Water Hose

The last few evening we have spent some family time in the backyard after dinner. Micah has been rinsing off his dinner and cooling off in the baby pool or, like tonight, the water hose.

[Tom made me take this shot a couple times so he could flex his abs...LOL! Such a dork!]

I love my boys!

FYI: Micah still got a bath inside before he went to bed. I may be from Mississippi, but we aren't that redneck.

Slightly Green Thumb

I was ready to tell Tom to mow over this attempt at transplanting a crepe myrtle. Back when my parents came to visit in June we moved two sprouts from the crepe myrtle in the front yard around to the backyard. Neither had a good root system and we didn't have much hope, but I still tried to put a little life into them. One shoot shriveled up and died several weeks back, but this one retained its leaves. I thought it didn't have much hope after the stem turned brown, but I didn't mow over it yet. And, I'm glad I didn't.

This morning as I was surveying the yard for snakes, I noticed the remaining shoot has new sprouts. Success! Maybe I will have a green thumb afterall.

Heat Wave

Well, today has been the hottest day so far in 2010 for Dallas, TX. We topped out at 105 degrees. Call me crazy, but I layed out for an hour and enjoyed it. First, I filled the baby pool up with cool water. Then, I dangled my feet in it while I sat in the glider reading my Southern Living magazine. It was so hot outside the glue holding the spine of the magazine together started to melt. As I turned the pages, they would fall right out.

Since we're now in the dog days of summer, the sunflowers are blooming EVERYWHERE. I made Tom take the back roads home from church today so I could pick some.

In Micah news: We started out our morning with a trip to the pool. Micah found another little boy's diving rings to be the highlight of the hour. I know you're thinking that he probably liked throwing them for the other little boy. Nope. He was the one diving for them. With a little help from me. He needed a little push from me to get to the bottom of the 4'6" water, but he never came up empty handed. He also figured out how to use his feet to push off of the bottom in order to come up. Of course, I had to hold him up so he could take a breath though. Also, his jumping off the side has transformed into belly flopping off of the side. On the up side, the belly flop puts him in a horizontal postion so he can take a stroke or two towards me.

In Tom news: The boat motor is running. One of the guys who came down for the weekend knows a thing or two about boat mechanics and he fixed it for him. Tom's excited!

Proof

[Sorry for the picture quality. It was taken with his phone.]

Thursday evening Tom picked up two of his friends from Colorado at the airport and brought them home to our house for a "guys' weekend". The only thing on their agenda was fishing and drinking.

After staying up until 2am Thursday night drinking and catching up, they set out to Lake Texoma at 4:30am. They had a fishing guide scheduled to take them to all of the best locations for fishing. They had so much fun and caught so many fish that they went back again this morning well before the sun was up.

The above picture is from today. I needed proof that Tom could catch a fish since I haven't seen him catch anything in our backyard yet.

Please think of me for the remainder of the weekend as I tolerate the rest of "guys' weekend" and all of their testosterone....ugh!

The Simple Joys

I love getting free money in the mail. Lately, being a stay at home mom has given me the time to fill out rebate forms. Who knew what satisfaction you could get from spending ten minutes filling out my name and address and popping it into the mailbox?! Today I received a $10 coupon for my next oil change plus a $10 American Express card I can use anywhere that accepts American Express. Score!

Me and Micah Monday

For today's adventure, I wanted to take Micah on a picnic. We needed to run over to Frisco to pick up his portraits at the mall, so I googled different parks between the mall and our house and found this great little spot only two blocks off of our path. And, the best part is that the park has a sprinkler playground! If you live in the area and want to visit this park, it is called Frisco Commons Park and it's right off of Eldorado and Main St. The park also has a great [dry] playground that we skipped today. We'll save that for another adventure.

Micah had fun pulling everything out of the cooler.

I think he licked every piece of ice we brought, and he giggled when I put pieces down the back of his shirt!

He got me wet with this a few times.

More Swimming

Watch this brave little man!

By next week I should have him diving off of the side into a full butterfly sprint....LOL!