Seriously!

People , stop going to the bathroom in public pools! So gross!
It seems every time I see the news another local pool or water park has tested positive for cryptosporidium.
At this point I would not even take my kids to a water park.
Sadly enough if people would get out and walk their butts to the bathroom we wouldn't have this problem! Ridiculous!

" I wanted to make a castle Mommy"

This was after I spent over 3 hours today SCRUBBING THE WALLS!
Why bother? I am thinking of never cleaning and just torching the place after they all start school!
By the way...Those were ice cream sundaes I treated them to for being so good today..The irony!

Mama Charlie..

Lola is fitting very nicely into our family.The kids are still head over heels in love with her and she has not had but 2 pee accidents in the house and that was her first 2 days.She is doing awesome!
From the first time we introduced her to the big dogs Charlie has been her Mama.She thinks we brought her home her very own puppy.We had to lay down the law though when Charlie attacked Abby because of Abby being near "her puppy".
Now instead of taking her to the bathroom I just let her in the back yard and she spends a good part of her day with Charlie and Tex.She runs and jumps at them as if she were 10 times her size !
Sorry for the bad picture but I took it through a dirty back window!
This is just a shot of Charlie and her new baby Lola...

Shark Week is Here!

Shawn and Alex are very excited to be kicking off Discovery Channels Shark Week.
Alex loves to sit and watch any channel that is featuring information on animals.
She even loves National Geographic,I mean the brutal stuff.
She doesn't even blink watching the polar bear rip apart a cute baby seal.She is truly her fathers daughter.

Meet Lola!

Yes that's right we got another dog.Growing up I always had 2-4 dogs ,really I would have 10 if I had some land!
We were just going to tag along with Nana to look at the puppies but the kids of course wanted a puppy so Nana just bought 2 instead of 1..
This dog is special though because when I was young we had a Chinese Shar Pei named Baby Girl.She was such an awesome dog,my family still misses her.
The kids are over joyed with their puppy! I'm happy as well that they get to have a dog that is theirs and that they can grow up with.I believe every kid should get to have a dog to grow with,its a special relationship.
Shawn found out they were originally bread for hunting so he calls her his Chinese Bird Dog!!!Cracks me up!
So we now start the puppy training.I'm hoping to potty train Lola and Gage!
Thanks Nana for giving the kids the same wrinkle memories I have.

Cook Out at Nanas....

Today we gathered at Nana and Pawpaw's and had a cookout for little Kevin.
He has been here since school got out but sadly he has to leave us this coming week and go back to Cincinnati.We have all enjoyed getting to know him and I am so glad he got to come and go on vacation with us as well.
I know my kids are going to miss him a bunch.Especially Alex because I believe she has a little crush on him!
It was a great day for swimming that is for sure.It was so hot but it felt wonderful to cool down in the pool.
The kids of course had a blast all day. It amazed me to see all of them exercising their new swimming skills without even realizing they were doing it.
They were tireless too! They swam all day long! We could not keep them out of that pool.Dinner and cake was the only time that they were out of the water and even that took some convincing.
It was a great get together and Nana the food was great!
Thank you for hosting the little good bye party.Little Kevin you will be missed....