A Graduation

The youngest of my older beautiful sisters, Emily, graduated from Missouri's Drury University with a Bachelor of Art degree in Sociology and Pyschology! Luckily, one of our old family friends, Susie Helie was able to make it! We are all SO proud of Emmy!!

Playing Pretty

Dress-up is always fun, no matter how old you are!

Those times when I KNOW I'm supposed to yell and hand out a couple of "Time-Outs" but can't help myself from laughing and taking pictures... This was one of them!

Yesterday it was time for haircuts, so I decided to have a little fun! Sometimes I feel a little sad that I can't braid the boys' hair or put cute little clips in it, but then again... No one ever gets to cut their girl's hair into a MOWHAWK!!!

Orange Leaf

Deliciousness!

So I feel like I'm stealing this one from Molly, but it was just SO much fun, and how could I NOT blog about frozen yogurt and hanging out with the Bly girls??!

They had AWESOME chairs! I just HAD to take a pic of them as soon as we walked in!

Haha! Our stools went up and down, so we couldn't resist being a little goofy!

Sisters!

The Fair

The Fair!!! It comes around once a year and gives us all the chance to pay $4.00 for parking, $2.50 for a pop, $6.50 for a Bloomin' Onion or Indian Taco and pay for it all later with an empty wallet, aching stomach, and fun memories!











Every time we go down to Louisiana in the summer, we HAVE to get SnoBalls. I missed out this year, and this is the closest I could come! A Tiger's Blood SnoCone! It was Delish!


Nana with our Heavy Duty stroller!


Leah, looking pretty!






Emily brought along some friends of ours!

Discovering

A trip to The Discovery Center in Springfield!














And how could we learn without a fake Einstein??

Ice Cream and The Failed Brownie

Amongst all the wonderful evenings I spend over at my Mom and Dads, last week we had an extra fun one! Aunt Emily and Aunt Cheree were there and it involved ice cream, a failed brownie, and a bit of a mess!

...Those Summer Nights

Last night we spent the evening out on our deck.

Shane built it last year, all by himself (such a handy guy) and its so fun! It's such a beautiful place to sit with family and watch the sunset!

Creepy Crawlies?!

Sitting quietly in the living room with Shane, I was absorbed in my book and the boys were off playing on their own. (One of the rare times this happens.)

Suddenly here comes Sean yanking and pulling at me saying "Ew! Ew!"

I was worried, this summer seems to be the "Summer of Bugs, Spiders and Whatnot. I know, I know, they ALL are, but I've seemed to notice more creepies crawling through my house this year.

Entering the kitchen I see Seth squatting on the floor pointing underneath the table, inseistently saying "Ew!" He was pointing to this teeny tiny frog! It was sitting so still and looked rather cute!

After snapping few pictures I decided to find a way to get this little frog outside to his freedom before he found his way under my couch! (Or worse, in my BEd!!) Grabbing a paper-towel I knelt down to rescue the frog, which didn't move as I scooped it up! I realized to my horror that it was DEAD!!!!!!!!

EWWWW is right!!!!

Unfortunately I've been away froma computer for a whole day (gasp!) So I've been unable to update! I have a ton of pictures to put up, and will do so ASAP!

What can we get into next?!?

Who knew sticky tabs could be so fun!?

Emily and I were cooking up some half-edible supper and realized that we hadn't heard a whine from the boys in a few minutes! Looked around the corner and...!

Tortilla Chips and Mardi Gras Beads

Everyone asks me "How do you do it with TWO?!?!" The answer I usually give is that I don't know any different...! And it isn't like I can just decide NOT to do it. AND I love it. Plain and simple.

This is what I do ALL day!

And this isn't even MY house!

*Sigh* Life's tough! *Said in a self-pitying, pathetic voice*

Sleepy Heads

Last night my boys and I stayed at Mom and Dad's. Shane had to get up at 9pm for work today! They were driving 3 hours to Arkansas for his job, and he has to drive the finish truck which has to be on the job site at least an hour earlier than everyone else!

This is the best part of my day, waking up to rested kiddos who have stinky morning breath and smiles on their faces. All they wanna do is cuddle :)