Memorial day weekend!

You just can't go wrong when a holiday weekend starts with this much mud! You should see his mama's car as well! Needless to say, Mason got washed, the car didn't. We had a long and fun weekend.

All the mud came from playing with the hose after washing his Gator. I suppose he has mud in his skid plates or something? Only our child.

Our pregnant family went to the lake for limited amounts of time both Saturday and Sunday. We had a good time eating and hanging out with friends.

Mason got to ride a Jet Ski for the first time. Look at that smile...that says it all! He wanted to go fast, "Super fast," he said. He didn't care too much for the waves, but had a blast overall!

Finally, I will give Mason 97% credit, dad 2% credit, and the Boy Scouts of America (for the knot in the rope) 1%, for this grand idea! We looked like some hillbillies, but Mason had a blast Monday riding behind the mower in his wagon. We rode around the yard and down the street a little ways. Luckily, no one saw us...I don't think! Ha! He was smiling ear to ear though. What can I say, when great minds get together, anything can happen! Ha!

My wife is miserably pregnant. She has one day of school left and 23 days of pregnancy left if she goes the distance. I think she is praying every day that today will be the day! Ha! Certainly do keep her in your prayers as she admits, "I am about to pop!"

Yeah, OK, Wha'd you say?

I figured I would entitle this blog with Mason's three favorite words of late. We are working on those with several forms of discipline! Ha! I don't know if it is taking.

We had a really good week last week. Nothing too exciting except for my wife waking me up with contractions at 2am on Thursday. She said I patted her on the belly and told her it would be ok and went back to sleep. I don't think I did that though. Ha! Seriously though, she did have contractions until late in the day Friday and then they quit. Thank God for progesterone shots!!!

Mason has been excited about Anslee coming. Amber had a super shower at church Sunday afternoon and got tons of diapers and stuff. Mason helped haul all of it upstairs to her room this evening. The bigger the box of diapers, the more he wanted to carry it! A regular ole pack mule! I think it tired him out though, he went right to sleep tonight!

That is all I have for now. No pictures this week, wifey didn't charge the camera! I am doing it now though. Maybe next week will be better documented! Ha!

Birthday and Mother's Day!!!

Boy did we have a busy few days this weekend!!! First we started off with a garage sale Saturday from 7am-2pm. Went really well I thought. And since it was my birthday, I decided to put all proceeds into the purchase of a riding mower. Probably a good idea since I sold my push mower in the garage sale! Ha!

Mason and I had a blast trying it out and seeing what all the levers and buttons did once I got it home...until it started raining on us! So Mason went inside and I finished mowing in the rain, ugh. I was committed though, had to finish! This mowing episode was Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday afternoon, when I actually went and purchased the mower, my wife said I had to hurry home to go to a function for my cousin at the lake and then to mom and dads for dinner. I grumbled to her saying, "We are just trying to fit too many things into one day." Almost to the destination, she told me to turn left to a friends lake house where all my buddies, wives, mom and dad, aunt and uncle were all waiting to surprise me. I am not big on surprises, but I had no clue she had done all that. We had a great time eating dinner and visiting. Dad cooked burgers and mom cooked corn on the cob and all the fixings. Yum.

That is my buddy Chris sitting my Mason and I. He drove all the way from Dallas to celebrate with us. I felt so guilty that he missed Mother's day with his wife and son to come to my party. And to boot, his wife cooked these awesome smore brownies that you can only eat one a day because they are soooo rich and you will go into a sugar coma!!! I washed them down with some of the DP she also sent...Al you are too sweet! Thank you. I am so very blessed to have such a great group of friends that have stuck together for nearly 30 years for the most of us. People find it odd when I tell them that I have lunch with life long buddies nearly every day for lunch. It is a rare thing to have ONE good friend, and I have so many. It reminds me of the story in three of the four gospels about Jesus teaching in a man's house and four friends take their friend, a cripple man, and carry him on a blanket for an undisclosed distance to Jesus. Upon arriving, they cannot get in the door, so they climb on the roof, cut a hole, and lower the friend inside where Jesus is. I have friends that would carry me as far as I had to go...and they know I would do the same for them.

Sunday, we had Mother's Day! We went to church, then home where Amber had purchased all the fixing for gourmet deli sandwiches for our family, my mother, and grandmother. We all had a good visit and lunch. After everyone went home, we let Amber take a nap on the couch and then we mowed as I mentioned earlier. We all had a good day together. Well, this was a long one, sorry. I hope everyone of you had as great a weekend as we did!!!