Saturday, August 21, 2010

Happy 65th Birthday Pops

Did I mention how great Megan and Joe are?  They invited Babe and Pops over to spend tonight and celebrate Pops’ 65th birthday.

Before they got there – we pried the kids off of the couch away from Dora and went to the park.

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This was no “ordinary” park.  Full on ducks, fishing, jungle gym and water park.

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When we got back – Babe & Pops were there!  We immediately busted out the presents!

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Then we hit the pool :)

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Conlee is still in the “no hands on me” swim mode!

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Love, love, love my Daddy more than I can say.  Happy Birthday Dad!

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They have an amazing blow up slide.  I still can’t figure out how this happened, but when all of the adults got out of the pool the kids decided to go WILD!

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Holt and Crawford went down together.

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Yes, that is Crawford jumping into the pool – with no PARENT in the water.  He thought he was BIG time.

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We had an un-invited guest try to join the party – a butterfly.  This is all of us on the table trying to catch it.  Gracie finally got it!

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Megan was so sweet – she baked Pops a strawberry cake for his birthday.

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Creative direction by Holt and Crawford!

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I hope Pops had 1/2 the amount of fun I did!  I was so proud of Crawford, he spent both nights on Holt’s trundle.  He’s such a big boy doing a sleep over.  I love my family and I love my friends – life is wonderful.

Friday, August 20, 2010

A visit to J-town

The Garmon summer tour continues.  We packed up the kids (who are wonderful in the car after all of the travels) and headed to Jonesboro to visit the Spades.

I looked back at one point and this is what I found…

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The Spades’ is like the Disney World of Eastern Arkansas to my kids!  Thank goodness they have room because we had 2 – 21 month olds, 1- 31/2, 1- 5 yr old, 1- 8 yr old.  When we got there Holt and Gracie were in school.  Crawford got to ride with us to pick up Holt from his first day of Kindergarten!

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When Gracie got home – we decided to take the Ranger out for a spin.  Conlee and Stella thought they’d get to take their own out!

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We had a full ride.  Gracie rode in the back.  Joe even let Crawford drive.  He was so happy.

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Nothing better than clean babies!

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I’m not sure I should post the next couple.  We literally allowed the kids to jump off of Holt’s bed – time and time again.  Thankfully no injuries were incurred!

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The “best” group shot we could get!

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Did I mention that we had cookies before and during the jumping bonanza???

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The men who put up with it all.

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I’m so thankful for great friends and great hospitality!