Painting Fun

Everett likes to paint. He's good at it...just look at the use of color, the bold brush strokes. He uses the brush, cleans it between colors, uses a paper towel to blot the brush...for a while. The pictures show what inevitably happens next. He mixes everything together, squishes the paint through his hands and then eats it. That stuff is non-toxic right?

Fun Family Project

Everett got a new "big giant" sand box this weekend. Donnie and I built it ourselves out of just about $30 worth of lumber and screws! I won't mention how much the sand was...why is that stuff so expensive? Anywho...still much less expensive than the store-bought kind and big enough to make sand angels!

Donnie's Big 4-0

Fun photo's from Donnie's party at Mom's. Everett put all the candies and all 40 candles on the cake all by himself. The lighting and blowing out of said candles was quite an adventure (as you can see)! But the huge smile and excitement from Everett (and Donnie!) made it worth the time, wax and burnt icing.

FYI--you can click on any photo and see it full screen...maybe I'm the only one who didn't know that before yesterday?

Lawn Boys

When I saw Everett "mowing" behind his daddy, I ran inside to get the camera. These are so cute that I'm speechless...life is good! Donnie used to follow behind his daddy with his plastic lawn mower (I bet they didn't have plastic Weed Eaters then!) Okay...so not completely speechless!

Fresh Blackberries

Cute shot of Everett eating some very fresh blackberries out behind my mom's house. He's getting so tall! We love summer around here. Looking forward to boating, camping and just spending a lot of time outside this summer!