to make a shirt that had 100 of something on the shirt. Jackson thought about it for a week & came up with pennies. So Jackson was the Northside Money Man. I glued 100 pennies on the shirt & 100 Days on the front. I was expecting all the pennies to be gone by the end of the day but only the ones on the front were picked off. I asked him why did he pick off the money & his reason was everyone wanted a penny so he wanted to give it to them. He said he couldn't reach the ones on the back and that is why they were still glued on.

BINGO!!!

Jackson's school had their first Bingo night and of course we went. Everyone knows how much Jason & I LOVE bingo. Never win but love playing. Barb, Mike & Great Grandma also joined us so it was a great family night playing bingo. It was crazy crowed & hot in there so as the night got later Great Grandma, Barb & Mike left a little early and Jackson played Grandma's leftover cards for her. And believe it or not he won. He didn't even know it. I looked at his card to make sure he was doing ok & he had a straight line so I gave it to Jason & he yelled Bingo!! Jackson took off running to the front of the lunchroom. It was so cute. He smiled the rest of the evening until I told him that this was Grandma's win. Later in the evening they talked & Grandma gave Jackson the prize which was a pretty awesome prize. It was a portable dvd player with tv. His friend won the DS they were giving away. Pretty great night for the kids!! Thanks Grandma!!!

When I grow up....

A couple days ago Jackson & I were at the table having cereal before we got ready for school. Nathan was still asleep so this was just our time. It doesn't happen often but when it does it is great. Out of the blue Jackson tells me that when he grows up he wants to be a Monster Truck Driver. Ok, I said. He changes his mind on what he wants to be quite often so I usually just go with whatever he says. Then he said I want to be that because I will get alot of money and then I can go help people buy food that don't have any food. I held it together to not let him see me cry but man was I proud. I have taken him with me to the food bank a few times to drop food off & I explain to him why I do it. Never thinking he was really listening to me but I guess he was.




He came home from school & I told him how proud I was/am of him. He then proceeds to tell me that he wants to get 109 cans of food to take to the food bank. Why 109 I don't know. So we are on a mission to collect 109 cans of food so as he says can help 109 families. He is pretty awesome.