duck duck...GOOSE!  Many mornings we wake up to the wild geese.  It is so pretty.

As we open the door and go out side, they head for the water

And they are off!

Dawson loves to help grandma make cookies!  Yum!  Grandma eats the cookie dough too.

Now that is a beater!

July 4th celebration in the rain, go Aaron go

Now it's Brittany's turn

We have had a fun summer having Aaron, Brittany and "little" Dawson live with us.  They are a cute little family.

This is our little family who came to stay with us for a week.  They are such good kids, they just needed a place to call home.  From left to right Robert,Austin, Kelsy,Nathaniel and Audra in the back ground.  We are all snitching cookie dough.

Making a carrot cake for Larry's birthday with lots of help.  Some are chopping, some are measuring, and some are waiting their turn.

Larry's Birthday dinner.  We had Tamale pie for dinner and then carrot cake for dessert

An icey break

This is proof that Darryl and Sandra came to the house again.  It was fun.  They are great guest.  We talked and got caught up on our families. 

Brittany and Aaron moved back to Atlanta but came back for a short visit with Heather and Jerrel.  Heather and Jerrel came for a week.  It was fun to see them again.

Two out of three boys wanted into Grandpa's office.

I love to color

My cute little twins!  They love to feed themselves, so we took the drapes down for the week.  That was easier than worrying about it all week

We had company for a day to swim and Kayak in the lake.  this is Sasha and Ellis

But this is what happened next.  Mike came to the lake to ask Sasha an important question!!!!!

She said maybe for now.  Two days latter she said YES.  Mike was staying with us for a week. It was fun to get to know him.  He met Sasha on line and came from Germany, where he is stationed, to meet her.  Two weeks later....YES.

By the way Ellis, her son said yes right away, Sasha took a few more days.

This is a sucker break, Yum

A hair cut before going back to Kentucky

Bye Bye curls.  They will grow back!  Cute little Porter man

A short buzz for Hudson too

Reagan slept in our room, beside my bed.  Each morning she would make up her bed and had her bears and things arranged so well.  Cute

Reagan and I had ice cream parties....

Chocolate chip on top and strawberry hidden in the cone

I love my Grandpa, Porter said

Hudson wanted in on this deal!

Reagan kept busy on the computer with games.  I made a chalk board on the top of the tv tray

These geese come every day and we feed them corn and bread

This one has a broken or hurt foot and doesn't waddle up the hill the whole way so Larry usually hand feeds it.

We often see 3 or 4 humming birds at each feeder.  They come buzzing in and scare others away.  They are very territorial.  It is fun to watch them.  We have 7 feeders, 4 in the front yard.

We had a turtle crawl up to the edge of the house and lay her eggs in the dirt.  It takes 2 months for the eggs to hatch, so we will be watching for them! July 31st.

She covered them up and waddled back to the lake.  I'll bet she was feeling a lot lighter!

These geese wouldn't let us feed them

My special friend Caroline Park.  I went to her Kindergarten graduation.

She is very shy and she got up and said her part!  I was so proud of her.

The Park family, or part of them. 

We were able to see Martin in Atlanta, as he was taking a class.  We miss him and his family.

My Big boy!

We were a place of refuge for a rained out girls camp.  Brittany's girls.  They all slept upstairs above the garage.

We served Cinnamon rolls in the morning and then we caravaned them back to their camp, which was about 20 min. away from the house.  They were so tired and their stuff was wet, it was the last day of camp for them.

Nathans last day with us.  He came for a month long visit.  It was fun to have him around.  He would cook for us all the time.  He is heading back to Kentucky for Chef school.

Nathan trying to make a milk mustach

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Trying to make "Thor" happy

Nathan is happy

We are better now.  Dawson loved to be thrown in the air by Nathan.  It gave me panic attacks.

Father's day!  Those are bacon roses!  It was Brittany's pintrest idea

We love our dads, it was a fun day.

We went to Kentucky for a week.  We met Lisa and Darin and our sweet little Raina.  Heather had signed  Reagan up for kindergarten reading program at the library.

Kisses for Porter from Mom

This is fun, all these toys

The 3 musketeers!  this is how they ate their 3 meals a day.  Often they would pass food to each other.

Huddy, Reagan and P

Reagan is a big helper with the babies

Porter liked his privacy to play

Hudson likes to dump things out!

Porter all wet

Having fun in the back yard

Hudson loved to slide

Reagan was so good to Raina

Needing a little more water

The kids all love playing in the back yard

A cracker break

Reagan was invited to a super Heroes party

She is spiderwomen

Porter waring his dress t-shirt

Raina Marie Isaksen

Grandpa taught all the kids how to run and jump off into his arms

Grandpa is done, but Hudson isn't

Chill in the next day then it was go go go

Nathans first day of school...culinary school

Darin likes to eat raw peanuts.....we made it into Peanut brittle!!!!  Yum He only took one piece!

This is the out fit he wears to school, his pants are black and white plaid.  Why is it that someone who works with food wears white?????????  Not me.  I hope he has lots of homework and cooks for Heather's family or is in charge of thanksgiving!!!  We had a fun time in Kentucky.  the house was crowded but it was fun.