Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Dirt Mustache's Say It All

I absolutely love this picture! If you enlarge the picture you can see that each have a great dirt mustache and so did I at this point I am sure. These kids had so much fun camping at the dunes for Spring Break. Their dirt mustaches tell the story......... GOT DIRT?

Seriously Hunter

What can I say.................Hunter is a character! He came up with this flying getup all on his own. Love the goggles............."so no bugs will get in his eyes when he flies" of course.
He had a fun time pretending to fly around.
I love that Hunter is a stuffed animal kid. He has several special stuffed animals he sleeps with and loves to take with us. I love it! The sock monkey is a nice touch.
Then he needed to have Browny Bear as well. He insisted on Sock Monkey having some leaves to "help them fly."
Hunter has quite the imagination! I love to see my kids using their imaginations.

Monday, March 29, 2010

This is what campin' is all about......

The rules are quite different when your camping, at least they are for us. It is 8:00 a.m. in this picture and yes the kids are having Popsicles. When we're out camping all we are trying to accomplish that day is having a good time together.............so I say bring on the Popsicles. The kids think it wonderful! Hunter asked, "Mom can we camp outside our house so we can have Popsicles for breakfast at home?" He is dang clever, but no not going to happen. Love it!

Moore Friends....

We had Moore friends come out and stay. Hal and Stacy Moore and their 4 boys came out Tuesday evening. Their three oldest boys stayed the night with us and we brought them home the next night. The kids were so excited to have friends stay the night. I am a mean mom and I don't allow sleepovers, so the kids were beyond excited to have the Moore's stay the night. Justin was giving Brenner a ride.
Then out of no where we were under attach from some WILD MEN!
They are quite the crazy three musketeers! Kaden, Kendall and Hunter!
That evening after dark I took all the kids, minus Mr. Grant to the Hot Wells. There was only one old guy in the hot tub and it is a dang good thing he was drunk. Those kids tried for the first maybe 5 minutes to be calm, but after that it's like they all heard the same voices inside their heads saying, "We are now having a contest to see who can make the biggest splash.............so try anything you can swim, jump, do a bomb anything, just start splashing!!!"
It was quite comical actually. The guy was quite drunk which turned out to be a good thing. His tolerance level was pretty high because he was kinda on a high. He started calling me Bec and asked me 20 times how many kids I had with me. He was very nice and laughed a lot. It was crazy and next time I am sending Justin with all those kids to the hot tub for sure.
Kaden.............he is a great kid.
Kaden, Hunter and Kendall heading out for a ride. Hunter LOVED having the Moore boys there. He felt so big getting to go on rides without a grown up. I just have to say a little prayer every time they head out. I know it's good for them to grow up and become more responsible. But that means letting them have experiences to actually become more responsible and that's the scary part. They did wonderful following the rules on the quad. Hunter is really great when it comes to treating the quad like a machine that can hurt you and not just a toy.
There they go...........and this is when I begin to pray!
Now these two four year olds are quite the pair. They can giggle and laugh like no others! Brenner is so tall compared to Logan............it makes Logan look like a midget.
These two loved making Mr. Grant laugh and Mr. Grant loved it just as much!
Oh the craziness!
Silly, silly boys!
They are the same age, Brenner is a couple of months older. Brenner will be a great friend to have forever...........he can beat up all the bullies for Logan.
I love Brenner putting his hand over his face. He had had enough of my comments I guess.
What a cutie! Both of my boys!

Dancin' Fools

The girls had a ball dancing to the blasting music. It was nice to be able to blare the music without worrying about bothering anyone else. No one was camped very close to us this trip. Kiersten, Maranda and Melanie put on quite the show for us! I have to admit I got out there several times and cut a rug with them! It's fun to act crazy/silly with your kids and their friends. I have over heard the kids friends say a couple of times that they wished their parents would act silly like me. My kids will probably be embarrassed someday about me acting that way, but for now it's a hit!

Friends Came.....YIPPEE

We were so excited for some of our friends to come visit us on Tuesday of Spring Break. First the Smith's came. The kids had fun riding with their friends and once again shared the quads quite well. This is my little buddy Ashley! Hunter and his bud, Chase.
Jason was holding Mr. Grant for me. Jason is such a great little daddy. He is so good with kids!
Tressie and Jason. We had fun visiting and watching the kids ride. The men went on a few rides but I couldn't talk Tressie into taking a ride. She did finally drive the quad down the main road but she insisted on going by herself. She is so funny!
Chase, Hunter and Jason. It was great for Jason to get out and ride. We always joke with him that he fakes being blind. In all seriousness, you wouldn't know he was blind he does so much easily. Thanks for coming out and adding to our fun. We love the Smith's and always have stories to tell after camping with them.

Born To Ride

This was Mr. Grant's first Dune trip and his very first ride on the Quad. He LOVED it!!! If you enlarge this picture you can see what a true smile he has.............it's too cute! The next day on one of the rides I took Mr. Grant on it totally wore him out. The ride just rocked him to sleep!
He is OUT! It was so cute to see Mr. Grant get so excited and start kicking his legs when I would take him on a ride. He was BoRn To RiDe.......................it's in his blood!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Big Dune

The kids had a ball riding up and down the big dune. It's nothing compared to Butter Cup dunes but you have to take what you get. The kids don't care they just want to be out riding. They almost like our dunes better because they can go out on trail rides it pairs or groups without a grown up. They did a good job of staying close to camp. This is Hunter having his turn at the big dune. Hunter is a great rider!
Kiersten is getting too big too fast. I love having a girl and sharing in all her girly things. I also love that she is well rounded enough to love camping, riding quads, getting dirty but in the next breath love the pink frills of a cute outfit.
Kiersten
This is Cambry and she was so shocked that I was going to let her ride up the big dune. I told her there is only one way to learn and that is to do it. She has no fear so it wasn't a problem! She did great! I was fun to see the excitement on her face when she came down that first time and gave me the thumbs up!
Way to go Cam!
Kaely Sue did fabulous. We did have one incident where she rolled to quad while on a trail ride. But she just jumped back up and kept riding. Thank goodness no one got hurt and it was nothing but a good time!
Kaely loved the whoop di dos.
Kaely and Cambry
Justin chillin' with sweet Mr. Grant
WOW look at those guns! These two little boys put on quite the gun show for us. They were so cute.
Doyle was so shocked that we would let him ride up and down the big dune. He asked me, "Will my Mom be mad at you when she finds out you let me?" I told him, "If she is I'll let her punch me in the stomach one time!" He thought that was so funny!
What a big Kid!
Hunter enjoying his turn at the big dune!
The kids had such a fun time riding up and down the dune. It was nice weather and there were hardly any people there which made it nice.