IMAGES OF SPRING BREAK 2009

Dalton is very creative. He used a bungee cord to hook up his wagon to his bike so he could have a trailer.

We will call this one "this little piggy". Dalton has spent his spring vacation in the mud. His choice not mine. I think he played in the mud just about every day but one-maybe two due to the cold. He has a great start on his redneck tan and the cutest little freckles on his nose. He is at the stage where he says "oh mom stop it!" when I touch them or kiss them. They said this day would come-I just refused to believe it. No more baby, no more toddler, he is defiantly a boy! By age he is little, by size he is not! You can click on the picture to make it bigger to get the full effect of the dirt.

Sorry this is blurry but as you can see Dalton is in motion-jumping off of the dirt mound! He is playing with Erin (from next door..I call her his big sister) and Sabrina (from down the street). Girls like mud and dirt too!!

We also managed to get a play date in this week with a couple of his best buds Zander and Ethan. This was the stillest they were the whole time we were at the park!!

I think this is a video of the kids playing in the dirt and jumping into it. It took so long to download it that I forgot what all was on it.

GREAT DAY TO FISH

No matter what-it is a great day to fish. Denny and Dalton went up to the neighborhood pond yesterday to do "boy stuff" as Dalton put it. But, little does the stinker know that I have been fishing for many many years. Denny caught 13, Dalton caught 3 and when I went up to see how they were doing...I caught 1. They were all bluegill and sunfish but we know there are bigger and better fish in there too. It is a catch and release pond which is a good thing cause I DO NOT CLEAN FISH! Dalton is pretty good at casting out but he has no patience to sit and watch his bobber so he reels it in just about as fast has he cast out. We do not let him bait his own hook...yet.....but are thinking bout having him start doing it. I am soooo not ready for the hooks in the fingers yet. It is bad enough when I hook my own fingers and YES I put my own worms on my hook. I didn't say I liked it but I do it. I will not put a cricket on my hook! No way no how!! blaah!

GREAT DAY FOR A SNAKE...UNLESS YOU ARE THE SNAKE

Well this is our first snake for the year. I would love to say that it would be our last but...I know it will not be our last. Dalton is 4 ft 1 and I chopped about 3 inches off the thing when I beheaded it.

I know it's gross-a snake with no head but as a paranoid mom I was not taking any chances. (my sister said that it was not poisonous)

When we came home from picking Dalton up from school yesterday we could see Wiggles doing something odd. Upon further investigation we could see that it was a snake. poor dog, but she looked like she was having fun with it but I just didn't want it to bite her or anyone else..LIKE MY SIX YEAR OLD! So I got a shovel and beheaded it. Isn't that what the Irish usually do on St.Patricks day?! haha jk

WE HAVE SUCH CRAZY WEATHER!!

This was taken on Monday March 8 2009

This was taken Thursday March 12 2009

This is the second time this year that the ice has weighted down this poor tree. I hope it will recover.

This is part of our property and I thought it made for a pretty picture.

THAT'S MY BOY!

Yea, I think he looks like a circus clown too!


Dalton is a little dare devil and a speed demon!

Denny was aerating (sp) the soil, he had done this once and then spread seed so now he is doing it again in hopes of getting them good down in there. Dalton was running over it to pack it down. They will both do anything to get to play.

Not to worry, this 4 wheeler has a govenor on it so we can control the speed and we also have a remote with a kill switch that stops it instantly if need be. He has outgrown his helmet and we need to get him a new one.

CEREAL ADDICTION

I would like to confess that Dalton and I have a serious cereal addiction. We are addicted to the chocolate flavored Kelloggs Frosted Mini Wheats. There is something about it's wonderful flavor and even when your cereal starts to get a little mushy-when you bite into it there are little chocolate chunks on the inside that make you feel like you have something more than mush. As you might imagine, since cereal is expensive anyway, that this is an expensive cereal and the box is even smaller than the normal boxes and the price is still the same. It appears that Dalton and I go though about 4 of these little boxes a week. I know, I know, but at least it is not potato chips or something that is mega unhealthy. We would make a great commercial for them if anyone has any contacts to Kelloggs. haha

03-07-09 4 WHEELER BEFORE AND AFTER

This is how nice and clean our 4 wheelers started out.


This is what it looked like, and I looked like, at the end of the trip.

This is what a free mud bath looks like up close. Those are not freckles or moles.....that is pure mud!

03-07-09 4 WHEELER TRIP THE SCENERY

This is the scenery that we would have missed if we had not got lost. It was enough to take your breath away.

4 WHEELER TRIP 03-07-09 FRIENDS

This is Amy and her husband Todd on his ginormous 4 wheeler. a.k.a Aubrey's mom and dad.

Amy and Todd


This is part of our group that went today. We had a total of 17 people but some folks were doubled up so I think we had about 10 4 wheelers in all. Only 4 of us were girls and Amy and I were the only girls to have our own 4 wheelers. We started our trail at 9 am and we were done by 2 pm. We were on the Huckleberry Mountain Horse Trail in the Ozark-St.Francis National Forests. http:www.aokforests.com I am unsure at this time of how many miles we went since we took part of a trial that we had not planned on taking. (I was not reading the map-I am a good map reader-but nobody asked me) Yes, that does mean we were lost for a short period of time. I have to admit that if we had not got lost we would have missed some beautiful scenery.

4 WHEELER TRIP 03/07/09 STUCK IN THE MUD

Here are 3 of the 5 times I got stuck in the mud and had to be towed out. The bottom picture I was almost embarrassed to be stuck because the were not with our group, then I got over it, I mean come on-look at their pretty shiny wheels the big pansies!!

THE "BUG" GLASSES

Christy with the "Bug" glasses on.

These are the "Bug" glasses. I keep them in my bug just because they are fun like the "bug". Last night we had planned a girls night out but unfortunately two of the ladies could not make it so we canceled our big plans and kept it local. For starters there is nothing to do in this town unless you want to get out your inner redneck and go to the North 40. So, we opted for our inner child, and after dinner we stopped at Kmart and took pictures with the glasses on. We were wild women all right.....I was home by 9:30. Do you thing she could have gone on into the North 40 with the glasses on and called them beer goggles????

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

I want to thank everyone who responded to let me know that they do read this thing. I appreciate your responses. Enjoy.

FEB. 26 2009 DALTON AND AUBREY

Child labor.....works great as long as it is their idea.


Mr.Impatient comes by it honestly.

HOW DO YA CRUNCH A BUG?

For the record, I didn't crunch it but I sure didn't do it any favors either. Those are scratches. I think the reflection makes it look like dents but it is not. Poor little buggy.

BEHIND ON MY BLOG - AGAIN

Yes, I know I am behind on my blog again. We have a new camera and with that came new software, different functioning and the need to teach an old dog new tricks. (that's me) I have no patience at all. My want and need to figure it out has left my with head aches, thoughts of taking the darn thing back, more head aches and then I just give up and walk away. Today was somehow different. I sat down here and just started clicking on everything, for which seemed like the 100th time, and then that little light went off in my head and presto!! It may not be the easiest way to down load pictures but at least it is getting the job done!

THE FIRST SIGNS OF SPRING!!!!! YEA

The first lizzard of the season-and the one that got away-cause Dalton was at school when I took this one! ;)

MYSTERY OF THE TRASH THAT TAKES ITSELF OUT

Okay, so it's not a mystery if you look real close and see the little head above the top of the trash can. hehe It always looks so funny when Dalton takes the trash up to the curb because you can not see him. We need to take a video of him doing this before he grows any taller....it looks like our trash takes itself to the curb.