Ice Cream

Aunt Maria let us borrow her very cool ice cream maker the other day.  We made several different kinds of ice cream.  Of course, when Mommy had scooped it out and put it in the freezer there was a little left so the kids got to clean up the leftovers.  They put the bowl on the stool in the floor and went to town. 

Although it looks like Abram is about to stab Katie with his spoon, they were actually getting along and taking turns.  As the kids have grown we have noticed more and more of how they play together great or make great sparring partners, the trick is that you never know when things are going to change from best friends to worst enemies.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Well, ours is growing fine right now and we are very excited!  We have been extremely lucky this year to have Grandma Reid sharing her garden plot with us.  She has not been able to use it for several years and so we decided to try our hand at gardening.  It is a lot of work, but we are having fun doing all the work.  The kids picked some things they wanted to plant.  They have greatly enjoyed running to their row each time to see what has grown. 

Abram loves to measure and see just how tall his sunflowers are growing and checking for squash on his plants.

 Katie enjoys seeing what color zinnias are growing each time (and often picking one or two for Mommy's hair and hers).  She is also keeping a close eye on her carrots with hopes they will get big soon.

It is hard to see but we have squash, onions, potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, okra, beans, corn and freshly planted watermelon that we are working hard to keep alive.  The squash are coming in quickly and we are soon to be overwhelmed with them (any suggestions?).  But more than all of the wonderful produce we have coming in is all of the fresh air and family time we are getting this summer.  As well as the dirt covered fingernails and new discoveries we have with each visit.  If you feel the need to pull some weeds or get some dirt under your fingernails come on over, we have plenty to share.

Happy Father's Day

As always we like to spread our holidays around.  This Father's Day was no different.  We got to see almost all our favorite dads and even better we got to play with them. 
We spent Saturday night with Mommy's family, celebrating birthdays and Father's Day.  After some frisbee throwing and a few airplane flights, a game of cornhole broke out.  Daddy, Richard, and Papaw got in on the fun, while Abram and Katie ran back and forth shuttling beanbags.  If nothing else, they wore themselves out.

Daddy and Papaw spent a lot of time talking trash to each other.

Abram got in on the action a little bit, while Katie and her baby served as spectators.

On Sunday night, we went to Aunt Mandi's house to celebrate with Daddy's family.  After a yummy dinner, we all went outside for some great games of Simon Says, Red Light-Green Light, and finally the Daddys were pulled in for a game of Freeze Tag!  It was fun to watch some "old" men trying to keep up with they "kids."  In this pictures you can see Daddy and Uncle Jeremy trying to get away from Abram who was putting up a force field to keep from getting frozen.
We love spending time with family but it is always more fun when we get to celebrate somebody special.  Today we celebrated all the very special Daddys in our lives.  Where would we be without them?

April Showers bring May Flowers

These are pictures from early May
Papa Ted has a beautiful tree in his backyard.  So we decided to get the kids all together to take pictures. 

 Abram and Katie doing a nice shot.

 Abram and Katie doing what they do best...being silly!

 The Girls

Katie and Brookie

The Whole Crew

David, Katie, Brooke, Abram and Wayne

We are back and ready for Summertime Adventures!

Summertime has arrived at the Fletcher house and we hope that means we will get back on the blog bandwagon.  Please excuse us for the brief break...life happens and we can't keep up sometimes!

So Summertime has arrived and what better way to start a new summer than with the last day of school and a birthday.  Daddy celebrated his birthday today and Mommy decided we needed a party.  So in true Fletcher (actually this is a Morgan gene), we pulled together a party.  Many of our favorite people came to help us kick off, what we hope will be a great summer of memories.  As you can see Abram has moved in on Aunt Maria and can't wait to spend lots of time with her in the garden this summer.

Katie on the other hand is making the moves on Papaw in her styling ballerina outfit.  She and Papaw had some quality time checking out how much her hand has grown throughout the year by looking over her wonderful memory book from preschool.
So hopefully we are back, so check back often!

4 Years

We had to take a brief break from all the Christmas festivities to celebrate another wonderful birthday.  On Dec. 15 Abram turned 4, four wonderful years of fun and excitement, that we wouldn't change for anything.

We started the morning with some chocolate cupcakes and a big smile.  In the evening we had a few friends over to have dinner, we were supposed to have a party for the whole family but Mother Nature had different plans in mind.  So we are still waiting to celebrate with all our family.

Helping Others get Festive.

After we had our house decorated, we had to make sure everyone else was in the holiday spirit.

Grammy helped by making this cool cake.

We started at Grammy's house, with some green lights, lots of decorations and...some good cousin fun!

Then off to Papa Ted's for his decorations.

Then for some decorations with those same great cousins.

We love sharing the holiday spirit with those around us.