4th grade makes this mom smile!

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Kermit

Some pictures simply do not need a caption. Take these two for example . . .

First day of school!

Sam - 4th

Madeline - 2nd

Noah Baker - Kindergarten

                                                                         Sam- 9 1/2
                                                                         Madeline -7
                                                                       Noah Baker -5

Sam's last year in elementary school! Big big B-I-G fish these days.

Madeline Padeline's a 2nd grader, missing her two bottom front teeth!

Noah Baker is R-E-A-D-Y for the big K ... ready ready ready!

Madeline's 2nd grade room :)



Walking Sam to the 4th grade hallway, "That's far enough mom, thanks. Don't cry!"

(Now time to initiate blinking sequence to hold back the ugly cry!)

Mommy & Baker Bot held up very well, Noah more so than I did I believe. :)



Everybody had a TERRIFIC DAY!

stasher!

(Changing sheets / items found under Sam's pillow!) Such a stasher, haha! Then we wonder why he comes out an hour after we send him to bed ... "I'm just not tired!" MmmmHMMM.  : ) He's such a great 9 1/2 year old ... LOVE that Sam Ferguson!

the heartland

Pulled over to take a picture of this barn ... so glad I looked in the rearview ... I just love this picture.

Ommmm . . .

Noah Baker, "Shhh guys. I'm meditating."



Sunday adventure ...

freak wolf-spider-stitches-incident : Summer 2011!

Sunday AM ... heat advisory hot so we decide to play outside early this AM, but on our way to the park the kiddos are distracted by a big hairy wolf spider. Sam starts to look for a bug to feed the spider:

Amy's account of this mornings events:

7:58 Ferguson kids find a big hairy wolf spider in his web in the corner by the front porch swing.
8:01 Sam finds a carpenter ant down by the sidewalk
8:02 Sam throws the ant into the web

8:04 Spider investigates, runs out, began to circle it

8:10 Ant escapes, three times. Each time Sam catches the ant - placing him back into the web
8:14 Spider decides it's time to start spinning a web around the ant, trapping it
8:16 Spider sprints out, Sam slides onto the deck for a closer look, catches his leg under the door slices his calf .... we then move this story to the ER for a few stitches.

Sam's account of events leading up to the stitches, "Once the wolf spider got close enough to the ant while trying to avoid the ants thrashing jaws, the spider reared up and kept striking it's victim, the ant, with it's venom. At this point the ant escaped a few times so I had to keep putting it back into the web. And during the 5th escape I caught the ant, threw it back into the web and as the spider rushed out to investigate, I must have been startled as the spider ran out b/c my leg got caught under the edge of the door and put a pretty good sized slice in my leg.  Once my mom saw a few layers of tissue, flesh, fat and muscle sliced wide open, she decided it was a good idea to rush me to the emergency room. At that point, the doctor gave me a few shots and put five stitches in my leg. Mom took me to Dairy Queen since I had to get stitches so that was cool. But now I can't go swimming for a week."

I see your lack of compassion and raise you a smile . . .

The VA Hospital in Tucson offered zero compassion  . . . so she created her own.

Madeline loses her 1st tooth!

Madeline loses her very first tooth! Hurray!!! She thought she was the only, only only only only ONLY almost 2nd grader that had all her teeth. Every morning for the past few months. "Mommy? (Deep sigh) I STILL have all my teeth in my head."

Not any more!

JD + KG = AZ

                         Jackson Dean & Karter Grace .... here come the
                                                      FERGUSON'S!!!



hearts in my eyes!

Noah Baker ... the Summer-School-Kindergarten-Kid ... just picking flowers for his Mommy ... SIGH : )

           (PS ~ It's so hard to believe that we needed jackets this afternoon, in JULY!)

Summer!

Going through the end-of-the-year- backpack "stuff" ... this made me smile!

 I love it . . .

Flower girls helping Julie pick the right "tossing" flowers : D

Madeline: "OhmyOMG Mommy, I     am     SO  pretty!" 

Trying out her sweet-sweet dance moves . . .

Awww .... Julie looked like such a princess!

Getting all dolled up and ready to throw flowers!

Baker beating me @ Monopoly . . .

Uhm . . .

Preschool end of the school year musical ... POOR NOAH B!!!!! He had terrible stage fright :(

This picture is so sad! (Thankfully Grandpa and Grandma made it ALL better with Dairy Queen :)

Madeline makes me smile!

This just cracks me up, a random flower from the yard .... in a random little glass bottle (whatever I could find for water and a stem) ... labeled things like "WARNING!" and "TOXIC!" Hahaha! Sam makes my heart smile :).

Poor Sam .... we went QUITE a ways out of the way (remind us to NEVER take Finch Meadow Trail again, ever ever ever .... b/c it NEVER stops). He was super hot/muggy/tired...I totally understand! But it was still a little funny, I'm evil and documented it ;).

A                   L                    M                          O                  S                        T         there . . .

Mad - 7

NB - 5

Sam- 9

Cousins!!!!! Conner'ific and Baker .... awwwww!!!