July - Kellie's birthday

Aaaannndddd.....we're off again! We left El Paso Friday afternoon to AGAIN head to Pecos. Dad Dad rode with us, since Mom MOm and the grandkids had left earlier in the day. Saturday was Kellie's annual birthday bash at the Country Club. Friday night (I guess it's technically Saturday morning) about 3 a.m., a HUGE storm rolled into Pecos. I haven't heard a storm that loud in ..... well, maybe EVER. The wind was blowing sssoo hard! Michael had left his boat in the fishing pond from giving the kids a ride earlier. Kyle remembered it had been left, so, bless his heart, at 3 a.m. in a NASTY wind and rain storm, he goes to rescue it. (Talk about love!!) He was breathing so hard, I thought he was going to throw up. What a great dad! Saturday, we just kind of hung out, fished, and played until Kellie's party. We went over to Mom's to visit, too. Kasey was there with his two kids, and Jet was there. Kylee, Kellie, Blaine, Jet, and Shawn were running and playing. Randy walked into the house just as Blaine was running past the door. He said, "Hey, Pops!" and just kept running. He thought he was my dad. haha!

Saturday night we went to the birthday party, which is always fun. The kids get to play w/cousins, and the adults get to visit with their cousins. Oh, and don't forget the birthday cake and presents!


See! The adults are as silly as the kids!

July - Camp Dad Dad and Mom Mom

Joey and I actually had the week off this week because all the kids were at Dad Dad and Mom Mom's. We went and saw The Proposal, went home and just layed on the couch w/out moving, didn't hear one Disney Channel show song. It was so nice! I did, thought start packing for our next adventure. Get ready for it......
Here it comes.....

July - Balmorhea

The NEXT weekend, we took our yearly trip to Balmorhea.

McKenzie had been in the hospital that week, but she made it and was a real trooper. We also found out that Uncle Doak is having another baby due in January.

Everybody went off the high dive, even the ones who were scared of it, and LOVED it this year. We spent a LOT of our time watching them jump off. It was the usual fun of sun, food, swimming, and visiting.


The ones who make it all happen


Just because I LOVED this picture


Blaine jumps


Kylee jumps

AND....Dad Dad and Mom Mom told us they are taking us BACK to DisneyWorld next summer! woo hoo


Getting the announcement


Last Disney trip

July - the 4th

What a month! We've been home exactly ZERO weekends this month, thus the no posts because I've had NO time to catch up on things that HAVE to be done...grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, etc. So...I'm doing July all in one big blog. Ready? Here we go.

The weekend of the 4th, we went to Pecos on Thursday and spent the night with Kyle's family. The next morning, we got up and headed to the lake (Red Bluff). My kids had been DYING to go on the boat with them, so off we went. It was so much fun, Joey wants a boat. hehe





When we got back to Pecos, we took Kyle's kids (Myra was on call) and headed to Midland to see Pops and Dawn. We just had a typical, all-American 4th of July. We hung out by the pool

hung a flag
took walks in our pajamas
played baseball (well, sort of)
and, of course, popped fireworks

The next day we headed BACK to Uncle Kyle's house for some more all-American fun....FISHING!





See the picture of Kylee and her fish and how she's kinda leaning AWAY from him? That was right after he slapped her in the face with his tail. hehe

Happy Birthday, Mom Mom

Okay. I've been putting this blog off since June 26th because I keep forgetting to get the pictures I need to add. So now I'm just going to lay it out there and add pictures later. Don't ask why I have the 4th of July pictures and not these. I uploaded them on my computer at home, but then.....who knows? Brain fart, I guess.

Anyway, Grandmommy came to town on Mom's birthday, and we all went to dinner at P.F. Chang's. We tried it all, from the Dynamite Shrimp to the Seabass. It was sssoo good!

Happy birthday, Mom, Mom Mom, Dan's wife, master cook, shelter from the parents' storm, shopping buddy, and the one who can be talked into anything if the grandkids ask!