HURRICANE IKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, we are about to be slammed by yet another hurricane. It is expected to make land fall in the early hours of the morning Saturday in Galveston. We are going to have winds in excess of 90 miles per hour and a storm surge of 14 feet. That's if it doesn't intensify and it probably will. The storm surge won't impact us here in Kirbyville but the winds surely will with the 20 oak trees surrounding our house. We are going to ride it out with friends that live close but have no trees. We probably won't have electricity for a while, I will try to let everyone know what is happening after we get the generator up and going. Keep us in your prayers.

THE BIG 3

Cameron turned 3 July 26th. She was excited about her party, she had FRIENDS coming to play. Both the girls are a little spoiled to Nana making cakes. They just look through my cake books and pick out the one they want. For some reason they keep getting bigger each year. The pic doesn't do justice to the size. The bottom layer was 15" diameter and 5 " thick.


Her present from Mom & Dad and Nana & Paw-paw. She is a one month old Mini horse, she named her Callie Horsey. She weights about 45 pounds. I had to pick her up to put her in and out of the trailer when we brought her home.



There were lots of friends to help celebrate

LACEY'S BIG DAY

Sorry, I haven't updated in a while. Summer gets busy for everyone. I am having to do 3 seperate post. Dialup times out if I try to post more than 4 pics at a time.

Lacey, Graydon's oldest got married Fridat night. Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey Davis

What better time to take a few family photos. It's not very often we get dresses up.

SWIMMING LESSONS

Aspen and Cameron each took private swimming lessons this summer. Keith and I went and watched them on the last day. We were really impressed. They can both go of the diving board. Aspen swims all over the pool by herself, Cameron still has to use floates in the deep end.

Toni and I went to get some plants for her yard. The people raise and show mini's. The girls fell in love. This baby was 4 month old, the lady has already trained her to do tricks.



Toni came over and rode Angel for me. She hasn't rode in 4 years, Angel hasn't been rode in quite a while either were both a little bit rusty. This was after the short rodeo. The horse fared much better than rider. Angel had some pretty bad spur marks from Toni trying to stay on. The inside of Toni's legs were bruised pretty bad. You should see the girls imitate Angel bucking their mom off.


Aspen cooling of at Graydon's girls birthday party



Cameron and cricket watching spongebob.

WHAT AN ADVENTURE

The fishing has been kinda iffy this year. We went from below normal temps, to above normal. Noodle fishing is best at the temp. in between. But night time seems to be just right. Keith had heard they were biting good at night so him and his cousin wanted to try, what a adventure it turned out to be. They were biting, but the wind was also blowing really bad. Waves were washing over the front of the boat, they were both soaking wet. The wind was blowing the noodles out of sight, and the May flies in. He said they were 4" to 6" deep all over the boat, and you could hardly see. When the waves washed in the boat they turned to mush and stopped up the drain. Then there were some kinda fish jumping out of the water, they would jump all the way across the boat. They were having to dodge them. Would you believe they had a blast. Planning another trip this weekend.

The limit is 25 fish per person. They stayed until they had their limit. I don't think they were thinking about how long it would take to clean them. There were exactly 150lbs. We had 9 gallon zip lock bags of fillets.