Camping with Friends

There was hot dogs, smores, burnt pizzas over the fire, laughter, sandcastles,

park play,

sandy smiling children,
clay foot spas for the moms,

silly daddys,creature hunting, more sandy smiling children,minnow torturing, rock throwing contests,

Baywatch boys,Sun bleached hair,
keepin things G rated :),

playing at the leach and crawdad infested beach,

sitting by the fire,

and of course tired children, crying when we had to release the toads, storms in the night, ticks, and smoky smelling hair to wash and clothes to unpack when we got home. But it's all worth it for the memories made with friends! And of course some friendly blackmail photos and stories that won't be being shared on my blog :)

Mommy's can do lots of things well, but there's just some things that only daddy's can do. . .

I LOVE this photo!!

Grandpas

Grandpas build sandboxes. . .
Grandpas make camping breakfast. . .

Most of all, Grandpas love us!

Puddles are for Jumping

Little Bro Sees. . .Little Bro Does. . .

Puddles are for riding bikes through. . .Little Bro Sees. . .Little Bro Does. . .

Raindrops are for catching in our mouth. . . Little Bro doesn't :)

Splish Splash. . .

it's summer at last!!

(yes, he has an iron man tattoo on his back. . .and yes, my almost 3 yr old needs 18-24 mo swimmin trunks :) )

We are so excited that summer is here. . .all "6" of us :)

Girls Day '10

My mom took my sisters, myself, and Ainsley and Taetum (adorned in Laura and Mary dresses) on a girls day to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Musical and a fancy lunch at Minervas! The girls squealed with delight when they got to try on the dresses, aprons and bonnets that Grammy sewed!
The girls got ooohed and aaahed over all day :)

Sewn just how they requested. . .Ainsley light pink and Taetum pink and lavender :)

The musical was wonderful as was spending the day with the girls!

Ainsley aka Mary and Taetum aka Laura. . .And I must say thanks my wonderful husband who had a boys day with our boys. . .they rode bikes all the way to grocery store for "sample Saturday" and rode home uphill with chocolate milk and steaks to grill for their lunch :)

I so enjoyed having you sit on my lap during the musical Ainsley, and sharing this day with you! You are such a sweetheart. . .the night before the musical you were laying in bed reading a Little House book, and you told daddy you couldn't put it down because the smell of the book reminded you of mommy reading it to you :) I love reading chapter books to you at bedtime Ainsley!

I love my family and thank God for them,