Fourth of July weekend!

Fourth of July fell on a Wednesday this year, so the weekend before Chance and I went to his parents for their Fourth of July party. We had a lot of fun. His parents cooked out, we swam, played washers, played horse shoes and best of all....set off fireworks! They live outside city limits so it's totally legal...unlike when we do fireworks in my parent's back yard ;)

The pictures that were taken during the day are on his mom's camera, so I will get those from her.

 

These are some of the desserts a family friend made. Perfect for Fourth of the July!!

Ethan's 5th Birthday!

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY ETHAN!

For Ethan's birthday this year we celebrated the Friday before at my parent's house. My mom always decorates so cute. For his birthday, the colors were orange and green.

 

These are the cutest cupcakes! This one is covered in fruity pebbles.....a great cupcake for a 5 year old!

 

Present time! His favorite time!

 

He didn't care much for the clothes....what kid does?!

 

His favorite gift, from Pops and GiGi. We all had to take turns riding this outside!

You may notice that Ethan is riding around on concrete...that would be because in the middle of the night my mom heard a noise downstairs and when she got to the bottom step of the stairs, she was standing in water. A pipe broke in the half bath downstairs and flood the house, and ruined their real hardwood floors. People had to come out and put fans in the walls to dry the walls since the water was that high. So sad :(

Fishing with Rylee and Chance

Chance and I went over to my MiMi and Granddad's house to fish in the pond behind their house. Rylee's mission was to scare all of the fish and swim all day!

 

Fishin' buddies!

 

Every time he would cast his lure, Rylee would jump in the water and try to get it. He was trying to fish....Rylee just wanted to swim and play!

 

Little ducks going into my MiMi's yard to eat the corn that they lay out!

 

Rylee just wanted to be in the middle of everything. She was checking out her dad's lures!

 

Patiently waiting to get the go ahead and be able to jump in the water

 

Rylee fetched this HUGE piece of wood out of the water. I had to help her pull it out of the water!

Ranger Game with Chance

Chance took me to a Ranger game and I was so excited. I hadn't been all season! I love the Rangers!

The night before, Chance went to a game with a friend and Josh Hamilton threw a ball up in the crowd and Chance caught it. After he looked back up at Hamilton, he was giving him the thumbs down because he wanted Chance to give the ball to the little girls next to him. So.....Chance (being the nice guy that he is) gave the ball to the little girls. And then I'm sure Chance wanted to cry. So the next night when we were there together we were hoping it would happen again, but it didn't :(

Our seats were behind home plate and a little towards first. We were about 25 rows up. GREAT SEATS!

 

The Texas Rangers played the Tigers and won Ran7-5, yipee!

A great weekend!

Friday night I met Stacey, Tiffany and Krystle  and some other friends out at Love and War. We listened to Mark David Manders, Mark Shelton and Jake Bays. It was a lot of fun!

Saturday I went home to hang out with my mom and also so she could make me some of her famous chicken dip. I wanted to serve it Sunday for when Mycah and Josh came over. When I arrived I saw a gift that was wrapped in the kitchen, she said it was mine and when I opened it I was SO excited. She bought me a food processor so now I can make my own chicken dip!

My mom has always wanted a "wrapping area/closet" so we pulled everything out of the closet in my old room. This is the before picture.

And this is the after! Now she has a wrapping area with all of her gift bags, gift tags, tissue paper, etc.

 

Sunday afternoon my mom and I ran some errands and then I rushed home to get ready for our BBQ. Chance and I had Mycah and Josh over so we could catch up and I wanted Mycah to meet Chance since they never have met. We also wanted Chance and Josh to meet since they haven't either! It was a lot of fun. Mycah and I did a lot of talking, the food was great and the guys grilled out and talked the whole time!

After dinner I was walking Mycah, Josh and Roxie (their dog) to the car and I saw a girl walking with a baby raccoon. I really wanted to hold it...after she told me she had taken it to get her rabies shot! So here it is:

She said there is a 50/50 chance on whether or not they will go crazy when they get bigger. Personally, I wouldn't take that chance!

Overall, this weekend was so much fun! I love my family and best friends! :)

Father's Day 2012!

Father's Day Weekend was so great. My family went down to the property (minus Stacey, Jason and Jaxon) and we played around, rode the four wheeler, ate ribs that my dad made, and made a campfire! 

These are a few pics from when we went to the pond

Once we got back to the home base area we ate and hung out.

 

The boys had a lot of fun walking Rylee!

Mom and Daisy!

The bonfire that night



 

Sunday morning we woke up and had a great big breakfast with the family.

After breakfast Mandy, my mom and I took the boys to Dinosaur World and had a blast. They loved it!

Ethan put his hands around his eyes since he didn't have sunglasses, haha. This kid cracks me up!

Digging for treasure! They brought home some dinosaur teeth.



I jumped across the rope so I could get a good picture with T-Rex. So against the rules! What kind of role model am I?!

I let the boys jump over the rope as well...because I'm the cool fun aunt! ;)

Koi fish in the pond

Sunday after Dinosaur World Chance and I headed back home. Once we got there we had to pack another bag and head to his parent's house to spend time with his father.

On Monday we swam in the pool all day. His uncle Kevin was in town and we spent a lot of time with him as well!

Tuesday night we went bowling since it's $2 bowl night. We had so much fun. Unfortunately, I'm not the best bowler and this night I did exceptionally BAD!

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL DADS!