Granny's 80th!

In July our little fam traveled to College Station to celebrate Granny's 80th birthday! What a milestone, Granny!
1 loving husband, 3 children, 5 grandchildren, 9 great-granchildren and 2 great grand buns in the oven. We are so thankful for you!

Granny & Pappaw


Granny opening some gifts


Granny with the boys, Alex, Isaac, Luke & Jack


Granny with all the grandkids minus Nathan and Lawson





The Smith kids






Holly, Chad, & Christina



Justin & Erin


Chad & Christina


HA! Love this picture of Sadie


Our fam


{insert Phillip & Cami picture here....sorry, I should have taken a picture of the computer as you were real-time streaming via webcam....stole this from yer blog!}


Not sure what was happening in this picture?



In this corner......Anna Maye!!!!


In the opposite corner....Sadie Grace!!!!


Round One! ding! ding! ding!



Just kidding :) these little ladies are the only girls in a sea of boy cousins. They are gonna love having eachother

Crazy Cousin Love....Jack and John!






I love this picture because the contrast of Mammaw looking so happy and Grandpa looking like he might punch me in the face makes me laugh when I see it.....


....John, I know you were having a great time, despite the picture. Many thanks to John and Debbie for hosting such a great birthday party. Granny you are loved, what a treasure to have you in our lives!

John Plus Legos Equals +

Meet John's "Quiet Time" friends....


pictured from left to right (Dale, a working class farmer; Firefighter Gus; Firefighter Rupert; and Firefigther Gus' twin, Rus)

Ah, thank you, Ole Kirk Christiansen, for creating the mystical marvel that is Legos....Thank you for making a toy that has entertained us for the past 6 months with no signs of slowing down!

The smaller Legos are very muched loved but still a bit of a challenge for John and require grown up help to assemble. However, John can entertain himself for quite a while and carry on imagniative play all day with the different LegoDuplo structures he creates.


This is the garbage truck with a side conveyor belt to pick up the trash



This is the infamous "Garbage Factory" with Dale doubling up duty as the guard/look out....because people are always looking to steal garbage, right?



The garbage truck, with Gus (....or is it Rus??) at the helm, delivers trash at the garbage factory....I know, it's confusing the Facotry should really be called the Dump. The garbage factory doesn't make trash, it accepts it.





Good times!

My Little Girl Goes Granola

School will start soon and Anna is out-growing her little mary-jane style Target tennies that I can't find being sold anywhere anymore! So I bought some Tiny Tom's as her back to school "athletic foot wear". I am not a big fan of tennis shoes unless one is exercising. Since Anna is 2 and doesn't do athletics or "excerise" I prefer to not put her in tennies. (I know, I am so weird with some ideas?!)

She was really excited about these new-fangled pink camo Tom's. She wore them the other day and her hair was up in TWO piggie tails (which she rarely allows me to do). I had to take some pictures of her and, boy, was she a ham. She kept wanting me to take more pictures and kept doing all these silly poses. It was so funny and fun.

Here's my little lady at almost 2 and a half years old!

















That little button nose.....ugga mugga....any one know where that's from??