Grandma Ruth's 80th Birthday

Grandma and the Great Grand kids

Grandma and the grandkids and their spouses

Grandma and her kids.

Halloween

Dax, Maggie, Sophie, and Olivia riding in the back for approximately 200 feet. They thought they were so big!

Erica holding Maggie!! Maggie loves Erica

Julie spent 5 minutes trying to get a picture of these two, but this is as good as it gets for a one year old and a two year old!

He was laughing at a friend of ours dressed up like a beer bottle. Dax told him to dance in his costume!

4th of July

We had a great 4th of July. Daxton really liked the "firewhips." Erica and Clayton had a batch of their own fireworks we lit up on July 5th. Erica and Clayton have been swimming with the swim team and doing really well. Clayton got 4th (overall) and 1st (in his age group) at the Decatur Lakeside Triathlon. Erica will be starting school softball in a few weeks......so you know where we will be. The kids go back to school the last week of July, so their summer is about over!!

This is Daxton's new dance. Marlene got him this dancing chicken and he dances with it. It must be something with dancing chickens because, he danced with the other loud chicken Grandma Betty and Grandpa Bob got him a year ago!!

Clayton's Spring Turkey. He did it again!! It was the first week of April, but I am just now getting around to posting it!!

Getting ready for the Holidays

Okay so we're getting ready for the holidays, and have no idea what to even get for the kids. Of course Dax is easy because he's just getting a few things. Erica and Clayton are a totally different ball game. Since they have like five Christmas's every year we are just out of ideas. It's not just Kerry and I either, Jill has been stumped, as well. Let me put it this way.....they don't even know what to spend gift cards on when they get them!!

I'm sure alot of people go through the stress of what to get their kids. We have even informed the kids that they are adopting a needy kid with a couple of their "presents."

Daxton did his hair cut by Jill a couple weeks ago. She said he was really good for the procedure. He was a little squirmy for his first haircut, but overall not too bad. He does look older though.

Fall

Okay so we have made it through the first nine weeks of school and all is well. Ashley is getting her master's in educational leadership so she's pretty busy. Kerry has been hunting and getting ready for hunting season. Erica is playing basketball so she's very busy. Clayton has been hunting and fishing.....even got his first deer during youth shotgun season. And Daxton he's just plain busy. He's doing quite a bit of talking...even though it's not all understandable. He really likes the dog and tries to mouth kiss her all the time. He also LOVES his brother and sister. When they come he's over the moon. He calls Erica "ga-Ka" and Clayton gets "Tito." He dressed up as a duck for Halloween (courtesy of Aunt Hillary) and Erica went with him. He liked wearing the duck suit so he thought it was big fun!! He learned that he loves a sucker....but what a mess.

This Fall

Erica and Daxton went tubing this summer at a decent speed. Daxton loved it. He thought this was big fun!

Summer's almost over Well summer is almost over for us (teachers). Daxton is turning one in exactly one week. Alot has happened this summer. 1. Kerry and I did not kill each other.2. Erica and Clayton both completed another season of summer ball. 3. Kerry trained almost every day for a triathlon.4. Kerry completed his first triathlon sprint in 1 hour 19 minutes. 5. Clayton completed his first kids triathlon and placed fourth. 6. Erica made the A team for school softball.7. Daxton started walking and talking.8. I got back up on skis for the first time in two years. 9. We went camping in the Smokey Mountains.The summer has really flown by, as has this last year. I can't believe Dax is turning one. It seems like I was just yesterday that I was a fat pig in this heat.