This summer I’m participating in a great project over at Mommy’s Piggy Tales. It is all about recording your youth in 15 posts or like me 15 vlogs. This is about 9th grade, boys, more about youthgroup and I totally forgot about mentioning that I got baptized this year. Below the video you

This summer I’m participating in a great project over at Mommy’s Piggy Tales. It is all about recording your youth in 15 posts or like me 15 vlogs. So we are onto 8th grade and 8th grade was a big year for me. Next week I will have pictures to share too.

This summer I’m participating in a great project over at Mommy’s Piggy Tales. It is all about recording your youth in 15 posts or like me 15 vlogs. Did you notice I labeled my last post wrong, well it’s fixed now. LOL This is 5th grade!

This summer I’m participating in a great project over at Mommy’s Piggy Tales. It is all about recording your youth in 15 posts or like me 15 vlogs! This week is very exciting, not because anything exciting happened in 4th grade but because you get to see Zarek say his first real words!! I’m very excited about it and you will see that! Hope you enjoy! Oh and yes that is a huge pile of laundry behind me in the last bit, ooops! LOL Oh well!

This summer I’m participating in a great project over at Mommy’s Piggy Tales. It is all about recording your youth in 15 posts or like me 15 vlogs!

I’m also linking up this post to Get your vlog on:

We went out to my grandparents’ the other evening. Which usually I dread and so does TJ. It’s not totally because of my crazy grandmother that we don’t enjoy it. It is boring too. I am the oldest cousin by 15 years and my youngest uncle is 9 years older than me. There is no one there our age.

But this time I really wanted to go. My grandfather is getting older and I don’t know how many times I will see him again. And we really won’t go back out there once he is gone. So I really had a desire to see him and where I grew up.

Of course a lot has changed because there was a few years ago and the house and old porch and big garage is gone. But I still remember stomping on the old flagstone walk, playing in the trees, eating the fresh fruits and pretending the old roof peak saved from the old barn was my castle.

Zane and I went around to all my favorite places that I used to love to play and he loved it.

I showed him the apple trees that my grandfather got all his apples from. We saw the growing corn that was just barely taller than him.  I had him climb into the hazelnut trees even though he didn’t like it, even when Daddy was holding him up in the tree.

We found the last plum from the plum tree in the front. My favorite evergreen was gone, cut down long ago, the one I wound sneak into the boughs and pretend was my house. We found pine cones from the tree that had the long pine needles I would braid together and weave into baskets.

I was excited to take a picture of Zane with the trees that I had planted when I was little. But they had not survived the winter and they had cut them down. So I got a picture of Zane in front of all the wood. I had gotten those trees on arbor day when I was in grade school.

I did get a picture of him in front of the roof of an old barn my grandfather had helped tear down. I used to pretend it was my castle when I was little.

He loved playing on my grandfather’s old farming equipment that he has collected over the years. “I drive it,” he said and he pretended it was a car.

And we got to get a great family picture while we were out there too.

It was a wonderful evening and we are so happy we made it!!!

But I’m learning what a special time this is. Ussually Zarek wakes up about this time also for his morning feeding. So I will be feeding as Zane pops his head out looking for permission to leave his room. I’ll call out to him and he will come right into our room.

Sometimes he will go to TJ’s side of the bed and take Daddy up on his offer of snuggles. But if he is truly wide awake and wants no snuggles we will turn on cartoons for him. I have so been enjoying feeding Zarek while watching Zaney play and watch cartoons while TJ snores. It’s an amazing feeling with the whole family just enjoying being in the same room.

It will be sad when these times start to be overtaken with the morning rush of getting everyone ready to get out the door to go to daycare and work.