How the time does fly...

I was looking through all my pictures and I realized it has been a busy summer. Here are some of our shenanigans...

There was swinging...

And Popsicles...

And big smiles...

(one of my favorite parts)

Napping disasters...

(Don't leave your diaper cream within arms reach of a "napping" 18 mo old)

A trip to Bays Mt...

Watching the wolves getting fed was really cool...

Carson talked to them...

More Naps...

Just kidding, when do parents get to nap...

Picking raspberries with Papa...

More like eating them with Mama...

Carson danced a jig...

And really got down...

Callie did some shopping...

(that's the "They don't have the item to go with my coupon"

look she learned from her mama)

More Napping...

A trip to the "old house"...

which is always a great memory
Which of course means a climb up the rock...

We got to hang out with our Tennessee cousins...

And Tennessee twins...

Playing in the creek...

More swinging...

And Daddy kisses...

A fourth of July parade, with snacks...

Look Alice, a wrecker!!!

We met our Virginia Cousins in Disney

and saw some Pirates

It was dark, Carson isn't high...

More cousins at the parade of lights...

We made some new friends...

and some funny faces...

A birthday Party...

And Carson got to knee board...

Callie got to dress up...

We rode Horses...

Even Callie had fun...

Carson learned to shoot...

He even hit some skeet...

More swinging...

More napping...

Everybody napped...

EVERYBODY napped...

More swinging...

More swimming...

Lots of swimming...

And of course Cheese Puffs...

It was HOT, so we had to stay cool...

(this one's for you Meg)

Staying cool...

See everyone can fit in the pool...

We coached soccer...

And played...

And watched...

And ran and scored and had tons of fun...

(3 goals that day!)

We had a first day of school...

Callie was sad she couldn't go...

Which meant the end of summer...

But that won't stop us from having fun...

(Big Smile)

Sex talking at the doc...

Carson has been complaining about his head hurting the last few day. Then he started saying his cheek hurt. His theory was that his headache had fallen down to his cheek. Then Monday, he was crying about his ears hurting. That was the sign that required a call to the Dr.

I had to the pleasure to escort both our kids to the Dr's office. It's not as bad as I make it sound. Aside from the guaranteed 1 hour wait, it's refreshing to see that my kids aren't as bad as I think they are. Since it is a pediatric care, they have a few toys to play with. After finally going back to the second waiting room I had the pleasure to now entertain my kids with no toys for another 30 minutes until the doc comes in. During this ever joyful experience, my children never fail to explore the land we call an examination table. And it never fails that Carson finds the wonderful stirrups. This is how our conversation went...

Carson: What are these Dad?

Me: They are what the Dr uses to check our...um...legs.

Carson:(climbing onto the table and placing his feet in them) Dad, check my legs.

Me: No, not like that, they are for Women.

Carson: Why

Me: (distracted by reading a book to Callie) Because of their private parts

Carson: You mean where they pee!?

(by the way, the walls are paper thin, and Carson has a hard time controlling his inside voice)

Me: Yes, it's so the Dr can check and make sure they are okay so they can have babies and other stuff.

Carson: What do you mean so they can have babies, where do they come from?

Me: (Crap) Carson, it's important that you understand this, but I don't think I want to tell you while we are sitting in the Dr's office when anyone can walk in on us and I am reading the little mermaid to Callie...

Carson: But Dad...

Me: No more...now put the stirrups away, they aren't toys...

Black Friday, How I Love/Loath thee...

My friend Jeff and I have been hanging out a lot lately. He won't admit to it, but we went to the Harry Potter Midnight showing. I'm a fan, he just loves movies and didn't have to work the next day.

We made our plans to hit up the sales on Friday. The plan was to go to Lowes and get some tools. I made the discovery that I could order my tools online the day before, not have to wait in line and just pick them up whenever I wanted to. Some of the stuff I wanted was not available so I ended up having to stand in line anyways. Our plans changed last minute when Jeff decided he wanted to go to Target, which opened at 4am.

3am...I pick up Jeff from his house
315...we pull up to Target and the line is wrapped around the store.
Jeff decides what he wanted wasn't all that important so we hit up Waffle House
330...We walk into a pretty crowded Waffle House. (should have been the first sign)
Put in our order as we notice the waitress and the cook are arguing off and on (second sign)
345...More arguing, escalating to yelling and swearing
We get our drinks(third and final sign)
More yelling, the cook finally walks out
346...Cook comes back because I guess he figured he didn't want to leave all the work to the other cook
More yelling and swearing
400...we get our food and eat in record time
Pay the bill and the entire strip club from down the street walks in (too bad I just tipped all my one dollar bills away)
415...we drive by Lowes and there is no on there so we decide to go to Target and see what we can get
450...We get everything we wanted, well Jeff did, all I wanted was tools, head to Lowes
500...get into Lowes, get all my tools, spend too much money
530...loaded up and heading home.
545...Drive by Best Buy, laugh at the idiots in line and go home to bed.
630...Home in Bed and Meagan wakes up to ask if I've left yet...silly women, I get my shopping eating and talking all done in record time, not all day long...

Good night..."daddy" well, never mind...