Full House

Two weeks ago my sister, her husband Penn and our one and only niece Karlee came to stay for the week. My brother Brett, Kendra and the Carter-man drove in from Dallas for 1/2 the week to join in the fun! We had a lot of fun going to the zoo, eating Wes's southern food finds, playing high stakes poker, and going on 'kitty' hunts.

Again, had my camera 75% of the time and increased its usage to 50%, so I'm getting better...but no shots at the zoo :(

Cousin Bath Time --

Karlee is such a happy baby, and never happier then when she gets to take a bath!!


Carterman HATES water on his head so he is being very brave in this picture







We played some high stakes poker with random snacks I had leftover from last years camp. Pretzels, cheezits and if you were really flush..oreos! Did you know fruit snacks mold? Risks you take when you gamble with snack food that has been sitting boxed up in a closet for a year!!

Practicing our poker faces:




Goin on a 'kitty' hunt... Karlee would let out her 'I just saw an animal' squeel whenever she saw the cats and Carter would go in for the kill. He would be sneaky and shy at first, then he would 'Boom' the kitties.






Traumatized cats learned to sleep in shifts in case of infant/toddler attack!

Vegas!

The first weekend in March we flew to Vegas to meet up with Wes's mom and step-dad. We had such a great time! We even went Indoor SkyDiving, which was so much fun!! If I were more techy I would try to download our video of us all in our batsuits, but....

I'm getting marginally better at taking a camera with us on trips, but still forget to use it 75% of the time. Here are a few snapshots taken of us on a gondola ride at the Venetian and goofing around at the wax museum:

The Plague Comes to Visit

In January my brother, his wife Jessica and our nephew Bubber's came to visit. In that three day period we were visited by a host of plagues...

Ear Infection = Bubbers, he had never had one of these before and the poor guy got to fly with one. His poor parents were thoroughly traumatized by baby's first plane trip!

Flu = me, Wade, Bubbers

Strep Throat = Jessica and then me

Pink Eye = Jessica, this one was random and luckily no one else succumbed

You may notice Wes is not listed...this is because Wes never gets sick!!

These are a couple of random pictures taken during their trip. Rare moments when we all had enough energy to stand upright and hold a camera.

We hope they will be brave enough to visit us again one day!!!

INTRODUCING.....

We have a new addition to our little family we'd like to introduce you to!








Meet.... IT, the creepy zombie baby, Garland.....



Wes is over the moon in love with him!



Here they are bonding, awwww

Man Cub

Our sister in law, the lovely Kendra, and our nephew Carter came to Kentucky/Nashville while she did 5 weeks of clinical work for her Master's in Speech Pathology.
It worked out great as I was able to take off a week to take care of the little guy.
We also had lots of visitors with my brother and parents coming for weekends as well!

Needless to say I ended up with a whole camera full of the little Man Cub, Carter, pictures...

We had a great time:

Playing in the sun and swimming in the neighborhood pool







Driving fast cars




Trying new hairdos




Waiting in lines....



Well maybe not so much fun waiting in lines



Getting into mischief







Eating exotic cuisine



Attacking the Papparazzi



Cage Dancing (Wes would turn on Chuck Berry and Carter would bounce and shake without interruption for several songs)



Taking long NAPS!

For Amber Waves of ..... Grass

So our Saturday was spent installing sod. Two hours into the project we were thinking, 'This isn't so tough.' By the eighth hour we were questioning our sanity in thinking the two of us could install a whole yard.... But we did it, sort of. We were short. Thank heavens the lawn guy said he'd bring more grass and that HE would install it, for FREE! We did a happy dance when we heard that!



Two hours into it.






This is Bermuda grass, which is what they use in the south. You should have seen Wes's face though when they delivered pallet after pallet of this dead looking hay! Its supposed to turn green in the heat, but wouldn't it be sad if we spent our Saturday installing dead grass!



Wes's new best friend, Wilbur the Wheelbarrow. By the end the wheelbarrow was actually squeaking with every move.





Sooooo Close!








See this is what grass is supposed to look like! At least the sides of the house will live.





Victory is mine! BTW after this picture Wes ate an entire Costco chicken! He really toughed this out and worked hard. Poor guy always gets to be the manual labor behind my projects ideas!