Fishing and Photos

Well, I have to admit, I doubted my husband this weekend.  He bought a new boat a few weeks ago and told me last week that we were going to take it to the pond on his parents property in Ellisville to run it over the weekend.  My thoughts were, there is no boat ramp in Ellisville, so I'm sure this will be an adventure.  Then he tells me that he planned to put the boat in the water using the new 4-wheeler!  Oh, No!!  All I could envision were both the boat and the 4-wheeler at the bottom of the pond.  We'll here are some pictures from our first ride in the new boat. 

Jimmy, Dustin, Alec, and Adam trying to figure out where would be the most reasonable place to try to back the boat off into the pond.  Seriously, we're just going to back it off in there?!?  I remember my daddy trying this at our camp before our boat ramp was competely finished and several 4 wheel drive trucks ended up having to be chained together to pull the boat out of the water.

Minutes later....  I was proven wrong, of course, I should always trust my hubby!! The boat is in the water with no problems at all, backed it right in, although, we did end up having to use the truck and not the 4-wheeler.  Apparently, the boat wouldn't hook on to the 4-wheeler correctly.

Off we go!!  I must admit this high speed, 27mph, ride in the pond was a bit exciting!!  This is me, Alec, Mandi and Dustin in the boat.  Mandi and I were both hoping the boat had a kill switch as Dustin was RACING from one end of the pond to the other to see how fast the boat would go.  Yep, 27mph is it, I was the offical GPS speedometer reader!

One of Dustin's first catches of the day!!!  Thankfully they got bigger as the afternoon went on!!

Before we left Ellisville, Alec got to try on some of his daddy's old cowboy boots!!

What would a weekend be without some play time with our favorite neighbors!!

Is this child spoiled or what??  Sunglasses and a DVD player in the car!!  And boy does he get mad when his batteries go out!!  I need a charger for the car, fast!!

I love taking pictures and Dustin bought me a Canon Rebel T1i for Christmas.  So today, I took some pictures of my cousins, Arthur and Sonya for them to use in the book they are putting together for their adoption.  Some of them turned out pretty good, so I thought I'd post a few on here.

Pancakes and Cow Patties

Yesterday was a great day for Harley, the dog! We pulled into the garage after church and saw him perched up on the kitchen table. Hello, What is he doing up there?? He knows better!!! We walked into see that I accidentally left Alec’s half eaten plate of pancakes on the table as we ran out the door to church and apparently, Harley thought he’d help himself to the leftovers.

After Alec’s naptime, my grocery shopping and Dustin’s school work, we headed to Ellisville for dinner. After dinner, we thought we’d go over to our good friends Ryan and Michelle’s house and see their baby Sydney. Michelle and Sydney weren’t home, so Ryan took us in the golf cart over to his parent’s house to see the cows. This was Alec’s first time to see cows up close and personal!! Ryan had just herded the cows out of the rye grass field and back into the regular field, but had accidentally left the gate open and all of the cows had ran back into the rye grass for another yummy meal!! We noticed a tiny baby calf lying by the fence. Ryan says it was probably only a day old. We all jumped out of the golf cart so Alec could pet the baby before the momma came over to see what we were doing. I told Harley to stay in the golf cart. Needless to say, I turned around and he’d jumped out and was standing in the middle of a HUGE cow patty chowing down. His face was covered in crap!! YUCK!! And I was elected to hold him on the way back to Ryan’s house!! GROSS!! But Alec still had fun, even with the poop covered dog! After that, we had to herd the cows out of the rye grass with the golf cart. I must admit, that was pretty fun!! We chased the cows all over the field!! It was actually much easier than I thought; they would give us dirty looks then turn and run for the gate!

After the cows, Ryan remembered that his Dad has baby chickens right now in the chicken houses. Alec loves ducks, so we were sure he’d love seeing all of the “ducks”. But no, he did not think the chicken house was fun. He clung to Dustin and didn’t want anything to do with the chickens. I must admit 24,000 chickens is a bit overwhelming!! They were running around everywhere!! I can only imagine what it’s like when the chickens are full grown and they cover the entire house! I had been in the chicken house before, but not while chickens were in there. I was in charge of the dog and had to keep a death grip on him!! He thought the chickens were much more interesting than Alec did!!

More Suprises!!

I thought those were all of Alec’s Easter Pictures, but the photographer uploaded a few more yesterday afternoon and I love them!!

Surprise!!

This surprise is for Nana!!  Let's see how often she looks at the blog!

I had Alec's Easter pictures made in an outfit that Lynn brought over to our house.  It was Dustin's when he was this size.  So cute!!  Alec may even wear this to church on Easter Sunday.  He looks like such a little man!!

P.S.  Nana, If you do see this before Sunday, don't tell Mamaw.  I'm going to print some out for her birthday!

Mom's Little Helper

Lately, Alec has become mom’s little helper. He wants to do just about anything I do! Here are a few pics of him helping around the house!!!

 

Filling up Harley’s bowl

Putting Ice in the Cups for Supper

Putting his Dirty Clothes in the Hamper!!!

 I haven’t even taught Dustin to do this one yet!! Ha!

Helping me stir up the Brownies!!

The down side of this one is he likes to taste test! Whoops!

He’s got a cold and loves to rub Vick’s on his nose at night.

He thought Harley needed some too…

 

I think pretty soon he’ll even be able to put himself to bed!!

I’ve never heard of a child climbing into the crib before they climb out, but mine might!

He thinks his crib is a trampoline and loves to get in and JUMP!!

Yea!! Done with chores, Lets PLAY!!!

This child is definitely a dare devil!!

He even swings on the big boy swing now!

And loves to slide!

 He pushes his big truck all over the yard.

And sometimes he carries it!!

Thankfully Alec got over his dislike of his ear plugs very fast and now bath time is fun again!!

Last but not least, our new favorite toy is once again one that we swiped from Riley’s garage. We’re borrowing Riley’s Big Wheel for a little while and Alec LOVES it!! He rides loops around the inside of the house! Yes, I know it’s a little girly looking with the purple tires and all!! Hopefully we’ll be in Toys R Us soon and Alec can get a Big Wheel of his own.

One last story I thought I’d share for my few readers that have small kids. This happened to my mother in laws friend last weekend at Kamper Park. So parents be careful!!

“Listen to what happened to JennyLeigh and Jaiden yesterday. They were at the llamas at the zoo...Jaiden went to the fence, put his hands around the bars and leaned his forehead onto the bars also. When he moved back and looked and JL, she said, "Jaiden, what's on your face?" Then she rubbed to try to remove what looked like rust. When she rubbed, a second later he started SCREAMING. They ended up at the emergency room...his eyes were swollen almost shut, nose, mouth (inside also) red splotches all over his face; hands were red and splotchy as well. They (doctor also) think someone sprayed cayenne pepper onto the fence. How MEAN is that??? Poor baby. They were sent home with instructions for benedryl...he's at daycare today but still splotchy...most of the swelling has subsided...What kind of JERK does something that MEAN??? You and Tracy be aware...”