memorial day {2011}: the cookout

Ah, yes...Food, friends, and lots of swimming, just like a Memorial Day celebration should be like. Wanna sneak a peek at our awesome day?

Ice cold soft drinks and plenty of water to keep cool. Oh, and ice chunks to put down each other's backs... ;)

The grill was ROARING, which was great because we needed all the heat we could get cooking for 13 people!

As soon as everyone settled in, we totally put them to work shucking corn... :)

Meat, meat, meat!

Lots of swimming took place while we were waiting for the food to cook...

Little Elizabeth was too cute!! She wanted me to hold her while swimming. ;)

Trey: 

Nate and his awesome googles!

Failed attempts at chicken fights...

Miss Amy, the teaching directors daughter {she wouldn't let me take a picture or her exactly, so I took one of her hair to show she was there, ha!}:

FINALLY, the food was ready & we chowed.down. Eating with 4 growing boys is definitely an experience...

YUMMUS!

After we all consumed our weight in turkey burgers, watermelon, and grilled corn, it was back to the pool for us!! Crocs were also all over the place...

Diamond rings were everywhere, too... :)

Dad snapped a quick photo to document I actually swam that afternoon & didn't take fifty million pictures...

Talking the afternoon away.

While the food and the fellowship that afternoon was great, the highlight of the day had to be the intertubes the Furlough's brought. We had so many laughs playing with these things!!

Josh's new hat:

Pumping weights with the AquaJogger dumbbells were a hit, too... ;)

Hahaha, I can't look at this picture and NOT laugh!! Josh put all four tires on and walked around the poll with them, waddling like a duck!

He almost fell over here!!

Thanks for coming out, Furloughs' & Bannings & Miss Amy!!

sonic

What a family to do when it's hot as blazes outside and no near end in sight?

Go to Sonic, of course!! Oh Sonic, how I love thee...

Each and every time we're pining away for a Dr. Pepper, we head to Sonic and hit up happy hour like nobody's business. Because nothing says a summer afternoon like Happy Hour, a chicken strip sandwich, and a dollar tater tot.

Big red button, I still love you.

Oh, hello me! ;)

Can you guess where I took this shot? And pretty much broke my neck to get?

Taking pictures of handsome little bros is optional, but highly recommended...

Kicking off your kicks is optional too, but pretty darn comfy. 

Oh yes, medium Dr. Pepper and a Cranberry Sprite for the handsome boy sitting next to me, pleaseandthankyou.

And now, I leave you with the death of me: 100 degrees on the last day of May {yesterday}.

the weather

The weather... original title, no? 


It's June the 1st. Aside from the fact that I can't believe it's my birthday month already, we're having wicked temps over in the Tarheel State. Want proof?

There it is. 90+ degrees and it's only the 1st of June?! I can't believe that we had upwards of 6 snowfalls & record breaking low temps at night, but now we're having a record breaking summer!! Makes me think about global warming {not really, but I had to throw that one in there}.

Don't get me wrong, I love hot weather wwwaaayyy more than cold weather and everything that comes with summer. But June? It makes me scared for the rest of the summer...

And now, I'm off to sip some sweet tea while simultaneously fanning myself & floating in the pool.*

*Except that doesn't really happen because 1) no one in the family likes sweet tea except me thus no real Southern sweet tea just iced green tea {which is awesome, BTW} 2) I don't own a fan & can't stand things blowing at my face and 3) we can't have drinks in the pool because we're all klutzy and nothing says refreshing like sweet tea pool water.