Bumper Sticker Tuesday

Really any day could be bumper sticker day but I saw this one today and I thought it was great, kind of fits our family to a tee. We have a fairy for everything else might as well include this.......

I Heart Faces - "Blue" photo challenge

This week all the photos of faces have to have the cool BLUE in them as well as face. I found this picture from a recent birthday party and I love it.

This is my entry for Week 38 - "Blue" Photo Challenge

She sure is cute. Take a look at the rest of the photos at I ♥ Faces .

The Ever So Reclusive Rhino

Here he is with Little Mama and Little Man. It has been sooo long since I have been able to snap a picture of him without this kind of very large very toothy no lip gummy smile.  I'm always thinking "where does this 'smile' come from?". Finally , tonight was the night.

During a very long night of bull fighting the kids got kind of sweaty and kind of sweet on each other. It doesn't happen very often but sometime they can be kind of cute together.

This picture is one of those times.

This picture is when those times have gone by the wayside and everyone remembers how they didn't really like everyone else about 20 seconds ago, and then they start choking each other.

And this is when The Rhino does something that makes me laugh until I have to run to the bathroom. He takes his finger, licks it and puts it on his backside while making "the sizzling" noise, kind of like his butt is sooooo hot !!!

And then this comes immediately after it, kind of like "yeah see how hot I am".  I'm not really sure who he was reminding of how hot he thinks he is but it was one of those moments that is just kind of built in to boys that he felt like a stud and wanted me to know.

And this is him laughing, kind of embarrassed, from acting like such a stud. This is my favorite picture of him in along time. It so absolutely the smile that I can never quite capture. It feels like him and I so love it.

I am so glad that I was able to take some of these pictures. We had such a good time as a family last night. The atmosphere was relaxed and so at ease. Sometimes I forget that spending time together as a family can be this great.

19lbs baby WOW

Check out the 19 lbs baby born in Indonesia, amazing and happily for her by c-section. I guess my 9 pounders don't hold a candle to this one. I just can't imagine what it's like to carry that much baby in my belly. How much food did she have to eat to keep up with the growth of that baby? God Bless Her and keep the baby healthy!

I ♥ Faces - Completely Candid Contest

This is my entry and only my second time entering. It's a great site for seeing some really great faces!!

Check it out !!!

Family Dinner Again

We had the most yummy lasagne tonight. It was a sweaty time for all the kids as we ended up on the playground across the street. I also got a chance to use my newfound camera knowledge, since I took a class yesterday on how to actually use the camera and it's gazillion settings. I thought I got some pretty good shots for being such a beginner. Here they are :

 I think this is a passion vine and it smells soooooo good, but I'm sure there are people that are so allergic to it. It kind of smells like honeysuckle, or so I thought.

 What a hoot these 2 are. This is their version of "hands up your going down a roller coaster". They had a ball.

Look at Little Man. He is the only one that will get close enough to me for me to take a picture.

He is soooo handsome, I wonder if he will marry me when he gets older?

Here is the Lamber, he doesn't realize it yet but his world is about to change dramatically. I'm praying for him !

The tire swing

The big kids on the tire swing, man they like to go fast.

They have such a ball, I on the other hand am trying not to throw up while I watch them spin.

These pictures where straight out of the camera, I didn't change them at all, ok well most of them. I think after a few more years of practice I might be able to actually take a pretty good picture, hopefully before the kids grow up.

What a Day

Really it has been ok. We put Loomis down today and that has been a blow for everyone. I'm torn between feeling like I killed him to remembering how bad his quality of life had gotten. He was no longer able to make it outside to potty and he couldn't stand up for a whole meal. His legs would end up doing the splits and then I would have to lift him up when he started crying, just heartbreaking. It's hard to take your dog to the vet to be put down when he seems a little spry, although it's like I told Big Daddy, the stimulation from getting out of the house and smelling other dogs and stuff made him very happy today. I will miss him terribly, he has been with us since the beginning and I have been his mom since then. Big Daddy had him before I even came on the scene and that is about 15 years now. I love you Loomis, maybe you will find someone to play hide-and-seek with you in heaven !!!

This is the Loomis. Isn't he handsome !!! This is the stud (well he never was used as a stud) in his younger days.

This is Loomis a few days ago, I guess dogs get grey around the

muzzle too.

This is (l-r) Abby Loomis and Stray. What a bunch of spoiled dogs.

Things in perspective : Today after we had taken Loomis we came home and Little Man went off to play, which is not uncommon. I found him a few minutes later in a part of the house by the wall where he had also been playing yesterday. I had originally thought he was just playing in the sun by the door but what I realized today was that he had been sticking these plastic sticks in the light socket the whole time. That moment I then put all things in perspective, while I will truly miss the dog he was old and had lived a good life. Now my child is dangerously close to scaring me into wetting my pants and his life could have been forever altered in the blink of an eye. I loved all my dogs and will truly miss them and am really sad to be without them. I try to think about them frolicking in the flowers, chasing squirrels and chewing on raw hides.