So much to blog about, so little time.....

I feel like I am SLACKING on my posts lately...oh wait, I have been. Summer has  just been so full of fun and activities that time is lacking.  What will I post about next?

• Vacation to Florida?
• NKOTB concert with my girls?
• Weekend at the lake?
• School starting soon?
• My new job?
• The upcoming football/fall baseball season that includes 4 practices in one week? (WHAT WERE WE THINKING?)

Oh I know, it's all so exciting and I know my readers will all be on pins and needles to see what is next!!!

Go America! It's Your Birthday!

We had a super fun 4th of July weekend! We are usually at the lake (Dale Hollow) for the weekend but my stepdad's family had a reunion here in town so we couldn't go this year.  Instead we packed the weekend full of events with family and friends! 

Friday we took our kids to gamble for the first time.  What a memorable moment......when we first let our kids bet on horses.  Before you freak out, we just let the oldest (7 years old) bet....that's better right?

Saturday we had a cookout at my house with a friend we haven't seen in A REALLY LONG TIME...years..decades....okay not decades, but years.  It was actually a group that brought Todd and I together, and how we met.  If I remember that at the time, I could have made a toast.  Okay, not really.

Sunday we went to Benny's 5th birthday party at a splash park.  The boys had a great time-they played a really fun alien game that Ben's family (Aunt, Uncle and Grandpa) dressed up as aliens.  AWESOME. Then friends of ours invited us to their culd-e-sac party.  Food, drinks, fireworks (LOTS of fireworks), friends.  Can't beat it!

Monday (the 4th) we went to the local minor league baseball game that ended in fireworks.  We went with a couple of friends and their families and camped out on the lawn. The kids played, the adults talked and enjoyed ice cold draft beer and we may have watched the game.  Wait, there was a game?

All around, the weekend rocked!  However, it took me days to get over so much activity...does that mean I am getting old? 

Don't you wish YOUR husband had this AWESOME outfit?  It was even better when he was bending over to put the pools together in the yard.  W-O-W

I wish Emily had made it into this picture a littele better, but here we are hanging together after seriously 6 years of seeing Ben. Good times.

Oh ya, I made Gigi and Claire matching dresses for 4th of July. 

Claire was cheering for the fireworks, it was great!

Ya, they weren't messing around when it came to fireworks.  They were there to play.

Another shot of Bear and her cute dress. Wonder who made that??

My babes at the game!

Marc & Dawn

Mark & Matt

Dee & MaKayla

F bomb on the playground!!!

I am not sure if this is one for the "baby book" but my 7-year-old learned the "F" word this week.  It would have happened sooner or later.  You can't keep them from learning that information, I was just hoping that once he had the information, he would make good choices with it.  But no, not so much. 

Tay was at the playground with friends and there was a 4th grader with him.  He saw the word on the slide and told Taylor to say it.  So, Taylor read what it said but didn't know it was a real word, so was confused.  Then the boy said "aww, you said a bad word".  So, Taylor tells me later that he learned a bad word today and can he whisper it in my ear.  So, I let him.  Trust me people, hearing the innocent voice of your 7-year-old say that "F" word in your ear is not pleasant.  It made me cringe.  I proceeded to calmly tell him that is a bad word, it is not to be said and I don't ever want to hear him say it again.  He says "I didn't even know that was a word.  Do normal people like you and daddy say that word?"  Ahem. No.  I've never said that word.  Ever.  Ahem.  Or something like that.......Which is the truth, I don't say that word.  Unless I am going for "extra classy".

So fast forward to today while a friend is watching the kids while I am at the Dr.  I come home to find out that Taylor decided this new naughty word was just too much for him to keep a secret.  He had to make his friend say it too.   So, he did the same thing to his friend as the older boy did to him; told him to say the "F" word and then told him it was a bad word.  My nephew, whom I am sure has heard that word more than his fair share of times, came screaming outside that this horrible word was said.  And he did not censor himself, he was screaming F...F...F...F....like somehow it is okay to say if he is tattling. It was like a dream come true that he was able to tattle on someone for saying this.....

Needless to say, Taylor got to experience the taste of soap in his mouth as I made him hold soap on his tongue for a minute.  When he was finished....he said "That was so painful!  Next time, can you please just ground me from Wii for a week?". 

No, because there won't be a next time!!!!  Next time, you get to eat the whole bottle of soap.