Thor and cousin Kayleigh just checkin each other out. We tryed to get them to sit still for a picture......ha, ha, these are the pictures we got!! Cute I think!!!
Hey Kayleigh, I think they want to take a picture. Whatdaya think? They're sayin' we should kiss!
I don't know about that!
OK!!! SMACK!!
What was I thinking!! 
Well Thor cooperated for a little while, for Amanda and I to take some pictures of him. Here is one of the shots I got. I'll try to post some more later.
Hello Zac in the windshield of the golfcart!! Big, beautiful, brown, eyes!!
Here we are smelling the toes!! We all have to smell them, then wave our hand in front of our nose and say Peeeeeeuuuuuuu!!!! Of course Thor laughs! Why we do this just to see a baby laugh I don't know.....because they REALLY STINK!! Well, I guess that's why we do it, just to see a baby laugh!
Now that's more like it! I'll smell those toes!! I'll even kiss them!
This afternoon I went on a little outing with my grandson Zac, and my nephews Jordan and A.J. We rode the golfcart's around and explored and played and took pictures. They told me what to take pictures of and I snapped away! Here are some of the highlights of our adventure!
There's nothing like racing barefoot on a dusty dirt road! On your mark.......get set.......
GO!!!!!!!!
I guess you could call this a one sided game of Leap Frog!!! Keep your head down Zac!!
A close up of an unsuspecting grasshopper! We let it go after it's photo shoot!
A.J. set up this shot!
I think these are weeds, but they thought they would make a pretty picture!!! Pretty nice!
The butterflies are everywhere! I stopped and grabbed this shot on the way back! The weather was great and the company entertaining!! Boys and men are just alike.......we had to race on the golfcart's back to the house!! I won't say who won....just that the gas one had the advantage!!!:)
Zac was prepared just in case we lost power!! He had his headlamp ready to go!
And we Did!! Friday night for several hours. We were very lucky, our power came back on just before they called the crews in for the night when the weather got bad. Some people did not get power until the next day.
But just a little power outage didn't stop the Eikeland's from dining! We grilled up some hamburgers in the middle of the downpour! Boy were they good! Candlelight dinner and all. Can someone pass me the ketchup!
Hello to the 1st and 10!!!! Grades that is!! I even got them to act nice for 5 more minutes to take pictures! Taylor has been keeping Zac all summer and I think they are ready for a break from each other.....well I know that she is ready for a break!! I don't know if school is the break she was hoping for, but oh well!!
I can't believe Taylor is in the 10th grade. She made the big transition from Hosford to Liberty County High School last year. The year seemed to fly by, and here she is ready to start her second year of high school!!
I'll be blogging her Sr. year before I know it and she'll be off to college!!
Give me a D....A....W....G.....S!!! Gooooooo DAWGS!!!!!!
Thor enjoyed the beach so much. He was so funny. You couldn't stop him. If he got knocked down by a wave, he got back up or we scooped him up and he'd come back for more. I just loved how he was so determined. He got those little arms up and took off for the water.......leaving his little footprints in the sand! I hope he keeps that little determined attitude through out his life and leaves his mark upon the world, leaving his footprints behind for others to follow.
For those of you that I have heard "are about to scream if I have to look at those toes again"! Here are some new pics!!!! I have learned that traveling, is not for sissies! Don't go more than 1 time zone away from your own, unless you have a whole week to lie around the house and sleep when you get home! And last, but not least pack light! We had a great time......but I'm glad to be home! I love home! I'll post more later!
What do freshly painted toe nails and vacations have in common! Well I don't go on one without having the other!!! So it must mean we are about ready to go!! The day after tomorrow to be exact! It's been a very hard day. I spent the first half trying very hard to leave everything at work in order and then right after lunch they called from the Rehab and said mom wasn't doing well and they were taking her to the ER. After spending the second half of the day there, we got her settled back in at the Rehab (bladder infection) and came home to rest and start again. Beth and Jessica gave John , Cayla and I a pedicure to get ready for our Hawaiian Vacation! It was just what I needed to R & R for round II. Let's get those suitcases packed!!!!!
Saturday night is the auction!!! Curry, Amanda and John all love to go! Thor and I decided it was too hot!! So we had a big night at home! First we rode the golf cart and picked pears! Well 2 pears! But he held them all the way home! Then we sat in the swing and called the dogs and he clicked his tongue like I was doing to call them! Then we came inside and he read a few books!
We played some peek-a-boo around the door!!!
He read some more!!
Then he took a bath and he played some more!!!
And some more and more!!!! Finally.......he was too tired to play anymore and he went to sleep! When they came home from the auction around 11:00 and went swimming, I said to just let him spend the night. I'm always just afraid I won't hear him crying if he wakes up. John and Taylor said they would hear him. So I took my medicine and went to sleep. When I woke up around 6:00 and checked on him he was fine. At 8:30 when I got up he was up with John. I was so proud that he had slept all night!! John asked me had I heard him get up??????? Why whatever do you mean????? He woke up at 12:30 and was up over an hour before he went back to sleep. ok........so...I slept like a baby!
Thor all decked out in his red, white and blue! He sure enjoyed the day!! Then he crashed and took a two hour nap with Taylor in Nana's bed. Hope everyone had a great 4th yesterday! We had a wonderful day. Our big Eikeland family got together to enjoy the day. We had fun swimming, grilling, watching the kids, and talking about our upcoming vacation to HAWAII.......only two weeks!!
Zac always has fun in the pool!! He might be swimming with dolphins or away from sharks or saying "Nana, do motorboat with me!" But he is always MOVING!!
Here is our sweet GIRL!!! Kayleigh is enjoying the pool....she liked to suck the water out of the little pool balls! 
Kayleigh and Thor had fun together, well they were fun to watch anyway!! Thor wasn't sure sometimes about someone else playing with his toys.....but he was pretty good about it! I realized that I didn't have girl toys. Cayla quickly volunteered to go and purchase some to have at Aunt Chaille's house for future visits!!
Zac, Thor and I went riding on the golf cart this evening and as usual I take my camera. Zac decided he wanted to snap some pics! So I let him, with close supervision of my new camera! I really like this one, with the sun peeping over Chief's head and Chief and Rascal snuggling.
This is a shot he took of the Marigolds in the Garden. The weeds have about taken over, but they are so big and beautiful!
Then he wanted to take a picture of his house. You can see Cayla's front yard that she has been working hard in this spring and summer. She has NEVER worked in the yard before. But she has done a great job.
These are some of his mother's pink flowers in her front yard. He took this one for her! She said they were just two small plants and have grown out of control.
I didn't really want to post this lovely pic! But Zac was very proud of his photo shoot!! This is Thor and Nana by the barn . I guess it's good though, there are never any pictures of me, because i'm always taking them. Of course, I like it that way! That's like the #1 reason to be the photographer! I guess I'll have to train Zac to take over my job one day! He seems to be off to a good start!
