Cowboy day.

Gavin's pre-school is having rodeo day.  I can't believe we lived in TX 5 years and have only one crappy toy cowboy hat and a bandanna.  So I went and got Gavin a really cute out fit.  Well he wasn't having anything to do with it.  I mean Nothing.  I convinced him to wear the hat and bandanna for a picture.  But I tell you he was not happy to be a cowboy.

Talk about miserable. 

This is his famous look of "Mom why do you make me do these things?" 

Some day one of my boys will want to wear Levis and cowboy boots.  "Maybe?"

A little bit of love

It's been quite the week.   1st Ryan got his Dream car. (well my dream car.)  I'm not much of a car person as long as it gets me from point A to point B with out problems I'm fine.  But Ryan has had a love of cars the day he was born.  And the poor guy had to drive a car that kept braking down.  He travels so much I'd always get nervous having him drive.  And so he started renting.  Which is really sad the car rental place knew him by name.  He was like Norm on cheers there.  After 3 years of searching he finally decided to get a new car.  Now I've planed a little seed I'm sure as I have been saying for about 10 years how much I like the Acura MDX.  It was my one lust after car.  When he said he was looking at it I could help but get a little excited but I left the decision 100% up to him since he was driving it.  And he narrowed it down to my dream car.  Now I'm a little jealous.  But we got in thinking in about 5 years we wont need the van anymore and I can take that car while he gets one that has better gas mileage.   The problem is we couldn't find one that was good deal close to us.  So Ryan had to go to Tyler Tx to pick it up.  A long 8 hr drive for him.  I thought the kids would go CRAZY so I offered to stay and thought it would be a great experience for Trevor to join him.  And man was I right he Loved being a part of it and was so excited to come home and show me all the In's and out of the car.  Way to many buttons for me.  But I'm happy Ryan's happy and alot safer when he travels.

Next I love going to musicals or live plays.  Ryan is such a good sport and will take me when it's one that he can tolerate.  So I saw Wicked was coming to Austin and I've been dieing to see it.  So for a early Valentines gift we went.  It was so fun and such a great Play.  We both had a great time.

Next up we had to make all the boys Valentines day stuff.  I've become obsessed with Pinterest.  While I'm not a crafty person I love seeing other people creative ideas and being able to do fun things with my kids.  I showed this box to Josh and he was super excited to make it.  Finally not a fluffy girly box.    We did our traditional decorating of Sugar cookies and had a great craft day.

 And how lucky on Valentines day his Dad was a watch dog.  Josh said it was the BEST DAY OF HIS LIFE!!!!  He has such a great Dad. 

 And I got to help out at Gavin's party.  I always love going to his class and seeing him interact with the other kids.  He's such a easy going kid. 

 Then for dinner we had heart shaped pizza.  Thanks to Pappa Murphy's $6 pizza how cool is that?  Why didn't I know about this all these years.  I've always made them all individual heart shaped pizza it took forever.  And they were just as happy with this.  And like always a dirt strawberry parfait for dessert. 

 Gavin wanted to take a picture.  He did pretty good.

Today is my parents 51st wedding anniversary.  How cool is that?  I feel so blessed to have two parents who love each other so much.  And I'm so glad I get to celebrate another Valentines day with my Amazing Husband.  I couldn't of asked for anyone better.  I love him so much.

Now for our next week full of adventures. 

Taylor

My sweet Nephew Taylor is going on a mission to West Virginia in March..  And I couldn't be more proud of him.  He has always had such a special place in my heart.  When I lived with my brother for a summer I shared a room with Taylor when he was just a little baby.  Most morning I would be woken up by him chucking his Binky at me.  One morning I heard a bunch of noise and saw him jump from his crib into his toy boys and then scooted over to me and poked me in the eyes to get me up.  He was my little buddy and gave the best cuddles.  He's still that thrill seeker today and loves to dirt bike, water ski, tube anything active he will be all over it.  I wish I could go to his farewell and wish him a good bye.  But I hope he knows I'm there in my heart.   I know he will be the BEST missionary because he has such a compassion for people and is so loving.

Congratulations Taylor.  Again I'm so proud of the choice you have made. I'm very proud to be your Aunt. 

I love this picture of him.   A true surfer dude.

Taylor and his sweet sisters who also adore him.

Love you so much Taylor.  See you in two years!!!

Derby 2012 and my 100 year old son.

Josh has been waiting for his 1st Derby for 3 years now.   He was so excited.  Until we found out the Derby is the same day as his 3rd grade musical.  Now Josh's wouldn't normally care about a musical but he had several speaking parts and was really excited to be part of the program.  So I left it up to him to decide what he wanted to do.  Telling him he will have 2 other Derby's he can participate in and only this one 3rd grade musical.  This is the kid that if I ask him what he wants for Breakfast we will be here for hr's waiting for him to decide.  He can not ever make up his mind.   So he said to me. " Mom that's just to hard of a choice for a 8 year old to have to figure out can't you call the school and ask them to change the date."  Luckily we had several days notice and he went back and fort and then decided the Derby was one he just didn't want to miss. 


So Ryan and Josh built his car. Got it all shined up and off we went. And wouldn't you know it he made it to the finals. Poor Trevor's cars always fell off the track, or came in 2nd to last. I think last year he made it to 5th place. So Josh was super excited and I was so grateful for Trevor cheering him on. He kept telling him how awesome it was. After about a million races Josh came in 2nd. Not to shappy. It was a long, loud night.

Gavin was happy he got a little turn at the 1st while we were waiting on everyone to come.

Josh testing it out.

Poor Gavin there wasn't a boy his age there.  Good thing he gets along with all these girls.

All the boys waiting to race.  We have a HUGE  group of boys.

All the cars

2nd place.  Good job boys.

One of Josh's many races.  The night lasted FOREVER!!!

And the next day was the 100th day of school.  They asked the kids to dress up like a 100 year old person.  This was the best we could come up with on short notice and a late night.

Josh doing his old man impression

I used glue (Elmer's)  to glue broken up Q tips and put baby powder in his hair.  Really he just told me about this at 6:50 in the morning and wanted to dress up so badly that's about all I could come up with.    Good thing it's early out and Elmer's in non toxic. 

Love this kid!!!