Galveston

We went to Galveston for the weekend. It was a really short trip but I think a fun time was had by all.

We went to the Rainforest Cafe for dinner on Saturday night. They make balloon animals and characters. It was really cool!

Don and Sally

The boys had slushies that came in these froggy cups. Yea for more cups!!

Charlie and his froggy cup

John and SallyJake, in his Brad Pitt hat, and I

The kids at the beach

Charlie took to bodysurfing. He LOVES it.

Charlie with his "surfboard".

Showing mom how it's done

Summer 2009.... so far

We have had a very busy summer so far..... here's a bit of the adventures we've had.

John's cousins came to visit. This is Ted. Charlie was the photographer. He loves taking pictures!

Cheese!!

Jake kickin' it in the pool. He posed and told me to take the picture!

John and Jake

Charlie's self poitrait

Jake goofing off at Charlie's end of the year program!

Jake LOVES taking pictures!! This means that everyone gets to see more of me on the blog for now. This is at Charlie's end of the year program.

The kids and I went to see Up in 3D and they thought we needed pictures in the 3D glasses.

Gommy, John's grandmother turned 100 a few weeks ago and there was a BIG party and people came from all over! She was so excited and couldn't believe that everyone was there JUST for her.

Charlie singing the ABC's

Charlie signing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (kind of)

Random 2009..... so far

Charlie at Charleston's being silly!!

We went to the farm last weekend and it was just beautiful. John and Daddy were getting some plants together to take back to our house and Mom and the boys were playing.

Mom and the kids

When we got home Charlie was asleep so he didn't help us plant but he got to help with the first watering..... and created Lake Charles!!

He was very proud of it.

Last night it was bitter cold when we got home from dinner and we realized that we had no heat. It took John and Don (his dad) a few hours to realize that they didn't think they could fix it. I had John turn on the fireplace and sat in a glider reading a magazine. The kids had been cuddled together in a chair watching tv but got bored and Charlie decided to warm his feet.

He loves the fireplace and begs to turn it on all the time.

We had to hide the key!!

Day o' parties

We went to a few parties today. The second one was a pirate party. Fun was had by all.

Charlie was proud of his tatoo.
He loved the hat and hook too.

SO cute in the hat

Don't forget the eye patch

Pirate

Charlie practiced his paddling between parties

John.... so handsome

Family game of air hockey

Jake showing off his pokemon card.

Dancing kiddos

Charlie thought he would do a little dance for public viewing....

Jake and Charlie together...... still dancing!

Just an average Sunday morning!

CHARLIE'S TURNS 3!!

Charlie had his birthday party yesterday evening. He's checking out this cupcake to see what his best option is. He's thoughtful that way.
Yummy!!!

It took him a while to get all the candles out. This is the 3rd attempt.

Second attempt.

This was after the first attempt. Still two candles left to go.

He didn't really care about being sung to.

He was thrilled to have The Backyardigans on his cupcake cake!

We went to the bounce house place.

Going down the big slide. He's big enough now that he no longer needs help getting up the steps.

Jake had tons of fun too. The place had some new bouncy things since the last time we were there so there were lots of things to explore.

John and Charlie were ready to get the party started!!