One day we rented a boat and went out on the lake. I haven't been a lake in a long time and I was a little nervous to let me husband pull me on the tube! I decided I would go first and once I finally got Joseph to understand that no, I didn't want to go as fast as the boat would go, I was able to relax and have fun. One of the best days we were there!!
You better hold on tight Jonathan!
I'm not sure how he did it, but Joseph manage not to fall off during this turn!
Fairfield Bay was a quaint little town tucked away in the mountains. It clearly runs on tourism and it reminded me of a place like the one on Dirty Dancing. On Monday they had a meeting and they went over all the activities you could do throughout the week and what you could find in the surrounding towns. In the middle of the week we enjoyed a puppet show. Even Jonathan participated and sang the songs.
First Jarie and I rode this at Silver Dollar City with Max thinking he would love it and we wouldn't get that wet. Well, we got one of those things right, Max did love the ride! The next time he wanted to ride it we let the guys take him.
We went golfing on the first day we were there (I say we, but that really means Joseph & Jonathan). The course was beautiful and fun to watch the guys "golf".
Max loves to help his Dad and Pawpaw. He's always in the middle of the action saying "helper".
One of the reasons Max loves going to see his Mamaw and Pawpaw is because he gets to visit his friend Timber, the squirrel. He talks about Timber all the time and tries to call him when he's at home in our backyard. He yells out his name and tries to click his tongue like Mamaw, so cute! Cindy (Mamaw) rescued this squirrel during Hurricane Ike and he now lives in her backyard. He comes by to gets some nuts and say hi, which Max thinks is the greatest thing in the world.
This was Max before we got his haircut...it's amazing how adorable you think your own kid is and little did you know they REALLY needed a haircut :). I didn't realize he could be even more precious with big boy hair!
He's watching his favorite, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, while he's driving the fire truck. At one point he got really excited and was bouncing up and down....so his hair is a little uneven in the back because of all the excitement.
Done with his haircut and looking good!!
This was the beautiful house we stay at in Ruidoso, New Mexico with all of my family. We had such a great time catching up and laughing!
This was our view from the deck on our last night there.
Max loved exploring around the house where we were staying. He especially loved all the rocks and sticks ( in his words, rockies and stickies).
Max had fun hanging out with Jonathan at the horse races! I think Jonathan won the most money...we teach them young in my family :)
This is the pool Max started off with...a small pool just his size.
Dad was not satisfied with that pool so he had to get the very best pool Max could have. Of course we love the new improved one much better and we're enjoying our time together outside!
Max has been obsessed over Mickey lately so Joseph and I bought him some Mickey Mouse pajamas when we were at Target. I showed them to him last and he got SO excited! He ran all around the house screaming Mickey, Mickey, Mickey and he refused to put them down. Since he was so excited about the pajamas we decided it was time to go on an adventure to find a toy Mickey (we've been looking). We discovered there was a Disney store at the mall by our house so we packed up Max and his pajamas- he wasn't going anywhere without them. We picked out the perfect Mickey Mouse and Max has now turned in his pjs for the real deal. The pictures capture our fun Mickey adventure. I can't wait to take him to Disney World one day...I hope he still loves Mickey as much then!
While we were at Mamaw & Pawpaw's we went next door and met Okie the horse. Max loves animals and it's so fun to watch him learn about the world around him. He's learning to say all the names of the animals and it's so cute because he adds a long eeeeee at the end of everything. All day we heard horseeeee and duckyyyyy. So cute!
The day before Mother's Day we went out to Mamaw & Pawpaw's house. Max loves going out there because they have so much land for him to play on and not to mention all the animals (dogs, cat, squirrel and duck). This was the first time we've put him on the boat and he LOVED it!
I was worried that Max wouldn't eat the cake because he's never really been big on sweet foods, but I had nothing to be worried about! He dug right into the cake and loved it! 
