Weekend Wrap Up

I am at this moment sitting at home all alone and I have to say it's nice. Papaw picked up Austin before lunch and Brandon is at work. This is the first "home alone" time I've had in a very long time.

We've had a rather busy weekend with grocery and gift buying on Friday, a couple of birthday parties on Saturday, one for my niece who is turning 11 and the other for my cousin who turned 50. And for today just a whole lot of nothing except for cooking supper.

So here are a few photos of the little man from Saturday.

Look at those big blue eyes (and that dirty face!!)

Trying to hit the pinata, but the stick Uncle Shane had was a little heavy.

 

So instead he just picked up suckers that fell out when the big kids broke it.

 

Here is the birthday girl, Ayla. I can't believe she is fixin' to be 11 years old.

And here is one of Mikey with half of the pinata on his head. You never know what that kid is gonna do.

And of course the sweetest, cutest little man around. How precious is this little guy.

 

An Interesting Read...

or I'm assuming it was. I went to check on Austin while he was in the bathroom a few days ago and this is what I found. Of course I ran and got the camera when I found him this way. Apparently he takes after every man in the world where the bathroom is their official "library". He was looking at a Sportsmans Guide catalog and also like his Daddy was checking out what was on sale. I'll so embarrass him one of these days with pictures like this.

 

 

 

Feedin' the Cows

One of Austin's favorite things to do is going to feed the cows with Papaw. He waits on him to come pick him up so they can take feed to the pasture. So every few days Papaw shows up to go "peed the cows" as Austin says. I rode down over the weekend while they were feeding and filling up the water tank so that I could get a few pics. I don't get a lot of the two of them, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to catch them in action.

 

Watcha' doin Papaw? (over and over)

Come on Papaw, I'm gonna crank it up!!

 

Makin' a Cake!!

On Monday Austin and I made a birthday cake for our cousin Rosemary (Austin calls her Ro-Ro). Her birthday isn't until Thursday, but we went ahead and had a little early birthday celebration for her. Of course I had my little helper as usual and he did the duty of cleaning up the spoon and beaters afterwards!!

Ummm, Ummm Good!

 

The finished product. It didn't turn out that great, but it's kinda hard when you have an almost 2 1/2 year old poking his fingers in it everytime you look away. Oh well, practice makes perfect (or better in my case), one of these days I'll figure out how to decorate well.

 

I've Got My Mask On...

so lets go hunting Daddy. As always Austin is right in the middle of everything we're doing and when Brandon cleaned out all of his hunting stuff that was no exception. Austin found a couple of Brandon's old face mask and of course he wanted to wear them. These two masks have officially become Austins.

 

 

I'm not sure what this face is, but he was trying to get his mask just right.

 

All Tuckered Out

Once Mikey left today I tried to get Austin to lay down for a nap, but he was having no part of it because Daddy was outside and he wanted to be as well. So outside it is and about 5 pm we came into the house and as I was typing on my other posts he laid down on the kitchen floor in front of the fridge and below is what came next. You got it...he just couldn't stay awake any longer so it's naptime on the kitchen floor!! I just couldn't help but to get a quick picture of it and then I moved him to the bed. It just doesn't get any sweeter.

 

Playin' With Cousin Mikey

My nephew "Mikey Smith" as Austin calls him came for a visit today. We don't see Mikey a whole lot since he doesn't live close, but Austin enjoys playing with him. Here are a few pictures from their brownie break they took today. They are two silly little boys!

 

 

 

It was a Birthday Party...

and Austin had a wonderful time. Austin went to a birthday party on Saturday for a little boy named Daniel (I work with his mom) and Austin really enjoyed it. He came up to me outside today and hugged my neck and sweetly said "I Love You Mamma, thank you for taking me to the birthday party". So I guess that speaks for itself. Thanks for the invite Cheryl!! Here are a few pictures from the party.

The birthday boy wearing his Elmo t-shirt and riding his new tricycle

 

Pin the nose on Elmo!

Austin playing with what was the decorations

Daniel opening his gifts

and Austin wearing a bow from Daniels gifts

 

More presents

and I think this little truck was a hit! It's always the little things that they like the best.

and by this point we're so tired and fussy on the way home that we'll just wear the bow on our head.

 

My First Attempt...

at decorating a cake. It's not awful, but it's not great either. I'm not real good with icing the sides of the cake, but with practice I'm sure it will get better. I think that my icing was too thin. I was putting balloons on it and Austin said that he wanted his name on it, but I didn't have the room so he got his initials instead. Good enough for him. The stars and dots were alot easier to make than I thought they would be. And don't worry I won't let him eat out of the icing bags if I was making a cake to take somewhere!!

 

My Little Tater Peeler

Austin seems to have a thing for knives. I guess because his Daddy, his Papaw and most every other man he has been around carries a pocket knife. If you're cutting on anything he thinks he needs his own knife. He even told Brandon that he needed to call Santa Claus the other day because he needs a new knife! Anyway one afternoon last week I was peeling potatoes for supper and you guessed it, he needed a knife. So I gave him his plastic butterknife and he went to work on his one potatoe. He actually did get some of it peeled, but brought it to me to finish. You can tell that he is concentrating hard on getting this done.