Big Mac

Mac has actually cried most days as Tucker went to school for the past two years. His day has finally come!



... all from my iphone thanks to my dumbest move of 2011...I took a few pictures of the boys outside this morning, left my Nikon on the back of my bumper and drove off with it on the back. It will not turn on right now and I am sick.

First Day of Big School

Ms. Mathis & Tuck





Just a few other shots of the day-to-day around here. We limped through the end of summer. We tried to do a few fun activities a week to get everyone out of the house, but there was a LOT of fighting and arguing over fairness. It was TIME for school to begin.


Charlie is a crazy crawler and can find every small lego piece... this is my only break. The pack n play. He mostly loves it.



The dinosaur train airport.

TER

Two versions of "Tell me about starting school soon...and perhaps some insight in to why Mac barely talks.

JMR

Two videos of Mac... trying to document this stage.

CMR

Six

Wednesday was Tuck's big 6th Birthday. It started with breakfast at Chick-Fil-A with Nan and all of us. He actually wanted his brothers to come along even though we offered a special breakfast alone. We got ready for the party most of the day and his friends arrived at 4. He had his party, opened gifts and then we went to dinner at Cruisers with Mimi, Nan & the 5 of us. A perfect day.

Get ready for a million pictures from Tucker's dream party... he came up with most of the details. He greeted his friends in his pilot's costume - handing them a boarding pass - leading them to security where they had to put their shoes through - then to their seat on the plane that he and Kyle made out of a refrigerator box! He also came up with a snack cart that he went around the party and handed to everyone. Everything was decorated with the commercial airline's logos (So they were "real")... It was so fun for him and for his friends, too. We only had 6 kids in our house and it was chaos.

Especially for Scotty!

Our dear friends moved to Charleston a few years ago and we are still not over it! They were the kind of friends we didn't have to set up plans with - we just lived life together. We were thankful for a day with them a few weeks ago which included Cruisers (of course!) and the pool and beach.

Mary Scott & Teddy & Tuck all re-bonded. They are SO old it makes me cry. Scotty & I were pregnant twice at the exact same time. Teddy & Tucker are days apart and Betsy & Mac were just a couple weeks apart!

Unfortunately I could not get our 2 year olds to cooperate for the pictures, but that isn't that surprising! Mac was growling at me (standard) and Betsy was just tired from a long day of sun...




It's a hard life for Charlie!

Uncle Bri visits!

We had a great time with Brian here. This series of pictures cracks me up.

Road Trip 2011

We made our big summer trip to St.Louis right after I returned from NYC. We had a great week including 4th of July at Betsy & Casey's! Many, many pictures to follow...



Brian's new St. Bernard puppy, Willie... he is mere weeks old and already eating twice as much as Jackson!

A big thank you to Sara who organized a Messy Play Day for her kids and let us tag along - we did colored shaving cream, a soapy slip-n-slide & made tie-dye shirts (seen below)

We drove half way to Jefferson City to hang with the Ford Family!


Another super cousin trip to the Zoo! Mac was obsessed all morning with






Good time with Great Grandma ------