Battle Wound

Marcus and Olivia went to town with Marc tonight to get new tires for his truck. While Marc was trying to pay and finish things up, Marcus was standing on a chair and fell off right on a table. Poor Marcus...he needed stitches but wasn't too cooperative at the Urgent Care so they decided to just do staples. He was fine with that. I think the difference was they let me hold him on my lap for the staples but had to lay him on a table with all of us on top of him for stitches...can you blame him for choosing staples?

McDonald's happened to be right across the street from the Urgent Care and we used that to bribe Marcus a few times so of course that is where we ended up eating dinner. Marcus got a cool race car there. He was very excited to get the car, but a little disappointed that he could not play on the toys at McDonald's due to his head. He's back to his normal energetic self now...can't even tell it happened besides the big hole in his head. I'm sure this is just the first of many for this kid; especially if he follows in the footsteps of his Daddy which he seems to be doing pretty well right now.

Outing

We took a little outing New Year's weekend...can you guess where we went?

The hats came out for this occasion.

It's a place we really like to go...it takes a little while to get there too..

Do you know where we went yet? :-)

Bringing in the New Year

We brought in the New Year with a bang...literally. We had all of our good friends over for the day yesterday. We started off shooting skeet. I even shot a few rounds. It was a blast!

Our neighbor, Scott, joined us too.

The kids stayed a safe distance away from the gunfire and held their ear plugs in their ears the entire time.

Raymond brought his new girlfriend, Heather, over and she even gave shooting a try. Overall we had a blast shooting.

We served baked potatoes with all the fixings including chili and cornbread. I even made some chocolate cupcakes. Poker was the game of choice for majority of the night and then we went out and had a huge bonfire and watched a big fireworks show put on by Scott and his friends. It was the perfect New Year's party. We are so lucky to have such great friends to celebrate with us. Happy New Year everyone!