Ethan's bunkbeds

We just got the bunkbeds last night that Nana is getting for Ethan's from someone at our school. We didn't have time to put them up in Ethan's room last night, but you can tell from this video that he is very excited about them.

At the circus

Last Friday night, Janice and I took the kids to the circus in Clemson. The kids really enjoyed it. The show was great with elephants and tigers and jugglers (oh my!). It was amazing what these people could do! Ethan really liked the jugglers and giggled and clapped with delight. Katelyn mostly liked the lemonade and the toys! : )

Katelyn watching the show with Nana!
They really enjoyed the elephants!

The best time was when they got all sorts of fun stuff like crazy hats and monkeys.

Don't they look adorable?

Ethan's elephant toy

Ethan clapping for the jugglers

Ethan and Katelyn's School Pics

Been busy...

I don't have any pictures to update with, but Mother's Day was lovely. Tracy got me an iPod and we spent most of the weekend figuring out how to use it (and then having my students at school help too!). We went camping with our youth Friday night and Ethan and Katelyn came for a portion of it. Ethan caught his first fish! He was really excited though I think he was more interested in the worms than anything else. Unfortunately, the video and pictures got deleted off of our camera. : (

Tomorrow night we are taking Ethan and Katelyn to the circus for the first time. This time I will make sure the photos do not get deleted. I can't wait to see how they react to it all. It will be a late night for Katelyn, but, as much as she loves animals, I know she's going to love it!

I only have 6 more days of school left and 7 days till vacation! I cannot wait! This will be Katelyn's first time to the beach (last time she was a newborn and we didn't take her to the beach part). Next weekend is also Tracy and my 6 year anniversary! I'm sure we will go to the movies or something--I really want to see the new Narnia movie! : )

A very weird commercial

Anyone who knows Tracy, knows that he loves to watch Ghost Hunters and other weird TV shows. Someone sent this to me, and so, in honor of my husband, I thought I'd put it on my post. Enjoy, all you paranormal lovers!

This video is from a commercial that was filmed in Europe. When the commercial was finished the editors noticed a white mist floating around the car after it came out of the trees. It is difficult to see but if you look closely you can see the mist that caused the commercial to be pulled. Click below to watch.

Ghostly Car Commerical

This week has been such a lovely week. The weather has been nice and I've had a good time in the evenings with my babies. Ethan has become quite the question asker. Everything is now "Mommy, what's that noise?" "Mommy, what are you doing?". Last night after we put the kids to bed, Tracy made some brownies. Some time after Tracy took them out of the oven, Ethan called for me and said he needed to go potty. As I was taking him to the bathroom, his eyes got really big and he said, "Mommy, what's the smell?? I think Daddy is making cookies!". I wish I could let you hear how he said cookies, because it was so cute! It wasn't long after that Ethan decided that he was hungry and needed a snack aka a cookie. It was too funny so we gave him a small brownie and some milk.

Another cute thing that happened was the other day coming back from Ethan and Katelyn's "school" (that's what they call it), Ethan was talking about how naughty Chick from the movie Cars is. He said he needed to go to time out. Katelyn upon hearing this started saying, "Ethan! Time out!" Actually she says "Etan"! : ) Ethan got very offended by this and said, "No, not me, baby Katelyn! I'm a good boy!" She was in turn offended that he yelled at her started crying and Ethan felt bad and said, "Katelyn--you want to be my friend?" Katelyn yelled an adamant, "NO!" It was so funny. I can tell you that they quickly made up though. They play together so well and Ethan is so gentle and watches out for her all the time.

Katelyn is talking so much now--she even says sentences believe it or not! Last night while we were sitting at the dinner table, her and Ethan decided to get under the dinner table. Katelyn yelled, "Daddy look at me! I'm under the table!" Of course, that wonderful sentence was probably only intelligble to Tracy and me!

Tonight I am going to a one-night conference near Helen. I'm very excited to be focusing on something spiritual and look forward to the fellowship. My friend who invited me is a friend I met in college 14 years ago! It's so hard to fellowship when you are watching little ones. Of course, it's hard for me to be away from them even one night because I miss them so much. They'll be at Nana and DaddyBob's though so I know they will be happy.

The last couple of weeks have been a neat time with the Lord. I've been as busy as ever, but I've been learning that it's the short times during the day when I remember the Lord and turn my heart towards Him that can be the sweetest. It's neat to remember that I don't have to be completely stopped to fellowship with Him (though it's wonderful when I do!). We've been talking more and more with Ethan about spiritual things and the other day when it was storming, he told me he was scared. I asked him, "Who is with you always even when your scared?" He yelled out, "JESUS!" (Of course this is always his answer to anything that has to do with the BIble!). I then told him how God is always with Him and he can ask Him for help. It's so neat to see him beginning to understand these things.