Dining in the 'Swell

Saturday night we went out to eat in downtown Roswell and these two just wanted to ham up the camera! CHEEEEESE!

Meat...it's what's for dinner

'Thank yous' resonate in the munching sound coming from my wolf-like dog, devouring what can only be described as swine part. Dawn and Poppa worked hard getting the edible meat off the bone, but this pooch worked like a dawg at the remnants! Mmmm, hungry?!?

Fox Farm Bluberry Pickin'

While daddie was having a man-day playing golf today, the boys and I decided to head up north (Calhoun-woohoo) to pick some fresh blueberries! I didn't realize how tall the bushels were and the boys could only reach a few.

But, they had fun running down what looked like a secret garden's paths! I told them the look for the darkest blue berries they could find and I kept hearing "mommie, can I pick the green ones?" NO!!

So, they decided to take things down to their level and found a field of flowers...and filled their blueberry bags with weeds. Good work, guys!

I meant to take a picture of the actual bucket of berries we picked, but forgot. So, here's what's left over after we made...

Cobbler! YUMMMMMM!! All in a day's work :o)

The Goggle Bandits

Cowboy, meet Boycow!

Well, it wouldn't be a day at Big Boy School if it wasn't for "dress as your favorite something or another". Today was Cowboy day. Unfortunately, I found out of this dress up day no sooner than yesterday at 3:30pm, when I went to pick them up. So, needless to say, we improvised! Reed was the cowboy and Nolan happily abliged his crazy mother and went to school as a cow. What a team player! (or, it could have been the fact that I asked him while he was playing video games! Aha! I found the key to compromise...distraction!) Yehaw and Moo, ya'll :o)

July 4th (part 2)

Happy Birthday, America!!

What a fun day! We went to the local catholic church in Roswell to get ready for the days/nights festivities and fireworks. Reed and Nolan made some new friends but when asked what their new friends' names were, "Uh, I dunno," was all we got. Oh, the joys of being a kid and just having fun with other kids regardless of their ages, status, or social skills...must be nice!

Two visions in white, if I do say so myself!

We ate cookout food, played soccer and lacross and then threw snap-pops at the ground...or the adults feet, which ever came closer. These kids were ruthless! All except for sweet, sweet Charlie. He just had a blast watching the other kids laugh at our pain ;o)

And then came the rain. We thought we were in the clear after the 5 o'clock shower, but the 8pm downpour had us all running for the hills! We tried to stick it out as long as we could, but when there was no sign of clearing up in sight, we packed everything up and headed home. Fireworks on tv just aren't the same! Maybe Mother Nature will be kinder to us next year.

Happy Bday, America~ (part one)

Wow, July already! This year is half over and we still have so much fun stuff to do...starting today. Our neighborhood had their 4th of July parade around the 0.8mi loop, but this year we decided to spectate instead of participate. It was too dang hot! We still headed down to the park to partake in lemonade, stickers, tatoos, and yes, the firetruck.



After an afternoon of napping and cooling off, we'll be headed to see some fireworks!