Where to start. I don't think we have slept since the last blog! Sure we have, just doesn't seem like it!
Look at those wild eyes. She looks like Dr. Evil demanding, "One meeallion dollars!" All I could come up with was a twenty and some left over formula...she said no deal and has been crying ever since! Ha! She is doing much better with the eating/sleeping thing, but still, her favorite thing to do is be fussy and cry between the hours of 6-12pm. One day I will pay her back by having a 7pm curfew or something! Ha!
Saturday morning, our good friends the Joneses came over. We got to meet "Willie Hank," as he is so adorably called. What a model child...all smiles from the time he comes in the door and then when it is nap time, lay the kid down in the crib and whah-la...he goes to sleep?!?!?! We didn't get one of those kind of baby's...either time! We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and watching or two oldest boys play together. By the time I decided to snap a picture of them, they were going 100mph. They played and played...never once yelled mama or daddy...kid of nice! Ha!
Then, after lunch, Uncle Ray and Aunt Monica took us tubing! Mason just loved it! He wanted me to go with him the first two times, but then rode with his cousin Caden, and then by himself! He really liked it, and it wore him out...which I liked!
Now, this is the point in the blog where I wish I had been recording with my video camera.
Mason and I had Bible School all last week. We went from 6-9pm every night! Mason had a blast. This is a picture of him from the program on Sunday night. Do you see the monitors on the floor in front of the teacher and next to the pulpit? There is a matching pair on the other side of the church. During the second song they were supposed to be singing, Mason decided to check out the sound system and make sure all four monitors had sound coming from them. It was quite a trek across the stage checking all four...everyone in the church was rolling laughing louder and louder as he bent over and put his ear next to each one. I just looked the color of a Dr. Pepper can I'm sure...that's my boy.
This week has been calm for the most part. Mason still loves his little sister, as you can tell. Aunt Jaime is coming home this weekend and we have a birthday party with a bounce house on Saturday, so we are looking forward to more fun then! 
There were two thing he wanted for his birthday...one of them is the "youth guitar" as he calls it, and the other was a bicycle. He hasn't quite mastered the guitar yet, contrary to the photo, he prefers to sit on the couch and play it flat on his lap. He says he can play "Jesus Loves Me" on the "really loud string," but you will have to come by for a visit and be your own judge!
Here is the big dog on his bike. He loves it. Received his first road rash on the first outing in the neighbors driveway. He is a bit more cautious now! His helmet has monster trucks on it...he is all about that as well. He has been a real trooper with all that has been going on in his little life the past month.
Anslee is not a happy camper. I only had four pictures on the camera of her since we have been home...this is the best of the four. Reason being...she screams every second she isn't asleep or eating. I think I have held her twice, with her awake, that she was not crying. We have tried different formulas, feeding closer together, further apart, just about everything we can think of. I don't mean to complain, but I told her tonight during one of her fits that, "Some baby's like their mama and daddy, smile occasionally, and don't cry during every dull moment." She rolled her eyes and cried some more! As you can tell from the pic above, she just likes to flash gang signs and take everything way too serious!
She loves her bubba and he loves her. I think she ranked three kisses and hugs before Mason and I went to church today! We promised him he could be the very first one to see her after she was born. He was so very nervous as I went to the waiting room to get him. He is such a big boy and has such a grasp of what's going on...we are so proud of him.
We were allowed to come home Tuesday morning around 9:30am. Amber had a smashing headache and I was just plain ole' tired. Turned out, Amber's headache was a spinal headache. I took her back to the hospital just today to get a blood patch and she is feeling much better tonight. I wish that on no one...it's hard enough the first week at home with an infant...exponentially harder with a migraine-like headache. We are all good now!!! 
Now this weekend, we didn't do alot. Gigi and Granddad caught a bunch of fish Friday night and Mason went over Saturday to inspect all the fish. He learned all about bass and crappie, and which one has the larger mouth! Ask him, he will tell you all about it! Then he and Amber came by to see daddy working and bring me some lunch. Mason still loves his tractors.
After work, we decided to blow up the swimming pool and go for a dip at home. Swimming does make for an easy bedtime! We had a great weekend...Amber goes to the doctor tomorrow for her check-up. We shall see how much more until we are four!
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!
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.
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!!!
