Fun, Fun, Fun!!

It seems like these past few days, all we've done is have fun!!  That's what we're supposed to do, right?  Saturday, we went to Paul B Johnson for a Picnic with the Science Club from PRC.  Our friend, Dr. Mandi, is the advisor and was having a meet and greet for the members.  She invited us to tag along.  Alec had lots of fun building "red clay" castles with another boy that was at the picnic.

He had to taste the dirt and make sure it was OK for building!

He loved playing in the sand!

And knocking down the sand castles!

Here he is, helping his new friend fill up the bucket!

What would a trip to Paul B be without a little boating time!!  By the time the picnic was over and we went to put the boats in the water, it was WAY, WAY, WAY past nap time.  Needless to say, he fell asleep within 5 minutes!

We layed him on the floor of the boat and he slept like this for over an hour!!

Poor baby, he woke up scared!! 

He didn't see us at first and just stood up screaming! 

So he's getting some snuggling time in!!

Today, Dustin broke out the lawn mower for the first time this year.

Needless to say, he had ALOT of help!!

I look in the living room to see these two nuts have found a new use for ZuZu's ball!!

Wonder which one of them thought of this first!! 

They ended up thinking they were hard hats and were hitting each other over the head!!

Here is a little story from tonight’s bath time. Alec was pouring water back and forth in his cups, as usual. Then, he picks up a HUGE cup and dumps all of the water out on the floor. As I was cleaning up that mess, he did it again. I said, “Please don’t do that again or I’m gonna spank you, OK.” He says, “OK.” I think that’s the first time he’s answered a question like that. It was so cute, and no, he didn’t do it again!

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!