My time with the boys!!!!

We have about 6-7 acres that is behind our house that we love to hang out on.A man that owns it has a big blueberry patch and he lives elsewhere-so we just act like it is ours!!! Just about every night,we take Samson for a walk and hang out there for about an hour and a half.When we go in the back- I become a dog-walkin',woods explorin',football thrown',up-a hill-bike haulin',writin-in-the-sand,simon-says playin',dirt covered,fort buildin' momma!!!!!!! I absolutley love this time with my babies and I know they need this mommy-lovin them time!!!
This is way far back into the land by the water-tower.This is where we play most of the time.
Samson loves to eat grass,sticks and everything in between!! The boys eat some of it also!!
Marion and his buddy!
We go hiking back behind the water tower-its better in the winter-not so grown up.
Here are the boys playing.
The boys are on there way back to the house.
Marion and Samson.
This is the hill that the boys love to ride there bikes down-small,but big thrill!
I have to help get Graysons bike up the hill-thats where the bike-haulin' comes in--and I have to do it over and over again-but I dont mind,thats my baby!!!

Grayson's Easter Egg Hunt!

I went to the park with Grays class to hunt eggs,have lunch,and play.Here is his class getting off the bus soooo excited about the hunt!
Here they are seeing all of the eggs all over the park.
On your mark!....get set!......
GO!!!!!
Love that baby--he wants his hair long like his bubba's---lovely growing out stage!!!!
I brought him Sonic for lunch,but he was most excited about the cherry in his drink!!
Here is Gray and Alyssa--he wanted her to put her arm on him!! Boy,oh,boy!!!!!!

Another weekend camping!!

Here is our sweet lil pop-up that we enjoy!! After shooting a wedding, the guys had everything set up-J left the lights on for me!!
Grayson playing with turtles with friends he had made.
Just love this picture!!What more can I say;)!!!!
This weekend theme was snipe hunting-they taught them how to snipe hunt--this is the "good luck" roast!!
This is Misti Ray and she was singing soo awesome at her campsite,that we made her come sing for us-we later found out she just made an album.We meet so many neat people at Whispering Pines!!
Here they are being taught to snipe hunt!! :)!!!!!!!
They are actually snipe hunting here!!
This is a great picture of the boys during their hunt--before Marion found out about snipe hunting.
Here is the reaction I got when I told Marion snipe's weren't real!!
Marion was fine after a couple of minutes because he found himself a frog!!
Here is Gray still snipe hunting--so sweet!!I never did tell him about snipe hunting-he will find out one of these days.

Traditions with Lee & Leona!

We went to eat with a couple that lives about 2 houses down from us.They are Lee & Leona.They are absolutely so sweet,bringing us banana bread,keeping Grayson after school when J & I are working,helps Marion with math problems(since Lee is a math wizard!)and is always there for us!!!!
My sweet babies!!!
Here is Lee holding Grays hand across the parking lot-he is very protective!!!Marion got stuck holdin Grays Diego backpack.
We are blessed to have Lee & Leona!!

Proud Mommy!!

Marion brought his score home for the reading part of the TAKS test and I was so proud of him because he only missed one!!!I so love this kid-he has got the biggest heart and is so affectionate which I EAT up!!He is such a blessing to our family-he adds life,love,and sweetness to our home!!If you are wondering,yes i made him pick a switch from the back yard and I spanked him with it for missing that one problem on the test! Just Kidding!!!

Whispering Pines!!

We went camping at a WONDERFUL campground in East Texas.If there is anyone looking for a great place to go camping,(cabin,rv,or tent)this is the place to go!!! It is called Whispering Pines RV & Cabin Resort and it is the best kid-friendly,fun-filling,family-feeling place you can go!There is nothing like this here in East Texas---Jason got the trailer loaded up and the boys are were so excited about going!!!
Here are all of my men!! Jason,Marion,Grayson,and Samson.They did all of the hard work packing while i worked-i got home and we jetted out!!
When we got to Whispering Pines,we where in for a treat-there was a very large group (about100 maybe??)people that play blue grass/folk music that got together there that weekend.They are people that are from different parts of the U.S. and a few times a year,they meet up at different places,bring out there instruments of all kinds,play all weekend,visit,eat,then go home at the end of the weekend.It is like a huge family.We happen to be there the weekend they were at W.P.It was really neat to sit around and listen to them play all weekend.

There were so many blue grass musicians-they had to break into a couple of different groups in different areas-this was on the pool patio and what they do is get in a some-what of a circle and go around and everybody gets a chance to sing-it was realy great!!
Here is our campfire at night.We love to sit around the campfire!!!
Whispering Pines has so much for the kids to do!There is tennis,basketball,horseshoes,jumping pillow(what Grayson was jumping on on above picture),swimming,playground,and planned activities!!Here are the boys playing golf with a boy they had met.
What is so incredible about it is they do planned activities every weekend-they pick a theme and do activities around that.Some themes are..Armed Forces weekend,Hawaiian Luau,Pirates,pink flamingo,Christmas in July,its all about chocolate,Mardi Gras weekend-and so much more!!!!This weekend was "foody" weekend.Here is Tiffany-the activity director-with the macaroni craft-Gray made a airplane.
You can rent a golfcart to drive around the resort-which we did.It was very nice,but Gray would have none of it--he wanted to ride his bike!!!
We went back to our campsite and made a fire and roasted dogs for lunch.
In the afternoon,Tiffany had a "cooking class" for all the kids-it was a no-bake cake--she got everybody involved-she did a good job with that.
Here is Marion and a friend he met that weekend learn' to no bake a cake.
What is so cool is they have 2 pools-1 pool for adults only with a hot tub and 1 pool for the kids--sooo cool!!Here are the boys with there friend Taylor.
I think the neatest part is whenever you leave-you feel like you have met family-people are soo wonderful out there and Marion and Grayson meet so many new friends everytime they go out there.Here are Marion and Grayson with many of there new friends fishing on the big pond out there.It is a great get-away!! Believe Me!!The information is Whisperingpinesrvresort.com 800-559-3817