fun filled weekend...

I just got done going through 300+ pictures from our weekend. Yes, I love my new camera.

First, Uncle Ryan and Uncle Marcus were both in town. And of all those 300+ pictures, not one with Michael and either one of them! Seriously...what was I thinking? Michael did enjoy seeing them and showing off all of his new tricks.

Saturday, Michael got to meet Bo and Ellie. Their daddy grew up here and they were in town visiting grandparents. It was fun to see them and play with them. They are precious children.


Then, Juice came on Saturday afternoon and Pa came on Sunday morning. Michael had a super fun time with them. He got to blow big bubbles outside, help plant flowers and most importantly, he got to show them his park!!!!!

This picture cracks me up....check out how they are sitting...








'Helping' take flowers to the backyard to plant....

And after a long hard day of playing and planting flowers, it's always nice to enjoy a good snack while swinging with Grandma and Granddaddy...

3 times in less than 14 months....

Tuesday (April 20), I had a hair appointment after school, so daddy was going to pick up Michael from Anna's house. Derek called me as I was pulling into Hobbs and said that Anna had called him. Michael has hurt his arm and she wanted him to come look at it. So I went ahead and drove to my appointment. As I was pulling into the hair salon, Derek called again.

In less than 14 months, Michael has been to the ER three times!! Wow. Derek said knew Michael had done something to his arm...break or something, so he was going to take him to the ER. I turned right around and headed back. After driving like a mad crazy, scared momma, I finally got to the ER to hear a screaming baby. Evidently, he and Anna were playing in 'his' room at her house. He reached down to pick up a toy and lost his balance. He tried to catch himself and hold onto the pack-n-play and twisted his arm.

After some X-Rays to determine that it wasn't broken, the doctor knew his elbow was dislocated. He called it nursemaids elbow. After pulling and twisting it back into place, Michael was good to go! It was amazing. He had cried and screamed for over an hour and within five minutes after putting it back into place, he was waving bye bye and reaching for the sucker.

So, needless to say, I didn't get my hair done and Michael is as good as new now! I didn't take any pictures in the ER, but I've taken some in the last few days...

loving his chinese food...


hottie...

i heart this boy...

loving grandma...

first photography 'job'

I've always loved taking pictures and believe me, I've taken a few over the years. I love looking at pictures, editing pictures, taking pictures....everything. I was asked by one of my students to take some pictures of her and her boyfriend before Prom. Ok, so I've never taken pictures for anyone else before....just for me. Nervous? Yes. I looked online to get ideas, because I'm not good at telling people how to pose. I found some great ideas from all sorts of different people.

They were too much fun to take pictures of. I hope it's what she had in mind. Here are a few of my favorites...




And it's always nice to have a best friend come to help....

look mom! look what i found...

This is a cool rock....but it has legs that come out....and a head that pops out....it moves.....it's not a rock! It's a turtle!!!

We must set Mr. Turtle free.....

michael's new park

Michael has recently discovered 'his' park. Luckily the school playground, aka "Michael's park" is just a block away. We've been wanting to go down there and play. We didn't really know how well he would do climbing and not falling off, etc.

We finally got to try it out the other day when my college roommate, Amanda brought her two boys to play for the day. Reese is four and Cooper is 18 months. Michael and Cooper will be in the same grade....now if we can just get them to move here so they can be in the same school....hummm. And let me just say, the climbing was no big deal! That boy was all over the playground...lovin' life!





And since we had so much fun playing with Reese and Cooper, we had to go back that evening to show daddy our new cool 'park'.




So who wants to come play!?!?