My LITTLE guy...

My baby just turned

TEN.

 He is my handsome, lovable, intelligent, funny, baseball loving boy and I love being his mommy!

I LOVE all my children the same,

but I think this little guy LOVES me more than anyone but my sweet hubby!

Whenever people tell him they LOVE him...

he always grabs onto me

instead

and says, I only LOVE my mommy!

It is endearing...

and frustrating too!

I want him to know that MANY people can come into his life and love him and that it is a wonderful thing!

But until he believes me...

I will take his LOVE and squeeze him like crazy!

Jacob played on a football team once...

but it wasn't his sport.

He has never shown too much interest in any other sport...

so I was surprised when the kids this fall began playing baseball at the park every day after school...

that he would enjoy it so much that it became his passion.

He talks about

BASEBALL

all the time and told me tonight that when he gets older he is going to play for the 

PITTSBURGH PIRATES.

Between Christmas and his birthday...

every present he has received has revolved around

something to do with BASEBALL

so I was not surprised when he choose a baseball themed party for his 10th birthday!

We began with a trip to the

BATTING CAGES.

 Getting instructions and the rules to follow.

Jacob received a free T-shirt and baseball necklace...

just because he was such a 

handsome birthday boy!

Tyler's dad played for the Los Angeles Dodgers as a 

PITCHER.

When Tyler went to the pitching mound to throw some pitches...

WOW...this kid showed us he had some serious skills.

Jacob says he wants to concentrate on 

SECOND BASE.

His face pretty much explains why!

But what they REALLY, REALLY wanted to do was play a game of

BASEBALL.

Run...

Jacob run...

 and don't ever give up on your dreams!

Happy 10th Birthday buddy!

Cub Scout Day Camp

 All this talk of camping reminded me that before us girls went to girls camp...

Jacob spent three days at

CUB SCOUT DAY CAMP

in Phoenix.

I spent one of the days with him.

The last day.

It was a 112 degree's outside.

It was HOT!

These boys didn't let that stop them from having a great time!

They had archery and BB gun shooting!

 They got to swim.

Slingshot!

 

Cub Scout worthy crafts!

Obstacle Course races:

But the thing Jacob liked most of all...
that his mommy got to be his
BUDDY
for one of the days!

2 Days in a NUTSHELL...

I'm lying in bed tonight wondering

how I even start

to talk about everything we have had going on over the last two days 
so I decided I would do it in a nutshell.

Yesterday morning my sweet little girl left for 6th Grade

Science Camp.

 This will be her group for the next 3 days!

Seriously she is so little I can hardly believe she is

old enough for such an adventure!

Then I have to remind myself...

she is growing up like the rest of them

and it scares me, excites me, panics me...

and makes life a

TRUE BLESSING!

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I'm somewhat...but not TOO much embarrassed to say that

WEDNESDAY night television is my

FAVORITE!
 Therefore, last night I spent almost 3 hours watching my favorite shows on television!

I am a huge

SURVIVOR fan.

I have watched every season and love it just as much as I did when the first season aired.

Did I ever tell you that I got to meet the host of the show

Jeff Probst

while I was at a mall in Scottsdale?

He was visiting his parents who live in Scottsdale and he was out

shopping with them.

He was the nicest guy and was willing to talk about the show for as long as I wanted!

He didn't realize how much I like to talk!

I also got a little tidbit of information from a friend that next season they will be doing an

ALL-STAR-WINNERS

ONLY SHOW
in the fall!

I am truly giddy with excitement!

For me the 2nd BEST show on television is DUCK DYNASTY!

I laughed so hard last night...

for the future I will have to tape Ron watching the show...

you can hear his laugh a mile down the street!

If you aren't watching this FAMILY friendly show...

you are missing out!

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When I drove away from the school yesterday...

after dropping off Katie for science camp
 I started to cry!

I was wishing I had gone to be with her!

Why is it so hard to say GOODBYE...?

Well today...right at the moment I was really missing her I received this picture of her:

             

  And she looked happy...really happy!

I knew all was well!

I was so grateful that she called me tonight to tell me how good she had done on her archery score!

I love my cute redneck girl!!

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Jacob was in a musical performance at school called

SEUSSICAL the MUSICAL.

But I had to be at court.......AGAIN!

I tried going more than an hour early to court...

hoping and praying

we could be first and they would be on time,

so that I could

hopefully still make his performance.

I didn't and it made me sick!

I contacted my neighbor down the street to record it for me so I could watch it with Jacob later. 
 In the meantime she sent me this picture of him:

       He was happy...and that made me happy!

I can't wait to see it with him!

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Tonight during my RUN...

I ran longer and faster than I ever had...

and I was PROUD!

Proud of myself for accomplishing something that I didn't think my body would ever allow me to do again!

I'm losing the FEAR...

and replacing it with

FEARLESSNESS!

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Christopher started in his JV volleyball game today and played awesome...I am so proud of him!

My Bestie is getting married...this Saturday!

My stepdaughter Britni is having a baby in October!

We've made one more step towards our BIG family vacation in October.  

We are CANCUN bound!

We can't wait! 

Yep...this is where we will be staying!

Woot...Woot! 

  

My favorite little guy...

Just turned 9.

 

I can not believe sometimes that my baby is that old.

When Jacob was only

two years old...

is when I went through the worse trial of my life.

I'm not sure if this would have happened anyways but I think because of it

JACOB

 loved me...and only me

for a VERY long time.

He is still cautious of who he loves...but at least he is opening his heart to love more people

and allowing people to love him back!

 Jacob and mom-Pinewood Derby 2013

I'm just grateful that through it all,

he has always

shown me just how much he loves me.

He loves to snuggle in my lap,

lets me carry him to bed,

tuck him into his covers and sing him a lullaby.

I know I should allow him to grow up...

but I just love that he shows me how much he loves me

EVERYDAY!

I was especially proud of him this last week at his

FIRST EVER

pinewood derby...that despite his car not winning,

he had a great attitude

and told Ron and I that he appreciated us helping him with his car.

       Jacob waiting for his race to start.

Receiving his 

BEST ROADSTER

pinewood derby car award!

  His best cheering squad besides his mom

were his two sisters,

friend Melissa and next door neighbor Elodie.

I love that they cheered for him every time his car raced and stood proud with him every step of the way!

Bottom line...

this is my favorite little guy in the whole world!

I love you my little Jakie...

to the moon and back!

Our EVERYDAY busy life in review....

Back in December...

about the time I was having another birthday!

Yikes...42!!

I was saying my nightly prayers and began thanking 

my Heavenly Father

for all the good things in my life.

I call it my gratitude prayer as it opened my eyes to ALL the amazingly good things about my life.

In that quiet moment between my Heavenly Father

and me

I came to understand that my life today...

is my very own 

HEAVEN on EARTH

and I love that our loving Heavenly Father wants me to see it that way in the regular everyday busyness of life.

So while I continue to be one of those busy working moms...

life couldn't be any sweeter and I thought I would share

some of what our regular busy weeks are look like!

MONDAY

I love that the church sets aside one day a week for Family time called Family Home Evening.

In an effort to be better acquainted with those that speak to us as PROPHETS and APOSTLES

I put the names and pictures of each of them to a game called

MEMORY!

We had so much FUN
playing this game together and I love that my teenagers
never complain about singing songs or talent time!
You kids all ROCK! 
Whitney also came to visit...I wish I would have gotten a FUN

picture of us together,

but I'm still working HARD on remembering

I'm going to BLOG again!
We went to Costa Vida and I love that her and Kent live close enough to me that I feel like I have 
FAMILY close by! 

Rachel is on her 

LAST full week of JUNIOR HIGH

cheerleading

and cheered for the semi-final boys FOOTBALL game

which is Undefeated and I think it is ALL

because those cute cheerleaders

make it happen!
(More on this later)

TUESDAY

It's my DAD's birthday...he is 74!

We sent him a McDonald's gift card because he likes their

BREAKFASTS! 

Who doesn't, right?

WORK MEETING-Me

Bike ride-Ron and I

Cub Scouts-Jacob

Volleyball tryouts-Chris

Volleyball-Katie

Cheer practice-Rachel

Are you getting the picture...we are BUSY!

Lastly, mutual night for all of us but Ron and Jacob!

WEDNESDAY

WORK MEETING AND LUNCH-Me

Yearbook-Katie and Rachel

Volleyball game - Katie and they WON! 

I will definitely do an entire BLOG

post on Katie's Volleyball because she seriously has skills!

THURSDAY

The BIGGEST and most exciting event of today was

CORTINA tigers football team

made it to the championship game...and Rachel got to cheer for it!

Rachel's cheer team--with the TIGER!

This was Rachel's last time to CHEER during her

JUNIOR HIGH

career and what a way to end it with the boys winning and

going undefeated for the season.

She also cheered for the boys Basketball season and they won the championship and went undefeated back in November. It has been

a fun two seasons and she has learned so much.
They learned a SWEET halftime dance which I will try to get the video of and post and lifts, buckets, cradles, etc.!

I know I'm her mom...

but I think she is the BEST cheerleader 

on the whole team!   

 Rachel's friends came to support her including 

Amorette Letner who moved this season to a new school.

        Her very best church friends who yelled for her the whole game!

DOUBLE champions...the Cortina TIGERS!

FRIDAY

Fun shopping day with Chelsea and visit with Cameron...

Ron got off work just in time to have

one of the funnest visits with them.

Sure do love all our kids...EVEN the grown ones!

Date night with the best date in town...

My sweet hubby!

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY--

Chris made the JV volleyball team...congrats buddy!

SATURDAY

While Chris went off to work with his dad for the day...

the rest of us headed

NORTH

for a WINTER kind of day!

We heard there was NO snow in Flagstaff but when we woke

up this morning...

we found out they were having a winter storm and the sledding area

was OPEN!

So we rushed to get ready and began DRIVING the 3 hours

to FLAGSTAFF.

We were hopeful there was SNOW when we saw these clouds.

Within a few minutes we saw this:

 This was Jacob's birthday wish...

a day of sledding.

So we made his WISH come true...

and I'm oh so glad we did!

   This 9-year old boy makes me SMILE!

He probably thanked us 10 or so times for taking him!

Katie made a SNOW angel...she is an angel!

Rachel is the BEST sister in town...pulling these guys up the hill!

Jacob wanted to make a snowman...but the snow wouldn't stick!

 You're never TOO old to have FUN sledding.  

I cracked myself up that everytime I went down the HILL

I would squeal with laughter!

 Jacob and I loved to RACE!

The pictures don't show what kind of crazy weather we had

but it was a 

WHITE OUT

and my kids loved it since they have only ever seen

snow falling one other time in their life!

For us desert rats...

we did alright!

Now it's time to REST our weary minds

while we get ready for 

SUNDAY

and for another busy week for the

Flewellen

and

Adelmann clan!