The rest of the week

Woke up the next day and worked some more on the house. It's starting to look so much better and that's just with a little cleaning and texture, can not wait until we get to finish it up. After lunch we headed back to the beach to make another sand city!
Hard at work! Lots of ideas back and forth but they finally decided on this.

Which made Princess Rylee very unhappy. So she made her own castle and then crushed it just to show us how mad she was. She told us!

The finished project! Nice work Logan and Cody!

Cody wanted me to take a picture of this one because he made it ALL by himself. Proud moment!

Waiting I guess, she just wanted a picture.

Just got home, we had dinner and went for a glorious boat ride. I absolutely love being on the water when the sun goes down. Beautiful! Not the kids, the sun.

And this is what we do when we go under a bridge....scream!!

Went to bed and woke up to pretty much the same routine. Oops, forgot to say that when we drove by to show Justin the new sand castles...they were stomped over. Another set of mad kids!! After lunch I looked over and Cody had lost his tooth!! I asked him why he didn't tell me and when he turned to look at he it turns out, he didn't lose it...from the side it just looked like it was gone because it was so loose and just sticking straight out. (you should probably stop reading here Amy) Enough already he decided and he wanted to tie string to it and to a door and shut the door and see if it works like it does on TV. We didn't have any string so we went to Amy's house and found floss. Tied it up and he decided just to pull it instead, chicken! He pulled and that tooth shot clear across the room. It was hilarious, until of course we found out we couldn't find it. A white tooth on white carpet is kind of hard to find!! Luckily, we did! That tooth fairy is getting poor, that's 3 out, and none back in!

Went to the beach and made a new "booby trapped" sand city. They filled each sand castle with rocks and sticks, hiding them with the sand so when someone kicked it, they'd hit rocks...evil. Anyway, they did that and then dug HUGE holes all around it so if a four wheeler came by it would fall in the holes, it's tires anyway. And seriously, they were deep, came just below Cody's shoulders!! Anyway, dug holes in a circle all around the castle and then covered them with sticks and leaves. Ha! Never saw a booby trapped sand city! Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture! stupid me!! BUT, when we went back on Saturday (we built it Wednesday) most of it was still there!! Success! Only 2 castles had been smooched. awesome.

Came back for dinner and waited for Justin to get there.

Loaded up and headed home. Thursday we had Rylee's eye appointment. And here's some great news...they want to hold off on surgery!!!! She showed no signs of worsening or getting better so he's hoping it's something that she will possibly grow out of, next appointment is 6 months from now. I am so hoping it will fix itself, don't honestly know if I can go through crying blood again. Ick.

We headed back to the lake on the weekend after some horrible news. One of Justin's employees was killed in a motorcycle crash. Justin had a hard week dealing with the loss of a friend and employee. Needless to say he was exhausted. But he went ahead and took the boys on a bow fishing adventure Friday night. They got home about midnight, exhausted. Around 3am I heard the weirdest noises coming from the living room, go look and Justin is rolling around on the sofa with a pillow in his mouth yelling. What the what?? I ask him what's wrong and he says his foot is hurt. I assume he stubbed his toe or something so I turn on the light and see the blood. And I mean lots of it. (luckily we're changing the carpet anyway) I mean it looked like a stabbing so much blood. I looked at his foot and he has 2 HUGE cuts and blood everywhere. Inside the cuts were twigs, sticks, dirt. I pulled what I could out and cleaned up what I could but he was in horrible pain. He refused to go to the ER until the next morning when Russ looked at it and told him he needed to...so he did. (what? why did he listen to Russ and not me????? Arrgh) Oh forgot to mention...he was sleepwalking when it happened! Yup, sleepwalking! He walked over to the front door, which we have never used, unlocked the screen door, unlocked the dead bolt and then unlocked the actual door, which of course we have no deck or steps off the mobile home. It's a good 3 foot drop I think to the ground,which would have been fine except for the cinder block under the door, that's what he caught his foot on. He must have landed on the corner of the block, his skin stayed but his body kept going. Ouch. So we made it to the doctor and they said it was too late for stitches and tried to clean it up, it wasn't broke which was good, but disgustingly dirty and swollen. Put him on crutches for 4-6 weeks, cleaned it and we headed home. Nice.

He spent the rest of the weekend in the boat while we played around. Felt sorry for him but um...also got a good laugh of how it must have looked when he fell out of the doorway and then crawled back in. (I imagine it looked like when the coyote is chasing the road runner and he walks off a cliff, stops and then falls...) Anyway, he went to the doctor again today because he can't move his toes still and it is really swelling. Turns out he has nerve damage and is scheduled for an orthopedic surgeon on Monday. Awesome. Possible surgery and more crutches all because he walked out a freaking 3 foot drop door. Geez.

So that's about all that's going on here. Getting ready to go to the end of the year pool party for both boys baseball team which should be fun! Hope you guys are having a great week. Love and miss you all!

A week at the lake!

It's official!! We are owners of a lake house! Actually a lake trailer, but it's ours! It's older and there is a lot of work to be done to it so we decided to stay at the lake for a week and work some. Justin just commuted to and from work and I textures and cleaned. The kids, they played and played and played. The furniture came with it by the way, pretty huh?? :-) Anyway, I would work all morning and we would go to the beach in the afternoon, come home for dinner and then take the boat out with Justin in the evening. Doesn't the sky look creepy?? It never rained but we sure thought it would. And guess who decided to go knee boarding again? Cody! He kept putting it off on the weekends but he decided to wanted to go double knee boarding again so they were up and running.

And guess what?? Rylee learned how to knee board too! Yup, I'm serious! She only goes about 75-100 yards and lets go because she's "so tired." But she goes, doesn't cry when she falls and wants to go over and over again! It's a great start!

More double knee boarding.

The next day we woke up and did much of the same. Except this time I took my camera to the beach! Rylee learned how to make sand castles. And by learn I mean, was determined to figure it out for herself without no help from anyone...anyone!

Logan and Cody worked super hard on this sucker. Ugh, I hate sand castles!

Cody had the hard job, but it's the one he wanted...digger. Ick!

A little help from a "professional."

Snack time.

Pretty cool huh?

The finished project!! Incredible!

They built houses for the rich people, the poor people, a jungle, a jail, a cafeteria, and a library.

Went home and go cleaned up and played a little game of horse shoes in the back yard while we waited for Justin.

Justin got home, we had dinner and headed back to the water. The kids were so excited to show him the castle so we drove over and someone had driven over it. I mean seriously like 3 hours later! Geez, they were not too happy!!

Hope you guys are having a great week. Love and miss you all!

Only Child

We spent the weekend at the lake and then the boys decided to stay with Amy and Russ (mostly Russell) and play. Rylee, Justin, and I came home for two days and then headed back to the lake. We had a wonderful 4th of July week, lots of fun!!

The boys decided to head to Texas with Amy and Russ Sunday night while Rylee and I came home and woke up Monday morning, met up with my mom and drove there too. Amy wanted some work done on her bathroom, ended up wall papering and texture/painting some. I think it turned out really good, hopefully it stays that way!! :-) We played around and had a great time when I wasn't working. And once again...the boys decided to stay there so Rylee and I came home. I'm pretty sure she's beginning to think she's an only child!!

And she has really enjoyed it! :) Here she is before we left...loving her hat.

Thursday night she talked Justin into taking her and ONLY her fishing, I got a little bit of quiet time. Precious.

Friday I had a lot of chores to do so she played around.

And got out EVERY tube of glitter, glue, paint, and markers. Had a great time making a mess.

And then it was back to the lake. This summer is flying by!!

Love and miss you all!

Camp McNeill

A couple weeks ago we got to have Camp McNeill with Russell, needless to say the kids were super excited. Started the week off with some exploring and playing around the house. And then the inevitable...mohawks. (Cody asked me to stop taking pictures, can you tell?)Rylee patiently waited her turn to get one. Justin always cuts her a couple bangs to pacify her. :-)

Our kids have super thin and fine hair, the TOTAL opposite of Russell. He has so much hair Justin decided to cut it with scissors first.

And then came the hawks! They decided to color them as well. This is their tough face.

And then just their precious faces.

The next day we loaded up and headed to the movies. They had been singing that song from Madagascar (Afro Circus) all week and I couldn't take it any longer. The boys were talking about how tough they looked and no one would mess with them at the theater. Ha! So sweet before we left...

And then absolutely crazy as we were walking out the door!!

And we had lots and lots of picnics outside...after exploring time of course.

We headed to my friends pool for a little bit. A lot of shark attack and jumping.

Justin got home and they talked him into taking them fishing. Which turned into four wheeling in an obvious mud puddle. Messy, messy, messy!!

The last day I spent getting things ready for the lake and the following week where we went to Amy's. They make shirts, which I totally forgot to take pictures of! Darn it!

Outside for a little skating and skateboarding.

And then the kids (at least mine) favorite part...I think they both about peed their pants they were laughing so hard...initiation. Shaving cream at bed time!!!

They had told Russell earlier in the week about how Justin shaving creamed their faces...as soon as Russell fell asleep Cody came RUNNING into the living room telling us to do it. They laughed and laughed and couldn't wait for him to wake up to tell him.

And here's the funniest part, when he woke up and they showed him the picture he asked, "who is that?" Ha!! He couldn't believe it was himself!!

Fun week with Russell, they are already planning next year's. If we get to have him back that is!

Love and miss you all.

Catching up...news!

Just found some other pictures. This is what Rylee chose to wear one day to go to the store. She even fixed her hair. Needless to say, we had to change out of the pajamas and high heels, which didn't make her happy. Getting so big! (she even brought along her purse)
Here's after I told her she needed to change...locked herself in the bathroom. Ahhh, the drama. Luckily I have a super lock picker in Logan!!

And now for the news...we are officially brace free!!! Doesn't he look crazy old? Made me a little sad.

And we bought a new tube this year, hopefully we'll have better luck with it. So far, it's a hit! The kids love it. Logan made a new friend at the lake and they like to gather up the boys and go double tubing and JUMP from tube to tube. Yikes!!!

We're getting close to catching up. Hope you guys are having a great summer!! love and miss you all!

Summer Update

Well here we are, middle of summer and my first post about it! Geez, stupid blogger. Which I might add, just sent me a message and the old layout, which I have to use in dial up, is being deleted in a month. Darn it! If anyone knows of another free blog site let me know or else I'll have to stop, which makes me sad.

Anyway, we've had a very relaxing summer consisting of a lot of baseball, swimming, and the lake. For some reason I always forgot to take pictures of baseball however, they both had awesome seasons! Cody's team won first in the league with only 1 loss which is super hard to do in T-Ball! Cody had an incredible last game and made 9 of the 12 outs, the score? 24 to 6 and the other team just wanted to keep playing because the time wasn't up...geez. Anywho...Logan's team had an awesome year as well, they made second in the league!! Which means, they got invited to Regionals! However, it was too far away and in the middle of the day so many of our parents weren't able to make it financially so we had for forfeit. But they were super excited to be invited! Our end of the season party is coming up soon.

When we weren't at baseball we were swimming! And let me tell you, Rylee is a swimming fool. Who would have thought it? No fear! She is the exact opposite of my boys, Just had to THROW them in and they would scream! Funny girl. Her favorite thing? Jumping in!
My friend Brenda has a pool and she has invited us over many times to enjoy it with her. Thanks Brenda!!

Is Rylee's swimsuit not adorable?? My mom got it her, she LOVES the ruffles!

A day of swimming can wear you out! One night it got the best of the boys...shaving cream fun with dad.

They had no idea until I showed them these pictures in the morning. Needless to say, Justin thought it was hilarious!!

Hope you enjoyed the little catch up. Looking forward to getting back on track. Hope you are all having a wonderful summer! Love and miss you all!