Dad's Birthday

I know it's a little late and out of order, but Scott just gave me the pictures. So here we go: Bob's 65th birthday party was celebrated with the family in Memphis.

A little morning comics...nothings funnier that having comics read out loud and explained.

H and her mommy

Birthday boy and Mom

Grandchildren sort of looking at the camera

Boys

Boys in an unintentional prom pose

The pianists/escapists after too many family pictures

at the piano, with most people looking towards the camera

And last but not least...D with a sexy pose :)

Cicada outbreak and early summer flowers

So we are having an outbreak of the 13 yr cicadas. Some parts of town have few to none, while some areas, like our yard, is over run with them. They are super abundant (see photos), noisy, and dead ones are all over the yard. The dogs are eating their body weight in them too.

This is a couple iris's covered in cicadas

Cicada shells - 3 separate big piles

cicadas

cicadas

yellow columbine

VERY late forsythia bloom. It came out over the weekend. Apparently it didn't get the message to bloom 2 months ago. I'll take it though!

Primrose

Red Hot Poker

not sure what this is

First blooms of my Tennessee Coneflower

Cowboy Small is 3!

Our favorite Cowboy Small turned 3 last weekend. We got out our bandannas and celebrated cowboy style.

the birthday boy pre-party

Saddle up: picking up Cactus and the other horses from the barn

Eureka: searching for treasure amongst the hay

Look out l'il dogies: jumping over the rattle snake

Circle the wagons, it's chow time!

no cowboy beans, just trail mix

opening presents

Sweet big brother helping

Allison cowboys

"Oooh! America!"

This boy is pretty excited about America.

Happy Birthday, Bucko!

We'll post some pictures from Memphis soon.

Trip to Vicksburg

Took a trip to Vicksburg with Betsy+kiddos to see Nana and Grandpa and met up with Grandpa Bob, Grandma Jane and Aunt Judy. We had a great visit and enjoyed seeing everyone.

At the Mardi Gras parade on Washington Street.

Bead stash following the parade

Mini photo shoot with SJ before church

photo shoot over.

Mama and her snuggler

And here's the photo shoot of the greats together:

You may have thought that it was hardest to get toddlers to look at the camera...wrong! The man in the blue sports coat doesn't look at the camera. Ha ha!

Sometimes you "cheese!"so hard, you can't keep your eyes open.

Boys+ Aunt Judy. JH is smiling so nicely for the camera...M is apparently over it.

And a shot of four generations. Great, huh?

Scott left for a man weekend with Andy when I got home. Here are a couple of nice shots of shorebirds in S. Georgia.

Plover hunkered down out of the wind

Black skimmers (cool beak, no?). The one in front has a radio tag with the antenna sticking out below his tail.

Birthday time

JH turned 5 this week! We can hardly believe that he's so old. His party was Saturday and we had a great time at the Allison Racetrack. Also, Happy birthday to Mom! We didn't see her as she was stuck in MS due to the Blizzard of 2011.

Birthday boy in car #5

M and S playing away from the big kids

M and Scott see-sawing...a little unbalanced

M's "picture face"

M with the contraband camera and S milking her cup. Didn't know I was supposed to watch everything!

Cake time

serenading the birthday boy

Candles out!

New legos from Uncle Scott and Aunt Bec...it had a catapult...Yay!