Now and Then

It's been SO long since I've updated. SO much has happened. Good and bad. In June we lost our beloved Mongo dog and then my grandmother 4 days later. We were devistated. We decided that we would add a little girl to our crowd and adopted Anni, the shih tzu, a few weeks later. She keeps us laughing and wondering what in the world she is thinking!! I continue to miss my grandma everyday but take comfort that she's with my papa who she missed very much. In July we went to Topsail Island, NC with my family and it was perfect. We've also been fishing with the boys and John's parents. Here's some pictures from the last five months.

Anni

Field Day and Mother's Day Tea

Jake had his FWA field day last week. He had a wonderful time and did fantastic. FWA does Field Day a little different. It was "Recycle" Field Day so everything had to do with recycling and all was recycled after!! What a great message to spread to our children!!

Charlie was flat worn out by the end of the day!!

Jake was sorting his recyclables

"Running" to the recycling!!

Here he was on the "Recycling" Obstacle Course.

Here he was bouncing through the recycling

He is in the horse races here. It was super neat!!

GO JAKE GO!!!

See how cool it was!!!

My boys eating oranges at the snack station!!

Charlie was waiting for the kids to come out to the field.

Jake was ready to start the day here!!

Charlie was excited!!

This is at the Mother's Day Tea!! They made us rice babies that weighed what they did at birth. It was really cute. All the kids were really proud to show what they knew about themselves.

This is Jake and Logan.

This is Parker, Jake, and Logan. I thought it was just a great picture!!

My little man. He had his hair brushed like a BIG boy!! He was happy it cooperated so well.... for a bit anyway!!

North Carolina

We went to NC in April to see our sweet niece Claire turn a year old. It's been a really fast year!!

John and the boys in thier Easter best!

I think this is one of the cutest pictures of my mom and her only grandaughter.

We went fishing and Bradey caught this fish on the kiddie pole he's holding!!

John caught this one.

Charlie caught this one....

Two guys with suckers. Trouble would be made soon!

Sweet birthday girl!!

Jake and Charlie playing on the swing set that Ember and Bradley got from their neighbors.

Charlie LOVES Papa cat that is now an outside cat!

Charlie turns FOUR!!!!

Charlie turned four on January 18th!! He let us know that he wanted to have his birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. He's been very excited knowing that it was coming and could hardly stand it to have to wait!!

He's just so pleased to be at Chuck E. Cheese!!


Chuck E was saying happy birthday to him. He was so proud!!

He was clapping and dancing.....

Here is Charlie's cake. He picked it out all by himself. He wanted cupcakes and a cake. If anyone wants some cake we might have some left over....

Charlie was SUPER excited!!

CAKE!! CAKE!! CAKE!!!

YUM! YUM! YUM!

Skee Ball!!! The best game ever!!

Kelly thinks this kid was stealing Jake's tickets, however instead of reprimanding him for it she took a picture!!! Nice Kel!! :)

Christmas 2009- The Year of the DSi

We had a wonderful Christmas!! I had Christmas Eve off for the first time in years so we went to see Grandma in Stephenville and it snowed the whole way there and the whole way back and the whole day once we were back. We stayed in Aledo to open presents with my parents and then spent a LOT of time trying to get home. Christmas Eve night we had Angelo's BBQ at Don and Sally's (great choice I might add) and opened presents with them. Christmas morning John and I got up REALLY early to start breakfast and shower and all before everyone came over. Fun was had by all!! New Year's was completely uneventful and I was asleep before the kids at 10:30!! Being a mom made me lame (really just tired!!).

Christmas morning at our house

Charlie was trying to blow out the candles. Notice the white snow outside the window.
Jake got a DSi the previous day at the farm.

Charlie with his flashing glasses, pirate hat, raindeer nose, firefighter jacket, and Superman shirt. All new..... he was really excited about all of it

WHAT!! TOY STORY ALARM CLOCK!!!!

(we haven't used it yet)

Buzz Lightyear robe

The kids got camera's from daddy! They were really excited!!

Mommy, the Genius, got each kid a harmonica!!

They love them!

Sally and Grandy joined us for breakfast before we opened presents. It was killing Jake that we were making him wait to open. Notice how excited he looks.

We got a pogo stick for Charlie, who doesn't weigh enough to use it but..... (brace yourselves)

John can use it!! No trip to the ER either!!