Category: Emily

So, I always love to see how Children View their parents. I think it is funny, and when I saw this list on my friend Rachelle’s Blog, I thought it was the perfect one to ask the boys, so Drumroll please, our Dad.

What is Dad’s favorite color?
Tuck Brown
Trus Blue

What is Dad’s favorite food?
TuckMacoroni and Cheese
Trus Pasta

What makes Dad happy?
Tuck Tucker and Truman
Trus Uh, me and Tucker!

What makes Dad sad?
Tuck Sometimes when he can’t see Tucker and Truman.
Trus When we’re lost.

What cartoon character is Daddy like?
Tuck Dad’s not a cartoon.
Trus Lightening McQueen

What does Daddy think about you?
Tuck He thinks I’m great
Trus Laugh, Laugh. No anwswer. Uh, love me.

What does Daddy do when he is funny?
Tuck He makes silly, silly words.
Trus He says peek a boo!

What is your favorite thing to do with dad?
Tuck Computer games, and his favorite thing is to play computer games with Tucker.
Tru Wrestle

What is Dad really good at?
Tuck Making websites.
Trus Computer games

What is Dad not very good at?
Tuck Pause. Uh, Umh, sometimes he’s not very good at playing games.
Trus He is good playing cars, but he is not good fixing cars.

What is one thing Dad always says to you?
Tuck There is nothing he always says to me.
Trus Booga Booga.

What is Dad going to be when he grows up?
Tuck Mom, he is grown up.
Mom When he grows up even bigger to be OLD?
Tuck Uh, he is really old.
Trus I don’t know.

How do you know your dad loves you?
Tuck Because he shows me, pause, you know, he does things.
Trus Because I am bigger than him almost. Because I am three.

What do you think about Dad?
Tuck He’s great, I think he is greater than ever.
Trus I like him, because he is so nice to me.

What do you want to tell him for Fathers Day?
Tuck Happy Birthday, I mean, Fathers Day Dad!
Trus Fathers Day!

We love you hubba, hubba Toph! Thanks for being the perfect father for our children.

We had so much fun with the Phillips Family staying at our house. It is great to be in the same state with them again! As soon as they arrived, we rushed off to Tucks T-Ball game, where we were filling in for the coaches who were out of town. Wow is coaching a lot of work, we appreciate them so much more after we’ve done it. Lexie got alot of great shots of the kids while we were there! Here are a few…
Us trying to get the team organized…

In the batting helmet…

Getting some help from dad…

On third base…

Up to bat again…

Team cheering…

STILL LOVE THIS CUTE FACE!

And watching and longing for next year when he gets to play!

What a great looking group of cheerleaders…

What a good big sister…

Keeping Truman happy is easy, when you like to Wrestle,

Wrestle,

Wrestle!

After game Treats, Truman and Nora know the good stuff!

With everyone, we have half a t-ball team, and a fine looking one too!

They spent alot of time together in the sandbox…

Digging and playing house, Tucker was Dad, Sophie was Mom, Truman was Big Brother, and Nora was Big Sister.

And we also made a stop at Krispie Kreme…
Looking…

And more looking…

All Nora wanted was a purple one…

Brothers…

As always, we love having guests, and the boys especially loved having their cousins here, and it was great to meet Miles for the first time! Thanks again for coming and spending time with us Phillips!!!

The Greene’s were on vacation this week and we were able to spend sometime with them at the Children’s Musueum. A fun place, but even funner when your cousins are there!

(oh, but first, lunch with daddy!)
Truman and his hotdog…

Of course a meat and cheese for Tuck…

Icecream to share….

And a handsome man I love…

Gotta love the Cafeteria. yum.
Then we were off to the museum…
Cousins!

Making Music…



Had to put this shot it… Tucker is getting to big for the cars, oh how time flies. (and the motorcycle was not out this time. Truman was disappointed.)

Tucker taking Belle to the store…(Once they were there Belle did the shopping, adn Tucker ‘circled’ outside waiting for her…funny, funny)

Working together…

Truman working hard…

We usually don’t spend much time here in the kitchen, we spent a little more time there that day! Truman looked darling in the perfect size kids kitchen…

Ikey made me a picnic there too, lucky me!

Truman still loves to shop..

Here is one of the movies we made at the cartoon corner. I thought it was funny!
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The helicopter is always a favorite spot. Luckily we caught a dry patch of weather for a few minutes,

The boys discovered this dog house. And spent alot of time taking care of the dog. I guess they really never noticed it before…

Playing with the shapes,

Giant legos are fun to build with, like building giant kitty house for Tru….

taking down the neighbors tree would elicit such excitement in the neighborhood. But it did. Instead of running errands, we hung out with the neighborhood crew and watched the tree come down, and believe you me, it was the highlight of the kids week. Go figure!
Before shot…

Tying a rope to the top…

The crew eagerly watching,

Begining to saw

Leaning, leaning,

And it’s down.

This machine came and picked it up, and carried it to the chipper.

After shot…

The whole process only took about 10 minutes, once they begun. They were wicked crazy fast, we also watched them do the other neighbors trees. Gotta love these summer days..

Well Almost.
Already we’ve done many of our favorite summer activities, and the summer is just starting.
We’ve continue to go swimming on regular basis…
The first jump is always the coldest…

After we’re all wet, it’s best to sit next to the pool, and play with the toys. As it’s still not hot enough to sit in the pool…

Running through the sprinklers is still a big hit…
I love this pose, Tucker did it a few times before running through the sprinklers. Funny, funny, boy.

Lying on the towels. Nothing like that feeling of being freezing cold, then feeling that hot sun warming you up!

Eating popsicles...

Wedding Receptionswhich during summertime, there seems to be alot of these! (We went to one with Grams and Gramps, after which, Gramps and Tucker made a ‘dog house’ together, nice work uh?)


A good BBQ with the Greene Crew…
Waiting for the food to cook, getting in a good read with Aunt Amy.

Hotdog Kabob

Doesn’t Eric look good with a Goatee? I think so!

Never get sick of this face or this shot…

Slugs anyone?

And of course, what is summer without some sort of dare-devil activities?
Grams helping Truman get geared up…

Nothing like a football helmet to keep you safe…

All ready…

Ikey wanted in on the action…

And Trumans video, complete with a few falls.
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Ah, summer is here!

A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the leafy branches
Cozy as can be house.

A street house, a neat house,
Be sure and wipe your feet house
Is not my kind of house at all~
Let’s go live in a tree house.

Shel Silverstein

Treehouse Building Complete.

It happened a little while ago actually, and I’ve waiting to get some shots with the boys in it. But it has either been raining or we’ve been somewhere else…But Saturday there was no excuse to stay away from it. No rain, no errands to run, or places to be. I got a few funny pics…






So here it is, just waiting to be stained,…..and lived in. 🙂

What a good time we had. I love being an aunt, and spending an extended time with my niece and nephew. I love it.
This weekend, we thought it would be good to get out of the house a little bit, and get out some energies, so we went to a place that had a lot of big bouncey blow up slides and houses, and let the children bounce it all out!
Oh, cousins, Tuck and Belle ready to play–

Look at ’em all, still ready to play!

And bounce we did! First the kids went up

and then

down.

Truman loved doing ‘flips’

Ikey loved the Dinosaurs

I couldn’t help posting this picture, look at Belles face. I wish I would have caught it all!

On the snails,

After watching the children for a few minutes, Toph decided he wanted to play too, and went and got a ticket. Who says boys grow up? 🙂

Smiley Belle

Never get sick of this sweet angelic face…Trubee.

Handsome Ikey,

And the only picture I got of Tucker that’s not blurry. How is it possible for him to be a blur in all the rest? I am going to start calling him Dash…he,he.

What a good time we had jumping, as well as having the Greene’s at our home! Love you guys!