Independence Day

Happy July 4th...and thanks to all our military, in past and present, who serve our country and allow us the freedom's we enjoy each day! We went up to Wintergreen with Nanne and Grampa for the weekend and had a great time! The weather was perfect Friday and Saturday and they had a lot of cool stuff going on, especially for kids! Bryden and I got to do some trampoline jumping (B did a flip!!!), Daddy rode the mechanical bull (we are both paying for our endeavors today!), Bryden played in the jump arounds and got to make ice cream, we all enjoyed the craft fair, and of course, an AWESOME fireworks show. We will definitely go up there again for the fourth! Enjoy the pics, there are definitely some precious ones (click on the pictures to zoom in and get a better look)! I will get some video up sometime...

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Cute Pictures

We have produce!!! Yea, we have had quite a few cucumbers come to fruition lately, here are a couple cute pics of Bryden shaving our most recent cucumber to nibble on! And here are also some cute pics of Emerson having belly time...all with her hand in her mouth! Enjoy!




















"Enough already, it is just a dang cucumber Mom!" (That is what I read in her eyes anyway)












Cute Emmy
Flirty Emmy

Shy Emmy

Virginia Beach

Bryden and I dropped Emerson off to spend the day with Nanne, while we went down to spend the day with Aunt Chandra. We were going to go to the beach, but the water was a little to cool still to really enjoy it, so we decided to stay at Chandra's and swim in her pool. Uncle Murat has a sweet underwater camera that we used to get still shots of Bryden diving under water and some videos too. Bryden did such an awesome job diving under water for her whirly birds...several times she was under water for like 7 seconds! Sprinter in the making with that hypoxic capacity :o) I also wanted to go to the beach to get some pics for Bryden's book we are making to help her learn to read, and in the mean time, we got some great shots of us in the dunes! P.S. The ugly yellow shoes that Bryden is wearing, yeah, they were what she picked out for reading 5 words. We went to Wal-Mart and she saw them and I told her she could get them if she could learn to read 5 words (that is my personal goal this summer to help her learn how to read. She can sound out the alphabet, now it is just putting them together!). So, yesterday she learned to read pit, cat, mitt, hop and kit! Yay Bryden, boo for ugly yellow shoes! Enjoy!

Check out this cute video!

"H" is for Horse

Bryden is starting to learn how to read a bit, so we are in the process of making a word book of our own. I thought it would better for her to read words and look at pictures that we took ourselves, and things that Bryden can relate to. So, we went driving around town the other day, and we went to a horse farm that we used to visit quite often near where she went to day care. The horses were so friendly (in the past them haven't ever really paid much attention to us) and two came right over...we didn't bring any carrots or apples, but we fed them grass and I got some great photos...H for Horse...and just some cute pics of Bryden in the moment. Enjoy!

Cherry Pickin'

Man, we are becoming fruit picking experts! We went cherry picking on Father's Day, it was a heck of a lot of work for only about 2 1/2 pounds. They just opened last weekend and were already pretty well picked over. The good ones were way at the top of the tree, Bryden and I had to be monkey's to climb up the trees to get to them. Hmmm, overall experience...way too much work for not much reward. We like apple and pumpkin pickin better!




These are too cute!

Emerson Eating

Emerson