A Boy And His Grandpa

About 2 years ago I was in a fabric store looking in the clearance section (surprise surprise) Well I had Taylor with me and he found a print he just had to have for Grandpa a quilt, I told him NO, I just had made a quilt for grandpa and his cabin not long before this. Well he kept on bugging me and whining and he said he would make it for him, so I said Ok but YOU are going to make it ....Ya right!!! He did do most of the piecing of the blocks Mom had to help him do the finish work and he even did some of the quilting on it! Finally this year we finished it after many hours and a couple of times changing my mind on the backing for the quilt we finally got to give it to grandpa and of course Grandma too!!!

When the present was open on Christmas I think it was a big surprise, Taylor had kept it from him for over two years now, grandpa had no clue he was even doing this and him and Taylor have a very close relationship. As soon as it was opened the tears started to well up in grandmas eyes which is not a real big deal she cry's over things all the time but this one was a bit different for her and also for grandpa as he was definitely crying. It was a very Happy Happy moment !

Henry was absolutely speechless, trying to hold back the tears.

This is when I began to cry my self !! It was a very tender moment, I think grandpa was touched and very very proud of his boy!!!

Taylor's First Pinewood Derby!

Tonight was the big pinewood derby race for Pack 1205,Taylor's Cub scouts !

Here are some of the boys cars in the holding block awaiting the racing action !

Taylor's Red FORD tuff truck, KayKays blue wedge car and Logan's silver Lamborghini.

The Eagle car is Parker's,what an original idea,looks great !

Taylor and Kaykay,sitting by each other waiting for the race to start.

Taylor and dad after the races on the way to an Ice cream treat after a night of fun and good times !

Taylor won an award for Judges Favorite car(truck) they must have really liked the Big Red Ford !

Some close racing action,whew !

I think he had fun,and it seemed as though most of the boys had a great time,lots of cheering and yelling going on ! There were a great variety of designs including a cool yellow "short bus" a grey skull car that said awesome on the front,a blue LA dodgers car,Orange rocket car with cool silver engines,A white Milk car,silver Lamborghini,Eagle,an American flag,and a host of others that were equally impressive.All in all,the kids seemed to have a great time,and most are already planning a showdown next year !

(oh did I forget to mention that he Won first place???) Waa-Hoo Way to go Taylor!!! It sometime helps to have a racing Dad!

A Boy and his Quilt

This is My sweet Boy Taylor......He really loved his quilt he got for x-mas! I made a matching one for my granddaughter Isabella and started one for Olivia, I was a very busy girl at x-mas time. I did Finish a paper doll x-mas quilt for Olivia but never got a pic of it, maybe next time I will post a pic of it.

Here it is on his bed, with a matching pillow case!
It feels so good to get some of that fabric used up I'm way behind on project's.
I'm so happy to have a boy who appreciate the quilts I make for him!
I Love You Taylor!!!♥MOM

My Little Princess..cess....cess!!

This is sweet Princess Olivia!!! She makes the most beautiful Princess!!

Isabella Came to visit us this weekend and she brought with her dress ups, it was so cute, she let Olivia wear one of her dress's. Olivia LOVED IT!! I guess I know what my next purchase for Olivia is......

Here is the Princess Isabella!!! Her and Olivia were fighting over the one crown we had in the house. Now I know why her mother calls or a drama queen! Wow everything was a crisis and then some. I think she just is not use to sharing time with her Mema or toys or really anything else. She was constantly asking why does Olivia get this ?why does Olivia have that? I want one....

She is the most beautiful 5 yr old Princess EVER!!!!

Here is the Prince.....ss Taylor! He wanted to be in on this... he even tried the pink skirt on with his camo but i did not get a pic of that one. Dang it!! After all that princess Play Taylor and Isabella played army stuff. He was the Husband and she the wife and I think they had about or six baby's And they took them on to the battle field together as a family Isabella was even packing heat until she got shot and she dropped the gun on Taylor and actually hurt him LOL . It was the funniest thing to watch and listen to, Isabella kept telling Taylor... Honey..... can you get the baby's a blanket? Taylor... um I'm going to the army store. Isabella...... well Honey then Kiss me...lol They kissed just like a little couple. It was so cute! I can't believe Taylor played along with the whole thing.
My favorite part was his response to the Honey can you get the baby's blanket.... It was just like a man response I think I'm am going to have to teach my son some different way. I may have to limit time with his Grandpa and his Dad!!!jk
It was a great weekend and so glad that I got to see my sweet granddaughter!!!

Here the lighting was better on Taylor's pic. I'm still learning on the camera and some times I forget to adjust the light intake!!!

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!