Love at first CLUCK

Duce got a chicken from his Go-dad Munns for his birthday. And Tee LOVED it! He couldn't get close enough to her. This poor little "Hilliary HULK" (that is her name) is in for it with Tee. He seriously want to eat it he loves her so much...a little too much like Ozzy Osbourne!

Duce's 8th birthday party

Duce turns 8 next week. But because some BELOVED cousins are going to be out of town, we decided to have an early party. My mother had gotten these HULK outfits for all the little boy cousins. Duce loved his and wanted his party to be HULK. So my darling mother went out and bought 3 more (for the invited non-family members) so that all the boys could be matching.

The party went as follows:
Partiers show up and put on HULK outfits
Scavenger hunt around the hacienda...with a mini one inside for the "under 5 yrs" age group
Hot HULKERS have popsicles
Eat Pizza with HULK juice (lemonade with green food coloring)
Open presents
Eat cake (thank you Publix!) and ice cream
Then SWIM SWIM SWIM!

It was a great LOW KEY party. And while we were in the pool, Duce turned to me and said, "Mom, this is the best birthday party ever!" Ahhhh, just what I love hearing!

We spent part of Saturday over on some of my dad's property helping with the cows...I say help...we watched. Actually, I took a tally of the herd...how many heifer and bull calfs. The kids had fun grubbing around and doing their best to be a part of the action. Kara and Shelly brought popsicles because DANG it was hot. Gotta love a little ranching...thank heavens for a pool. Afterwards, we all went back to the house te swim.

Destination: FUN!

We are heading to Florida this afternoon. We will be there most of the summer, with a stop in Utah. I'll try to blog while we are there! Crank up the Par-tay bus, ladies!

hmmm...something is suspicious!

I DO NOT like the kids to eat any pre-packaged things for after school snacks. If you are hungry, fruit snacks aren't going to do anything. Those types of things are for school lunches ONLY, unless I say otherwise...so I noticed something funny when I noticed they were starting to vanish....and then the other day while I was sweeping, I came across the evidence...the hiding spot for the trash! I didn't know what was worse...that the kids were sneaking the fruit snacks without permission or that I was laughing hysterically at the scene of the crime! Sneaky...very sneaky!