The day the kids become the parents!!!

First and foremost I want to say a big WELCOME HOME to Momrn2's Little one. She is finally well enough to go home from the hospital. If you've been following along with the updates and her site, you know that the family went through a really hard time. I was in awe and amazement of the outpour of prayers and support she received, just that first day she had something like 80+ comments on her blog. Amazing.

So welcome home little one, may you continue to recover and be well on your way to a full recovery, and to momrn2, thank you for all the updates and for still finding the time to comment on my blog, it means the world to me, you are an amazing and special lady....sending you all tons of love and hugs. May God continue to bless you!!!

Jasmine is growing up so fast and she's getting to that stage of independence and pushing limits. Lately she's taken to disciplining Nicholas when I'm busy with something, and not that I tell her to, she just does it because......well.....because she wants to.

On more than one occasion I've had to pull her aside and explain that she's not the mother in the house, and she needs to stop trying to tell her brother what to do or ordering him punishment. Sibling Rivalry.......how annoying!!!

Yesterday when we went to Walmart, we stopped at the bank and Curt ran inside while we stayed in the truck. Jasmine was sitting in the back seat holding one of those american flags for the cars, you know the ones???

Well anyway, she sets it up on the seat and then places her hand over her heart and starts reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. I just smile and next thing I know I hear from the backseat "HEY, you need to put your hand over your heart and say it with me, UNDERSTAND?", and I'm thinking "here we go again, yelling at her brother."

Yeah well, the brother was ME. She was instructing ME on what to do. Oh no you didn't. All I had to do was turn around and look at her and she quickly said "Sorry I was just kidding".
What to do??? Is this something I'm going to be dealing with until she moves out of the house? When did she become a teenager? Overnight?

I love my child to death, but she's walking on a thin line with me. It seems that the minute she started school I've had this power struggle to control her and keep teaching her right from wrong. I send her off acting one way and she comes back home acting completely different.
Lord help me, it's going to be a long 11 years!!!

First thing I want you to do this morning is to go on over to "Freedom Isn't Free" and read the letter to a soldier. I think that any military wife, mom or family can truly relate and for those that are not in the military, I think this letter will better explain the way we feel when our loved ones are deployed.

I'm so glad I have nothing planned for today, after running around yesterday I'm really pooped. Can I say that out loud? Cause that's how I feel.....

Tomorrow we have Scottie's (my friend Veronica's son) Birthday party at the bowling alley. Scottie is one of Jasmine's friends, or actually he's one of her good friends, they've been friends since kindergarten and it's so cute watching them together. She's having a hard time with the fact that he's leaving in two months to go to Washington. Yet another hard part about military life, you make friends and then they get orders somewhere else. Make new friends, and then it happens again. I choose to think of it as a way to meet new people, if I don't then I get extremely depressed over the friends I've said goodbye to over the years.

But moving on, then on sunday we are heading out to see the Volcanoes nearby. We're all pretty excited about that, and of course me being the Papparazzi that I am, you can be sure to see lots of pics LOL

We're also planning a trip to a few other places this summer, Shoshone Falls, Three Island Crossing, Redfish Lake, Soldier Mountain Ranch just to name a few. There's so many beautiful places to visit in Idaho, so we've decided to take advantage this year and really go out and see them.

Last year we did go to Silver City, which is a Ghost Town. These are some of the pics we took.

Can't wait to get out there and sightsee again.

Remember today is friday so I've got my "Remember When???" posted, check the post below for it.
If you like scary stories, that will be one you don't want to miss, if you DON'T then I suggest you just ignore it LOL

You know what??? I better get going, Jasmine just woke up and I need to get her some breakfast.
OH OH I almost forgot to tell yuo all that Nicholas is finally potty trained. I'm SO thrilled and he's being such a big boy. He actually runs to the bathroom when he has to go and does it all on his own. I'm just happy that we've finally gotten to this stage :)