Every Picture Tells A Story

We got some funny and some special pictures, start with an ever watchful Harry on the train

and on the tour bus

Jack had a pensive moment while touring
and did not really want me documenting it

Harry was not in the mood to pose anymore while visiting mummies

Did Jack's efforts really pay off?

It looks like Jack may be getting to that age

I realized after looking back at these pix that I have the exact same shot of me with them when they were about a month old - each of us holding the other in a circle :wub:

Jack taking a picture of Harry taking a picture of us at Jefferson Mem

This one looks nice,

but ended up like this - so tired of posing (hugging)!

Jack trying to be as tall as Dean outside FDR

Love this photo at MLK

Harry had been copying all the mask expressions at NA Museum, the spear was a fluke

They tried to think of a way they could do something as big as The Wright Brothers

Harry decided to take on the train at American History

Rod Stewart

Makes me wanna take a back road

This song was made for our boy Harry! He always loves taking a detour, so he and Dean headed out for an adventure on Saturday morning. Harry has studied every road in our county, and has taken the 'human garmin' moniker to lengths my directionally-challenged soul can appreciate!

Rodney Atkins' Take A Back Road

a little Heaven on Earth

Arriving on the ferry

Reflective Ahabs

Even paradise can handle a toy or two

We've been sitting in this spot for over a dozen years....it keeps getting fuller!

Sun-kissed Harry

Happy Jack

It never gets old

Willis Gupton's No Walmart on Ocracoke

But when I’m big I’ll still know what to do

Looking through all the wedding pix, I noticed Jack was everywhere, learning how to do everything, including flirt with the ladies like his mom and Aunt Iris. He was often in the middle of the men, figuring out how to be a guy after a few obligatory poses.

He also got some much-needed Daddy Time, asking Dean to make sure he looked nice a few times, wrestling, and deciding he was too cool to watch Dean grooving it (I guess that's not the first time we'll embarrass him and have him covering his eyes). Let's hope the perp walk is a passing phase! There were fireflies galore, and he and Aunt Iris got to experience a little summer magic.

Rodney Atkins' Watching You

Plowing these fields in the hot summer sun

We planted our first family garden over the Memorial Day weekend. There was lots of planning, lots of dirt, lots of sweat, lots of pride! It's a first for me, so I'm especially excited to see what happens with all of our little seeds....

Kenny Chesney's She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy

Mommy, daddy, you and I

Mother's Day was gorgeous and full of love from my three favorite men - I'm such a lucky mommy!

The boys are so silly and love to make goofy pix, posing here in front of the 'treasure' - they led me on a treasure hunt with sweet clues. Definitely worth the effort!

We went to see Soul Surfer and completely enjoyed it - they had read about Bethany Hamilton's run-in in one of their Shark books. Jack was into the attack, while Harry wanted to know all about how she learned to do everything again. The movie was a great family picture!

After the movie, they took me to one of our favorite restaurants to wrap up a fantastic day - thank you to all my men - love ya lotsa!

Talking Heads

Let me sleep on it

Sometimes I struggle with whether I've taken 'the sleep nazi's' book *

too seriously, then we go to a late lunch and .....

so what do we do??

we are not the most mature of parents ;-)

Harry wanted to get in on the silly, and Dean is always happy to oblige

*there is no chapter on tormenting your child in the book, that's all our doing

Meatloaf's Paradise By The Dashboard Light

And old home scenes of my childhood

Jack had chosen a whole lotta his favorite pix for his week as Star Student. He only took a few in, but I was playing around with them and made this collage....

Randy Travis's Precious Memories

Knock, knock. Trick or treat. Who Are you?

It's party season, and the weather is perfect and the boys are excited! Harry is waiting for his scarecrow costume to be completed by his lazy mom, so he picked a soldier costume we had in the playroom and did it up right. He was drawing while waiting for Jack to get ready, so he hammed it up for me and the camera

I often repeat that prayer over his head, and I did get chills over this juxtaposition - our sweet little boy with his markers and his flak jacket

Friends had a great neighborhood party on Saturday, complete with hayride and haunted trail!

Waiting in line, Jack goes into crowd control mode

but Harry seemed to be trying to get back at him moments later....

..just like he was doing about 5 years ago (top right picture)

Deluxe Megatron and Soldier Boy Harry in line for the haunted trail

Something stinky or allergy season? All the boys have funny expressions, so maybe it was a stinky trick...

It was dark and hard to get pix to do justice - Jack apparently got over his fear long enough to scarf some of the candy scattered on the ground (notice the corpse right in front of him?)

He exited, telling me he "only got scared ONE time!"

Our favorite Commando wasn't phased a bit, it always helps to have a daddy along!

Zach and Jack chilling at the party (shades of future keggers??)

kids songs