Jackson thoroughly enjoyed the slide at the Memphis Zoo!

Which ones are the gorillas in this picture? :)

Tyler made a new friend at the botanical garden! That boy just doesn't know a stranger, does he?

T's Halloween shirt color ended up being a lot lighter than Jack's. Still cute though, especially the boy in it! :)

Check out Jackson's cute tie dye Halloween shirt!

These rock seats are one of our favorite spots at the botanical garden!

Happy Fall to All!

Both boys LOVE to climb into anything and everything!

Now there's a boy that knows the joy of marshmallow cream - yum!

Here's Mr. GQ sporting a good lookin' Cars pull-up! I love this pic! :)

Lil' Jack is so cute, isn't he?

Here's little stuff sitting on one of the kitchen chairs like a big boy - cute!

Our Beach Trip

We were really impressed with this putt-putt course with it's full plunge into the pirate theme, complete with a spooky fog - cool!

Already a captive - that didn't take long!

Scott and I went to Pirate's Island Adventure Golf (putt-putt) one night, just the two of us, and made some new friends! :)

We managed to see a shark that had gotten caught by one of the fisherman. He wasn't alive anymore, but was still moving around a good bit... Evidently his nerves were still going, which was a little creepy somehow, but interesting nonetheless.

Eating on the pier at Zeke's was definitely the best eating experience we had while in FL! While waiting for the food, we walked down the pier, looking at all the boats and buckets of fresh fish.

We went to this neat place called Zeke's that was a bunch of restaurants attached to a pier! Some deep sea fishing peeps had just gotten in, which is how we got this cool pic of T with the fresh fish hanging in the background!

It was a hot, humid day, but we had a good time as you can see from this pic of Bubba, Jack, and T!

What this picture DOESN'T show is the alligator we managed to see in the wild just beyond the brush. We saw his nose and eye pretty well from the platform with my dad's binoculars, which was really cool! He looked like a teenager - probably about 5 feet long, we suspected.

One morning we hiked a trail at the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Very neat!

Here are two cute boys on our hike. I love this picture!

Check out that beautiful Spanish moss hanging from the trees - wow!

So peaceful!

Here's one of the beautiful sunsets we enjoyed at the beach house we stayed at - aahhhh!

We finally made it to Lambert's! Unfortunately, we didn't get a free mug due to a flying yeast roll knocking us in the head by mistake... Well, after seeing the enormous size of the yeast rolls there, perhaps that's a good thing!

Two cute boys and one missing shoe! :)

Getting the boys to pose together - yeah, right!

Now that's one cute engineer up there! :)

When Jackson wears his brown shoes, one ALWAYS falls off!

The boys loved playing on the train at Lambert's, "Home of the Throwed Yeast Roll."

Now that's one happy baby girl! I would sense someone looking at me and then would turn to see that it was Megan. Once I noticed her, she would turn on the biggest smile! What a cutie!

Here's our lil' 5-month-old niece, Megan! She's a little doll, isn't she? :)

Here's the step stool I made for Jacob, which I was really pleased with! It was a fun project and hopefully will be enjoyed by Mr. J!

Here's Jacob on his new Curious George step stool!

We loved adding more glitz and glam to our flower fairy with some white and pink rhinestones!

This lil' caterpillar was one of our favorite critters in the mural!

I got to paint my niece's bedroom - fun! Erika wanted flowers and bugs! Well, on one of the scrapbook pages she bought for examples of what she wanted, we found the most adorable little flower fairy - a MUST for the wall in my opinion! :)

If you go hiking, you HAVE to have a hiking stick... In Tyler's opinion, you can never have too many; so, he used two or more throughout the hike! :)

This was a loaded birthday party, complete with a huge slide, fishing adventure, and hike through the woods followed by some yummy burgers and dogs! Fun party, E & J!

Here's the birthday boy, Jacob, taking his best shot at catching a fish!

This was Tyler's first time to go fishing... And, well, it was a little boring, at least in Tyler's opinion! How fun is it to watch a bobber to see if it ever dips into the water? Really... Catching slimy gunk on the top of the water or throwing rocks was the more popular choice by all the kids!

For Jacob's 5th birthday, Jason and Erika rented this big slide that the kids thoroughly enjoyed, to include Jackson (AND Scott :))!

I definitely could see myself painting one of these sunflower pictures one day!

On our drive north, we saw this BEAUTIFUL field of sunflowers - WOW!

One of the drummers, seeing Tyler's excitement, let him play on the drum with the gang for a few minutes!

Here's a really great video of Tyler dancing to the beat of the drummers downtown recently - too cute!

The boys (and I) LOVE our wagon - aahhhh!

The boys had a grand time playing in Jack's toy box, popping their heads up in "Peek-A-Boo!"

Tyler climbed into Jackson's newly stained toy box!

We've had a nice summer - aahhhh!