Saturday smiles

Happy boy on a Saturday afternoon... he enjoyed watching the World Cup with the family today. Although the U.S. goal was a little weak in his opinion.

Beauty and the Beast

Abby's first attempt at a sleepover with Cole. It lasted about 5 minutes.

Sunday Pictures

I finally got around to changing my blog design! James helped me with the banner on top - obviously. There's no way me and my non-creative self did that one.

Speaking of creative - look at what Austin's 1st grade teacher made for Cole. She made him several bibs and burp clothes (and even a onesie) with his name and either Longhorn or TTU stuff on them. Super cute!! I wish I could do things like this. And plus she's an Aggie, so that must have been pure torture putting these together :)

It is officially summer at our house. Austin's school ended last week much to his dismay. He wanted to stay in school all summer. I don't blame him - the 2 days last week we all spent together wasn't very exciting. I think the highlight was going through the McDonald's drive-thru. We did go swimming and Grammy came over for one day. It takes forever to feed Cole and by the time we leave the house it's almost time to feed him again. I also had a minor setback in my recovery - my incision got infected. Yuck. I got some antibiotics and am starting to feel better. This week we have a few more things planned - like the library and parent's day out at gymnastics. I'm definitely looking forward to the "here and there" days James plans to take off this summer!

We took the kids out to take pictures this morning. Here are a few of them.

This one cracks me up. Can you tell James is hiding behind the kids holding Cole up? Very sneaky.

Gotta love Abby and her faces.

Abby's baby pictures... by Abby

Baby Abby. Why the frown?

Baby Emily

Baby mom

Baby dad

Baby Austin... the only one in our family that takes on a human form.

Baby Kim... very interesting choice with the belly button.

Baby Saffron

and finally... baby Cole. Yikes! HA!

Memorial Day Fun

We took our first family outing with Cole to the park. Unfortunately it was already 85 degrees by 9:30 so we didn't stay longer than 30 minutes.


Still no neck muscles. Mr. Floppy in his carseat.

Here's Austin in the huge soccer field. James and Austin played for a little while. Unfortunately, they had to play with Emily's pink and silver ball. The boys made it work.

This park had a butterfly garden, except there were no butterflies to be found. Only bees.

The kids swam all weekend, and even got to swim in the dark. They loved the different colored lights... green, pink, blue, red... James had visions of entertaining people when he ordered those fancy lights. Well, his dream has come true... :)


The girls about to pick our first ripe tomatoes! We got to them before the birds, and trust me - the mockingbirds have been eyeing them. Can Abby's hair get any higher?? Can you say Pebbles Flintstone?

Here's Emily with the first tomato. And if you look hard, there's a duck whispering in her ear. "Gimme that tomato."

You have no idea how many plans I have for these 2 tomatoes. Good thing we have a bunch more coming! That pepper by the tomatoes in our first chocolate pepper, except it's supposed to the size of a bell pepper and brown. We picked it way too early. Oops!

The first plan is having BLTs.... which require homemade dill onion bread - James' mom's recipe. So good! Unfortunately we forgot the salt. You have no idea how important salt is - oh well. It still tastes okay.

Popsicles taste better when sharing. They had a blast in the pool this weekend. Their dad is pretty sore though! I can't get in the pool until my incision is completely healed - bummer!

Austin and Cole falling asleep together again. These are the only times I have seen Austin nap in the last several years.