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I was sitting on the couch getting ready for work when Titus woke up on the other couch. He explained his dream to me:

"We were in a store and Mom was shopping for dancing clothes for Abbie. Me, Uncle Don, Gramma Betty ate a hotdog bun, with a hotdog in it. we had gross greenish juicy stuff to drink. Then we went to Tacobell and ate some tacos. Then we went to the sandwich-giver-outer and ate some sandwichs. Dad, what's the name of the sandwich-giver-outer?"

Dad: "I don't know."

Titus exasperated: "Dad...it goes like this" and he drew an M in the air with his finger.

Dad: "Oh. McDonalds"

Titus: "yes, we ate some McDonald's sandwiches"

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Titus is outgrowing his favorite outfit

Little Helpers

The kids love Ben

Sayings XIX

Gideon and Titus were helping mom cook. When they pulled the turkey out of the fridge, they asked what it was. One of them looked at it for a while and said, "Mom, I wish we could have kept it as a pet."

Cowtitus and Indibug

Look at the paper feather in GiddyBug's head-dress.  Elijah had made it earlier in the day for them.  They spent the day chasing each other around.


Yes. I gave him a real knife to hold for the picture. No. Robin was not happy with me. 

Reach for the Sky!

Stick 'em up!



Higher!

Robin's Anniversary!

Robin has been sick now for one full month. Congratulations Robin!



Somehow she still manages to run the household like a fine oiled machine. Most of it is now over, but she still has a constant headache from it. I'm certain it was some sort of strange African East Nile disease, even though the doctor said it was just a virus.

Kids fascination

The kids were amazed at Uncle Fred's cut-off finger. They kept asking how he did it. It was a military accident when he was stationed at a missile defense base in Greenland. Titus kept asking when it was going to grow back.

Hooray! A visit

Uncle Don, Uncle Fred, and Grammie Diana came to LaGrange for a 2 day visit. We had so much fun.

The kids gather around Uncle Don as he shows them videos of .50 caliber machine guns blowing things up.

Uncle Don setup the slides that we brought back from California in the Trailer Incident.


Uncle Fred snuggles with Titus




Uncle Fred snuggles with Mister-Sister. Apparently Uncle Fred likes kids.



Uncle Don fixes the Weed-Whacker that Elijah bought with his own money at a yard sale. Elijah is mowing lawns, and shoveling snow without any motivation from his parents. What a little entrepreneur.

Sayings VIII

Titus said he wanted to marry Max Laffan because, "he is cute and his toes look like blueberries."

Sayings VII

When dad was updating a network driver on a friends laptop, Titus asks, "Did you get the driver license yet?"

Sayings

Titus: "We're going to the dentist because Sam has a lot of calories."

Luke: "Mom, my finger hurts real bad. I have a cankernail," which I think is some mixture of a hangnail and a canker sore.

flowers

Camping

We went camping this weekend. It was beautiful and the kids had so much fun. The campsite is at a lake only 10 minutes from our house. Nobody got hurt. I made Michelle Laffans famous smores. They weren't the same without her. : ( and I didn't have her specialty mochas to go along with it. But still yummy. And we had fun.

Boyd Family

Things to do with chess pieces

*warning* our nate and rylee puke week - nsfw - not for the faint of heart

Seriously do not move down the page unless you want to see vomit and poo. But Abbey and Rylee are very cute at the end.


















































































We were enjoying a leisurely evening of snacks and carcassan and then Matt gave out some red candies to a boy with the stomach flu...

and then this happened....





and then matt goofed around about it. Who in there right mind gets that close to puke if they don't have to?



And then puts the candy that caused it right next to it?



Poor little TyTy



EEEE poor little mama. and poor little TyTy



uh oh. What happened?



Gideon dropped that wrench on sick TyTy's head



Then the rest of us got it. And I mean everybody and in everyway...





Maybe this is why Rylee enjoyed her visit?

Titus in a tree

Titus is fearless. I went to check on him in the back yard and he was up in the tree - about 10 feet higher than he was in these pictures.

Elijah makes a race track