Last football game of the season.

Last game of the season was Saturday.  Preston got a chance to run the ball, since he is a blocker and never gets to touch the ball.  He did great.  His girlfriend and her family came to watch the game as well....she is such a cutie.  We are sad the season has come to an end but looking forward to next year.    We are so proud of how well he did, how much he liked it and the friendships he made. 

Friends

Why I feel blessed with the friends I have and how amazing they are. 

• My old roommate and friend wrote a book
• Another room mate and friend is a christian singer and is married to Jeremy Camp
• A different room mate and friend created and writes the Daily Verse
• Many of my friends are amazing women, mothers and wives
• One of my friends here in OH is an inspiration to me in her marriage, friendship and love
• A friend of mine is such a great friend that we are like wonder twins and I love her to death cause she makes me smile and laugh
• Some of my friends work and have children and Im in ahh of how they make it all work at the end of the day.
• My friends have taken care of me when I have been sick
• My friends have seen me cry and listen when I needed to talk to someone
• I am blessed to have such great women as neighbors who are like extended families.
• My sister is one of my best friends and I enjoy talking to her every chance I get and she is a terrific aunt to my kids.
• My OH friends love me even though I dont like the Buckeyes
• My friends and their families do things with us on the weekends and we all have a blast.
• I have a friend and her daughter that are in heaven and I feel blessed to have called her my best friend since childhood and even though she is gone she is still a huge part of my life.
• I have friends that are involved in their community, schools and churches.

I love the friends I have and am blessed to have them in my life. 

Prestons teacher spoke to me this morning while I was volunteering at school and said that she needed help with Preston.  She said that he is giving her the impression that he isnt paying attention although she said that she will ask him to repeat what she said and he does word for word.  When I spoke to Preston he said that he is bored in class.  I dont even know what to do about boredom,  I cant help that this is repetitive stuff for him.   At the beginning of school the teacher said that some kids would go home with one of the following to learn depending upon what they needed to work on  abc's, numbers, letter sounds or sight words.  Preston came home with sight words to assist him in reading which is doing a little reading already.  Im at a loss at this point cause I dont want him to be so bored that he starts to dislike school .  Who would of thought we would have this problem, fighting maybe, throwing food probably, but boredom never.

My little navy seal

Preston is starting to feel better and his cough is slowly starting to trickle away.   While sick he would wake up coughing and come into our bedroom to sleep so it was easy to hear him coming down the hallway with his hacking cough, now that he is better he is still sneaking into our bedroom.  The boy should be a navy seal with his no noise entrance, crawling into our bed and sneaking his way between Lowel and I.  He can be quiet when he wants to be....which isnt often.  Thank goodness he is feeling better now if we could just get him back to his routine of staying in his bed all night.

From dollar store glass to this......



 This is what I made yesterday. Its a dollar store glass hurricane and glued to the bottom with glass glue is a glass taper candle holder also from the dollar store.   I used vinyl and my cricut to cut out the words Boo.  It turned out really cute and now that I know I can do it, I plan on experimenting with several more glass items  such as making a pedestal desert plate with a candle holder on the bottom.  More pics to come as I try making more things.

Project fun

Ive been working on a new craft project but Im not ready to unveil it yet but I will say it includes glass, vinyl lettering, my cricut and E6000 glue. Man I love easy, inexpensive, projects.

I am not loving how most of the craft stores already have Christmas items out....and they have been out since August. People its not even Halloween yet and you already have Christmas up. Not to mention the old lady at the gym who takes old lady water aerobics who I overheard her say today in the locker room that she has her Christmas tree up already.....seriously. Ok I admit I get my decorations out a bit early but not a Christmas tree in September. The other lady that was standing there asked her why she got it out so early and she said to beat the rush..the rush of what? Is there some kind of contest that I dont know about thats be the first to put it out and win a prize. If thats the case then the crazy people who keep them up all year would win that. You know what Im talking about you have seen them lit up in their front rooms at night as you drive by their house and at first your thinking oh it must be a ficus tree only to realize nope its not, its a Christmas tree. If I hear Christmas music before I hear Boo Im gonna have to speak to a manager.

Pimpin my pumpkins

I have seen black glitter pumpkins at Hobby Lobby and loved them, however, did not love the price. They were about $12 so I decided to make my own. I got some pumpkins from the dollar store, already had black spray paint and bought some black glitter for $2.89. The glitter did all these pumpkins plus there is still half a container of glitter left. I also made a letter B with glue on a pumpkin and then put glitter on it as well. I love how the black sparkly pumpkins glam things up a bit.

Waiting for dad

As soon as I start dinner Jazz the dog knows that it must be time for daddy to get home. He always runs to the door and just waits for him to arrive. With every car that passes he watches to see if its going to turn into our driveway. Here he is waiting, waiting, waiting for daddy cause apparently we arent enough entertainment for him and he would rather play with dad.

Poor Preston

Preston has been coughing for the past few days and not sleeping well so today I took him to doctor. He was running a bit of a fever last night and neither of us got any sleep whatsoever. He missed school and I glad I kept him home. There is a viral infection going on with cough, runny nose and stuff but the doctor confirmed that isnt what he has. His allergies are acting up and since Preston is borderline asthma and has been since he was 1 year old the allergies symptoms are starting to settle into his chest. Each year he gets bronchiolitis and it takes about 3 weeks for him to recover. I am hoping that we caught it soon enough this year so he walked out of the doctors office with cough medicine with codeine, singulair for his allergies and a new inhaler.
2 1/2 hours later from the doctor and lots of $ spent on medicine he is home laying on the couch. It took so long at the doctor because he has been tested for asthma before and they wanted to test him again since he gets bronchiolitis so often so he had to do the breathing treatments as well as breathing test again. Poor little boy, sometimes I cant help wonder if my lung issues and the weak spots that I have that caused my lung to collapse have been passed on to him in the form of weak spots.

Friday night Preston and I went to play putt putt golf with my friend Stacey and her son, it was a mommy-son date night. Afterwards we went for ice cream. We had so much fun. On Saturday Preston had a football game and we lost but the boys played well and played hard. After the game we headed up to Coco Keys waterpark and relaxed, swam, ate and watched the kids play till they passed out. Its really nice having 2 indoor waterparks within 30 minutes of the house. Today the plans are to do a little housecleaning, grilling and whatever else we get into.

Its Fall Ya'll

Its fall here in the Bolin house. The leaves here are starting to change colors on a few of the trees outside, and the highs are in the 70's for the past few days. I started decorating because I love the fall season, I have a relay for life meeting at my house coming up, Im having a 31 purse party here at my house soon and because everyone knows I just cant wait for a reason to decorate.

Not my dog.....

We have had a stray dog come in and out of our yard for the past few days and someone in neighborhood called animal control about him. Preston though they were here for our dog so he was yelling at them dont take my dog away with lightsaber in hand and tears welling up in his eyes. This is what happens when you let your kids watch Bolt and Hotel for Dogs.

Sneeze, cough, aaacccchhoooo

Not feeling good today, it actually started yesterday and just got worse throughout the night. My throat is killing me, my head is stuffy and I have a runny nose. I never understood how your head could be stuffy with so much snot coming out. Shouldnt my runny nose ease my stuffy head kind of like a balloon with air, if you let the air out the balloon isnt so tight. I think my busy week just caught up with me. Today Im just taking an easy at home, laying on the couch and watching reruns of 7th Heaven. I love that show, too bad it stopped cause by now it might be 11th Heaven. I have about 5 cups of OJ in my belly and some chicken broth. I have Halls to suck on and tissues by my side. I should take advantage of the stillness in the house before little man gets off the bus from school. 7th Heaven is back on gotta go.

Weekend

Friday night we met several friends for pizza and then went to the first home game of the local high school on their new turf field. It was a great time and we won-Yeah!!! Saturday we went to Preston football game in Pickerington and they won-Double Yeah!! There was some trash talking on the field as well and some of it was even from Preston-he wont tell us what he said to the boy from the other team but Im going to assume he said "wow you are are a great football player, maybe we can have lunch at McDonalds after the game" or it could of gone like this " my mom told me to put your face in the ground and thats exactly what Im about to do so please excuse the cleat marks on your back".

After the game we had lunch with football families then we headed to the pageant to watch our neighbor. Then it was off to a Labor Day party with friends with great food, great people and a lot of fireworks-it was fun even if the cops came cause somebody complained about the fire works. It has been a good weekend, busy but good.

Today I am finishing up posters for the Labor Day parade that will go on the football trucks and then Monday we are off to the parade. Good times good times.

1st day of kindergarten

First day of kindergarten. I was up at 7 am without the help of mommy and daddy and ready to take on the world. Look out school-here I come! Oh and mommy only cried once at the bus stop, she was a trooper once she was at school, way to go mommy! (click on pictures to enlarge)

Our sweet neighbors left this note on the door for Preston to see when he gets off the bus this afternoon.

Im pretty sure that something is going to get missed this week.

Monday- gym, grocery store, clean house, wash 18 team jerseys, football practice

Tuesday-First day of Kindergarten for Preston, take football team jerseys to have them put last names on them. Spend time with hubby who has taken day off for Prestons first day of school, hair cut.

Wednesday-outlet store with friends to find football decor to decorate the trucks that the football team will ride on during the Labor Day parade. 2011 Relay for Life begins for next year, clean house for moms visit today, football practice.

Thursday/Friday-mom in town, pick up football jerseys, Friday night football game with friends and tailgating with Prestons football team.
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Saturday-football game, CW pageant to watch neighbor, then off to a Labor Day party at a great friends house

Sunday/Monday-Labor Day events, mom possibly back in town. Monday is the parade and I have to decorate 2 trucks, 1 golf cart, Preston and Lowel are in parade with the football team and Im in the parade with American Cancer Society Relay for Life.

Football

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Preston and his friend Joseph, they are also in the same class at kindergarten.

First football game. He played right tackle today for offense and defense. He started as well as was the team captian.

Preston and Alyssa sitting in a tree.

Preston and Alyssa sitting in a tree.....This is the cute girl that Preston likes, he calls her his girlfriend and the other day her mother and her invited us to have lunch with them. So off we went to Taco Bell for a date.

This picture was taken just as Preston burped cause lets not forget that he is still a boy.

Have you ever taken a step back and looked at your life? Sometimes I walk down the steps in the morning and realize wow this is my house, wow Im in my mid 20's (ok so thats a little white lie) and I have a kid, Im a stay at home mom, I have great friends and then I realize just how blessed I am to have these things. I sometimes wonder what happened between 18 years of age-till now, its all a blur and Im not sure where the time went. Its as if this is where I was always supposed to be all along. Im glad God didnt give up on me when I gave up on myself at times.

Today I got Preston up and at em' early. He needs to start getting up early in time for school. The bus will be picking him up at 8:30 each morning so we are getting up a few minutes after 7. This morning we were out the door and at the grocery by 8am. At noon we met some friends at the park and played for a few hours as well as had lunch before going to meet his teacher. I went to his school yesterday evening to meet his teacher but today it was Preston's turn. He seemed to really like her but I think I annoyed him by making him walk outside 2 times and then show me which door he has to go into and then walk me to his class as if he just got off the bus. Tomorrow he has to go to take a test to see where his skills are at and then Tuesday is the first day of actual kindergarten. He seems to like things so far. I hope his enthusiasm continues.

Books

Nicholas Sparks new book Safe Haven comes out Sept 14th, thank goodness Im in need of a new book to read. I just finished Eat, Pray, Love and it was wonderful. Come on Sept 14th.

Stop school bus Stop

Preston ran down the stairs this morning screaming my name yelling mom, mom did I miss my school bus. Guess he is ready for school to start....and possibly having the same dream that we have all experienced in life, you know the one where you miss the school bus and your running down the street chasing and yelling it to stop only to realize that your buck naked. Am I the only one who has had this dream????

Good guilt vs bad guilt

Today we are going to talk about good guilt vs bad guilt because guilt gets to everyone at some point. Here are my guilts:

Good guilt is the dipping dots Im eating right now, bad guilt is the dipping dots Im eating right now. Good guilt is wanting to do more in the town we live in and be more involved, bad guilt is the fear that I will never be good enough and will take up a lot of my time. Good guilt is wanting to spend time with my family, bad guilt is wanting some alone time. Good guilt is trying to be friendly to everyone, bad guilt is sometimes hurting a friends feelings. Good guilt is running 1 more mile, bad guilt is skipping the gym. Good guilt is loving my dog, bad guilt is hating the pet hair and wishing we had a goldfish. Good guilt is wanting to please everyone, bad guilt is not giving a rats ass sometimes. Good guilt is getting things off my chest in this blog, bad guilt is not cleaning the house or reading another book to the kiddo. Good guilt is loving decorating my house, bad guilt is spending money on my wants and not my needs. Good guilt is pushing our kids into sports, bad guilt is wanting them to win and be the best all the time. Good guilt is loving my husband beyond belief, bad guilt is glad he is out of the house while at work.

Home made stepping stones

Last time my mom was in town she gave the kids these stepping stone kits. With everyones schedules so crazy we just got around to doing them but they turned out great. They look so good in the flower beds as you come up to the house.

High Dive Jumping boy

We went to a birthday party tonight at the Canal pool and Preston jumped off the high dive ...over and over and over again.

So proud of him.

In 11 days I will be a mother to a kindergartner. Didnt I just have this kid, how has 5 years already passed by. Lately when I say "yes baby" or "what baby" to his questions he reminds me that he is not a baby and that I should say to him "what big boy". He is stubborn, all boy, cute as can be, likes to get dirty and is all mine.

Trinity, Grandma Lynda and I went shopping today. We introduced Trinity to the Bolin shop till you drop extravaganza. All of which includes shopping at many stores, trying on a million pieces of clothing, eating fries and chocolate shake from steak n shake and lasting 6 hours. It has lasted longer however she is only 9 so we took an easy on her. This year she picked out her own school clothes instead of us shopping for her. She is a big girl now and she informed us that she wants a car. Really a car for your 9th birthday.....keep dreaming. She also informed us that someday she wants a tattoo and her ears pierced again so that she has 2 holes in each ear. I think she is becoming a mini me.

Preston got #12 in football- I dont know if anyone knows this but that was always my number growing up in sports. Woot! Woot!

Preston has moved up again in swim lessons. He has moved from the 9am swim lesson slot to the 10am slot that is for 6yr olds and up. Its a more challenging swim lesson but its also just what he needs to perfect his strokes in the deep end. Most kids in this class are swim team wanna be's and Preston will be the youngest since he just turned 5 in June but I know he can do it. He needs that challenge and he loves the deep end. He is now learning to dive off the diving board and not just jump off the diving board or dive from the side. He is learning back strokes right now and pretty good at it. Im very proud of him and I hope he likes his new class that starts on Monday.

We are finishing up football camp this week and then starts practices and games. This week has been full gear each night and Monday night to say it was hard for Preston would be an understatement. 1st its the first time he has had practice with all gear, 2nd it was 90+ degrees, 3rd he was hurting. He was crying and complaining about his head, we thought that he was just hot and wasnt used to his helmet. When we took the helmet off after practice he had red marks all over his head and he said he had a headache. I gave him some tylenol and the next night we switched out the pads inside his helmet to smaller ones and as soon as he put the helmet on he said "thats better". Here is a picture of Preston before his new pads, who knew it was too tight although he chipmunk squishy face probably told us and we just didnt pay attention cause he was so stinkin cute.

Football season has arrived

Little backyard football practice