Hats

Jackson loves hats and shoes. It doesn't matter whose shoes or what kind of hat. On this day it was a 90 plus degree day and he was determined to wear a tobogan.

Camping Continued

Jackson dumped the crickets for fishing into the grass and there was a mad dash to catch them.

Lilly packed make-up. I didn't, so I feel certain she was the only girl there with make-up on.

Dad likes this ugly yellow shirt for some reason.

Dakota dog (as opposed to Dakota Girl, Lilly's new friend at school and this is how she refers to them) was the only person to pose nicely for a picture. Jonathan and I were certain he was a bear during our first night. The dog was tied up, so there may have been some strange animal sniffing out tent in the night.

Grandaddy's Birthday Wish

CAMPING! IN TENTS! Not my idea of fun, but because he is my daddy and we like him to be happy we all (Mama, Daddy, Jonathan, Me, Kids, Heidi, Rob, Guy and Hunter) packed up and headed to the mountains. The weather was perfect, just right at night (though a little damp) and warm during the day. The kids went up early on Friday with Gran and Grandaddy and spent the day setting up our campsite. A food tent and our two tents. They also took the golf cart and Daddy even found a lawn mower and cut grass. ONLY TIM! We got up ate breakfast, went fishing, ate lunch, played and rode the golf cart. THe boys all left for about 2 hours with us in charge of 3 kids who didn't want to nap and nothing to really do. Us girls were not all that happy about that. It was a very relaxing day because there was nothing to do. We ate supper and then back to bed. It took about 2-3 hours to take down camp the next day and by then it was HOT which made me ill. THen it was a three hour drive home. THat was good sleep. I was most glad to be home in my bed and take a shower!

LUMPS for the Last Time

Lilly was finally able to start school again! Yeah for her and us! She loves school and has asked all summer when school was going to start. One day I told her we could play school and I would be her teacher. She replied "No, Mommy you are not my teacher and I need Ms. Ann, Ms. Kathy, and Ms. P-nut not you!" That was fine because everything I try to teach her goes in one ear and out the other. All summer she has wanted to spell new words. My thought was we could at least learn to spell Alford, she refused to learn that word. She now spells Heidi, Rob, Grand, Daddy, Mama, Granny, RoeRoe, and even yellow.

On my first day Jackson was NOT happy for me to go to work. The expression on his face tells all.

Jackson's FIrst Haircut

I was very sad to have the Little Fellow's hair cut, but he was really starting to get long curly hair. No more babies in our house. He is growing so fast and I just long for time to slow down.

Discovery Place

We spent a weekend with Heidi, Rob, and Dakota to end our summer travels. We were able to go to Discovery Place and the kids enjoyed it and Jonthan thought it was great. I knew he would like all the "building" stuff. Jackson liked the life size light-brite (really just banging the lights into place) and Lilly was busy going from one place to another. Heidi couldn't keep up and put me on Lilly duty while she took Jackson who was in the stroller. We had fun hanging out and eating good food!