Family News and Weekend Update

To start off with some random pics, here are the remaining Dr. Seuss paintings I finally finished up... Hooray for craft time!

Margie (my friend, neighbor and Caleb's sitter) and I went out for a girl's night to the Power and Light District. We watched the Better Than Ezra Concert and rocked out hot mamma style... Strike a pose

Up close and personal

"And it's good oh livin with you wa ah"

G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S boys

Yesterday marked a big day in the lives of the Peavie family. I had my ultrasound at 3:00pm and discovered we will be welcoming a baby girl to our family come December. Caleb was very excited and has been asking for a baby sister for the last month or so. He thinks his new sister is his Christmas present because we explain to him that the baby comes out of mommy's tummy at Christmas. We apologize for the poor quality, ultrasound pics are difficult to edit... (you can click on these to see detail)

Caleb and I attended the first annual Team 3 Lake Party for all team 3 students and their families. We had a blast and now we're winding down for the evening to post these pics...

Can we get in the lake yet?

Ouch, hot sand!

Caleb getting a lift from Amelia

Showing off his back stroke

Building castles in the sand

Caleb and his new friend Braxton

Check out my SpongeBob floaties

Worn out after a long day...

A perfect ending to a perfect afternoon at Lake Weatherby

Weekend fun and a rainy day...

To start off the weekend, Mona and Corrine came over for a chocolate party on a school night...

Our weekend as mother son included the SuperSplash water park and Caleb's first experience at an official birthday party for his pal, Ben...

Can we say, "Queso"

Hanging out by the pool

The boys showing off their bulging biceps

Safety first: floaties and sunscreen

Oliver was too cool for the sun...

A picture to describe Max and Caleb's relationship...

Eating a hotdog

Both eating a hotdog

Caleb watching Tegan open her present

Eating (well, attempting to eat) popcicles

You wanna piece of this?!?!

Getting ready for pirate cake at Ben's birthday

Caleb had to watch the as the candles were lit

Argh matey! Cupcake cannonballs!

The birthday crew on their best behavior

Today, I woke up bright and early for my one hour commute to St. Joseph, Missouri. Unfortunately after I arrived, the clinic decided to inform me the dentist was sick and I now had the day off... Rather than running back to the sitter's house and grabbing Caleb, I decided to work on some paintings for Caleb's new bedroom in Kentucky. Here are previews of the finish products:

Here is Green Eggs step by step:

July 09' Independence and Fun!

We all had such big plans for the Fourth of July this year. Although we were disappointed to miss the big extravaganza in Las Cruces, we were creating memories of our own in our new home. Being in the same metropolitan area, Jessica and David were able to join in the festivities and Shawn's sister, Crystal and her family along with Shawn's parents all drove up to celebrate. When the big day arrived, thoughts of water balloon fights, trips to the park and pool and an outdoor picnic faded away as the clouds rolled in. It sprinkled, then drizzled, then flat out poured ALL day long... We had to make-do and enjoy recreation from an in-door perspective.

Jessica showing her hula-hoop skills on the Wii

David attacking Caleb and Jaedyn for some indoor WWF fun!

Shawn and Papa testing out the new gril in our garage...yummy burgers!

Indoor picnic on the floor style

Fun with veggies (special credit to Disney.com)

Corn on the cob, twice stuffed potatoes, burgers, hot dogs and of course, tamales!

And the meal would not be complete without chocolate-covered, red white and blue sprinkled strawberries, star spangled cupcakes and firecracker pretzel sticks

Jessica and I got creative with jimica and cut out star shaped veggies for our Independence Day inspired menu

To make the weekend even more special, we all decided to go to the Red's vs Cardinals game... and what a game it was!! Red's were ahead until the 7th inning until Pujol stepped up to bat...

Jaedyn is obviously not a Cardinals fan

A view of downtown Cincinnati from the Red's stadium

Beautiful weather for the ball game

Brylee and Shawn enjoying the sunshine, peanuts and popcorn

It was Colter's first MLB game! He was sad the Red's lost but happy to be there

The whole group

Cousin love

So Caleb and I had to leave our beautiful home and Shawn to return back to Kansas City. Even as I write this blog, Caleb is begging for our "Tucky Tucky house...PLEEEASE". We have been occupying ourselves with school, of course and lots and lots of baking when mommy gets home. Our latest hobby is chocolate-making...

Caleb perfects his ganache

Making sure all the ingredients are smooth and even

Caleb and I have also tried to explore Kansas City a little more. We discovered Longview Lake with our neighbors and Caleb LOVES the water. He thinks he's an olympic swimmer and likes to venture out into the deep water until mommy pulls him back toward the shore.

Because of all of his swimming, Caleb now has Olympic size biceps of the bright blue variety. He added Nemo tattoos to show off his true swimmer spirit.