Future blackmail on Tyler!

Sweet Princess Catherine with Cousin AnnaLea's feet peaking out to see.


Aunt Laura showing off the new palace to Catherine, Coleman and AnnaLea. Tucker is watching.

Now the blackmail begins:

At Catherine's bday party, I caught the boys checking out the "girlie" doll house! Tyler is completely mortified by this picture!

Outside fun has begun!

Laci resting from Tyler on a bag of corn (pig food).

AnnaLea and Tyler having fun with Daddy on the tractor, they did not stay out long. It was cold that day.

The welcoming tree at our Neighboor's house

The turtle in the middle of our road.

Whoa Momma what is that?!?

We were on our way on Sunday to a neighborhood Memorial Day get together. When you live in the boonies a neighborhood consists of pretty much everyone around you in a 5-10 mile radius. In the middle of the road was a big turtle. It was awesome. I took pictures. It wet the road when I walked up to it. AnnaLea and Tyler got a big kick out of that. Then our neighboor was a welcoming tree. One of the kids captured it picture. We had a good time at the fish fry. The kids played and played. I ended up taking Tucker home around 8 and Tracy brought the kids home about 10:30.

Whoops!

Well, I tell stories on the kids so I reckon it is only fair to tell one on me. We have goats and pigs and our neighbor has cows. Last year the cows kept getting into our field and we had a running joke that we would fix the fence and own some cows. Well the fences were fixed to keep cows out of our goats and pigs. A couple of weeks ago I got off early and picked up Tyler from school, AnnaLea was off somewhere so it was Momma and the boys. I drove up the road toward the house and saw 8 cows in our field hugging the fence line to our neighbors cows. I told Tyler that the storms must have knocked a fence down somewhere so we went to the field to check it out. There was a nearby gate so being the nice neighbor, I decided that I would open the gate and push the cows back to their land. Tyler said, "Momma, I think they are our cows." I told him we did not have cows and that we could not keep our neighbors cows. So he helped and we got it done relatively quick and easy with help from Tucker. Later that evening Tracy called from work and I told him the neighbor's cows were in our field but that I took care of it so he did not have to worry about it when he got home. Aren't I such a good wife?!? Well, I thought Tracy was going to come through the phone! Turns out they were not the neighbor's cows but some we were holding for a friend. They had been there several days and I was to go get them back immediately. Then the what was I thinking the neighbors have dairy cows it was obvious that the cows we had were (I don't know the different kinds of cows) not dairy cows. Ok, defense for my side is one I leave at dark and get home after ball at dark so I never saw them. Two, I really don't pay much attention anyway. Three, no one ever told me about keeping some cows. Four, it has 4 legs and says moo, it is a cow, I don't know the kinds!

Well the neighbor got a good laugh. We have 3 back and the others I guess will come home later. Tracy has learned that he needs to let me know trivial info such as what animals are ours. :)

Softball Season

Anna Lea showing her trophy for 3rd place at the tournament she played in Manchester. The white uniform is not my favorite since it is a nightmare to get clean after the game!

Megan playing with Tucker during the tournament games and below Tyler keeping entertained by doing one of his favorite things, climbing.

AnnaLea watching the batter get ready. She does have a stance but this is her I am watching and not needing to do anything yet stance. Below she is moving toward the ball.

Anna Lea has been very busy here lately with softball. She is on the recreational league team called the Slammers and then the tournament team, Lady Raiders. She has greatly improved in this her second year of softball. She has been playing short and pitcher on the Slammers team and then short and center left on Lady Raiders. She has an exceptional throwing arm. She is good at catching and fielding and is getting better at being aggressive. It is difficult watching and not expecting too too much! Lady Raiders have been in 2 tournaments in which they placed second then third. The tournaments are tough but fun. We spend the entire day of the park and so last tournament played 5 games and could have played 7 total in one day. It is a good experience and we are enjoying it! We will be going to Franklin for a tournament in June then the another tournament in Pigeon Fordge.

Beautiful but crazy children!

Baby Tucker playing in the car on the way to Aunt Laura's house. Below is the big sister showing little brother bath time fun.

To the left big brother Tyler spending fun times with baby brother Tucker. Below are my silly monkeys Anna Lea and Tyler entertaining the car on the trip to Aunt Laura's house.

To the left is Tyler "strutting his stuff" and having a good time doing so. Please note the beautiful background of the slop truck parked right in front of the house.

Thank God for our beautiful but crazy children. They are full of health and energy! Any extra energy should be sent my way! LOL!

Catching Up

Summer is almost here. It is fun listening to the children talking about activities to end up the school year and plan out their summer. Field day was today and Tyler was having fun telling me all about it. Of course he fell asleep in Grandmommy's car on the ride home!

Anna Lea's ball tournaments have been rained out. We are thankful for the rain since we will probably have none in August and September. We need to get the garden planted but being at work, the ball field, or the rain has made that difficult. The one good day we had, the tractor was not at home and the garden spot needs to be tilled again before planting.

The is a "goat dog" named bear that loves to come to our house. Tracy and I are not wild about this but the dog absolutely loves the children. He comes and plays and plays. He even sneaks into the house. I think he has help with that.... He is huge so Tracy gets him out or we get the sandwich meat out to "trick" him to go outside.

A lot has been happening, but of course now that I am typing I cannot remember. Anna Lea is not having fun being the oldest. She does not think she gets enough attention. She is just in the center of all that is happening.... Oh well, she will see that but I can understand how hard it is now that Tucker is here and I am not available.

Tucker is now 6 months old! Hard to believe. He gets where he wants by rolling around. He eats cereal like it is going out of style. He has started to sleep better at night, but still gets up at least once. He can sit up with the nursing pillow around him to support in case he falls. He also loves to swat his hand. Bath time is now fun and his favorite is to be outside watching the kids or dogs play. The farm animals also get his attention.