Friday, October 23, 2009

The Rock Ranch

It just might become a tradition. Last year we went to The Rock Ranch and liked it so much that we decided to go back again this year.

The Rock Ranch is a pumpkin patch with lots and lots of fun stuff to do. This year we went when there was a little craft show and the kids each got a marshmellow gun.


We went with our good friends the Hunters. Here they are with Shawn, Dax and Jayde on the back of this pedal car, bike thing.

Fox is now big enough to ride his own.
Of course we had to get the cow ride in.


Here is a glimpse of how big Dax is getting. Just check out those legs.

One of the highlights is the corn box. The kids could spend hours in there if we let them. Who would have guessed that it is one of the favorite things to do at the ranch.


Here they are gearing up for the train ride that never happened. Just as we were waiting to go on our ride they found that the train wasn't working anymore.

Is it just me, or do I have some pretty tough kids?!! I know I am probably just a proud mom, especially to my cowboy friends, but check out Fox and Jayde. They both got on a mechanical bull and had fun. They got bucked off and everything. Fox even went for a second round.

They got to pick their own pumpkins.
It was so fun, we stayed until it was dark.

I need to catch up

I have been lagging behind on my posts lately. I don't know why, but I don't seem to find enough time to get on my computer. So I am going to try to get in a few make up posts. We went to a Braves game the first part of this month wondering why we even tried.

It started out great. Fox and Jayde were sitting in their seats snacking, Dax was happy, mom and dad were happy, and then the first inning got over. Dax was done in the second inning, Fox and Jayde were done in the third inning, and because of all this, Dad was done in the fourth inning. By the time the fifth inning came along I was kind of laughing to myself as I looked at Shawn and how miserable he seemed and said to him, do you want to go? We were out of there so fast it wasn't even funny. So that is it for the Braves this year.






Thursday, October 1, 2009

Squirrel Entertainment

Saturday night started out with a few of us girls getting together for dinner. It is always nice to get out of the house and visit with my girlfriends. After dinner we went to the women's broadcast for conference at the church. Not many women were there, but we had quite the disruption, or what I would like to call entertainment. A squirrel got into the chapel and climbed up the curtain. Bro. Phillips tried to catch it with a long pole with a net on the end, but to no avail, the squirrel got away. Some thought it ran out of the chapel, but I believe it got uplifted and edified as it probably sat in it's own pew listening to all the talks given by our wonderful church leaders. I don't have the best video, but here is a glimps of the event.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

It's All About The Dodgers!!!

Last Tuesday, September 15, I picked Fox up from school and rushed him to the airport so that he could take off on a special trip with his dad to see the Dodgers in LA. He was so excited he could hardly get to sleep at the hotel. Remember it is a 3 hour time difference, so about 11:30pm GA time he finally went to sleep.




The next day they were off to see the big game.

Saw this cool Dodger firetruck and had to have a picture...
Or two.



Must have gotten there so early they were the only ones there?!
Got spoiled rotten...
And loved every minute of it.
And just had a great time with his dad.
Even though it was a little hot.
Then they rushed back to the airport from the game and got home at 1:30am. Just in time to sleep for a few hours and then go to school that morning.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Jayde's haircut

This morning I decided to give Jayde her 2nd haircut. As much as I love her hair growing long, I decided a haircut would do her hair some good. Here she is just before.


Then I cut 4 1/2 inches off.



Because we were focused on her hair, we decided to fix it up and curl it.
Here is a side view.And just because she is so cute, I had to put these last 2 pictures on here.


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Jayde

I know, I am on a blogging role today, but Jayde cracks me up lately. She came down stairs from playing in her room looking like this and very seriously told me she was ready to go to work. When I asked her if I could get a picture of her she got on the couch to pose for me.

Yesterday she was playing with all these stuffed animals. I wasn't paying attention to her until I finally realized she was taking all of them to the potty, one at a time and over and over again, and wiping their behinds with toilet paper and flushing the toilet after each one.


It is a good thing we are not on restricted water usage anymore, and I was able to salvage a little bit of toilet paper that was left in the bathroom.

Family Night...not always easy...

Two Mondays ago we went on a golf cart ride to get a treat for family night. We hadn't been on the golf cart for awhile, so we thought that would be fun. Well, we thought wrong. The kids decided to be a little too difficult, so when it came time to getting their treats, they didn't get them. Here is a little glimps of how the ride home went. I can't get the sound to work, so sorry if you don't have sound (probably better without anyways).

Apparently Fox was going to die if he didn't get his treat, so he said. He also said he wasn't going to be able to stop bleeding if he didn't get it (where is the blood?) And he said he was too tired to go into the house unless he got his treat. He must have been thinking that something has got to work. Jayde also had a rough ride home. Normally I wouldn't post this, but I thought it was so funny I just had to. It is better to laugh than to get mad this time right?