White Trash Moments

There are times in all the madness that there is no other way to feel than just pure white trash..... Let me provide you with 3 scenarios from this week to prove my point:

1. Last weekend Harper was playing on the playground when he was stung by a mosquito just below his eyebrow. Everywhere we went people stared at us as if we beat our children. If you look at the picture below you might agree!



2. Last night we spent $50 in less than an hour at the State Fair.  We made a judgment call that getting a family photo in front of a 500 lb beef cow was somehow priceless.  In addition, we couldn't resist the "pretend you are a carrot photo" for the three boys.  Breastfeeding while watching the horseshow turned even more heads.  I guess it could have been worse if I had decided to "pull up a bale of hay" in the dairy cow exhibit!



3. Third time is a charm....You might be white trash if you spend your Friday night at Wal-mart. Even better, we decide to venture out with the dogs and Harper didn't even have any shoes on. So, to say the least, I stayed in the car while Matt went in the store to pick up some drinks. It wouldn't be a white trash story unless I told you that I was wedged between two car seats in the back seat, the dogs were barking at all the crazies in the parking lot, Harper decides to crap his pants and no longer wants to sit in his car seat because he is now old enough to understand sitting in your own poo is no fun and Collier starts to scream and cry for no understandable reason. By the time Matt got back to the car all hell had broke loose! Like something nutty, I try to calm Collier by nursing him for all the world to see and with no luck for hushing the cry. So, there we are with Collier wailing to the top of his lungs while Matt changes Harper's diaper - who has now also decided to scream and cry for no apparent reason. Did I mention the dogs decided to bust open one of Harper's milk drinks all over the floor and was licking it up like they were having a steak dinner? Let me not fail to mention that during this time I discovered I had not completely covered myself up amongst the chaos, so my boob is exposed for all to see. But, I concluded that it was appropriate for the scenery because there was a lady walking to her car with just as much of her butt exposed and she didn't seem to mind! I'm just really sorry we don't have any photos to share for this moment.

Oh life is so colorful these days! Hope your week was as fun as ours!

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Do My Parents Really Live in the Sticks or What?

As I was going through some pictures from my visit back to VA in July I came across one I had forgotten about but really got a good chuckle from.

Would you believe me if I told you that this was our mode of transportation while back visiting my parents? That is actually a huge exaggeration, but the picture reminds me of an old Little House on the Prairie episode with Laura Ingles and her little brother coming back from town on their horse and buggy. In reality, my parents bought this horse and cart for the kids to "play around with" on their property. I think it makes a better story to say this was our only mode of transportation... don't you?

When you laugh at those kids in public... think of us :)

Have you ever rolled your eyes in public when you have seen a kid in March
dressed in a Halloween costume. Well, you are not alone... we have too!
But, something tells us that Harper is probably going to make those same
demands so the next time I see "one of those kids" in the grocery store, I
am going to know just how those parents feel.

As you will see from the pics. Harper has now resorted to wearing surgical
gloves around. This particular pic is of him sleeping in them, but we has
worn them to daycare and everywhere in between.

The other pic is of Collier. He is just as sweet as the picture shows. How
fun they both are and how different they both are too!

Collier rolled over for the first time yesterday and has really started to
vocalize. It won't be long until he is talking too!

Also, thought we would share a funny quote from Harper today -

We were trying to get him to drink his milk and we were going through a
whole list of family and friends who just "love to drink their milk". He
said "Does Dustin like milk?" I said yes, Dustin loves milk. He said "Does
Becky like milk?. I said yes Becky loves milk. He said "Do airplanes like
milk?" I said no airplanes don't drink milk. He said "yeah airplanes drink
gas!"


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