Memorial Weekend

We spent a wonderful Memorial weekend with family. This included grilled hamburgers & hot dogs , a camp out, lake time, fishing, shopping, watching the race and lots of eating! Camden and Daddy also stopped by Kelly's pond for a short minute and Camden caught the Big One!

 When you don't have a tape measure to see how big your fish really is... just use your boot!

 I don't know how Camden gets so lucky, but he always gets the biggest fish. Daddy may want to get a new fishing partner! Well, maybe not!

 

Camden's Obsession

Camden has this little obsession with birds. He found a cardboard box that I was going to throw away and wanted to build a house for the birds. I told him that we would just go buy him a birdhouse and he could paint it. He loves him some birds!

 This is the "Bird Pew" that Camden had Daddy build so the house could sit up in the tree. He is obsessed I tell you. Next I found him making nests out of grass clippings. Will it end?

 This is what Bentley thought about the whole thing!

 On a completely different subject, I made Camden wear his rain jacket this morning to wait on the bus. He had an absolute melt down. He told me that I was treating him like a five year old! He made sure to let me know after school that he lost like twenty friends on the bus because he had to wear a rain jacket. So serious for a nine year old!

Last Love Note

Camden left me another one of his little love notes about his food problem. The "white" part of his burrito was apparently too hard for him to eat. He is going to make an awesome food critic one day! Much to his dismay he was informed that he will not waste any more time writing notes to me about how bad the food is. We will see how that works out!

Camping We Will Go

The Boy Scouts recently went camping way out in the middle of nothing. Camden had the time of his life. There was lots of small animals to feed. He most enjoyed the goats. Hmmm, I'm starting to notice a trend here! Ha!

 Hello there little crazy haired horse!

 The camp ground had an area where you could dig for rocks. This would be right up Camden's alley. He was at home!

I didn't know anything about this, but I learned something that everyone should know....Just in case you are ever stuck out in the woods with nothing to eat or something. If you take an egg, squish it up, put it in a Zip Lock bag and throw it in boiling water until it boils, you will have a scrambled egg! Who knew?

 Camden and Daddy had the best time ever. They didn't take showers for a couple days, stayed up late, went digging in dirt, ate junk food (not counting the scrambled eggs!) and were doing man things. Thank goodness I got to sit this one out! Ha! This is a mustard field that they passed on the way. Pretty neat. 

 
 
 

Best Day Ever

Mother's Day was the best day ever! I got out of bed and dressed and then was ordered back to bed. I couldn't leave bed until I had been served breakfast! Wow! Camden gave me some flowers, a jewelry  box, a Mom necklace and a flower vase that he made. It was just precious! My other son, Bentley, wasn't so excited.

  This is the little vase that Camden made. He put pictures on it that reminded him of me. It had lots of flowers and some shoes! Ha! There was even a cute little picture of a dog!

 After church we all played in the pool. Later Daddy took Camden to see Iron Man 3 so I could just relax and do absolutely nothing at all! It was so amazing! Then we ate some Mexican take out for dinner. It was such a wonderful day and God sent us some beautiful sunshine (we haven't really seen the sun in about 3 weeks!). Thank you Camden and Daddy for making this the best day ever!

 This little child doesn't know, but he owns his Mama's heart.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to two of the sweetest mothers I know!

Another Love Note

According to the note I found attached to his plate this morning, Camden seemed to be having stumic problems. I think he meant to say "stomach." I only wish he would spend more time eating instead of writing notes to me. Sigh.

Mike's Farm

We took a little road trip down to Mike's Farm last weekend. The food is truly unbelievable. Drinks come in these cute little Mason jars and you get a ham biscuit for an appetizer. Yummy.  Have you ever seen a homemade biscuit look this amazing? Me either!

  Now for the best fried chicken in the world and some wonderful country vegetables. Sweet mercy!

 Of course we topped all of this off with some cheese cake with chocolate. We were stuffed to say the least, but it was so good!

 I always stop at their bakery and get a piece of ten layer chocolate cake to bring home. Camden got a hunk of fudge this time and he kept calling it his "cake".  After we ate dinner we walked around the farm and fed the goats some corn. A baby goat escaped and Tim had to round him up and put him back in his pen.

  We had such a great time.

Saylor's Birthday

Camden and I went to Saylor's birthday party at the Pottery Playhouse. He picked out a jet to paint. The moms were there for moral support and any needed assistance, but we all ended up painting something too! It was a blast and Camden had a great time. He was really into painting! 

 See what I mean! It even made his eyes cross! Ha!

 He was so excited about his jet and he proudly presented it to Daddy for the 26 years he has served in the military. We had a great night and Camden and I decided that we may go back and paint again! Here is Saylor, the little birthday Princess! We hope you had the best Birthday!!