Awwaahh waahh Woooo Put that thing away~~~

So my darling hubby is part Cherokee Indian. Not much but enough. He did grow up in Tahlequah Oklahoma. That is the capital of the Cherokee Nation. All the Street signs are written in cherokee, the stop sign is written in cherokee. It's an interesting little place..

Not everything in Tahlequah is little..

No ..

Some things are a little too big..

Some things are just well...

see for your self...

Yep those are loin cloths

Landry wanted to see the Warriors dance..

I think it has been a long time since these warriors have seen any type of war except for over the last piece of cake.

It was a fun weekend. The boys got a little history lesson along the way. It was a good weekend.

We saw family. Did some festivaling and laughed at the warriors who were very funny.

like the energizer bunny.. THey just keep coming OUT!!!

Luke lost yet another tooth.. Crazy...

He lost the one on the bottom next to his 2 permanent teeth.

REALLY!! HE is still 5 people !! 5!!! This is tooth #4..

Did I mention he was 5!!!

His brother didn't loose this tooth until he was almost 7.. Its crazy I tell ya.

I didn't even know it was loose until this afternoon

He was eating and got up and told me he lost half a tooth.I looked it was all there

Then walking into the school to pick up Landry, He goes here mom I lost my tooth.

I did finally figure out he is pushing them out with his tongue, they are not just randomly falling out BUT this is still ALOT..

SO anyways ,

For some reason he wanted to keep his tooth tonight. SO I told him to write the tooth fairy a note .

..

This is what I got..

Dear Toof fary

Plese lef my tof

Love

Lukas..

Kee Yah!!!

Yeppers .Its time for that post..

You knew it was coming.

You can skip it if you want..

SO here's the thing,

The other moms who's kids have been taking for 5 years .

We were all talking and we have been wondering when exactly do they start looking like they have been taking for 5 years.

Well that moment happened for Landry on belt test.

He was awesome!! He had everything down. He actually looked like a red belt. was like holy cow.

This is one of those things that I can't help him on, I can't make him practice.This was all him.I was very proud..

Mr. Drew.. He's awesome.. He's 17 homeschooler. unbelievable with the kids.

look at him go.. nothing like having to do a solo kata..

The first thing to touch your new belt is your mind.. You have to use your mind to focus your body. With your mind focused anything is possible.He has been told this since he was 4 .. I hope some of it sunk in.

Where did my babies go??

Oh time Why don't you slow down and let us enjoy these days a little longer.

We have had a couple of major milestones lately.. That has made me realize no matter how hard I try I can't keep them little.

Luke has officially started kindergarten. He is homeschooling so at least I get to keep a hold of him a little longer.

But I think the big thing was he lost his front tooth.. Look at that little grin

Landry started 3rd grade. He was nervous but excited. He just wishes school started at 10:00 in the morning. This is his new teacher.

WE rode bikes the very first day. His shirt says." the cool kids just showed up" Confident little thing isn't he.

Here fish fishy fishy

So on saturday we went with our buddies to their lake house. To play off hte dock, ride jet skis and play in the boat and tube.It was great fun except...

Luke was not about to get n the lake. Nope he was going to have none of it.
He kept saying it looked dirty. he kept saying there were fish in it. We kept assuring him there were no fish in the lake. Bad parents

Landry loved the lake .. He ran from the car and went to jump in.. he LOVED the jet skis .. He LOVED jumping off the sides.. HE LOVED tubing in the boat.. HE LOVED the whole thing.. Luke not so much
Luke sat on the dock red faced and pouty

Finally after lunch mommy had had enough

Luke you are going to get in the water or loose your ds and wii for a week.
Please don't marvel to much at my parenting skills. I know Dr. spocks got nothing on me
Luke says well I guess I loose my ds then
mommy : hmm that didn't work
Mommy : Fine Luke you are getting in.. you can get in the tube
Luke: NO
Mommy YES
Luke : no
mommy:luke you can sit in the tube the fish won't get you there/
Ok so this goes on for hours ok maybe it was more like 20 minutes it just seemed like hours..

YEAH mommy won!! Victory!!!!He went on to have a great time he loved jumping off the dock and going down the slide. HE had agreat time we had to drag both of my boys out of the water . They did not want to leave. Luke loved the jet ski he kept asking me to go faster. He even played with the fish/minnows

being the little scientist he is.. he had to smell them. then he wanted to pull of their fins to see what happened and wanted to know if he could look inside them. Future surgeon or seriel killer??and then of course theres landry.. My stand up comic.

Camping Trip

So we just got back from camping and 4 wheelin.. This is the 2nd time Landry has been out on the Motorcycle. He did much better this time he only crashed once ( I have it on video but can't post it b/c my mom would freak) and fell down like 10 times compared to 50 last time :)

Happy 4th of July!!!

Another Year Another Parade!!








So We started all this with schyler when he was a baby. However, his photos are not digital so I'm being lazy and not feeling like scanning them in so Just trust me on this . This parade thing now goes back 17 years..