Tennis Rules!

Tennis has become quite the popular sport in our house. Reed has been playing with a neighbor weekly and I just finished taking a class. Of course, whatever Reed does Mattson wants to do and whatever Mattson does Gray wants to do. So, our Saturday activity of choice is a quick round of tennis followed by a dip in the pool. (AKA "training")Given my complete lack of knowledge I signed Matts up for a tennis camp and it was a hit!

Look at that form! "Mom, I'm all flushed"
This is what Gray did during camp. He's recently developed and affinity for babies. He loves to touch his hair, then their hair etc. So, you can imagine how thrilled he was to hold sweet Mckenzi.

A little bit of this...

The last bit of summer has flown by. Matts starts school tomorrow and I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

To celebrate our last weekend of freedom we headed up to "Pigs and Peaches", Kennesaw's BBQ festival. Driving up I had visions of all the peach cobblers I would be consuming (with a little pulled pork on the side). Earlier that morning I had biked 9 miles and ran 4.5, so gosh darn it I had earned whatever I could get my hands on. Well, wouldn't you know it? Of the 50 some odd contestants only about 5 were selling to the public! At least the kids had a wonderfully, sweaty day filled with all the fresh-squeezed lemonade they could drink.

I'm just happy to be here!

Not so sure about this...

My worst nightmare (a stinky, smelly hockey player for a son)...
Nope, it could be worse
A little bit of country, a little bit of rock and roll
Surviving the shark's belly (Now if I can just survive all the sharks during my swim we'll all be fine)

*** I have yet to figure out how to get pics off my phone, so the most exciting part of our summer will remain "unblogged" for now. My family (Mom, Michael and Tommy boy) came out to visit for 10 days at the beginning of August. Let's just say there was WAY too much testosterone in my house and Matts and Gray LOVED it!***

Why we love our Grandparents

Even though we live much too far away from our families they still manage to love our little guys very well.

Grandma Diane loves to send packages full of interesting articles/pictures and TREATS. Grandma Candi indulges the boys' obsessions

(Gray with his new WALL-E toy, compliments of Grandma Candi)

Grandpa Greg books long and circuitous flights in order to have lunch with us.

"CRUNCHING"

A rare quiet moment

So blurry, but so sweet

Healthy Sleep Habits...

Yes, he was sick. But, the middle of the floor? Such a reverent boy.
A new meerkat cave

Check out my Slide Show!

The Fourth of July

It seems that I start the majority of my posts by stating how busy we've been and yet, I never seem to know exactly what we've been busy doing.

We did have a great 4th of July. We started out the day with a HIKE at Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield. Matts was, of course, thrilled to be "training" at an actual military site especially since the trail was littered with canons and sniper holes. It was a little awkward trying to explain the "bad" and the "good" guys of the Civil war (actually, the "war of northern aggression"). I love living in the South :). We were all exhausted after the hike (it was quite a hike) so we just relaxed the rest of the day and watched fireworks from our neighbor's deck.

The old and the new

Gray has found a new best friend

To all of you who knew Mattson at this age; does this look familiar?