I don't know about the rest of you, but you can definitely tell when it is getting close to Friday around here. Usually by Wed. evening, or Thursday my kids start getting really tired and whining alot!!!! Maddie was so excited because she was able to bring a book home from school and read it to Marty and I. She loves showing people how she can read. KD has figured out that school will get more difficult in the third grade. She has always breezed through, and now she really has to think on her homework. I'm not sure how she will react when she brings home a paper that is not a 100---since she began kinder. she has had nothing but 100s.
G-Pa and Granny (Allen/Janice McCloy) came up last night. The kids had fun showing off and acting wild. They have a rodeo in Trinidad, CO this weekend. It's been a family rodeo for many years, so I know it will be a good one!!!!!
Mom helped me with Michael yesterday while I mowed........our mower is ready for winter........took me all day yesterday, and I am still not done--pray it starts this morning!!!!!!!!
For those of you who haven't checked out the FAMILY & FRIENDS on your right of the blog--DO, there are some really cute kids in those blogs............Have a FANTASTIC FRIDAY :)
During these pictures, KD and Janice (aka Granny) were walking around the pond outside!
Marty, Michael, Maddie, Nan, Kathleen Hesse, & Allen
Maddie & K.D. with Grandma Nan
Thought this was a neat picture with 4 gererations.
This is a picture at the zoo (L to R) Kylie Dee, K.D., Brooke and Malaki, Ashley and Michael, Molly and Maddie, Kelly, Murry.
Maddie & Marty(she's such a Daddy's girl!!)
K.D. on the rocket slide at the park in the zoo---The kids were so excited because it was a rocket slide the one in Spearman(refer to earlier post).
Michael & Malaki---drinking out of the water fountain at the zoo---I'm wondering if Michael is thinking the lion is going to eat Malaki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The kids had a wonderful time playing together!!!!!!!!!! 
Michael started gymnastics!!!! He loves to go run up and down the long trampoline!! His class is all boys---Bless his teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the way home from church Sunday, Marty asked the kids and I to go by and check a sprinkler. While we were leaving I could see this huge rattle snake on the road. We stopped and killed it. I kept calling Marty trying to explain how big he was--he didn't really believe me until i brought home this rattler--his exact words "Holy @#$*!!" This picture just doesn't do justice!! I took a picture on my cell phone--I'll try to post it later, if its any good!!
The girls have a new place to hang out--well, it's in the works. They were helping go through junk and decided to clean the storage building in the back yard out. It will be their new club house!! I took a picture of KD and her friend Klaire in front of it, and watching TV inside--Maddie was at a birthday party with her friends! 
THE ROCKET SLIDE
Buster and Marty swing Pratt and Michael
They had the merry go round going so fast---we were betting on who would fly off first. I wish I had gotten a picture of Maddie holding on to the bar and her whole body was horizontal.
KD, Michael, and Marty-Ready for take off!!
KD and Maddie in the rocket slide!! 
Birthday Girl & Lance!!!!
Hala and Christi!!!
Kelly and Quentin!!!!!!!
Kory and Christy!!!!!!!!!
KD and Maddie started school Monday(yesterday). I was in Amarillo all day, so I am just now posting the pictures. Maddie the top picture with her teacher Mrs. Holland. Maddie is in the first grade and is super excited because Bailey and Hunter are in her class. She loves to learn and has so much energy. 
