Fathers day.

Ok I totally blew fathers day this year. Usually I make Ryan breakfast in bed after letting him sleep in cook one of his favorite dinners, and try to spoil him all day.
This year we were both on a diet so the eating thing SUCKED and I was so exhausted after Trevors party and Joshua's party I was the one that took the nap.
I'm so glad he was understanding and spent the time playing with his boys. After all it is celebrating being a dad and what a better way to celebrate then to be with your kids :).. I love this man so much and so do the boys. We couldn't of asked for a better Husband and Dad.

My sitting room.

This is for you Mom. I finally finished the sitting room. I think it's now my favorite room in the house it's so relaxing and peaceful. Can't wait until I get the real pictures up then it will be complete but what I have will do for now.

Josh is SEVEN.

This is only one section of 3 sections of the water park.





Gavin just wanted to go on the water slides and not wait for pictures.

Two days after Josh turned 4 we moved to Texas. I can't believe 3 years have gone by so fast. Josh is still the sweet loving fun going child. But every now and then he can be such a stinker. He likes to tell Fish tales and they are usually whoppers. He is such a funny kid and has some of the best 1 liners of anyone I've ever met. Kids love love love to be around Josh because he always makes everyone feel so welcome. He's such a delight and I'm so happy he's mine.
Since his b-day this year fell on fathers day we celebrated his b-day on Saturday. This year we wanted to do a family party and Josh has been dieing to go to Schlitterbahn so we decided now was the perfect time. We had such a GREAT time. Unfortunately we only took one picture as we were getting ready to go on the rides and forgot to check out the pictures they take of you as you explore the park so I don't have very many pictures to document our trip but everyone left exhausted with a perma grim and haven't stopped talking about it ever since. So I think it was a smashing success.
I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THEY BUILD THE ONE 10 MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE!!! We will bet getting season passes for sure :).



We let him open presents before we left knowing he was getting a DSI and it's a hr. drive there. So it was nice to let him play and we didn't have to hear "are we there yet 700 times." Unfortunately on the way home we got the boys ice cream and Josh was so tired he was dosing off playing and eating ice cream and didn't notice his ice cream melting all over his DSI. Yup it broke it. That was one expensive hr. He was so upset so hopefully we can get it fixed. It was only played once and he has been waiting a very long time for that. Poor little guy. He also got the WII nerf gun and game that's keeping him occupied.

Scout Camp 3rd year.

Trevor's having a great time at scout camp. the 1st day wasn't the best but he's liking it better now. His favorites were the solar ovens they made and cooked smores in. And he loves the archery and shooting. (hum wonder where he got that from?). Ryan was so kind to go with him this year even during his year end he found the time. Thanks Ry. Trevor was so happy you could be there for him. And it was alot easier they trying to juggle around the two younger two.





This picture makes me laugh so hard. I have no clue who the kid is that digging for gold. But I love Micah's face watching him do it. All I can say is I'm glad it's not Trevor.

I had to throw this picture in here. Trevor's new DSI takes pictures and this is what he created. We laughed so hard. He would make a great sumo wrestler don't you think?

I hate WATER!!!

Today one of my worst fears came true. I'm super paranoid around water. I've had a cousin that drown, it rocked my family pretty hard. We had a sweet little girl in our ward drown, and my mom's best friends grandson drown. All extremely lasting effects on my fear of water and kids. I've had Gavin in swim lessons for two months and I always put the older boys in for two weeks. With it being hot here in Texas the only relief you can get is to go to the pool. I'm like a hawk and stay right next to Gavin but I turn my back for two seconds and there he goes. Sinks to where I had to jump in and save him. I don't even know how long he was under but he was gasping for air and crying super hard after I pulled him out. I've been shaking ever since. A couple of years ago I had to save Josh in the lake when he had his life jacket on he wouldn't let go of a rock he wanted and it was keeping him under. I kept the rock and I'll never forget that moment. I'm sure glad they are both OK. But that's two times to many. It makes me even more worried about the water.
Gavin's been hanging on to me all day saying. "you saved me." I'm sure glad it turned out the way it did. I love these little guys more then I can ever express. My heart is full of gratitude I get to be a Mom to some pretty amazing kids. I hope I can always keep them safe.

Trevor's 10th b-day party at Rockin river.

Trevor had such a good time at his Party on Saturday. He really has some great friends. And they were just the right age for Rockin River. I just let them go and play and didn't have to worry to much. I can't believe my baby is turning 10. His real b-day is in July but we wont be here and turning 10 deserves a friend party so we celebrated early. All the kids were wore out and had a great time. What a perfect day.


Gavin and Daddy going through the lazy river rainbow :).

Some of the boys standing in line for the water slides. They liked to race down.

Trevor giving his party the thumbs up.

Chowing down on pizza, apples with Carmel dip, crackers and Gatorade. A 10 year old idea of a perfect lunch.

Josh could finally go down the water slide he was soooooo excited. That morning he got himself a huge bowl of apple sauce when I asked him what he was doing he said he needs to grow a inch and apple sauce is healthy so it will make him grow. Talk about the faith in this kid. We were there just two weeks ago and Josh was too short and he was so bummed. That was some magic apple sauce he said and I say I love it when his prayers are answered like that.

opening presents. He wanted a DSI Xl elite or a cell phone. Guess which one we gave him :). Yes a DSI. It was so funny a bunch of the kids gave him gift cards and Ryan said to him. "cool Trevor now you can save up and get that DSI." Then when he opened it up one of his friends patted him on the back and said "cool you saved up pretty fast." It was pretty cleaver.

And the cupcakes were a huge hit. He wanted cookies and cream cupcakes. So now being the foodie person I had to make a crazy one with the Oreo on the bottom, a double fudge cake with butter cream frosting and crushed up ores on top with another Oreo on the top. The boys LOVED them. I was glad they turned out so good. And I was suprised the bottom oreo didn't get soggy. The trick was to take off the top so the cream was the base for the cupcake. Gotta love OREO'S :)

Where the creepy things live.

Ryan and I were talking about how frightening it would be to be lost in the Forrest in our back yard at night. We have to turn on a fan to block out the sound it's pretty freaky. If our neighbors didn't mind I'm tempted to set off firecrackers every night just to quiet the creepy things. I had to take a video of the noise. It's really unbelievable.



And it's that time of year to deal with these again. I really wish they would go AWAY. I still get really jumpy when we are tryning to catch them. Poor Trevors job was to clean all the window screens and he took one off and this bad boy jumped out at him.

Too cute

Gavin got his Karate gear. He looks so stinking cute. Most of the kids in his class are 4 and up but he's just as tall. He still has a hard time paying attention the whole time. And now when he's mad at me he karate chops me and his brothers. But it's so stinking cute.