Afternoon walk

A few days ago while taking our afternoon walk, to check the mail, down our country lane. We were all met by an unexpected big surprise.


These two huge machines were left unattended on the side of the road.
Naturally we had to get a closer look.





Neither of the boys were bashful at all when it came to exploring the
"big bow dowzers on the best walk ever!" -Donaven

Snow Cones

Nothing says summer like snow cones, am i right?

Friday afternoon the boys and I decided to kidnap Brandon a little early from work and try out the snow cone stand just down the street from his office.


The stand is in the same parking lot as Fisherman's Market
and Louis Morgan Drug, off of Judson Rd.

We were all pleasantly suprised. The snow cones were great!
Priced at $1 for the 8oz kids size was just right for us. Brandon chose watermelon, blue coconut for Emerson & me, and ocean breeze for Donaven. The workers weren't chinsey with the syrup either, to our delight.

See for yourself.



Emerson enjoying his first taste of snow cone.

We will definitely be going back again to cool off during
this record setting hot summer!

Emerson turned 1!

Today my baby boy had his first birthday. We celebrated once Brandon got home from work with Lemonade Pie. Emerson enjoyed every bite.

Here he is digging in...






Then & Now

Its a little surreal to me that a year ago we were welcoming this sweet little guy to our family.
And now he's almost walking and melting everyone's heart with his winning smile.


Happy Birthday my Duddersy. I love you!

Reflections of the Fourth

Happy Fourth of July!

I love Independence day so much I wanted to get in the mood a bit and decorated with a few things I had lying around.



We didn't originally have any big plans for today. Luckily things just came together last minute and it was a fun filled day with family and friends.

We started out the morning at church with a pancake breakfast and patriotic hymns. After breakfast we joined my sister Angie and her husbands side of the family out at lake of the pines. Tonya and Justin were kind enough to take our family out for a spin on the party barge. It was the first time my boys had ever been out on the lake in a boat. Emerson seemed to really enjoy the wind in his hair.



Donaven was very brave and jumped out of the boat and went swimming with his Aunt Angie. I was pretty amazed. I can barely get him in the bath tub so this was pretty impressive. Next we made sand castles on the beach, and collected sea shells.



We stopped off at the house for lunch and let the boys rest awhile. Later in the afternoon we went over to our friends for a bar-b-q. The kids had fun playing out front on the slip-n-slide.

There was so much good food and fun!

On the way home we saw fireworks amid flashes of lightning.
Not something you see every day.


The boys are in bed now and I think we may need a day off to rest from our day off...

Sci-Port

Yesterday Donaven had a follow up appointment with Dr. Van Savage to make sure everything was healing well after his surgery. It was the first time I was making the trip to Shreveport with the boys with out Brandon. I wasn't really looking forward to it. The night before I got an unexpected invitation from our dear friend Tiffany to accompany her, James and Jade to Sci-Port. It was just what we needed to turn a undesirable trip into a memorable day with friends. We got to spend the morning learning and playing together before heading to the Doctors office.

The best part of all was seeing Emerson actually get to interact
and experience sci-port for the first time.





*Donaven is doing well. We will go back in three months for more tests.

Midnight Musing

My eyes feel like there gonna bleed

I'm so behind on the laundry


The boys wont sleep

On my own here we go...

House Guest

This past week we had our first ever house guest. She is a sweet, hilarious, fun loving little girl. Whom happens to be one of Donaven's favorite persons in the whole wide world.

That's right you probably guessed Cousin Renee!
We had so much fun while she was here.
Here are a few of our adventures together...

Playing dress up.

Crafts



Story-time

Splash Park


Tiger Creek was our last outing on our way back to Dallas.
The kids really enjoyed this awesome wildlife refuge.
Take a look...







Its a little hard to see. through the double fence. This lion was huge!

I think Donaven is planning your next visit. We miss you already Renee...