Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Let's talk Branson, shall we?!?! What's Cooper looking at, you ask?
His brother and daddy on the go-karts..

To whom is she waving?

Her brother and mommy on the go-karts..

We had a great time on our trip to Branson. The first night we were there, we took the kids to one of those HUGE wooden go-kart tracks. We had a blast....the kids liked it too!! But, I really have to tell you all about one of the first things we laid eyes on when we got into Branson. Bear with me, this might get lengthy....

Ok...so we borrowed a GPS unit from Jamie's brother. It would tell us to "turn right" or "turn left". It wouldn't tell us " turn right on maple street" or "turn left on state street" just "turn right" or "turn left". So, we get into Branson and are desperately trying to find out hotel. The GPS tells us "turn right"..so, we did. We turned "right" onto a gravel drive way that went down so as we came over the top of the little hill, we were gazing upon one of Branson's finest TRAILER PARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yes. A trailer park right smack dab in town. It was a nice gravel driveway though. It had a cirlce turn around complete with a big tractor tire turned on its side, painted white with some booo-tiful flowers growing...Of course Jamie and I are doubled over laughing, the boys are laughing, and Rubye Ann has begun what would become a 5 day fit throwing fest. Now, I need to back track just a moment. We were already laughing at this next sight when we saw the trailer park, so it all became HYSTERICAL after that. As we were pulling into the gravel driveway, there is an old beat up caddy waiting to pull out. The driver was a little old lady. She could barely see above the steering wheel and she had her oxygen tank sitting in the front seat with her.(no doubt this was a car with a bench front seat) (do they make those anymore????)She had her oxygen tube around her and the canula was right under her nose. She even got dressed up for her outing....she had gotten her rouge and made some perfect little circles on her cheeks. After seeing this and then seeing the trailer park we were only to assume, that we made a wrong turn. So, after we turned around in the driveway, we were sitting behind her at the red light. It was taking FOREVER to change and I even commented on the fact we were having to sit so long. When all of a sudden, Granny punches the gas, sprays a bit of gravel and dust and takes off through the intersection. THE LIGHT WAS STILL RED FOLKS!!!!!!!!!! Evidently, Granny got fed up with sitting so long too, and took off. Jamie's comment was great: "Granny don't play..." After all that, I couldn't help singing "Holiday Road".
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Today was the first day of First Grade!!
As always, had to get the traditional picture in the kitchen..
I also thought it would be fun to take a quick look back.....so off we go..

First day of Kindergarten...

First day of Pre-K....
Here are my observations: 1. He seems to always pick the green shirt on the first day.
2. He's gettin' bigger....
3.
I don't like that...........
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Sorry, been absent for a week. No reason. School starts next week...be back then.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

More party pics....I'm suffering from writers block...so...here you have baby with beachball..

Baby very proud of self...

Birthday boy..

Birthday boy blowing out candles..

Riviting post wasn't it.....had you on the edge of your seat didn't I?!?!??
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Little Miss Independent ( get it?) showed up fashionably late. She slept in a bit then had to have her banana and do-nut!!

This was the best shot I could get of her with the crown on. She kept pulling it off as soon as I put it on her head. she wanted it on, but then she didn't want it on. Fickle little thing, she is!!

They hover over her constantly... Cooper was actually playing with her hair when I snapped this.


She's getting a closer look, trying to figure out her first move...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Cooper requested a rather easy theme this year!! I was more than happy to oblige!! A USA pool party. Can't get much easier than that!!

We had a bunch of these floating around..

I loved this pinata when I saw it...so did Cooper.

Ooogling the cake....
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Whew!! We are back. We had a great time, but are so glad to be back home!!
Before I share our vacation pics, I need to finish from Cooper's big day!!
At our house, we always do a birthday doughnut with a candle on the "real" birthday. Well, his "real" birthday was his party day too!! Lucky boy!!

Presents were next. He had asked for this a few times, but Jamie and I weren't sure we wanted him to have one yet. But, we knew it was what he wanted. So, instead of trying to find something else he MIGHT like, we went with what we KNEW he would like.

A Nintendo DS.
Haven't a clue what the DS means, but I do know this: HE LOVES IT!!
For those of you who may not know, Nintendo DS is a hand held video game console.

He also got several games to play. He has been having a blast and has not minded adhereing to our rules about playtime.
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