Crawfish Boil

Last Saturday was our 6th annual Crawfish Boil!

It was so fun, and great to spend Cinco de Mayo with so many great friends!

The boys were checking out the crawfish

Reid looks like he's about to join them.

Sarah and Lindsay with their baby girls

Cristie, Sadie and Holly with their babies :)

Thank you baby Graham for holding out till after the crawfish boil, it wouldn't have been the same without the Long's there!

Mmmm, hotdogs!

Avery and our neighbor Susan

Shane working hard

Ryan giving a lesson on how to peel crawfish

Rylin was a big fan of the crawfish!

I got some of the kids to pose with the crawfish.

Gavin

Kennedy

Olivia, Kenny, Aubrey, and Nataley

Avery didn't want anything to do with the crawfish, but she sure enjoyed some potatoes

and some corn

Our traditional picture

I'm pretty sure there may have been more children than adults this year, it's crazy how much things have changed in just 6 years!

Sweet baby Jesse, so festive!!

These boys were cracking me up playing with this Christmas toy they found. Rylin looks like he is watching TV.

Brooke and Gavin

Avery helping Jenni feed baby Jesse

Bran, Blake and Tiff

Part of the Hamm family

My sweet work friends

Here's Papa and Mimi taking the kids out front to see the moon, Carson's most favorite thing to do when he actually gets to stay up late enough to see the moon.

Hanging with the Millers

Carson and Avery stayed up WAY too late, but had so much fun!

We ended the night watching the boys play a little game of corn hole!

What a fun night!

Carson's New Do

Well, Carson had his first official haircut!

After being called a girl multiple times, we thought it was probably time for a big boy haircut.

I have always loved his little curls in the back and I just love longer hair on baby boys, so I was really sad to cut it, but it was definitely time!

Here is the before picture.

Look how long it is when it's wet.

Bye bye sweet baby hair.

He was a little fidgety, but overall sat very nicely for Ms. Connie.

All done, such a big boy

The back

Here is Carson's cheering squad that came for the big event!

I really love how it turned out!

We went next door to Cheddar's for dinner and Carson got to play with the helicopter that daddy bought him for being such a big boy!

He looks so much older to me now,

but he's still my little baby boy!

Being Sweet

These two have been obsessed with sitting in each other's laps lately.

I hear Avery as least once a day saying, "Carson, you want to sit in my lap?"

It's really sweet, and I am so thankful that they are starting to play together and aren't constantly fighting like they used to.

She also likes it when he lays his head in her lap so she can mother him.

And give him kisses.

When Carson won't sit in her lap, she grabs an arm full of babies and mothers them instead!

And reads them books too! Such a sweet little mommy!

And such a sweet little daddy too! He loves sitting his babies on his lap to watch Mickey Mouse!

Love my sweet babies!!

A Little After School Excitement!

Last week Papa come over with a little surprise for Carson.

It was a squirrel that he had trapped in his garage attic.

Carson was so excited to say the least!

He wanted to hold it.

Poor scared little thing!

Papa and Carson wedged the trap in our gate and opened the door so it could run out.

And then we waited,

And waited...

Till finally it ran out into the trees. This is as close to the the squirrel as Avery would get...can't say that I blame ya sister! Thank you Papa for the exciting afternoon, Carson has been talking about it all week!