March Snapshot, Part 2

While it is true that church, 4H, Scouts, and all the boys various lessons keep us hopping throughout the month, our most special moments are those spent with family.  We are thankful that March was sprinkled with some very special family moments.

On Sunday, March 9th, we had our second annual Tyre Cousins Reunion.  The kids had a blast swimming, catching fish, playing with worms, and paddling boating!

Of course our favorite March family day is March 12th, the day our Lord blessed this earth with our wonderful Daddy!  Treats from the Blueberry Barn, dinner at Olive Garden, and yummy ice cream cake were the order of the day as we celebrated Daddy's 39th birthday!

On March 14th the Lord blessed our family again with the birth our newest little "cousin", Lucy! 

Our family keeps growing and on March 15th we were honored to welcome one more new member as my little cousin Miranda married her high school sweetheart.

Aunt Dot and Aunt Esther visited for the wedding too!

Spring time around here always means early mornings and late nights of fishing!  On March 20th, a late afternoon trip to the pond after soccer practice resulted in these two monsters.  Jesse is smiling so big because he caught the biggest one!  Jesse also told me that I better not "waste his fish by making catfish stew".  According to him, any fish that isn't fried is wasted...in other words don't go baking my fish or putting it in any stew.  (Side note:  Mommy also caught a keeper fish on this trip!)

Friday, March 21, we celebrated our Philip again with swimming, fried fish, fried shrimp, and ice cream cake at Grandma & Da's!

On March 28th, my boys finally got the boat in the ocean for the first time in a long time, and although reports had been that the fish weren't biting, they proved everyone wrong!  Their biggest haul of the day was this huge sheephead and it took all three of my boys to get it in.  Jesse was super proud and again told me not to waste his fish by baking it.

I love spring time, when the weather starts getting warmer and the days start getting longer, and we get to spend so much time with family!

You’ve got to break some eggs…

if you want scrambled eggs!

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Jesse, June 24, 2010

My little chef loves to help out in the kitchen. And one of his favorite dishes to make and eat…."eggs with ketchup but NOT scrambled.” His eggs are scrambled of course, but if you tell him that…he won’t eat them:-)

Jesse, July 26, 2010

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Out of the Mouths of Babes

I have to write these things down lest I forget...

"Mama, if you don't believe in Jesus you will go live with the devil. But I believe in Jesus. I don't want to live with the devil. Do you believe in Jesus Mama?" "I do." And he just nodded his head matter of factly and sauntered off. If only we adults would witness to people as readily as our children do, how many more sheep could we bring home to God's flock?

Anyone who knows us well, knows that all I have do to make my hubby squirm is to start talking about another baby. We recently found out that another member of our family is expecting...it seems like our family is just busting out with babies:-) I was saying that we needed a baby too and Jesse said, "But Mama you have a baby, I'm your baby. I wear underwear but I'm still your baby."

As we were driving up the mountain to Vogel State Park last week, Jesse exclaimed,"Are you glad God made these mountains. I am!" We spent one night and spent the following day walking everywhere and climbing up Brasstown Bald. Even when the boys had the opportunity to ride, they wanted to walk! About 9:15 that night we headed home and as you can imagine, the boys were snoozin' before we ever got off the mountain. Around Atlanta Jesse started talking in his sleep. "Mama, I'm tired of walking. Are these the last steps?" I just love hearing him talk in his sleep!

Last night there was a horse fly in our car which was freaking the kids out. Trey said, "Mama, horseflies aren't like regular flies, they bite people!" To which Jesse responded, "Do they only bite people who look like horses?"