what's happenin' hot stuff?

I made a collage for Julian. I may have gone a little overboard with this one, LOL.
The kids at the park:

I love when they play together:

It's so cute how Julian & Emily will squeeze onto the loveseat with Carrie even though the other sofa was empty. LOL

Friday night I made the biggest meatloaf EVER:::

Last week Josh brought me to the firing range, to teach me how to shoot his new gun- it's a 40 caliber pistol. It kind of freaked me out at first, but I hit the target every time! Not too shabby!

Of course, Josh hit the bull's eye every time:

He has perfect aim.

Here's Julian's completed Science project. He did such a good job on that. He did the written paper on his own, with zero help from me or Josh...and he got a 100% A+!!! I am so proud of him. He printed out all of the stuff for the project board, made the letters using a stencil, glued them on, looked up pictures of planes to print out...made that graph using microsoft office. He's so smart!

Julian and my Momma:::

We had my Dad's 63rd birthday at our house! It was fun! I made a big pot of stir fry.

Julian saved up $50 and bought this World of Warcraft game kit with miniature action figures. It took him quite a while to earn that much money, but he had a goal and he achieved it.

Josh is such a handy man!!!

So Josh has been doing all kinds of home improvements lately.
It's awesome!
First- he put in a little walkway between the house and carport, where it used to be just red mud. So much better: I wish these pictures were in order. Oh well.
He has put up most of the siding on the carport/shed:

What a hunk. Josh turned 33 this past Saturday! All he wanted to do for his birthday was work on the carport...but I baked him a german chocolate cake from scratch. It was yummy. Plus I got him a nice Columbia shirt. We had meatloaf subs...we finally finished off that gargantuan meatloaf last night!!!

Our bro-in-law Randy helped him out a lot with wiring the shed with electricity and putting up siding.

Josh also built a counter for me in my laundry room. It makes such a difference. Plus, now that we have the shed I don't have tons of tools and junk piled in the laundry room. It's been completely transformed.

Here's Josh in his shed. The night he got electric wired up in there, he was in hog's heaven. He had so much fun organizing his tools:

I noticed something funny about the abbreviation he used for "door knob assessories"...see what I mean?

He loves that shed!

I can't watch this stuff:

He also repaired the damages from hurricane Gustav, LOL....When did that storm blow through again? I was so nervous about him being up on that tall ladder...

From the looks of that clenched butt, I think he might have been a little nervous too. LOL

Loons

Randy and Carrie:

I was sitting in the seat in front of them, and I'd hold the camera over my head and just take pictures, not knowing what they'd look like, right???
LOL-
Look at some of the amazing shots I got!!!

That's Richie next to Carrie. We grew up with him, so he's like family.
We were on our way to the temple in Baton Rouge. This was last Friday...
There was my mom and dad, me and Josh, Robyn, Carrie and Randy, Richie, and then Keli met us up there too. We went to King Buffet first. It was YUMMY!!!


Carrie is hilarious. I have been hanging out with her a lot and I love it.

I wish I had taken pictures of what happened the NEXT day-Last saturday Julian got to go to the temple for his first time!!! It was so awesome. Josh is the Stake Young Men's President, and he organized a stake youth temple trip. 40 kids were there!! It was wonderful. My parents offered to watch Emily for me so I could go too.

Okay- look at this next set of pictures....

I was standing in the kitchen, and I look over and there's Josh-
but how in the heck is he even doing that? LOL
He would have had to be balancing on the wall somehow, Spiderman style to be that high up.
I was laughing so hard, I made him stay put so I could get a picture.

Lately

I made a collage on canvas-
some of the pictures are kind of old but that's okay!!

josh and julian working on julian's science experiment. he studied aerodynamics and the functions of all of the parts of a plane.

He'd launch the plane, then measure how far it went, first just the body- then the body and the tail wing, then the body and the main wing, etc. etc.

I have no idea why my pictures aren't loading in order:

oh well!!!

Me and my Julian:

These pictures were taken last weekend, actually. We went to Albasha's- a Greek restaurant. we are LOVING Greek food lately. It is so yummy. Josh looks sleepy here and Emily has vampire eyes, LOL

Annie is looking good as new lately!!! Isn't she the cutest cocker spaniel you ever saw????

I made book covers for my scriptures!

Sunset Point

I hardly ever ask my kids to pose, but I might start doing it more often.... I love this picture!

They look so beautiful here!

He is so gorgeous.

Goin' out 4 custard

We LOVE the custard stand out by the camp. It's like heaven in a cone!!!

My Mom merely said "Hmmm, you know what sounds good right now? Some custard."

5 minutes later, my Dad was in the car, calling out "Custard on me, Who's coming?"
We all piled in QUICK! LOL

Hayden is such a cutie pie!

Julian and Madie

Josh and my Dad looking over the menu

Josh, me, Keli in the car

Carrie, Randy, Josh, me...don't my eyes (or my EYE) look kinda crazy there? LOL

Kids piled in the back!