A Few Fun Pictures

Thought I'd share a few random pictures from Birmingham. We stayed at Ross Bridge. It's this really nice golf course resort, and it had a great pool.

Here's Cade coming down the water slide.


Richard was flipping Cade in the air.


This is Cade by this awesome waterfall that is by the pool.



And one of Braden during one of the few times he actually got off the chair.


Ross Bridge has a bagpipe player that walks the grounds in the evenings. It is supposed to be what they did in Scotland to call the golfers in to eat. It was really cool.

I've Been Tagged

OK, I've been tagged for the same Meme (what does that word mean anyway?) by two of my new blogger friends Dawn and Kimber. So here goes:
5 Things I was doing 10 years ago
1. Bryce would have been 11 1/2 months old, so I was planning his 1st birthday party.
2. Living in a tiny, ugly, old apartment. Can you tell that I hated that place?
3. I am completely embarrassed to admit that we were doing "Amway". Yes, we were some of those annoying, pushy people that you pray never call you.
4. Enjoying being a mom. That had been my dream for so long, and Bryce was a great baby.
5. I don't think I was doing anything else at all. (at least not that I can remember)

5 Favorite Snack Foods
1. Kettle Chips Salt and Vinegar potato chips (you get them at Whole Foods). I could (and do) eat the whole bag at once.
2. Chips and Salsa or Queso
3. Cheese crackers
4. Grapes
5. V8 (to try to make up for the fact that I don't eat many veggies)

5 Songs I Know All the Words To
1. I Can Only Imagine
2. High School Musical (I can't help it, they're catchy!!!)
3. Any Wiggles song released before 2005 (Cade was a huge fan) We still call baked potatoes "Hot Potatoes"
4. Life Is A Highway
5. I've been listening to Jeremy Camp, so some of his songs.

5 Things I would do with $1,000,000
1. Help people adopt who can't afford it.
2. Pay for my brother to adopt another baby.
3. Go on an awesome girls trip. To a great spa or something.
4. Put college funds away for the kiddos.
5. Pay down the house.

5 Bad Habits
1. These days, always on the computer.
2. Gorging myself at Mexican restaurants
3. Shopping too much
4. Procrastinating
5. Did I mention I like to shop?

5 Things I Like To Do
1. Blog
2. Shop
3. Take pictures of my kids.
4. Spend time with my girlfriends.
5. Spend time with my family.

5 Things I Would Never Wear Again
1. Big pouffy (sp?) bangs.
2. Blue jeans tight rolled at the bottom.
3. Big bows. (I was a bow head in high school)
4. Bikini (Nobody wants to see that!)
5. White bucks shoes

I tag my Mom (she's new to the blogging community), Deanna, Denise, Amy, and Jenn. Now it's your turn to answer the questions for us.

Braden's Week

Well, our week in Birmingham didn't exactly go as planned. In part because Braden had started coughing alot over the weekend and running fever. (He actually started during baseball camp, but I just thought it was no big deal). I really thought it was a fever virus and sinus drip, but just in case, I thought we should bring him to the doctor. The verdict: pneumonia!! The doctor said that if his fever was any higher, we would have been going to the hospital! Are you kidding me?! He ended up being really sick the whole week. He had no energy or appetite, and really only wanted to lay in bed. That would have been fine except for the fact that King Cade was there too, and you'd have to drug him to get him to stay still. Richard was working, so the answer was to go to the pool and let Cade swim while Braden laid on a chair in the shade. This is a picture of him one evening while Richard was swimming with Cade.

He actually fell asleep like this. It's pretty pitiful. Makes me so impressed with myself as a mother! I was in survival mode. I never really noticed how high energy Cade is until he was compared to a child who didn't want to do anything. I also try not to be cooped up in a hotel room with them for any length of time either.

Space Camp Graduate

We picked Bryce up from Space Camp on Friday. That little stinker had only called me one time the whole week. Last year he called me at least once a day. He had a great time, and met some good friends. They have a really neat "graduation" for them at them end. I have found that there aren't many opportunities to cheer for a child with a love of science, but this is one. That is the main reason why the brothers and I stayed in Birmingham all week, so we could cheer for Bryce on Friday. I don't ever want him to think that we think sports are more important to us, or to think that he won't get our attention with the things that he loves. It presents quite a challenge since the other two are such little athletes. Bryce's team won for the best team at camp that week. They said that his team learned to work together without arguing, and that you could always hear them coming before you ever saw them. (Did I mention that he had a blast?) This picture of Bryce in his flight suit is so cute. He looks like a real pilot. Not that I am hoping for that, but he sure loves it. He came in 2nd in the top gun challenge, and was very proud of that. I am very proud of him.

What's missing?

Can you tell? During the week of baseball camp, Cade lost 3 teeth! Three out of the five days, he went to his coach holding a tooth that he had pulled out. The coach said, he was beginning to think there was something wrong with him. I knew his teeth were loose when he left for the week, but never guessed he'd pull them all during baseball camp. He lost both his top teeth and one on the bottom. I haven't gotten that perfect picture of his toothless grin yet, but this one will do.

What a Funk!

Well, we made it back. It turned out to be a very interesting week. I'll have to elaborate on that later. Fresh on the brain today is all the laundry that I am trying to dig out of today. My first mission was to unpack, especially Bryce's bag because who knows what is in it! Well, you have never smelled "funk" until you get a wiff of this bag. I immediately started gagging!! It was BAD. He had his wet swimsuit and wet towels in there with all the stinky clothes. I thought I would fuss, but then I just thanked God that I was not one of the counselors that had to smell all those kids for the week! When asked if he used deodorant this week, he said, "sometimes". Translation: nope! I am working on disposable clothes for next year.

And We're Off - Again!!

This time to Space Camp!!!! Bryce is the little scientist in this family, and last year we decided to send him to space camp at NASA. He loved it so much that he is going again this week. So we're off! Richard is cracking the whip to get us out the door, so I'll have to fill you in on all the details when I get back! Ya'll have a great week. (We'll be in Birmingham while Bryce is in Huntsvill, AL) I can't be too far from him).