Mommy’s Little Helper

Julianna’s favorite phrase at the moment is, “I wanna he’p youuuuu.” It doesn’t matter what you’re doing – feeding the dogs, playing a game on your phone, watering the plants, doing laundry, even going to the bathroom – she wants to help. Her favorite helping activity right now?

{washing dishes}

It doesn’t matter if there is only one dish next to the sink, she’ll ask, “Can we wash some dishes?” The other night I was cooking dinner and Jeff brought home a couple Tupperware-ish containers from work, so I got my little helper all set up with some warm bubbly water and she got to washing!

I made sure that we got this on video so that one day, when she’s a moody teenager who never wants to help with anything, we can look back on when she was cute and wanted to “he’p” all the time.

And here is the result of all her hard work:

{thanks Jules}

Catching Up

The babies are at NonniPop’s and the big boys are outside golfing, so I figured this was a great time to blog for you guys (if anyone is out there reading this haha)!

Jeff’s sister came into town from San Antonio the 31st and had some extra tickets to an Astros game, so we headed to the ball park that evening for the game. There were quite a few positives to this: (1) we got to see Lauren; (2) we got to meet some of her co-workers; (3) they were giving away Jeff Bagwell bobbleheads to the first 10,000 fans; (4) turned out our seats where club level and we had a waitress; (5) the Astros actually won!

Here are some pics from the game:

 

I’ve been enjoying my last weeks of summer with the kiddos. Jayden has been out of town and got back today, so I can’t wait to hang out with him this week. Jeff’s mom was so generous and signed Jayden up for 2 day camps at Space Center Houston, and I just know he’s going to have a blast!

Julianna has been in a “chlalk”ing mood lately, and I got some cute pics of her and James outside for the couple of minutes we could bear in our lovely Texas heat!

 

 

 

 

Jeff bought some golf clubs two weeks ago, and he already has a great ball-fetcher!

For the next 5 Tuesdays Jeff will be taking golf lessons at a course right by his work. Hopefully these lessons will get him on the right track with all things golf related so he can start playing and actually knowing what he’s doing! I’m heading outside to watch the boys, so until next time!

Wedding Bells

It’s official. There are no more single Kennedy girls floating around for some lucky guy to snatch up. We’re now a Fountain and a Sprinkel – go ahead and laugh at the fact that we both have weird water last names…everyone thinks it’s hilarious.

Jay got married July 25th on the beach in Corpus. The weather forecasts kept threatening rain, but it held off until Monday when all wedding activities were over.

We arrived in Corpus Friday evening and got to take advantage of the beach that evening and Saturday morning.

 

 

 

It was so great to be able to hang out with family we don’t often get to see! (And Marilyn, looking through the pictures, I’m SO mad we didn’t get a picture of you and the 3 babies!!)

 

 

Sunday, all the girlies (plus James) from our side of the family took Jay to a bridal lunch. We made hats the night before, and everyone at the lunch thought we were fabulous.

Julianna wasn’t so interested in the lunch as she was in dancing.

After the lunch it was time to get ready for the wedding! I was in the wedding, so obviously I couldn’t take any pictures. The pictures I’m posting of the wedding are courtesy of one of Jay’s best friends from college.

 

 

Jay was so beautiful, and she and Brandon both looked so happy. Congratulations to the new Sprinkels!

Perfect Attendance!

The past couple weeks have been pretty busy for us! Let’s back-track to the weekend of July 9-11th.

My parents went to our hometown that weekend for a wedding and my sister’s bridal shower, so Julianna went with them, and this weekend was just me and the boys. We had two things to accomplish: swim and Astros game.

We went swimming Saturday afternoon, which started off with a little water football.

James wasn’t very impressed by this, and (as usual) slept through most of the fun. Soon he’ll be right in the middle of it all!

I’m not exactly sure how we entered into a game of ring toss, but they were having a blast trying to throw and catch the diving rings on their arms and the noodle.

Jeff and Jayden had a cannonball splash contest. Jeff forbid me to post his pictures, but it’s a safe bet to claim that he was the cannonball champion. (And no, that’s not a fat joke Jeff!)

This school year Jayden had perfect attendance in 1st grade, and the Houston Astros rewarded students in his school district with tickets to a game for their commitment. If you made it through the 3rd 9 weeks you got 2 tickets to your choice of 4 games, and if you made it through the whole year you got 2 tickets to the July 11th game AND got to be in a pre-game parade! For a 7 year old boy, having the lure of these tickets if you made it through the end of the school year was great motivation for getting out of bed at 6 am!

Sunday was the game. The parade was supposed to start at 10:30 and we were supposed to be there by 10:15, so we were parked and walking to Minute Maid Park at about 9:45. Only one person could accompany the kid on the field, and I figured Jeff would enjoy walking around the field and possibly seeing a player more than I, so James and I dropped the boys off in line and went to wait with all the other families to get in. We waited. And sweated. And waited. And sweated. And sweated while we waited some more. At 11 they finally allowed everyone inside, which was their master plan all along! I’ll just say there were some disgruntled parents out there. Perfect little James just snoozed in the Baby Bjorn through (almost) the whole thing.

James and I hustled down to the first level and first row to catch our boys walking through, and sure enough there they were!

Jeff got two pictures on his phone from their walk around the field.

After the parade we had time to kill before the game started, so Jayden played in the Squeeze Play and Family Sunday areas until game time.

In the Family Sunday area, Jayden was jumping in the moonwalk like a typical 7 year old boy which doesn’t really lend itself to picture taking! While we waited, James got to meet Junction Jack, who gave him lots of high-fives and took a picture with him.

We stayed for the entire game and guess what James did…if you said sleep, you’re right! He slept, ate, watched, slept. Have I mentioned he’s just SUCH a great baby?! Well, we stayed the whole game because after the game Jayden got to…

…run the bases!!

We finally left the ball park about 4:15, and we were all ex.haus.ted. It was a long day, but we enjoyed every minute!