credit where credit is due....

Just for the record, and to make peace at home, Clint is NOT a bad driver... he traded his little white honda for a toyota 4 runner a while back and it is a stick shift. The boys love learning about the gears and watching him drive it. He may "pretend" to be a nascar driver at times... shifting gears quickly and showing them how it all works, but really, he has not had many speeding tickets and only one fender bender in college (2 days after we bought my new Ford Explorer!) But generally he gets everyone where they need to be, on time, and in one piece!
This is just a disclaimer for any of you who may be letting your children ride with him at some point or another! He is no Jeff Gordon!! :o)

BUSTED

Wednesdays are "Cason's special day." We drop Bryson off at Kaylee's house (she babysits him on Wednesdays while I teach) and Cason and I go to school just the 2 of us. We move his car seat to the front and he rides up there where he can control the music, the windows, and we talk about whatever he wants to talk about. This morning as we were entering onto the interstate, here was our conversation:

C: "Mom, you know you can go superdy fast on the highway and go around all these slow cars" (which, for the record, were not going all that slow)

Me: "Oh, yah? Who told you that?"

C:"Well, no one really, but when we ride with daddy in his car he drives in all the lanes like those drivers on NASCAR!"

BUSTED, Daddy. I gave him a speech later!

4 little pumpkins

We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch and the boys had a hay day picking out pumpkins to bring home....

Here's my 4 sweet pumpkins...

And my sweet little pumpkin with the pumpkins


When we got home, we decorated them, each with it's own unique flare....

Micah's is all multi colored... he loves rainbows (and this was his "Im trying not to smile" smile)



Coby's is "a golden pumpkin"

Cason's is green and blue - his 2 favorite colors

And Bry's is just any color he could get his hands on... this child is so busy!

Bry showing his "messy hands" although, this is after he wiped them on my shirt while he climbed all over me...

Our finished products:

Happy Fall, Y'all! This is my favorite season!

Camping Trip!

We haeded out to Georgetown to go camping with some friends this weekend and had a blast!! Here are some pics in no particular order....

The Whole Gang

(except for Kyle, Sky, and Quentin, who left early)

The Best Fam



The Lofits Fam


The Rivera Fam

Sweet Meggie... she was refusing to take a nap... look at that sweet face!

But Bry took a whopper of a nap... he was making up for the fact that he didnt sleep at bedtime! He woke up several times in the night and wound up inside momma's sleeping bag with her!

Here is Daddy taking a nap with Bry... not to be mistaken for the Wicked Witch of the West

Ethan enjoying his s'mores

Britney and Addie and their gang got to come out for the day. How didi I not get a picture of sweet Baby Emma?? I guess I was holding her for lots of the time!

Julie and Meggie

Proof that I was there, too...

"The girls"

Roughing it has gotten to us a bit!

Quentin and Coby

Ethan and Cason digging for snails

Sweet Friends!

Sweet LuLu

Brinton on the "island"

Brinton and Devan

Sweet Boys (Cason had stayed back at the campsite to play with Quentin)

Micah fishin

Sweet Coby

Fishin with daddy

Case-o

Bry fishin

CRAZY family!!

My sweet boys...

All the kiddos!!

Feeling cooky!

The boys already cant wait til next time!!!

Tagged...

I was tagged by Britney, so here goes...

The rule: Choose the 6th photo from the 6th picture file on your computer and blog about it.

The confession: I am cheating. the 6th pic in this file is blurry and dark.... see:

So, instead, here are my 2 favorite pics from this file... it was halloween, 2005 and I was prego with Bry. Clint and I were Mr Incredible and Elastigirl (sp?).

We had bought clint some little black undies just like mine, but he wimped out... you're welcome

SHARK!!

While we were in Port A, we got to go shopping at a little shop where we were "devoured" by a SHARK!! :o) Here is momma with the boys:

And here we decided to pretend like we were scared the shark.... not sure why the shark gave me a triple chin!

And the boys with daddy:

And rather than daddy looking like he was scared, he looks more like he is already a goner. I love the look on Bry's face... "what is my dad doing?"

More Beach pics

These are all the "posed pics" that we took Saturday night. I have lots more candid shots to weed thru that I will have to post later. I took almost 350 pictures. oops!

Here we are last year for comparison... look how much Bry has grown!

Best Family Beach Trip 2008. It was a little windier this year, and the sunset wasnt as pretty. But I was pleased. A special thanks to our second-year photographer, "little plastic white chair."

My 4 boys

My 5 boys

Sweet Brothers!

Micah took this pic! Not bad!

And Coby wanted to take one, too. He took this one. :o)

When the photo session was over, Bry asked, "all done?" When I told him yes, he took off running into the ocean fully clothed.

also, dont miss the cute little individual pics of the boys on the side bar.