Happy Memorial Day

The best picture I could get on Memorial Day Sunday......it took forever to get this one!!! Maybe one day they will take a good picture together.

Random Pics from Easter and Early Spring

Here are some random pics. The first two are Easter that I forgot to include in the Easter post and the others are just some pics from the Lane Packing playground.

Random Pictures February 2010

Heath out in the backyard!
Chloe and Caroline Valentine's Day!

Front of our house the day after the snow in GA.

Ashes in the snow. He hates rain but loved the snow!

Eli eating breakfast. Isn't he cute!!

Christmas 2009

Feeding the Reindeer and lighting sparklers.

In front of the tree in our Christmas pajamas.

After Santa came!

What Santa left in the backyard.

Eli with his new Buzz Lightyear!

Heath and his Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 car.

Caroline with her dress-up clothes! Santa hit the jackpot with these!

Chloe with her doctor kit! They love to take blood pressures and give shots!

Christmas was exciting as usual. We went to church on Christmas Eve and then came home to feed the reindeer and get ready for Santa. While feeding the reindeer, Eli remembered that we lite sparklers last year and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and he demanded that we do it again. Luckily, I had a package left over and we got them and lit them. Heath woke up at 2 am on Christmas morning but I convinced him to go back to bed. He told us later that he had looked at every one's stuff but didn't mess with it. Eli was very excited to get the Buzz Lightyear he had been asking for and Chloe and Caroline got dress-up Princess clothes which were a big hit. Santa left a trampoline in the backyard but it has been pretty wet and very cold so we have not got to use it much but I know they will get good use of it once it warms up!

New Animal on the Farm

Meet Ashes McDonald. He joined our family right before thanksgiving. He is Weimeraner and is now 10 weeks old. He is growing really fast! Bobby thought the kids were old enough to have a pet so here he is!!

Halloween 2009

The pics are a little out of order for the events of the day but you will get the idea that we had a very busy Halloween Day. The kids started off the day by carving the pumpkin with their Daddy. He did most/all the work but they were very happy with the results. Eli stayed very close the entire time and was very interested in what his Daddy was doing. Then we took a short nap and went the church's Harvest Festival. I didn't realize until I downloaded all the pics of the day onto the computer that I didn't get any pictures of the kids at the festival. They played lots of games and got lots of candy. Just as we were getting ready to get on the hayride it started raining(it had rained earlier but we were inside the tent) so we decided to head to the car for home. There was only 30 minutes left of festival time so we figured by the time it cleared off
(if it cleared off) it would be time for it to be over anyway. We came home and got our costumes on and went to Publix. The kids love to go to Publix on Halloween and play the games and win the prizes. Then we grabbed some dinner and went out to trick-or-treat. I made the girls change from the princess dresses because they drug the ground and it was wet. I wanted them to be able to play in the dresses again and I knew if they wore them the would get ruined. They put on their Georgia cheerleader outfits but they told everyone they were in Boomer Sooner clothes so I guess they are little confused about which team is which! Everyone was really tired after the days festivities and slept really good that night!!

Daddy Comes Home #2

Sorry it has been so long since I updated the blog but it has been really busy around here this month. To start the month, Daddy came home again! The kids were so excited to go and pick him up. He had a surprise for them! He brought home real lobsters from Maine where they fly into and process back into the states! The kids thought they were really cool when they were alive but didn't so much like the taste of them!

Random Summer Pics!

Heath's Birthday Celebration

We had a birthday celebration for Heath after his Daddy came home.  He was so excited to finally get all of his birthday gifts and have a cake that he picked out.  Here are some pics of the celebration.

Heath opening one of his many Lego gifts!

Heath's Batman cake

Chloe and Caroline enjoying cake......they don't have shirts on because the cake stained and we didn't want it all over their clothes.

Eli loves cake....can't you tell?

First Week of Summer Break!

Well summer is in full swing at our house.  As you can see we have kept busy this week.......

Chloe came down with "polka dots" (Stickers she loves to place all over her face and then laugh that she has the polka dots)

We went to see Elmo Live......This is Eli at the show.  He didn't want to go and then when we got there would not take his eyes off the show to take a picture.....this is the best I could get.

Heath and Caroline enjoying Elmo Live.

The girls favorites....Elmo and Abby Cadabby.

Hanging out on our porch pool.  They have had a ball dumping water on each other and all over everything else too.

Thank You USO

The boys watching Daddy read.

Pic of our TV screen with Daddy reading Green Eggs and Ham.

The girls watching him read.

The USO sponsors this reading  program for military families to keep in touch while their parents are on deployment.  We got our first books today and it was really neat to see Daddy reading to us! Bobby records himself reading books to the children and then the USO sends both the book and the dvd to the children.  The kids were so excited to see their Daddy on the screen!  For those of you who know Bobby well know that he doesn't enjoy reading......especially children's books so I am so happy that he is doing this program.  I think he is missing the kids as much as the kids are missing him!   

Weekend Fun!

We tried to have some fun this weekend.....even though it was in the 90's.  On Friday evening we went to Burger King and ate and played on the playground and then came home to ride bikes on the driveway.  That was fun until the mosquitoes got so bad we had to go inside.  On Saturday we hit the soccer fields.  Eli had a game at 10 and Heath at 12 and we found some shade in between games to rest and cool off.  On Saturday evening we played in the sprinkler.....it was really cold at first but we warmed up to it and had fun.  On Sunday we went to church and then the boys had dress rehearsal for their musical on Friday night.  Look for pics from that sometime next week.  Hope everyone else had fun.....the kids did!

Eli riding his bike on the driveway!

Caroline trying to ride the scooter......she had me pull her all over the driveway.

Heath rides his bike and scooter in the rode.  He is really good about watching out for cars.

Chloe riding the tricycle.

Eli kicking a corner kick.

Heath right in the middle of it all!

Chloe and Caroline drinking water....it was really hot!

Cooling off in the sprinkler in the backyard.

It was cold at first but it was fun!