the BIG surprise

the first of last week my husband told me that he had a big surprise for me on friday. so all that week he kept building me up for this surprise. come friday we had bad storms and there was one time where he told me that we just couldn't go because of the rain. then within an hour the skies cleared and plans were back on. he told me that when i walked outside and saw what was in the driveway my jaw would drop. so i got ready and was waiting around for robert to get home. he pulled up and honked, i walked outside and saw a corvette sitting in our drive way. yes, my jaw dropped, my first thoughts were, is this mine? did he buy this for me? then reality hit me and i remembered i had kids and this car had no back seats. so come to find out, robert knows this guy who owned the car and told robert to take it and have fun. we went back in time about 10 years. we felt like we were in school again. we went to eat, then just drove around town. we had a great time. and just like cinderella, my corvette turned back into a chevy avalanche. robert said that it would be something that i would never forget, and he was exactly right. i love my husband!!!

a busy summer already

Tulsa Vacation

to start off luke's summer break we all went to tulsa. we went to big spalsh and to the oklahoma aquarium. seeing the stingrays reminded us of our cruise we took last year. we had a great time that was very much needed. we baked in the sun at big spalsh then relaxed back at the hotel. the boys got a huge kick out of the video games we had in our room and we all enjoyed the hot tub. i think i might have robert talked into getting one. the boys loved seeing all the underwater creatures. this will hopefully just be the start of a very exciting summer.

Memorial Day Weekend

We took our second camping trip of the summer. we went to dam site park this time. it started out almost not finding a camping spot. but we finally did after squeezing into some tight places with a 30ft camper. we had a good couple of days until.......we had to go to the emergency room!!!! here is how the story goes. saturday morning we get finished with breakfast and luke is pushing logan in the hammock. we see that luke is getting a little carried away, so we ask luke to not push logan so high because he might fall out. well i don't know if luke didn't mean to OR if he wanted to see little bro fall out. anyway, robert and i turn our backs, we hear a thud, and see logan laying on the ground. robert drops everything in his hands, runs over to logan and has a melt down. logan had indeed fell out of the hammock with some help from big bro and hit his chin on a railroad tie, busting it wide open. luckily the E.R. was 5 minutes away and luckily he didn't get stitches (which saved us some money). the attending doctor just glued him right up. and we were off camping again. that was the highlight of our memorial day weekend.

Pryor Family Reunion 2009

we traveled to Tishomingo, ok to have our family reunion on my dad's side. i got to see several family that i haven't seen in years. i expected everyone to look the same as i remembered as a kid, but soon realized that people change as they get older. why don't things stay the way that you remember them as a child? like take for instance, when i go to "tish" i always like to drive by my old house. well this time it was different, it was sad. robert and i loaded up the boys and headed off down broadway, and soon things started looking different, i could of swarn that i used to live on broadway. we had to drive around a couple of blocks to realize that my old house had been bull-dozed down and replaced with a school gym. i was devestated. how could this happen? i kept asking robert. he repsonded LIFE happened. i expected that house to be there forever. that's where i used to find horny toads, that's where i would walk to my grandpa's and pick wild strawberries, it's where i learned to ride my bike, and learned to tie my shoes, i even remember getting stung by a bee there. i wanted so badly to show the boys "mama's old house". now i never will. but the stories is what counts. i have wonderful stories that i get to pass on.

MAY 26, 2009

my first born graduated kindergarten. wow!! time has totally flew by. from diapers and bottles to riding bikes with no training wheels and girlfriends. yep, he's growing up right before my eyes. it was exciting for all of us. my mom came to watch and we celebrated afterwards. took plenty of pictures. it was an adorable ceremony. the theme was "from caterpillars to butterflies" which is so appropriate because luke loves them both. so next year, it is off to first grade. bigger numbers and bigger words.

summer time

one of my favorite things about this time of year is the cook-outs. we have been doing alot of grilling already. tonight robert had to work alittle late, so i grilled some hamburgers for the boys and me, then we had some ice cream. afterwards, i sat on the back patio and watched the boys play around. the weather couldn't be more perfect. i love to watch the boys play together. i get this certain feeling that i have the perfect life. i know that i have the best little boys in the whole world. these are the times that i hope the boys remember for the rest of their life. i know i will.

anniversary dinner outcome

i am happy to say that, everything turned out great. our usual babysitter decided she wanted some extra cash, and decided to change her plans. i figure it was probably God teaching me a lesson to be content with things not always going my way, because just when i excepted the fact that we wouldn't be going to dinner, plans turned around. so robert and i went to north little rock and ate at red lobster, it wasn't the place we decided to go in the first place, but we enjoyed ourselves anyway. afterwards we browsed around acadamy then headed home.

disadvantages of not having mom around

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY #8

i know i shouldn't always get upset when things don't work out my way, in the back of my mind i know that there are certain reasons why things don't happen the way i would like for them to. but isn't it just in our human nature to get upset? anyway, today is mine and robert's 8 year anniversary, and he wants to go to little rock and have a nice dinner at this resturaunt we found that has a nice romantic setting and has great food. but i am not having any luck finding a baby sitter. and it just makes me sit back and realize, if i lived near my mom still, she would be there for me in a heart beat. yea, i guess we could go on a different day, but it just seems more like its an anniversary dinner if you actually go on your anniversary, verses if you wait a couple days, it just seems like another usual dinner at a resturant. oh well, we will see what happens.

our newest addition

we finally got daddy talked into getting a puppy. and i think robert enjoys her more than we do. her name is darla. she is chocolate lab, mixed with a bit of something else, so we were told. by looking at her you would think she was full-blood. the boys lover her and she loves the boys, and she loves to chew on everything besides her "chew" toys. the guys made her the best dog house i had ever seen. this dog house even has shingles on it. i wonder if she is a bit spoiled yet?!!

quite an experience

last weekend, my good friend from high school, chanelle got married. on the invitation it said that the wedding would be held at a greek orthodox church. my first thought was that maybe they decided to have it there because it was a fancy church or something of the sorts, well shortly after the ceremony started my first thought proved to be wrong. it was actually being held at a greek orthodox church because well........ it was indeed a GREEK wedding!! it was nothing like i had ever been to. it was a great experience to say the least. it was chanelle all the way, from her dress to the decorations, from the greek traditions to the food. if it were to have been any other way, it would not of been "chanelle".

It's way too early

On Thursday April 30, i got the most heart-shocking news from my first born son..........it goes something like this. i was waiting to pick luke up from school and as the kids came walking out of the building to parent pick-up, i am watching my son which looked like he was holding some girls hand. so i kept my eyes fixed on those hands until i could tell for sure. sure enough what i saw was true. so i convince myself that it's just a buddy thing. oh no!! the very first words out of my little 6 year olds mouth was, "guess what mom? i got a new girlfriend." okay i don't know about you but i was totally at a loss for words, and thinking NEW girlfriend? like he has had many. not wanting to make a big deal about it and embarress him, i didn't say much. i was absolutly stunned.

spring break 2009

SUNDAY MARCH 22:
after church, robert and i took the boys to little rock. we went to the museum of discovery. it's a hands on museum for adults and children. after that we walked down to the river and up and down president clinton blvd. we came home and all took a ride on the 4 wheeler. we found our selves stopped at a clover patch, and robert knows how much i love to find 4 leaf clovers. i'm not bragging but give me a clover patch and in about 5 minutes i can find you atleast one 4 leaf clover. well this day was different. i searched and searched for one, could not find one anywhere. yea, i was getting upset because that just doesn't happen with me. so anyway here we are looking, even luke and logan are looking. and luke all of a sudden says, "hey, i found a 4 leaf clover" and robert and i are like yea right. sure enough he had found the biggest 4 leaf clover i had ever seen. i decided to quit looking after about 30 minutes and it got dark anyway. so we went about our evening routine.

MONDAY MARCH 23:
the boys and i didn't do much today. we spent alot of time outside since it was so beautiful. luke rode the 4 wheeler alot and logan rode the gator. as i sat outside with the boys, i spotted a huge clover patch in our yard, so guess what i had to do? i had to make sure i still had the touch, so i marched myself over to that patch, i found a nice cozy position and i start looking....... well if my neighbors were watching me, they probably thought i was the biggest fruit loop, because after about five minutes i had found three 4 leaf clovers and guess what?!!! one 5 leaf clover, i was beside myself. i was excited to know i still had the touch!!!! after i calmed down. the boys and i had a picnic in their clubhouse.

TUESDAY MARCH 24:
so the first thing i do this morning is call the doctor to see if i could get logan in. the night before he was complaining about his ear hurting and then again early this morning. so i knew it had to be infected. and sure enough the doctor said it was. just when i thought we were done with ear infections. this will be the first infection logan has had since he had tubes put in around janurary 07. today was rainy and dreary, so we built a huge house out of blankets and chairs inside the house. we found out later that evening when robert got home that david (his boss) is going to start work in pennsylvania. so we have been thinking alot and dealing with that lately. it's been nerve racking to think that we possibly could move to pennsylvania or stay around here and not know what to do. we both have said that we won't move again but who knows what GOD wants us to do, so we have been doing some serious praying about things and we need to just give it time. one thing that i never want for my boys is to be moved around the united states and not have any close friends or a normal life. and david might be able to have houses all over the u.s. but robert and i can't do that. we already have two and that is enough.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 25:
today was a very relaxing day. we did alot of finger painting, and had another picnic outside. we had rain chances every day this week so it was difficult to plan alot of things outside. so we hung around the house today.

THURSDAY MARCH 26:
i told luke that we would try to go to the park atleast one day this week, and it looked like time was running out, so even though it was cold and still a bit wet we ordered a pizza and took it to the park. unfortunatly they didn't get to play on the equipment because it was wet, but we did take a long walk on the trail. the boys enjoyed that and i didn't feel bad for not keeping my word. we ran a few errands after that then went on to the house. robert got home early today and we all did some yard work.

FRIDAY MARCH 27:

i did some of my house work today so i wouldn't have to do it this weekend. robert and i went out to dinner with another couple and then we went bowling. macy came over from next door and watched the boys for us. they always have a blast with her.

SATURDAY MARCH 28:
so our whole family is together today. we got to sleep in a little bit. it was cold today, but the boys still wanted to play outside, and so we did. robert continued to rebuild his old car, and i decided that i would be a good wife and crawl up under it and get my hands dirty with him. he loved it and i didn't think it was that bad. nothing like a little bonding. actually i had fun. see, latley, over the past few weeks something has changed inside of me, and i know exactly what it is. i never thought that i could ever feel the way i do towards my husband. everyday i know i will love him more. we have become so close since our move to arkansas. we have had to depend on each other and we both feel like we are eachothers best friend. i want to do so much for him. everyday i want to just try new things, and do anything i can think of that will make him happy. i can't wait to wake up tomorrow and know that i will love him more than i did today. i am at a loss of words when it comes to us and how much our relationship has grown. there are no words to describe what i feel for him. and like i said earlier, i know exactly what it is, it's God!!! i can finally say that i know what a marriage that has God in the center of it feels like. this is what true love is.

so later that night robert cooks dinner for the boys and me, and then makes me an early birthday cake. i will give him credit, he did TRY to make a cake, lets just say it was "man" made. but the thought means so much more than if it was the best cake i had ever tasted. and it really wasn't that bad. we get the boys off to bed and we watch a movie that we rented.

SUNDAY MARCH 29:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!

so today is my birthday. let me tell you the greatest thing in the world, is to have your three favorite men pile in bed with you and give you your birthday card and present. i would of been extremely happy just to have them pile up with me. we all got ready for church and off we went. we went to eat after church then robert took off to meet up with david and have a little heart to heart just about work, family, and life. robert has been dealing with alot latley, see i don't think that i am the only one that God has been changing, i believe that he is also working on robert which is good because robert is starting to see what is worth speaking up for. so robert leaves the house and just as i get out of my church clothes and into more comfortable ones my door bell rings and there are purple flowers and a birthday cake being delivered. it was from my wonderful husband. how he pulled that off, i don't know, but it was perfect!! purple is my favorite color and it was a vanilla cake with butter cream icing. yum!yum! he really is the best ever. tonight we are watching the movie Fireproof and eating pizza at church. it will be our second time to watch the movie, but we don't mind cause this day and age, married couples need all the help they can get. so that wraps up our spring break week.

over the next few weeks things will be getting quite busy. i have two weddings to go to, a marriage conference, family reunion, luke will be graduating from preschool and we will be taking our first camping trip of the year pretty soon. can't wait to write more.

What is a mom?

Who knew that when you become a wife and mother, you also become a:

- taxi driver
- massage therapist
- alarm clock
- referee
- doctor
- librarian
- chef
- coach/teacher
- beautician
- entertainer
- janitor/maid
- veterinarian
- waitress

- accountant
- interior decorator
- pest exterminator
- event coordinator

So, who needs to go to college?!!

exhausting weekend

well last weekend was an exhausting one. the boys and i drove to poteau last friday and robert followed early saturday morning. our reason for visiting the "old hometown" was to clean up our house down there. we have had renters in it for the last year and finally decided to sell the place. so my dad and robert worked on the yard and the shops while mom and i cleaned the house. we all did minor repairs and had the place looking better than ever. we started working about 8 saturday morning and before we knew it, it was 7 o'clock. you should of seen us that evening, we could barely lift our arms. my dad sure did fix us the best hard days work dinner though: steak and shrimp, baked potatoes with all the fixins, green beans and salad. yum! yum! on sunday, mom, the boys, and i went to church (the men went back out to the house to finish up things) i got to see one of my best friends chanelle. and later that afternoon we had her wedding shower. and i got to see another friend that i hadn't seen in 6 years, brianne. robert and the boys headed home and i followed about an hour behind. i got home about 9 o'clock that night, had to get everyone ready for school and work the next day then headed to bed. then, just as i fall asleep robert and i hear a neighbors dog barking right outside our window, that was irritating. so needless to say i am so glad that weekend is over. we got the house listed, so hopefully the right buyer will come along.

taking it easy

not much has been going on around here lately, (i can't believe i am able to say that). no one has been sick or got hurt. knock on wood!!! nothing major has happened. we did get good news back on our taxes, though. robert and i might be taking a trip to san antonio in a few weeks. well since i dont have much to write about, i'm gonna sign off and hopefully will have some exciting news next time.

dealing with staph

well, this week hasn't been too crazy, except for logan. i took him to the pediatrician monday and he diagnosed him with staph. but we got him on anibiotics and everything looks good now. i was alittle freaked out since logan has only been here with me at the house i was wondering where he picked this up at, so i went crazy and disinfected the whole house. other than that things have been pretty easy going and laid back. we didn't make it to oklahoma last weekend, robert has been so busy with work. so we will be down this weekend, our main reason is to file taxes. can't wait to find out those results. anyway, guess i will sign off so i can get packed up.

bad weather

tuesday and wednesday were a little different. luke didn't have school because of bad weather, and robert also stayed home due to the ice. so we have had some good days, but now i am kinda glad it's just logan and i again and things are back to normal. (hope that doesn't sound too bad) tuesday morning we woke up and went to eat breakfast at IHOP. it was crazy, the boys acted like they had never been out to eat before, even though we go out a couple times a week. and towards wednesday evening robert and i were getting on eachothers nerves just a bit. oh well, it happens sometimes. logan seems to be having a hard time with the monster thing. i have tried several things such as, 2 nightlights, leaving his closet open WITH the light on, and spraying "monster spray" (febreeze). and still we find him on the couch in the morning, if there are any other ideas out there i need them. well that is how my last few days have been, not very exciting. maybe more after the weekend. i am half way thinking of driving to oklahoma, but don't know for sure yet.

saturday evening

all the hard work that i put into my house EVERY day last week paid off. i finished the boy's bedrooms saturday a.m. and the guys left for little rock around 5:00. and i was a free gal!!! i went grocery shopping since going grocery shopping with no kids is a dream come true for me. i came home and did a little pampering on the ol' tootsies and hands (they had been neglected for quite some time now), then sat back with some double stuff oreos, a glass of milk, and watch the miss america pageant, what's better than eating junk food while watching skinny women. my men came home around 11:00. and that was my much needed evening. and my house couldn't be more clean and organized.

working my butt off

well we have been in our new home a full year now. and for a few months i have been wanting to go through every room and clean out what we haven't used in a year. i will admit i have been procrastinating. so i finally started on monday cleaning from top to bottom, one room at a time. its only tuesday, and i am ready to give up. on wednesday i will begin on the dreaded kitchen, yuck!! on the other hand, i know i will feel a heck of alot better once i get this house done, think i will treat myself out when its complete :) hopefully i am done by saturday, looks like i might have an evening to myself, robert is planning on taking the boys to alltel arena to watch monster truck jam. i am sooo excited because i can't remember the last time i had alone time. well back to cleaning while i am in the mood.

first timer

so one of my very good friends told me that i should start "blogging" now that i am a stay at home mom. well kacy, i hope i am doing this right. before she told me about blogging, i never knew of such thing. so everyone who reads this, beware, because this is my first time. i will probably not spell things correctly, i might get in a hurry, and leave some words out, just keep in mind, i have a 6 year old and a three year old that love to fight, so i might get distracted. anyway, i will give this ol' blogging thing a shot, maybe i will get hooked. more later.....