Thursday, July 28, 2011

A whole lot a nothin'

Really not much to report here. Just braving the heat. 107 AGAIN today. I mean really. Its almost to hot to check the mail!!! I know, I'm a wuss. Really we haven't been doing much. Just playing in the house.

Daddy and Kate

Mark dancing with his megaphone he made in sunday school. What were his teachers thinking? Megaphones for three year olds? Really. Funny story about the megaphone. Mark got in the car after church and I saw his megaphone that says, "tell others about Jesus" on the side. I said, Mark, what do you do with this?" As I held it up to my lips and said "Jesus loves you." He took it from me and exasperatedly (is that a word?) slammed it in his lap and said, "Just. Just don't Mommy. You just, you just blow my mind. You're supposed to say, 'tell others about people'!" Hmmm...smart enough to say 'you blow my mind' but still missed the point of the megaphone. Little twerp!






I had to work on the 4th of July and missed out on the fireworks. So we got together and did it again! Thanks Garcias! Here are the boys shooting roman candles. Something tells me they may not be quite the firework enthusiasts that their daddy's are!









Showing off the cute onesie Lisa made for her! It has ruffles on the bum!









He's been playing in the sprinklers!













Dust-busting! He's my little helper when it comes to controlling the MASSIVE amount of dog hair around here!














Tummy time can be hard work! See? No smiles!



















Thursday, July 14, 2011

Silver Dollar City!

So we took a little mini-whirlwind-trip up to Bransen last week with the Garcia's. We had a blast. You'll actually have to check out Lisa's blog for pics of Silver Dollar City because we thought our camera was dead that day! Anyway, John, PJ, Lisa, Kate, and I were on the trip too, I promise. I just only seemed to snap pics of the three hoodlums!
One of my favorite pics of the trip was the first one! The boys had just unloaded from the cars after the 4 hour trek and are waiting to go to the pool at the resort.
Daddy and Kate at the pool. She really wasn't a fan of the heat, or the cold pool water. But she sure was stylin' in her cute suit courtesy of Wes and Rachel!




Britton, posing, and Mark, about to jump in at one of the three resort pools. This is the only one I visited but it was super nice. Zero entry, bridge, waterfall...the boys loved it! It was a perfect energy burner after riding in the car all morning.





Me and my KK. I did put on a swimsuit but your sure not gonna see that. I apologize to all who did!






My buddy












This was after a full day at Silver Dollar City - three men in the tub!






Mark and Britton playing in "Mark's" bed at the condo. I say "Mark's bed" because he thought our room was just for him. He was surprised the first morning when he woke up to find himself sleeping on a pull-out bed in the living room while John and I were sleeping on "his" bed! The boys had a ball just playing together in the condo. In fact, when we got back to Tulsa Mark stayed in the car in the 110 degree heat for a good 30 minutes because he wanted to go back to our "new house!"



I'm a horrible photographer. I thought it was so cute watching all of them holding hands in a line walking up to play putt-putt. I just cut off the top of Lisa's head!




It's a cool putt-putt course! You get to ride a train that drops you off at the first hole!



Mark and Leyton at putt-putt in front of the very blue waterfall. In fact I showed the waterfall to Britton and he said someting along the lines of "a lot of toilet bowl water!"




Britton, going for par. I think he actually got the most hole-in-ones!


Leyton, for the birdie.




Mark, playing hockey? =)




























Kate is three months old!

I bet you thought you were gonna see a picture of Kate first, huh? Well this post isn't all about our little princess! I would like to show you the first word Mark has ever written. Look close folks, zoom in if you have too. He was so proud. He said, "Look Mommy, T - i - T!"



Here is handsome man himself in his new Oklahoma City Thunder jersey. His sister loves him! She usually smiles when he comes around.



Here is the little firecracker! I saw this outfit and thought it was so cute! Apparently it was only so cute on the hanger cause I didn't think it did her any favors in real life!



So here is her one month teddy bear pic again....



And here is her three month pic. She's bigger, but not shockingly. She's just a little string bean!
She seems to be a laidback, smiley, giggly little thing. She is pretty good about going with the flow. In fact, Mark cries a lot more than she ever does. I think she hear's him crying and thinks he's doing enough for the two of them! Thank you Miss Kate! And she sleeps a good 12 hours each night which really takes a lot of the stress off of me working nights...she barely even knows I'm gone!



Mark actually seems to be doing really well lately. He is always saying something that cracks us up. Today he leaned over and whispered to me, "Who's our mother?" What? No idea where that came from. Later he said, "I like Mimi cause she has all of the candy." I said, "I bet you do buddy." He said, "No! SHE has all the candy." On our way to her house we stopped at a red light and he said, "Mommy, sometimes you can turn right when the light is red." What do you do? Read traffic manuals at night or something? So funny the things that go through a three year olds head. Oh also, he was clearly not telling John and I the truth about something tonight and I said, "Mark, God is dissappointed in little boys who don't tell the truth." To which he replied, "Well, he doesn't come down out of heaven." Like he's safe from God's wrath or something cause God's stuck way up in heaven! So funny.