KITE FESTIVAL 2010

YAY! Once again we went to the Kite Festival!

This time my nephews and some friends joined in the fun!!

Corbin, Brenden, Me, and Caleb

Corbin Jumpin off rocks!

Who needs bounce houses??


The whole gang!
We met up with some of our friends!!


Brenden says he "sucks" at golf and is
going to stick with Soccer


Cason trying his best!!



Brenden trying to HIT the clown instead of
getting it through his mouth!
He knows his mom HaTeS clowns!


My Cason doesn't 'throw' he 'chucks'


Brandy and Trina! 2 beautiful ladies!!
Happy Birthday Brandy!!


The boys did some Karate while we were there!


Cason slappin a High 5!
This is the last picture I took of Cason before
he ran off and disappeared for 15 minutes!

We had 4 bike cops & 8 festival volunteers searching for him.
It was the scariest moment of my life! Poor Officer Fuller kept telling me to calm down and I couldn't stop myself from crying. I ran back to Trina who was watching the rest of the kids and told her to have the boys say a prayer.

Within 2 minutes of their prayer Trina looked up and saw him. She left the kids and ran and grabbed him. She sent me a text and I RAN as fast as I could.
The cops told me to go to our "meet" spot incase I found him so they would know he wasn't lost anymore.

While I was standing there sobbing and holding Cason he wanted to go back with his friends.
I told him we had to wait there for the cops and he stared shaking his head and hands saying
"I NO GO JAIL....I NO GO JAIL"

It was kind of funny so I explained to him he wasn't in trouble, that the cops were helping mommy look for him! Scariest thing I have ever!!!
Next time that kid gets the leash!


This is right after we found him! Eatin snacks with Aunt Nina!


Brenden was so bored after the race to find Cason.
All they did was sit by the fence in the corner
so nobody else got lost!


Sweet Little Chloe!!
There is seriously no cuter little girl!

Cason was struggling to get up these "steps"
so Brenden waited for him and helped him up!


!! Success!!


my cute little boys!

We didn't let Cason get very far without us!

Most of the time he was on our shoulders or in the stroller!

He is pretty cute!!

I swear his underwear is in everyshot from behind!

My nephew Caleb...aka The World's Strongest Toddler

Why slide down when you can climb back up!

I swear my kids are crazy!!

He loves the slides!

Getting ready for Lazer Tag

One going up...One coming down!

Gotta love Bounce Houses!

Cute kid!!

He's so pretty!!

This is what "it's time to go home" looks like!

NEIGHBORHOOD FUN

I love having a house is a fun neighborhood! My kids are the best group of friends and the grown-up's are fun too!! In the last week we ended up having 2 dinners together, a pizza night which was unplanned & a dutch oven night which was planned!! Plus I started a water fight Monday!!

The kids LoVeD that the "steam" coming off the root beer

smelled and tasted like root beer PLUS it was cold!!

too much fun!!

Real Men cook in dutch ovens!!
Colby, Kody, and Casey!! The "Dads"

The kids all played Monopoly while we waited

for the dinner to get done!

Cason & Chase!

The dinner was so freaking good!!

Now comes the Water Fight started by Yours Truley!!

Dax! This kid was soaked within 3 minutes!

We got the big kids involved...only they cheated

and used a hose!!

Dax, Chase, and Tagger!!!

Dax once again getting drenched!

Glad there were no cars!

So this is how cool my kids are.

Brenden told the big kids he was "resting"

but really he was tricking them....

Notice Brenden in the background sneaking up

on the big kids as soon as they forgot he was there!

S T U D

Sweet Little Tagger

The Lone Gunman!

I love Brenden in this shot!

Running for his life!!

VICTORY!!

PATTY PILES

I have told so many people about these I figured I would show them!

I absolutely love these things! They are so easy to make and my kids eat them up! This one is a chicken patty topped with mashed potatoes and country gravy (you can also use chicken gravy) Another one we do is a Hamburger Patty topped with mashed potatoes and brown gravy!

EASTER

I don't think anyone even visits my blog so I don't know why I post so many pictures on it! I started it so my in-laws could see our pictures but I'm not sure if they even visit it anymore! So if anyone does visit my blog sorry for all the pictures I post!!

We went to Circleville for Easter again this year. It's our tradition because fighing over eggs with 30 kids is better than 3000+ It was not the best weather, tons of freezing COLD wind to deal with but we made the most of it!! We had the whole family down so the boys got to be with all their relatives and cousin's!!

Here is Brenden chilli' in Rowdy's bean bag

the second we walked in!!

Here is my cowboy is is tuff enough to wear PINK

I had to put this on here because not only is there a pit bike
on my mother-in-law's table....but Colby is also standing on it!!

Here are my "tuff" boys!!

Doesn't he strike fear!!

Ready to hit the slopes!

Future SnOwBoArDeR!!

The wind made it so hard to get the eggs!

Cason's poor hands were purple he was so cold!

The cold didn't slow Brenden down though!

He was an animal and said "I dominated mom"

I love my kids!!

Poor kid huh!!!

He didn't even care about his candy!

Cason, Brenden, Rachel, and Cael!

All the Todd Smith Grandkids!

My gorgeous Family

Cason hitchin' a ride with Uncle Jordan!!

" I'M KING OF THE HAYSTACK!!"

(since he pushed off his cousin)

Isn't he cute?!?!

Rowdy finally got the "HOG" working!!

The Easter Bunny found us once again!

Not your normal easter Egg Hunt!

More eggs!!

My kids are freaking awesome!!

This is the whole group for the family hunt

(minus me coz I'm taking the shot)

Don't you love how Brenden left the rest in his dust!!

He seriously cleaned up! I have so much candy

I don't know what to do with it all!

Cason just took his time picking up the ones

he "really" wanted to keep!

BubbleTime!!

My kids favorite thing is Bubbles!!

Uncle Rowdy now has his own personal

Back Scratcher!!