Hail

This is the little hail we got yesterday during a thunderstorms. As you can see, it's not very big and it was very sparce. Nothing compared to the golfball sized stuff they got around Grand Rapids. Still neat to see and to show the kids.

This is what we did on our rainy afternoon

Since I have an ever growing obsession with clippies and bows for the girls hair, I finally had to break down and get bow holders. I bought 3 holders from a great lady on Etsy, but once I got them, realized that I can make them too! So, off to craft hell (aka Walmart) we went. I got the ribbon, and the decoration for the top. Total cost for 3 decorations, 100 inches of ribbon and 100 inches of smaller ribbon: $7.00. The ones I bought cost either $2.99 or $3.99. Soooo...yeah, they turned out pretty good and I'm proud of my hot glue gun skills. ;-)

Julia showing off her 2 new holders tha we made today!!

A doggie, a soccer ball and a zebra are now new residents Anna and Julia's room.

A happy Mom and Julia after all the work is done!

It's coming to an end...FINALLY

Anna has one more t-ball game...Cam has 2 more baseball games. YESSSSSSSSSSSS! Only 49 days after Cam's last game....FOOTBALL STARTS. That will have 4 nights a week of practice. Lovely.

How much Julia loves the new van

Sorry the pic is blurry, but we were headed to a baseball game. I had to take a picture of Julia sleeping with her headset on. She loves watching t.v. ANYWHERE...I was shocked that she actually fell asleep.

Our Michigan's Adventure Trip Photos

SIKE! There are no photos of our day spent at the amusement park! I forgot the memory stick for the camera and couldn't take any pictures. UGH! (Hey Liz...sound familiar?) What a bummer.

Here's a little clip of Julia at Anna's game

Picture Updates

Our 2008 Asparagus Parade Marchers!

Wayne making sure the mics for the Oceana Singers work.

Mycousin Lavonne is in this picture...Can you guess which one she is? :-)

Anna at the piano in the Randall School

Jordanna as the teacher at the Randall School in the historic district.

All the kids (minus Ju) at the school.

Tyler making friends with a Scottville Clown Band member.
Tyler, Ju and Wayne
Samantha (who now lives in Minnesota...sniff, sniff....We miss her!!)

Theresa...my other sister...who can't take a good picture to save her LIFE!

The beauty queen
The ham
The monkey girl
This is my new chair! I got it at the Pentwater VFW yard sale. Bill Brown is the best salesman. He got me to take it within 5 minutes! I couldn't tell him no. He's about the sweetest old guy I know.

One of my flowers

At Anna's t-ball game
Yes, she is the cutest little girl from Xianning City tha I know!!

Proud Great-Grandparents!

Poppa Bill's strawberries!!!!!!

Anna and Ju each picked their own bucket at Grandma and Poppa's house. Well, maybe Grandma helped!!

It's baaacckkk....Fifth Disease

Last summer we had a round of Fifth Disease with all the Wagner cousins. Julia started it. Well, guess who has it again. Yep. Julia. I'll add a picture of her "slapped cheeks" rash that she has on her face. Plus, it's very swollen. She's tired and out of sorts today. I feel so bad for her. There's no medication to take, other than just cold meds for the cold like symptoms. Last night I told her she could get out of the van at Anna's game. She ended up falling asleep in my lap. I'm just hoping the older kids don't come down with it again. :-(

Summer

No, I'm not going anywhere (not yet anyways)...just thought it was a cute pic to celebrate summer vacation. :-)

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Thunder, Lightning and a whole lotta Rain!

Rain...more rain that we know what to do with. I wish I had streaming feed of the photos from around the area. I'm not sure whether or not there was a confirmed tornado, but there is some major damage north of U.S. 10. I know, it's not that big of deal for those of you used to more severe weather or for people like my Aunt Cheryl who is used to hurricanes and wild fires. Ludington/Scottville/Mason County typically is a pretty boring place (weatherly speaking) and not much happens here.

My cute kids...and more

The Amazingly Beautiful Anna Elizabeth

The Coolest Cousins around...Anna, Jackie O. (I mean Julia), Devin and Kristen. I love this picture!!
The boys...Max, Mackenzie, Cameron, Adam and Jacob

Jessica the Webkinz dog...

Wayne and I under the wedding arch...I have a dorky smile on...lovely.

A few new pics

Some of the boys from Cam's grade

Anna at the state park
Anna throwing a water balloon at Mr. Fountain

Mr. Fountain
Anna and Juju on the last day of school

Cam and his class on the last day of school
Here's the BFF's!! Jay is the cutie next to Anna's, he's Jordan's brother. And of course there's Anna and Jordan and then Julia...Ju and Jay are in the same grade. We played Jordan's tball team and I loved this picture!

Anna as the catcher!
Julia hanging out at tball
The pink ladies tball team...there are 6 pink helmets (Anna's is the one on the end that is red and black...) and that means there are 7 girls on our tball team!!!!

THE WINGS WIN IT!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOHOOOO! The Red Wings have won the Stanley Cup!

Henrik the Hottie Zetterburg

My personal fave...Chris Osgood!

This might have been my proudest Mom moment so far

Cam had his first baseball game of the season last night. Top of the 3rd inning...he walks out to the pitcher's mound. EEEK! Cam is going to pitch? Yep! He is! I almost cried! He's wanted to pitch for so long and coach gave him the chance last night. He did great. Well, he did as good as any of the other kids (minus the star kiddo, Mitch, who happens to be a cousin of ours!). I was sooooooooo proud!! He also got on base each time at bat, with either a walk (2) or a hit (2). How cool!

After he got done pitching, Wayne and I both went up to him and told him how great he did and how proud we were of his attitude and sportsmanship. I told him I wanted to cry and he looked at me like, "Oh geez! Don't do it here in front of my teammates!!" ;-)

Sooooo...after our win, we went to DQ for a little ice cream celebration. YAY!

Conversations from the dugout

Here's what I heard while being the bench parent last night at Anna's game.

Player 1: When is your birthday?
Player 2: I dunno, let me ask my mom.
Player 1: Mine is in Novstember.

Player 3: What's the score?
Me: I'm not sure.
Player 3: My mom said even if we lose, we're still suppose to have fun.

Player 4 is laying at the end of the bench with his head on his glove. I asked him if he's tired and his reply is, "It's been a long day Mrs. Wagner. I need to relax!"

Am I spoiled?

Sooooo...we lease our vans and trucks. Makes us able to get the vehicle we want, at a lower payment that we can afford. I know leasing has it critics and I'm sure people don't agree with our reasons for doing it. Personally, I don't care what other people think. It's our money, our life...if we deem newer cars as something we want...well, that should be up to us. ;-) (I'm thinking my crankiness tonight has something to do with PMS, I could be wrong though!)


Anyways...here's my new ride!! After 1 white minivan, 1 silver Intrepid and 1 silver minivan, I wanted COLOR! If you know me, red is my favorite color. Momma wanted red this time and she got it! Yessss! Wayne called the dealership we've used for the past 3 cars, Lakeshore Chrysler Jeep Dodge and spoke with our FAVORITE salesguy Todd. Ok, so Todd happens to be one of those super cool guys that I used to drool over when I was younger. He was a hottie basketball star and all of us girls wanted to be around him. ANYWAYS...Todd knows us well and what we want in a new van and he happened to have one that was going to work. Todd could be selling snowballs to Eskimos and I'd still be in line to get them from him! ;-) I went down yesterday and test drove it, try it out and Todd and I worked out the numbers with Wayne. It was a done deal. The cherry van was going to hanging out in my garage! Wayne tells me I'm spoiled. I dunno...if I were spoiled, I'd still be driving the old silver mule and taking a plane to China about now for another son. Hahahaha!

Normalcy?

Soccer is done. YAY!

Now, we have 2 nights a week of t-ball and 2 nights a week of baseball, but Ju is done with school (another YAY!) and so I think I'll have more time to be back to normal posting and checking other friends' blogs. (Jeez, I missed so much on Dawn's, Karen's and Tonni's!!!!) I can't tell you how much I've missed chatting and emailing with everyone. Hope you all forgive me for my time off. ;-)