Buzzi Company Picnic

The Buzzi Company, formally known as Lonestar had its 50 year anniversary this year. They celebrated with a picnic out at the plant with all the families. My Dad was so proud to show off his grandsons and show them where he has worked since before I was born. During the summers in college I was out there with him. It was a great summer job for me! We all had to wear hard hats, safety glasses and ear plugs. It is loud, dusty and hot out there! I have to say I have a lot of respect for my dad for him being out there for 30 plus years. I know he did it to give his girls the life he wanted us to have. I love you Dad!


My Dad and I on the plant tour.



Kyson was ready for his plant tour.









Kyson rode his first pony at the picnic. He loved it and we had no allergic reactions!



The Fire Chief came out with the fire truck and the kids had free reign to roam around and do what they wanted. Kyson LOVES flashlights so the fireman showed him every flashlight they have in the truck. They have a lot of flashlights.




Kyson loved driving the truck.





Breckin and my nephew Mason standing on the front of the truck.

McDonald County High School Homecoming

If there is one thing I like just as much as college football it is high school football. I was so excited when my cousin called me and said her daughter had been chosen as Sr. attendant for McDonald County High. I have such fond memories of high school football games so we packed up and headed over to see her and all the excitement around homecoming.





It all started with a Black Hawk helicopter bringing in the game ball for the Homecoming queen. The boys thought this was awesome. They sat so still while the chopper was coming in to land.




My cousin Chelsea...she is beautiful.





I think the boys enjoyed their first High School football game. I am looking forward to them being older and building the same memories I did at high school football games.

Football Season!!!

Saturdays around here used to be all about football...until Breckin started to play soccer. Now we do soccer and rush home to start watching the best football game on TV. Even though we are in Arkansas we still love OU and the boys love to wear their jerseys and be just like Dad. They all looked so cute one day I had to get a picture. Boomer Sooner!!!

Soccer Fall 2010

It is soccer time again! I love watching him play soccer and not having to coach this year has been even better. His team name is the Crew! Perfect fit for the team. They are a "crew"... He loves getting out there and running around. We have soccer every Tuesday and Saturday for an hour so it isn't too much to wear him out. He is getting really good this year and he makes me very proud coming from a soccer mom and dad we hope he loves the sport as much as we did.




Here is the Crew getting direction for their coach. Breckin is #6. The coach is great and has a lot of patience with the kids.










Kyson loves to go watch his big brother play and can't wait until he can get out there and play on a team of his own. He sits on the sidelines and cheers Breckin on which usually means he just repeats everything Brian and I are saying.

Breckin's 1st School Program

Breckin is now in Kindergarten and that means school programs and awards. The first awards assembly his class was picked to lead and do a song at the beginning. The theme was apples. They wore hats made of apple pictures and sang a cute apple song. Breckin didn't get an award but I think he is ready to try and get one for next time. He was so cute and sang his song so well. I was very proud of him.

Kyson's 3rd Birthday

I can not believe my baby turned 3! He is growing up so fast and is so full of life. He is the sweetest, most mannerly little thing one minute and the next he is such a little boy. He really knows how to work his mom. Everyday he is becoming more of a Daddy's boy. Hopefully one day they will both become Mama's boys again.





We celebrated his 3rd birthday with a splash party in the backyard. We had two pools and a sprinkler, water balloons, a bubble station and sidewalk chalk. The kids had a great time! They played in the water until their fingers were wrinkly. We had hamburgers and hot dogs. It was a great birthday!

Our First Camping Experience

Since plans got cancelled to go to Brady, TX we decided to load the boys up and take the camper out for the first time. Our friends Cara and Greg are experienced campers and love it so they decided to go along with us. Cara brought her son Jimmy who is about Kyson's age so the boys had someone to play with while we were there. We headed out on Friday after Breckin got out of school to Pineville, MO and set up camp at Sugar Island. It was beautiful! there.



Our campsite was right on the water and shaded by lots of trees with not many people around so it was the perfect spot.




The boys couldn't wait to get in the water. The deepest water was maybe a couple of feet deep so the boys basically had a big wading pool and had the best time. Kyson just liked to sit in the water and hang out. They were in the water from the time it was warm enough in the morning until we had to drag them out in the evening. I thought they would get bored while we were there but they had so much fun playing in the water all day I didn't hear any complaints about being bored at all.














Brian and I not being very experienced campers yet brought along hot dogs for dinner and lunch the next day thinking that would be the easiest to cook. Cara and Greg being the experienced campers they are showed us the way to camp where you don't have to eat just hot dogs and you can have a great meal. After the fist night we had some great food! Brian and I are ready to get more cooking tools and perfect our camp food.

Who says you can't have Ramen noodles while you are camping???



Mac and cheese over the campfire. The boys were really excited about this.





Stew meat and potatoes we used to make a fajita type dinner. it was so good. Brian grilled the onions with the meat and we added cheese.



No camping adventure would be complete without having smores. This was Breckin's first smores and he has such a sweet tooth he wanted one the next day for breakfast.



The ice cream truck is everywhere! It seems like everywhere we go we can't get away from it. Somehow they wandered onto the campgrounds and that music draws in every child so of course our kids wanted to get ice cream (really Popsicles) from the ice cream truck. They really did enjoy them.





On Saturday Kyson turned 3. His party is next weekend but we decided to do a little something for him out at the campsite. We got him a little cake and sang happy birthday. We was going around all day singing "Happy Birthday dear me!". I think he had a great birthday camping and being in the water.





This camping adventure was so much fun for us and now that we have the camper we plan on doing it a lot more. We all had a great time and can not wait to go again!

Benton County Fair

We decided to take the boys to the Benton County Fair so Friday night James, Alan, the Zotti's and our family had dinner at Doe's and headed to the fair. It was a pretty hot night out so we were hoping when the sun went down it would be cooler. The boys had a great time even with the heat.


Kyson found a bouncy that he loved and played in for a long time.




No trip to the fair would be complete without a ride on the carousel.




They had quite a few kid rides that the boys loved and had such a great time riding together.

Family Bike Ride

The weather was semi-nice not too long ago so we decided to take the boys out on the trail to ride their bikes. Kyson was not quite ready for this. It was still pretty warm and he hadn't figured out when you peddle backwards it puts the brakes on so he was a little frustrated and hot. He and Brian decided to head back to the truck and Breckin and I thought we could make it home. We only had about 3 miles to go. After about mile 2 Breckin was done. We had to call Brian to come pick us up. Maybe next summer we will be able to ride the trails together.