My boys

Fun with Hayden

Olivia and Hayden had a lot of fun playing together in Hayden's new playroom! They are so cute together. They are at the age where they don't really play together but they play well along side each other. And they follow each other around which is really cute. And they give each other kisses and hugs which is so sweet.

Olivia LOVES Lara's necklace

proof my kid can walk :)

just happened to get a pic of her as she was throwing that ball

little miss drama

olivia is asking hayden where her doggies are

going in for the hug

making it a low hug

sweet girls!

July

I hate that I only make time to update my blog once a month - I need to work on that. We had a lot of fun in July and made history - on July 8th at approximately 12:30pm Olivia stood up and WALKED. I couldn't believe it - she did it as if she had been doing it all along. Meredith and I joked that she was probably a closet walker - she would do it when no one was looking and then drop down to her knees and crawl when someone would look, LOL. It was a day I will never forget - I got all excited and teary and called Johnnie (who also got teary), then my mom (who didn't answer), then my dad (who also got teary), then my mom called back and Johnnie's mom called b/c he had called her before I got a chance! My dad had to stop by on his way home from work to see it with his own eyes and I sent Johnnie a video on my phone so he didn't have to wait until he got home from work. So she didn't walk until she was almost 16 months old but she walks and RUNS now so its all good.

We had a great time at the lakehouse on 4th of July weekend. It was just me, Johnnie, Olivia, Kylie, Buster & Linda. It was a rainy weekend which made for cooler weather which was better than hundred degree weather! It stopped raining just in time for an awesome air show over the lake. I wasn't sure how Olivia would react to the planes buzzing the lake so low while we were in the boat or if she would like the fireworks but she LOVED both. She calls fireworks "boom booms" LOL. King is terrified of fireworks so it was a long weekend for him :( Unfortunately I only took a couple of pics during that weekend.

Olivia hanging out in the house

I got my camera out to take a pic of Olivia at the pool and my lens immediately fogged up from the humidity - YUCK

Johnnie took these picture of some deer right on the other side of our backyard fence

Lake Fun!

We made several trips to the lake last month and had a blast each time as you can tell from the pics. I chose not to be photographed in any of these as I had fever blisters covering my ENTIRE bottom lip for several weeks - AWFUL!

Lindsey and Lara about to tube

we all really feel our age after tubing!

Laura fell down "Lindsey's Hill" - Buster named it Lindsey's Hill b/c the first time Lindsey came to the lake house she slipped and fell on her bottom.

Scott & Laura about to tube - sitting up???

The boys have caught fish right at our boat house

Johnnie and Olivia in Tommy's boat

Father-daughter happiness :)

Trey & Alexis have gotten SOOO big!!!

Alexis and Trey tubing - she likes to sit up and he likes to lay down

Hangin at Home

not sure what's going on here but all my children are on the couch together

kitty in olivia's toy bucket

i love when kitty arches her back to stretch - makes me think of halloween :)

smiling at Poppy

eating breakfast with Brobee. She is SOOO in love with Yo Gabba Gabba! Brobee is the only one she has so far and she spends most of her time either with him or talking about him or thinking about him :) She wakes him up in the morning, puts him to bed at night, feeds him, takes him on errands with us, etc.... He's a huge part of our family these days.

Funny Faces

One day we went up to Johnnie's work and were sitting in the car waiting for him to come out. I decided it would be fun to take pictures of Olivia's funny faces:

serious face

silly face

smug face

thirsty face

goofball face

"seriously??" face

cute smile face

goofy smile face

Kylie and the Goose

I feel like I haven't blogged in forever! June was a fun month - lots of time at the lake with friends and family - but not many pictures. I'm still not ready to take my new camera out on the boat but I can still get some ok pics with my old camera so I used it a few times. And I noticed there are zero pictures of myself - I'm obviously the only one taking pictures in this family!

To start June off, Kylie came over after school on her last 2 days. One of those days we went and fed the ducks - and the goose! Olivia wanted to pet the goose but Kylie wasn't as confident.

Olivia WOULD NOT look at me!

baby duckies!