Our Day Doing The Farm Thing...

When we went to Bowling Green for Ben's graduation we also went to Smith's Grove to Wallace's farm for the day. We spent the morning at the pond so the kiddos could see the catfish, which by the way are very ugly fish. Then we went to see the horses and go for a ride. The whole day was a lot of fun and we all had a blast. Matt had so much fun with Wallace's grandkids and Alyssa had fun with all the new experiences.

Here is Alyssa looking at the pond where the catfish were jumping for the food. She was banging on Steven's head in this picture.
Here is Matt with Wallace on the four wheeler. The catfish start jumping when they hear the four wheeler cause they know that food is coming so they rode it right out into the pond to try to catch a "big one".
They did it, they caught a "big one". The whole pond is full of these and Nana promised Matt a day of fishing and he's gonna make her follow thru.
We got to see it.
We were trying to get Matt to touch it, but he didn't want to. He finally did for about 1 second.

Then we went to ride horses. Here is Wallace trying to teach Matt how to guide the horse. Maybe with a little practice and guidance he may get it.. He's still pretty timid with them.
He did enjoy it.
After a long day on the farm we headed back to the city. Thanks Wallace for showing us around, we had fun.

Alyssa this Memorial Day Weekend

We went to my mom's this weekend for my brother's graduation and we were playing around in the backyard. She has lots of flowers and Alyssa found her rose bush and picked a flower off of it. She walked all around the backyard holding and smelling that flower until she sat down in this chair and I started taking pictures. Then she destroyed the flower and was upset when all the petals were gone.

GIVE ME ANOTHER FLOWER!

POPSICLE TIME!!

Alyssa loves popsicles. We usually let her have one while she's taking a bath... it's less mess cause she's already in the tub. Her favorite ones, so far, have been the orange ones.

Her she is watching me open it.. How can you resist those eyes?

She enjoys every bite. Right down to the stick.
Here she dropped a bite on her leg and it was so cold. She did a shake and tried for the longest to pick it back up, but it was too slippery and it was melting rapidly.
She took the last bite and handed me the stick. She hadn't even chewed that bite all the way and she was reaching for more... (she only gets one per bath..lol). I guess she figures it's worth a try though.

Alyssa's First Pageant

My big girl, Alyssa, was in her first pageant this past weekend. She was a contestant in the Good Ole Days Festival here in Woodbury, TN. We took pictures of her whole event and the day leading up to her big DEBUT!

Here we are at the house getting ready.

She loved the new shoes.
Alyssa and I before the pageant. I am so proud of her. She is so full of energy and has such a wonderful personality.
You could tell that she liked the dress and her new sandals because when we got her all ready she just walked around the room looking down at herself.

The sun was really bright and her Aunt Jenny let her borrow her sunglasses. Then, she didn't want to give them back. She liked the shades.

Here she is when she first walked out onto the stage. She was waving at the judges and the audience. It was too cute.
Waving some more!!! That's all she did... I think she was scared of all the people!


Here she is waiting on the stage for the results. She sat pretty good, considering they had to wait so long.
Of course, she ripped out the hair bow.
Then the contestants 6-10 were asked to come back out front. She walked right to the front and center of the stage.



Here is her and dad accepting her third runner up award!

Way to go Alyssa.

Here is a picture of Alyssa with her daddy. He was such a proud dad! She loves her trophy.

Alyssa's days at the ballfield.

These are Alyssa's days at the ballfield while brother is practicing or playing a ball game. She enjoys it and everyone always says hello to her. She loves the attention. This particular day was extremely windy, but that didn't keep her from picking flowers and loving on her daddy.

She loves those dandelions.
She loves her daddy.


Smile Alyssa and daddy.

Baseball season is here!!

This is Matt's first year on a coach pitch team. He's actually suppose to have played another year of t-ball, but Steven and I decided to bump him up to coach pitch thinking he would benefit more from it. This is his team. He's having such a blast and we are so glad that we did decide to move him up.

If you can't tell which one is him he's on the bottom left.

Here he is listening to his coach before a game.

My big man.

He's all into the game here. He plays pitcher so he stays pretty involved in the game. I think actually the coach has mentioned trying him on first, but we'll see it hasn't happened yet.

I'll try to get some more pictures up from his baseball season, but it's hard taking pictures and keeping up with Alyssa at the same time.

The Chattanooga Aquarium

Matt's first grade class at West Side went to the aquarium in Chattanooga, TN. We had a blast. Steven and I both took off of work so that we could go with him on his trip. It was a way for us to do something fun with him while Alyssa went to daycare for the day. We don't ever do that and we wanted just some one on one with him. It was a great day.

I'm not quite sure why he's beating on his chest like an ape, but he's having fun.

Here he went into this tunnel thing were you could look out and feel like you were actually in the fish tank with the fish.

Here was standing next to a big window with the river and bridge in the background.

Matt and I enjoying the water. It was filled with different kinds of fish..

This was Matt's favorite part. Him and Steven are looking into a tank that was filled with huge sharks. Matt loves the sharks.

There were all kinds of beautiful waterfalls and places.

Matt wanted a picture of the alligators (or maybe they're crocodiles) I don't know the difference.

Here is a picture of a sting ray. It kept coming right up to us.

Anyways, we had a lot of fun.