Yum Yum

This watermelon has sat in the bottom of our fridge for a couple of days getting nice and cold. I've been waiting on the weather to clear up so we could go outside and cut into it. FINALLY, a beautiful day! The kids loved it. After they ate HALF the watermelon they went and rolled around with the dog in the yard. Their chests were covered in watermelon juice and black dog hair. Ugh, it was so so gross!

Jesus Loves Me

Sleepy Head

So much for code names! :)

Samson

...minus the long hair, and divine strength that only God could grant. Other than those minor details I think we have a regular Samson on our hands. I have to admire this. Monkey grabbed the dog leash, that is wrapped around the base of the tree, and began to pull. He must have imagined to himself that he had enough strength in him to pull this HUGE dogwood slap out of the ground! I love the look on his face. He didn't give up either. He made several attempts grunting and straining each time. I was laughing so hard at him! This little guy is something else! Tinker just watched him. I would give anything to know what he was thinking in that moment.

Fishing

This is one of those random last minute ideas that Super Daddy came up with. Last minute and random usually send me into a frantic state, but for some reason I just went with the flow without whining too much. It was late this afternoon, and the weather was so nice. We knew which lake we wanted to go to but had no idea where to go. Super Daddy just followed his instincts and landed us this great little dock. I couldn't help but appreciate the rustic beauty of this dock, the calm water...oh...it was all really inspiring. I wish I knew more about photography because I took a ton of pictures in a crummy attempt to capture the setting and mood of the moment. I am going to spare you all the pictures and only post these few above.

The kids loved it. Not so much the actual fishing part, but the casting and reeling part. That's pretty much all I did with them. There were little brim all around the dock and they were exceptionally talented at robbing us of our worms. Monkey was amused with them. He would drop the line just deep enough for them to come up and nibble but shallow enough that we could all see them nibbling.
We are going to have to go again sometime soon.