FOOD FIGHT!!!

Some friends of ours have a food fight every summer and this is the first year we were able to make it out there and let me just say what a blast it was! We started out having a bbq at the house and then walked down to the lower field where they have their garden area. All the food is tilled into the ground to help fertilize so it's not a complete waste!
The kids running to the field, chanting, "FOOD FIGHT, FOOD FIGHT":


The food fight barely started and Keegan got plastered with butterscotch pudding! LOL


My friend Dea got Tatym with red jello! She didn't think it was too funny! LOL


Keegan had a blast and was picking food out of his ears the next morning! :)


Checking out her messy dress:


Showing me the mess LOL:


After the food fight the kids jumped into the pond to rinse off!


It was so much fun! Maybe next year I'll put the camera down and join in...maybe! LOL

Forgotten pictures...

Back in May I took the kids puddle jumping and forgot that I took some pictures on my cellphone so thought I'd share! It was so fun and I'm glad I have these pictures to look back on!!





This picture was taken on one of our Girls Night Outs! The sky was so stormy looking and later on it was almost black out and it just POURED down! Luckily by then we were in the movie theater so we just heard it! :)

Lots of summer FUN!!

I can't believe it's already July 8th but thank goodness we're finally getting some awesome weather here on the coast! The kids and I have been having lots of fun (daddy too, when he's not working) going to the lakes, going fruit/veggie picking, birthday parties, fun projects around the house, Wildlife Safari, 4th of July festivities, etc. It's been a great summer so far!!
Here are some pics from our activities so far! An afternoon at the lake having a picnic and hanging out with friends:
Tatym stealing snacks from our friends and sitting on her throne! LOL

Gotta love throwing sand in the air and managing to get it on your head! :)

The 5 small specks around the grass on the left hand side of the sand dune is my friend Dea with her 3 oldest kiddos and my son, Keegan! Those crazy kids thought it would be fun to climb the dune all the way to the top and run down! It was fun but a LOT of work!



Keegan floating on the lake! Heavenly!!

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Fun on the 4th of July at the park:

Keegan caught a fish at the fishing derby booth (thank you to the local fire department!!):

ENDLESS performing at the park (they are one of our worship teams at church)--Ray & Christina and Bryan:

Tatym loved the sheep!

Gotta love smores in the backyard!



Wildlife Safari!!
We stopped for a picnic and to get the wigglies out!


My hubby & I have agreed that I have like a million pictures of various animals from Wildlife Safari, the Game Park, fairs, etc. that I don't need to take anymore pictures...but I couldn't help it! However, I did manage to only take 2 pictures of this giraffe and 2 pictures of the elephants and that was it for this trip! LOL



Then it was off to pick cherries (we got peas too but no pics of that):

Tatym would climb up in her stroller, grab cherries out of the box, climb back down and then go put them in another ladies bucket! I think the lady was paying her! LOL

I see a monkey in the tree!!

All the kids and the goods! They were such awesome helpers and I think everyone had a stomachache by the end of the day from eating too many cherries!


Well, that's just a few days of our fun, I'll post more, later!

Blessed Day

Yesterday's Summer FUN Challenge event was a special time with daddy and the kiddos so no pics to post for that! I've recently started a bible study on the book: Created To Be His Help Meet by Debi Pearl so on Tuesday nights my living room is filled with amazing ladies that have been called to take part in this study with me so my awesomely sweet husband chooses to take the kiddos out of the house to give me a chance to focus on the study and not have to worry about someone wanting me for something or messing with our books or what not. So super dad took the kiddos out to dinner at McDonalds and then headed to...WALMART! Wahooo! LOL They spent time looking at video games and toys and just enjoying their time together.

Today we were blessed with some visitation time with my stepson, Taylor! We were supposed to have more time with him but that's a big ol' can of worms that I don't feel like opening at the moment! Let's just say that it happens A LOT and it's not something hubby or I really appreciate or like very much...but, what can ya do? This is the hand we've been dealt and we do the best with what we get! I've learned to REALLY lean on God to get me through the aggravations! Anyways, since our time was cut down to just a 7 hour visit, we wanted to be sure to include Taylor in on the fun stuff. We decided to grab some McDonalds (wow, this just shows how unhealthy we are, huh??? McD's two days in a row! OOPS) and we headed to the park to enjoy the gorgeous day!

The boys thought these signs were hilarious so I HAD to take a picture of them with the signs! LOL Boys and potty humor go together like cookies and milk! :)


The kids had fun playing on the tire swing and even hubby joined in on the fun!





We bought this shirt for Taylor's 13th birthday (see previous post about the FarmVille party) and we think it's pretty rockin! :) It says "I'm kind of a big deal on FarmVille"


And since we don't get a whole lot of time with Taylor, I have to take every chance I get to snap some pics of all our kiddos together! So, here are some of the pics of our photo shoot! LOL

A first for Keegan!

I wasn't sure what today's "special plan" was going to be and the day got away from me pretty fast! I was just going to have us play board games or something but then we decided we wanted to order Little Caesars for dinner and then the idea got brought up that we should call my sister-in-law, who happens to work for Yellow Cab Taxi. Keegan was BEGGING to take a ride in her taxi so that became the fun plan for the evening! LOL Keegan seriously was squealing with excitement and bouncing off the walls while we were waiting for Jessie to come and pick him up! He was even sitting on the window ledge, staring out at the driveway and he kept checking his watch to see how long it'd been!

At last, Jessie arrived and Keegan booked it out the door! Of course I had to take a million pictures to commemorate this special occasion! LOL Keegan's first taxi ride! :)





Today I also ordered Keegan a Snuggie that he's been begging for for months. I joked with my husband that we're raising the next generation of white trash...a kid that gets excited about taxi rides and Snuggies! LOL Oh and sorry for the funky picture coloring, I didn't realize it until later that I had the setting all wrong on the camera!