FINALLY A SUMMER BREAK

Heather is offically finished for the summer and I know one husband and 2 boys that are very excited about that.

Congrats on your hard work this summer. We love you

Jason Keagan and Kason

I know, I know, an update is coming soon so hang tight, I'll get to you as soon as I can. I'm trying to wrap up an intense summer Pharmacology class and it is taking ALL extra time I have right now. But I promise for pix and updates soon!!!! Love to you all and thanks for finding us interesting enough to tune in:)

Just wanted to tell the world that the man of the house is 30 today!!!

Happy Birthday, Honey!!!!!!
Also sending out Birthday wishes for our friend Kris, he and Jason share the same birthday so I couldn't leave him out on this post, Hope you guys have a great day!!

P.S.

I'm still wondering how you hacked in to do the post below:)

HAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY HEATHER

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

FROM
JASON, KEAGAN AND KASON

Ok, here is my attempt at catching up on things. Can you tell school had started back up for me with the sparse posts?? Enjoy the picts.

Last week we had girls game night and fondue along with some rounds of Bunco!! What a great night that was. So many girls came. It's so nice when you play Bunco, normally you will make your rounds at every table and get to talk to everybody there because of the way the game goes. What a fun group of friends!!!! We really have a great church and some awsome friends we have met through SS, we are truly blessed to have them in our lives!!!!! (hope you don't mind Tiffany, I'm stealing this pict straight off of your blog:)




We went to a friends birthday party last week at the splash pad here in town. I didn't think Kason would like it much since he doesn't like to get his face wet in the bathtub or swimming pool but the kid loved it so much we will definitely have to go back a lot this summer!!


Last week on Jason's day off some sweet friends of ours called and asked us to go out on their boat with them. What a fun treat that was. We all had such a good time, I even boogie boarded for the first time. I didn't stay up long but I did get up for about 10 seconds:)

Wendi and the kids minus Kason

This was Kason pretty much the whole time. He loves boats but when he is on one he wants me to hold him the entire time.

Keagn's 100th jump off of the boat, he and Preston did this forever.

Preston jumping

Me boogie boarding, check out Jason's thumbs up:)

The boys and I took a trip to see the grandparents and hang out for a while with them. While we were there my brothers came in and both my mother's brothers and her sister came to visit my grandfather for Father's Day. It just so happened that we were planning to be there at the same times so it was nice to see so much of my family which doesn't happen very often at all.

Keagan absolutely adores his uncles and loves every minute he gets to spend with them.
Here he is with Uncle Kevin having some ice cream after a hot afternoon of playing baseball

We went to a ranch close to Grandma's house that had all kinds of neat animals, after the walk around the ranch we had a picnic lunch before heading back to Grandma's

Kason, enjoying a book with D-dad

I told y'all I wasn't kidding!!!!!:)

My father in laws birthday was June 8. We had the family over to eat and open gifts. Jason's brother(Matti's dad) and wife surprised everybody by coming down for the night to celebrate with us, what a fun treat since we all were able to see that sweet little Matti:)

Why do boys think motorcycles are so cool??

Kason loved Pop's musical card

Opening gifts with Keagan and Matti's help, well I'm not too sure how much Matti helped:)

Just a little update for our friends and family that knew our sweet little Maggie. About 10 days ago she started having pain in her back and neck. We took her to the vet serveral times and adjusted her pain medications as much as possible to no avail. She went down very quickly and very sadly we had her put to sleep today....never to wake up again. We will miss our sweet Maggie dog and anybody that knew her knows what a wonderful dog she was. So great with the kids, never snapped, barked or lost her patience with them, never stole their toys or stuffed animals. She really was the greatest dog with kids. We will miss her SO much!!! She was 10 years old and so Keagan has known her all of his life and is very sad she won't be there when we get home from our visit out of town to see family.

Ok, I'll try to catch you up on our lives since the last post.
The first set of pictures is from a friends b-day party we went to last week. Preston had a fishing party, how fun!! Keagan didn't catch any fish but he sure had fun trying. Keagan did get to bring home a small goldfish bowl and 3 goldfish. Keagan has always wanted a fish and I always tell him no because I know who will have to maintain the fish tank. Thanks to Wendi,(Preston's mom and a good friend) Keagan had his first fish experience and all 3 died within a few days so hopefully Keagan got his fish fix for a while:)

Kris helping Keagan with a bobber

Hopeful for a bite

Forget about fishing, it's hot out here......let's cool off!!

I finally have a fish, Mom!!!

This past weekend we had another donkey show to attend. It was a longer hike down the road than the last one so we packed our bags and headed to Bryan for a couple of nights. The kids did great and Keagan was most excited with his trophy!!!

Carefully leading Praline through the trail

Trying to control the long lead rope

Whew...that was hard work!!!

Posing with their trophies and ribbons
(Yes, Keagan looks crazy in this picture, he is crossing his eyes)
Why is it harder to get a good picture of Keagan than to get a good one of Kason!!?? UGH!!!

Last but not least.....we had some old friends from home come down and visit. Jason and Shawn and Stephanie went to school together. Jason and Shawn played baseball together and cheered together in high school. Stephanie also cheered with them and then Jason and Stephanie cheered together their first couple of years of college. It has been years since we've seen them. Jason and Shawn have stayed in touch but have not gotten together for about 6 or 7 years. It was lots of fun seeing them again. They now have 3 children. They have been in our prayers a lot lately. Their 7 month old was a twin but her brother was still born. They have had some tough times, especially Stephanie. We were glad to see them though and see that they are doing so well. Keagan and their oldest, Rylan are not even a year apart and Kason and Emmy are only a month apart so it was fun for them all to run around and play all day. And of course baby Claire got lots of lovin' from our boys!!!! (Stephanie, how did I not get you in any pictures??:(

Jason, Shawn, and sweet little Claire

That's right, friends. I said they used to cheer together!! Jason actually had a full scholarship cheering at the junior college in our home town for his first 2 years of college. I found some pictures, these are from high school. I wanted to find some of him stunting but couldn't, maybe I'll find some later and post them too. Can any of you pick Jason out in these?? It will be hard since y'all aren't used to seeing him with a head full of hair!!:)