Friday, June 14, 2013

It's Not Mother's Day

Ahh, it's summer! The time for lazy days and relaxed schedules. Although some days it seems like we are just as busy as always.

Our routine around these parts is to do our grocery shopping on Tuesday's. I get lots of sympathy glances at Target . . .




 
 
Much to my husband's chagrin, my grocery list does not always get fulfilled. Either because I ran out of room in the buggy or because my sanity was on the brink and I just decided to leave. He does not understand how this happens.
 
That means that on Sunday's and Monday's we are sometimes searching for things to eat and getting creative in the kitchen.
 
A Burford family tradition was to have blueberry muffins on Saturday's and my dad's biscuits on Sunday's. At the Brown house, we do something similar with muffins and/or pancakes on the weekends. Most weekends I ask the boys which of those they'd like - if they can't agree sometimes I'm nice and I make both.
 
On Mother's Day I made toast (friends, please inform my husband of the whole make mom breakfast on Mother's Day concept, thank you). That was met with grumbling and I informed the kids that it was Mother's Day so I got to do what I wanted.
 
Combine that with in the summer I shop with three kids and we often are scraping the barrel waiting on grocery day to roll back around and the other day I didn't do my usual - what do you want? pop tarts, cereal, toast, etc. I just made sausage and toast and called it a day. And Mason just stared at me blankly and matter of fact informed me that today WAS NOT MOTHER'S DAY!
 
Oh my - good thing I like him! So this summer will be filled with lots of "here I made it, now eat it," just to prove that it should always be mother's day!

Monday, June 3, 2013

Country Nights

The big boys were out of town last week on their annual birthday camping trip with my dad. Lots of good memories were made with Mason, Conner, and Papa - like, hey, remember that time we went camping and a tornado and a flash flood happened and our camper floated down the Caddo River with all our stuff in it?? Good times!
 
Ryan, Aaron, & I had some good times as a family of three as well! We spent one night riding 4-wheelers and fishing and picking blackberries. It was a great fun!
 
 
hanging with daddy on the pier
 
 
we are so blessed with our country view!
not a neighbor in sight!


i love aaron's face in this picture!
i also love how the pasture looks after the first hay bale of the spring!

 
deep thoughts

 
 
Tonight we headed to the local Dairy Queen for a cool summer treat. Mason said he had brain freeze on his lips! :)

 
we roll shirtless around these parts . . . actually Ryan drove to DQ fully clothed but I made him ride in the back on the way home and feed Aaron ice cream so he'd stop crying for ice cream. he ended up shirtless because Conner dumped part of his ice cream on him!
 
not sure why but Ryan said next time he'd just go by himself . . .

sweet as ice cream

 
happy now that his belly is full of ice cream

 
And that's how we do summer nights here!

Take me Out to the Ballgame!

 This past weekend we had a fun trip to the Texas Rangers game versus the Kansas City Royals! There were five couples and 10 kids - our common denominator was 7 & 8 year old boys plus a 9 year old, three 5 year olds, and the lone little girl was 4 - it was fun times!

We arrived in time for the boys to swim a bit before the game and then we headed over to The Ballpark.

My Rangers fans

 
me & Ryan

 
we sat in the "all you can eat" seats -
that was like Conner's third box of popcorn

 
sweet baseball boys

 
the real fun happened here after the game

 
our group had 20 people in it and other families would walk outside
and look at the pool and us and then just leave!



 
we also had noise complaints since we loitered in the hallway a lot

 
 
Our MLB weekend reminded me of games past. I was excited to know that I've been to as many cities to watch baseball as Ryan (granted he's been to more stadiums because he's been to old & new stadiums in the same cities but still!).
 
On our honeymoon we went to the SkyDome (now renamed the Rogers Centre) and watched the Toronto Blue Jays vs. Boston Red Sox in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 10, 2003.

 
We've been to a few Houston Astros games when it was Enron Field and Minute Maid Park -
this game is Houston Astros vs. Cincinnati Reds. We had great seats on the 1st base line.

 
And you really can't tell it but I went to Turner Field with my friend Lauren in April 2000
 to watch an Atlanta Braves game! Terrible picture of myself but that's all I had!
 
 
 
Looking forward to many more ball park adventures with my sweet boys!