Friday, October 11, 2013

Beach Friday

In my mind I’m singing, “These are the days that you’ll remember!”  {In my mind I sound like this}

Every once in a while it works out.  We manage to get a crowd to go to our neighborhood beach.  Whenever we do get a group together, we always wish we did it more often.

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It makes me want to bottle up this special time in our lives so we can remember it forever.

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Looking at these reminds me that we are blessed with some of the sweetest friends from all over the world and I’m so happy that the boys are experiencing this too!

In case you don’t know the song, '>this is it.  I have loved this song at so many different times in my life.

These are days you'll remember

Never before and never since, I promise
will the whole world be warm as this
and as you feel it, you'll know it's true
that you are blessed and lucky
it's true, that you are touched by something
that will grow and bloom in you

These are days you'll remember

When May is rushing over you with desire
to be part of the miracles you see in every hour
you'll know it's true, that you are blessed and lucky
it's true, that you are touched by something
that will grow and bloom in you

These are the days
that you might fill with laughter
until you break

These days you might feel a shaft of light
make its way across your face
and when you do
you'll know how it was meant to be
see the signs and know their meaning

You'll know how it was meant to be
hear the signs and
know they're speaking to you
to you

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Halloween 2013

The other day I got inspired to pull out our Halloween decorations and have the boys help me put them up.  The boys are starting to be a little more into the scary aspects of Halloween, so for the first time we are getting a few scary touches.  Halloween is for the kids right? 
Yep next time I have that idea I am just going to bang my head on the wall and call it done.  They were so excited that they pulled everything out at once and in no time at all it looked like a giant mess!
Over the last few days I have sorted things out bit by bit and it is starting to look a little better scarier.  These spiders are on our second story.
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The front door is sporting a new wreath and Skelly.
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Come inside if you dare!  Because that is the extent of our scary!
A year or two ago I made the candy corn pennant and have been putting up pictures of previous Halloweens on it.  The boys adore looking at their old costumes!
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This year the boys pulled this hand out of some bin and I finally saw it’s potential.  I rigged it up with a couple of toothpicks, some foam and some shredded paper.
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We have had this witch that a friend gave me a few years ago and this year I actually got inspired to give her a proper spot.  Miller thinks her eyes follow him.  Hank barks at her a lot!
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It may not feel like Halloween, but it sure is starting to look like it!

I'm sharing our decorations at 1825

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

What the Heck? Wednesday

Really the Bahamas has the best signs.  I saw this one last week at Compass Point.

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It is clear and makes the point well.  We learned this lesson the hard way.

When we had been here for almost a year Allen left his shorts{ with his wallet in the pocket} in the car.  He is careful, so he  made sure to put it all the way under the seat.  We went back to the car a couple of times and one of those times we must have forgotten to lock it.  When we were leaving, Allen realized his shorts had been taken out of the car.  He was more bummed about losing his favorite belt that the wallet.

Another time we had a friend visiting and she left a bag on the front seat of the car.  When we came back, this was what we saw.

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Boo!  Lesson learned!

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Island Hopping

Recently we spent another wonderful day on Rose Island.  If it wasn’t for the no electricity or running water, I might be able to live there!

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Allen and I watched a huge ray swim across the bay. {it’s the black dot in the middle of the picture}

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The boys were true island boys and rigged up something to get some fresh coconut.

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Good old fashioned tug of war!  But really look at that view!

Allen and I took a short walk to the top of the island.  It was gaw-jus!P9271743

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Does anyone else see a face in this coconut?

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He fed the curly tail lizard coconut. 

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and even made me a drink.

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While we were on our walk the boys were having a tug of war.  But would you just look at that background!?

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We’ll be back!

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Monday, October 7, 2013

Shamelessly Proud Parents

Jackson is doing so well in 2nd grade.  He has a really nice teacher and he is learning so much.  Even though he missed a week of school, he had no trouble catching up.
This week he was chosen as student of the week and even though is embarrasses him to get up in front of the whole school, he really does love it!
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He is such a good boy.  Sometimes I have to remind myself not to be too hard on him.  He isn’t perfect by any means, but he really tries to be a good boy.
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This expression is so Jackson!  He and his friend were up there {possibly pretending} to be shy, but they were whispering back and forth for most of the time.
Well done Jackson!

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Boyhood

At ages 7 and 5 we are full on into boyhood.  As such there are several words that make my boys laugh so hard they snort and roll around.

I read somewhere that if you try to repress boys from exploring these words, it just makes the phase last longer.  So as much as possible, I let it go.  UGH!

As we were playing hangman the other day, this is what I got…

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See that smile?  He can’t get enough!  Notice how many guesses it took me to get that word?  When he starts with that laugh, I know what he’s thinking!  {On occasion, I have used those words or underw__r to make them smile for a picture.  Hey it works for us!}NIK_3665

He also loves the word “duty”!  It sounds like another word for poop.  “Look mom!  That truck says Super Duty!”  Admit it, it’s funny!  Get it?  Heavy duty!  Hilarious!

I’m working hard to just roll with it.  If encouraging him makes this phase go away faster then we may be on the hunt for some Flarp!  to help us along.

One of my favorite children’s book authors is Robert Munsch wrote a book called, Good families Don’t.  I think it’s coming our way soon.

Boys!  Gotta love ‘em!

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

What the Heck? Wednesday

I’ve been driving past this sign for a while.  It is in front of the sign for our neighborhood. I think they are doing something important like replacing the water meter for the neighborhood.  Like many projects here, they are started and then just left for a while.   Which is probably why they turn off our water ever night at 10 p.m.  They’ll finish it…eventually.
The other day as I was pulling in I noticed a little something that made me laugh out loud.   Do you see it?
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These signs are no doubt hand made, but they are also hilarious!  Now do you see it?
Look at it closer!
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The worker’s braids are sticking out from his cap!  It is a real depiction of a Bahamian worker.  There is just one or two parts that aren’t quite accurate.  However I love the Bahamians and don’t want to insult anyone, so I’ll let you make whatever observations you might.