Week of sun, heat, and humidity

I had so much fun with my family down in Texas this past week. My family filled my week out there with shopping, movies, and fun. We saw Up and G-Force, I wasn't a big fan of Up but G-Force was cute. It's a movie about talking guinea pigs, you can't expect much. I got to see where Kyle works, at a dog kennel. He is a "poop sprayer" (at least that is what I would call him). He doesn't have to pick it up, just spray it down the drain. He gets to play with the dogs too and walk them. He showed me a cute dog named Charley and I was about to take him home with me. It made me miss my Sally and Maggie.

Wednesday we all went down to Schlitterbahn in Galveston for the day. In the afternoon Nathan, Kyle and me were floating the Lazy River and dozed off. Needless to say the fronts of us were burnt, but we slathered on the aloe vera and healed just fine. Nathan woke up when he floated into a column and we both saw Kyle wake up when his head hit the wall.

I got to meet my new new, Justin. I was a total baby hog. I just told everyone that they got to see him whenever they wanted and I only got to see him for a week.

The night before I left I realized I had pictures of Lindsey but no picture of her and me. Needless to say it was time for bed so she was not cooperating. I love her and all her two year old spunkiness.

I made that for Lindsey during my girls night out with Jeannie and Jenny.

And one for Justin too. Lindsey loved her letters but even more she loved the extra flowers I brought in case any fell off her 'd'.

More Greene Family Fun

There is a huge difference between an Oehring head and a Greene head...or maybe it is that there isn't much difference, depending on how you look at it.


Jackson with his new 4Wheeler helmet on...

Hey look at that! Jackson's helmet fits me and it wasn't even a tight squeeze. Me and my 4 1/2 yr old nephew have the same size head.
That picture is compliments of Jackson. He is quite the little picture taker.


The boys (Levi, Stan, Clint, and Jackson plus Maggie) went camping so naturally the girls (plus McKay) had a Girl's Night out. We went for dinner at Don Pedro's and got laughing pretty good. Whenever Grandma laughed McKay would start laughing too. He's a Grandma's boy. We came home, put the boy to bed, and made us some virgin Strawberry Daiquiri's. We watched SYTYCD, Confessions of a Shopaholic (very cute especially for a girl's night), and did crafts. Pictures of the crafts have to wait so they don't spoil any surprises.
When Jackson got back the next day he very happily told me at "boy's camp" he got to pee wherever he wanted. He peed on a tree, in the river, on the grass...he was very excited that he didn't have to pee in a toilet.


Jeannie, Jenny, and Me


Jenny sugaring up the rims of our glasses.

Drink up!
They were good!



Jackson and his Crawdad
McKay and Jackson. I can't wait to see you again!

Get Ready for Picture Overload

Clint's brother and his family came out this past week. I had a ton of fun with them and my two cute nephews. Jackson is 4 1/2 yrs old and McKay is 9 months. Jackson is amazing with numbers. He was walking around asking how old we were and then would figure out the age difference between everyone. When I asked Jackson who was his favorite he would tell me, "Aunt Micole and Grandma". What can I say, I'm a complete sucker for the kid and he knows it.

Me and McKay
Jackson was quite camera shy at first...

but that soon changed.

Blue mouth, compliments of Aunt Nicole and having to get him a treat at the candy store. He got a blue Ring Pop and as long as he wore the ring he was the king (this is according to Jackson) and even if he took it off he was still the king.

Jackson trying to put on McKay's shoes. Jackson is so in love with his brother, it is so adorable. Once McKay is walking I can tell he will be Jackson's shadow. For now he follows Jackson everywhere he can with his eyes.

So cute. I think he is chewing on a bug jar. Levi's boys are all boy. Their favorite place to be in on the 4Wheelers.

McKay and Grandpa

Maggie was very good with the boys. She was very gentle with McKay but she sure did love wrestling with Jackson. Wrestling!

Jackson trying to get a ride with Clint.
He got one with Grandpa instead.

Jackson found his own 4Wheeler to ride.

Sally getting a ride with Jackson.

McKay enjoyed our rib dinner too.

He got some corn too. You can see his bottom teeth. I love his curly hair.Jackson spent the night with us a couple of nights. The first night we watched Hercules and then pulled out the sofa bed and fell asleep while watching Aladdin. When Clint got up for work he put Jackson in our bed and laid his head on Maggie. About an hour later when we woke up Maggie was still his pillow. We had donuts and chocolate milk for breakfast. This was announced very excitedly to Grandma with icing all over his face.

The next time he slept over we rented Scooby-Doo and then fell asleep to Igor. Clint got up for work and Maggie went and found a new bed to sleep on. I got out of bed to find her cuddle right up with Jackson. He was very excited to wake up to the Maggie sleeping with him.

I love being an aunt. I have the cutest nephews. Now I can't wait till next week and I get to see my brother Jared's kids. Here I come Lindsey and Justin! Get ready to get spoiled!

Sally

I usually only have funny Maggie stories but Sally has done something blog-worthy. Clint and Maggie went camping with his brother, dad, and nephew so it was just me and Sally at home. I let Sally out in the backyard before bed and she just stood there looking and waiting for Maggie. The next morning I opened the front door and I thought she was just outside sniffing. I go outside a minute later to find her running beside our neighbor's work truck as he backed it up to park. She was acting just like she does when Clint gets home from work. I had a hard time convincing her to come back to me because she really wanted Clint and she thought that was Clint.

Sally is not a fan of fireworks, she runs and hides. This Fourth of July, before it was dark, Clint and I ran to the store and put both dogs outside. We came home to find that Sally had poop on the stairs by the back door, under the table on the patio and on the table. She definitely had the poop scared out of her by the fireworks the neighbors were lighting off. The rest of the night she spent glued to Clint's side or hiding under the blanket with me. Maggie was completely unfazed and happy just to have a spot on the couch between me and Clint.

More pictures, more fun

Me and Sally
Clint got stuck in the mud. Maggie made sure to try to keep her feet dry.
Sally and Maggie found a chipmunk that was living in the wood pile. It was chattering away telling us to leave it alone, but that only drew the interest more of Sally and Maggie. Sally could fit under the wood and we were just waiting for her to come out with a chipmunk attached to her nose, but that didn't happen.

The resident wood pile chipmunk.

Kelly and Kian.

Kelly coming through the mud puddle.

It was so pretty out there. We had the best weather. I'm ready to go again. Any takers??

That was fun

For all of you who know me pretty well you better sit down before you read this....



I actually had fun camping this past weekend. I had a lot of fun camping. Our friends Mark and Kelly and their boy Kian came out to visit us. We loaded up the 4wheelers Friday and drove them up to a yurt, picture below, that we rented and stayed till Sunday. Of course Maggie and Sally came too. Friday it rained but we got lucky and while we rode up to the yurt it didn't rain and after we had all our stuff loaded inside it started to pour. It made it great for our full day of riding on Saturday, no dust and lots of mud puddles. Sunday we loaded back up and went home to enjoy a nice shower and flushing toilets. Here are just a few of the pictures, I'll get more up later. Thanks for coming out Kelly and Mark, we really had a lot of fun.

That's our yurt. Just like a big round tent.

The inside.

That was our glorious outhouse, not a porta-potty, it was an outhouse.

Mark and Kian having fun. Kian waving at everyone.


Me and Sally getting ready to ride up the yurt. Sally got all wet from sniffing in all the weeds so I had to stick her in my sweatshirt to keep her warm.

Clint infront pulling the trailer with our stuff all loaded and me crossing the muddy creek.
Kian loved the dogs...especially Sally and her kisses.

Clint got himself stuck so I had to go bump him back a little to get out. I didn't get stuck though!

Mark plowing through the mud puddle.