Grandma's 80!

It is so hard to believe my grandma is 80 years old!  I remember going to my great-grandparent's 80th birthday parties just like it was yesterday...then I stop and think about it and I wasn't much older than Xavier when they had their 80th birthdays.  Unbelievable how fast time flies by!

Grandma & Grandpa with 4 of their Great Grandchildren

 

Grandma & Grandpa with 4 of the great grandkids

and some of the grandkids

Party time...

Aunt Ginger reading a beautiful poem

Dustin, Tyffany & Carlee

Ginger & her granddaughter, Carlee

 

 Ginger and her grandson, Owen

 

 

Grandpa & Grandma

 

 

 

"The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love." ~Jean Renoir

 

 

Summer 2013 Highlights

It's hard to believe it's almost November and I'm just now getting around to doing the post of our Summer 2013 Highlights.  It was an awesome Summer and we made lots of memories!

Stopping to smell the flowers...literally!

Putting flags on the veterans graves for Memorial Day

Eating corn on the cob

Baseball!

Discovery Center

Drive In Movie Theater

 Tim McGraw Concert

Going to a baseball game

4th of July Potluck & Fireworks

Picnics with Friends

Roasting marshmallows

Firepits

Arnold's Park

Boating

Tubing

and visiting family in 3 different states and having family and friends visit us.  It was an awesome summer, and going through the pictures from this summer already has me longing for it to be summer time again! 

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine...it's summertime!"  ~Kenny Chesney

Easter 2013

For Easter 2013 we stopped out at the farm and Easton found a new little friend...

Cautiously approaching...

That's all the closer he would get.  

He thought the little old man that was just his size was pretty funny!

The boys with Great Grandpa Roland & Great Grandma Betty

"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house.  There's nothing like having a midget for a butler."  ~W.C. Fields

Swinging

 

 

It's hard to beat swinging with Gramma! 

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.  ~Arnold H. Glasgow

Storybook Land

This summer was the first time we'd ever taken Xavier to Storybook Land.  It was also the first time I had ever been there!  We went there a few of times this summer and the boys absolutely loved it every time. 

I have a feeling there will be more trips to Storybook Land in our future!

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." ~Albert Einstein

Two Lanes of Freedom

Mike and I went to a Tim McGraw concert earlier this summer while he was on his Two Lanes of Freedom Tour.  It was AMAZING!!!

Waiting in line.

Brantley Gilbert opened the show.

There he is!!!

 

We had SO much fun!  If you've never seen Tim McGraw in concert, you absolutely should!

 

 

Fun is good.  ~Dr. Seuss

First Day!

Xavier and I shared a first day of school!  Today was Xavier's first day of Kindergarten, and my first day of taking him to school with me.  We had such a fantastic day and thoroughly enjoyed listening to all of Xavier's stories about his first day of Kindergarten.

 

Showing off his excavator backpack

He asked if he could pose like this :)

How did the 1st day of Kindergarten come so quickly!?

Mama & Xavier on our 1st day of school

Xavier with his homeroom teacher

 

 

Sitting at his desk!

Xavier with his other Kindergarten teacher

 

 

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.  ~William Butler Yeats