What have we been up to?

This week Lola has been in the Dallas area making the rounds to see all of her grandparents. (Or "parents" as she calls them.)



Deacon and I have been chilling out together during the day, and he and his Daddy have had a grand old time at night while I am working. I worked extra this week, and he also stayed with his great aunt and great grandmothers some. He has been such a good boy-he is so easy to take care of. We forgot how "easy" it is with just one kid.



Tonight we will meet Lola at Dean's family reunion. Hopefully I will have pictures from the weekend.

Little Man loves to use a fork! So big!

Helping take care of the flowers!

Caution!!!

This is what 2 kids can do to your house in the time span of 1 day.

My floors were swept a mere 24 hours before this photo was taken.
And they have since been swept again!

New Tattoos

Deacon told me he wanted a tattoo like Daddy's. So this morning, I took him down town and he got one! What a great mother-son bonding experience!

Actually, it came in the kids meal we had for lunch.

It's temporary.

Lola got one too. She was being too much of a goofball to be still for her picture.

Today, I learned something: Going grocery shopping close to lunch time/nap time is a BAD idea.

Feels Like Summer

It has started to feel like summer to me not only because of the heat, but because we have grilled out this week for dinner.

These are my favorite thing in the world. Besides chocolate.
The kids love their swingset and to splash in the baby pool.

And, Deacon had his first Sonic slushee.

Summer's here!

Lola's End of School Program

I finally found my camera. Sorry this post is so late-the program was on May 21st!

Lola's class performing "The More We Get Together"

(Sorry about the quality of this picture. It shows you how far back we were sitting-you can't even see Lola. She was in the back right corner.)

Us afterwards

Lola with both of her Great-Grandmothers.

Hopefully I will get a lot of posting done this week to catch up.

New Pics

In April our friend Shauna, of K&S Photography in Dallas was in town for a bridal session, and was nice enough to do some pictures for us. They turned out great!

I love how cute Lola's freckles look here.

Are they dancing or running???

This was the same weekend as the "haircut incident" - so her hair is still long in a few of these.

I love these montages!

Shauna just started doing photography full-time. Her link is in the right hand column. If you like her work, give her a call!

Action Figures

My kids played with action figures yesterday. "So what?" you say, "a lot of kids play with action figures."

Dean brought a box of his old action figures and it was left in the car. We had to stop by his work for a few minutes, and the kids were super-restless in the backseat. Fussing, hollerin' and making all kinds of noise! He handed each of them an action figure and they were quiet for 20 minutes in the car, until we reached our next stop.
Those of you who watched Dean, Andrea and Kyle grow up will not find this surprising because apparantly this was one of their favorite pasttimes. However, the only time I was ever entertained by an action figure was when my brother had his GI Joes suspended with a rope on our Christmas tree. And, my kids are never quiet in the car unless they are sleeping.

I have a lot of other things to blog about, but I can't find my camera at the moment. It is lost somewhere in the aftermath of the tornado that blew through our house recently.