Swimming Pool?

Who needs a swimming pool to cool off when really anything filled with water will do just fine!

Giddy up horsie

On Friday afternoon, Everett and I were looking at the Lone Star Park website to see if we might like to go there on Memorial Day. Everett got pretty excited about the horses. Later, Leslie called and we decided to meet her at Mariano's for dinner. However, since we'd just talked about going to see the horsies, E thought that was where we were going. I thought we might be in trouble since he seemed to have his mind set on seeing horsies ... luckily for us, there were a few horsies at Mariano's. After eating, big sis took him to ride the horsies. He really enjoyed himself and even shouted out a few "ye-hawwws".

He was quite disappointed when the ride came to an end.

But happy that sis had one more quarter!

Key lime pie

We discovered on Mother's Day that Everett REALLY likes key lime pie ... in fact, he even licked his bowl which left some whipped cream on his nose. He then asked for seconds ... and thirds!

Brotherly Love

Here's a demonstration of Everett trying to get Pryce to lay down and take a nap on the kitchen floor. Not sure why he thought this was important, but he was pretty upset when little brother wouldn't cooperate.

Visit at Lake

Here are some more pictures from our visit to the Rankins' Mother's day weekend.
Everett sure enjoyed fishing with Daddy. He especially liked the plastic worms they used for bait. (So much, in fact, that he took his nap with one Saturday afternoon!)

Notice E's worm!

Won't be long before Pryce is fishing too!

Messy Eater

For those of you who doubted me when I told you that Pryce is the messiest eating baby ever, here's the proof. He blows rasberries while you try to feed him which results in very little going in and quite a bit going out (and all over Mommy!) I sure hope he figures out the right way to eat soon. As a friend has already pointed out ... this could be a problem when he starts dating!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

We're Alive!

Yay ... We survived the nasty virus that knocked out most of my family for a full week and even pulled off a successful fundraiser for the Collin County Children's Advocacy Center at our home on May 3rd. Big sigh of relief! It's been over a week and we are still recovering. Hopefully by next week the garage will be back in order so I can park in there and maybe I'll even be caught up on the work and household tasks that had to be put on hold while we focused on the Mudbug Fest and getting our children well. (You'll notice I am blogging now instead of doing above said work and chores, but hey, I'm also having my lunch while I type so I am multi-tasking!)

We had almost 200 people show up this year for the event! The weather was perfect and everyone had a great time. Once again, Southern Drive, treated us to an acoustical jam for all to enjoy while eating the 350 lbs of crawfish David cooked! You can see all the pictures on our photo site. Thanks to everyone who helped us put on the event and came out to support such a worthy cause!

Here's a picture of me and David at our Mudbug Fest holding the Proclamation we received from Plano's mayor, Pat Evans, which recognized us and officially proclaimed May 3rd, 2008 as "Mudbug Fest" in Plano and encouraged everyone to join in the effort to bring awareness and assistance to our children who have experienced child abuse.

Gone Fishin'

Happy Mother's Day!
I'll have to catch up on blogging next week, but wanted to take just a minute to share a picture I took of two of my "boys" at the Rankins this weekend. How sweet is this? It's enough to make my heart melt! (click on the pic to enlarge and get a good look at the sweet expression on E's face ... priceless!)
More pictures and updates to follow soon ....