Happy Father's Day!

I know Father's Day is to honor the daddy's out there, but I sure do enjoy the good food that comes along with it!! We had a nice relaxing day. We slept late, had a good breakfast, swam, took a nice nap, swam some more and had yummy steaks for dinner! It was truly a great day.

You can just see the pure happiness on Gus' little face. I am so glad that he loves the water, however; he does not have very much fear. Please excuse the potty in the background.....potty training and that comes with the territory!

Lending a helping hand to Pops!

Salsa Sunchips are the bomb!!

And so is Pinki's homemade Guacamole! Down to the last bite!

Happy Father's Day, Jake! We love you and hope you had a great day! Thank you for all that you do for us to make our lives comfortable, fun, enjoyable and entertaining! You kick ass!!

A little entertainment by Gusley....he loves to wear "goooo-gles"!

Buttercup not very thrilled to be in Gus' pajama shirt, but I thought it was cute! The shirt says, "Can't Catch Me", which is very fitting for her!

Tent & Toddler - Day 2

I am not sure how this happened, but this should be between Tent & Toddler - Day 1 and Day 3, but it ended up here! Oh well, such is life. Our 2nd day camping was great. The weather was perfect. We slept great. Ate great. Went to 2 different parks several times. Felt like kids going down the slide over and over again! Swung. Played hard. Rode bikes. Smelled flowers. Went down to the beach area. Drove through the Bison and Elk Prairie. Gus made sure the entire campground heard him in the shower stall. Not screams of excitement and happiness. More likes shrieks of horror and terror. It was a simple cat bath (i.e. I wet the cloth wipe him with soap, rinse the cloth, wipe him and repeat.). HE NEVER GOT IN THE SHOWER, but you would swear I was holding him directly under it. Mommy needed a drink after the shower episode. Gus fell fast asleep. Jake hit the showers. I saw two skunks while he was gone. I stayed on top of the picnic table for about 20 minutes or so waiting for Jake to return. I was scared. We did not get sprayed. Jake and Gus were snoring their booties off while I lay wide awake listening to little rodents milling around our tent. I know we are in their territory, but still GO TO BED!

I do not have a picture, but 7 or so sites down from us was a 1990ish red Camaro pulling a kayak trailer loaded to the gills and each time it hit a speed bump it would bottom out. Well they decided to go for a joy ride WITH THE TRAILER at 10:55pm (quiet time begins at 11pm). I will leave it at that!

Tent & Toddler - Day 3

And on the third day...it began to rain! We knew it was going to rain so we had everything packed up and ready to go except the essentials and a change of cloths for each of us. It had rained on and off during the night, but we stayed high and dry in our tent. Gus was a trooper while we broke down the tent (thank goodness for iPhone apps because I forgot the charger to the laptop so....). After the car was packed we headed to the bath house for a quick rinse and we were off to over favorite little secret in Grand Rivers, Kentucky...Patty's 1880 Settlement Restaurant! The rain did not stop us from milling around the grounds and chasing the ducks!

We were greeted by this turkey!

The two ducks that got a run for their money as soon as Gus' feet hit the ground!

Driving that train, driving that train.....

Daddy's boy!

Mommy thought he would like it if the horse moved, so she put a quarter in....BAD, BAD MOVE!





I don't think the horse incident scarred him - this smile was shortly thereafter!

Headed to smell the daffodils!

Ahh, the sweet smell of a flower!

None of us could resist the home fried potato skin nachos, not even little mister picky eater!!

Or the homemade WARM bread in a flower pot!

Mr. Big Stuff drinking out of an adult glass!

Mile High Meringue Pie - Pinki and Pops' thank you for dog sitting. The stipulation was that we had to try a piece!! ;-)

What a great trip we had! We are looking forward to the next time we go. Always a nice laid back experience and lots of good food and tons of laughter!!

Tis the Season!!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!!!!

This Christmas will be Jake and I's 10th Christmas together!! I remember our first one like it was yesterday...we were in Kentucky and it snowed, a lot!! It was just beautiful! In ten years we have added one child and one dog, can't wait to see what the next 10 will bring!! Merry Christmas, Santa!!! Love you!

August Favorites

I will start this post by apologizing for the overload of pictures, but I am so far behind on the blog I figured this would be the best way to catch up. I have gone through the 100's of pictures I have for the month of August and chose my favorites to share on here. My pictures help me remember the sweet moments we share, whether it be just Gus and I, Jake and Gus, Jake and I or all three of us!!

The pictures are posted from the end of the month down to the beginning of the month. Once I started uploading I realized I was backwards....oh well!!!

This past Sunday we went with Amanda, Tyler and Endi to Jump Zone (an indoor spacewalk place) for open play. This was our first time with Gus and it is safe to say that we may be renting one of these for his birthday!! He had a blast. I did not get many pictures because the camera died due to us being at The Wiggles concert the day before, but I did manage to get a few!! I went with him down a few of the slides at first, but then he wanted to go by himself so I let him and Jake would catch him. He was beaming ear to ear and giggling all the way down!! I love this place and we will definitely be making this a habit...$7 per child and both parents are free and can jump in the spacewalks!!!!!!!!!!!! Jake and I felt like kids again! It was a great afternoon spent with awesome friends followed by a delicious ice cream at Baskin Robins! Can't ask for much more on a Sunday afternoon!

Coming off the slide!!

Our first trip down the slide!!!

Such a big boy in his seat drawing on his mini magnadoodle!

Uprooting Jake's dead ground cover that never made it in the ground!

So excited....The Wiggles show had just begun!

Pure Amazement!

First time drinking from a water fountain at Harvey Park on 08.28.09....needless to say we could not get him away from it!!

These days Gusley no longer needs one of us to slide with him. He prefers to do it all by himself! He will not refuse me if I am up there, but he will climb to the top and get in and go down before I can get to him! One word....INDEPENDENT!!

For once, he chose the "baby" swing!!

Me doing what I love to do....swinging!! Anytime I get a chance to jump on a swing I am on it!!

There was a beautiful rainbow while we were at the park. We could see both sides of it...but could not seem to find the pots of gold!! Shucks!

This is how Gus preferred his ice cream at Pinki's birthday dinner celebration!!!

Mom looking so lovely with her most favorite grandchild of all!!!!!

Gusley finding it very amusing to put his (clean) spoon in my hair!!

No Jake, I did not let him eat with it!

This is how we sleep once Jake gets up! I am thinking we could use a double king size bed!

Gus at the farm with Bonnie and Clyde!

And with Fiona who loves to have her belly rubbed!

Sitting like a big boy at Outback for dinner...mommy was craving a Wallaby Darned!

He would rather go up the slide than down!

Watching the dog show at the County Fair!

Pinki and Pops have an operator when Gusley is at their house! This is his spot!

Can I help you?

Kids night at Chick-fil-A.

The humongous cow cracked him up, but I could never get a picture of his face!

Marley and me!!

I love how he is pointing his little finger at me...telling me what to do at swimming lessons!

This is by far one of my favorite photos of these two!!!

Piggy back rides for Gus and Elmo!!!

Having fun in the backyard with his $1 rake!!

On the pulley at Pinkerton Park!!!

Fingers in the fountain at the Nashville Farmer's Market!!

As you can see, August was obviously a fun, busy month for us!!