Memorial Day Weekend

We hope you all had a great Memorial Day Weekend and took a few minutes to remember all those who sacrifice for our country. We are truly a blessed nation! We took a trip to Georgia for the weekend. We started the weekend out with Steven's high school graduation which took place at the National Fairgrounds in Perry, GA. Then we spent the weekend just hanging out with all of our family. The boys truly love going over to Aunt Gail's house and just hanging around the pool. On Sunday we went with Gail, Amanda, Arleigh, Darrien and Dakota over to Macon, Ga where we took a roll down Coleman Hill then over to visit the Art/Science museum. I am attaching a few snapshots of the kids hanging out at the pool.

Riley's Preschool Graduation

Riley officially graduate preschool this past Thursday evening. He is so proud of the fact that he is now a "kindergartener" and thinks he can do everything that Taylor can do now due to that fact! He is truly going to miss all the great friends that he made in preschool, but is thankful that a few of them are going on to Pinedale with him. During the graduation they played a slideshow of pictures from the past year...during the slideshow Riley said "mom...there is just something about this music that makes me cry". It was hard for him to say good-bye to the past year. He finally concluded "that is was okay because one day they would all be parents together and they would see each other again". He got several of his friends phone numbers, but realized in the car that he forgot to get Kimberly's number. Kimberly and Riley made a pact that they would marry each other when they got old enough. After he realized he didn't have her number he said "that's ok mom, I am going to marry her anyways so I will always know where she is at..I won't need her phone number".

Dylan's New Hair Style

Just a few snapshots of Dylan in his class. The first one is Dylan and his friend Hong-Kook. Then there are a few snapshots where Tori is giving Dylan and new hair style. Maybe this will convince him to get a haircut....or maybe not!

Dylan's Award Ceremony

Pinedale Elementary had it yearly award program on May 24th, 2006. Dylan received awards for straight A's all year, A conduct all year and the Student Government Award. Dylan thoroughly enjoyed second grade and really took a love for reading this year. Dylan finished out the year reading on a 5.3 grade level (which is 3 months into the 5th grade level). He is starting a summer program next week called Books for Buck in which he will earn $3.00 per book that he reads and gives a report on during the summer months. In between the football, baseball and soccer camps that he is attending, that should help keep him busy throughout the upcoming weeks. We hope you all have a truly wonderful summer and enjoy spending time with your families in the upcoming months.

Pinedale Beach Bums

Dylan's Second Grade Field Trip

Dylan, Tori and the gang!

For Dylan's end of the year field trip the entire second grade boarded on buses and went down to Panama City, FL to visit Gulf World and the spend the rest of the day just hanging out on the beach. Jeff got to be the lucky one to go along with the class and he had a great time hanging out with the kids.

Fun at the Fun Factory

These are a few snapshots of Riley, Dylan and our neighbor Tannor at the Fun Factory in Enterprise. We had some bad weather on the weekend so me and one of my friends from school (Kim Machicote) took the kids over to Fun Factory to have some fun. These snapshots were taken inside the Glow Golf room. I think this is one of their favorite activities there.

Dylan and Tori

This is Dylan and his girlfriend Tori. We went to Dairy Queen with them one night after the ball games. After talking with her parents we realized that we had a mutual friend at Ft. Bragg...Lori Crader. I met Lori in Alaska and Natalie was friends with Lori during flight school. It is such a small world in aviation. Dylan and Tori enjoy spending time together and we are going to miss them when they move in July. The one part of being military that hurts is saying good-bye to good friends. If you notice how long Dylan's hair is in these pictures I credit that all on Tori. I have tried to get him to cut his hair and he protest every time we talk about it. Well, his teacher told me that Tori sits behind him in class and she is always playing with his hair and running her fingers through it.....I said "no wonder he refuses to get it cut".

Our little slugger!

Riley is throughly enjoying t-ball this season. Many of his friends from school and church are playing so it is often more of a social time than playing ball. But...he is having fun and that is what counts.

Riley's Field Trip to the Zoo

Riley's end of the year field trip was to the Montgomery Zoo. Jeff went with them....since mom used up all her sick days recuperating from the surgery. They had a great time and the Ardvark was by far Riley's favorite animal. He has been drawing pictures of them ever since the field trip and finds them quite fascinating. The little boy in the picture with Riley is his friend Mikey. I work with Mikey's mom over at Pinedale and the boys will both be attending kindergarten there together. They have become good friends of ours and we enjoy spending time with them.

Update from the Mouser

Wow...it has been over a month since I have updated this Blog...my apologies....we have just been so busy around here that it is hard to sneak in computer time. With school ending this week we are all looking forward to a little bit of down time and just relaxing and enjoying the Alabama summer. Life has been good here this past month. My surgery was very successful and my recovery was rapid. I am so thankful that my Aunt Gail came to stay with me for a week and helped out during my down time. I have surgery scheduled in June to remove a tumor, this is going to be a pretty major surgery and will require two nights in the hospital and a 6 week recovery time. I am trying to convince Jeff to just send me away to a spa to recover, but he don't care for that idea. My aunt and my mom will be coming over to help out with the boys and the house.
All is well here in Alabama. The boys are wrapping up their school year this week and I am proud to say they all maintained straight A's throughout the entire year in both grades and conduct. I have never looked forward to summer vacation as much as I do this year. We are kicking off our summer with a trip to Aunt Gail's for Memorial Day weekend. Then we have plenty of summer camps (football and soccer for Dylan and soccer and basketball for Taylor). Plus, Taylor will be training for football at the school all summer long. Riley will enjoy swim lessons (probably his last time as he has become a pretty good swimmer already) and he has a Smart Start kindergarten program to attend for the entire month of June. So, are summer is already booked but we are looking forward to all the activites coming up.
If you all make it to Alabama this summer be sure to look us up....we have a few guest scheduled to visit already, but we always love company.
Love,
The Mouser 5

Dying our Easter Eggs.

We had so much fun dying the Easter Eggs and the boys were quite proud of their little egg family that they created. I am posting a few pics showing them starting out with their white eggs and the finished creations! Enjoy!!!!!

Happy Easter!

Wishing you all a very blessed Easter Sunday as we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord!!
Here are a few photos of the boys celebrating Easter! We had a rather quiet Easter. I am still recuperating from my surgery on Friday. We did manage to sneak out to Ryan's for an Easter Brunch....which was my first outing since Friday. It felt good to get out of the house. Jeff took the boys out this afternoon and I got a little rest which was nice. My Aunt Gail is on her way in this evening to spend a week with us and help out while I am "supposed" to be off my feet!! We are all excited about having her here.

The Official Start of Summer

Dylan rounding the base (that is the mayor and his wife seated in the background cheering the kids along)

Riley and Ryan

Friday evening was the official start of summer here in Enterprise with the Opening Ceremony of the summer baseball. Baseball is a very BIG event here in Enterprise. This year Riley is playing T-ball on the Reds and Dylan is playing in the Dixie Minors on the Braves. It was a grand event with over 700 players in attendance. We had the honor of having the Mayor of Enterprise along with all the council members come out to cheer our children on. We also had in attendance the president of the Alabama Dixie Baseball Association. Each child ran the bases while the parents and guest of honor cheered them on. Our kids felt like pros and we are so proud of all 700 of them. The picture above is of Riley and Ryan Page. We met the Page family back in 98 when Jeff and Pat were in flight school together. It is so nice to meet up with friends from a few years back.
Saturday morning was the kickoff of baseball games and we were at the fields from 9:45 am until 1:45 pm. The boys both played great. Riley's game didn't have an official winner (they don't keep real score in t-ball) and Dylans team won their first game. It was a great start to an exciting baseball season. I didn't get any pictures on Saturday because it rained off and on so I left the camera in the car to protect it. But we have plenty of upcoming games and I will keep you all posted.

It's me!

Okay....just had to put my name in a post so that when people are "googling" me this will come up. Yes...Uncle Don....I am the keeper of this blog.....jump on board so that we can keep up with you all.
Love ya guys!
Pam Mouser ....and Jeff, Taylor, Dylan and Riley

Our remodeled bathroom

Okay....we have been working on remodeling our bathroom the last few weekends and I must say it turned out beautiful. I wish I had taken some before pictures, but it was kind of a spur of the moment thing and we just did it. Here are some snapshots of the boys enjoying the new bathroom and a good example of what happens when you put bubble bath into a jacuzzi tub!!!!

"Mom are you on the news again??""

Just had to share this quick cute story with you all. I was on the local news a few weeks ago when we had our "Read Across America" parade. The news anchor from channel 4 came to our school and I had the priviledge of escorting him around. He then interviewed me about all the events going on at our school for "Read Across America". Of course, the kids all thought it was really neat to see mom on the tv. Well this past weekend I was cooking dinner and Riley was sitting in the kitchen watching "Cops" on tv and keeping me company. During the "Cops" show there was a car chase where the police where chasing this little red sports car all over town. Riley turns to me and says "mom....where you on the news again???". What kind of mom does he think he has....ha ha!

Finally an update from the Mousers!!!

Wow...I can't believe it has been so long since I have had time to update the blog. Life has been crazy around here. Just when we thought that we were over all these bugs that were going around the stomach flu hit our house again!!! Knock on wood....mom has been the lucky one to escape all of these silly viruses going around! The males have all been hit hard! But....once again everyone is up and running again and we are working on getting back on track. In the midst of all the bugs, I have been swamped with the Read Across America parade at our school. To celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday we had a fairly large parade at our school...complete with a marching band, live d.j., and a police car. It was a HUGE success and we even scored and entire page in our newspaper with the parade activites. I was exhausted and glad to see it over and done. Also, I worked every evening that week at our school to help celebrate "Read Across America". We also had our annual "Jump rope for Heart" event yesterday and I spent the day outside with approximately 400 children helping them raise money for the American Heart Association. I am proud to say that they raised $8000. It was a fun, but extremely tiring day!
A highlight in our life in the past week was Taylor getting inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. We are really proud of him and the fact that he has maintained an A average all year so far. He has really worked hard on getting his work done and turned in on time and his effort shows. I was extremely proud because I too was inducted into the NJHS during my 8th grade year. Taylor also took a trip to Gatlinburg, TN this past weekend with our church youth group for "Winterfest". This is an awesome experience with over 48,000 student gathering together to worship one God. You can go to www.mywinterfest.com or www.extremegen.org/yceministries/winterfest/ and check out some video of the event. If you watch carefully you might see Taylor. He got interviewed while he was there and was up on the big screen in front of all those kids. Take a few minutes and check it out...it will touch your heart!
Well enough updating for now. I am being summoned to help clean the boys bedroom. I will update more later!!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!

Relaxing in the bubbles!

Well it sure has felt like spring the last few days here in Alabama. The high was 78 today and we could definitely tell that summer was on it's way. Hopefully this means the end to the winter bugs that have been going around. Jeff, Dylan and Riley all had the flu the week before last and it was a nasty one. It was a week long flu and seems to have a majority of the area feeling under the weather. We finally got everyone over that bug and then on Friday they called me to get Riley from school because he seemed to have caught the stomach flu that was going around his school. Then on Saturday Dylan started complaining of his throat hurting and I took him in on Sunday morning to see the doc and they found strep throat. Now everyone is on the road to recovery and hopefully this warm weather will chase all the nasty germ bugs away. Here is a quick snapshot of the boys. They have been coming in smelling like dirty little puppy dogs....which is the first sign that summer is on it's way!!!!