This is how they play......

Garage Sale!

I LOVE garage sales, but I have to clarify one thing here...I love going to garage sales. I don't necessarily love hosting garage sales. Luckily, I have some great friends who were all willing to pitch in a little and help keep everything running smoothly. (Thank you Andrea, Kelly and Kim! You are all wonderful!)

Here's the girls who had items in the sale....(Kim, why didn't we have Sam take the picture so you'd be in it too? You had the most popular cookies in the sale! I wasn't thinking--sometimes I'm an airhead....)

Here's Andi trying on the merchandise. Can you believe somebody actually bought this coat? Shall I remind you that we live in TEXAS where it is averaging 80 degrees right now?

Bridget occupied herself with trying to lick the legs off one of the tables...

We had a few offers on her, but fortunately she stayed with us! ;)

And here are the businessmen. Henry asked every single person who set foot in our driveway if they'd like to buy some cookies. And many of them did--he made around $15 total!

It was a lot of fun and we got rid of a lot of things!

Next week we are headed to Arkansas for a little vacation with Jon and Kelly. I'm not sure I ever posted about it, but we went last year with these two. We stayed in some cabins on a lake, owned by Kelly's family members. All the way there, we were telling the boys that we were going to Kelly's uncle's cabin. He translated that to "Cabin's House." We didn't realize that is what he was thinking until we got there and he asked, "Where is Cabin?" :) He told me yesterday that he hopes Cabin isn't there so we can stay at his house again. Ha!

Anyway, I'll be gone from blogging (no internet access? Will I make it? We'll see!) for the next little while.

Happy Mother's Day to all you mama's out there and I hope you have a great week!

Jonah's new boots

Here Jonah is showing off his new rubber boots that a friend passed down to us!

The best conversations with my kids usually start out in the van. I don't know what it is, but they seem to say the funniest things while I'm driving down the road!

This week Henry was naming body parts and telling me which letter of the alphabet they started with. He was doing great. When he got to "Arm....Ah-rrr-mmm, that starts with 'A'" Jonah piped up, "Hey! I've heard A. That's like in that song we sing!"

I said, "What song are you talking about, JoJo?

He answered (singing, of course)...."A, B, C, D, E, F, G....you know, that one!"

Sorry, ladies.....

.....he's mine. I know you're jealous.

Jonah, on coloring....

"When I was two, I scribbled. But now that I'm three, I color!"

And more from Jonah:

This is Jonah nursing his baby (who happens to be named Bridget, if you must know),

and he never forgets to burp her! :)

Have a happy Sunday!

Another amazing feat....as performed by Sam!

Sam has this old beater car that he uses to drive back and forth to work. He has kept this thing running quite well, even though it has over 200,000 miles on it.

Recently the car started losing power. I'm not sure the exact details, but when Sam finally figured out the problem, it turned out to be cheaper to replace the entire engine than to fix the specific part.

As usual, I thought he was nuts. Does he think he is a mechanic all of a sudden?
But Sam persevered! He ordered an engine online and over the last week (in his VERY limited free time) he replaced the engine!
Look at all those parts/wires/tubes/ahhhh!
And last night it was finished. I'm sure he held his breath as he turned the key that first time.....but it started right up!
I am SO proud of my husband. Seems he can, in fact, do ANYTHING he sets out to do!