Vacation Recap

Last Wednesday afternoon, we took the loaded truck with the loaded camper and headed up north for a camping trip. The Boy and David? Beyond excited. Me? Fearing an Ant repeat from last year I was hesitant to click my heels in the air but did look forward to the days off from work. We high-tailed it up the road since we needed to beat the gate closing, which we managed to miss by four minutes but were still able to come inside thanks to an earlier phone call. Camp set up, quick visit with Granny & Papa Ronnie and after calling it a night? We woke up Thursday Ready For Vacation!

It was an awesome trip with only one afternoon of rain, NO ANTS!!! and lots of fun. The Boy had a blast hanging with Caden & Grayson. When asked his most favorite part of camping? Swimming in the lake. When you ask his parents? Night fishing.

So glad we had this little vacation before school starts back in a few weeks. The Boy hated to see it end even more than we did - many tears streaming down his face as we pulled away from the campsite. He requests next time we come? We stay for 30 days please.

Hope y'all enjoy the photos - just a little taste of the fun we had!

IHeartFaces ~ Feet!

Oh IHeartFaces you know how to throw a party! It's one of my most favorite themes EVER this week. The only other theme that would give me greater fits in choosing a photo would be if you had a category for Photos Taken From The Back and then I'd be hosed. But I digress . . .

It's a fabulous week over at IHeartFaces where they aren't showcasing Faces but are instead are showing off Feet! I opted to enter in sweet little sandy baby feet this week - hope you enjoy! Be sure to head over to IHeartFaces to check out all the other entries for the week! I'm off to finish the upteen billion loads of laundry from our camping trip. And to upload the camping photos. And mentally prepare for tomorrow's return to normal after four days off work . . .

IHeartFaces ~ We ♥ Sports in Action & Pets!

Another awesome week over at IHeartFaces this week, where we are exploring the wonderful world of action shots during this week's theme of Sports in Action! And it's also another week of Anything Goes with Pets, which is always a crowd pleaser for sure.

Now The Boy has yet to participate in any "organized" sport so-to-speak. The extent of our sports have been of the front and backyard variety. He's a medalist in jumping, both indoor and outdoor. He's a master of the bike-with-training-wheels. He soars to new speeds on the Razor. And he can kick a ball from our yard to Kolby's old yard. Recently the love of baseball came along and we've taken to hitting both off the tee and from a pitch. All geared up and ready to go, we were deeply saddened to find Little League Baseball is nothing but a bunch of punks, changing the rules with a new age cut-off making us ineligible to play this year by a mere 38 days.

But never fret! We have Sports In Action of the football variety. Donned for safety in our Cars helmet, wearing our blue cape so you know we're for the winning team and keeping with the camo so you never see us coming, we are stealth with our left-handed cannonAnd not to miss out when Anything Goes? I give you a Pet for an afternoon - I'm fairly certain the love for this one wasn't even great enough he got a name after he jumped on The Boy one good time!

There are a ton of other wonderful entries over at IHeartFaces so be sure to check them all out!

Hey Y'all!

Long time no blog and the masses (all three of you) are getting antsy from the comments of um when are you going to update again and I thought one blog was going to make it easier to post I keep hearing when I see you.

I hear you. I am listening. I had good intentions last week. And this weekend. And Sunday night. B-b-b-but our family spare time? Has been spent together! Because Netflix is our friend!

David & I have been wrapped up in the lives of these guys

And I won't hesitate to tell you how partial I am to Cool Breeze there on the left (ahem). Awesome show - where have you been all our TV watching nights?! Except much like the fate of Hector, one of the main characters we have come to love as we've watched these episodes, CBS has KILLED THE SHOW. This has led us to say things like Poor Hector and CBS You Suck. And now we are looking for yet another show to feed our Netflix addiction as we near the last of the current Unit episodes. Suggestions welcome. Although maybe you don't want to suggest as it just keeps me from blogging. Ahem.

Even The Boy has found a Netflix love

Bolt has earned a spot right up there with Cars as one of the Greatest Movies Ever Made in his mind. We've watched it upteen million times and The Boy deemed it okay to just keep Bolt Forever. Thankfully BigMama & Papa scored The Boy his own personal copy and Netflix will have their copy returned sometime in the next day or so depending on the speed of the post office, thus not having to wait forever.

We don't spend every waking moment watching television. We did build this super awesome spy tent on The Boy's bottom bunk Saturday

And then he thought it such a fabulous place to hang that he fell asleep there Saturday night and spent the night in his "tent"

And speaking of tents and such we are gearing up for a Camping Trip this week! Everyone is getting very excited for our vacation - I'm just hoping the heat isn't too unbearable, the rain stays far away, and the ants - oh those pesky stinkin ants - stay far, far away from us this year - wish us luck ~ and I'll be sure to take tons of photos & give you a full recap after. Now if we can just fast-forward through the rest of this work-week so we can actually get to our vacation . . .

Again many apologies to our few "fans" - only one more Unit DVD to go so we should be around more often now! That is, until we find another show to catch up on . . .

Happy Monday!

When Good Sheriffs Go Bad.

Good Sheriff located above (why yes he did wear those shoes with those shorts today thanks)? Was later wanted for the intake of a bag of sour gummy worms. Allowed intake = 3 gummy worms. His intake? Many more. He confessed to the crime and the punishment that followed included a loss of movie privileges for the evening and No More Gummy Worms for the foreseeable future.

Said Sheriff also received a refresher on Children Obey Your Parents. Apology followed and the convicted later fell asleep at 7 p.m. It is unknown if the convicted will have gastrointestinal consequences resulting from his ridiculous sour gummy intake but parents are hopeful it won't be a horrible night even though that lesson might last much longer than the lost privileges.

A Whole Buncha Damage

Awwww. Isn't she just so precious? Dear sweet Mildred Louise. Except for that part where while we were gone to celebrate the 4th? She went Houdini on her kennel that for 2.5 years now has been perfectly acceptable - pulled the door IN - and, well, went crazy. This was only a glimpse. I shall spare you the hall and the living room. Separation anxiety? Getting us back for partying it up while leaving her at home? Can't blame the fireworks, as no one in the cul de sac was in town this 4th of July. Way too reminiscent of the days of Bailey shredding the 12-packs of toilet paper (raise our hand if you can recall those days) Whatever the rhyme or reason, I'm hoping Millie got it all out of her system and doesn't give a repeat any time in the near future. As The Boy put it she did a whole buncha damage and I would rather not go through that again anytime soon!

4th of July Fun

Ahhhh the 4th of July - celebrating freedom at home as a family and then having the wonderful opportunity to continue the celebration with others with swimming, good food and fireworks! After sleeping in a bit (okay let's be honest here, I slept in and my guys watched Bolt for the upteenth million time!), David & The Boy got the camper out and I set to doing things like laundry, dishes, making tea and lemonade & the like (we're gearing up for the upcoming camping trip but that's a whole 'nother story) before finishing my book. But there was one constant question: is it time to go swim at Mr Bill's house yet?

When 3 p.m. came along, we loaded up the truck and headed to Mr Bill's house to celebrate. The Boy was T H R I L L E D that he was going to get to swim, and swim he did - for nearly 3.5 hours (although there was that brief break where we ate some fantastic food)! After dinner and one last swim? Fireworks in the street!
A fabulous time this 4th of July!

Swimming Fun!

We are feeding a neighbor's dog for a few days and in return get to swim in their pool for the weekend - The Boy believes this is by far the Best Weekend Ever! This afternoon we went swimming for a few hours and had a blast

So You Had A Bad Hair Cut.

So The Boy was in dire need of a haircut. He looked incredibly shaggy and I could stand it no longer. Since every third haircut at our usual spot ends up being horrible we decided to give a new place a try.

Now before I go any further, please note The Boy has had his fair share of horrible haircuts. Raise your hand if you remember the time the haircut ended up looking like the character from Dumb&Dumber, probably the most notable of the Bad Haircuts

But honestly in all our Bad Hair experience this just took it to a whole new level. Now I completely understand that cutting The Boy's hair is a total pain. I get that - which is why I Pay you to do it so I don't have to do it Myself. I let them know about his tendency to, how shall I put it, loosely follow directions - as in "look down" will get a brief look down but probably not the full minute and a half you are accustomed to thanks. I mean HELLO this is the child that takes twenty minutes to put on a pair of underwear for crying out loud.

I digress. I will say that when The Haircut was finished there was hair everywhere and I simply couldn't tell Just How Horrible It Was - that is I could not tell how horrible it was until after shower and Boy Howdy. I thought briefly it was Just Me. Perhaps I'm being over critical. I had High Hair Standards or something. Then David came in and said Oh No Somebody Needs To Fix This. And then BigMama agreed. And people at church say the same things. And FABULOUS he has a jacked-up haircut. See?

There were Full Intentions to take The Boy back and have them fix at least one portion but they were closed the morning David had off to take him. BigMama rocks for at least straightening the right side. I plan to let it grow a little more and then I'll rack my brain to think of just where on earth to take him this next time. Hopefully it will end happily ever after this next go-round because The Boy's already asking if maybe we should just cut all of it off like his Daddy's - just not ready for a shaved head yet! Hey, at least it wasn't his Back-to-School Ready-for-Kindergarten Haircut, right?

IHeartFaces ~ Just For Fun

IHeartFaces has a Just For Fun category this week where we can enter a photo Just For Fun. And Just For Fun my five regular readers will pretend they didn't see this photo just the other day, mkay? Just for fun. So I give you The Boy on the slip&slide Saturday. A particularly good slide with a particularly good splash - he was quite pleased with himself as you can tell!

There are lots of other photos posted Just For Fun over at IHeartFaces - be sure to check them out!

IHeartFaces ~ Weddings!

Another awesome week at IHeartFaces this week where it is All About Weddings! In honor of this week's theme, and since I don't have any current wedding pictures and so wanted to participate, we rented a tux, I donned my dress and we renewed our vows this past weekend. I was the wedding photographer before and after - except for photos including myself - and managed to snap this frame-worthy shot of the husband - He Makes That Tux Look So GoodJust kidding. Because it was WAY too hot to renew any vows and bwahahaha like my dress fits. But I did snap the above photo a few years ago when David was a groomsman in his cousin's wedding. Nothing like a man in a tux.

Be sure to head over to IHeartFaces where you can see brides and grooms and all kinds of wedding goodness this week!

So Much For Staying on Top of Posting.

Full intentions of posting more last week. Except for that part where Monday night around 2:30 a.m. the boy woke up. And remained like this: until about 5:30 a.m. Okay not exactly like that but he certainly wasn't sleeping. Please note I did not break out the camera in the wee hours of the morning, although David wouldn't put it past me. No, I'm more of the irritable type when awakened too early and as such found myself asking such things as WHY are you STILL awake son?!? when he popped in the bedroom for the upteenth million time. Around the 5:30 a.m. mark when I found myself seriously flagging? I informed him that he needed to go to sleep immediately as it would be morning soon & was told yeah I looked out my window and saw that the sun was about to come up so I guess I better close my eyes. Wonderful.

I asked when I woke The Boy up not three hours later just why he stayed up for, oh, half the night. His response? Because when I close my eyes I can't see. Never a dull a moment.

So I spent the next few days working my tail off at work and trying to catch up on sleep at home.

Fast forward a bit to Thursday and playgroup - Music Day! - where David was Most Awesome and helped us out. The Boy was psyched not only to attned but to also have his daddy there. Rock On.

And since we are just flying through the last week I shall just fly right on through to yesterday! David was My Hero when he let me have the morning off Saturday. He & The Boy went to "The Jungle" (Uchee Creek) to shoot the bow and I enjoyed the quiet of the house, catching up on laundry and dishes and the like. Later in the afternoon? We broke out the slip&slide with the neighbors - Much Fun was had by all!

Other highlights from yesterday include my perfecting the Fried Green Tomatoes recipe, catching up on more episodes of The Unit thanks to Netflix and finally getting a good night's sleep. Here's to hoping we can keep the good sleep trend up for several days to come! For now I'm off to watch Hancock with David. I love lazy, quiet Sunday afternoons!