Amy's Babies

Ella and I had a blast celebrating Amy's babies at a fun baby shower back in July. Yes, we realize they're Jason's too but Amy's Babies has a cute ring to it. Here's Amy and the two proud grandmothers!



The excited aunts and only girl cousin!
Ella was Amy's present helper. She loved having a job and feeling helpful!


Here's Amy and her preggo friends. Amy's the only one who can claim twins in this shot (or so I think).
One of our kids took this picture of Uncle Jason and his sweet mom, Janell (or Ms. Janell to our kids).
And a wrestle shot of Ella and Cal after the boys arrived at the end:
We are so excited about this little girl and boy and can't believe how close we are to meeting them! Hang in there, Ames....you've almost made it!

Lake Fun

Some of our dear family friends were quite generous and shared their beautiful lake home with our family. Here are some pictures of our long weekend there. In case the pictures don't quite do it justice, our re-entry into Dallas life wasn't easy!

Here are the big two hunting for bugs:

And their hot Dad very enthusiastically searching for bugs, too!
searching...
Here's Uncle Bub striking a cool man's pose or something like that:
Our crew LOVED fishing and managed to catch quite a few catfish. Behind the shadows of this pic are Ella and her daddy with her first catch:
fun times:
beautiful Greer:
love this picture! sheer delight in the simple things!
Cal loved reeling in the line. We could just drop an empty hook in the water and he was thrilled to reel it in. He even reeled in a couple of real catches which made it all the more exciting!
The sweet G-berg family heading out on Greer's first Sea-Doo ride:
Part of our daily routine was taking the mule over to feed the cows. The kids loved it and I'm pretty sure the cows "beefed up" while we were there thanks to our kids' attention. The below pics are way out of order but blogger isn't cooperating for me to arrange them, so here are some pics of one of our nightly feedings, but not in the correct chronological order:
Will smiling back at Mommy while Pop takes him through "Dead Man's Gulch". Immediately after this, Will quickly informed me there are no dead men. shew!Here's a pic of life in the country: Ella driving Greer to feed the cows and of course, there's no need to put the sweet girl in a car seat with her 5-year old cousin driving! Ah, the country life!

The boys watching Pop feeding the cows:
Despite the lack of enthusiasm on their faces, Will and Cal loved the Mule and would gladly run errands with Pop as long as they got to ride on the Mule.
I loved my backseat view! So precious!
Cal would go sit in the Mule as a big hint that he was ready for a ride. Pop would gladly oblige!
Ella was our brave one that rode the tube all by herself:
There she goes smiling the whole time (note to readers: the lack of wake behind the sea-doo should be an indication of the speed in which she's traveling):
We ate lots of watermelon:




And went on lots of Sea-Doo rides!

All in all, we had an absolute blast, a great time away as a family and the kids are still referring to their lake vacation!

So excited!!

Here's our adorable Will the day before his cast was taken off. On July 2nd, our brave, tough boy got his cast off and I must say it was more traumatic than getting it put on in the first place. Evidently, everything is a bit sore and tight after being in a cast for 6 weeks. Thankfully, he recovered quickly and summer hasn't slowed down since!

By the way, he was eating blue cotton candy at the time of these pics which explains the blue lips!

just another night in our never dull life...

This night started out with a mini photo session of these precious girls! These 5 pictures can make me tear up in a hurry (and I'm not even the crying type, I must add!)....




And it ended in a show & dance party with some very cute pajama'd kids.

Note to all: Will started out the show with no shirt. Pj shirts were a bit of a challenge with his big ol' cast! AND yes, we do feed him and he eats ALOT!






September 3rd is approaching way too fast! sniff, sniff!

Cal's First Love

They say that breaking up is hard to do. Cal is having his first heartbreak and he just can't let go. It's with his beloved paci. As parents, we decided to help him part ways with his beloved by the gradual snipping method. For the past week, his paci has slowly disappeared until he's left with this pathetic plastic thing:

And still, he's true to his love. He just can't let it go!

Here he is today before his nap. Poor Kid!

Guess Mom and Dad might have to make the break for him. It's going to be a looong week!