June...in a 'nutshell'!

I can't believe I let 2/3's of the summer go by with

not a single blog!

This is the month of June

...in a nutshell....

for the Nortons!

The most notable occurrence,

well,

other than the fact that Chris and I celebrated

9 years of wedded bliss on the 20th,

was the fact that we received our first visitor since moving to Texas.

A visit from Jay-boy!

This is Ryan and Logan doing the

"Happy Dance"!

Not a 100% sure why the 'unnies' are on the head......

but I think it made the dance all the merrier!

Couple of hams!

Bubba even got in the action.....

but don't be 'put off' by the mess on his face.

It has absolutely NO relation to the 'unnies' on his head.

(and we didn't tell him they were girl 'unnies'!)

Gangsta Logi!

Now I do feel a little bit bad about Jay's visit!

I had soooooo been looking forward to it

and had a slew of activities planned.

We were going to go

kayaking,

swimming,

dinner,

movies,

bbq's

and

hiking.

Anything that involved bodily movement on my part got 'nixed'.

So my grand list was whittled down to

lots of eating,

a movie,

and

more eating.

The day I picked Jay up from the airport....

I got rear-ended at a red light!

I got some out-of-control whiplash and

couldn't turn my head without my entire upper body going with it!


In lew of kayaking was a day at the park!

Jay swore he didn't mind and the kids were in heaven.

I'm 'warm'n him up' for baby number #2!

Won't just be Scarlett at the park anymore!

Figur'd if he could do three......

he'll be a champ with two!

Hard to believe these two are

related!

Trip to McDonalds!

Bubba was obsessed with Jay's 'big-boy' shoes!

Way funner than Dads!

Jay had a constant crowd of 'admirers'.

They finally realized he was going home!

Sad day.....

for Bubs.....not so much!

Bye-bye Jay!

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The following weekend

Phoenix and I

made a quick dash to California.

The goal for this whirlwind trip was to

empty the storage unit,

have the mother of all garage sales...

then get back home!

Mission accomplished!!

(With the help of the family)

We were back home within 72 hours!

This was my 1st trip back since moving.....

and the 1st time Bubba was meeting the fam

since he was a mere 3 months old!

Meeting one of Joy's guinea pigs....

and 'force feeding' it some celery!

Betsy giving Phoenix 'the tour'!

Swing'n on the famous tire swing with Grandpa!

Ryan would be soooo jealous!

The garage sale!

It was hard parting with a lot of this stuff......

but it had to be done!

I left my mom to do most of the negotiating!

She was tough as nails!

I just couldn't haggle with some of these people over my things!

One guy wanted my TV for $4!!

Yea, I said $4...not 4 zero!

Good news.....

We sold everything!!

Now we don't have the $150 storage unit fee to be paid every month

And don't have to worry about coming up with the

$2,000 plus it would'v cost us to move it all back to TX!

Now we can just buy more!

See, there's a silver lining somewhere in all this!

And I did keep a few prized possessions.

My piano,

a mirror,

and some boxes of

'special' things!

Bubba 'cooling off'

in the shade of Joy's sunflowers!

This garage sale was taking a lot out of him!

Poor guy was still on TX time.....

he kept waking up at 4:30 am!

Awwwww!

It took Aiden a little bit to 'warm up' to Bubba!

But he eventually said he.... "actually liked him!"

Points for Bubba!

Logi never got that far!

It still blows me away that these two are related!

How can two sisters that look so much alike

each have a son

that are total opposites?

????????????

One thing was for sure....

they both have similar tastes!

Phoenix was super impressed with Aiden's collection of:

swords,

pirate paraphanelia,

and

balls!

Side note:

To anyone reading this from the Sanders family.....

especially Uncle Scott.

My dad had some old photos of the two of you when you were both little boys!

He was right!

You and Phoenix could've been twins!

There was one picture of you at about two years old....

sitting on some piece of farm equipment

and I about died when I saw the resemblence!!

That could've been Phoenix for all I knew!

When I go back this fall,

I'll get the picture, so I can put it on the blog!

Tooo cute!

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Up next:

"July....in a 'nut-shell'!"