This is the campground we went to for Fathers day weekend...the girls had a blast...as you can see from the previous pics. I have off for the summer so hopefully I will do some catching up on here!

This is my FAVORITE show...I am soooo hooked on the Deadliest Catch!! Who would have thought that an Alaskan fishing show could be sooooo good. If you haven't seen it yet you need to catch an episode and then you may just end up hooked like me....or the crabs! Ha ha ha...a little fishing humor there.

Deadwood. this is where Kayla had her field trip last week and LOVED IT@@!!! so of course we had to go back...which was about 2 miles from the campground we stayed the weekend at. They have good food, a little roller coaster, train ride, put put course, fish pond and a playground.


http://www.deadwoodnc.com/

this isn't our trailer but this is where we spent last weekend camping. It is an older campground but for the girls it was fun. It was close enough to home to save gas...but far enough away to make it feel like we were away from home.

http://www.greenacresnc.com/

It is hard to believe that Kayla is now 6 years old. She was officially older than DJ back in January but now that she is 6 and he will always be 5 1/2 it was a little difficult. Kayla is getting so big. She has just a few weeks of school left as a Kindergartner and will be moving up to 1st grade next year....it is hard to believe....seems like we waited such a long time for her to get into Kindergarten and now she is getting ready to be done. Her teacher told me she did AWESOME on her reading test. She read 7 levels above what is expected of her right now...AHHHH my baby!!!


Kayla skating at her birthday party
Kayla blowing out her candles with Allie and Desoray.
CJ REALLY enjoying the birthday cake!
Kayla opening one of her many Hannah Montana presents!! She is all about Hannah Montana!!
Kayla leaving school the day of her birthday. She was so excited to have her birthday crown (the sun was shining in her eyes). We went home and she put the hat down on the table and the puppy got it and chewed it within minutes of us getting home...poor Kayla lost her hat within minutes of being home!!

Kayla had her 6th birthday at the skate trac in Chocowinity NC. She had a blast!!! Here are some pics of the party:


Kayla with her birthday sign in the party room


Madison and Jerry enjoying the party...Madison LOVED skating too!!
Here is JoMarie, Kayla and Allie enjoying the party together. Rachel, Kayla and Madison skating and being "cool"

Here is Tot in the lovely cabin we stayed in. the bunks were HORRIBLE sleeping...like sleeping on the floor. But we did it!! We were good Leaders and went through with it.



Here is the cabin we got to spend one of the worst nights of sleeping I ever had in my life! =)



This is the main lodge that we spent 14 hours INSIDE learning about the outdoors


After a long and tedious weekend here is Tot happily leaving Camp Hardee.... see she is leaving me behind....

two weeks ago Tot and I had to go do our Daisy (Girl Scout) outdoor training....but of course it rained and POURED all weekend long ...so needless to say we stayed inside all weekend long...but we read a lot about the outdoors! HA HA HA....we are now officially able to take the girls camping....which I am not sure is a good thing.

The girls were out riding their bikes the other day and I had to snap some pictures...

1. because Madison has finally gotten the knack of pedaling her own bike and we don't have to put her in the baby seat anymore!!! Yea says Jerry (she was on his bike)

2. Kayla thinks she is sooooooo cool...that she rides with one arm hanging down

but if you notice...she still has her training wheels on!! It won't be long before they come off...she is outside everyday riding her bike now that Spring has come!! It won't be long before I put up pool pictures!

I forgot to put these up...when we went to Myrtle beach for Easter we went out to eat at the Dixie Stampede....and they do the group photos of everyone before they go in... these were the results! Have a good laugh!!! we did! (Kayla looks possesed and when they added the background in they cut off arms...hair...etc...we all look a little deformed...but we had a good time!)

Latasha wanted me to make her mom a cake for her birthday...so here was the results. I haven't made a cake in awhile I wondered what it was going to look like but it is hard to see from the pics but I thought it was one of my better looking cakes...one that I made on my own...with no instructor. Also it was light purple with dark purple decorations...you can't see that in the pics. =)

Here is Madison in the Grifton Shad festival parade. Yes we have a festival for FISH down here, next will be the strawberry festival and then onto the Watermelon, Collard, Dogwood, etc.... We have a festival for EVERYTHING down here in NC. Sorry the quality of the video is bad...I was sitting in the car shooting up at her.

Madison was in her first parade as Wee Miss Grimesland. She LOVED it!! This was right up her alley. She threw candy...she smiled...she waved. She is definately a little ham.



Here she is waiting for the parade to start...she waited for a good hour patiently...next time we will know not to get there so early!

Here she is next to the convertible we got (1976 big boat...Jerry said he needed a hat and cigar and he could have been boss hog!)

on the back throwing candy...and loving every minute of it...she hated to stop and have to pose for the camera....she just wanted to throw and wave.

just another pic. of Madison enjoying her first parade as Wee Miss Grimesland. I am so proud of her she did a super job! She was such a big girl!!

Today would have been DJ's 10th birthday. Hard to believe he would have started his "double digits." The above picture is one of my all time favorites of me and DJ. This picture was taken at my Moms house in Howell, NJ. It was DJ's birthday...I want to say 3rd. It looks like he has an heavenly light shining down on him already.

Daisy troop #841 outting:

here we are at IFO http://www.ifozone.com/cart/nc_store.php in Greenville and we had a great time making kites!! We would have had a super kite flying day except that it wasn't just windy but stormy as well.! A Tornado touched down a few counties over.


the window in the back doesn't show the storm that came through....but it didn't matter because the girls had a great time making their own kites... Next we are heading to River Park North (April 26th) The girls worked hard all year and now we get to play!

Kayla finding eggs behind Chad and Christines camper

Girls looking for eggs...
Wow...JoMarie and Kayla found a lot of eggs!!
you can see everyone is bundled up today compared to yesterday in shorts and tee-shirts dying eggs...picture is Jerry, Chad, Samantha and Nancy
Everyone bundled up while the kids hunt for their eggs: Kraig, Jerry, Samantha and Nancy

Here we are dying the last of the eggs...Kayla, JoMarie (in background), Madison and me

the girls waking up to find out that the Easter bunny was able to find them in the motorhome!! Good thing about! +)
Kayla going through her basket
Madison going through her basket

We went Camping in Myrtle Beach for Easter and Spring Break. We went with Nancy and Kraig and family...Chad and Christine and family....I have some random shots of them preparing for Easter


Here is Nancy helping the girls with dying their Easter Eggs...we did it out on the picnic table...lucky for us it was the warmest day while we were there...after this day it dropped to the 50's.
The girls are dying more eggs
Kraig hard at work watching the girls dye their eggs....=)
Mee and the girls doing eggs

more egg dying

This past weekend we got a new puppy....it is a Cockapoo. The girls have named her Montana (for Hannah Montana...go figure!) I don't think this animal will ever learn how to walk because they carry it around EVERYWHERE! Here are some picks of the new pup

We went to a VERY local bull riding competition this past Saturday. My girls were all pumped up for 2 weeks to ride the sheep (they had done it last time they went)....they ended up chickening out....But JoMarie got on it....she says she won't do it again! =) I say give her another few years and we may have a bull rider! This video is JoMarie showing us her sheep riding skills! Enjoy!

The weather here is starting to turn to spring....and with the coming of spring comes Easter....and normally Easter brings DJ's birthday but this year Easter falls a few weeks earlier...but still it has me thinking of him. I thought I would put the video of his last birthday. It was at the skate track....we had him and Kayla share a party....she was turning 1 and he turned 5. This year, Kayla on her own, has decided she wants a skate party for her 6th birthday. anyway I hope you enjoy the video as much as I do....I especially like the smile on his face!!! I think that is priceless....he looks so happy!