Fun Times!

Cade and Carson love playing together! They are such great twin brothers - always copying each other! They have so much fun in all they do!
Carson figured out how to drive his tractor pretty soon after Nana and Bapa gave them to the twins at Christmas! He actually steers pretty well, too!

Cade heard us say, "Just push your foot on the pedal." and that's exactly what he does - even still almost 5 months later!
They love their playset and would be outside all day long everyday if we'd let them! Cade shakes his head no, because he doesn't need Mommy to catch him!

Carson loves for me to catch him!

The boys love to eat outside and will be really glad if we ever go shopping for some deck furniture!

This day they were pulling the wagon on our walk, but Carson got tired and climbed in! Cade just kept on truckin'!

On the way back around the circle, Carson decided he should help Cade pull the wagon again!

Cade likes to line stuff up and make a choo choo train! I thought this one was great because it has a little red caboose!

Carson and Cade love to "work" outside!

They are big "Daddy's Helpers!"

Cade decided to smell the Amaryllis - that's one of the few real flowers we've had this year!

Daddy and Cade at River City Cafe!

Carson gives Mommy a sweet kiss, too!

Fun times shopping with Daddy!

Last night the boys ate good, so we decided to make cupcakes for dessert! Time to lick the beaters! Carson is pointing and telling me the cupcakes are in the oven. Good to know!

Cade made sure to really clean his!

Finally we get to get back in the high chairs to eat the cupcakes!

Dig in!

Yummy!

The Awful Myrtle Beach Fire!

These are pictures from the remains of the fire this past week. It burned over 20,000 acres in Horry County. It started Wednesday and was this Monday or Tuesday before they had it 100% contained because of the dry conditions with all the wind and everything.
This is right beside Hwy 22.

This is on the way home from shopping Saturday night with Carson and Cade very interested in the firetrucks and lights and sirens! The firefighters were still attempting to contain all spurts of the huge fire over the weekend.

It's so sad thinking about all the people who lost their houses. Kevin was down there a lot getting power back on that Thursday and Friday, so the boys think Daddy is super-cool now that he works with firemen (Cade says piremen)!

Boating adventure and Grandma Ree's Party!

Ready to go fishing with Daddy again!

Austin and his Daddy went in Papa's boat with Mr. Stevie, too! I think Austin was the only one to catch a fish!Mommy, Carson, and Cade checking out the fiddler crabs on the bank of a creek!

Carson looks like a Grandpa here with his sunglasses down on his nose!

Cade fell asleep on my shoulder (each boy took a 45 minute nap at separate times while fishing)!

Daddy did catch a crab in the dip net!

  On Sunday we celebrated Great Grandma Marie's Birthday! Here's Cade!

Carson loves to carry stuff under his chin like this for some reason!

All the great grandchildren enjoyed the bouncey slide that Aunt Debbie brought over!

And her Golf Cart was a hit, too!

Ms. Megan let Carson drive!

All the children had so much fun!

The little boys had fun playing with Grandma's toys!

The Circus Came to Town!

We went to the circus this afternoon with my friend Niccole and her family!
Here's Michael, Carson, and Cade (Alex was asleep on Niccole's shoulder at this point)!
Niccole and Michael say cheese when we get to the seats!Here's Mrs. Niccole, Mr. Mike, Alex, and Michael!

When it started up, Alex covered his ears for a minute! I thought this was cute!

Cade and Carson were very excited that it was starting!

They actually watched a lot of it intently! (Much more than I thought they would!)

This guy was walking "way up high" all over this spinning contraption and inside it like a little hamster. I kept thinking he was going to fall. Of course it was after the motorcycles rode around and around in a cage together and crashed into each other. Yes, they actually wrecked. I don't think that was supposed to happen. The driver that wasn't hurt pulled the bike off the other and he got up and waved like nothing happened. Crazy!

The tight rope guys were cool!

Cade and Carson liked watching the elephants during intermission!

At the end of the circus, I asked each child individually what was his favorite part of the circus!

Here's the answers of the children in the order they appear in this picture:

Cade - "Valentine /BaentIn/", Carson - "I CarCar", Alex - "My favorite part was Penny." Michael - "The Elephants!" By the way Niccole - I think I heard the /f/ sound on favorite!
Such a handsome group of boys!

The children decided to run circles around Niccole until time to go back in the big tent!

We saw camels and elephants and dogs and ponies and people do lots of tricks!

This man decided to be shot out of a cannon!
Here's Michael's cute reaction (hand over mouth)! After the man was shot straight at us into a big net, he turned to his Daddy and said, "I do not want to see that movie again!"

Here's the Big Top from the outside when it was all over! The boys had a blast!