Dave's First Ticket.....

EVER!! Dave is always so good about getting us where we need to be in a record setting time. I love that about him. He can go as fast as he wants and I swear the cops will wave at him. If I even get behind the wheel on the freeway I get a ticket! I will drive if Dave is tired, but normally Dave does all the driving and I talk at him to keep him awake.When we were driving to Texas for a fun weekend in April, to see friends we were making excellent time. We made it all the way to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On the map it said we were on a scenic route and we were! The freeway was a raised road for with a swamp under it. I KNEW that there had to be alligators in it so I was making Dave look for them because I couldn't see that far down and over . Well......Dave started to pass this old lady and a sneaky cop STANDING on the side of the road started waving frantically at Dave. Dave looked at him and he waved Dave over to the side. I may have told him to keep going because he could just say that he didn't know he was pointing to us but Dave is better than me and pulled over. The cop came to the window and told Dave he clocked him doing 83 in a 60. OUCH!! Not only that but we are driving a rental car and Dave can't find his license. It was a stressful few minutes while he searched and Sam is in the back saying "Dad, do you do something very naughty?" I still think it is super funny, but then I have had PLENTY of tickets and so a $200 ticket doesn't seem like that much money compared to mine (I hate Oregon!) Dave still doesn't think it's funny! Welcome to the club Babe!

Playgroup Easter

Since our camera stopped working before Easter. These are the only pictures I have of the boys looking for eggs. We hid eggs in our back yard for playgroup and let them find them. I told Sam that since he was the oldest he had to help the little ones find eggs too. He spent the whole time helping other kids; he had the least eggs of everyone because he was trying so hard to be a helper. (not picking his nose)
Something touched his face right as I took the picture. He was mid 'get it off'.

I had to follow Logan around so he would pick up the eggs he was seeing. He would just get excited and point to them then leave them there for the next person.
Silly boy!

They decided they could wait any longer to check out their loot.

ALL BY MYSELF

Logan started his breathing treatments about the same time as Dave's surgery. Every couple of months he has to take them for a couple of weeks. Normally we have to sit him in our laps and hold it over his nose so he will breathe it in, but this time he wanted to do it himself. He wants to shake the medicine, squirt it in and turn it on. He actually sits and takes it really good. He does want to turn it off before it's empty but we just remind him to finish and he does. I love that he is such a big boy! I'm sad that he has to know how to do it all by himself. But if he has to do it he wants to do it alone. I love that Shawn White is about to make his run and Logan is so intently watching him. You can't see us cheering wildly for him in back but Logan is so mellow.

Useless Organs

Dave ended up getting his Appendix out on Friday, February 19. The surgery went really well and faster than expected. They had prepared us for a long 3 hour surgery, but they only had him in the OR for 1 hour at the most. It was a LONG 1 hour but the surgeon told me it had healed really nicely and everything came out beautifully. We got to come home 3 hours after his surgery. He hurt, but was back to work by Monday morning. SUCH A MAN! He did hurt very bad Monday night and we got him to take his pain pills. He was more upset that they shaved his stomach than the pain. We tallied all the bills that came because of his 'useless organ' and they came to a grand total of $27,250. We are SO lucky we have GREAT insurance and had to pay less that $1,000 of it. I'm glad it's over and he is better.

We're going back people

These last few months have been a whirlwind!! I need to get caught up on blogging for our journaling sake. My camera just stopped working right before Easter with all the pictures I needed upload. So bare with me as I try to remember all the way back to 2 months ago.

7 Years!

It's hard to believe that we have been married for 7 years. 7 YEARS!!! Am I that old? These last 7 years have been a wild ride. I'm so lucky to have found a man that is as great as Dave. I love him so much. He is such a great Dad and husband. The boys are CRAZY about him. All day Sam has told anyone that will listen that I am getting married tonight. I do believe he found his own babysitter for tonight also. He is so thoughtful. I'm excited to see what is in store for us in the next 7 years. I have such a cute family, I'm so lucky!

Its all gone!

All those beautiful curls are gone! Dave has been telling me we need to cut his hair for months now- like 8 months, but it is just to cute! Well, Logan has had a fever for a few days now and is so hot and sweaty that I decided to be a nice mom and cut it for him. By cut it, I mean buzz it because those are the skills I have in the hair cutting department. I know he is not going to hold still for anyone, so taking him to someone else seemed dumb. I sat him in the bathroom and cried as I saw all his gorgeous blond curls fall to the floor. I guess the good in all of this is that he wasn't so hot last night and he slept.
But these curls will be back in a few short months.

My camera decided to stop working on Easter so the pictures were taken with the boys camera. Not all that clear but still pictures.

Children's Museum

While Linda, Dave's Mom. was here we took the kids to The Children's Museum in Memphis. The boys had so much fun. It had so much for them to do, and try. There were only 4 or 5 other kids there, so we pretty much were able to let them run wild and go from place to place without worrying about other people. This is a stage where they had dress-up and you could dance and play different instruments. They didn't have any desire to dress up but the played and danced around. I think they should start a band.

The Mississippi River was neat and SO WET!! Everyone was SOAKED after playing but they loved it. There was fishing poles and nets to catch fish and boats. They could have stayed there all day to play.

Logan's potential future......?

Sam loved the Airplane, the picture is blurry because he wouldn't
stay turned around for even a second.

Grocery shopping was made for Logan! He is my shopping helper, we do our shopping when Sam is at school. He had a blast in there. The rules are you can only get 3 things, but we were the only ones in there. I unloaded his cart so many times so he could refill it.

Sam just wanted to check everyone out. He is a good cashier, but
he gets to keep ALL the receipts.

It was just so cool! A mini Kroger!

Logan is NOT allowed to be in the car at all unless he is buckled, so he loved being
able to drive and just around in there.

This just proves that Logan IS a Marlatt! I love it! He is just so cute and SO excited about Ice Cream. The simple pleasures in life.

That's a Fro!

I am a firm believer that boys need to have boy hair cuts, but how could I cut this hair! He is so stinkin' cute. His hair is so curly, I love it!!

(Sam was trying to make him stand still so I could get a shot of the hair in all its glory, unfortunately he helped by making faces which Logan HAD to copy.)

Tennessee Snow

WARNING: PICTURE OVERLOAD!

In the almost 4 years we have lived in Tennessee, we have been lucky to get one good snow a year. It will snow during the night, then be melted by dinner the next night. So we are super excited to see it and play in it. These are the ONLY snow clothes we have for the boys. They have warm coats and mittens, but whats the point of buying them snow suits they will only wear once before they outgrow them.

Dave, being the engineer that he is thought up a brilliant plan to keep the boys dry. He cut up garbage bags and made them snow pants. What a smart man! ( That's why I married him!!)

I wasn't sure how long or if the snow would stay so I sent them out as soon as we noticed it was snowing to play. Poor Logan's hat kept covering his eyes. Sam was a great big brother and helped him adjust it several times.

Logan didn't like snow inside his mittens.

Another ingenious idea of Dave's. Homemade Sled. It worked great.

There was 1/4 inch of ice on top of the snow....snow angels didn't work.

They were to heavy to slide together, but they sure tried.

Sam got white washed! He liked it; it wasn't that mean.

Later, we went to a friends house and Dave and Chad rigged up a redneck sled made out of a piece of solar panel, zip ties, rope, and an old piece of chair. It worked great and everyone had a blast. Later that night Dave, Josh, and Chad broke out some snowboards and a four wheeler and added a little class to the redneck sled adventure. All it takes is an empty cornfield 8 inches of snow and a four wheeler and it was like Park City all over again. They ended up making a jump out of the sled and loads of snow. Needless to say, Dave is still hurting from it. Boys will ALWAYS be boys even when they get older!


IT SNOWED AGAIN!!!!!

The boys and I went out tonight to make a snowman for Family Night.

Not too shabby for a Tennessee snowman.