Out For A Swim!

Yesterday I took the kids out for a swim at the pool! Jacob and Lindsey thought we were going to the beach and even put on some sunscreen! Jacob was gathering some toys to what he thought was the beach, he was confused for awhile, since we only really go swimming at the beach. Lindsey was excited to be able to swim and Jacob didn't want anything to do with getting in the water! I was surprised since he loves being in the water at the beach and at home!

Kyle could finally practice some of the things he learned at swimming lessons!

Jacob liked watching the other kids jumping off the diving board and even wanted to jump off the diving board himself! Not sure how he is going to jump off the diving board if he doesn't like being in the water!

Lindsey even jumped off the diving board, with a life vest on! (Really bad picture taken with the camera on my phone!)

Even Lillian wore her bathing suit! I put her toes in the water and she didn't seem to mind!

I am glad we went because I found Lillian's other shoe in the lost in found!

I have been looking everywhere for her little shoe! I had a feeling that I had left it there when Kyle was at swimming lessons! Although they are getting to small for her I still wanted the other one because they were her first pair of shoes! The kids loved swimming and I am just glad Jacob finally got in the water! Blessings, Lisa

Done With Baseball!

We are now officially done with baseball for the summer! Also, Lindsey no longer has to wear her cast! She can now begin to walk on her foot again, although her muscles need to stretch out some before she can walk normal! Bath time will much easier for us now! I'm sure by next week she will be running and jumping off the swings like nothing happened! With Kyle done with baseball and Lindsey done with having to wear her cast our summer seems to have started!

I thought that last week Kyle was done with baseball, but the boys had tournament games to play before they could call it quits. Last Saturday Kyle did AWESOME at his game! He didn't get any outs the whole game and he scored three points for his team, that's three times across home plate! His team won I think it was 15-1, those boys were rockin!

Kyle running into home plate!

I am so very proud of Kyle for his hard work, he improved so much over the past few months! He hasn't played baseball since he was in tee-ball! His coaches did a wonderful job and the other players on his team were great, we could not have asked for anything better! I was suprised that at a few of the games I knew some people from the other team! It was great to catch up with these ladies that I haven't seen in years and meet some new moms at the game. Kyle said he had fun, but he is glad to be done, in a way I am too! Let the summer fun begin!!!! Blessings, Lisa

One Thousand Blessings

#236-245

236. That God made each one of us unique in our own way

237. Kyle not getting any outs at his baseball game and scoring three points

238. Walking to the edge of town to watch the sunset

239. Lindsey getting her cast off tomorrow! (four long weeks later!)

240. Not having to run the air conditioner for a whole week

241. Making my own ruffle capri pants

242. Grocery shopping with the boys

243. Knowing that baseball is almost over

244. Starting the Smart Summer Challenge

245. Knowing that the weather the next few days is going to be awesome, sunny in the low 80°'s

To learn more about One Thousand Blessings visit Ann's blog, A Holy Experience, and take the dare to count as many blessings in which the Lord has given you!!!!

A Week in Review!

This past week seemed to fly by so fast! Of course we were busy as usual with swimming lessons, 4H meeting, baseball and going to the farm nursery to get more flowers! First off, Kyle loved swimming and I did see an improvement from when he first started. I was impressed that he jumped off the diving board since he told me he wouldn't do that! Baseball is almost over for us so then hopefully things will slow down a bit! And it wont be long and the 4H fair will be starting!

I did manage to score a really great deal on some flowers at a small farm not to far from home! I bought two nice sized hydrangeas for only $6 each, had I bought them at a big box store they would have cost at least $20 each! Now they just need to be planted. Actually we need to rotertill the flower bed, again, and lay mulch down. We have been way too busy and let things go in the flower beds. The kids were hot, hot, hot!!!!

One more week and Lindsey gets her cast off! We are counting down the days, I can't wait!!!!

She's a happy baby alright!

The little shed that was at the small farm was so cute!

Jacob and Lindsey wanted to paint their faces!

Goodness, summer break is going by way to fast for the kids! I still have lots of things planned, but we really need to wait until after next week when Lindsey goes back to the doctors office!

Blessings, Lisa

One Thousand Blessings

226-235

226. Kyle enjoying his swimming lessons

227. The great parents I met at swimming lessons

228. The pretty pictures the kids made for fathers day

229. Going to Kyle's last traveling baseball game

230. Watching how excited Lillian was while I was showing her the wind chime

231. Having quiet reading time

232. Sharing another anniversary with Chad

233. Going out to dinner with Chad (and Lillian!)

234. Not having to cut up any food but my own

235. Lillian always being so good during the baseball games

To learn more about One Thousand Blessings visit Ann's blog, A Holy Experience, and take the dare to count as many blessings in which the Lord has given you!!!!

Little Green Swing Clothing!

This week over at Kelly's Korner Blog she is hosting "show us what you make", so today I am linking up! I design and sew children's boutique style clothing, I started my business up in the summer of 2008 and have loved it ever since. The reason I started was not only my love of fabrics and sewing but to make cute little comfy pants for my little chunky baby boy and I wanted some cute duds for my daughter Lindsey without paying way to much money. I started my business just for the fun of and not thinking that anything would ever become of it. I was surprised that it has grown as much as it has over the years and I am so thankful to all of my amazing customers from literally around the world!

The name Little Green Swing came from us having only one little green swing on our playhouse in the backyard. When ever the kids would go outside to play they always "called" the green swing way before they would get to it! Now, of course we have more than one green swing and that phrase doesn't get said as often, but it will always be remembered at our house! Also, Little Green Swing is meant to be fun, I like for my designs to be fun and for all of the little people to have fun wearing them!!!!

You can find my clothing at my online shop through my Etsy shop found HERE, my website found HERE, I also have a facebook fanpage found HERE

Thanks for swinging by!!!! Blessings, Lisa

Pinterest, My New Favorite Website!

I have come across an awesome website a few weeks ago while searching online for some inspiration for the playroom! pinterest is my new favorite way to bookmark things that I love! I will admit it can be addictive to keep pinning things that I find and creating more boards to pin these things on. I have created boards for recipes that I want to try to crafting, decorating my home and places that someday I would love to go! I even added the "pin it" button on my web browser bar so I can pin things that find other places on the Internet. (OK, don't laugh at my horrible screenshots, I just figured out how to do them!)

I have pinned some of my own things, I'm not sure if that's proper etiquette, but I did it anyway! I'm so bad! I'm also not sure if they have a limit as to how many pins or boards you can have! (I probably should have looked into that a little more!)

If you want to follow me and/or see my pins and boards check it out at pinterest.com/lisarosemarie

Now I need to go pin some more inspiration!!!! Blessings, Lisa