Spring Break in Louisiana-Part 2

I had soooo many pictures I decided to do 2 posts.

On Thursday, we spent the day at Paw Paw and Maw Maw's camp at Little Creek. Austin and Kamden spent the whole day playing with 8 of their cousins. They even got to play in the creek like we used to do when we were kids! However, it was kind of sad being down there without Paw Paw Teet. He always loved spending the day down there and letting all the grandkids run around playing. I sure miss that man!!





Playing in the creek!



Thursday evening we went to Paw Paw James and Grammy's house. The boys always love to go out there and play. Here is Paw Paw James pushing Kamden on the swing.


Friday was our last day. That evening we went to Beau's birthday party. Here is a picture of the cool birthday dude!
This was Kamden's first time on skates and he actually did pretty good! On the way to the party he told me 'he could do it all by myself. I don't need any help' but he quickly changed his mind after he put the skates on and tried to stand up.



As you can see, we had a very busy week but we wouldn't have it any other way. The boys really look forward to our trips to Louisiana and Heath & I enjoy them too especially seeing our kids doing all the things we used to do as kids growing up in a small town and close to all your family.

Spring Break in Louisiana-Part 1

We had a great spring break in Louisiana! We did SO much--I think I'll just let the pictures tell the story. :)

When we got there Friday nght we had a crawfish boil!!! YUM!!!



Since we were going to miss Lawton's birthday party, we gave him his present early. He LOVES Mickey Mouse!

Kamden playing with Nonnie's new puppies. By the way, they are for sale if you want one. :)

On Saturday, we went to Jonesville and watched Malcolm & Zac rope. The boys found a 'lucky' rusted horseshoe that Kamden insisted on bringing home with us.

We went camping at Caney Lake for a few days. Austin fished the whole time. He caught 10 fish.



Here's how Kamden spent his time camping...eating and playing.

One afternoon, Kamden fell asleep on the fishing pier while we were watching Austin fish.

Basketball

Austin had his last basketball game this week. He played Upwards at the church with several of his teammates from baseball. They played really hard and good. Austin scored points at each game and at one game he scored 10 points!! Some games I wondered if we were playing football or basketball because they were so aggressive!

Austin is on the right in the maroon jersey. He's going for a shot...
...and he makes it!!!

Time for a little one-on-one!

Honesty

On one Friday of each month they have a Rise & Shine Assembly at school where they present an award to 1 or 2 students of each class. This award is a character award depending on which character they are working on that particular month. Austin won the award this month for honesty! Their teachers don't tell them when they are receiving the awards so it is a surprise for them. However, if you know Austin, he doesn't show excitement over much and he definitely doesn't like to be in front of people so he didn't look too thrilled when he was presented with his award but deep down I think he was really happy. Oh well, even if he was too thrilled about it his momma was! :)

Accepting his certificate from his teacher

You would think it would kill him to smile for the camera!

The Belated Birthday Party

Friday night we had Austin's belated birthday party. He wanted to have a sleepover. We began the night with 9 boys but somehow during the scavenger hunt, Heath's team came back with an extra kid! (That was not on his scavenger hunt list!) But, it didn't matter so we called and invited 2 more to join us. All but 2 spent the night. So, at one time during the night we had 13 boys here. It was wild!! They played air hockey, cops and robbers, rock band on the wii and every thing else they could think of. They went to bed at 2:00 and was up by 7:00 Saturday morning. Yes, we were TIRED but we had fun!!!


Eating pizza

Scavenger hunt fun!

Searching for a 2001 penny

Did you really expect any other kind of cake? :)






Our first attempt at bedtime. We looked like an orphange with all the kids lined in a row.

Unbelievable

Today we ventured out but only because Heath insisted that we needed to get out of the house since we had been in all week. I don't think he realized what he was getting into. Since we are expecting more snow tomorrow and again next week everybody was out and about today. We went to Wal-mart to try and stock back up but that was a hopeless case. Here is a look at the meat dept. and the freezer section:




They were out of milk, eggs, meat and bread just to name a few. Once we did find the few things we needed that they did have the checkout lines were horrible. They had almost all the registers open and each line had about 5 or 6 people in it. I have never seen anything like this in my life. It is NUTS around here! Needless to say, I WON'T be leaving again.

Snowed In...Day 4!

Today we are going on day 4 of being snowed in and it is snowing again!!! It has been snowing big flakes for about 2 hours. Heath went back to work yesterday. And boy was he glad! :)It looks like I'll be shoveling the driveway again just so he can get back home this evening. But, the boys and I are having fun. I have potato soup in the crockpot and we've played with play-doh, made perler bead creations, done valentine cards and played the wii and it's not even 1:00 yet! Snow days are good memory making days!

It's snowing...AGAIN!



The case of play-doh Santa brought is being put to good use...

...even if it is rainbow colored now!

Making Valentine bead creations

Yesterday this was a nicely shoveled path to our garage... not anymore!! And yes, it is taken from the upstairs window because it is 17 degrees but that is warm compared to the single digits we've been having.