CCAP 2020

It's starting to get closer to our house!

3 Day Potty Training...

= Success! I have such a big girl who was potty trained at 21 months:) Even made it thru the store last night... don't ya just love the boots with her shorts!

Potty Training

We're on day 2 of potty training! I'm not giving up until we're finished... I even changed my mind about a last minute field trip... so we can be consistent and keep this up!

Fun Fest/Tiny Tots

All of my summer commitments are over... such a relief! Not that I didn't enjoy them, but, they were both a lot of work, especially Fun Fest, 4 people trying to put together something that big... we were busy, busy... Good thing, we all worked pretty well together. A lot of people from the community said how they enjoyed it and thought we should continue it every year, it was a nice thing to hear!

I loved what Mike Welu wrote on Facebook, it pretty much summed up our day events:
so yesterday Milroy had an event, called the fun-fest....
I was in the park at 2pm, and ron coudron was sitting next to me, and he said, "you know mike, this is like norman Rockwell".....
and he was right.....
the park had a lot of people in it, using up all areas of the park, but not too crowded....
there was food being sold in the shelter, and eaten on picnic tables in the shelter, and under the trees, there was a stand selling cold beer, there was an organized volleyball tournament, an organized bean bag toss tournament, kids shooting hoops, kids on the swing, and slides, a group having a water fight, some guys preparing for activities later in the day, there were families sitting together on chairs, or sitting on the grass, there was a petting zoo with little kids getting to know baby animals, local people, and people who used to live here, but now live farther away, even from texas....old ladies on chairs watching their grand-kids, people leaning on trees, talking and watching the activities...the weather was warm and humid, just like summer should be....but not too bad......if norman Rockwell ever painted a park scene, that would be it right there.....



The Marshall Independent's article can be found here: http://marshallindependent.com/page/content.detail/id/540382/Milroy-s-community-spirit.html?nav=5015; I think the article was written kinda choppy, she put parts here and there from our conservation, oh well!

We did make quite a bit of money which will be donated towards the new playground equipment.... it was very, very nice to see the support from the community. Those people that have been bashing what we are doing, I seriously hope to never see you at the park with your own families, grandkids, kids, or whatever the case may be. Someone cared enough when you were small to have equipment for you, why don't you do the same for the next generation of children?

Summer ECFE

I decided to enroll Brooklyn in a 2-week ECFE class in one of our local towns... She had a blast.... and is wiped out and so am I! Grocery shopping was a little bit of a struggle afterwards but we survived it! We learned a few new songs, I just need to remember how they go and we can use them with the daycare kiddos. She also go to paint with balloons, which I think was one of her favorite things as well as a container filled with koosh balls that you had to push through the hole on the top of the lid.

4th of July craft

Thank you pinterest for this idea... it was super easy and I had fun making them... I even made a big one for the deck at the camper! Oh, the things you do to take a break from the busy-ness of life!

All you need is burlap, spray paint and jute... Pretty easy!

Happy Father's Day!

Part of Daddy's early Father's Day present...

Who wants to take a picture? I just want to get to the pool! 

Weekend in Review...

All ready for Jemma's birthday party

Heading to the camper!

As you can tell this baby has went everywhere with us this weekend! 

Chilaxing! Waiting for Daddy to get up to the camper after spraying! 

Relaxing on the deck.. out of the bugs!

So tired!

Can't tell these are my daycare kiddos can you?!!

Found a fun little thing at Target when we stopped!

Fire Truck to the rescue

Jump, Jump

Brooklyn loves to "jump jump"! Almost any spare moment outside, you can find her jumping! Lucky for her, it looks like the daycare rules may be changing that no trampolines are allowed... so she may just have it all to herself!

In Remembrance...

Thursday marked the 6 year anniversary of Mike's brother, Scott's death. In some ways, it's impossible to believe that it's been 6 years already and in other ways, it seems like it's been an eternity. Oh how very different our lives would be today, although, I'm pretty sure that he would probably be Brooklyn's #1 Uncle!

So, in order to celebrate his life this weekend, we went camping! Yes, I know what's new! Of course, we could have done a few other things that we were invited to, but, I thought this was the most fitting! WHY- because, camping was something he loved to do! So, we celebrated by camping and getting away from all the drunken drama that his friends love to create around the anniversary date.... We were supposed to golf on Sunday as a family, however, the rain put a damper on that, and we went out for lunch instead.

Here's a couple OLD pictures, I found from when we camped after his death... And guess what, it rained almost the whole time too if I remember right!

Here's a few pictures...

Our first campfire in our fire pit this year!

Helping daddy get out the lights for the deck

First smore of the season

Burrr... swimming in the "pool"!

Giving the baby a ride

Sweet corn and hamburgers on the grill

Fingerpainting since it was raining

This little turkey learned how to pedal this bike

A trip to Runnings for something for daddy, led to looking for the animals... These were "ducks"

Going swimming...

Baby needs swimming lessons

We had to pick up a few things from the little grocery store in Spicer, they have little carts, needless to say, I'm sure we will be back again!