Out on a walk with these cats...

is a great place to be!

 

As one of the mommas with a baby, I don't often get to sneak away with the big kids.

 

Lil' Ruthie and Q man were taking a nice long nap one beautiful afternoon at Four Sisters Farm.

 

I offered to take the four big fellas on a little walk. 

 

I needed the exercise and they needed the activity.

 

They each grabbed their buddy and away we went.

 

 

At one point, they huddled up and created some kind of plan. 

I was not privy to the plan but I did document the meeting.

 

Of course, no walk at Four Sisters Farm is complete without a stop at Grandkids' hill.  They climbed to the top and gave me their best "tough guy" look.

 

I was glad I had my camera handy for this walk. 

These are the kind of moments I want to remember forever.

Summer Days at the Farm

Pop and Grammy have a hammock these days. 

Pretty fancy!

The kiddos love it. 

They take it as a personal challenge to get themselves into it and then to stay there. 

I was impressed to find four of them on there together. 

The silly babies were busy playing in the back of Pop's truck. 

I love their facial expressions in this pic. 

They are so funny!

The new, new house!

Wubba sings the song, "Big House" in reference to our new house.  He likes to say, "new, new house" instead.  So cute. 

You can see the video of the song here.

These are the lyrics...

Big House

I don’t know where you lay your head

Or where you call your home

I don’t know where you eat your meals

Or where you talk on the phone

I don’t know if you got a cook

A butler or a maid

I don’t know if you got a yard

With a hammock in the shade

I don’t know if you got some shelter

Say a place to hide

I don’t know if you live with friends

In whom you can confide

I don’t know if you got a family

Say a mom or dad

I don’t know if you feel love at all

But I bet you wish you had

Come and go with me

To my fathers house

Come and go with me

To my fathers house

It’s a big big house

With lots and lots a room

A big big table

With lots and lots of food

A big big yard

Where we can play football

A big big house

Its my fathers house

All I know is a big ole house

With rooms for everyone

All I know is lots a land

Where we can play and run

All I know is you need love

And I’ve got a family

All I know is your all alone

So why not come with me?

Obviously our new house is not the same thing as Heaven but we sure do feel blessed!

Check out these pics of the boys enjoying the swing set.

Even their Daddy got in on the action.

I know you are all waiting for pics of the inside of the house.  But I'm just not ready yet!  I finally got furniture delivered on Thursday and honestly, I haven't even taken the tags off.  Life is crazy.  I promise to get things in order soon and take some pics.

MY BIG SECRET!!! HUSH!!!!!!!

So the boys wanted to go outside and it was just me and ALL the boys. SOOOOOOOOO...I donned the wrap and put Q in it so the big boys could go play on the tree house!

I know that I probably didn't put the wrap on exactly right, but I was darned close! And hey for those of you men out there saying there goes his masculinity, what would you have done to keep the baby warm and let your big boys go outside? Huh?

NOTHIN'! That's what I thought!

I ROCK!

Progress...Remodel Update

Pop's been a bit distracted lately with some tree house planning and construction. The grandkids are delighted and I have to admit so am I. We can hardly wait until the weather warms up a bit so we can enjoy it. Pop has big plans for sort of a "Tree House Village" with several tree houses connected by a bridge. There is a climbing wall and a zip line in the plans as well.

In spite of the tree house and wedding plans, we have managed to finally pull the kitchen cabinets together...they have been functional for quite a while but we needed handles, toe kicks, and crown molding. Pop, Grammy, Bubba, and Wubba all worked together to get things done.  Bubba enjoyed running the vacuum to clean up the mess when Grammy ran the drill to install the handles - he said it was really loud!  It came together quite nicely!  Take a peek...