My AMAZING Hubby Rayce

Okay, I have decided to inform all of you how truly AMAZING my husband is. Not only is he a the best dad to my children, but he is probably the most talented person I have ever met. He is my own personal Midas. I swear that everything he touches turns to gold (minus myself, I am not perfect, contrary to popular belief!!!!). Any hobby that he has ever tried, he does such an amazing job. These are some pictures of just a few things that he has done in the past 10 years or so. Not only is he very artistic visually, but VERY artistic with music. When he was in his band, he wrote all the music for each instrament, and also all the lyrics. A few things he can do is:
Make masks (from start to finish)
Sing
Compose music
Play Guitar & Bass
Airbrush
Draw anything he can imagine
And SO much more. His newest talent is Tattooing, and he does a really good job at that too! He is at the top of his class for Vertual Technology & Design here at the UofI. Like I said, everything he touches turns to gold!

Here is my tattoo. He was a little nervous, but not as much as him. I knew that he would do good, but I am a baby when it comes to pain. He did a really good job, and I am very happy with the end result. Thank Rayce, and thanks for being such an amazing man!

(the pictures aren't the best, but here ya go)

Water fun! (Sorry this is kind of long! ~ as ususal)

As you all know, my grandparents came this weekend. I didn't get to take as many pictures as I had hoped. But yesterday morning, they left super early (like 6:30 in the dang morning) and as you can tell by this picture, my kids are SUPER tired!

It has finally been warm enough to play in the water. The kids LOVE jumping on the trampoline with the sprinkler under it. (This day Shylee fell asleep and missed it all, but she did played on it today!) They have a blast doing it, and they can do it ALL day!
Icelynn doing a flip. They are getting so agile on the tramp!

Try as I might, I could not get Cayge during the flip. I took like 8 pictures, and none of them took, and they were blury on top of that.

Icelynn loves to draw and write. And she is really good at it. This is what she does everyday. I love seeing this.

Rayce is full fledge into working now that summer has really hit. He works for TLC lawn care. They mostly mow lawns. He is such an amazingly hard worker. And we love him so much! Today him and his guys stopped by the house for work, and mowed our lawn while they were waiting for me to finnish up lunch.

This is Rayce and his friend Eric. They are pretty good friends, and they work really good together.

Shylee and her leaf crown

Icelynn and her leaf crown (sorry, the picture is blurry)

This is Deng. He works with Rayce, and he made the girls their leaf crowns. Thanks Deng, the girls love their crowns!

Last day of School & Arboretum

I had quite the week last week. It started off by deep cleaning everything in my house. I had my granparents coming, and so, the first few pictures are of the kids scrubbing the chairs for me. They do a pretty good job, plus they love doing it. The rest of the pictures of the last day of school for the girls. It was really fun, and the girls are sad to be not going to school today.

On Friday, we went to the UofI Arboretum for a couple of hours. We spent most of our time at the ponds. We saw turtles, fish, and ducks. Ducks were Shylee's favorite. They followed her around the whole pond. At one point she said "Mom! The ducks are going to babysit me!!" I swear to you all, I have never EVER, left my kids with an animal in charge of them. But we really enjoyed our time there.

PrePost

So, today I am writing a "PrePost". My grandparents are coming into town this weekend, and I am sure I will be taking tons of photos. I am super excited for this weekend, in fact, they should be here tomorrow evening. My kids are excited, I am excited. Lots of hustle and bustle around the house. I scrubbed bathrooms today, and did some tidying up around. It will be a great weekend.

Also, the girls have their last day of school tomorrow, so I will be spending the day with them and taking lots of photos. So keep posted, I will be letting you know how the next few days go.

Sunday Walk, Homemade Rock Band, and a new Girlfriend

Last Sunday the kids and I went for a walk. It was such a gloomy rainy day, but it was better than being stuck inside all day. The rain was just soft enough that we weren't soaked, but enough that we were getting pretty wet. Shylee decided that she wanted to hunt for worms. I thought that she had her fill of worms, but now she just likes them even more. Every worm she saw on the sidewalk she needed to pick up. At one point she had like 5 in her hand. It was pretty cute, even though it was really cute.

Walking up the road behind out house.

Cayge and Icee checking out all the worms in Shy's hand. If ya look closely, you can see that they are trying desperately to get out of her hands. It was pretty gross, there was worm slime all over her hands. I made her wash them in the run off from the rain.
This is the trail right in front of our house. The trail was pretty slick, so the kids tried as hard as possible to walk on the grass.

Showing off his gun! (This is something he does ALL the time. On the path, in Walmart, ANYWHERE!)

I like how her gun is pointing! Ha! Not a very straight gun

Watching each other's back.

HOME MADE ROCK BAND:

The other day the girls said they wanted to play Rock Band. I told them they had to wait for a while because I was busy doing homework and studying. Pretty soon I heard music coming out of their room. This is what I found. It was pretty darn cute!

Cayge's Girlfriend:

This is a little girl named Amilia in Cayge's class. They also ride the bus together, and she hangs out with Cayge for a few minutes while she waits for her mom. One day I asked him if he liked her. He said yes, and that she liked him back. I am the math tutor in their class, and she is one of the kids that I help. I was helping her one time and she said that he liked her, and I asked if she liked him. She said yes, and that one time she tried to kiss him. WOW I didn't realize that this kind of stuff happened at 7 years old. I have a lot of work cut out for me if this is happening so soon!

She's a cutie, and has a cute little spunky personality. She calls me Miss Sweets, because all the other kids in class calls me Miss Candi. She's a fun little girl. And also the cutest in his class. Good call Cayge.

Up Coming

I have the cutest blog to post, but my dumb computer won't up load my pictures.

I will get it up ASAP!

Also: 1 more week till summer!! YYYYAAAAAYYYYY