Feeling SO Blessed and SO Tired!

As some of you know, the kids have been attempting to do acting and modeling for some time. Up until 30 days ago this meant a lot of auditioning, with only one booking over three years. In the last month things have really started to pop for us though. First, Cole booked a some print work for a children's clothing catalog, which we believe he will appear on the cover of in the Fall. Then we found out Carter is being paid for a commercial that he was booked for, but never shot, a few months ago. Then, a week later the photographer who originally shot Cole for the catalog, hand picked him to do some shots for a new magazine (including a cover try). Right after that Carter auditioned for and booked a print job for Disney. As we were driving home from Carter's shoot on Monday our agent called to tell us that Jadon booked print work with a toy company to be shot the next day (no audition...just picked from his picture!). The day after he shot that they called to book him again for today (Friday). This has been totally unreal and although I'm sure there are kids who book a lot more, we sure are feeling smiled upon these days!

You will see Jadon on toy product packaging sometime soon. Carter may appear in a brochure to be distributed with Disney's new paint product produced by Behr. Cole will be seen in the Fall in the Hanna Andersson catalog as well as Toddler Magazine.

Wow! I am tired! Meanwhile, I am starting school next Monday to begin prerequisites I need to start a nursing program. I am putting that in writing to keep myself from chickening out (which I did last Fall). My class will meet M-Th nights for about 3 hours for 6 weeks. I then plan to take two more classes in the Fall, which will keep me in that same M-Th schedule...yuck!

The boys are done with preschool for the summer, but start a whole slew of summer classes over the next week or so. We just finished a two week round of boot camp style swimming lessons that went really well.

Carter and I have been and continue to take a great little Mommy and Me class with our cousins, Stephanie and Samantha, which we love! I probably will have to stop after summer because Jadon and Cole will be attending a new preschool that doesn't keep hours conducive to me getting to Carter's class, but for now we get to enjoy it.

My brother and his fiance are coming to visit for a week in late June and into early July and Carter and I have a trip to Baltimore planned between semesters in mid-August. We are taking some time to visit one of my best friends from high school and her little one who is 5 months younger than Carter. It should be fun and Carter will be the first of our kids to ride on a plane...too bad he will probably think he is on a long car ride!

Well, that isn't ALL that we have going on, but that is a lot of it and probably gives you a taste for our crazy life. If you ever come over and find out the house is a total mess, at least you will know why. No one is ever home to clean it!