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more than enough skip to main skip to sidebar more than enough wednesday july 24 2013 a whole hand so i m not saying i still think of him as a baby even though he was the cutest cuddliest most smiley baby awwwww so sweet i actually think of him more like this still snuggling in our laps or wanting to be carried around it s not that i m not ready for him to grow up i love that he is past so many of the things that aren t necessarily lovely about toddler preschoolers but i can t help but think of him as being just a little bit younger than he is no way he is letting us forget it though he is five now a whole hand and he is super proud of that because he is five now he can do a whole host of things he couldn t do just the week before you know when he was still four he can now help me in so many ways mom i can help you turn all the lights out now because i am five or mom i can help carry groceries in now because i am five and my favorite mom i can count all the way up now because i m five and did you know that 10 10 20 he is an expert at uno and can beat me easily even though he doesn t like to lose at games he will keep playing at the beginning of the summer he officially became a swimmer and would proudly tell people do you know what i am now i m a swimmer some of his favorites include food pb j s roast beef broccoli blackberries games soccer aggie football any video game movies monsters university despicable me 2 and dinosaur tv shows phineas ferb power rangers another fav his big brother we are still counting our blessings at how well these two get along and how much they love each other sometimes it takes my breath away at how much god has blessed us with when i look at these two my favorite is that our littlest man still wakes up with a smile runs to find me and gives me hugs and kisses first thing in the morning so he is still my lovebug and he still loves it oh and anything dinosaur posted by kmcd at 3 49 pm 0 comments monday july 22 2013 our home away from home i blame my parents they are totally and completely to blame i am pretty sure without their influence we would have never fallen in love with ruidoso like we have although i made a trip to the inn with my own grandparents when i was around eight years old and have good memories the first time we brought jw here in 2006 made us truly love being here and we have found the home our home that we will stay in every time we come back the view from the front porch facing sierra blanca the kids call the house the new mexico house simple but said with lots of love one of the boys favorite things to do at our house is look for deer from the back deck there is one right below them that papa was feeding he discovered they liked apples a whole lot and one in particular came back a couple of times it is funny to hear the locals talk about the deer some love them some hate them very much like texas the town even recently fought over whether or not people can feed deer from their yards luckily you still can or papa might have broken the law the second thing the boys love about this house the hot tub we turn the temp down a little and they have their own private heated pool silly boys another view of sierra blanca sigh we never really did spend much time at funtrackers until the last two years when our boys discovered the wonderland that is go carts miniature golf and bumper boats you can t beat the scenery and weather we always take a day trip to capitan to visit smokey and then we drive down the road to lincoln this is the dolan house which is a lovely quaint restaurant now a couple from washington state moved down to restore and open it read about the history here and yes dolan as in murphy dolan lincoln county wars billy the kid and for those my age young guns and we can t go to ruidoso without a visit to the flying j ranch if you haven t ever been it s a treat the fairly new cowboy church at flying j they hold services here once a week for locals in the past couple of years they have added a lot out at flying j including shooting and gem mining my boys were all about the shooting this was lj s first time he didn t want help but he gun was too heavy for him to hold alone my two talented shooters uh oh it s a gun fight in the streets of bonita city aka flying j we had a treat when our mcfriends from sterling came to stay with us for a couple of nights we went horseback riding that is my big boy in the blue hat it was bit dry but once we got up into the lincoln national forest it cooled down and was beautiful we started at around 7 000 feet elevation and rode up to a little over 8 000 feet we also found aliens and the green guy is cool too seriously there are wood carvings of everything up here especially bears which we didn t see but we had one or two manage to open our dumpster for midnight snacks eek last day picture all smiles here but sad when the car pulls away thanks ghee papa we loved every minute posted by kmcd at 5 28 pm 0 comments wednesday may 29 2013 camping is for the wolves cub scout wolves that is inks lake april 19 21 2013 our campsite before set up i was the lucky person chosen to arrive first at campsite after they tried to put all five of our campsites together in a horrible no good awful location i ran back to the ranger headquarters and said no way find something else so glad i did because we ended up with this amazing cove all to ourselves after setup we made this our party site and all of the tents were to the left of this picture in surrounding sites with parking and hook ups to the right of this picture is an open field that we had all to ourselves well with an occasional hiker walking through view from the open field water is to the right the orange tent is the mcd family headquarters rock island as our boys called it provided hours of imaginative fun for the kiddos it was just off the open field by our campsite i m not sure what is going on here but our den leader is the one pretending to be a rabbit or a bear anyway this should give you an idea what our gatherings are like the dads the scouts and their siblings the men folk will be taking over the den in the fall of 2014 yes the mamas already have it all planned out roughin it lol what i adore about our lovebug is that when he is tired it is lights out and he crawls in bed even if the others are still playing which of course they were notice all of the sleeping bags blankets etc it got down to 38 degrees in the wee hours of friday night saturday morning still way better than trying to sleep when it s 88 degrees at night ummm our big boy is in there somewhere he crawled down into his eskimo sleeping bag both nights and slept so soundly saturday hike swim canoe and fishing fun due to a very steep slope just on the other side of this rock the little one s ended up on a hike with some of the parents while the other parents took the big boys to a cool swimming hole made my scout pose before he and dad went off to swim time to canoe paddle paddle paddle this lake is gorgeous our sweet campers my fishing buddy no catches this time but relaxing fun campfires when it is in the 50 s at night are sooooo much better and the kids thought it was even more fun when the flames changed colors thanks to some magic our den leader brought along and yes smores were had by all as well as some strawberries dipped in marshmallow cream and then roasted too busy eating to take pictures ha early morning games after breakfast we finished our sunday with the dad s taking the kids paddle boating i have the best video of three paddle boats coming up to our camp site all joined together singing the imperial death march i am saving it for something special things i learned from our second camping trip it is much better to go camping and get a little cold versus camping when you are sweating through three changes of clothes a day i love being outdoors with my boys it is a joy to see them appreciate nature and learn about where we live i wish i had been able to camp with my granny but i know she is watching over us and is so happy to see her great grandsons share in her love of the outdoors we need a bigger tent lol no but really especially as these boys continue to grow i m thinking one of those cool eight person with a drape to section off rooms the quiet time rules are not suggestions at state parks they are strict rules and are enforced even if you accidentally keep playing your music and chatting around a campfire not realizing it s a little past 10pm wait it was almost 11pm whoops camping with friends is the best even if it s a little chilly the first morning and you wake up with chattering teeth and have trouble going back to sleep having breakfast and fellowship with friends makes it all worthwhile posted by kmcd at 1 39 pm 0 comments monday may 20 2013 summer s here big boy update lovebug snake at hotel galvez may 10 2013 schoooooooooooool s out for summer and the mcd family continued our tradition of heading to the beach the day after the boy s last day of school this year s destination galveston so much fun now an update on our oldest baby i mean young man i know he is handsome isn t he this big boy is 8 years 5 months and 1 day old i counted it out because i can t believe it myself my husband has always called him sneaky snake and it is funny now because he likes it even though this tenderhearted little man is the furthest thing from the definition of a snake that you can get perhaps exactly why he likes it snake just finished his second grade year in school what i now have a third grader he is a great student and is thriving at his christian classical university model style school he still attends classes at scs on tuesdays and thursdays and i am blessed to co teach him at home on mondays wednesdays and fridays working diligently at home his favorite subjects are science and history he is really gifted at math and likes it too his least favorite is anything having to do with writing at the end of each school year at scs the teachers hands out character rocks with a characteristic written on it that the teacher believes the student has embodied all year so far jacob has collected honesty enthusiasm and this year loyalty he is all of these things plus extremely caring and tenderhearted he is an incredible big brother and prays over his little brother every time lovebug gets sick future former student class of 27 he loves our alma mater and had a blast going to football games this year we even have video of him getting a high five from a certain heisman winning quarterback during the spirit walk before the very first home game and suddenly this kid has an opinion about music one of his favorites r5 just happened to be playing a famous little bbq place here in town we decided to be the cool parents and take snake and one of his best little buddies ek to see them play it was during the day and has a kid friendly area so these two pre tweeners weren t squished by all the teen girls trying to see the cuties on stage he also likes some pop music he has heard on the radio christian music and i found out recently crazy train by ozzy osbourne o k finally our big boy is beyond blessed by his friends and their parents his own super hero dad has coached his 2nd grade boys soccer team this spring their last game of the year is tomorrow evening due to the holiday weekend coming up snake is so so so fortunate to be playing with his four best buddies they not only all go to the same small school together but all five of them are in their own little cub scout den den 10 plus siblings and dads god has more than provided our prayer to surround our boys with exceptional people and friends add in our amazing family and maybe just maybe jm and i will survive raising these boys posted by kmcd at 6 43 pm 1 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom christmas 2011 christmas 2010 christmas 2009 christmas 2008 my blog list bring the rain deployment thoughts i m back 17 years ago jen 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