Bucket Monster

I am NEVER on Russ' computer; but maybe I should be more often. I always forget that he takes pics with his camera... we need to do a better job of putting them on ONE computer... not 20. Geez.

Anyways, I was going to post a couple pics from our photo shoot we had this past weekend. But I couldn't resist these instead. The posed, well-groomed pics can wait until next time. Here are our bucket monsters; they come out every evening right after dinner. Cue spooky music!!

AWANA and VBS

Both of these events are done and over for the school year. These are way over due... but whatever. Holt was in Puggles this past year in AWANA. He had such a great time and actually came out of his shell a tad during the year. Next year he will be a Cubbie, which means mom and dad will have homework too. This should be interesting.

Here's a couple photos of him with his bestie girly friend, Bailey. I know her mom won't mind me pasting her daughter all over the internet.

And here is the one good pic I got of him and Bailey during our closing ceremony of VBS. Can't you tell they were SO into the music? Hah!! Gotta love moody 3 year olds!!

No Words

Arkansas... such a joyful place. Our entire family lives there. We always see both sides of the family and have such a great time. But when in Arkansas... you can always count on the boys tearing something up.

This trip... it was Nana's pool. Poor Nana!! She works so hard to provide such a lovely place for all of us to hang out and cool off. And wouldn't you know it, it's the grown men that cause all the chaos instead of the 9 toddlers.

There are NO WORDS to describe the pictures in this post. I get such warm fuzzies just watching my husband in action, as I'm sure Amber does with Dane. BARF!! And yes, some of these photos are quite blurry... but the action of them is priceless.

I Now Present...

The Dane and Russ Slam Dunk Contest ... Water Style!!

I love Chris in all these pictures. He fed the ball to the boys... SMART!! My favorites, by far, have to be Dane with the ring floatie on and Russ's foot in this last photo. Priceless... and I'm speechless!!

And now we all owe Nana money b/c there was no water left in the pool.

Great Lake

Here are some fun pics from the lake. Papa and Gma took us out for a spin the Friday before the 4th. It was the perfect lake outing; HOT but not many people on the lake.

*Marin was such a great driver. And yes, the boat was moving at his point.

*Holt and Gma hanging out.

*He lost his hat once and we had to turn around to retrieve it. It was so cute; he'd hold his hand on his head to keep it on.

*Gma trying to keep both kids from going overboard.

*And what's a lake post without some toddler, wind-blown, mullet hair?

*See that paci? It's LONG gone in our household!!

Waterlogged