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Look what we found yesterday! I was walking out to the barn to retreive Bodie. If I have lost sight of him for a moment I can usually find him in the barn. He loves to feed the cat and dog. This time he walked out there to give two little baby carrots to the bunnies.

And as I walked along this little fella was jumping along with me. He is so tiny!!! I love when a little unexpected encounter makes you slow down and discover things. He was a lively little guy and could jump pretty far for being so small. I'm pretty confident this was his first photo shot! He was a little camera shy at first and everytime I tried to get in front of him to take the picture he would turn around an hop away from me. I must have looked pretty stupid walking in circles around this tiny little frog. I just got a tad dizzy.

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I put one of these up on my photography blog, but not here. Rowdy turned 7 at the beginning of June. The one thing that I want to mention about him lately is that he is quite the comedian. He understands the structure of a good joke and is constantly coming up with little one liners and jokes. For example, he asked me "What do you call a fly who lands in butter?" He doesn't have any joke books so I can only assume he came up with it on his own. ANSWER: A Butterfly!

Also, on Sunday, in church, someone was telling a story about a little boy named Jake who chose to go fishing instead of clean up his room. His Mom told him to clean up his room and then he could go fishing. While the Jake was fishing the hook got caught in his back on one of his casts. Rowdy said "Yeah, the little boy wanted to go "fishing", not "Jaking"....Ha Ha Ha! His is just really clever and witty...just like his Dad.

This is his Hop Hop Hat

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They have dubbed themselves "The Girl Club"

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I'm not sure what this little grin was all about. Maybe his is understanding that I want him to look at the camera and smile, because his just froze like this for a few seconds. We were over at Grandma's playing and I have come to decide that her backyard has very good light for pictures. Bodie's favorite thing in her backyard is the little tikes slide. He spends most of his time on it and bulling his other 2 year old cousins. Bodie is kind of aggressive with them. We all just kind of sit back a watch and try to let them work it out. The end of the battle between the cousins was Bodie getting hit over the head with a toy golf club. It was sad, but he had dished out his share of shoving and pinching too.

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We started planting our garden and I am pretty sure Avery thinks that the pumpkins will come up looking just like the seed packet!

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{Don't let the blank days fool you, I still had junk to do on those days too!}

Dear Month of May,

I am so glad you are over. The fact I am writing this letter to you in the middle of June is proof that I am about two weeks behind in all of my commitments. You were full of appointments, dance practices, dance recital, games, meetings, parties, visits with family, projects (mostly last minute), home improvement, home maintenance, work and photography sessions . Things have "piled" up so bad that Ron couldn't even find a pair of dress socks for church yesterday. Ron doesn't wear dress sock except on Sundays so that is another indicator of how far behind I am...all because of you Month of May.

I wish that I could say that all the plans that I had for you worked out smoothly. But I can't. I had some oversights that I wish could have been done differently; leaving the hose running in the pool, driving off to a t-ball game and then a birthday party and not remembering until three hours later, forgetting to tell Ron an important detail like the location of Avery's preschool graduation and causing both of us to miss most of it because he was late and I was frantically trying to get in touch with him during the graduation and thinking the little awards day in Rowdy's class was Wednesday when in actuality it was Tuesday and missed it all together. Somehow we all came out of this month alive and fulfilled our commitments to the best of our ability. Never mind, that several times I said "This is too much, I can't handle all of this stuff!" I would like to say that among all the chaos I was able to maintain a perfect fitness and nutrition program to offset some of the stress. However, quite to opposite was true. It seems to be the first thing to fly out the window when faced with a month like you.

I am sure there are going to be many times in my life that I will be faced with a month like you. I am sure that I am not the only women that has a little calendar hanging on the wall that looks like mine. I thought that June was going to be nothing like you. And that the pace would slow down and things would be more relaxed. So far that is not the truth. Maybe I shouldn't answer my phone anymore.

Signed,
Two weeks behind and wishing I could clone myself
Julia

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Look what happened....

We thought this Mama cow was pregnant. Saturday morning I pulled into our driveway and this little guy was standing right next to his mama. She is such a good Mama. She is so protective of him (this isn't always the case). When I took these she told me the photo shoot was over by lowering her head to the ground and scraping the ground with her hooves (imagine what a bull does in the ring during a bull fight). Later I asked Ron if she was telling me to get out...and he said I don't think it was a good sign.

Isn't he just wonderful!
It is such a dichotomy to love steak as much as I do and to think that bovine are cute.

Note: Although the date on this post is in May, I posted it on June 15th. I am still trying to catch up on my one post a day goal...

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This is Rowdy's stuntman trick off his bike...his fake crash!

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I have been throwing all of the papers that Rowdy brings home from school into a huge plastic storage tub all year. I wanted to be able to go through it at the end of the year and pick out some of my favorite things and put it somewhere for him as a keepsake. Mainly, because I wish I had something like that.

He brought home this little gem the other day. I could tell instantly that it was a recreation of one of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings...can't you? I asked him if that's what it was and he was so happy and proud that I could tell before he had a chance to tell me. I am going to have to find a special place to hang it in my office. I just love it! And can you believe that they are teaching them about this stuff in the first grade?

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Just another favorite from the other day. Can you tell I am behind on my blogging and just reaching for anything to post. Behind the scenes though I am working on some more stuff I have learned in my Photoshop Elements program. I am happy with how this one turned out. I am working on "warming" up my images because my eye tends to like them a little "cooler" or blue. I am trying to retrain my eye to like things a little warmer.

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We went to see the movie UP last night with the kids and I would recommend it highly! Even Bodie liked it. It was really cute and funny. You've got to see it in 3-D though it makes it so much better.

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I took this photo as Ron saw Rowdy to the end of our driveway for the last time as a first grader to load up on the bus. Ron walks Rowdy out to the bus stop every morning. They shoot kisses to each other after Rowdy loads up on the bus.

I have been so proud of Rowdy this year for making the transition to all day school so well. It wasn't until the middle of the year the he asked me "Why do first graders have to get up so early?" He did have to get up pretty early. I had to get him up at 6:30 to make the 7:30 bus. And he didn't get home until after 3pm. I would get tired maintaining that schedule as an adult.

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When Rowdy and Avery's team is on the field, guess who likes to hang out in the dugout? I don't mind because it is actually the safest place for him. This is all considering his second favorite place to be is out on the field and I have had to chase him out there several times.

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"Don't bug me, I am catching up on Elmo's World."

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activity, pursuit, amusement, hobby, leisure, distraction, diversion, entertainment are all synonyms for the word...
PASTIME

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I will not disclose how many of these Rowdy and I ate on our camping trip over Memorial Day weekend. But it was an irresponsible amount! But they were delicious!

Avery likes her marshmellows ala carte!

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I don't think that I have blogged about how much this little boy likes cell phones. Sometimes, if he is fussy in the car, I will hand him my phone to keep him busy. Well, this particular day he was "making a call" and it was just not exciting enough and he fell asleep. The funny thing was, as he drifted off to sleep several times the phone slipped out of his hand and he would wake up and put it back up to his ear with his eyes half open and then drift back off to sleep. Silly boy!

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Do you think she might be a bit excited about officially being a Kindergartner.
She had her preschool graduation on Friday. In all honesty, she has been a ball of emotions this week. She has proclaimed many times that she can't wait until Kindergarten and also that she doesn't want to go. Translation: She doesn't want to leave our little preschool that we love so much. We love the teacher, the program, the co-op, we the friends we make and we will send Bodie there too! Last week we had a conference with her teacher and she had so many nice things to say about Miss Avery Girl! She is ready for this next big step.

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HUG

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Just a super quick post. I am up to my eye balls in ending the year at the preschool (Avery's last year), end of the year parties and activities at Rowdy's school, t-ball, doctors appointments for the kids, extra dance classes, Avery's dance recital and deciding what to do for Rowdy's 7th birthday party. Also, I have been lucky enough to have several photography sessions since announcing the start of ...the daisy patch. I have added running a small, very small photography business to the list. I am super behind on posting but I will catch up soon.