Day 916

Here is another old photo. This one is from 2003. Hannah loves this photo and is always carrying it around. She doesn't understand that she is NOT in this photo and will argue with me over it. This was taken Mother's day weekend at Sea World. I was pregnant with Caleb and had just gotten off of 8 weeks bed rest. I didn't exactly ease into unrestricted activity did I? Samantha is the cutie in the stroller. Josh is the little guy. Hard to believe that he is now almost as tall as me!!!!

Day 908

October 26 and my family is swimming! Sure they are crazy, BUT the water was not cold! It has been that hot!

Day 907

Happy 13th Anniversary! Marc came home with these!

Today I spent some time playing with my camera. I discovered some new pretty cool things about it. I even managed to turn those beautiful red roses yellow in a photo! Here are a few of the other fun photos.

My intention with this one was to get Samantha's blue eyes. They didn't come out right though. 

10/25

Day 899

Day 2 at the family reunion-

There will be more photos and a story in the other blog later. If you read about the stripe photo challenge already, I want you to notice the amount of striped shirts at the family reunion...from BOTH days. It really is funny! The pictures from the Falls on the Brazos will also be in the other blog later. 

This is my brother Donnie

Caleb spent a lot of time riding this bike. 

We spent a lot of time playing football too. 

Carson had fun with the chalk. 

I was worried about Samantha's hair getting caught in the wheels...among other things. 

Baby girl LOVES to swing!

The teenagers spent a lot of time hanging out in and around the tree. 

I have NO idea what was so funny!

I don't know how this girl can get so dirty!

Donnie and James

A group of people...I don't know all of them. 

I like this photo of Jackson

She was trying to hide from the camera. 

Samantha won some silly string AND a snuggie in the drawing. She was happy...can you tell?

Hannah won the princess set. She was beyond thrilled!

Day 898

Day 1 at the family reunion-

We arrived around the same time we do every year. I was surprised to see that so many people were there already. Usually people show up throughout the day, but everyone was here BEFORE lunch! 

Uncle JC got in about 30 seconds of snuggle time with Hannah. I love Uncle JC!

Samantha wasted no time leaving her mark in chalk!

She hasn't figured out the art of eating and driving yet. 

He is the big guy-HA! There are some teenage girls that are a few years older than him. Then there is Josh out there all alone. There are a TON of kids younger than him though. 

I was originally going to use this photo for The Stripe Challenge, but decided against it. You should check out the stripe challenge. As for the ball...I spent hours over the course of 2 days pitching to kids. It was fun. One of the bigger kids quit after hitting a line drive at my head. I quickly hit the ground to avoid the ball, and he felt bad. It was ok though. I used the squishy ball for the big kids just for that reason! The little kids got to hit the REAL balls. 

Marc chilling at Uncle Buster's watching some sort of sport on tv. I don't remember if it was baseball or football. 

This was Caleb trying to tell the kids how to play ball. I remember him saying quite a few times, "I play baseball, just listen to me and do what I tell you to."

I thought this was kind of cool, but I don't see these often. This was across the street from the grounds where we were. While driving later we came across a tractor on steroids! We were on a narrow country road blindly following the GPS to get food. We see this thing coming at us, it is obviously a WIDE LOAD. For the life of us we couldn't figure out what it was. Once it got closer we were just dumbstruck! It was a tractor that took up a lane and a half of this little road. It had all of its blades up, so it had a blade mohawk. It was a sight! I wish I would have gotten a picture, but I was driving. 

I took this because her eyes are just so beautiful! I was far away, so she didn't know I was taking her picture. She was watching something. I think the boys were playing football and she was upset because she wanted to play soccer. 

Day 873

Today was a long awaited day for Marc and Josh! All you can eat lobster.... The rest of us chose to stay home and miss out on this opportunity. They LOVED it though! 

Day 864

Marc and Josh skipped church today to go fishing. Normally, Marc has to work on Sunday's, but his boss wanted Marc to go fishing with him, so he gave him the day off. There is a lot I would like to say about that, but I will refrain...and YES Marc it IS a word! Anyway, I am glad Josh and Marc got to spend the day together. They actually caught some fish. These are the photos I snagged off of Marc's phone.