In June we hit my friend Jennifer's ranch near Mountain Home. It's always loads of fun; so much so that I think I had time to grab my camera for like 2 or 3 shots total. As always we ate superb food, had time at the Nueces River, some exotic animal sight seeing (although Rhett swears he saw a koala?), and of course, the dance. 80's themed this year if you couldn't already tell by my awesome get-up.
Father's Day weekend, Rhett and Porter entered their canoe in our Landa Park boat parade. Rhett wanted a shark boat, so porter hammered away at a chicken wire frame. We wrapped that puppy in foil like it was nobody's business and then painted a little jaws face right then there- and that Landa Park Shark came in 2nd place! Nevermind that they were the only non-motorized vessel on the lake or one of three entries, they won lots of prizes and made the paper! Best Fathers Day Ever!
Our backyard has been home to many impromptu play dates. This seems to help us beat the heat. Especially when they occur after breakfast and involve some sort of water. Anything after 11 am and kids start to melt. Mothers start to get angry.
I hope my friend Holley forgives me for that picture. Well worth it: a few days later she gave birth to her beautiful baby girl!
And the book fair of 2011 must go down in blog history. After a few minutes of browsing our annual library book sale, my 2 1/2 year old son comes back with two chapter books: both on the civil war.
You can take the boy out of the south but you can't take the south of the boy. We named him "Rhett," for goodness sake!
This is Randi and I back when we didn't have to be responsible for children and sippy cups. Porter often jokes that she and I were cut from the same mold. Not sure what he is talking about.
