papaw jim turns 70.

last weekend we traveled to east texas to celebrate papaw's 70th birthday! {thats dada's dada..if you were wondering} we had so much fun despite the weather.. it was COLD! the high was in the 40s on saturday. thats cold! we were the first to arrive.. that NEVER happens! we spent about half an hour swinging. :) and then the guest of honor arrived..korb spent lots of time with auntie kel..

and uncle keith and his auntie micah..

im really not sure why he looks SO serious in all of these pics because he had a REALLY good time!

loving lou {the best dog in the whole world} made him happy..he drove that little truck around that chair FOREVER..he helped jamie cook..and he did quite a bit of '4 wheelin'..and when he was really dirty, really really tired and really really really hungry..we kissed him goodbye and dropped him and his sister off at gran-grans. ;)we made it back to the party in time for the best part of the day..

i love this picture! he was completely cracked up.. genuinely happy. he was asked to offer a toast. which he did..and then everyone else cracked up.i would love to know the origin of those toasts..

jim's brother kelly jo and wife vivian spent the day with us.
and the day would not be complete with out a pic of the original team palmer.
late in the evening we all gathered around the fire to hang out and listen to some tunes. {my lungs and i have almost recovered.}
this is a terrible picture..but brad and kp singing makes me smile. im sure it was an old don williams tune.. unless it was journey. :) what did we do before ipods??
there was even a late night rhett barton sighting! that doesnt always happen..

we had a great time in east texas! i hope papaw jim enjoyed the day as much as we did!

just a swinging...

who knew..

an old swing.. hanging from..an old east texas tree.. could be..

so much fun..for the whole family.. really, who knew?

fun. fUn. FUN.

it was one of those weekends.. you know the kind. the ones where you feel like youve gotten away with something because you slept away {what is usually} the busiest part of your day. and you feel SO rested. you know.. cause you slept til noon.. saturday AND sunday. but then monday rolls around and you realize you were just fooling yourself. it doesnt count as extra sleep if you stay up til 4am both of the nights before.. AND your SO tired that before you know it its already wednesday... but you had SO much fun.. i love those kind of weekends!

my sweet little valentines..

valentines came and went around here.. nothing special really. just another day. but i did get to spend a ton of quality time with these two crazies and we had a GREAT time together! on saturday they opened sweet heart day cards from their gran-gran.. each got a little loot.. and off to target we went! they each got a toy and a GIANT bouncy ball. and then we spent the evening with uncle nick, auntie jenny, dalton and sweet macy-mace. we had so much fun.. that we stayed the night! nothing like a good sleep over. and donuts the next morning are definitely the best part! thanks for making the day special for us guys! we had so much fun!

a tiny hiney that makes me smile..

mlk weekend at the ranch..

a few weeks ago, while kp was snowboarding with brye, the littles and i spent the weekend with my parents in childress. the weather was beautiful.. so we took the kids to out the ranch {close friends of my parents have a ranch near my home town} and they had a BLAST. they got to ride in the mule.. feed the cows.. drive the tractor.. all kinds of fun ranch stuff. and i got to take a peak at the AMAZING addition todd & cara have made to the house!

korb is always a bit apprenhensive.. but not too scared to try anything with nana or papa.

and kennedy.. well, she loves absolutely everything about the ranch.

we had an awesome weekend with you mom and dad! cant wait to do it again!! click here to check out all the photos {mom!}..

a little love for uncle sam..

on saturday morning we woke up missing sammy b.. so we made a quick trip to austin to have dinner with him and hang out for the evening. then we drove back on sunday morning. all total.. we were away for 24 hrs away. not long enough.. but it was well worth the drive.

and judging by this giant welcome.. i think he was glad to see us too!

i love this pic of korb and sam laughing!

and the look off..

kp2 has perfected the look off that his dad and uncle sam mastered long ago. we had a great time sam! thanks for taking time out of your weekend for us! we will have to do it again soon...