Good Monday!!!

Today is Monday and it is not so bad. Chuck played music all weekend. Friday night he played at Hogans. It was a fun time. Saturday he was suppose to play a party, but it got rained out. My nephew Bryson had his 2nd birthday party at moms on Saturday also. For a 2 year old he had one heck of a party. Lots of guest. It was fun, but I forgot my camera, Mindy you will have to send me some pictures!!!!! Overall it was a busy weekend. We did not have Jeremy this weekend, he said he was sad to have missed Bryson's birthday party. He said Bryson will probaly be much bigger the next time he see's him. I assured him that they will see each other soon.

Happy Birthday Bryson!!! This picture is one that Bryson's mom Mindy took. She takes great pictures.

Just Checking In

We have been busy this week, with work, since we missed so much last week. I have some new pictures to post, If I remember to bring my camera to load the pictures in the computer I will hopefully get them up soon. So look for it hopefully the beginning of next week!!!! This is the bay on lake sante fe!!!!!

What a Week it has been

Pond Flowers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chuck has been under the weather this week, so today is our Monday, and it is really Thursday! Ughhhhh, So not much has been going on this week. I thought I would post some recent pix of the pond. We put pine bark around it so there is not tall grass growing around it, I think it made a huge difference. And Mom Givens gave me (for an early b-day present) some solar lights to go around the pond and flower beds. I'll have to take pix at night, as soon as I do I will put them up here. The lights make it look so much better at night. Very neat. Thanks Mom G.!!!!

Here are some good pictures of my girl, she is a good model

And while I am at it, I took some good pictures of some of the many flowers in our yard, every flower i Post will most likely be from our yard

Cowboy and Uncle J

My friend Debra and I took Coltyn "cowboy" and Jeremy "Uncle J" to the beach, We had to stop and get armies for cowboy and got both of them a boogie board. Jeremy saw this fish hat that he had to have, so you know Cowboy had to have one to. We had a fun day. I forgot to take my camera to the beach, so no beach pictures, but here are some of the boys with their hats on. We kept Coltyn for the week, becaues Essa had an interview at Disney World. She got the job, and we now have Minnie Mouse in the family. She is the Minnie Mouse character at disney world. I know she will be great at it, that is probaly going to be a fun job!!!

Layton Ray Givens

Layton wearing Pops sunglasses.

Here is some great pictures of Layton. I thought they were cute!!!

4th of July

We celebrated the fouth of July the weekend after. We had Jeremy, Coltyn, and Layton. It was a fun time. We only had a few fireworks, little ones, but the kids had a great time. Jeremy had a fireworks dance he did, he would dance around and around the fireworks. He probaly had the most fun of everyone.

Jeremys dance and Jeremy with his friend from down the street Ian.

Our wonderul Yard

All of you know how hard we have been working on our yard, so I figure I will show it from the beginning til now and keep updating the more we do. Our yard started with having to bring several loads of dirt into our majorly sloping yard. First of all our yard was full of tall weeds. This picture was taken in August of 2005. As you can see we

have our work cut out!

We had several loads of dirt brought in and then we got started putting sod down.

June of 2006, This picture we have sod laid and Chuck and Jr have started digging for the pond. Needless to say they dug the pond out, but we neglected to get a liner til the next summer May of 2007!! We had a big hole in the yard for a year or so.They put the liner in and here we go!!It has been alot of work but well worth it. We go to the plant nursery about every weekend, to add to our plant collection around the pond, well actually all over the yard. Our front yard is almost full, so our next project is the back yard. That is going to be a bit trickier because that is Hooches domain.

This pix is a little more progress. We have been putting many plants around the pond. It is so relaxing to just sit out and admire our work. We have 3 koi fish and 1 algea eater fish, and many many tadpoles, frogs, minnows, and water bugs. You should hear the frogs at night. It is crazy.

I have not put the latest pix of the pond in the computer yet but i will and I will keep posting to show progress.