A Few Good Men..........UMMM Boys!!!!

Here are our Troops! These boys are off to BOOT CAMP!!

And a few of them are little hams for the camera!

Private: Taylor Lung
AKA: Birthday Boy!
Sharp shooter,mom and dad waker upper at six in the morning! To go do his training.

Private: Mckay Shumway
AKA: Baby Sitter
Boy who is most helpful,
Taylor's mom and dad waker upper at 6 AM.

Private: Jory Hill
AKA:Boy who sleeps with gun! Mr. Sharp Shooter
Boy who dries dishes, Taylor's mom and dad waker upper at 6AM

Private: Britton Dodger
AKA: Master Mess Man
Boy who dries dishes,and defies authority, asks if we have to clean the cabin EVERY time we come up to it.lol Too funny! ?Also Taylor's Mom and Dad waker upper at 6 AM.

Private: Olivia Lung
AKA: Baby Sargent
Little girl mess maker or girl who like to scatter all her toys after mom picks them up for the hundredth time. Make good points with Mom and Dad no wakie at 6 AM.
Sorry this next pic is too light!

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Boot camp started out with all the boys coming over and getting a buzz cut before we were off to the cabin in Rockport.

The Boys took turns buzzing each other, they had fun with that, first to get a cut was Private Shumway.

They thought it would be funny to first give him an old mans Hair cut, so they shaved a round spot on the top of his head.

Next was Private Taylor he got to have a couple boys working on him they also gave him a snazzy hair do.

They missed a few spots!!!

Oh com on Private Hill it don't hurt!!!

After they were all done Mom had to straighten it up a bit, here is the after pic. WOW what is this? Private Britton NOT getting a buzz? See what I mean about defiance? He did not want to get his hair buzzed, so he didn't.

Rowdy Boys! Here Private Shumway is giving Private Dodger a buzz with his fingers!

Still Buzzing!!

These are our troops going to the cabin in the bus,AKA suburban! Don't they look so happy? (boy they don't know what there in for) :)

After going to the Cabin to drop off food and supplies we picked up an extra guest and headed to the local Pizza Joint! We sat and waited for about an hour for our Pizza, now this is a Pizza Joint that we frequent often and have never on the busiest of night waited this long NEVER! So Mom go's down to see about when it will be done, because the troops are getting restless and starting to get on some nerves, come to find out they have not got out pizza's done and they have not even started them, now if you did not have to pay before you get your order we might have just walked out. But they more than took care of us after they got our pizza's to us we all got to have ice cream from their parlor ON THE HOUSE!!! Yaaaah! Sweet!

Private Olivia Likes Pizza too!

See what I meant when I said the troops were getting restless? They started to sit in the baby seats, got into the knife and ice and everything they could thing of.

Finally Boot camp begins!!!
Here is part of the course were you have to balance on the barrel while walking it over to the other end of the rope. Easy right? Ya, for a nine year old, not for Mom!

This is the barbwire crawl! (this course not set up with real barbwire)

After crawling under the barbwire (aka purple rope) one of the troops had rocks down his pant and in his boots! LOL Sorry buddy mom could not resist!

This was really the start and end of the course, these are the tire walkers, ok well they were jogging through them.

Master Sargent : Vince Lung AKA: DAD or Taylor's Dad! He ran the course with his troops!

Dad did the barrel roll and all!

this is how it ends with the tongue out!

After a few times through the course, the boys needed a little bit of all boy time, so Vince took them out and set up targets to shoot their AK 47's well ok they were just little BB guns, but did that not sound cool? Britton could not figure this thing out very well so Vince had to show him how it was done!

Simultaneous shooters!

This is one HOT trooper here!

Oh ya this one too!! Vince showing Private Dodger how to hold the gun and that he needed to look down the barrel with his right eye and not the left.

I had a friend of Mine make the cake for me! She made this really cute tank cake! Thanks Miss Jeanette!

Troops on present patrol! Except Olivia looks like she is making off with the presents! LOL

Isn't he just the cutest 9 year old boy you ever did see? Well I think so cause I'm his Mom!

Mr. Baby sitter on duty! Private Shumway was so cute with Olivia, she just adored him, she would not leave him alone, where ever he went she was sure to follow and proceed to climb up were her was! All in all it was a great weekend for the boy! Mom on the other hand is TIRED! That was exhausting!! Woo, done for another year!

Proud to be an American!!!

This years fourth of July celebration was a little different from the rest, This year we had some good friends over for a special celebration. a celebrations of the freedom of our country and a person that I actually know personally. His Name is Kaleb Harris and he just returned from Afghanistan on Memorial weekend. He has become a special person in my life whom I had a lot of respect for , He is not only a soldier that has served our country but he is the father to my dear sweet Isabella.

This is a quilt that I made for him (with some help from my Pink Pickle. THANKS Pickle) for that service to our country. Thank you Kaleb for risking your life for all of us here enjoying the cushy life.

This is the back of the quilt and the label!

Kaleb and his mom!

Me, Kaleb and the Sweet B!!

Kaleb and his whole Family came over, I think he was a little surprised. Not sure he saw that one coming.

Olivia enjoying the water melon cake.!!

On the watermelon cake was a great big ant! It was way cute!

Sweet B enjoying her cake and strawberry's and cream! I'm very thankful to Kaleb for sharing the time he has with his daughter with Me and our Family! We don't get to see much of her these day's but I'm very thankful for any time we get with her.

Future Fabriholic!!

I'm thinking that my sweet little Olivia is going to take after her mom! YAY ME!!!
She really enjoys fabric, she enjoys laying on all the quilts tops that I spread out on the floor, Every time some one comes over to bring me there quilt to quilt for them she has to try it out and lay down on it. It's way to funny and cute.!!!

She is mimicking me by laying out the blocks

Sorting her fabric squares!!

"What do you think mom? Does this one match?"

Toy Story!!!

Olivia discovered this Jessi doll that was Taylor's a couple of weeks ago, since then she has not let Jessi out of her site. She absolutely LOVES her. If she loses her for some strange reason she walks around the house with her little hand held up suggesting were is she mumbling something that I don't really understand, but I know what she wants and she don't give up until she finds her. She even takes her to bed with her and has her in her clutches until morning when I pick her up out of her bed in the morning Jessi is in her hands. When i but her in the car seat Jessi is in her hands, she won't lose contact with her not even for a second to let me put the seat belt on.

See this is just after waking up!!

I did not notice that When I took these pics that the doll was in them also! What cute little girls!!! I Love My Little O and MY B!!! Look at the smile on her face looking at that doll.

She Holds her very close to her body.

Here she got distracted for a split second, when I went to pick her up she grabbed her from me like a dog taking back its food you just took. not quite that vicious but you get the picture.

She feeds her everything she eat and then some, she is quite the little mommy! She even gets wipes out though out the day and cleans her face and hands off. But She does have a clothe body and has a talker box in her and can not be washed, I'm going to have to try to clean her some how some day when I can get her away from her for a day.LOL Ya right!!

She sits with her she dances with her, if you ask her wee Jessi is she holds her up and gets the biggest smile on her face. I have never seen a baby this small like a toy this much.

And LOOK at Jessi she is Happier than ever she has Olivia for her best friend, and she don't seem to mind that she is dirtier than dirt!!

Photo shoot with a "B"

So yesterday, I was home most of the day with a sick kid, after taking my Mom to the Hospital I came home and ran around the house all day with very little to show for my effort. But I did get One thing done that i have been meaning to do, I made Taylor's Teacher This picture I found HERE. Hers was cuter than mine but I just used what i had around the house. Including used crayons.

I Thought that my tree out back of my house looked so pretty so I took a few more pics. We planted this tree for my oldest daughter Ashley when Taylor was born because we planted one for him to take a pic by each year to show how he grows, I wish we would have lived here when Ashley was born so we could have done the same for her. Course that Idea did not come until much later in my life.

Since I don't have much more room in my yard i think this might have to become Olivia's tree, it will have just had a head start On baby O!! I do have pics of Ashley by the tree out in front of my house and wow how that tree has grown since we moved here i will have to post about that later when I get my older pics switched to digital.

This one I was laying down on the ground to take the pic and when I got back up I discovered I had been laying down next to a SNAKE!!! EEEEKKKK ya that was exciting. NOT!!!!