last little bit of summer fun

How ridiculously cute is that little butt!?!?!

We did some basement artwork

We played with our bud cooper

Random things that still need to be documented :)

Every year we take the kids on a "tour of trees" to see every family members Christmas tree. I only had my camera for our stop.. but I'll get more pics from my sister from the other stops.

While making cookies one night Lyla was upset that I was too busy to paint her fingernails. I turned away from the oven for a second and found Jeff painting them! Daddy of the year.

This is our Elf. Brock affectionately named him "Mr. Hunkel" ?????? Brodey is a little freaked out by him and hides from him. Brock will sit in front of Mr. Hunkel all afternoon carrying on the funniest conversations. In particular I overheard him say, "Mr. Hunkel, will you please tell santa to put some candy in my "sock-ing", my mom ate all mine." :/

Again.. daddy of the year. All four in his lap is not an uncommon occurrence.

Lyla and I were baking cookies AND popping popcorn one morning.. she was so excited she found this little spot to sit and watch both! (I know.. very odd outfit)

Runnin thru the sprinkler

Jumpy Place!!

Earlier this week it was icky outside so we met some friends at the jumpy place. Lyla has been before, but this was the first time I let her actually participate. She loved it sooooo much. It was hilarious. She army crawled SOOO FAST around that jumpy thing. I think she made some other moms nervous.. being so small and in with the big kids.. but she can hold her own with her brothers and cousin so I knew she would be fine.

Super Hero

Cooper has been here for the last two weeks... we have been having so much fun with him! For starters, we pretended we were super heroes and made these really cool masks!
Cooper also liked dressing up as Buzz Lightyear. He put on the costume and told me, "Because (he starts all his sentences with "because"), I wook super awesome in this Ash-wee!" Lyla thought so too.

First T-Ball game

Saturday June 20th was the boy's first ever T-Ball game. It was awesome.

Here they are getting ready for the big game...
Cooper??

Hey... Cooper...
Coop??
There he is!
Brodey's first big hit of the game...

And Brock's... (again with the pink bat)

Lyla was so excited!! Both brothers on base!! (after hitting the ball they both ran straight out to the pitchers mound. Every time. Brock successfully made it to second base in one inning only to run back to first (via the pitchers mound again) after the next batter. Very fun!)

Her fellow cheerleader Maddy was equally excited...

After the game the boys sat down to talk it out and have some juice.

And Brock surprisingly had enough energy left over to come home and cut the grass.

My little T-Ball players!

Last night was the boys first ever T-Ball practice! They are so grown up!!

We got to the field a little early so we let the boys run around and play (with their cousin and best bud Cooper). I think they were later disappointed to learn the soccer goal was not used for T-ball.. and poor Cooper didn't get to use his "football bat" and there was no "golf club" for Brock to use. So much to learn!

It was VERY hot and the boys were pretty crabby by the time things got started (especially Brock and Cooper who also missed their nap on this day) but they all did pretty well.

For this practice the coaches were assessing their "skills" to determine what team to put them on. They had little score cards that the coaches rated them on Fielding, Batting, Throwing, and catching. Brock wanted nothing to do with any of it at first, but by the end was getting more into it. In the batting section he hit both balls that were pitched to him and one off the Tee. He got a "4" out of 5 in this area. Not bad for an almost 3 year old! (oh, and he choose to use the only pink bat available.)
Brodey did a great job doing what the coaches told him to do and did really well in fielding and throwing. And looked soo sooo cute. :)

We are not too sure if Brock is right handed or left handed. He bats both ways equally well and normally throws with his right. Last night however he would catch with his left hand, then take is glove off and throw with his left hand also. Very interesting.

They have their first game next Saturday at 9am! Can't wait!

Lyla's first Easter

Easter was so much fun! The weather was beautiful. In the morning we hunted Easter baskets (the Easter bunny was sneaky and put Brodey's up on top of a bookshelf. Brodey said he must have "hopped really really high to get it up there.") and then headed to Church.

After Church we went to Gramma and Grampa's for another egg hunt and a big feast.

Lyla hung out with grampa during the egg hunt. Then she took a nap for most of the afternoon.

Uncle Myles and Kali spent the morning washing Kali's jeep... and then let the kids crawl all around in it like it was a giant jungle gym.

The three boys spent the whole afternoon exploring the woods around the house... they had a blast.

The movers

Grandpa got a new job in South Georgia and hired these three to help him move...

Another Graduation!

My dad earned his Bachelor's Degree from Shorter College this year and we got to see him graduate Cum Laude in Rome, GA Saturday afternoon.

It was an eventful day, as all days are when we Culp's go out in public. It started in the parking lot as we were all rushing to get into the building. Brodey accidentally tripped up Cooper who went flying onto his forehead, feet going over his head... in front of the all the graduates none-the-less. Then in the middle of the ceremony I went to pass Lyla over Myles to Lyndsay when we noticed the poo-poo all the way up the back of her dress. Lyndsay and I rushed her to the bathroom to try and clean her up with NO CHANGING TABLE and ended up running back out there with Lyla in a diaper wrapped in Cooper's blue blanket to watch dad get his diploma. (no worries... she had her back-up outfit on shortly there after.) AND THEN we went back to mom and dad's for his celebration dinner and Brock (who has apparently forgotten how to swallow) gagged on his dinner and ended up throwing up all over himself and all over me. So in just a few short hours we bled, we poo-pooed AND we vomited.

Congratulations dad! We are very proud of you!! Sorry we caused such a ruckus!

Here is Lyla getting ready for the big event...

Gramma and Grampa with the grandkids