I can't believe it. My little guy is now 5. He's so excited to be 5 and start school. He's such a social kid that everyone loves to be around. Especially his little brother. When Gavin wakes up until he goes to bed he always has to know where Josh is. He's such a great big brother. I'm so proud of him and love him very much.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!!! Your now a whole hand big.
Josh had a fun birthday party with a bunch of crazy boys!! The two girls we invited couldn't come I guess it was a good thing because they would have been thrashed. They had a good time going down the water slide. (thank you super glue.) Jumping on the trampoline with the water ball and breaking the pinata. (I had to be creative with this one). Happy Happy Birthday buddy I love you so much. NOW STOP GROWING UP ON ME!!! I loved age 4 for Josh he has been so sweet and fun. I hope 5 is just as good.
The other day at Church we sat in front of a family that has 6 boys. Trevor started counting the kids and said to me. "Wow that must be one stressed out Mom". It makes ya think what I say all the time huh?
I've been getting after the kids because we have brown textured walls and the kids have been picking off the texture it looks horriable. And today I come up the stairs to see two big black spots all over the wall. I ask the boys what happened and the guilty party said "Mom I think we have a monster in the house see he's making black foot prints." Then he tells his Dad. "Just because I have black feet doesn't mean that I was the one that put black footprints on the wall." Nice try Joshy..
I sure do love these CRAZY KIDS!!! Even if they do stress me out.
This is a old picture of Ryan, Trevor and Joshua as a baby but we didn't have one with all three boys. I need to update our family photos :)
Today Ryan was sick so I took the older boys to church while he and Gavin rested.
I felt bad that he wasn't feeling well on Fathers day. But what a better way then to spend a quite morning just sleeping in and playing with a fun baby.
Just wanted to let him know I'm so grateful that I'm blessed to have such an amazing man as the father of my children. What a great example he is for them.
I have an amazing Dad and a wonderful Father in law. Whom I adore. What a blessing it is to be around so many wonderful men in my life.
Happy Fathers day!!! I love you all so much.
Doesn't this little dog look sweet and innocent? A perfect family pet right? WRONG!! It's the demon dog who's' goal in life is to make me crazy.
Why you may ask.
1. Look at my previous post of memorial day and our fun water slide that we paid way to much for. Knowing that it would be our main summer activity. Now picture me covered in glue (super glue)why?.... Because the demon dog chewed up the water slide with 8 HUGE holes in it. The boys had only used the thing twice. My attempts to save it did work but it probably wont last very long. And I'm using the thing for Josh's b-day party so I'm really babying it Right now. Therefore we haven't played on it for a week and it's been a long hot week!!!
2. After many tears were shed over the fixing of the water slide I threw the dog in the house so he wouldn't bother me while I was fixing it. Only to find see another previous post of my beautiful silk curtains. Why?.... The demon dog PEED on my curtains. Did I mention they are silk?
3. When kids are over to play I usually put Jake in the bathroom so he doesn't jump all over the kids. Well we had some friends over and we played out side so the kids didn't mind Jake playing with them. But then.... The Demon dog nipped at two of the kids. (one was a baby) He didn't break skin but he sure hurt alot of feelings and now they are terrified of Dogs.
4. Josh left his beloved Star wars guy on the floor. And guess what....The Demon dog chewed off his arms. legs and 1/2 of his head. Poor Josh said to Jake. "you were my best friend why did you do this to me?" Broke my heart.
5. Ryan is always gone at least one night a week for church so I put the kids down by myself. And it never fails. Just as I get the kids all settled.... The demon dog finds something he needs to bark at and wakes them all up!!!
Any advice on what to do with a Demon dog? Ryan and the boys don't want to get rid of him. But me I'm ready to drive up the hill (we don't have mountains) and drop him off. Yes I'm grateful that he saved me from the snake. But at this point I'd rather deal with the snake then this DEMON DOG!!!
Will I survive?
I've resorted to the boys making pom pom animals!! Josh's a Dog and Trevor's a Monkey. I try to do some activity every day. Considering it hit 102 yesterday the activities have been indoor ones.
We got the boys a water slide for their birthdays early and decided to put it out for Memorial day. As a last minute thing we invited a few friends over to play with the boys. I'm so glad we did they had a blast. It was fun just to relax with the adults while the kids played. This was our 1st year in about 7 years that we didn't go to lake Chelan for Memorial day. It was kinda sad to miss it. But it was nice to just stay home and not have to fight traffic and sleep in our own beds :).
Gavin has been a little chatter box lately. He loves to walk around the house singing songs. Some of his favorites are the ency wince spider, The ABC's, and Ba Ba Black sheep. He knows them all by heart. Here is a cute video of him at dinner. The boys love to ask him questions and he always says "No" to everything.
Here are some of his new words. He wouldn't say all of them because I was video taping him. I need to just sneak up on him to get him to say them but he always catches me. Something I know he got from me is when ever there is a mess he says "Oh no what did you do?" Kids really make you realize the things you say huh.
Josh made me this awesome hat for Mothers day. It covered my entire head. He was so proud of it.
Josh has been obsessed with the solar system lately and so we put some glow in the dark planets above his bed to look at while he drifts off to sleep. He also loves the book Guess how much I love you so he and I always try to one up each other on how much we love one another. So the other morning he comes down the stairs and said "Mom I love you to Uranus and back" it took me a few seconds to realize he was talking about the planet and not saying what it actually sounded like. So I ask who named the planet and why did they pick such a horrible name? Pluto is no longer a planet or so they are teaching in school these days. So I say we just re name Uranus to Pluto!!! Then when my sweet boy said he loves to me to Pluto and back it actually sounds sweet :)
He held his little light up so high. He was so proud
Isn't he handsome. I loved the little graduation outfits.
He's the sheep in the levis. He never took the mask down.
No more pre-school I can't believe it. He's growing up way to fast.
Do you think he liked the Licorice?
It was everywhere. But he sure had a big smile. I think he's going to be like his Mama and love chewy candy. Unlike his Dad and brothers who prefer Chocolate.
I've had the worst allergies lately so I've been doped up on medication to where I can't smell a thing. Josh has been telling me that his backpack smells like fish. I couldn't smell it so I really thought nothing of it. UNTIL TODAY!! The one day I don't take the medicine and I about fell over dead with the smell coming from his backpack. So I go digging through it. Really there was nothing in it but some clothes that were in a bag at the bottom that I always just leave in there. (just in case clothes.) Anyway we left the backpack open in the garage a few weeks ago and the frog must have hopped in there then and died. We left his backpack in the car last night and it got really hot. Well needless to say the smell was a decaying nasty frog that slimmed all over the backpack leaving a horrific and disgusting smell that made me instantly puke. Good thing tomorrow is the last day of school because I just chucked everything. Boy we have had quite the crazy week. The worst part is poor Josh has been carrying around a nasty backpack for who knows how long. What kind of Mom am I??? UGH!!!!
We promised the boys a trip to Sea World when we went to Diane's wedding. So this last weekend was the perfect day to go. The weather was Perfect not to hot at all so we didn't even hit the water rides. We got Season tickets because we barley even saw anything and we were there all day. The boys had a blast. We can't wait to go back. How lucky are we to have it so close.
I finally got my curtains. It took me 7 years to decorate the last house. I'm so indecisive and hate spending money on things like decorations. But it really made a difference when we finally did it. We have one huge window that lets in all the sun I LOVE the window but we noticed all to fast that we couldn't watch T.V. or set in the family room very long because it was to hot and it's bleaching out the furniture. So I decided to get drapes. So after a lot of debating and negotiation I finally got some.
Ryan also got a new gadget. The T.V. mounted on the wall. It's pretty big and was a bugger to install. But Ryan had to get one with some crazy clear resolution and wanted to connect his computer to it. (Ah my gadget geek.) I will have to say though it does look nice, and Saturday morning cartoons will never be the same :)
Now I just need to get the family portrait taken so we can put it above the mantel, a new rug (Jake ruined the last one) and a new entertainment table to go under the t.v. Hopefully the finnishing touches don't take me another 7 years!!
The boys had a end of season party. Trevor's was a swim party but it was a cold day so we ditched his and went to Josh's which was at Chucky Cheese on the same day. Luckily there were some older kids there for Trevor to play with so he was fine with that. Josh loved his Trophy he held on to that thing all day long. I finally had to put it on his shelf to tell him that it's going to get broken or I know I would have found it in his bed with him.
I have a new appreciation for Jake (OUR CRAZY DOG). Ryan and I were debating on putting him up for adoption because he's killing me. He has dug a hole through the back of our fence and keeps escaping. No matter how many times we fix the darn hole he seems to create a new one. While Ryan was out of town. The dog ran away in the pouring rain and then started chasing cars. When I finally caught him and both he and I were drenched and covered in Mud I decided that was it. It was the 3 time that day that he had run away. So I was ready to pack him up for adoption. Until two days ago he was outside barking like crazy and I went out to grab him and I heard this crazy rattle sound. I thought it was one of the weird green bugs that we have but when I stepped out side I realized it was more then a bug this is what I found.
So I slowly walked back in the house yelling at Jake to come in. Then I saw the snake lunge towards Jake he yelped and then the snake dashed away while Jake was chasing it. Luckily the snake must have missed him because he's doing just fine. And as I said I now appreciate the dog for saving me from being bitten from a rattle snake. The sad news is a neighbors dog was killed by a baby rattle snake just a few days ago. We are so lucky it wasn't the baby that was out there. And now Jake will be our snake protector. So I guess he's sticking around.
Thanks Jake.
So we survived our 1st tornado. It was pretty frightening when the news comes on with a warning to seek shelter immediately. I was at the church and they sent us home telling us to go to our storm shelter. Ryan being the "storm chaser, ambulance chaser, DANGER SEEKER" that he is went out side in it. And he made me come with him to check out the crazy sound. The wind wasn't blowing, it was actually really calm but it sounded like a big jet airplane was right above us. And the sky was pitch black. Then the hail hit with lightening doing a crazy dance in the sky. When the boom of thunder shook the whole house we grabbed the kids and went to our storm shelter. (under the stairs closet) where we had a little party with coloring books,and good fish crackers. When we moved here we asked why people in Austin don't have basements and I was teased being told I've watched the wizard of Oz way to many times. And this ain't Kansas. OK OK I know this will happen all spring long and it's been about 2 years since a tornado hit and did some mild damage. But still this being our 1st one it was pretty scary. But exciting all at the same time. It made for a LONG EXHAUSTING NIGHT!!!
Scubba to the Rescue.
Ryan and the boys got me this for mothers day. It's a OCD persons dream. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
So both Josh and Trevor played Flag football this year. I never thought I would say this but I LOVED it. It was so fun to watch. They actually did pretty good. Josh's pants were to big, his flags hit the field and he kept playing with his Mouth guard but his smile was priceless. We saw Trevor get a little more aggressive on the field and actually pulled a few flags. He loved being the center.
There are a lot of CRAZY parents here that scream at the kids the whole time. I was grateful for both of the boys amazing coaches who were in it for the experience and not always for the win.
Saturday was their last game and thank goodness for that. It was a hot one and we all fried. Our 1st Texas scorcher and man were we burnt though our sunscreen. Here are a few of their pictures. I can't wait for next year and the new season.
This picture cracks me up. We were still in our apt. and getting ready to go swimming. We couldn't find Josh's shoes so he came up with his own solution. Comes out in my hills and said "Don't worry mom I'll wear these because you only need them on Sunday."
Today as I was Changing Gavin's diaper Josh needed something so he comes hopping into the room starts gagging and runs out. He then tells me. "Mom what ever you do DON'T SNIFF".
