VERY PROUD MOMMA!!

That Photo above makes my HEART smile!!

My son had a dentist appt. today to get his teeth cleaned and checked.

He climbed in the chair with out hesitation and let Robert the hygienist scrap and clean his teeth and NOT one complaint or movement...He did Fantastic and I am so darn PROUD of him!

NOT ONE CAVITY!!

Wow he is 4 soon to be 5 and I am beaming from ear to ear!

Last year he was a bit hesitant and we decided to go with sedation...He had 5 cavities that needed to be filled and they cleaned his teeth while he was out...This year no sedation and no cavities, YES!!

I am one PROUD Mamma!!

They took the photo above and are adding it to their July wall of fame in the office!! They gave me a copy and I was so tickled...Yes I was more excited than my son but if you knew the hell I went through when I was his age you would understand my excitement...lets just say I had a dentist from the old school and he was not kind!! I also did not like to brush my teeth, hated toothpaste and had (I think) 12 cavities the first time, ugh! NOT fun!

I am so glad times have changed and they have dentist that specialize in children and they do an exceptional job...Oh and now a days that have flavored toothpaste, lol...

Bye - Bye

Dawn, Dacey and Trey left this morning. It was a bit of a stressful weekend for us all as everyone's routine was scattered to the wind...but I did enjoy the company and just love being entertained by Trey continuously, lol...He is such a Ham!

Dacey made the drawing below and the weekend was worth it all just for this peice of artwork! None of my photos from the weekend compare to this and I will treasure it always.

Dawn, Dacey and Trey!

Photo Challenge ~ Fill the Frame

This week at our Photo challenge blog the challenge is Fill the Frame.

I've have company here most of the weekend and really haven't had chance to work on taking photos for the challenge so I chose photos from the ones I've taken throughout the weekend.

~ A trip to the Texas Zoo ~

Dawn and I decided to take the children to the Texas Zoo on Sunday. It is a small zoo but the munchkin's enjoyed see the small variety of animals.

Blue-billed duck. They have a small bird sanctuary where the birds run around freely and you can take photos without looking through netting or mesh. I love this!

Woodduck

Rosetta Spoonbill

Great Horned Owl

Alligators

No it's not an animal but a Soda machine...and they are enthralled! Yikes!!

Feeding the goats ( I hate goats!)

Badger

SandHill Crane

Red fox

Bobcat

Anole Lizard

Dawn and Trey looking at the tiger. You know those harness's work pretty good! LOL...

I had to throw one YUCKY one on here...yes a snake and as you can see he is getting ready to shed...the eyes have dried membrane around them.

We had a good time and I was able to take plenty of photos as you can see :o)

More of Friday evenings photos...

By the way Trey's shirt reads "My parents are exhausted" and it is the perfect shirt for him to wear...as I am exhausted, lol...
The boys feeding Julie an apple and Master Jake watching to make sure Julie does no harm!!

Okay Trey I think is practicing his ballet moves...he is such a DIVA!! LOL...Shh don't tell Dawn or Skeeter I said that...

I have known Dacey since she was 8 months old and she has grown into a beautiful young lady!

Trey is going so fast his feet are flying!! LOL...

Here's one of the whole gang...Scarlett decided to go on Walkabout and Dawn went to go get her and then the whole crew decided to follow...LOL...

We have COMPANY!!

Dawn, Dacey, and Trey arrived this afternoon and the kids had one heck of a BLAST!! They played and played and ran and ran...Dawn and I are sitting here and we are plumb wore out, Ekkk....

Michael, Trey and Dacey posing for the camera, I think I only took 8 photos to get this one shot and it's still a bit blurry!

Okay Trey you are definitely in the middle of things...Dacey is used to it but I don't think Michael is to happy about the situation!

I am having so much fun with these eyes...Stay tuned as I plan to keep trying for the perfect photo of Ms. Dacey's eyes!! YES...

This little sweetie is a HAM!! And just look at his eyes too!! I am so loving this...Dawn told me to calm down with the photos as they are going to be here until Tuesday...But I can't...I'm addicted and I have MODELS!!! They Pose and smile and LOVE it!!

The race is on...I had a really hard time with photos tonight as these little ones were VERY busy! Jake was none to happy and pretty much wore out too as he couldn't decide which one to watch or run with...

This was my favorite photo of the night!! Buddies!!! And acting Silly!!

Stay tuned as y'all know I am not finished with photos!! Will I ever be? Probably NOT!!!

Morning in South Texas

Not to much happening here today other than we went swimming and goofy me forgot to put sunblock on us! Ekk...

Oh Michael is swimming 2/3's of the way across the 24 ft Diameter pool. He swims underwater but he is swimming and I am so PROUD of him!!

The photo below is one I took this morning. I went outside to feed Julie and a doe with twin fawns was out in the pasture. Not a great photo as she is just too far away and my telephoto lens is not the greatest...One of the fawns is hiding behind the clump of brush...But you get an idea of what I saw from the front porch...

The doe had seen me and was stomping her foot...warning her youngsters to get ready to leave and quickly if I posed a threat...