Treasure Hunting

Vic got a hand held GPS from one of the guys at work and wanted to go treasure hunting. Boys! Apparently, a bunch of people with plenty of time on their hands go out and hide little knick knacks for others to find and enter the coordinates so that they can be found with a GPS. We didn't find anything but a bunch of mosquitoes, spiders, and hurricane damage! Hayley had fun though!

Bonfire!

Well, after Gustav and Ike, our yard is finally cleaned up. In the process, I encountered a couple of snakes in the yard so since Hayley was helping clean up, I told her she had to wear her green rain boots because there were snakes in our yard. She asked why there were snakes, and I told her because the yard was so messy. We invited some friends over on Sunday night and set the piles of sticks on fire and Hayley was running around telling everyone that we were burning up the snakes! Crazy kid! Anyway, it was fun. The fire got a little too big for comfort a couple of times but nothing that the hose and Vic couldn't handle!

New Family Member(s)!

Hayley received a VERY early Christmas present a couple of weeks ago! Two Shetland ponies- however, she is only keeping 1! The pony that we wanted for her included a 5 month old baby and she had been re-bred, although its not 100% that she is pregnant again. In fact, we are hoping that she's not just because thats one more thing to worry about in the spring. Anyway, her name is Daisy and Hayley is calling the baby Happy for now. She has only ridden her twice so far just because we dont have all of the equipment just yet, but both times she did not want to get off! Happy will be going to her new family in December. I will have to get some pics of Hayley riding but for now, all I have is the ponies!

A Day at City Park with D.D

My Mom and I took Hayley to City Park to ride the rides and then we went on the street car. Hayley had a blast!

Day 2 at the Lake

More Pictures from the Lake House

Katie is somewhere in there!
Bailey looking a bit annoyed
Noah enjoying his boat ride
Katie and Hayley

North Carolina

After a nearly 10 hour drive to Dad's house in NC from the cabin in Alabama, we were quite relieved to get there. Although, I'm not sure how excited Dad and Shelley were when we opened the van and there was 2 dogs, a cat, and a rabbit in tow! I was a bad person and didn't take any pictures while we were at the house. In fact, I had completely forgotten about the camera until we were loading up the van to go to the lake house. Therefore, I tried to make up for it at the lake house but Shelley wasn't able to join us, so we were one person short in all of the pictures.
Katie did an awesome job skiing and Hayley loved tubing!