A Hot Wheels Birthday!

Alec turned 4 on Sunday and we celebrated with a Hot Wheels party at Kids Rule!!  He picked EVERYTHING out, from the place, to the theme, to the cake and even the invitations!  He knew EXACTLY what he wanted!  Guess my days of picking out stuff for him are gone!

FOUR YEARS OLD

Dad playing basketball with Alec and Kaleigh

Sydney

Alec's Great Grand Parents!

Aunt Sonya and Cousin Will

And we're happy to say that Uncle Art also got back to the US from Kuwait today!! He'll be in Hattiesburg on Thursday!

What are they up to??

Dad and Sis on the slide!

Mimi2 and Will!

Mimi and Dad with Kaleigh

Alec's friend, Darby, from School

The only Family Picture! ha!

Darby, Will, Walker and Alec

Time for cake and gifts!

I think someone stuck a finger in the cake! ha!

4 boys in the party chair!

5 boys in the party chair!

Kaleigh LOVES cake!

Independence Day

We had lots of fun on the 4th!

We did a little tubing with Uncle Grant, Riley and Drew!

Dad got in a little fishing and caught a BIG one!

We did some fireworks and the boys took a bathroom break together!

After the fireworks got old, the boys played on mom's phones together!

The Beginning of the Day!

And the END of the day!

Kaleigh's First Field Trip

Kaleigh went on her first field trip to the zoo today!  Of course, mom and Alec tagged along too!  It was very hot, but we had lots of fun!!

Kaleigh, Alec and Cousin Will checking out the Monkeys!

The goat really wanted Alec to rub it's head!

Jack, Jace, Kaleigh, Addi and Leela!

Kaleigh's friends and her wonderful teachers, Mrs. DeAnn and Mrs. Caroline!

Of course, the zoo wouldn't be complete without a train ride!!

New Toys!

Last Friday, Dustin surprised Alec and took him to the coast to buy a pair of Jet Skis!!  Needless to say, we all think they are great!!!  Mimi and Papa weren't at the camp on our first run and we really wanted to see how they ran, so I took Alec and Dustin took Kaleigh.  Alec says, "Can we keep them all day?"  I said you can keep them forever!  He says, "REALLY?!?"  He was very timid at first and he and I went about 2mph for the first 10 minutes or so, but he thinks they are the best thing ever now and loves to do donuts and go super fast!

Kaleigh just waking up after her first ride!

YAY MOM!!

Kaleigh is not the best sleeper at the camp, so she took LOTS of naps!!  Thankfully, Papa likes to nap too!

It was so hot, some of the crazy folks even got in the BAYOU water!  Right after I took this pic, I realized I'd jumped in with my Costas on.  Lovely!!  After mushing in the mud for an hour or so, I finally talked Dustin into getting into the water and he found them after about 30 minutes of diving down to the bottom!  YUCK!!  The water is so black, I couldn't even see him diving under the water!

Getting his 4 wheeler ready for 4th of July!

We love some Cheesy Puffs!

Alec and I played the HOTTEST goofy golf game ever!  That was definitely the longest 18 holes EVER!! ha!

He's stuck in a hazard!

Sharing a snow cone at the water park!

Sister really thinks she can swim!  She's really confused!  I'm so glad she loves the water!

Alec watching out for sister!

Let's GET MIMI, we all know she doesn't like to get her hair wet!!

Miss. Independent!!  She climbed up and slid down all by herself about 20 times!

Going down on her belly!

We'll do anything to cool off at the camp!

Kaleigh LOVES Daddy!

Little Fish

Alec took swim lessons with Leah Theaggard in Woodstone last week and learned SO much!!  It is amazing to see the difference she can make in just 5 days!  Riley and Drew took lessons too, so it was fun having them there too!

Yes, he's got on goggles AND a headband!  I know, Mr. Cool!!  Dad continues to make fun but Alec has HORRIBLE ear problems and Dr. Hammett insist we keep out as much water as possible.  Speaking of ear trouble, I should probably do an entire blog on that subject, as it's a DAILY issue in our lives right now. :(

The three little swimmers!

Let's RACE!

Riley went from a non swimmer on Monday to an AWESOME swimmer on Friday!  The boys weren't as quick but made lots of progress.  Drew kept informing Mrs. Leah that he wasn't going in the deep end, he knew how to swim already, NOT!

Having fun jumping off the rock on the last day of class!

I still wouldn't trust Alec to swim completly on his on, he hasn't mastered the skill of coming up for air yet....  But, he can get where he wants to go, as long as it's not so far that he can't hold his breath!  I think he'll have it down by the end of the summer!!