Anniversary

Jake and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary earlier this month.  Well, I can't really say that we celebrated.  Jake was down and totally out with his back and Shea was on her death bed with strep.  It wasn't a real festive day in the Rhodes household.  Drew and I had fun though.
My father-on-law just couldn't stand it that we weren't going to be doing anything for our anniversary, so he came over that night with flowers and a cake.  Check it out.

Did you notice how the genius spelled *anivesary*......nice!!!  We got a good laugh out of that one.  For those of you that don't know, Jake's name is really Chris.....it's a long story. There's no interesting witness protection program story or anything.  He's not in hiding.

Shea is finally having her first t-ball game tonight against Adel....YAY!!!  Her first game got rained out.  Her second game was supposed to be this past Saturday but got rescheduled to tonight.  She is so stinkin' excited.  It should be fun.

Oh, yeah, I finally bought clay so Shea and I can get going on my pottery wheel.  Shea is so excited.  Maybe we'll be able to find some time to get started on that this weekend..

Hope everyone's having a great day!!

Mother's Day and my madness

I've finally kicked myself in the butt and gotten over my pity party.  I'm really back this time.  I've been overwhelmed, overworked and super stressed.....totally not fun.  I'm super sorry to all of you that I've blown off lately through messages and FB.  Honestly, I wouldn't have been all that much fun to talk to.  It's all been in my head, so the kids haven't been suffering from my craziness....well, no more than usual.

Have I ever mentioned that I have the best kids in the world!!!!  They spoiled me on Mother's Day, just like every mother should be.  I hope you all had a fantastic Mother's Day!!

Here's a picture of something Shea did at school for me for Mother's Day.  I hope you can read it.  It's pretty funny.

So, apparently I'm really old, really tall and super skinny.  Jake and Shea made me these flowers.  Who knew that Jake had a crafty bone in his body.                                                                                     

Then they got me another apple tree.  Pretty sweet day, huh!!!  Well, yeah, until later when we were at my in-laws' house and Drew had a little, okay big, accident and hurt his face.  My poor little guy biffed it on their deck....OUCH!!!!  Nothing a little snuggling with Mommy couldn't fix.  This picture actually looks good.  He  looked like he got his butt whooped in a boxing match for  few days.                                                                                                                                                                                                

            

                                                                   

He's now into accessorizing his outfits himself.  Sweet getup, huh!!!!!  He's got the baby monitor that's his phone.  He keeps talking into it to Daddy, but Jake never seems to talk back to him.                                    

Hope you all are having a great week so far.