Wordless Wednesday...

Frog Scare

Here is another one of my greatest moments as a dad. We found this frog puppet and the twins loved it. That is until I thought it would be funny to make him bite them.....It seemed like a good idea at the time, but as you can see, I was wrong.

Wordless Wednesday...

My Brother:

Slide Slip-Up

Today we had our family birthday party for Ashton. If you are going to have a party at the end of July, you have got to break out the water slide. I was embarassed that we bought this thing a couple of years ago, but we figured it was cheaper than renting something like this every year. The best part about it is that big kids can get on it too. Here is a video of our little mishap today. I did learn an important lesson. There is a reason why they insist that you stake it down.



Obviously, it did not stop the fun.

Knoxville Zoo

Ashton had her 5th birthday this week. I was supposed to go to Knoxville for work, so I took everybody. I was working a pretty early shift, so what the heck. Family Trip. I did not want to miss her birthday. I think that it worked out pretty well. My work paid for our hotel and gas and my meals. Then we had zoo passes to Nashville's Zoo, so we were able to get into Knoxville's Zoo for free. Why not bring everybody. I was a little nervous about traveling with the twins again, but they were very good.

The first evening we were there, I called ahead to my office in Knoxville and was told by two people that we were staying in the hood and they would not take their family there, so I cancelled our reservations on the way there. Who would've thought that you can't believe what you see on the internet. It looked nice on their site.

When we got into town, we called some friends from high school, Matt and Brandy Rappe. We were actually trying to check into a hotel when we first spoke, but he told us that we could find something closer to my office and we would take care of it after dinner. So then we went to their house where he grilled a wonderfull dinner. As you can probably predict, there was not another room to be found that was not in the hood. So they invited us to stay. They were obviously crazy and did not know what they were getting into. We had a great time there and the accomodations were much better than we had planned on having. We taught them a big lesson, don't invite friends over from out of town without making sure they will leave.

Later the second day, we went to the zoo after I got off of work. Here are a couple of video clips of our encounters there. First is our experience with the camels. You just have to watch.

Then Jackson decided to throw poop. I promise that I did not teach him this.

Wordless Wednesday...

Momma's Day Off

Tonya is always complaining that she never gets a day off, well she finally got it. At the last second, she got invited to go to Atlanta to hear Beth Moore speak with some church friends of hers. She left Friday morning and is hopefully coming back late Saturday night. She will not be gone for very long, but it feels like forever. Mom's have it rough. I have to work alot of hours and fight computers all day, but you can at least smack them and turn them off if you get to upset with them.

We had a really good couple of days. I was really trying to do things right. We had just eaten our lunch and I looked down and Will had eaten some lunch of his own. He was sitting in the floor chewing on a tube of desitin. Hey, look on the bright side, he should have a clear face for a while.

Here is a picture of one of our lunches. I promise that is a green been on his head.

Wesley was good except for Friday night. I went to the bathroom for a quick trip (I promise that it was only #1) and when I came back to the living room, he was shoveling fireplace gravel into his mouth. He saw me coming and started doing it even faster. I got several out of his mouth, but I couldn't have gotten them all. I am hoping that they are like doves or pigeons. They eat gravel every day to help digest their food. Maybe babies are the same way.



Saturday evening, the Carpenters came over to visit and play for a little while. Chloe and Ashton had alot of fun dressing our new kitten. I am afraid to go up to her bedroom to see what else they have gotten into.