Burning Brush

Yesterday we spent the day at one of our farms burning brush piles. Tates best bud Landon joined in on the fun. The boys had a blast. Jax kept telling everyone that the fires were HOT. So cute. We started at 4 yesterday afternoon and didn't leave til 9. As you can tell in the last picture the boys were worn out. We weren't even out of the gate and they were snoozing.

Julie and I ran to town to get the stuff for Hot Dogs and Smores. Landon and Tate thought it was pretty cool cooking their dinner. They were not crazy about smores they just wanted the marshmellows.




When we got home we made Tate jump in the shower and put Jax in the bath. Boy, were they mad. They just wanted to go to bed. It was such a fun night we are so blessed to have great friends that live close to us.

New Year New Start

Ok, Since more Family has moved away it is my goal to become a BLOGGER again. This is already foregin to me so, bare with me here. I will never admitt this may have taken me a couple hours to just remember how to write a new post. ha! Things have defeintly changed since July of 2010 (my last post) we have 2 kiddos now. Life is good! We have learned that getting a GOOD picture with 2 kids is almost impossible! Proof below.







Jax is our high strung big attitude child. Its his way or no way. To say that our children are night and day might be an understatment. HA We wouldn't have it any other way our kiddos keep us on our toes regardless of their differences. Jax is very independent busy child. I spend the whole day with both eyes always on this child, mischief should have been his middle name! But, he is so darn cute. Love those eyes and dont get me started on those cheeks!!



Tate is in Pre-K and LOVES it. He is all boy. He spends his day (afterschool that is) riding his four wheeler, playing with Jax, shooting animals on his WII, (don't ask!) and roaming the farm getting into trouble. He is getting so big. Tate is such an easy child, and he has a HUGE heart.






I will do my best to keep up with my blog. Between the boys, the hubs, school activities, bible study, and play dates I should have plenty to blog about.

Hello!

By the way for those of you that don't know:

This is how we told EVERYYONE!

I figured since I made my blog private I should at least post something, I feel so much more comfortable now that it is private. This should hold everyone over for the next couple of days till I have more time to post some more. We had a great vacation in the Bahamas! Enjoy!

Easter and Surprise, Paige is here!

Easter morning was CRAZY! Of course we were late to church then I was having BOTH sides of the families to my house for Easter. I stayed up till 1 baking and then woke up at 6 to start all my cooking. Needles to say I went to bed at 8:00 Easter night!

Tate and hid Easter basket



On Friday I had some kids from Tates school come out for a Egg Decorating Party. I have 2 pictures, I have laerned a valuable lesson: Do this outside! I scrubbed for days to get dye off of my white counter tops. It was alot of fun though. Needless to say my son had to be strepped of clothes. I don't think Caleb appreciated a half naked boy riding behind him on the horse. ha!



We did get Tates teeth back in. It went perfectly..... NOT! Needless to say we were there for 2 hours. He won't even touch candy now! He does not want those pearly whites to come out EVER again well till its time! Bowling was his last hooray before the teeth were back in. I think he looks adorable without them but much older! Tear!!!





Paige, Michael, and Gary decided to surprise the rest of us and fly Paige home for a visit. I HATE surprises and I don't like not knowing whats going on! I begged for days to know the secret! No luck then 3 hours before Paige was to land Michael, Tate, and I pulled in to eat at Tims. AND Michael said when Paige gets here we need to eat at the casino. ha This is funny to me for 3 reasons: 1. I can't stand the casino buffet but Tate and Michael love it. 2. I know Paige won't like it. 3. It makes us sound like we eat (heck)live at the casino! ha Anyways it was so nice to see you Paige and we already miss you.


I wish I could of got a better picture of Erin's face, it was PRICELESS!

I am:

mailing these out in the morning!


I took this picture yesterday and e-mailed to a lady I found on ETSY and she had it back to me 2 hours later! WOW! I think they turned out GREAT! Anyone that knows me knows that I am not the biggest fan of traditional stuff. SO, instead of pastels I wanted fun boyish colors!

On another note I didn't sleep very good last night so Michael woke me up this morning and said I am taking Tate to work with me today get some sleep! Um.......OKAY!!! That was at 8 this morning around noon (yes I was still asleep) he called and asked how my sleep was going and if I was in a good mood. {side note: nothing good comes when the hubs asks what kind of mood I am in}. Not that I am moody! I reply fine he then tells me Tates teeth fell out! Grrrrrr..... They haven't fell out in so LONG! So I start to call his pedi dentist to find out he is on spring break then I called his oral surgeon he is also on spring break! So until Tuesday I have a 3 yr old missing his front two teeth! He looks pretty darn cute though. For those of you that didn't know my son has 2 fake teeth, when he was 2 he hit the steering wheel of the four-wheeler and chipped his front 2 teeth and come to find out 6 months later they got infected and had to be pulled! So he has a bridge till he is 4 or 5!

I hate to admit it but I was so mad when Michael brought Tate home with no teeth! Now, I think I was being alittle SILLY. He was with me the first 2 times his teeth fell out and Michael never once said "How dare you, what did you let him eat to make his teeth fall out" I had a good lesson today. Although he was eating tootsie rolls for breakfast. When I asked Tate why he was eating tootsie rolls for breakfast he said "because we are men" yep, I think he was coached on how to answer that question."

We were just talking about how we always ask WHY at our bible group last week. I find that I ask why now, why me, why do you do this to me ALOT MORE THAN I CHOOSE TO ADMITT. I Know why, not always at that time but every night when I lay down and think about my day I always say, "oh.. thats why." This morning when I was thinking "really, why this week do your teeth decide to come out," I should have been thanking the good lord that I have a healthy beautiful son (teeth or no teeth)! Thank you GOD! Sometimes I get so wrapped up in the moment or feelings that I forget to tell God how much I love him and how thankful I am for his love.

I am feeling like mother of the year! But I am human, and I am sure I am not the only mommy that have had this feeling. Well I got to go DHS just got to my house!

Spring Pictures

Today Tate, Aunt Erin, and I headed out to take some pictures. Days like today are perfect! We had so much fun walking around Tate even smiled for pictures without me threatening him! ha! We went down the road to someone's farm (he doesn't live there SO, I guess I treaspassed, Oops)! There were so many places to take pictures there. The man had tons of old wood barns, some brick barns, and some neat fences and tin buildings. We would have ventured to more of the buildings if there weren't a HUGE white bull in the pen. ha!










The next couple of days Tate and I have to get our Easter cards out, plan for our play date that is going to be at our house next week (we are having an egg decorating party with Tates classmates from his school), and I have a project due in my class on Monday and I am not sure what it is even over yet. YIKES!

Im BACK!

I am going to start taking better care of my blog starting today, at least I hope. haha! I have told so many people lately that I has going to update my blog days ago, I am sorry about that. We have been traveling like crazy people lately. We are so lucky that Tate is such an excellent travelor. Although I think we travel to much since Tate wakes up and ask us, "where we going today?" I think it is time to slow down for awhile! I have also been taking a night class on Monday and Wednesday nights. While in Texas I took some pictures of Tate and our friend Mirabel. Look at those pretty blues. And, of course my handsome little man, which I had to threat bodily harm on his life if he didn't sit down for a couple pictures. haha!







Tate, Michael, and I went to the races a couple weeks ago. It was SOOOO cold. But, we stuck it out for 3 races. We had had to drag out Tate. He does not care what the weather is he wants to be with horses or riding them all the time. He told us at the races that he could ride those horses better than the jockies. Sure you can son!!!!






One day on our way to Austin we met up with my new friend Rebekah and her daughter Cilla . We met at Olive Garden in Waco. Please, excuse my homeless looking child we drive all day and it was raining. I did warn Rebekah how skanky we looked and she still wanted to meet us, now that is a GOOD friend. We had so much fun having dinner with you girls. Can't wait to see you two soon!



One day Tate, Catherine, Charis, Mirabel, and I headed to the Austin Children's Mouseum. It was SO much fun!!!!





We have had some fun play dates lately. One day Tate and I met up with Stephanie, Roman,and Avery at Chick-Fil-A. I didn't take pictures that day because I was hogging little Avery. She is such a doll!! It was so nice to just let the boys play and be able to talk to another momma! And Roman and Tate played so well! Then the other night we meet up with Michaels cousin wife Jamia and her son Judd for dinner at Mimi's. Needless to say we did not have a very successful conversation. The boys were wild! That is what you get with boys and a nice restaurant! haha! We have a busy weekend planned I will update with pictures later this weekend! Have a great weekend!
Courtney