Turtles, Playing and my Litttle HOGS!!

These are just some pictures of what we've been up to lately. It seems like critters are just drawn to my boys. The other day, I walked out in the back yard and they had found 2 box turtles. These poor turtles, of course the boys want to keep their new pets. I told them no turtles in the house. Look at poor Harrison's turtle, it wouldn't even peek it's head out of the shell. Grant also always finds frogs. No matter where we are he seems to be holding and playing with a frog. They also find snakes in the back yard. Several weeks ago, they were under the deck trying to catch a "lizard", well that lizard turned out to be a snake. Thank goodness it wasn't a poisionous one!! What can I say," Boys will be Boys".

Grant and Harrison with their turtles As soon as Grant gets home from school, it is a know fact that its play outside time. Nicholas loves his 4-wheeler and his pop gun.

Grant in his John Deer Gator-Santa Claus brought this for him on his second Christmas and he still loves to play with it.

Harrison doing pretty good on the scooter!!

The HOGS lost to Georgia despite the boys attire and rooting them on!!

Bus Rider

I finally gave in to my oldest son's requests....and I decided to let him start riding the bus home from school!!! He has been bugging me since last year and I don't know why I've been hesitant...He gets home before we did when I picked him up, my other kids get an uninterrupted nap, he rides with several friends that were in his class last year and some of his new friends from class this year, and most importantly HE LOVES IT!!! Here's to riding the BUS!!!


The bus as it approaches his stop...

Waving as he gets off...

All smiles heading down the street...

First Day of School cont.

Harrison's 1st day of school was today. He goes to Asbury on Mon, Wed and Fridays. He was such a BIG, BRAVE boy this morning when I dropped him off. I told him to have a good day and then he told be to have a good day and walked in with Nicholas. Nicholas is such a good big brother, he walks Harrison to his classroom. When I picked Harrison up, his teacher said he had a good day, but cried between lunch and nap time. She patted his back and he fell asleep at nap time and actually took a good nap. Here's to all around good 1st days this year!!!

1st Day of School...

This year Nicholas is in the Transitional Kindergarten class at Asbury, which is 5 days a week. Tuesday was his first day of school. He has 12 kids in his class and 6 were in his class last year. He originally told me he wanted me to walk him in to his classroom and when we got there he said to just drop him off at the front door. Such a big boy-can't believe he'll be in kindergarten next year!!!

Labor Day Weekend Extravaganza!!!

We had a fun filled Labor Day Weekend. It's kind of sad to see the summer go, we sure had a good one!!! We headed up to the lake and enjoyed time out on the boat and the guys had a great time on the 4-wheeler. We all had so much fun, we are heading back up this weekend to squeeze in some more lake time before the fall approaches.


All the boys on the 4-wheeler
Ted hooked the trailer up and we all went on a trailer ride, we are bringing the 4-wheeler and trailer home this fall for hay rides around the neighborhood.

The water was COLD!!!

Grant

Nicholas

3 boys with mama

On top of the boat

Harrison

Waving at boats passing by

We ended our weekend fun at my mom and Darryl's with a cook-out. Joining us were Uncle Beak, Aunt Gi-Gi, Keisha, her grandmother, Jackson, Ted and I, and the boys. The kids had fun playing outside riding bikes and we enjoyed adult conversation inside.

Me and my BABY

Aunt Gi-Gi, Grant and Uncle Beak

Nicholas and Gi-Gi

Nicholas, me, Grant and Nana (those are Superman sticker's all over Nicholas' shirt)

Harrison giving Jackson a KISS (he knows how to pucker up!!)

Congrats!!!

Last Friday, my brother Blake found out that he passed the Bar Exam!!! He is now a licensed patent attorney with Wright, Lindsey and Jennings. Congratulations Blake, we are proud of you!!!

The Zoo

This weather we've been having has forced us to stay OUTSIDE!!! We've been enjoying it so much!! Monday, we just had to go to the zoo. When Grant was little, we had zoo memberships and went all the time. Well, with Harrison we haven't been too much. The poor child, this was probably only his 3rd or 4th time to the zoo (and the first since he's turned 2). We had a great time and there were actually a lot of animals out that we could see, the train was broken though (bummer). When Grant found out what we did while he was at school, he wasn't too thrilled-oh well, we'll take him this fall on 1 of his teacher work days when he's out of school.

Protective older brother
His smile shows he's having FUN!!

Somber look, but he had fun too!!

Looking at the big turtles

Uncle Beak's 28th Birthday

Last Friday night we went over to mom's house for a birthday celebration honoring Blake's 28th birthday!! Of course, the kid's had a great time-they just love birthday's and CAKE !!! As you can see from the pictures, Harrison blew out the candles and we had to relight the candles at least 2, maybe even 3 times!! Happy Birthday Blake, I can't believe you are sooo old!!