Dead to busy in a week's time!

I've gone from the dead heat of summer, with very little to photograph to very busy in a weeks time. Every school in the area has officially started along with all the sports glory!

Softball images from this last week!
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First day of school!!

Squirt had a good time yesterday on his first day of full-day K4. Glad he had a good time.... It was pretty rough on Momma!

I helped him get his tray for breakfast then just left! I felt like I was abandoning him, but he didn't think so. "I'll be fine Momma!" Dang it can't you cling just a little bit?? I'm really glad he's independent and can handle stuff like yesterday, just wish I had a little easier time. My baby's growing up!

200+ MPH

That's way to fast for me on land, not to mention the water. But I enjoyed watching those that do enjoy going that fast on the water!I watched a very bad wreck but I understand doing what you love knowing the risks and all. Some boats were in slower classes than others. The fastest class went in excess of 200 mph. The wreck happened at 217 mph. CRAZY!

These were some of the faster classes of boats. I took A LOT of photos that day. It was hot and sweaty that day too. I wish I could have seen the finals on Sunday. My cousin-in-law won the second chance class. Congrats!

Balloons

Despite having a pretty big day of back to school shopping and the water park. Squirt and I made a trip to see the balloon glow. I thought it was pretty neat. I think Squirt liked it too.

Squirt wanted to ride.... I said NO!

An afternoon at the Aquarium

We had the opportunity to visit the Aquarium this summer. We went with Great-Grandma, Great-Papa, Just Grandma, and Just Papa along with an aunt and cousin. We had a good time and saw lots of neat things.

Squirt liked the sharks and had his face glued to the glass.

I liked the way the jelly fish photos came out! The lighting was really weird throughout the Aquarium.

We watched them scuba to feed the fish. The windows made pretty crazy angles.

You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for ICE CREAM!

Perfect end to a HOT summer day! I had to scrub, the boy, the clothes AND the porch after he was done!

Peaches!

I've tried to fill Squirt's summer with awesome things to do that are cheap and close. Being a single momma on a budget sucks sometimes! But we've gotten to do a lot spread out over the entire summer. 

One trip was to the Porter Peach Festival. I love peaches and bought enough to freeze some.

It's a pretty big festival for the town and included a parade, carnival and antique tractor show. Squirt didn't believe me when I told him this tractor was called a "Poppin' Johnny." I really want to learn more about HDR, this image would be awesome if done right I think.

It was a very hot day in Oklahoma! We bout cool band thingies to try and stay cool and Squirt talked Grandma into buying him a wooden tractor!

Ring Bearer Round 2

Squirt had ring bearer round two the last Saturday in July. He was handsome, but a handful!

Him and the groom.

Squirt and his cousin, the bride.

Momma let him use her phone... he's pretty good at fishing.

He pretty much fiddled the entire ceremony. The last wedding the placed the rings on the pillow and he didn't mess with it as much. I came very close to hitting the dollar store for rings to tie on there but didn't and now I wish I had.

Even if the bride's father is no longer with us I'm absolutely sure he was smiling down on her, wrapping her with his love. She is a beautiful person, inside and out. She's stronger than I think I could be and I'm very proud of her. The rest of the brothers and sister stood for a portrait after the ceremony.

I wish the couple a blessed life together!