Before I journey off....

Before I journey off for a week & half, thought I would share some awesome pictures that Lindsay took today of my kids :) We went on the railroad tracks (to get Jason a picture of the kids in his new element), in the field near her house and out to visit the animals! For all who does not know this, Mr Jerry (Lindsay's dad) has a camel! Yes, a real live camel and his name is Moses and is so darn cute! Haley loved him and if we could have snuck away with Moses, we would have! He also has goats, minature horses & cows just to name a few. I also enjoyed hanging out with my favorite "niece", Aleigha and spending much needed time with her! Haley and Logan loved it too. It was so cute watching them sing songs to her while she sat watching...it kept her entertained for a little while!!!
I'll be back the 3rd of August to update............Much Love, Amanda :() )

Love this one...looks like the tracks go on forever.

Sweet kids on the tractor.

Aleigha Faith Capilos...5 1/2 months :)

Moses the Camel

Haley's new best friend....Moses! :)

Daddy & Logan fishing!

Today Jason took Logan to Gibson park to fish in the pond and they caught 6 fish. Logan LOVED it and that is all we have heard about. I took Haley to a Princess birthday party and dropped her off while I snuck back to the pond to take pictures. I caught this one before they knew I was there......

Little fingers holding the rod!


Love the expression as he is reeling in his "big catch"

There is the "big catch" LOL!

More fishing.

It has been a great weekend visit with Jason and we hate to see him go tomorrow, but we will be 1 day closer to spending 9 days with him starting Friday :)!

~Amanda~

HOME!!!

We are home from Myrtle Beach and had a great time. The kids absolutely LOVE the ocean! Neither one of them had no fear of the ocean this year and well that kind of scared me! I am not a fan of being in water that I can not see the bottom and know what I am touching. Haley's favorite thing was searching for shark teeth! We actually found 13 and Haley found the biggest one. She was so proud of the shark teeth and kept telling me how awesome it was to be out there finding them! It reminded me of being a kid and on the beach with Jerry searching for shark teeth and shells. Oh how memories like that are so wonderful, but also sad to think that I can't call him up and share the memories I am making with my daughter (Just like the ones we made together!).

Anyway, for some great news....Jason comes home tomorrow night for the weekend....yeah :). I am SOOO excited. 2 weeks was way too long to be away from each other and I know the kids are missing him terribly! Haley has a birthday party to go to on Saturday, which will be some great time for just Jason and Logan to spend together. Then maybe later in the day he can do something special with Haley. The negative is the weekend will go by so fast, but the positive is we will go visit him next weekend and stay the whole week in Pittsburg!!! I'm so excited about that!!!

Thanks for reading my blog.....hope everyone is having a wonderful summer (oh and by the way, can't believe school starts back in 5 weeks....wow!).

xoxo, Amanda

Haley loved standing on the balcony looking at the ocean. She is SO my child!!!

On the way to eat at "Crabby Mikes" & play putt-putt!


I love this picture!!! Logan was hilarious "catching a wave"!

Oh, my baby boy!!! This is what I get when I say "give moma a kiss" LOL!!!

My FAVORITE picture of the trip.....Haley searching for shark teeth! So intent!

Haley was excited to get buried in the sand!

We had to send daddy a sand message :)

Beach bound Sunday morning!!!

Well, I am very excited to be beach bound tomorrow morning! Going to leave the house around 8 and go pick up my momsie! Then off to Myrtle Beach....going to hit the outlets first thing (hoping to find some good back to school clothes for Haley-bug) then to our hotel. The vacation will not be the same without Jason, but I am sure we will make the best of it and it will be great to get away with my mom since we have not done that in 10+ years!!!

I really want to thank Becky and Craig for surprising me last night and taking home Haley and Logan with them. I did not pick my kids up until 1:30 and I got SOOOOO much accomplished! Cleaned the entire upstairs, cut the grass, washed all the laundry and did some packing for the beach! WOW, I would be stressing right about now b/c half of that would not be done if it weren't for them! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!! Oh, and Haley loved the blueberry picking. That is all she has talked about (and wanted to eat!). They are very yummy :)

Missing Jason madly! This is the first weekend since he started with NSR (March 16) that we have missed seeing each other. By the way his Friday night sounded, I think he was a little depressed and missing us too. Well, he paid for it today with a nice hangover! LOL!

Anyway, off to start cleaning the downstairs...............I won't blog again until Wednesday or Thursday and I'll post pictures!!!!

XOXO, Amanda

July 9, 2009

Lots of random stuff happened today but nothing worth sharing....oh besides I locked my keys in my car and The AAA membership came in very handy! Thank goodness I have been a member for a whole 3 weeks :)!!! Thinking about going to spend a week with the hubby while he is in Pittsburg the end of July! So, if anyone knows any fun, cheap activites to keep the kids entertained while Jason is working in the Pittsburg area, please share with me!!! God Bless everyone!!!

Playing in the tree in our front yard! All the kids love this tree!!!

July 8, 2009

I thought I would post some pictures to see if I could figure this thing out!!! Hope it works!!! We are leaving for Myrtle Beach on Sunday! Getting pretty excited! I've already started packing and getting all the neccesary sand toys, beach towels & pool toys together! I am sure the Equinox will be loaded down!!! Haley and Logan are thrilled to be going. I know that they will miss their daddy being at the beach with us, but I am sure Mamaw will be a good second choice for them! I am so thankful she is going to help me out...what would I ever do without my mom???

As for Jason, he is in Bluefield, WV tonight....I think he is missing his babies pretty bad! I can usually tell when he wants to talk to me, but doesn't talk. Moments like that are hard for me, but I tell him to keep on....we are halfway there (Living on a prayer....Literally, not just in the case of the Bon Jovi song!!!) He is my hero!!! Hopefully mid-October I will be posting the location of our destination! The place we will call home.....all we want is to be together again and we will make the best of the situation!!!

Peace, Love & Happiness :)

My yellow daylily!!!

Pictures from the 4th of July!!!!

Logan on the slip n slide....I love his expression :)

Haley showing off her 4th of July swimsuit!!!



Haley and Logan...best shot I could get of the 2 of them together!!!

First Blog

Blogging for the first time!

Woo hoo!! Lots more to come.....I'm going to keep this updated with info on
Jason's new job, what we are finding out about possible relocation spots and
the nitty gritty with the family :)

Hope this helps with keeping family and friends closer in touch with our lives!!!

**~Amanda~**