Day 4

We are well on our way to really enjoying the lake life. And, there are quite some wality lake people around too! All more fun to enjoy. We had a slow, easy and realxing day today, and the hot tub is finally up to 100! That only took 3 full days to heat up. We had a day of board games, outside game of peg baseball, a nice dinner out @ Red's Oyster Bar, followed up with a night game-off with the kids on rock band. BTW-I am much more of a rocker than I thought. Proof below.




Several rounds of Disney Scene It

Then on to a long game of baseball. Flowers 1st base, glove 2nd base, baseball bag 3rd base & life jacket home.

Oh look, mom with no makeup got in one picture.

Ready for our dinner night out on the town.

The 4 boys

Waiting on dinner

WOAH! Mom got a 100 on vocals!!

boys rocking out.

Bran loves to sing, just like his mom.

The kids love them some Eye on the Tiger! Bran followed his mom with his 100 and Cam on guitar with a 97!

Day 3

Day 3 came and went pretty fast. We rented a pontoon boat for 4 hours, which was the biggest part of the day. Having fun! And all 4 boys caught a fish @ night, thank goodness. So after super fun boat day, some homemade pizzas and several rounds of picture phone (it's funner than it sounds), we called it a day! (Super mega fun all day boat day will follow on Friday.)

Big shout out to our friends @ home who are helping us take care of the dogs, the chickens, and the garden. We love & miss you!!

Day 2

We were up and at 'em early in the morning on Day 2 @ the lake. Which also means day 2 of trying to get the hot tub heated up too. It's been 2 days and has gone from 85 to 91 by the mid-day mark, then back down to 88 @ night. We obviously do not know how to work hot tubs. The kids have had some fun on tubes, slides, hanging out in the before mentioned luke warm hot tub, making up games, and overall being very good! Here's some pics!

Bran, Alex & Avery

Here's proof that Bran & Avery are getting along this year! They are sitting together and smiling!

Camron chilaxin (That's for you Raenette)

We got the setup!!

We made our own water trampoline.


Didn't do the beach, and we still found sand @ the lake!



Little ladder golf

The slide into the lake. Super fun.

More chilaxin.
Blake & Brandon doing some night fishing.

Camron & Alex

The Griswolds-Day 1

The Griswolds, I'm sorry, the Taylors are on VACATION! We're pretty pumped, and Blake had to get us all packed up. Once we made the decision to take the trailer, it all went from there. We brought everything. The boys were SO exited, they "are we there yet"ed every 15 minutes. Well Brandon did. Camron always followed up with some sort of smart alec comment about telling time.

Here's some pics to start us off...

The very full trailer

back full too. Seriously, we need to learn how to pack.

The boys, ready to go, sporting their new do's

Quick visit with the Kosse's in Round Rock on our way out! Thanks Char!

The kids

The grown ups

The girls

Quick shout out to Brooke for her Birthday today! You're getting old! There's proof on HWY 35.

Gotta have the rock band action. Blake on vocals.

Camron on guitar

Brandon on drums. Rocking out.

This is the plan for day 2. After the girls go on the monster shopping trip!

Just picture me, in the recliner, spending way too long blogging.

meet our new Friend, Anna Faith!

Wow! I love new baby posts! I haven't done one in a while, but the babies are here and are still coming! Last week we went to my friend Courtney's to see her new little bundle, Anna Faith. I was really hoping to get a sneak peak of my Matty Bug, but he was down for a nap, which is a precious commodity, so we didn't wake him up. So, Brooke, Raenette, Court & I all got to spend some girl time with each other & see the new sweet thing!! She is precious. So proud of you Court!

Brooke & Anna (she looks like a pro)

Look at this sweet face! And she already has a tan! Court has great skin too.

For some reason, I didn't get a pic with Raenette & Anna (so sorry Rae!!), but here's me! I love the babies!

Welcome to the world sweet Anna. You have an amazing Mom, Dad & Big Brother that are so excited that you are here!

meet our new chicks

I don't even know how to start this one. The Taylors have chickens. Last week, we had a back yard, mostly full of rocks. It did have a very nice back porch that our friends help us build, and a growing garden that our friends helped us build, and a cool fort, that our friends helped us build. Wow. We have some really cool friends.

Then last Saturday, Blake helped our neighbor move his chicken coop from his yard, to our yard. I've been wanting chickens, and the dream was finally coming true. I am excited to get some eggs, and secretly want to be like my menagerie friends down the street. So Sunday, after Church, we went to Blanco to get some chickens. (Thanks to craiglist) So after a couple of hours, a trip to Tractor Supply and lots of hand washing (I'll maybe tell you the story of the chicken people a different time), we had 3 chickens. 1 full grown laying hen and 2-12 week old chicks. Then today, Blake came home with 2 more. Not too sure what they are. The 2 chicks we first got are females, which we want, and we'll just have to wait and see what these 2 others turn out to be. Hopefully they're females too! I don't want roosters. No way Jose.

So, meet the new additions--

The moving of the coop-Thanks Scott!

hmmmm...something we didn't quite think through. The bird dogs, LOVING the birds. Oops. They're doing much better now. (Look @ all the sweet rocks. Aren't they cute?)

My sweet, hard-working husband putting up the second perching limb cause I wasn't sure if they could jump all the way up.

Here's Abbey. (Camron named her) She'll lay blue eggs.

Was hoping for the golden egg, but blue will do.

Here's Diddy Kong & Dixie Kong. (Brandon named Diddy, and renamed Dixie chick to Dixie Kong. Come on Mom.)

Here's one of the nubie's - Jiggly Puff (she/he has a pom pom on the top of it's head)

and here's the other new one - that we're calling turkey. Mainly because we're not fo' sho that it's not a turkey. So, time will tell. But it got a name of turkey because of it.
Blake was taking Brandon out to help put in the two new chicks, and we found our first egg! Way to go Abbey!

See, regular store egg on bottom, Abbey blue(ish) egg on top.




Dixie & Diddy are pretty darn cute together. When they grow up, don't think they'll be as cute. Chickens are pretty ugly. But, they're cute now. They're always together.