Summer fun

Ok, I know it's been a while. We've been pretty busy around here. I wanted to give everyone a quick update.

We started off the summer with Girl Scout camp. Hailey & I stayed two nights at Camp Kanawahala. We had a great time! The girls did swimming, canoeing, archery, low ropes, climbing wall and lots of crafts.

Tyler had wrestling camp for a week in June. Now they're doing wrestling workouts three nights a week. He's working on dropping a few pounds so he can wrestle in a lower weight class. He loves it!

Hailey and I went to Nashville for a weekend for the CMA Music Festival. My sister in law Kristi went with us. We saw Lady Antebellum, Kid Rock, Luke Bryan, Jake Owen, Jason Aldean, and a few more. It was awesome!

We've been going to the pool a few times a week. While Kay and Ron (my in-laws) were out of town Randy had a sunbathing deck put up by their pool. I'll post a picture of this. It was their anniversary/father's day surprise. With 9 kids plus adults they needed more deck space around the pool.

We just returned from Orange Beach on Sunday. We took Kay, Logan and Molly (my nephew and niece) with us. We had beautiful weather! The boys stayed in the Gulf most of the time. Molly spent half her time digging in the sand, the other half in the water. Hailey stayed in the sand most of the time until Saturday when we finally got her in with a boogy board. She loved it and was a water bug after that. Sadie liked the sand, didn't care for the water. We ate a lot of good food (my scale reflected that when I got home) and had a great time!

So that's it in a nutshell. I'm posting a variety of pictures. Hopefully I'll post again before the end of summer!

Chain of Command

Tyler frequently babysits Sadie for us. He's very good with her and says she behaves very well for him. He may be giving her everything she wants, but that's part of being a big brother, right? Well, Randy told Sadie that Tyler is the boss. So if you ask Sadie who Tyler is she responds "the boss". He's now taught her who mom and dad are too. If you ask her who mom is she says "the CEO". When you ask her who dad is she says "he's just the worker".

I took Hailey, Sadie and my niece Macy to the pool yesterday afternoon. Sadie was through swimming after about an hour. She climbed up in the chair with me and as we were talking she said, "Mommy, I don't wanna get big. I wanna stay little." There are sweet moments like that when I wish the same thing, that she would just stay little.