Evolution of the Swimsuits

Modest is Hottest! :) This lady shows the history of a swimsuit as she is launching a new line. All arguments against this can be negated by this point: "be seen as a person to connect with instead of an object to be used." 5 minute mark starts interesting facts.

Fair Hills pre-partaay!

Some could wonder "why would they drive 14 hours to go back to the same place to vacation each summer?"

This is just a teensy piece of why...

It's so fun!

Doug's family and Greg's family started out in 1980 as neighbors, each with 2 kids, a boy and a girl.  Greg's then added another little gal.  Those 5 kids grew up together in the same church, started their own families, and we're all still friends!  One of the "other" kids is also local and they decided to have a Fair Hills party for the entire bunch.  It was the first time in, dare I say at least a decade, that nearly everyone has been together.

Here is the group, minus Robin who is the photographer, and a few of the Pinter boys.  There are 28 in the group. 

 The kids loved the hot tub time! 

My big kid loved swinging in the hammock!  

He now has his own in our backyard that we set up for Father's Day!

Tom and Robin found this 20' by 100' tarp at Lowes!  

Kyle was excited to take Reid down....

Reid wasn't so excited to be going down....

The girls.  Carrie and I don't know what that is like!

The view from the top of the hill.  

Those trees across the pond are our neighborhood and that pond is the one in this picture that we stumbled upon on a family walk.  We didn't know the neighborhoods connected!

Next up... 

"Can you canoe?!?!"

Braves

I gotta say... I love baseball season.

It may appear to drag on for 3 months, but it is truly so FUN!

Especially when you win.

Every game.

15-0.

That's fun.

Coach Honey Love and Grant

(I sure hope he doesn't really go by that name but it's my blog so why not be all silly willy if I can?!?)

 Love you both so much!

I have learned that you can get little boys to smile if you promise they get to take a goofy picture at the end!

Not shown here is a picture of Reid in his stroller.  He attended and sat through 25 baseball / t-ball games this spring.  Kuddos, Reid, for being a great brother!  :)

Mid June pictures

Funny enough, these pictures are all within a week old - we have been doing a lot to keep busy so far this summer!

Jason FINALLY got "his" basketball goal that he has been dreaming of for years.  It is also our go-to now when tornadoes come to town because there is 1200 pounds of concrete holding the goal down.  (not really our safe room as we have a tornado room but this thing is sturdy).  We figured we have 16 more years of boys living at this house with us at a minimum and didn't want one to fall over in our OK winds.  

Here are Grant and Kyle in the massive hole!

Fridaway.  Yummy cheese sticks!

Bro time on the driveway.

We have had several kindergarten/first grade boy playdates, too.  This one was with Mez - the entire dining room was turned in to a huge fort (and 4 days later, it still looks exactly like this - who really cares, anyways?!?!).  

How's this picture for a kicker in the middle of the blog?

This "little stick" can be the best thing to ever happen to a person or perhaps a hugely dreaded tool.  

Fortunately, it came back the way we wanted at this point.

I have been nauseous and was several days late.

Thank you, God, for this result for our family.

Reid got a little pool for his birthday and is always in it either 1. fully dressed or 2. diaperless and in a water shirt.  Here he is in his shirt but somehow came outside wearing Kyle's book bag.  Pretty happy boy!

BASEBALL!!!

We had seven games this week between both teams.  I am actually going to miss the boys, the game, and the families after our last game on Tuesday.  The Braves (who are currently undefeated with 1 game left) celebrated with a pizza party on Friday night.  Way to go, boys!

Great group of kids and families.  We are lucky this group of kids can grow up together.

We did have some typical boy jokes this night: poking holes in cups, unscrewing the grated cheese lid so when your friend used it, it poured everywhere, putting cheese in hair...  :)

Kyle's friend, Bodey, from the Hot Rods.  His brother was on Grant's team so we saw a lot of them this year!

Kyle's great friend, Blake.

 Coach Daddy and Kyle

Hot Rods team picture

I just took a picture rather than buying the group photo... sorry they're not looking at me!

 And then this fella....

We're hoping he is the mama snake (so then it would need to be a she!) to all of the babies we have had around here.  Best guess from a facebook poll is the Diamondback Oklahoma Water snake.  Non-venomous but eats fish as main source of food.  He was about 4' long.

Y-U-C-K!!!!!!!!!!! 

Future OSU golfers - Grant, Hudson and Lilly

(yes, she is the same age!)

Goobers!

Blow me away!

Our great state has been blown away this tornado season.  May 20 and May 31 both brought record-breaking disasters to extended metro area.  On the 31st, my parents and I were at the OKC airport getting ready to fly to visit my grandmother.  We really tried to get on the 6:30 flight instead of the 8:30 to beat the bad weather.... at 6:15 the announcement came that everyone must go to the tunnels below the airport.  

We did.  Along with 2,000 other people.  

It was fine for a while.  And then the power went out.  As well as the air conditioners!  :)

The staff brought bottled water to elderly and kids, and then finally to everyone.  Truthfully, I was never scared as it was the safest place to be!  However, the not knowing about what was happening outside was the worst as we didn't get cell reception.

Funny story: the guy in the lower right corner is actually friends with my Aunt Kelly and Uncle Tony, and my Uncle Jay from college!!!  Small world.

We decided to go upstairs and brave the weather before given the "all clear" by the airport as we knew our flight wasn't happening.  We left at 8:45 and this was the view.  Just about the time I took this picture, we were next to a Volkswagon Beetle trying to brave the flood water (which you cannot see in the picture!).  It didn't make it.  Water was up to the headlights, and the car just died.  Sad.

We saw several cars, a good amount of debris, down power lines, and a whole lot of traffic.  Not a fun night and I was glad to pull up to my driveway around 11!

 Our thoughts and prayers to the families and victims of these natural disasters!

Happy summertime from our Koi and goldfish!