Our last couple of days...

Things have been a little crazy here, so I'll try to catch up real fast. Friday was a fairly wasted day. Had to grocery shop and clean house. I did a bunch of stuff to try to keep myself awake. Rylee had another horrible night. Just wakes up ready to play. But it's pretty hard to stay mad at this face. Cody had become a Zoombini freak. He would play his computer game all day if I let him. He's figured it out pretty good. A lot is pure luck I know, but he loves it!

Rylee is still enjoying her Jumperoo. It's awesome! I can take it anywhere. Thanks Amy!!

When he's not on the computer, he's getting into trouble. This is his "I'm too precious to be mad at" face. Doesn't work for mom! He got into the Wii stuff and got Logan's nerf gun.

We were planning on going to the lake for the day on Saturday, but Logan had a turn for the worse. He was up most of the night coughing. So we stayed home, and he moaned about not being able to go outside. So we loaded up and headed to OKC. We stopped at Granddaddy's and picked up a new toy for us. Justin calls it a dust collector. It's officially called a treadmill. Here's hoping it helps me lose some Cody/Rylee baby weight!! Anyway, we stayed and talked with him for a little bit and then stopped by to see Nanny and Papa on the way out of town. Great visit.

We got home and got the kids ready for bed. Cody found Justin's cowboy hat. Little big still!

Sunday night was just as bad as the night before. Logan coughing/throwing up however this time. Rylee wanting to play. We had a great breakfast and spend some quality family time together. I have wanted Rylee to wear this outfit forever, but it's been too warm. Finally, some great weather arrived. Isn't it cute??

She was pretty proud of herself too.

Justin finally bought his deer feeder. Logan and I helped him put it together, while Rylee supervised.

All in all a great quiet day with the family. Which is all you can ask for. Perfect day!

Love and miss you all!

Just another day...

So yesterday was just another day...except it didn't involve Cody! My little guy went to school. He was smiles and sunshine on our way there. So happy to see Mrs. Dana and all his friends, especially Abby...which I just learned there is no such person, it's Allie. Uh oh...not good with names. Here he is, big boy going to school! (New backpack and all.) Rylee and I headed to see my friends new baby. Baby Anna. Isn't she precious? Love her!! She'll be an Alpha Gam legacy right along with Rylee. Now hopefully we can get them both to OU! :-)

I got back and picked up Logan from school. He's been coughing again and we needed to get it checked out. Turns out, he has "cobblestones?" Doctor said it's just an infection in his throat. He also still has a little pneumonia. So we got him on some strong meds and hopefully it will knock it out. We go back in October/November to the cardiologist to see if his heart is still enlarged. Can't wait for all that to be over!

We had a great dinner, my favorite, brisket and cheesy potatoes. The kids got cleaned and in bed. As did I. I've been super tired lately, maybe because of these stinkin' kids that refuse to sleep!! Ugh, what's a mom to do?? :-)

Love and miss you all! Have a great weekend!

Top 10...

Top 10 things for random people not to say to me again when I'm at the store with my kids...

10. Woah, looks like you got your hands full. (talking about my kids I assume.)
9. Oh, I'm so glad those days are over. (talking again about all the kids I guess.)
8. All that singing should be on You Tube. (talking about Cody's ABC song.)
7. Hmmm, that's a lot of frozen pizza. (talking about how I feed my children badly.)
6. It's awfully cold in the store, she might need some socks. (talking about my ability to mother Rylee apparently.)
5. You got a big helper there, what are you 7? (talking about my sweet Logan and him being shorter.)
4. Looks like that one's never missed a meal. (Rylee in general)
3. He's a bruiser isn't he? (Rylee in pink/purple)
2. Look at that little feller. (Rylee in purple)
And the number 1 thing for random people to never say to me when at at the store with my kids...

1. Oh my gosh look at those chubby legs, she looks just like her mom. (talking about Rylee and my personal appearance?)

I'll post more on Cody's first day, but right now I have to calm down. I just mad again at all those fools. Love and miss you all!

Back to the real world...

So my past few days have been pretty uneventful. It's been an ok week. Tuesday Logan went to the orthodontist. He has all his work ups done for spacers and retainers. They made a mold of his teeth, which he was not too big a fan of. I hated that stuff, always made me gag. But he only had to do it once on each so I guess it was a success. In the next 3 weeks or so we'll go back and start pulling teeth if we need to and put in spacers. Then we'll see from there.

Cody and Rylee have enjoyed being home. They've gotten right back into their routines. Rylee is becoming very silly. She'll just giggle and laugh at everything. She is getting very sturdy too. AND...(drum roll please)...she rolled over finally!! She's done it before but never more than once. BUT last night, she did it 3 times!!! Oh my goodness, we're a little behind, but what do you expect, it's hard to move all those rolls at once! :-)

Got her leg rolls in this picture!

Cody starts school today! Everyone say a big prayers for his teacher and him. I hope it goes smoothly. Luckily, he has his old teacher, she moved up. We love her! She's awesome, I have never worried about him while he's at Mother's Day out. I'm going to see my friend Jennifer's new baby. So excited! And that's about it. Hope you guys are having a super week. Love and miss you all!!

PS...Diane, LOVED the announcement. And Cody thought it was hilarious to have a picture of a cow. He's got it in his room on his desk. He laughs everytime he walks by and says "oooh, baby cow." :-) Thanks!!

Booo hooo hooo!

So sad, our last day of vacation. We started off the morning very slowly. We had to be out by 10am so we hung around and ate breakfast and then packed up. Rylee enjoyed all the action. Logan got hold of the camera while I was packing. Here are his pictures...

They had a Dora Chutes and Ladders game and Cody love it. Instead of the regular figures they were Diego and Dora and whatever the other people/things are called.

This is actually a pretty good one! Of course it couldn't last...here's a crazy face.

We stopped at a bunch of places, but they had all switched to "winter" hours, so they were closed on Mondays. Bummer. However, we found an arcade type place. Cody went instantly to the motorcycle.

And Logan went instantly to the basketball game.

Of course, the boys all had to race. Logan came in 2nd and Cody came in 4th...pretty impressive!!!

And looky here...Justin played this game a lot and finally it paid off...1000 tickets! And let me tell you, it takes FOREVER for 1000 tickets to come out of a machine!

This was crazy, what a waste of tickets!!

Cody found the bowling alley and stayed there for quite awhile.

We were at the prize counter forever too. We had 2672 tickets to spend. Which is very hard when just about everything you want is worth 6. UGH. They did spend 450 a piece on these lovely hats. Actually, they are pretty funny. What was even funnier was Cody getting out of the bathtub and instantly putting it...and only it...on. Nothing like a naked, spiked hat, 2 year old running around.

So after lunch we headed home. We got here about 4:00pm. Grammy went and got ribs, Justin mowed and I unpacked. I figured we'd had such a big weekend, might as well top it off. Here's Rylee with her first taste of cereal. Mmmmmm...

If she could say, "Get that crap out of my mouth," she would have. Look at that face. Not interested. We'll keep trying though. :-) We all got cleaned up and of course the boys and Grammy played some Mario Cart.

Then off to bed. We watched some TV and then headed there ourselves. 9:30pm. Seriously! We were too pooped to pop. What a fantastic weekend! That's all for now. Love and miss you all!

(PS...all you Alpha Gams, Watters just adopted a baby girl. Anna Elizabeth, and she is precious, precious, precious. If you have her email, shoot her one and say congrats, she's super excited!)

As you can imagine...

As you can imagine, we had another fantastic day. It started off with a little relaxing around the house in the morning while we had breakfast...but that didn't last long.

We headed into town and got our pictures taken. I have always loved those dress up pictures so the boys humored me and took one. AND Cody actually LOVED it. He walked around smiling and saying "yeehaw." Logan didn't like it until he got to act mad during the picture taking. For some of the shots, Rylee was in a jack daniels box, and she loved it! I'm gonna have to buy one of those because she was really good! Justin bought me a frame to match it. It was so much fun!
Next we went to "Ride the Ducks." It was the neatest thing. These are actual WWII amphibious vehicles. They've made them a little longer and put a new engine in it, but that's all. The boys had no idea what we were about to do!But they loved the idea of having noise makers! We all got these "quackers," if you blow in them they quack. So easy, even Cody could do it...great. Here we are taking off on main street.

And here we are driving in the water. Logan got to be the captain for awhile while we were in boat mode. We were in lake Table Rock, which was georgeous...puts our lake to shame! (Here's a video of us going in.)

This is the dam here. It was magnificent in person. Even Cody was in awe.

We went to lunch when we were all over and headed back to the house. We all settled in for a little rest...and I do mean little. Cody slept about an hour and then he was roaring to go. So we headed back to Silver Dollar City. We focused mostly on rides this time. Cody was in heaven!

And Rylee was in a pretty good mood herself. She has been awesome this whole trip! She's a people watcher that's for sure, but she doesn't smile at everybody. It's funny who she picks to smile at.

UGH, another freaking mom out moment. Logan and Justin rode this, don't even know what it's called. All I know is it constantly spins and goes real fast up and down a big long hill on both sides...no fun for me!! Logan wasn't too sure at first, but ended up liking it, kind of. He wasn't sure he'd do it again, but was glad he did it.

For some reason Cody was doing this a lot today. No idea why. Guess that means it was a good day?

Logan and Justin rode another roller coaster. This one was indoors, dark, and water filled. And as you can see, Logan loved it! Who knew he would like so many crazy rides!

We went into a fun house. It was the weirdest thing I've ever been in. Literally, this is how you walked and stood. Sideways, don't know why or how, but you did. It was weird, weird, weird! Cody hated it in here. He kept falling over.

A swinging bridge. They thought it was neat to be up so high and swing. They jumped and ran...even though the sign said none of that. Rebels.

Logan of course had to do the swings again. This time himself and on the outside...daredevil.

We played some more and then headed home. The kids had pizza for dinner and we got them all cleaned and ready for bed. Every one of them was ready.

We got them in bed and asleep and Justin and I headed out for a little date. Justin wasn't hungry because he had a turkey leg at the park so we just went and hung out. He took me along the scenic route. It's absolutely georgeous here. We also found a couple RV parks we'd like to stay at next time we come. It was nice to be just the two of us, that doesn't happen that often these days! We came home and crashed as well though. We've had a big 3 days! And we still have one more, actually just a half a day left, but I'm sure it will be great!

Hope you all have a super weekend. Love and miss you all!!

Guess what??

Guess what? We had another FANTASTIC day! Hold on tight, because it is about to be a bumpy ride!!!

Here's the view from our back porch. Sooo beautiful. It was 52 degrees when we woke up this morning. Awesome! We had a nice breakfast at the cabin and then headed out. First stop, putt-putt. This putt-putt place you had to take a tram to the course. Rylee really liked the ride.

First hole, first hole in one. And by Grammy no less. DANG it!! Lucky!

Cody played more hockey than putt-putt, but he had a great time. He had a hard time waiting for the ball to come to a stop, he'd just hit it whenever, wherever. But, he kept wanting to play!

Here's the view from one of the holes. Isn't it a fun looking course!

Not to be outdone by his Grammy, Logan knocked in a hole in one on this hole. He was very excited!!

And then, my worst fear came true. My boys, all 3 of them, left me for a helicopter ride. UGH, that was the longest 10 minutes of my life. You know I'm not a fan of flying, even less a fan of flying in a $30 a ride helicopter at a tourist town. But my people, all about it. Seriously??? Yup, all about it. Logan rode up front with the pilot and Cody and Justin rode in the back and looked. Grammy, Rylee, and I stayed on the ground and prayed for a safe return. Ok, maybe Rylee was just happy to be out of the car seat, but, she enjoyed herself too!

There they are...flying high. Ick, that was not fun for mom. They got back and wanted to go again. Silly boys!

After that, we headed back to Silver Dollar City. And great, to another thing that makes mom nervous. The pirate ship. Justin and Logan rode that and some other crazy spinning, high flying rides that I do not enjoy even watching. The are right by the main pole in this picture...too high for me!!

So Cody and I went to ride the frogs again. There was too much "I'm too small," all over again so I felt bad and bit the bullet and rode with him. Seriously, I don't much enjoy rides, even kid ones I found out. This thing jumped around and ugh, not enjoyable. AND to top it off, there were parents there watching their kids, so I couldn't act like I was scared...which I was. I am a big ol' baby, Justin already told me I was boring and he wasn't going to take me anywhere else until I rode something...so hopefully these frogs count!!!

We found a play place for the boys. This was more suited for little kids, so Cody had a ball. He got soaking wet too!!

Look at that grin!!! I never knew he had a dimple there!

Logan and I rode the rapids. Now that, I LOVE! Give me just about any water ride and I'm there!! My mom took this picture, so I'm not going to complain about it. Luckily we all still have our heads! :-)

Cody FINALLY got his pop gun. Russell and Evan have one and he LOVES them! Grammy picked it up for him on the way home...now that was a fun walk back to the car!!

We came home and had a snack of ice cream sandwiches and the little ones took a nap. Justin and Logan headed out for some laser tag. Justin won apparently. They also did bumper boats. I haven't got the full story, but something about walking and pushing and coming home soaking wet...and I mean soaking!!! (Just Logan though, not Justin...mmmmm.)

Here is the monkey Cody won yesterday...pretty proud of it!!

Logan won the same one, but fortunately they had a different color!!

When everyone woke up, we got changed and got ready for the Dixie Stampede. It's the Dolly Parton horse show here. Look at that girls blue eyes! Where in the heck did those come from??

We couldn't take pictures inside the place, so we just go them of the stables. VERY nice stables to be exact!! There was a horse called Bo, Cody, and Amy. Thought that was interesting!

That show was awesome! I mean awesome. All kinds of horse tricks and riders. Singing and long horns. (Diane, I instantly thought of you...however, don't think any of them were near as cute as those pictures of Lily and Gabby...precious.) Anyway, it was an amazing show. I was really nervous how Cody would do. But he did awesome! He was in awe of the riders and lights and food. (It's a dinner show, they brought out, whole chickens--amy, you would have been grossed out--pork loins, corn on the cob, rolls, soup, and potatoes.) And to be honest, Rylee enjoyed it too! Even with all the noise. But maybe, just maybe, they enjoyed it because their mom and dad ended up being part of the stinkin' show!! Yup, seriously! They picked us to represent our side of the stadium. We were in a horse race...no, not a real horse race, a stick horse one. :-) can you imagine it now? And to make it even better...we had to ride the same stick horse! Let me tell you, Justin's not all that tall, but tall enough to make it hard to ride his same stick horse!! (Dona and Brannon, you are wrong...I can hear it now) Needless to say, we didn't win, but had a lot of fun! ( WHY OH WHY can't I take a camera in there...let me tell you it was HARD to not take pictures!) Here's what Rylee wore, it's her new outfit from Aunt Harriet and Uncle Robert...soooo cute huh??

After the show, we came home and got everyone ready for bed. Ahhhh, what fantastic, busy day! As we speak, everyone is asleep but Justin and I. He's watching a show and I'm typing this. So, now that I'm done, I'm off to bed. I love and really do miss you all. Wish you could be here for all the fun! Love you!!!