What's Up With Those Glasses?

Elaina, Elaina, Elaina......I can't figure this child out most days. Right now she's on a kick with some glasses from Halloween 2 years ago when Cade was a nerd. She wears them all.the.time. and she LOVES it.

 I feel like I really have to choose my battles with her since we are battling over something most every day. This one? I just decided to lose. You want to wear goofy glasses? Do it. Do it and own it. 

So she did. We were heading to the grocery the other day and I look in my rearview mirror and see this. Apparently they were in her sweatshirt pocket. Whatever. 

We're in the Kroger....

she's pushing her little cart and wearing her geek glasses like she's the boss. 

Well, glad she got THAT out of her system. Uh, no. Next day? Heading to the gym? Yep. The glasses. 

Hey, it makes her happy and when she's happy I'm happy. Some things you've just gotta roll with and I'm rollin' with the geek glasses. Word on the street is that it's the new trend with the tweeners and young girl crowd. 

See, turns out she's just fashion forward! 

Shoot 'Em Up!

I spent the first day of the new year hanging with this shady crowd shooting guns on some property we have in Columbia. It's never too soon to prepare for a zombie apocalypse so we wanted to make sure our marksmanship was on spot. 

Bobby shot trash and whatnot that was floating in the river. 

G was hangin' tough..

Bobby bought Rhett a little 410 rifle and he was SO excited to take it out and shoot it. 

I tried out Bobby's pistol and discovered that my aim was quite low. The boys were cracking up that whomever I was shooting was getting their tenders blown to smithereens. Boys...

Our littlest shooter got his ear protectors on and was ready to pop a cap in something.

With some help from his dad he was good to go! 

G, ready to roll.

Cade and Grant both are pretty good shots. They destroyed the water bottle targets we brought. 

Brian also found an old door on the side of the road and he brought it along for target practice. 

Burton got distracted and found it more interesting to pick up the bullet shells to use as finder adornment:)

We tried some skeet shooting too. I didn't.  I figured that if my shooting of a still object was less than optimal then shooting a moving target the size of my hand was going to be a no go. 

Burton wasn't the only one that got distracted. Grant used the skeet to make designs in the grass. 

Smiling, happy faces is what we had at the end of our shoot-a-thon. It's always fun to go out and do "boy things" and it's even more fun when you can do it with good friends! Bring on the zombies!