Wowza, Were has the time gone??

I adore this picture of him.  It shows is attitude at this point in his life.  If things are going his way he's as happy as can be.  But watch out the  minute you say no or you leave the house without taking him with you,  He will throw himself into the hugest fit you've ever seen.

I'm assuming (hoping) that he's getting running start into the terrible 2's.

That being said,  He's a darling little boy most of the time.  These are the top 10 things i love about Knox

10. His goofy smiles/surprise looks

9. When he gets go excited when anyone says the word "Go"

8.  His love of bubbles,  They never get old

7.  How tough he is (he can make Brody,Paris and Blaze cry)

6. His love of Baby's

5. How much he loves his stuffed Dr. Suess animal things (and how he loves the pink one the best)

4. His love of shoes!

3. When he rub's my face

2. When he cuddles with me

1. When  your trying to talk to someone or do something and he holds your head in his fat little hands so you can't move it and kisses and kisses you.

We Love our little Knox and we think he was a excellent note to end on!!  Happy Birthday big boy!

A Camping we will go!

So I'm not a big camper.  I never have been a big camper.  It just does not sound fun to me at all.  But Brad gets no Holiday's during the summer so we have to plan short little trips.  So we decided to try camping this year.  So in preparation we went and bought a tent.  we got a 10 men tent,  in the hopes if would fit us all along with our stuff.  It worked wonderfully. 

Anyway,  we got there Friday afternoon and the wind was blowing so bad.  We started setting up the tent,  I was about to throw in the towel,  and if Brad would have hesitated for one min.  We would have been on our way home just as fast as we had gotten there.  But Brad said it would be fine,  the wind would die down.  Sure enough it did a couple hours after we got the tent all set up.

OK in my defence this was the first picture taken when we woke up Saturday morning.  Yikes!!!

Paris was tell a long story i believe in this picture.  It was a super intense one i guess.

I'm pretty sure this was Blazers Best part of the camping trip....  When Tatum taught him how to string cheese,  We just assumed he liked to eat it with out stringing it.  Who new we had just never taught him the proper way to string it.

Knox loved the little beach and lake,  He pretty much kept his elephant around his waist the entire day.

Blaze got a little blow up raft from the $ store,  he loved it he put it barley in the water and hopped on it and pushed his way through the sand.  I'm not sure he knew how to do it but he made it work the way he wanted it to.

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This was the only picture taken of me (besides the really bad morning shot,  and a very inappropriate one Brad took while I was bending over)  Anyway but that's proof that i was there and camping.

Brad and the girls swam out to the dock.

The 2 handsomest sunbathers

I'm not going to lie,  There was some fighting.................. here's the prof (don't feel to sorry for Knox,  He had it coming,  he's not a Innocent victim.

We Saw Brad's cousin there and so we got to go out on this sweet Paddle boat with them,  The girls loved it the most.

We buried the kids,  well only half of Blazer (he was a bit nervous to get to buried)

Oh dirty dirty girls and Blazer

Knox was so happy to just play with these trucks on the beach

After we buried the kid's they wanted to bury Dad.

Then that was so much fun the girls wanted to get buried again,  So Brad and I made them into Mermaids

hehe,  Nice seashells

Saturday night Nate and Ang came to camp overnight with us.  We roasted hot dog's, smokies, hamburgers, potato's and pretty much anything that would roast.  MMMMMMM  so good, (except for the smokies eek1)

Hunter,  Not so much a fan of camping or maybe it was the lack of sleep.

Carson Told great Ghost stories.

Mmmmmm Smores

Sunday we packed up,  read a few scriptures,  Played with the kids at the park and finally came home. 

The boy's were...................................

Pooped!

We are all tired and dirty,  But we had so much fun together as a family.  We are planning on going again!!  Hopefully sooner then later so Brody can come with us!

Cupcakes.

I've got cupcakes coming out my ears.  Paris had a great idea a couple weeks ago.  He wanted to do a cupcake sale.  We've really been into making cupcakes the last month or so.  Anyway she decide that would be fun.  So when Her cousin Tatum came we decided that was the perfect opportunity.  So we made up 2 dozen cupcakes,  one dozen Pink Lemonade cupcakes and one dozen Score cupcakes.  I had a eye appt. so Grandma Sharon helped the kid's get set up at the post office.  I thought i would have Lot's of time to make it home and snap a picture of the girls hard at work.

I missed the whole thing they had sold every last cupcake in a hour and a half!  They were so excited and ready to do it again the next day.  I said No!  But one week later they asked again and i said OK! So this time i stuck around to help them.  They had so much fun seeing everyone up town and selling there cupcakes. 

This week we made Pink Lemonade again, and then we mixed it up with a Oreo Cupcake and  a chocolate strawberry cupcake.  They sold all there cupcake in 1hour and 15 mins. 

So Paris decided this was going to be her summer Job.  I agreed as long as Brody gets to help her (now that Tatums gone)  she gives me 5 dollers to replace my butter and icing sugar, and that she put 3/4 of her earning away into savings.  She begrudgingly agreed.  So as it stands now every Wednesday Paris and Brody will be out Peddling there cupcakes!!