Our Summer So Far

I've obviously been way behind on posting any new pictures this summer.  We've done several fun things and I've taken pictures of most all of them, but then they never quite make it onto here.  So here we go!

After the 4-H fishing derby.  He caught 6 catfish! Everytime he'd get one on the line he would holler out to everyone "I just caught another one'!  I guess he wanted to make sure that everyone knew.

 In the kiddie pool.  This child seriously is scared to death of the water unless he can touch bottom.  He'll play all day long even it comes up to his neck, as long as he can touch the bottom!  Hopefully he'll grow out of that sooner than later.

 At the Arkadelphia waterpark.  Again he can touch bottom so it's all good, but don't take him near the rope that separates deep from shallow.

 Magic Springs.

 Riding the planes with Ayla.

There was a mini meltdown over this ride as well.  They were waiting in line and he wanted to ride in the police car.  There are two police cars on the ride, but only 1 of them was working and he went to the non-working one first and someone else got the working one.  Let's just say he had a fit and came back outside the gate and waited for the next time when he could get the police car!  He is one stubborn little boy!

We went to DeGray and camped for 6 days leading up to the 4th of July.  Austin, Ayla and I went up on Tuesday and Brandon came at the end of the week.  We spent our days swimming and playing at the playground until Brandon got there on Friday with the boat!

And I'm not quite sure what this was, but he kept wrapping himself up in his blanket and dancing in the camper! You know every boy needs a skirt and a pinwheel to blow! LOL!

 Mixing up the pancake batter so I can make breakfast.

We got home from camping on Monday morning and then had lunch at my dad's house with the whole family.  Mikey's birthday is this week and so they had a little early celebration for him while everyone was there.

With Scooter & Mikey for Mikey's birthday!

 And baby Jane Annsley!  She is my step-sisters new little girl and she is so precious.  Austin just loved her. When I asked him what he thought of such a little baby he told me that "she's fine, but I want a baby brother"!  Let's just say if we ever do have baby #2 he's going to be so disappointed if it's not a boy!

 The best part of the cake...the icing!  And yes he was still in his pjs...at 3:00 in the afternoon. That's just how we roll sometimes!

 Austin and Papaw with baby Jane.  He was so excited to hold her.  It's a good thing that babies sleep so much when they are little because otherwise she would really be uncomfortable in the position in which Austin was holding her.  Now in Austin's words "God needs to hurry up and bring him a baby brother"!

Another Weekend Gone By...

My child has developed a new obsession with water balloons so of course his daddy bought him a bag of 250! Yea, just what we needed! Being the nice momma that I am (read I got tired of listening to him beg) I finally filled him up a few to take outside.

He ended up taking them out to throw at the dog and of course he wanted me to throw one at him to get him wet, so I did.

Apparently he thought he was gonna throw one at me while I was sitting on the steps. Since I did have a camera in my hand I didn't think it was a good idea and lucky for me he minded!

On Friday at lunch he wanted to have a picnic, but the weather was windy and rainy looking so we ended up doing it in the house! Here is our lunch as requested by Austin...chicken nuggets, tater tots, cheese, hot chips (also known as Doritos) and bbq sauce! And we ate them on our Zoo Pals plates! We're classy like that!

Here he is with our spread out blanket and ready for lunch.

And we have to have a little Iron Man in there too!

Saturday morning there was a fishing derby at Mathis' pond and Austin wanted to go. Brandon had to work so that just left me to take him. Brandon got all of stuff together on Friday night and Saturday morning Austin and I loaded up and off we went. He had so much fun. I did have to help him reel them in because they were a little heavy for him. He caught 6 catfish and every time he caught one he would yell to the people around us that he caught another one! He was so proud. I was proud that he managed to actually fish and act good for the 2 1/2 hours we were there. Here is his catch and what's for supper tonight!

He was so proud of his fish he caught! He couldn't wait to show his daddy.

And last, but not least the newest "pet". Actually there are 2 of them. Brandon brought home two turtles Saturday night that he picked up off the road. Just what we needed! They even have names...the one below is Franklin and the other one is Gilly.

Just another weekend in the life! Isn't it great?

Our Sunday

We took a little road trip on Sunday to check out a campground in Star City and had a little adventure along the way! Austin had drank an icee and ate a candy bar on the way and about the time we got to Star City he told us that his stomach was hurting. About 5 seconds later he was throwing up everywhere. We got pulled over and got him out and undressed and everything out of the truck that was now covered. Long story short, we went to Fred's and got him some more clothes and then headed to a laundromat to wash all of his other stuff. Needless to say he thought it was cool after he wasn't sick anymore and he had a big time playing in "the place with all the washing machines"! Next stop Cane Creek State Park...

And of course we had to have playground time

Daddy & Austin

Momma & Austin

Me & My Honey!

Doing the balancing act!

And of course the big kid had to do it too!

Look Momma...

The Easter Bunny came to our house while we were at the lake!

His basket of goodies

He couldn't believe the Easter Bunny knew just what he liked!

Stylin' in our boots and shorts as usual

He looks like Popeye in this pic.

We hunted eggs again this afternoon at mamaw & papaws with the other 3 kiddos in the family.  After we finished we came home and he climbed up in my lap (very rare for him) and was out like a light.  He has had one busy weekend and was wore smooth out.

Easter Weekend

The hubby isn't off of work on the weekends very often and since we knew he'd have a 3 day weekend because of Good Friday we decided to load up and go to White Oak for the weekend.  We love to camp, but it's not something we get to do a lot of because of his work schedule.  We hope to change that this year.  Austin loves camping as much as his Daddy and I do and he played so hard and had so much fun.  He wanted to stay 10 days he kept telling us, but it wasn't happening this time around.

We got up Saturday morning early and Brandon cooked breakfast (one of my favorite things about camping, Brandon does 99% of the cooking!).  After that we loaded up the boat and headed out to do some fishing.

I think he was calling the fish here, but it's not like they know it!

We fished for a little while, but the wind just kept getting worse and worse until we finally just had to head back to the camp.

Heading back... 

and telling daddy all about it...and then, well then we hit a stump in the lake and we were stuck!  So Brandon rocked us around for a while and we tried and tried to get off that stump, but it was hung up right in the middle of the boat.  So for a last ditch effort, Brandon litterally had to ditch his clothes except for his pants and jump into the lake to pick the boat up off of the stump.  In just a couple of minutes he had us loose and then frantically fussed at me to hurry and crank the motor up and move before we got stuck again, but he got us going and we went on back to the camp.  I really wanted to get a pic of him all wet and give out from being in the lake, but I saw no need in adding to his misery!  Needless to say the fishing wasn't good that day!

On Saturday afternoon they had a big egg hunt at the park.  The hid several hundred eggs all stuffed with candy.  My dad came up and brought Scooter to hunt eggs.

And of course another Easter Bunny!  Austin kept asking her who she was under that disguise!  They weren't outsmarting him!

After they got all the age groups separated and said go Austin was off like a bolt of lightening.  They had eggs just scattered everywhere for the little kids and it was wild.  He was grabbing eggs like they were going out of style.

You can see that they just had eggs laid everywhere on the ground.  There was no reason they couldn't all get plenty.

You can see his bucket was already stuffed.

but he was still looking

Here he is after he finished getting his share.  He kept telling me that he thinks he won!

I would definately say he got enough.

All in all it was a wonderful weekend despite the wind and the stump.  Austin had a ball and wasn't ready to come home.  He already wants to know when we will go again!

Hippity Hoppity...

Easter is on it's way! On Thursday we had Austin's Easter Party at pre-school and as usual I didn't get many pictures because it's hard to take care of everything and take pics too. We were originally going to hunt eggs outside, but we woke that morning to pouring down rain which continued throughout the day. So it was on to Plan B...and I was hoping our Wal Mart had something we could use for a Plan B. I ran to WM before going to the party and luckily they had some foam egg shapes with all the the little pieces to decorate them. So that's what we did instead of hunting eggs. They were fine with it. So despite the rain the party went well and the kids had a good time.

Austin's Easter basket from his party

Austin and Ian enjoying the cookies that Miss Julie brought.  They were the cutest little sugar cookie rabbits decorated with marshmallows.

The class.

Austin enjoying his cookie.

And then the Easter Bunny showed up and they were ALL excited.  Everyone got to get a pic with the bunny!  There were a few that weren't too sure though.

But not Austin, he couldn't get enough of the bunny.

So another year of pre-school parties is in the book and we are done until Halloween.  That will give me a good little break until we do it all over again!