Whoa REALLY?!

How is it that a whole week has almost come and gone and I have only posted once?

Bad blogger!

I have been playing with my sister Meg who is in town, from Arkansas, with her 3 little darling children. More on that soon.

First things first...

I have soooo many pictures from the fun we are having but I needed to stop and post some of the pics from when my brother Mark's 3 boys were here for a week.

We, of course, made a little trip to one of the boy's favorite places...a little fruit barn close to our house. The boys love feeding the HUGE Koi Fish there. And can spend hours trying to catch minnows.

We were having fun feeding the Koi when Zachary asks, "Hey, anyone dare me to eat a piece of fish food?" Of course Big Daddy said, "heck yeah, I dare ya!" So Zachary did.

THEN he said, "Hey take a picture of me eating another one." I asked, "Ew, wasn't it gross? Are you sure you want to eat another one, just for a picture?" Zachary said, "of course!" So here is your picture Zachary...you are the awesomest!
A few times Zachary said, "Kind of has an after taste." I am pretty sure he would have loved a bottle of water or something but he washed the bad taste away with a honey stick from the Fruit Barn.

It took a while to get some minnows caught but Garrett was the pro and when Brock could just not catch one Garrett gave him one of the ones he had caught, what a great big brother. We let the minnows swim free before we left, but the hunt was a lot of fun.

We spent A LOT of time in the pool while the boys were here. Garrett is a really strong swimmer because he is a water polo player...I think he would have stayed in the pool all day long and there were days that he actually did. What a fish!!

Zachary spent a good majority of his pool time creating new rafts and floating devices with noodles and water rings. Very creative and most of them were rather in genius.

The boys could not wait for Big Daddy to get home from work everyday.

My favorite convo from the week was from Brock who is 6...

"When is Uncle Paul coming home?" me, "around 4:00" Brock, "is that a little time or a lot of time?" me, "no too long, why?" Brock, "I just want to know when we are going to start having fun."

Don't worry, I totally get it...my day gets more fun once Big Daddy is home too!

Brock use to spend EVERY summer on the steps in the pool or on the patio playing in the water buckets I have set up for little ones who don't feel like swimming.

This Summer he got a little more brave and was all over the pool with a water ring and even found out he could "touch" in the shallow end.

It was fun to see him finally out there with the big boys splashing around and having a good time!
I have a few more days of pictures to share. I can't seem to find the SD card they are on, which is lame. But once i do there will be video of skate park goodness and a trip to Bass Pro Shop for S'mores...yep the good times are never ending around here!