Dylan's funny sayings

Yesterday, after getting groceries, we are in line at the checkout. Dylan picks out some whoppers and I told him he could have them. He then went up to the cashier and asks, "Um, Excuse me, are these yummy?" Her reply was, "Well, I like them" and then she looked at me and said, "well, that was a new one." ha!

Also, in the car last week we were talking about grandpa's and so I was trying to explain to Dylan how someone becomes a grandpa and how when he has a baby, then his dad will be a grandpa. He said, "well, I don't want to have a baby." And so i asked him why and his reply: "well, what if I was giving him a piggy back ride and he puked in my hair?". Where does he come up with this stuff?

Promotion

A few weeks ago, Eddy was promoted to Lieutenant at his job. He is now in charge of his own crew! He still works the same shift work, but he is enjoying his new position. There was a private promotion ceremony held and these are a couple off the pictures from it. One is the group of guys that were promoted and the other is his dad giving him his new badge. Congratulations Ed! I'm proud of you!

Hot Afternoon

Before we did firecrackers - we spent most of the afternoon out in the backyard. It was a hot one, so Dylan stripped down and ran thru the sprinklers. We gave him this little toy sprinkler early (we had originally bought it for his birthday). Then I ended up running thru a few times with him -he wanted me to take off my clothes, but we figured the neighbors wouldn't appreciate that much! ha!

Fireworks

We celebrated July 4th early this year because Eddy is working over the holiday. So we BBQ's some steaks and watched a movie til' it got dark and then came out to do a few firecrackers. Dylan was really excited! Eddy even let him help light some of them. We only had one small fire (ha) -the blanket Dylan had brought out caught on fire somehow. But we put it out quickly. Josey even came out and sat with us and only tried to attack the last ones we did. Dylan was too afraid to hold the sparklers last year , but this year he was brave and did some! It was a fun evening!

New Flower Garden

We added a small flower bed to our backyard (much to Eddy's dismay!). He always wants to keep his grass perfect and wants nothing to interfere, but I think we found a spot where it's out of his way and looks nice. We also planted some blueberry bushes and some willow bushes (no pictures).