After the fourth...

On Saturday, the day after the Fourth Celebration, we mosied on down to the lake to meet up with some of Levi's kind folks. We had a really good time. Hunter got to go out on the boat and ride the tube. It was quite comical as he had a rough time. It started out okay, but the lake was rough, and as soon as we got up to speed, things got a little bumpy for him. His little legs just flew everywhere! Then, he somehow shifted, and he started taking water inside the tube... thats when we stopped.





After the boat, we joined back at the campsite for some really good food and some of grandma's homemade ice cream. We gave Lauren a taste and once she figured out how good that stuff was, she was literally grabbing the bowl and trying to drink from it.





Here is a picture of me and the 'J' man in the backseat of the car, on our way to Cordell.



Ok, so we are going to travel back in a time a little bit. Just a few pictures I wanted to share. First is Lauren in the car on one of our recent trips to Hereford Texas. She 'learned' how to play peek-a-boo... she pulled her blanket up over her head, while we all said "Where's Lauren???"... then she would suddenly jerk it down, and we'd say, "There she is!!!!". That was followed with giggles and then she's do it all over again.

The other picture shows her sleepiness and how she 'sucks' on her thumb. She only does this when she is really tired, and she rarely ever actually sucks on it at all.




This is a really cute picture of a friend's little boy and Lauren at their cookout... His daddy and Levi were pretty good buds during high school (read: got into a lot of trouble together), and we jokingly warn the couple that their son will not be allowed to date our daughter! and vice versa... watch us eat our words in about 16 years! ha!



Finally, somethings about Lauren and what she's doing now... Her Aunt Sarah bought her this awesome garden play center for a whopping $2 bucks! And I must say for only $2, it's in excellent condition! Lauren just absolutely loves it! She loves to open and shut the gate repetitively.






Lauren also is now:

• clapping her hands
• waves bye-bye a lot better
• fake coughs (all-the-time!)
• loves to open cabinets doors, drawers, anything that will open and shut
• mimics us

Other than that, not too much else to report. Check back in a few days, I will be posting a cute video of her and her pepper/fry fits!

Hope all is well!

let's play catch up!

Ok, so I gotta play catch up since it's been almost a month since I have posted. I apologize to my blog watchers and friends for not posting nor visiting your blogs (I'll be checking in and posting comments as soon as I completely get this blog posted). I just absolutely haven't had much time... Those of you with kids can understand I'm sure. Plus it didn't help that since my surgery life has just been busy overall!

So the next couple of posts are to catch you all up on what's been going on...

Starting with July 2nd, these pics are too cute. I had a dowel rod in the front yard I picked up at the local lumber yard to fix one of her outside toys with. She had more fun with that dowel rod, than she probably has with the toy that needs to be fixed!

Also here are some pics after the fun with the dowel rod, we went to grandma's house and sat out in her yard with a snowcone... mmmmmmmm!

She is so dang cute!!! I just can't get over how much cuteness pours out of my darling daughter... really, I'm not biased at all! I know there are cute kids all in the world, but mine is the cutest! hahahah!

The next day, we were down at the barn, and Pa had the tractor out. So the kids played for just a minute on it... they were worn out, can't you tell?

Then of course, the next day was the Wonderful Fourth of July Celebration... even though our small community continues to diminish, our 4th Celebration stays strong. Every year the festivities include pet, talent, and horseshoe contests, a turtle race, a parade down main street, bingo, free swimming, and a street dance to top the night off. This year Hunter and Levi decided to ride Festus in the parade... I seriously had my doubts, they didn't come up with the term 'Stubborn as a mule' for no reason. But I was pleasantly surprised by him. In fact Levi said that the only two mules did better in the whole parade than the horses did.

Lauren enjoyed watching the parade and I think she was secretly wishing for someone to throw some candy to her!

The rest of our 4th was ok, we had a cookout at a friends house and finished the night with fireworks.

I am so sorry that I haven't posted in a while... however, I do have many more posts and lots of pictures to come, so make sure you check back!!!

We hope that everyone is well!

Shannon

messy face, blog layout, and gallbladder update

Well, I am finally feeling like sitting at the computer and giving you an update... I won't say a whole lot tonight:

First, I am home and feeling ok. I'm still a little sore, and like my neighbor put it, feel like a mule kicked me in the stomach. Nothing went right with our trip other than the good food at red lobster. We had a late start, so by the time we checked in, we didn't have any time to swim, and I was absolutely bummed. I felt like a little kid being told no in a candy store. I wanted to swim soooo bad! The next morning, we got a phone call from the hospital at 5:45 asking if we could come in early, the surgery before us canceled. Se we rushed around to get there, and I was prepped and shoved off for surgery by 7:30 am. We were told it was about an hour-hour and a half surgery. So Levi expected me out by 9, 10 at the latest. Finally the dr. came out and told him that he had a hard time getting my to stop bleeding on the right side, and I saw Levi at 11. Wow, coming out of the anesthesia was hard. I think I really got a hold on what was going on around 12:30 or so.

They kept coming in to check on me and give me some pain meds in my iv, trying to get me to convince myself to go home. Finally we left around 3 and headed home. I slept most of the way.

Other things going on: Hunter had his tournament that wasn't really a tournament last Saturday, they lost, but had fun anyways.

The talent show went well. Better than I had expected it too. I had an attendance over 40 and it was a hit. There is a picture below of us in our best. Hunter was a gentleman holding the door open for everyone. And after the show, his fears were eased, and he informed me that next time he would sing with me! I didn't get to play my clarinet as something is wrong with it, so I did a funny monologue that had everyone laughing.

Other than that, I am just trying to heal up and get my house organized... back to normal if there is such a thing.

With the blog layout and it not looking right, I will work on that asap. Until then I'm not sure what to do. I can't understand why it is fine for some and not for others. I have been thinking about switching to wordpress (another blog site) anyways, so we'll see. If someone would send me a screen print of how they see the blog incorrectly, I would appreciate it!

I don't get it!!!!

So no one sees my blog like I do???

Here is a page view like I see it on my computer...

Please let me know.



(you can enlarge it if you need too)

Porkchops, Steak, and Hunter's 2nd Baseball Game

Question for the day: does my blog have several blank spots in between pictures and such? My dad told me that my blog would have several blank spaced throughout, and it made me wonder if it's that way for other's, let me know.

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So our baby is not a Gerber baby, not really anyways. She'd much rather have table food any day of the week. So I cooked pork chops this past week, and I try to get the one with the bones in it, because not only does the love the flavor, but it's great for teething! She goes to town on them!

As for the gerber baby food jars that fill my cabinets, we make the best of them, but aside from the oatmeal with applesauce and bananas, she declines on a regular basis.

Other foods that she really likes includes banana pudding, mac and cheese, steak (see the video below), french fries (of course), grandma's beans and cornbread, mushroom rice, and waffles/pancakes/french toast.

She also loves mommy's creamy coconut snow cones. The first two bites are always hilarious because she's not expecting the coldness, and she gives a funny face.

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I think it is so cute every game we go to, I get to see these two pairs of ears! And she really watches the game and what the kids are doing... Everyday that she gets older, Levi gets a little more excited. He really can't wait for the days of riding in the front seat by daddy on the console or standing up (yes I know this is dangerous, but thats the farm life for kids here!) It's a family tradition, ask Hunter. And he always talks about 'going to town to buy pink boots'.

And I know that the day will come that she will want to go with daddy instead of mommy... but thats okay, because mommy likes to go with daddy too, we'll make it a family affair!

I'm personally looking forward to days of riding ponies, braided hair, and chasing goats!But how sad to think that those days really aren't that far away... she's already grown up so much!

So this made me realize that I have not updated everyone on what Lauren does now...

She:

• says 'dada', 'dadeeee', and 'da!' alot (I know she's not really saying daddy, not intentionally anyways, but we let him think she is! hahaha) and babbles constantly...
• definitely is crawling at warp speed!!!
• can open cabinets and doors... I got to spend my sunday evening childproofing my kitchen.
• stands and pulls up on everything, and gets brave and tries to step away by herself. If she would just put her feet down flat, she'd be running right now!
• get's very mad and has an attitude... we call it the 'Pepper-Fry Fits!'...
• waves 'bye-bye' now...
• probably thinks her full name is "No! No! Lauren!"...
• She looooooves dog food! Can you say yummy!...
• plays bashful, even with people she knows...
• absolutely looooves the pool and the lake!
• learns and watches all the time. Grandma comments all the time on how 'smart' she is. She really pays attention and you can just see the wheels spinning in her head when she's 'learning'. She has this look on her face that is just full of 'thinking' expressions.

<----- Here she is just chilling at the ballgame, getting her drink on and all! Look how comfy she looks.













Hunter played short-stop this time... a lot. I think someone spoke too fast at the last game, because he didn't do as much pitching. Some of it is our fault, mostly because we sent him to baseball camp, and granted it taught him the 'right' way to wind up and pitch, he now cannot pitch like he did at the last game... sooooo somebody has some practicing to do. But he still made some great plays!


















































I'm including a cute video of Lauren eating on a T-bone at grandma's house... She really enjoyed it:




Well, I think that's all for now...

I'll post father's day pictures soon. I hope everyone is doing great!

Love you all!

The Fry's