Why I Love Full Moons!

My sorry excuse for a camera doesn't even begin to show the beauty of this full moon.

Hint: Readers, this is a blatant hint that I am in desperate need of a new camera. My birthday is coming up and so is Christmas. LOL!

WHY I LOVE FULL MOONS!

1) It provides the perfect setting for reading this new Stephanie Meyer's series that involves vampires and werewolves.

2) It gives me a great laugh that whoever chose to do tax free weekend at the same time as a full moon just gave people an excuse to act even crazier this weekend while trying to save their 8.5%.

3) Animals love to have their babies when there is a full moon and I am expecting a few any day now. I will be up tomorrow morning looking for new baby calves.

4) This still provides me with great pleasure. While I was pregnant and on bed rest for 10 week straight, I could count on a full moon providing me with an excuse to make a rushed trip to the hospital. It never failed...I went into pre-term labor. Now don't get me wrong, I wanted healthy babies but after laying in bed for a couple of weeks, I was beginning to question my sanity. This was my body's way of saying "nah, nah boo-boo" at that doctor who said I had to lay in bed all the time. One of the last time I went in during a full moon, half the town of Brownwood was in the hospital having babies. I offered to labor in the waiting room with my monitors but since I was having twins, some other poor woman had to labor in there. Oh yeah, and a baby was born right beside us in the triage room during all this. Nothing but a thin curtain separating us...you should have seen Clark's face.

5) The boys and I call the moon a night light for all the animals so Cutter is happy that his cows have a full moon since he too is scared of the dark.

Horsin' Around

When it rains, it pours!

Walking to the creek!

The boy's puppy, Rowdy, tagging along.

Playing in the creek.

Afterwards!

Yay! It rained! We got 2 inches at our place. Our pastures, cattle, horses, and St. Augustine grass really needed this rain. I was so happy to wake up to rain at 5:30am. I decided to let the boys have a little fun this afternoon. We have a creek that crosses our road that leads to the house. It turns into a boy's dream mud puddle when it rains. My grandmother always let us make mud pies out of her flowerbeds after it rained so I decided to teach them all I know about mud. They were worried about getting dirty at first but I finally convinced them it would be okay. They raced through the mud, threw rocks into the creek, and finally had a really good mud fight. It all was great fun...until we had to head back to the house and wash off with the water hose. Cutter and Carsyn are not big fans of getting rinsed with the water hose. "IT'S COLD!" After a good rinsing, it was time to jump on the trampoline in their birthday suits. Sorry, no pictures of that.

On a whole other note, the boys have attended Vacation Bible School each morning this week. Today was the last day. They came home covered in tattoos. Carsyn had 5 at least. Cutter had scratched most of his off by the time he got home. I wonder what they are actually being taught at that church sometimes. The theme was "Power Lab". They had the church decorated like a scientist's lab. I think they were going to blow stuff up one day but the boys haven't mentioned it. I was happy for them to attend. They came home hungry and sleepy which led to a good nap.

Beach Time!

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Cutter buried(he's not sure)

Carsyn buried

Mamacita and her boys

Brotherly love

We went to Padre Island to spend some time on the beach. The boys loved to jump the waves. There was a lot of seaweed so I wasn't too thrilled. Then of course we had to bury the boys in sand!

Take me out to the Ball Game!

<---Cutter's baseball pose(he is pretending to hold a bat)

Carsyn's baseball pose

Me and my boys having some fun

We have enjoyed a lot of baseball this week. This is a great place for these two boys. We have been to two Hooks games and probably will go back tonight after the family night meal at the conference. OH have I mentioned we are in Corpus this week? Clark is here for Ag teachers conference. The boys really enjoy watching the big screen and seeing the baseball players do their poses. They try to imitate them. I caught both of them doing their baseball card poses with my cameras. We have had tons of fun this week. Trying to get our blog updated on all the fun stuff.

No longer Momma....

My name is no longer momma. Maybe it was just too simple or not spicy enough for my two little boys. My new name is>>>>>>>>>>>MAMACITA! From now on that is what you will hear them yelling across stores and other places when theya re looking for me. Thanks Clark!

Cutter said......

Yesterday was Mother's Day Out! I love Tuesdays! The theme at MDO was winter. Why they picked the hottest day of the year to pretend like it's winter I will never know. Cutter and Carsyn just had to wear their big pants(denim jeans) but I was able to talk them into a short sleeve shirt by telling them that they could wear their jackets and ski hats. Carsyn chose a shirt so I tried to put the same shirt on Cutter but he was having none of that. He wanted to wear his new shirt that says "Mimi's Boy". It's probably a good thing the other kids can't read because he probably would have had a hard day at school. We made it to school and was putting every thing into their cubbies. Remember they are wearing a jacket and ski hat.

Cutter says "Mimi's Boy is hot". I thought that was so funny. I asked who Mimi's Boy was and he said "cutter". So we had to take off the jacket and hat!