The Dixon Family: A Memorable Memorial Weekend

The Memorial Day weekend was filled with baseball games played in the yard in your swimsuit with your cousins and your grandpa. Ribs on the grill. Deviled eggs. Pasta salad and bonfires. Late night Jeep riding with teenagers singing at the top of your lungs, even if you don't know the words. Sleeping in. Extra snuggles with your honey. Opening the notorious pool. Buying sunscreen for the first time of the season. Planting flowers. A shower that washes away lake water, worm guts and sunscreen. Cool sheets after a hot day.

Drew has been keeping some frogs in a rubbermaid tote. He had four. We are trying to learn a bit about frog watching. It's kinda like bird watching. There are different kinds of frogs and they make different sounds. I hope to learn more this summer. So he found this frog this weekend. I think this little guy is the chorus frog that serenades me every night. He's cute, and so is my boy.

Sunday we went down to my Aunt's on Spring Lake. I took my camera, but forgot the card. Grrrr. It was a great time. The kids swam in the lake, they fished. Little Diva Kait fished for four hours straight!! Granted she wouldn't put the bait on the hook, and she "EEEKKED!!!" When Drew threw a worm at her! LOL I was trying to teach her how to jerk the line to set the hook when you get a bite, and the first few times she jerked the whole line out of the water! LOL She also wouldn't take the fish off of the line. Grandma had to do that for her. She caught four fish. They went out in the canoe a few times. Threw the stick into the water for the dog about a thousand times. The sun on my face...happy shrieks from the kids...the splash of the water...loved it!

Today we went to my Dad & Penny's for a cookout/early birthday party for Kait. I love getting together with family! Even if the brothers give me a hard time!

Chef Khloe helping Grandma on the grill.

Uncle Andy chillin.

An early birthday celebration for Kait.

We fight our pool every year. This year we took our cover off to find water that looked like sewer water. There were things swimming. Big things and little things...ewwwww. So we decided to drain the whole thing and fill it with fresh water. It has been filling for two days. The. water. is. green. Already. It's still filling and it's green. We threw our chemicals in, hopefully it will clear up soon.