Seth's shower!

We had a sip n' see for new baby Seth a few weekends ago. His nursery decor is all cowboy so we had a cowboy themed baby shower. It was so fun!!

This is about as crafty as I get!


Look at sweet Seth and his adorable new cowboy boots! And his sleepy little smile! Doesn't Tara look amazing???? I'm so jealous!

The hostesses with Tara and Seth. We had breakfast casserole, sausage biscuits, pigs in a blanket, watermelon, muffins, and LOOK AT THE CAKE! You may have to zoom in but it is amazing! I have the cake maker's name and number if you need it!

The drink table had coffee punch, sweet tea, orange mocktails, milk, and water. See the cute straws in the mason jars? The labels say "wet yer whistle". I thought it was cute!

Mom and Kate were there too! They are twinkies with their blue eyes!

Cousins!

Barrett and Gracie got to come over and play one afternoon and I tried to snap a lot of pictures. Mark and Barrett were pretty much constantly running from one room to the next - I'm not exactly sure what they were playing, but they were too busy to stop for pictures for the most part. While they were running I was playing musical babies. If Gracie got tired in the swing, I moved her to the mat. But then Kate would get tired of the chair so I'd move her to the swing, etc., etc. I now know for sure I would never be able to handle twins!


Its so funny - I don't think the cousins resemble each other one bit! They are each almost identical to their siblings, but not to their cousins thats for sure! So did the Wingerter gene persist at all? And if so, who got it?


Barrett. Its hard to beleive he'll be TWO in less than a month!

Mark posing with the girls.
Gracie and Kate are just 6 weeks apart! We hope they are gonna be besties!
Barrett was WAY to busy to stop for pictures but I squeezed him in this one!
Beautiful Gracie!

Growing Up!

Somebody thinks she's pretty special sitting up in her Bumbo seat!


AND she thinks its pretty cool to roll over

Mark started "big boy" school! He's actually in a pre-k class (3's-5's). And I think he loves it. I know we do because there is so much communication with the parents. We get emails every day about what his class did and said...with pictures! Its pretty cool. This was his first day of school pic. Pretty funny - I got home from work late. John had managed to feed Mark breakfast (they have to eat before they go as opposed to his old daycare) but then John needed to get himself ready. Right when I got home I had to feed Kate so I would be able to go with John to drop off Mark on his first day. Sooooo....all that to say, Kate's nanny got Mark dressed and even did his hair for his very first day of school! (I think he's in love with her anyway so he sure didn't mind!)

And here he is by his hook right outside his classroom. I think he looks nervous! =(

August so far

Still nothing too exciting going on here! Kate turned four months old on the 4th and Mark starts "big-boy" school on Monday so he had his last day at Ms. Kathy's this week. As we left her house for the last time and walked down the driveway to our car he said, "I had fun there." Sounds like he's ready to move on! I'm sure he'll have a blast at his new school.


Its downright impossible to get them both looking and smiling at the camera at the same time.

Mark and his "girlfriend" on his last day at Ms. Kathy's. She is only one day older than Mark.

Well Kate got some new duds!! Isn't she too cute? John got home as I was taking this picture and said, "I don't like that its strapless." Then tonight looking at this picture he said, "its like child abuse." Seriously? She's 4 months! She doesn't know what she's wearing yet!! And she sure looks happy in it! =)

A few weeks ago we had a crazy storm pop up with 60-80 mph winds (can you see the neighbors tree up-rooted?) Well when the wind died down John and Mark went outside to do what they call, "Rain-runners." Every picture of Mark while running back and forth across the street he has a huge grin from ear to ear. Pure joy to a little boy I guess!

This is how John found our precious angels at 6:26am this morning. Mind you, Kate usually sleeps till almost 9, but today Mark decided she needed to be read to as soon as he woke up!

Little Miss 4 month old got a new toy! (Garage sale - 10 bucks!!)

This picture is for Brandee - see? She's still just a little peanut!

The 4 month old bear rug shot.

And Mark's 4 month old bear rug shot. Remember his deer in the headlight eyes?

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!

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.