Camping!

Some friends of ours went camping this weekend at Hawkins reservoir, and we went up yesterday to hang out with them. Wade had a ton of fun playing in the water! Chuck wanted to go to dinner and a movie for our anniversary so Wade stayed there while we went out. It sounded like he had a lot of fun roasting marshmallows with them!

Playing on the dock with dad!

Treyton, Trenton, and Ashley

Sandy (aka: Best babysitter EVER!) and Wade!

Both my boys LOVE the water!

So does Trey!

Yes, that's my crazy dog way out there!

Wade has a bad mommy that forgot his swim suit, so he played in his undies!

Odd's and Ends!

Just some new and cute stuff from the last week or so!

Not really sure what the chair was for!

He had so much fun!

Wade playin' in the sprinkler!

My million dollar hair! Ok, so it wasn't a million, it was only a hundred, but i sure love it! It's the first time i've been blond in a LONG LONG time!

Wade likes to go potty standing up....until he slips and falls in and gets his sock all wet! LOL!

Driving with dad!

Sleepy baby!

Belly pics!

Here's me at 24 weeks (6 months). I dont really look it, but i feel about as big as a cow already! Only 15 more weeks!!!



Wade just HAD to be in the pictures! lol! Then he wanted to give the belly kisses!

Ugh....i knew my butt was getting big, but these pics made me notice how chunky my FACE looks! lol!

Here's the profile ultrasound of the little ninja. I swear he's got Chuck and Wade's double chin!! LOL!

Wade has an invisible tiger!

I really wasn't expecting the invisible friend stage to start for a while yet, but apparently, my son has his dads imagination! He usually plays like he's a lion, jumping up the stairs on all fours, and that sort of thing. But today, he was upstairs playing in his room and all of the sudden he comes tearing down the stairs, jumps on the couch with me and is trying to hook a bungee cord he had to the chair that was in front of him, all the while saying "tiger comin". He was in a PANIC because he couldn't get the bungee cord to work right!! He kept asking me to help him and got really frantic when i just laughed at him. He had tears in his eyes and everything saying the tiger was coming! I have NO idea what the hooking the bungee to the chair had to do with the tiger coming, but it was critical apparently! So i finally helped him hook it up and he calmed down. I asked him where the tiger was and he told me "upstairs".

Then later, when i was getting him ready for a bath he FREAKED out because he wanted "tiger" to come with him!!! I asked him where tiger was again, and he told me upstairs but he wanted him to get in the tub with him. So i told him "tiger" was upstairs sleeping. That seemed to satisfy him for a while. Then after his bath he ran around yelling for "tiger".... runs to me and says "Tiger comin'!!" Every...Two....Minutes. I really wanted that tiger to come so i could tackle him and tie him up.

So then i tell him it's time to go to bed. He reminds me, once again, that tiger is upstairs. I say "Fine, it's time to go to bed with tiger". We get upstairs in his room and he asks where tiger is. I point in his bed and say "He's sleeping right there!". He looks at me like i am INSANE.....shakes his little head and says "Noooo". It's amazing how dumb a two year old can make you feel with just a look on his face.....anyways, i ask him if tiger is sleeping outside with Mocha and Trip. He says YEP! And lays his crazy little head down.

Ay yi yi....i really hope i dont get 2am wake up calls about this "Tiger".......

The naughty file

My little boy is CONSTANTLY into something naughty. I've decided to quit yelling and start taking pictures. Yelling does absolutely nothing except make him grin at me, and some of the crap he gets himself into actually IS kind of funny, so it makes my life a little easier! Here's a few pics of my baby being naughty!


He's tall enough to reach everything on the counter now. And apparently doesn't understand what "NO more cookies" means....


See mom, i ate all your chocolate cake! Then dumped the crumbs on the floor! Then licked the plate!

Kind of proud of himself for being so smart to think to climb on his rocking horse to get in the window sill.

Why, YES mom! I AM trying to break my neck, as a matter of fact!

Notice the shirt says "I didn't do it!!" I don't even remember what he was acting so innocent for...And what is it about little boys that makes them put their boots on the wrong feet EVERY time? And dont ask why he never has pants on. I really have no idea what he has against them!

And then he looks at me like this.....and what am i supposed to do but snuggle him up and give him kisses??

And Newt makes FOUR!!!

Could someone please tell me how i went from one single very well behaved dog to a pack of crazy pain in the butt hooligans???? Seriously....

Meet Copper. She's a black and tan hound/blue tick hound mix. Very sweet girl, great with Wade and apparently loves to hunt. We kind of wonder if she likes to chase deer more than bears, but we'll see. She really does have a face you cant help but love! No mind that we went about 400 freakin miles ONE WAY to get her....


This little bundle of big feet, bigger ears and even BIGGER bark is Newt. He's a 4 month old red tick hound cross. He really is a doll, loves Wade to death already, but barks even louder than Copper. Keep in mind, these are hound dogs, they dont bark like normal dogs.....thank GOD we have 5 acres so they can be FAR away from the house!

So this little kennel of ours just keeps getting bigger! If you remember correctly, we just got another border collie pup not too long ago. Mocha is the biggest pain of all of them. I was counting on getting another border collie like Trippers, but no, she's stubborn as a mule and as mischevious as Wade.....

WHY do we have all these dogs all of the sudden, you ask? When i was content having the two we had to breed and sell pups from. Well let me tell you a story. Chuck went hunting. We have a couple friends that have dogs they run on bears and mountain lions and coons. Chuck just went along for fun but fell in LOVE with it. So here we are with FOUR freakin' dogs. Did i mention that the GPS tracking system we need for these dogs so they don't get their butts lost when they hunt is around $500 bucks?? Not to mention the shock collars we're going to need to train them.

It's a good thing i love that man.......