Putt Putt

Cody played Putt-Putt for the first time last weekend. Despite it being incredibly hot, he did pretty well. I stayed in the shade and let his daddy take him around! That's just how nice I am!

Cody concentrating

if he didn't hit the ball in, he just put it in there himself



We might need to work on his form a little

Strollin' towards his ball


When it gets cooler, maybe I'll play him and we'll see who's the better golfer! (my money is on Cody!)

Summer Nights

What could be better than running around outside with your shirt off eating ice cream??

Gotta love Cotton Candy ice cream from Maggie Moos



I think Laney was teaching him how to dance

I think they are both wearing more than they got in their mouths. Funny part is, Cody doesn't even like ice cream. I think all this was from the ONE bite he took.

Cody wasn't happy to get his picture taken, he wanted to play.



He was much happier looking at the stars

Blonde Hair??

I have dark hair, actually almost black hair. T.J. has dark hair as well even though when he was a baby it was a little more reddish.

When Cody was born, he had dark hair but it lightened up pretty quick. He now has a dirty blonde color and even though I really have no idea where it came from, I didn't really think much of it.

Then Cade came along. His hair has always been dark. Even though he has never had much hair, you can tell it was coming in pretty dark like mine.

A month ago, Cade's hair was still really dark. Within the past month, it started turning blonde!?!? I know we have been out in the sun a lot but are you kidding me?? The sun couldn't change it this much this fast!!! Could it??

A month ago

A few days ago

Will my kids get anything from me??

A little behind-The Zoo

We are a little behind on our posts lately. Cody, Cade and I met Cody's friend Tristen and his mom at the Zoo last Tuesday. We wanted to hit the zoo before school got out so it wouldn't be so busy. Cody loves almost all animals so he really enjoyed being there for the most part. There is one animal Cody is deathly afraid of and that is an Elephant. I have no idea why he is afraid of this animal but he went crying the other way when he saw them. He will look at bears, alligators, rhinoceroses, snakes...you name it and he loves it! Elephants though make him scream like a girl! I was even nice enough to point that out to him but he didn't care. He wanted nothing to do with the Elephants.

Cody in the Zoo parking lot

Cody and Tristen

He loved the Rhinoceroses

The lion Cub



Stopping for a drink



He spilled half of it down his shirt. Gotta love red kool-aid!

I have tons of other posts to catch up on so hopefully I'll post something new everyday until I catch up. I can't make any promises though!

Memorial Day Weekend

All I can do is say...I'M SORRY!

We had a great Memorial Day weekend. We went out to dinner with friends on Friday night, swam all day Saturday, went to a Graduation Party Saturday night, swam all day Sunday went to Jen and Shawn's for dinner Sunday night, swam all day Monday and then headed over to my brother's house for some hot dogs Monday evening.

Everywhere we went, I forgot my camera!

Not once did I bring my camera anywhere with us this whole entire weekend. I could kick myself over and over. I never leave my camera, yet this entire weekend we went camera-less.

If I had my camera, I would be able to show everyone how much the boys love the water. I would have been able to show Cody swimming in the deep end by himself (with the use of his tube of course). I would have been able to capture Cade jumping off the side of the pool to T.J. and laughing hysterically. I would have been able to take a picture of my husband's fried back because he thought he was too manly for sunscreen.

If I had my camera, I would have been able to take a picture of Cody trying to puke in Jen and Shawn's backyard because for some reason he decided to put the stick to the bubbles in his mouth and swallow a bunch of bubble solution. We all know I would have taken a picture of him trying to throw up if I had my camera and then I would have proceeded to help my three year old spit out the remaining bubbles from his mouth! I really don't think he meant to do what he did, but who knows!!

And if I would have remembered my camera tonight at my brother's house, I would have been able to capture pictures from possibly our last dinner with them here in Oklahoma. He is moving back to Texas with my nieces. My brother and my niece, Keli are leaving tomorrow after school while my niece Chelsi is staying with us another week to spend more time with her friends.

Oh, and if that wasn't sad enough news...tomorrow is the last day of school! I have only one more day before there are tons of kids running in and out of my door for the next three months! One more day where at least for a few hours, my house is clean. One more day where I wont have to break up fights over anything and everything. One more day before I go completely mad! It's not just my kids here during the summers, it's all of them plus their friends!!! HELP!

You know how I'm spending my last day?? Cody, Cade and I are going to the Zoo with a little boy from Cody's baseball team and his mom! We want to hit the Zoo before school gets out and everything is so crowded.

Cookies...yummy

Last weekend we went to Ty's end of the year soccer party. I got the team a huge cookie cake that was frosted like a soccer ball.

The black frosting wasn't really a problem for the older kids but by the time Cade was finished, we had black frosting everywhere!


Taste test to check it out



A little bigger bite



"What are you lookin' at?"



Handful of frosting



All Clean!

Here is the only picture I got of Ty with his team. They were having way too much fun and I barely saw him the entire night!

I DO know what I'm talking about!

Ty has always had a problem about throwing or kicking things in the house. No matter how many times we have gotten him in trouble for doing so, he just can't help himself. He has broken numerous things...a light cover, a picture frame, a lamp, etc. and these are just things at our house. His mom's house has another list of items.

He gets in a lot of trouble when he disobeys us but when we're not looking, he still thinks he can get away with it. This is probably because I'm sure there have been a few times I haven't seen him and he has gotten away with it. I know he thinks I'm this horrible person who is trying to take all the fun out of his life but I have explained to him, over and over again, that there are reasons why I don't let him kick and throw things in the house.

When he breaks things, he has always had to do chores around the house to help pay for the broken item. He has had privileges taken away and on a few occasions been grounded from all enjoyment for days at a time (this one was because of the soccer ball he kicked inside his friends house and knocked down the curtains which resulted to a big hole in the wall...we are still nervous letting him go play over there).

Last night, Ty broke something that might make him think twice about kicking things in the house. He was at his mom's house and he went to kick a ball, he must have been trying to kick it pretty hard but he missed the ball and kicked the carpet. The skin around his toenail ripped all the way back and his toe began to swell. His mom cleaned it up and bandaged it but when she brought him over this morning it was starting to turn more colors than I even knew existed. Cathy and I talked about it and decided I would take him to the doctor just to check things out.

The doctor said we probably should have taken him in last night to get stitches but by this morning it was too late. He took an x-ray and discovered there is a small hairline fracture on the growth plate. He said it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. In the next couple of days, it will probably swell twice the size it is now and there are a list of things he is restricted from doing...we'll see how that goes!!

Ty was great at the doctor, letting him clean it up and take the x-ray (which he thought was pretty cool). After the doctor I went and bought him a new pair of flip flops that would be soft on his feet because the doctor said for the next couple of weeks that's all he can wear.


This is with the bandages on it so you can't see all the pretty colors it's turning


Now, I hope he has realized I do know what I'm talking about. I'm not here to take all the fun out of his life, that's just a perk!! We have rules for a reason. I'm not saying this is going to stop him, but at least he might think twice before he kicks a ball in the house again!!

Hmmm...is it wrong to make him do chores with a broken toe to pay for the doctor bills??