LOBSTER ANYONE??

Okay so it is not really a lobster but the first time Dalton caught one of these out of the creek that runs through our yard Dalton came and said "look I caught a baby lobster!" I believe this is the biggest crawdad he has caught yet. It was released back into the water where maybe he will grow into an even bigger LOBSTER! haha

THE JOY OF ARTWORK

Denny recently gave Dalton a can of spray paint and a piece of large paper so he could create some "art." This was all done without me knowing it. I suppose after he was done with his creation on paper he decided to tag some trees with the paint. As you can see we now have our very own "happy" trees. We walked for several days past the trees without noticing them even once. Dalton informed Denny one day on their way to school of the unnoticed artwork. I love the smile on Dalton's face too. It is not very often that I can get him to pose for a picture much less smile.

UPDATE TO ENTRY CALLED COMMUNICATION IS EVERYTHING

The kids at Dalton's school raised enough money to buy several goats, ducks, rabbits, dig some ponds and stock them and there was probably another animal or two that I missed but I can not find the information telling exactly what all they were able to purchase. I know it was a lot!!

DALTON'S FIRST SLED

It all started out when they started calling for snow late Christmas eve/early Christmas morning. So, Denny and I took off to town searching for Dalton his first sled. After picking out one that we thought would stand up to his boyish roughness we took it home and waited.....and waited....and waited. We barely got a dusting and the only thing the snow stuck to was the tops of the cars and our 16 ft. flat trailer. Being the creative child he is, and I think he gets this from being an only child, he decided he could just sled on the trailer.

After becoming bored with his sledding experience he decided he would see if he could float down the creek in it. It quickly started taking on water and he bailed out of it. As of today, Janurary 10th 2010, we still have yet to get any snow that Dalton could sled in.

MAKING GINGERBREAD WITH DALTON

I wanted to do something fun with Dalton this year. I knew it would have to be something that would not take a whole lot of time because the attention span of a 7 year old boy doesn't last long. So, I cheated and bought some already made gingerbread dough and already made tubes of coookie icing and we had a good time. And as I thought...by the time we were done he was bored with it and ready to go play with something else. I think they turned out pretty good and they gingerbread tasted good too. I was not all that fond of the icing and would recomend using less of it next year.

CHRISTMAS

We took many pictures this year, and they are all of Dalton opening his gifts. I have picked out a few of the funny ones. When Dalton took the paper off this gift he saw a box (that one of my new end tables came in) and said "look mom Santa brought me a table like yours." And he wasn't very excited about it either. lol I explained that it was a gift from meme and he needed to open the box to see what was inside of it. He got the stuffed dog that he wanted. And he really liked the box too as you can see from the top picture. That is where he opend the remaining gifts from. (inside the box)

DECORATING FOR CHRISTMAS

The star at the top of the tree

The living room side of the fireplace

The hearth room side of the fireplace

Dalton was a big help decorating the tree! Notice the nice band around the tree where there are no lights? There are lights there-I just could not get them to work. (so I left it that way)

This is the "redneck tree". We call it the redneck tree cause it is decorated with hunting and fishing ornaments, shot gun shell lights and a camo tree skirt. This used to be our basement tree in Tn. - it matched the outdoors theme in our basement and I couldn't bare the thought of getting rid of it so I gave it a place in this house too.