Boom's Day Extravaganza Jubilee

This is the most patriotic picture I could get of the boys. I am not sure what is going on with Grant's hair........ We had some friends over for dinner and then more friends came for the festivities. Bobby turns into a 12 year old anytime fireworks are being sold. He bought several for the finale but I didn't get any on film.

Rhett got to semi-hold his first sparkler this year. He was loving 4th of July. He hung with all the big kids and even stayed up until 9:45 before his meltdown! All the kids stood on the road and watched some of the street fireworks.

"Wow. Cool." were some of the words that Rhett was using that night. I'm sure he learned those from his brothers. We had a great time with everyone. Until next year!!

Buddy Mugs

We have spent some time at the t-ball field lately and I just caught a couple snapshots of Cade and Grant and their buddies. Above is Grant and one of his best buds Cavin (Cabin in Grant's words).
Cade and Cade.............yes, I know. His mother and I both thought we were going to be original. They always call each other by their first and last name. These are some fierce t-ballin' boys. You can see the top of the ears on their uniforms............The team name? MiniMules...............dear me. I obviously wasn't on the team name committee. I am, however, grateful for a sponser.

Famous Last Words...........

"Rhett, DO NOT get in the mud..........." I go inside for ONE minute and Bobby calls me from his cell phone (no comment) to let me know that MY son (he's taking no claim) has gone straight for the mud. This is what a little rain does for the nice area left over from the infamous dirt we had. I now need crime scene tape to rope it off until we can plant some grass. Oh well, boys will be boys......

"'Wait a minute............how'd that get there?" I have been lax about posting because our days have been less than interesting lately. We are currently doing VBS at church and the boys are having a good time. We are all going to be exhausted at the end of the week. Cade is dying to get back to the pool. We haven't been able to go this week because VBS takes up our usual block of swim time and then we have had afternoon thunderstorms the last two days. Thank goodness for a little rain though!

Let's Hit the Pool!

The big boys took swim lessons this week. It was Cade's third year to go and Grant's first. As I stated earlier, Grant's philosophy was "I don't even need to go to 'fwim' lessons. I don't even know how to 'fwim' ". Well, he went and he actually enjoyed it. The first day he was a little hesitant but after that he just ran right down there with Cade. Cade practiced his "pencil" jump,
learned how to dive, and tread water. By the end of the week he was doing flips under water and really swimming great.
Grant came out of his shell. Last Sunday when we went to the pool he would not even jump into the water with Bobby a foot away to catch him. He was forced to change his mind this week!
This is Grant doing a little underwater "fwimming". He was so proud of himself!
The people that coached him said he was the happiest kid they had ever seen. One said, "he could sink all the way to the bottom and when you pulled him up he would just be smiling from ear to ear!". That's my boy.......the happy drowning victim. At least he'd go with a smile.............................. I was seriously impressed, as usual, after leaving there. I can't wait until Rhett can go. He won't be old enough again next year but after that he's getting in on the action. In the meantime we'll get aquainted with the water in our neighborhood pool. I'm already longing for the days that I can go and actually relax at the pool and not play lifeguard (literally) to a brood of preschoolers!

The Most Beautiful Sight..............

A loader, picking up all of the dirt........... A dumptruck, hauling it away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a wonderful noise to wake up to this morning. We are chalking this up to a lesson learned..........a very expensive lesson nontheless!

Welcome to Turner Field!

This past week Bobby and I drove to Atlanta to take in a few baseball games at Turner Field. The Braves were playing the Florida Marlins. We were among VERY few Marlins fans. Chris went with us to all the games but, as usual, has not made it into any pics. Thanks Chris for using your "smart phone" to catch some images!
We have a good buddy that plays second base for the Marlins. It was nice to get to see him and chat a little. We also caught up with some other fellow "Columbians" and his wife and son. The road trip was a lot of fun but I must admit after sitting through 3 games I was pretty baseballed out. Not to mention that the third game was in the blazing sun. Thank heaven for sunscreen! Tune in later this week for some pics from swim lessons. Grant keeps trying to convince me that he doesn't need to go to swim lessons because quote, " I don't even know how to swim!". Someone is missing the point..................

Praise Jesus!

It's the weekend!!!