Fun with Stamps

Granny brought over some stampers and paint for the kids to play with...they had fun. Mia, of course, stamped her arms, her legs, her dress, the table....you get the idea. Not that Aaron didn't too...

Slip N Slide...

Aaron has finally mastered the art of the slip n slide. He wanted me to try it--ha ha. It's funny, I can remember being his age and going across the street to play on our neighbor's slip n slide. I remember the grown ups saying they were too old/big to do it. I couldn't understand why, but NOW I understand that they weren't just trying to get out of it. Can you imagine a 36 year old mom trying to do that thing? I would probably have to be sent to the hospital in an ambulance! Aaron was having so much fun - it just made me feel old! (Not that I didn't enjoy watching him have his fun!)

Mansfield Dam (while we're on the subject)...

Buchanan Dam

Here are some pictures from Buchanan Dam. Lake Buchanan is the only Highland Lake that was open to boating this week. It's the biggest lake- all of the other lakes below the dam were closed due to debris from recent flooding. Our friend's lakehouse is in a little cove and just a month ago the cove was DRY but as you can see from the picture of Aaron and James in the boat it is now full of water! When it floods like this it really helps us to understand how all the dams and lakes are connected. There's one (bad) picture I've posted of the water being released out of Buchanan Dam. LOTS of water!

Four Wheeler Fun

We just got back from our trip to Lake Buchanan. It was fun, but definitely the high point of Aaron's trip was driving a four wheeler (a little one with no gears or anything). He felt pretty grown up because the throttle and the brakes were on the handlebars.

When he talks about it he makes sure to say he was not RIDING it he was DRIVING it!

Gone fishin