"My birday?"

David "gets" the birthday celebration by now, so every time someone has a birthday, he says "my birday?" Over and over.

Yes, little man.  Today is your birday!

He has changed a LOT!

We had more of a "swim date" birthday party during the week because we were a little overbooked today.  He was so sweet singing along with everyone to himself!

You are one sweet dude.  You are sensitive and affectionate.  You are saying a few sentences here and there but mostly are still talking in 3 words phrases, but you talk a lot. You have entered the question phase.

"What doin?"

"Why?"

"What doin now?"

"Where going?"

"Where's Daddy?"

"Why?"

Oh the questions! Agg!

You love Thomas trains more than anything.

And finally, one of your favorite sentences is, " I a GOOD swimmer."  You are so proud!

And for a three year old, you ARE!

Happy birthday to you David!!!

Fourth

Major mom fail.

I forgot to take pics of the rest of them.  Oops.

Don't know if you can tell, but all the watermelon on that tray are half eaten.  Hmm..

Last day of base camp.  They are worn out.  

Mary picked out her little sock/shoe ensemble.  Ha

Pine Cove is back

One might get tired of me going on and one about Pine Cove.  But we LOVE all things Pine Cove.

Our church is doing a "base camp" this week, and we are housing four of the counselors. 

The kids LOVE it!

This "culture" of college kids is the best.  They are so fun, even if two are LSU kids one one is an Aggie.  We don't try to let that bother us too much:)

When we picked up the girls today at camp, David ran up to "Caaahhson" and hugged him so sweetly.

Garrett has really taken to "Screamy."  He asked her to put him to bed tonight (He's in sister's room).

The girls leave out early every morning, so I've tried to find some new breakfast recipes.  This is one I've never tried....crock pot breakfast casserole.  It has hash brown potatoes rather than a bread so we shall see how it turns out!  

I got the recipe from "Six sisters" blog under "breakfast." 

Summer times

Our kids get along "reasonably" well although what I consider reasonable may be terribly unreasonable for someone else.  

With four kids, on any given day, at least one kid is out of sorts, so it is pretty rare that they ALL get along or that they ALL want to do the same activity with the given age spread.

So  I nearly tripped over my chair to get my phone, when I caught them doing this.

A mamma lives for moments like this.

Sports camp

Allie, Zach, and Garrett braved the heat for sports camp last week (It was above 100 deg one day).

This is about the most pitiful attempt we could muster at getting a first day picture.

They golfed, swam, and played tennis (in theory I guess!)

Katie and I pretty much camped out at the pool while they did their stuff with Mary, David, and Colson.  It was such a fun week!

One day we noticed there was not much tennis going on among the five year olds.  I'm afraid Garrett just dragged the ball hopper around the court.

And then we swam some more.  

We wore these cuties out!  They all crashed very easily at night which gave Katie and me free time to catch up which rarely happens. Love you sis and thanks for coming!   Mandy you are COMING next year!  We will send them all maybe:)  I am ever thankful for all my sisters..the one I grew up with and the ones I grow with all year long.  

GOING going

It is unbelievable to me that summer is almost half way over!  

We have had so much fun spending time with our families in June.  It just happen to fall this way, but in the month of June, we have spent every week with cousins or grand parents.

Love this girl!  Abby loves loves her cousins.  I don't ever see her is the problem because if she's not playing with one, she's playing with another.

How's was that cake Cols?

Last weekend we walked in a "Race to Remember."  There was a huge turnout of families walking or running to remember their little ones.

Reese's family!  You are loved and remembered much.

I think Allie wasn't planning on running, because she drank a big ole coke the first mile.  Jason took off pushing the boys, and Allie decided she'd tag along.  I told her she couldn't stop because she'd be alone.

They finished somewhere in the 40 minute range (her first 5k).  To hear Jason's rendition of the story was hysterical.  I don't know if I felt more sorry for Allie or Jason!  (Allie who couldn't stop or Jason who had to hear her screaming, "I CAN'T DO IT!" for two more miles."  

What a great weekend!  Katie and the boys came here the rest of this week for sports camp.

That's a whole another post:)

But it gets a huge thumbs up!

Birthday

We had a great time celebrating hub's birthday.  Bunny and Pappy drove down for a little birthday dinner.  We left to go out of town the next day, so I'm just now posting.

A fun night!

Hubs had a work conference in Washington DC.  So we visited the other White House.  

We walked for miles and miles trying to get it all in.  This is from the Korean War memorial.  

The Holocaust Museum was the most impressive to me. 

Good to get away! 

Talk about a random post!  Mary finally wiggled that other top tooth out. Love the snaggle tooth look!