Mark and Kate

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.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Father's Day 2011

Poor John probably didn't have the best Father's Day ever since I had to work that night, but it started out great with our annual trip to Krispy Kreme Donuts! Even baby Kate got in the Krispy Kreme spirit!

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Girl

I wanted to add some pics of our sweet pea from the last few weeks too. I don't have as many of Kate as I do of Mark (see previous post) but she just isn't quite as active as he is! I remember visitng Bran when Lillian was two months old and Bran kept taking pictures of Lillian in her stroller to document that she was there too...well I find myself doing the same thing!

My new favorite pic ever!

She came to the splash park today too! See how into it she was?

Miss pretty. Wearing an outfit from her Mimi.

So smiley lately.

Here she is at the Tulsa Tough. Can't you tell?

Here she is at the fire station with play group!

Pretty girl. Just like Mark, she likes to "talk" while on her changing table!

We were playing around with some of her big bows!

Apparently she thought this one was aas hysterical as I did!

The Boy

Really? 20 something pictures of just Mark? Well yes actually. I guess he's starting to feel photogenic because he's gotten pretty good at smiling for the camera lately. That and he is just such a goof-ball he is always doing something that warrents the camera! So here are some pics of Mark over the last three weeks.

This is what happens to someone who is ambushed while helplessly feeding Kate.

We went to the splash park today with Omah, Opah, Josh, Lindsay, Barrett, and Gracie. Omah made us all our own sack lunch. Mark's said Alligator Man!

Mark (the cyclist?) and Barrett (the wrestler?)

Opah and beautiful "healthy" Gracie. =)

Omah and Mark

Yes, its June.

Taking care of his sister!

Maggie, paralyzed with fear because of the thunder, is trapped under Mark's "tent'

Mr. Determined! Mark loves to race his bike just like Daddy. Poor guy never wins cause he's so small - but he doesn't even notice. This is the 6 and under race at the Tulsa Tough.

You see why he has no chance to win? His wheels are so small and he only has one gear! I think he's thinking, "oh- so thats what training wheels are!"

My buddy, Britton Kasey cheering for his Nino John in the Tulsa Tough.

Buddies. Leyton and Mark.

Mark and Opah cheering for Daddy. (see his hyperextended elbow? Weird!)

Opah, Mark, PJ, and Leyton

After the Friday night Tulsa Tough races! He fell asleep on the way home and I sat him (upright) on the green pillows so I could get Kate out of her car seat and this is what happened! One tired little boy....

Mark's play group took a trip to a local fire station. Mark wouldn't get in the fire truck because he was afraid it would take off while he was in it. But he loved spraying the big water hose!

Lovin' on Miss KK!

I walked in Kate's room (where she was supposed to be sleeping) and this was my view!

We went to a Driller's game a few weeks ago. Mark's not spoiled or anything. He ONLY got a bat, fan hand, and stuffed Hornsby doll!

I wanted to capture him in his hooded towel on camera before he got too big for a little boy towel. I love this stage of his life. Well, sometimes.

We went to the Jenks riverwalk and Mark got a Spiderman balloon hat!