The new hairdo

We arrived in Fairhope AL Wednesday night. It is actually a nice size room compared to what we have been staying in lately. The kids have been great playing together in the room with their toys ... Last night we got together with some of our friends from the church at a restaurant then headed over to the pastor's house for some ice cream. They have a little boy Kaden's age , Titus , that they adopted from Haiti . Kaden and Titus were so cute playing together they had so much fun . Kaden later asked us if we could move by Titus so they could play basketball together...

Kaden has been in this new stage of styling his hair. I know ,sounds crazy .. I thought only girls go through this but apparently Kaden does too. I think he must of saw something on TV about it. We were in this restaurant a couple of weeks ago and there was a group of boys in the booth behind us that were around 10 years old. Kaden came over to me and whispered very seriously " See that boy over there I want my hair like his" I had to do everything in my power not to crack up laughing .. because he was so serious I didn't want to hurt his feelings. The boy had his hair grown out to his ears and it was real spiky .. almost surfer/skater style...

1. it was so funny that he observed the hairstyle.
2. it was so funny that he was so determined to have that "same hair"...

So since that he has been styling his hair in a spike style as best as he can. Since his hair is not that long yet he informs me that it looks great right now but it will be better when it gets longer .. I am not sure how long this phase will last but right now Owen and I are getting a good laugh out of watching him fix his hair and of course his brothers too since Torin also has decided to have ..as Torin says " his hair stick up". While all this crazy hair styling is going on Sage is in the corner laughing her head off telling the boys there hair looks funny and is sticking up .. I don't think she understands that that is Kaden's goal... even through all of Kaden's explanations of why it is sticking up...Kaden looks at me and says" she doesn't get it" ...

This is the "spike" style....

This is the " Hawk " style...which he explains to me, is like a windshield .. it stops the wind from blowing back and forth on his head.

On the Road Again...

Monday we went to Tampa Fl to visit a couple of friends we met on an online Bible study group. We met at a pizza place since we had the kids with us . It was a great time and very fun to hang out and meet each other in person. Since we didn't meet till 6pm that evening , Owen and I took the kids to Dinosaur World. for the day. It was a big park with recreated life size dinosaurs placed through out the park. They had some very unique stuff for the kids to do. They were able to dig for real fossils and they also were able to play in a giant sand box with a dinosaur skeleton underneath that they could uncover. Of course the kids were ecstatic over the life size dinosaurs . It was so fun listening to them have discussions about what each one did and what they like to eat ..even Torin gave his two sense when Kaden and Sage would let him get a word in...

There was a very unique sandbox that the kids were able to play in. They had a whole dinosaur skeleton under the sand and the kids could dig and shovel the sand away to discover the bones.

They also had a fossil dig for 10 minutes for the kids . The were able to keep three items they had found. Kaden found three shark teeth that he wanted to keep. Sage and Torin found shark teeth and some fossils of snails and small shells.







We all had a great time walking around the park but after the park we were soon back on the road headed towards Fairhope Alabama.....

Day 1: Tampa FL

Day 2: Some where between Tampa and Tallahassee FL

Day 3: Fairhope AL

No kids and hoops

Last night Amanda brought home a friend from work to the house to watch the kids. Us four adults wanted a night out together before Owen and I left.. Owen has been wanting to eat at the Macaroni Grill so we waited in line for an hour to eat there.. it was worth the wait the food was great!






After dinner we went to a place that was like an adult Chuck E. Cheese.... They had one whole wall of race car video games..where you sit in the drivers seat and race each other. After we spent all our tokens at the race track we reloaded with tokens and headed to the basket ball hoops to out shoot each other...

Owen practicing his Micheal Jordan moves ..if only he knew that any moves he pulled out weren't going to help him...


The boys were working their hardest to be the best shooter and highest scorer but if they only knew who they were up against.......

Notice the high score in the bottom right side of the board... that is put there to help motivate other players who want to attempt to achieve such greatness .... yep , 117 points set by the one and only Jessica Gaines.....Though they try and try but fail continuously in beating the high score.... (I do have to admit Donny came the closest with 109 but close doesn't win games..hahaha)

Here is just some average scores they were putting up while attempting to beat the great Jesse Jordan:)

After having spent our life savings on video games only to come out with a dollar toy we decided to go home and rescue the babysitter.. But what a great dollar toy it was .." The Claw" There is something about the Claw that takes over and you start grabbing everything, it's like it has a mind of it 's own..(ahhhahhhahaha*said in the worst Jessica evil voice)






I love our kids but a night out alone is so relaxing. It was a blast to be able to spend our last night with Amanda and Donny. Only one call from the sitter about Torin getting a bloody nose from jumping on the bed, great food from the Macaroni Grill, Driving fast race cars ,out shooting the boys, and taking home the Claw...all in all a great night!!!