On Father’s Day, we had planned to go up North for the day with Papa and Sweetie.? Unfortunately, Jim remembered Sunday morning that he was on call and couldn’t go that far from home.? Being the rational man that he is, he insisted that the kids and I continue with the plan and celebrate Father’s Day with him this Saturday.? I hesitated to do that for obvious reasons but logic won out.? :)??? Due to a lack of planning, David and Aimee were outside the loop, Dusty and Michelle had other plans, and Darin and Jodi didn’t want to travel yet with Cooper so that left me and the kids, Papa and Sweetie, Dan, Brooke and kids and her family.? We had a WONDERFUL time enjoying the day together.? I am not normally a “document the day” kind of gal.? In fact, I don’t like to bring my camera along for trips a lot because I know I will get hung up on trying to get the “right” capture and then not enjoy the time.? This time I determined to relax and just take moment by moment shots and hope for the best.? :)?? I’ll have to break this up into more than one post so expect pictures next week too.? AND…drumroll…I FINALLY got Tanner’s 9 year old pictures done so that’s up next week to.? :)? I haven’t actually processed them yet but I am looking forward to it because my boy did a GREAT job for mama.

Let’s start with the turtle that Uncle Daniel found.? (Note to Daniel – Tori saw your picture today and kept saying “Uncles Daniel!”? She has decided she is a big fan of her Uncle.

This turtle smelled to high heaven.

And here we have Cozy and her mommy.

Tanner’s coloring is TOO DIE FOR.? Seriously.

Huntin’ for crawdads.? They found plenty.? Those nasty little creatures were everywhere.

Cousin talk

I love that Tanner and Noah are so close.??? Wonderful to have a lifelong BFF in their cousin.

And Graham…

Papa and the girls

Checkin it out

My Ty boy

This picture tells a story doesn’t it?

Looking at the tones of my kids, I think I should have named my blog “Neapolitan” instead of Mama’s Diaries hee hee.? 🙂