Saturday, July 24, 2010

Way Too Long!

Wow, it's been eight long months since I last posted anything. I can't believe how time gets away. The holidays get so busy and basketball season was horrid this year with 3-5 games a week (One week the cheerleaders traveled over 700 miles!). Then spring fever hits and there's no time to be indoors on the computer. Since school got out the end of May we have been camping, went to Clarence Homecoming and the Shelby County Fair, plus numerous visits to the new Shelbina Pool. Our most recent adventure was to take the kids to their first St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. It was pretty fun, very hot, but fun. We went to the Thursday afternoon game then spent the night and visited the zoo on Friday. The kids really had fun and even though it was almost 100 degrees that day, we saw almost all the animals. Here are just a few pictures from the weekend. I will try to get some pictures from the summer posted soon.

Somer, Hudson and Daddy find our seats. We were three rows from shade so we moved up and sat on the back row of our section. There we were shaded and had a nice breeze on our backs.
Somer make her first Build-A-Bear at Busch Stadium. She picked a pink Cardinals cheerleader uniform and named it Stuffty Beary. How original!Posing for a quick picture outside the stadium. We bought Hudson a Fred Bird since he didn't get to Build-A-Bear.Drake, Aunt Mini and Uncle Big were also at the game. Somer and I walked over to see Drake and take a quick picture.

Friday at the Zoo. Hudson did not want to take his picture with us. This orangutan pushed his face right up to the glass and just sat there like he was playing with the kids.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Arts and Crafts

Somer received a few little containers of Play-Doh for Halloween so we've been playing with it after Hudson goes to bed. We usually just flatten it out and cut shapes with cookie cutters, but one night we got really creative and made this snowman. I helped her make the hat and nose, but she did the body and arms. I was actually very impressed.

We also made these Oreo Turkeys for Somer's preschool snacks. C&R was very limited with their candy selection. There was supposed to be a peanut butter cup for the body and a malted ball for a head, but they didn't have either of these things so we made a Hershey's Kiss work instead. I'm sure 3&4 year olds won't care and she was very excited to share them with her friends.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

My First Real Buck

My first buck. I killed this small 9 pointer at 6:50am opening day. I am so excited to be done and not have to get up early any more!

Sunday, September 27, 2009

We went to the pumpkin farm today with Tara, Joslynn and Jaycee. We picked out big and little pumpkins and gords to bring home and decorate our front steps. We also played in the hay tunnel and watched the deer. This was Hudson and Jaycee's first trip to the pumpkin farm.





















1st Day of Preschool

Somer had her first day of preschool September 2nd. Five little girls from her daycare make up 1/4 of the class and they all love it. I have got to take them twice and it's so much fun loading all five little girls in the back seat of my van and to drive four blocks. They even all showed up with matching book bags. Princesses of course. This is a picture of Somer on her first day standing outside Lisa's house and a picture of the first paper she brought home.




Tuesday, August 25, 2009

New Bathroom

We started to remodel our bathroom this past weekend. We are not quite done as several problems arose throughout the course of demolition so we still have a few things to do...grout the floor tile, hang paneling and build a cabinet to enclose the back of the shower.

Michael is tearing out the old in this picture. Notice the floor where we had a water leak from the old tub.







We planned on leaving this cabinet, but didn't realize it was built around the old bathtub. We also didn't realize the old bathtub was cast iron. Mark and Michael worked very hard getting it out.







Blue paint and old wallpaper stripped


New paint and bath tub in








New shower


New toliet. Somer was the first to use it.


Tile floor








Sunday, July 19, 2009

Jaycee Rae








Jaycee Rae Mefford
Saturday, July 18, 2009
9 lbs. 14 oz.
22 inches
3:49 pm
Baby and Mommy are doing great! Congrats to Matt, Tara and Joslynn.