july 4th

My boys love 4th of July. This is their favorite holiday of the year I think. It might even be better than Christmas. We had our family over to eat and some friends came over and did some fireworks. We made tacos for supper and had ice cream, cookies and brownies. These pictures are not in any order.

Oh the fun to play with fire.

Nannie holding Ti

He just couldn't take any more fun.

Pops, Tim, & Ti

Trouble

Boots go with shorts. Right?

I love this picture of Papaw and Andrew.

Some friends came over to help celebrate.

All the cousins.

Papaw & Pops

"I LOVE FIRE"

Memaw feeding Ti supper.

Nannie cleaning up the kitchen.

Tacos - is that wrong to eat on the 4th.

Noah teaching Andrew the fine art of setting something on fire.

Don't you just want to smooch on this cutie. The baby that is.

The night before the 4th we went over to the Hesters to shoot off some fireworks.

Asher & Kayden

Yes, please set what we are holding in our hands on fire. We love FIRE!!!!

Fathe's Day/Birthday Weekend

On the 19th of June Tim turned 32 years old. I made him a cake and we had a few friends over to eat. He got a little help blowing out the candles.

Father's day weekend we went to our parents on Saturday. While we were there we went swimming in Uncle David and Aunt Judy's pool.

I love this picture. Aren't they cute.

Nannie kept Ti while we went to the pool

Great Grandma Disheroon and Ti

Caught

Guess who I caught sucking his thumb.

Lesson Learned

I have a bad habit of putting the pacifier handle in my mouth to carry it around while carrying the baby. Well I think I have learned my lesson. Yesterday, Satan was in the attack mode. I was trying to do something nice for someone and therefore He was trying to ruin everything.

Ti had been cranky most of the day. Well he really was only cranky when I wasn't letting him nurse or rocking him in the rocking chair so I guess I can't say he was cranky the whole day.

Let me start at the beginning of the day. We went to the Library that morning, not such a good idea. I was sure that they were going to ask me to leave. I think there is some kind of rule for not allowing a screaming child in the library. We tried to stay in story time without any success.

After we finished the torture of the library we went directly home to try to get him down for a nap. He slept all of thirty minutes. Then crazy me decided I would cook supper and since I was already cooking I would make enough for another family.

While trying to cook I get on the phone with our pastor and start discussing what we should do about an building and grounds issue at the church. While on the phone Noah starts yelling that Ti has pooped. The loving mother that I am start to pick up the screaming child while on the phone (well actually I did this after yelling at Noah not to pick him up by himself). MISTAKE. Somehow I hung up on the the pastor and then realized there is poop everywhere. I mean everywhere. He was in his bouncer and the whole cover had to be put in the washer. It was kind of like he had no diaper on at all. I go ahead and pick him up and take him to his bed. Lay him on a towel and begin to take all the pooped soaked clothes off. You got to love breast fed babies. All the while Noah is standing by commenting on how gross it is. I then put him in the bathroom sink for a good hosing down. Then back to the bed for new clothes. At this point I am convinced that Satan is trying to get the better of me. I will have none of that.

I continue to finish up the supper (after washing my hands thoroughly)and do get it to its destination on time. As I am leaving to take the supper I grab the pacifier and put it in my mouth and head to the car. At this point I noticed something tasted bitter. I am thinking ooh no, what is on the handle of this pacifier. I quickly take it out of my mouth. Guess what ---Poop. At least I think it is poop because it is yellow and there was actually poop all around where it had been. Not that I could tell by the taste. I can honestly say that I don't think I have ever tasted it before. Yes - Satan won that round.

I have hopefully learned a lesson - ALWAYS, ALWAYS look before you put something of the babies in your mouth. You just never know what might be on it.

Summer Fun

The other day Kambry and Logan came to play. I am afraid to see what my water bill will be for this month.

Yes, this is a man made mud hole.

Yes, the hole is deep enough to go over their ankles.

The dogs are not to impressed with the big mud hole. They dig holes this deep on a daily basis. Of course they usually bring their prize (a dead mole) up to our back porch when they are done. Really who doesn't like to walk out the door to see a dead animal laying near by. Oh, and if you have a dog that jumps your fence when you throw the dead animal over the fence into the field beside your house he will just bring it back.

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WE LOVE WATER

Here are some friends we went swimming with.

Logan

Caleb


Allee

This is Ti's first time to go swimming. He seemed to enjoy it.

This swimming stuff makes a boy tired.

The below pictures are us swimming at the Landwehr's pool.

Ti decided to take a nap and not get in the water.

Not for sure what is going on here, but I think I will be able to use it against them as they get older.

Andrew was swimming pretty good at the end of last summer but we had to use floaties at the beginning of this summer. He is now out of the floaties and swimming in the deep end by himself. I am so glad my kids learned how to swim early and enjoy the water.

Withrow Springs Camping

We went to Withrow Springs State Park in Huntsville for our last camping trip. Some how we always choose the hottest weekends to go on.

On Friday we went canoeing. We had been told that it should take between 2 and 4 hours. It took us five and we even had to carry our canoe in one spot. I don't mean we were dragging because we did do lots of that. We actually had to pick it up and carry it across dry land for about 30 yards. I say we it was actually the men who did it. About five minutes into the canoe trip Andrew falls backwards in the canoe (because he was standing up and he had already been told numerous times to set down) and busted his head open. Head wounds usually make you think they are worse than they really are because they bleed so much. There was much crying and screaming involved but he finally got over it and enjoyed the rest of the trip. Meredith saw four snakes and I caught two fish. I didn't fish much we were to busy having to drag the canoe. Everyone was tired and happy to see the end point. I left my camera in the car so I could take pictures of us when we got done. I forgot until we were already loading up to leave. RATS Thanks to Nannie for coming up and staying with Ti at the campsite.

Ti did not do too good. He really wanted to be in his own bed at night. He also didn't like taking naps when there was so much to see and do. When we got home we set him in his bed and he just layed there and played for probably at least an hour. This was his expression a lot of the weekend. We went with about three other families. We made two of our meals together. The Purifoys did catfish and french fries one night. It was excellent. I made the hushpuppies. This was my first attempt at it and they actually turned out really good. If I do say so my self. I pride myself on making up recipes, haha just never ask me the measurement of the ingredients. You just have to make it look right. The next night we had steaks. Robert Bogan cut the meat and cooked it. It was fantastic. We had corn on the cob, fried potatoes and salad with this meal. I made the homemade ice cream for dessert. I didn't really get to eat any of this while it was still frozen because it was Ti's bedtime. How I love air conditioned campers. I can't complain much for having to sit in the air conditioning and watching TV to put the baby to sleep. Imagine how awful it would be in that heat in a tent.

This next picture is so funny. Laci knows when we are fixing to go somewhere and she always wants to go with us, and we let her most of the time. She had been either in the camper or under the truck all morning as we were loading up to leave and the next time I went out I couldn't find her. Then I looked in the truck. She was sitting in the drivers seat. She was determined not to let us leave without her. She would rather ride in the front with us but we went ahead and made her ride in her crate in the back.

I didn't take very many pictures I was too busy holding a baby. Oh well maybe I will do better next time.