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Bre with a blue tongue from Papa's Father's Day cake.

ALEX & MARCUS

SHERRY

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SHIRLEY

Father's Day Pics

ALEX


DAD

DAD being goofy, GRANT, & DYLAN

MARCUS, ALEX, DYLAN, & GRANT

ALEX & DYLAN

GRANT

Father's Day

I know I am late with this post but between baseball and our internet not working, it is taking me some time to get totally caught back up.
For Father's Day this year we all got together at our house. We had a nice time even though Joey had to miss it.
A miracle happened that day, something that I will probably never see again in my lifetime. My dad not only got into the pool but he did a cannon ball into the water the very first thing! Anyone who knows my dad knows what a big shock this was to everyone.

I will load pictures as soon as I get the chance.

Tyler

Marcus's regular baseball season is over. We start the tournament on Saturday and that should go on for 2 days. They had a pretty good season finishing off 8-2. Tonight just plain sucked though. We got beat and beat bad. For a team that is used to winning, sometimes not even allowing the other team to score, it was rough.

Not winning isn't the only thing that made things so hard though. My step nephew and one of Marcus's best friends got hurt during the 3rd inning. He took a baseball straight to the nose. From where I was sitting it looked like it hit him right in the eye. I have never been so happy to see a kid with blood gushing from his nose before! As bad as that sounds I figured there is less more serious things that can come from a nose being broken than from a sensitive eye being hit like that.

After the game we went to the ER to check on him and he just broke my heart laying there like that. He still had a sense of humor though cause he wanted Marcus to stay the night with him like they had planned already. I just gently rubbed his head and said I don't think tonight will be good.

Thank God that only the cartilage is broken and all his facial bones are intact and there are no signs of a concussion.

Assault with a waterhose

Cousin It

Cousin It, is what I have started calling Dylan when his hair is wet.

There is a resemblence don't you think?

Natural Beauty

Pink Sand

Anyone who knows this girl knows she LOVES the color pink. Needless to say she was very pleased when mommy came home with pink sand for her sand and water table.

Sunglasses and Blankie

Our internet service has been down so I have a lot of catching up to do. There will be many pictures to follow.

Fun Times-NOT!

What a fun day we are going to have today. We get to go and stand in the heat (heat index upper 90's) at a very dusty, dry, and dirty park so Marcus can have baseball pictures taken. To make it even more fun there will be a fish fry going on just feet away.

So by time we get home we will have mud caked on us cause dirt plus sweat equals mud. We will also have the lovely aroma of fried fish stuck to our clothing and hair.
Can you tell I don't enjoy picture day?

Very Talkative

Dylan and I went to pick Bre up from school this evening and to say she had a lot to say is an understatement!
I dropped Dylan off at a girl's house and while we were there Bre seen 3 Beagle puppies, very cute. They were by an bigger, older dog. As we were driving down the driveway we seen the mommy Beagle. Bre was jabbering away about the dogs and I made the comment "yes they are a family". She told me "yes a family, there is a daddy, mommy, baby, a Marcus and a Dylan". That just melted my heart.
Now for some of the other conversations we had on our way to McDonald's because she told me very plainly that she needed chicken nuggets, a Pepper (Dr. Pepper) and french fries.

When we passed by a large church she asked me what it was. I told her it was a church. She thought for a moment and said it's a church, not McDonald's, my papa takes me to church, I like it.
When she seen a tractor trailer with an empty flat bed she said that is to haul baby cars with.
There is a statue of a Native American that has been around this area for as long as I can remember. When she saw it she told me he is one big boy!
At every traffic light she would tell me to stop if it was red, to slow down if it was yellow, and to go if it was green. Once when one was taking too long to turn green she told me to tell it to change to green (if it only worked that way)!
When I took some 20's out of the ATM she told me to give her one-yeah right!
Going up a hill I listened to going up, up up. Then going down, down, down.
We a family. Mommy, daddy, Bre, Dylan, Marcus. She paused then added and papa, nana, Alex and Grant. (Sorry if you didn't make the cut-LOL!).
When she seen the golden arches I was told YOU FOUND IT! Like I didn't know where McDonald's is!?
While bathing her, I miss my daddy, I need my daddy home.

Those were the main highlights and she is still going strong.

14 years

Happy Anniversary Joey, I Love You!!

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Dylan

Scooting Before The Game

Cool Batting Helmet