"I want to go bird hunting..."

Blair loves to go hunting....and I try not to object when he wants to go hunting. Not long ago he wanted to go dove hunting and I had a bunch of dogs to groom....I usually don't have dogs to groom on the weekend, but for some reason I did on this particular weekend. I was really looking forward to having help with the kids, so Blair decided he was going to take Tanner hunting with him. I told him he was asking for trouble...Tanner is in a phase where he HATES loud noises. So off Blair went to the sporting goods store to buy supplies and came back with ear muffs for Tanner.

The next morning the guys were up and dressed....waiting for Deedad and Uncle Austin to come pick them up with the truck and the Mutt to go hunting. I was in the house...trying to go back to sleep. All of a sudden I hear this loud BOOM and then Tanner screaming and sobbing.....Then the back door opened and Tanner came running into my room..."Mommy, Daddy shot the gun! Daddy hurt my ears!!"

Brilliant idea Blair!! LOL He wanted to see if Tanner was going to freak before they drove all the way to the lease! Only he didn't try it with the ear muffs on....he didn't even give the poor kid warning!

I thought....this is a bad idea...there are going to be a bunch of mad men when they have to leave the lease because of a crying 2 year old!! But Blair insisted that it would be ok.

SO they went...and Tanner had a blast!! HE took his little toy shotgun and never put it down. They strapped his carseat into the top seat of the mutt...they grilled venison burgers for lunch....they peed in the bushes....and Tanner finally fell asleep while they were driving back to the truck.

So Now when Tanner wakes up the first thing he tells me is "I want to go Bird hunting!!"

Great....now both the men in my family are hunt-a-holics!!! LOL

Cheese!!!

Addy doesn't talk...she is 15 months old and doesn't really talk....which is wierd to me....because Tanner talks better than all his 4 year old friends. He talks and talks and talks and .....well you get the idea. Addy on the other hand can say "Hi, Bye, mama, dada, bubba, and this" But over the past few days, we have added a new word to our vocabulary....."Cheese!"

Addy is a total camera hound!! She is following in the foot steps of her older brother. If she sees a camera or even a cell phone....she is wrinkling her nose and doing this silly smile and saying "EEESE"

Here is Addy Cheesing for the camera!! LOL

West Texas Sun Rise

Here are some pictures Blair has taken while out working. I thought they were beautiful....there is nothing like the sun rise and sunset in West Texas. These are the tanks and pumpjacks out on Henry's leases....I think that getting to see this everymorning must make getting up that early just a little more bearable! LOL

There are monsters in my room....

Tanner was always my good sleeper. He had his routine. He took a bath, said his prayers and went right to bed....then after we moved to our new house earlier this year...that all went out the window. He started crying that he didn't want to sleep in his room...He would tell us that there were monsters, or people, or even deer in his room. Then he would appear in our bedroom in the middle of the night. He would try to climb over me while I was asleep and I would wake up and take him back to his room. Then he learned that if he went to Daddy's side, Daddy would just lift him into bed and never wake up enough to realize what was going on. Then I would roll over and.....suprise there was a spare body in our bed.
Now he has gotten even sneakier....he has learned that if he crawls on the foot of the bed right in the middle he can get in completely undetected....LOL
This has been our battle for a long time.....and we are finally winning...I hope! LOL The other night Tanner was getting ready for bed and he said "I want Kitty to sleep with me!" "You do?" I asked. "Yes", he replied, "She will poop on the monsters!"
Kitty is our little toy schnauzer....who Tanner usually chases out of his room trying to spank her because she steals his toys and hides them under his bed and steals his teddy bear and runs out side with it while he chases her crying for her to give it back.
So we moved Kitty's crate into Tanners room...and for the first time in a long time...Tanner slept all night....in his own bed!
Our new routine now involves making a very unwilling Kitty go to bed at Tanner's bedtime...she is not thrilled about her new early bedtime...but hey...atleast Tanner is sleeping again! LOL

Our crazy life....

We are new to this whole blogging thing, so I figured I would start out by telling a little bit about our family.
We are a family of four....we have two small kids...a two year old son, Tanner, and a one year old daughter, Addison. We live in Midland, TX....well actually Greenwood....on 3 1/2 acres. We have 6 dogs that live with us.....four standard poodles, a lab and a miniature schnauzer. We also have 6 goats and two horses....well actually ponies if you want to get technical! LOL Our life can be crazy at times....but we love it.
Blair is a pumper for Henry Resources and I recently started a business grooming and boarding dogs from our home. . It is not uncommon for us to have anywhere from 12-20 dogs on our property any given weekend.....especially when we have a litter of puppies....like we do right now.

We have an awesome church home...Stonegate Fellowship. Not your normal traditional church! LOL we love it and our preacher is awesome. We just opened our new children's building.