2010 Devine Acres

We met my grandma AKA GG at the local Dairy Queen on Sunday. The boys brought her flowers and her face lit up when they gave them to her. She must have said Thank You about a hundred times. That made me extremely happy that we could make her day. The boys really like her and enjoy getting to see her. Photo Shoots are extremely difficult these days but I do my best.

We eventually took this pumpkin home. Roy is wanting to draw and make a scene on the pumpkin this year.

PAN>Rocco is about the hardest toddler to get to cooporate. We did our best but we just couldn't get it altogether.

Gavin spent most of the day at the trike track. These bikes must have been at the perfect size and weight for Gavin because he was blowing by everyone. He went again and again and again.

The best part for the kids in the mining. They have so much fun seeing what neat and interesting rocks they find. Everyone is trying to open the bags up for the impatient kiddos.

As Grammie and I was sitting in the shade, Grammie caught this sweet picture of the boys.

National Night Out

Our church gave us a challenge to go out and meet your neighbors. Bill and I have taken this challenge very seriously and we constantly are trying to see what nice things we can do for other people. We thought that we could really knock the ball out of the park by hosting our streets National Night Out. We went to Sam's and bought 60 hot dogs and buns, a 50 pack of chips and some other misc items. Gavin and I went around last Thursday and knocked on each door and invited everyone to come to our house on Tuesday.

Tuesday came and my dogs totally knew that something weird was happening. Mudge kept running around like crazy and finally went and hid behind our pillows. HILARIOUS!! I find animals so interesting when they can "sense" something is going on. Bill got the pit going and the people came. I think we hosted around 30 people. Everyone had such a nice time. My mom and dad came over as well.

Even though we did not have the boys, all the neighborhood kids came and hung out and played games.

Bill even did a few hot sausages. That seemed to be the absolute hit!

Bill and I both thought it was a complete success. We are going to continue to think of nice things to do. I will keep you posted.

Camping

We decided to go camping this past weekend because the weather was so inviting. We found a nice spot at Canyon Lake. We set up camp and began fishing. The boys pulled in a few bass in the pier. Roy got into it but Gavin was more in to throwing rocks to scare the fish away. I am not sure if Gavin was telling me he was two and now he is four or if he was telling me peace out but never the less he made me laugh.

Roy began to get frustrated because the fish weren't jumping on his hook so I went down and one cast and got a fish to jump on. This is the only way I got them to smile with me!

Finally, after Ashley's volleyball game Uncle Matt and Aunt Lisa joined in for the fun. The boys had a blast hanging out with them.

Ashley even fished.

For whatever reason after the first night I put the camera away. Dang it!! We still had fun. Lots of boat and wave runners. Gavin was obsessed with riding the wave runner and became quite the dare devil. John and Lisa also came which is a super plus because every time we'd ask for something that we forgot they were right there.