THEY'RE ALIVE!

Bob and Harrison after a night in the tree fort.

THE CHEFS...

my sweetie!i just had to get a picture of the sugar on his cheek and shoulder. the only thing he likes better than sugar is eating raw egg and watching me freak out. i think pancake batter is his favorite. he also has to listen to the bob marley song "stir it up" while mixing.

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"are we there yet? are we there yet?" isn't heard nearly as often as "can i lick the bowl yet? does it have raw egg in it? can i lick the bowl yet?"

PERFECT FIT!

...the cute little desk we found on craigslist...

PARTY- PART 2

to quote my neighbor, laura:

"Where are all those big men going carrying pans?"

to defend
themselves
against four
sugared-up
little boys
with 100
water balloons wish we had about 500 more!

PARTY- PART 1

banana pancakes with becksully and rylee...with hats alex
pirate cadentalon eating a bug talon eating some sand
paper airplanes!i wish i had an after shot of those shirts... cards...merely stumbling blocks to the good stuff...unless they have money in them...

the good stuff...
monica and jess...ready for cake!

cake!!!!!!!!!!!

START SPREADING THE NEWS

I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it,
First Grade, First Grade

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray

And make a brand new start of it
First Grade, First Grade

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you,
First Grade, First Grade.

THIRD BIRTHDAY=THREE PARTIES?

happy birthday sully-wully!

sully turned three today!
what a busy day it was...he got lots of phone calls and well wishes...the lady bagging our groceries at kroger gave him a dollar...we had lunch with griffin, carter, annie and cole...a play date with david and meg...and decorated brownies after dinner. it was a very exciting day!!!

(pics from the family party
and harrison's first day of school coming soon)

NESTLED ALL SNUG IN HIS BED...

...or maybe not...

REMEMBERING JERRY

FISHING AT DUSK

Sometimes things just come together...and even if it was a late start, we went fishing on Donnie's land. We caught a ton of fish. I've never seen anything like it. Good thing Uncle Pat and Jacob went with us. We were kept very busy fixing poles and removing the fish. The kids had a blast...however I had a brim that voided something yellow on my hand!!Jacob and Uncle Pat went to buy red wigglers and met Otis Nixon. Jacob took his pic. And we're off...

We caught lots of brim. Then Sully caught the first bass, but he wouldn't touch it. He had been stuck by too many brim at that point. Troy kissing his biggest catch for luck before he threw it back in...and when I say he threw it back...he THREW it back.
We fished a little too late. The only thing we had for light was the focusing light on the camera and a couple of cigarette lighters. I'm going to add flashlight to the list of things I bring next time...along with sharp needle nose pliers and hand wipes for the yellow stuff.

HEELYS

He is still trying to figure them out...but looks awfuly sharp doing it! Notice the headband he made in honor of the ben harper presale. We're going to the Ryman baby!

WHAT DOES A BEAR FROM MONROE SAY??

RIRE! the kids like to draw things for bob to cut out so they can paint them. here is carolyn's latest creation "bear". this has to be one of my favorites! he is going on the kitchen wall...

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in other carolyn news...they had to write a journal entry before they could play with the x-box. troy wrote about the new tree house, harrison worked on math problems and writing his letters, carolyn...well carolyn wrote this
(i'm correcting some of the spelling):

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Once upon a time there was a woman that was a good case worker and she liked talking to people only if she liked them. She has a husband and he killed his first wife in 1946 and then in 2001 I was only 1 years old he killed his 2nd wife and she was found dead down the stairs and that is how they knew that he kill her and she was blocking him from hitting her in the head and her hand hit his top teeth and they had his teeth marks on her hand and he robbed her house and took her wedding ring. He said she gave it to him but her friends say she never takes off that ring even "thow thay was devorsted" also he said she tripped down the stairs and hit her head and died. They found out that he was a "cerel killer so thay pot him in prizen four 8 years". He will get out in 2009.

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i didn't know if i should laugh or cry or have a long talk...so i told her she watched too much tv and let her play the xbox. she is just like bob and beck!

BEAUTIFUL MORNING

Sully and I are sitting on the front porch
having a snack this morning.
He looks around and says,
"It's such a beautiful morning.
The birds
and airplanes
and butterflies
and pontoon boat
and ice-coffee"

i love that kid!