Moments to Remember

Caleb is at a fun age right now...here are some fun conversations we had yesterday:

Caleb walked into the bathroom last night and randomly started this conversation:
Caleb: (with a very cute and slightly manipulative grin)Mom, you're so pretty and nice
Mom: Awwww...thanks Caleb. You made my heart melt.
Caleb: (with a disturbed look) Why is your heart melting?
Mom: Oh...that just means that you made my heart very happy...You are very handsome and nice too.
Caleb: Oh Mom...you made my heart freeze!



In the bathtub...
Caleb: Mom, I have bones in my body! Wanna feel 'em?
Mom: I know Caleb, we all have bones in our body.
Caleb: How do I get 'em out?
Mom: You don't want to get 'em out, then you'd just be a pile of skin on the floor (kind of gross I know)
Caleb: Cool, then people could pick me up and wear me as a costume!

Happy 4th Caleb!!!

Caleb's 4th Birthday Cake---gotta be Toy Story!!!
Gus got so excited he almost blew out the candles for Caleb!

Blow sweet Caleb!!!

Caleb, Ethan and Camron--buddies from school came to celebrate Caleb's birthday

Caleb was so excited about his Toy Story Legos from Jonah. Jonah picked these out just for him. He kept the secret from him for 2 weeks, and almost gave them to him the night before, because he couldn't stand it!

Caleb finally got his "soft Woody". Every night before bed he would say " I wanna tell you sumpin...I want a soft Woody with a pull string and a hat that you can take off and brush Woody's hair and when you pull his pull string he says "I gotta snake in my boot"! He's said this every night for about 2 months, so we were glad to finally fulfill this request!

Eating "Pizza Planet" Pizza with his buddies and big brother

Hannah enjoying her pizza

All the boys hangin' out with Zurg. It's hard to see him in the middle. He came to try and stop the birthday party!!

Enjoying watching "Don't Wake Zurg"
They played a game called "Don't Wake Zurg" where the kids tried to steal the Alien back from Zurg, without waking him. Caleb barely made it away from Zurg...Phew!

Watch out Camron...Don't Wake Zurg!

Here's a better view of Zurg...a bucket painted black made a good sound effect for Zurg. Anytime Adam can spray paint something---He's on it!

Having a blast---my big four year old.

Everyone had a great time at the party!!

Caleb--happy birthday sweet boy. I'm so proud of the little man you've become. You amaze me with your very precise articulation of words, you are so careful to get it right the first time. I love your passion, even though sometimes that fiery red-head passion can get the best of you. You have a smile that can just melt anyone's heart. And when you wake up in the morning you always have such a sweet voice "Mornin' Mom". It's my favorite sound first thing in the morning. I love how you just randomly tell me that you love me with such a tender authenticity.
I love when you are into something, you are into it with your whole heart. You have a natural magnetism, even spiders and bugs are drawn to you. I can honestly say, there's none like you. I love you Caleb.

Six Candles!

Jonah's 6th birthday cake! It is supposed to look like a popcorn bowl for our movie theme!
Hannah enjoying some cake!...she was a little squirmy in the theater. She kept walking the aisles between Aunt Shell and Mama Gina to keep from falling asleep. Finally, we gave her some Skittles to keep her in one place! ...Caleb on the other hand was completely absorbed in the movie. If you know how much Caleb loves anything Toy Story, this has been something he's looked forward to for a long time. At one point in the movie, I looked down and he was staring at the movie, but doing an extreme potty dance. I asked if he had to go to the bathroom, but he didn't want to leave the movie. I finally convinced him to go, but we did an extreme lightning bathroom trip!

Jonah being his silly self blowing out the candles! As you can see, the cake was a little leaning after being transported in the box. I'm so glad it made it!

Jonah and some buddies and cousins enjoyed watching Toy Story 3 at the theater on opening day! We got to have a party in the theater following the movie. We had so much fun!

Jonah got very excited about opening presents - he was holding up some money that he got in this card. He's trying to save up money to buy more Wii games!

I cannot believe I have a six year old! It really does make me feel old. I used to see people with six year olds and think how that was so far away, and here it is! Jonah has grown up so much this year into a little young man. He is reading great, loves to play basketball and video games and doing TKD. He's so great with his sister and I love watching Caleb and him giggle and laugh together when they're playing. We are so blessed with such a tender-hearted little boy, who can always make me laugh! I love you Jonah, my six year old!

The other day I asked him to sing a song with me at church that he knows. He said he didn't want to, because there were so many people. After trying to convince him, he decided he didn't want to so I left it alone. The next morning after Sunday School he walked out of his class and said, "I want to sing with you Mom". So, without a practice he went out and sang "God Bless the USA" with me for Memorial Day. He was telling us afterward how scared he was. Adam asked him why he did it, and he said "I was scared, but I told myself I'm gonna do it anyway." I was so proud of him for overcoming that fear...Sometimes you just gotta "do it anyway"!

Those FROG Days of Summer!

Jonah found a frog in the yard as they were playing in the water outside. Caleb immediately befriended the frog (against the frog's will)!


Poor frog...Caleb put it through so much...He tried to be as gentle as a 3 year old can. He was completely fascinated by this frog!

Then the frog (again against his will) enjoyed some time on the waterslide.

Hannah even loved holding it! That's my girl!! I love that she loves her nails polished, loves makeup and girly stuff, carries around a pink purse...but there might just be a frog in that purse!

I'm sorry to the animal activists out there...we did the best we could to protect the frog. We let him go in the end to go back out into the world...traumatized nonetheless!

Hannah inspecting a ladybug! Wonder what she's thinkin'?

Hannah was not real into playing in the waterhose, it was a little much for her. She was just as content playing in her bucket of water. Much more controlled!

The boys on the other hand - the less controlled the better!

Mrs. Potato Hannah

Jonah getting his Senior Yellow Belt at TKD

And yes, I finally got a yellow belt. No more all white uniform!

Can you say Summer any better than this?

Elementary Field Trip to Fort Inglish. The kids are washing clothes like they did back in the pioneer days.

All dressed up for Robert and Aliesha's wedding

First Pig Tails! A little messy, but all I could get her to sit still for!

Springtime is Here

Can you say SPRING any better than this?

The Grandparents Brunch at FCA. The kids did a program for the grandparents. This is Jonah and Megan performing "Lean on Me". Megan was keeping Jonah in line, it was really cute!
Hannah and Caleb performed "Jesus is My Super Hero" with their class. Here they are in their Super Hero masks.

Caleb got so into this song! He's the only one facing the crowd! He's a definite performer.

Okay, there's lots of picks of Hannah in this blog. It's just so hard not to put all of them of her, because she's just so cute right now. This is her dressed up for the Grandparents Brunch. Don't you love her purse and giant bow!

The other day we went fishing as a family at the State Park. Caleb was really into playing with the worms more than anything. Here's a shot of him kissing the worm and telling it he loves it. Then that was followed by ripping the worm in half. Boys? Go figure?

After ripping the worm in half, he proceeded to do what every brother dreams of....terrorizing his sister. Hannah would run around screaming, but she loved it at the same time!

Jonah was a little too cool for all that "kid stuff". He was busy perfecting his cast. He's growing up so fast...such a good kid.

Intense Easter egg huntin'....now where are those eggs??

Hannah with Papa checkin' out the Disney World book and just lovin'. Priceless.

I think Hannah saw something she liked in this picture. My parents, us, and my brother and sister and their families are all going to Disney World this summer together to celebrate my parents retirement from teaching. My mom should be totally recovered from her knee surgery by then. We're super excited! Caleb woke up every day for a while asking "Is today the day we go to Disney World?". He's so ready to meet Buzz Lightyear.

Just a cute pic.

All the little cousins (Myka was inside). Hannah, Logan, Jonah, Landry, and Caleb

And we got news that my brother and his wife are having a new baby. Can't wait to meet
Baby Lindsey in November!!!

Tootsie's birthday was a couple of weeks ago. We got to go down and go out to eat with her for her birthday. We had a great time with her at Olive Garden and we finished off the night with this cake! The kids specifically requested a "pink" cake for Tootsie, so here it is! Tootsie took a hard fall a couple of weeks before her birthday, so she was not up for pictures that day or else we would've snapped a photo of her too. We love you Tootsie!

Hannah eats everything by herself now - she demands no help!

Playing Outside

Caleb: Hmmmm, a little water - what harm could this do?

A little water turned into a lake of water...

And a giant mudpit - these are not mudclothes by the way. And Hannah had brand new shoes on...Dad was the "innocent" photographer.

Easter Egg Huntin' at church. Caleb is in a "pirate" phase of smiling. If you ask him to smile for the camera, this is what happens. All of his school pictures looked like this. They took like 20 trying to get him to smile regular, but this is what happened each time. I love it, it's a great memory to look back on. What a character. He's my character.

Hannah egg huntin' for the first real time. She picked up on it immediately.

Easter Morning

APRIL FOOL'S Jonah and Caleb were so proud to trick Daddy on April Fool's. If you look closely, he has a black circle around his eye. We put black makeup on the end of a paper towel tube and then Jonah sneakily tricked Dad into looking through the tube. Gotcha! Jonah was so proud. He's his Daddy's son...he loves to have fun!

Daddy's girl

We took a trip to Tyler and got to see Buckshot (Adam's grandfather). Buckshot has Alzheimer's and is living in a private facility. It's really beautiful and he seems to be happy there. It was hard to see him like that, so different than what we used to know. Buckshot was such a big part of Adam's life growing up, he really looked up to him and learned a lot from him. I'm so glad to have such a great picture of the whole family with him.

Here's a picture of family bible time one night. We have a Family Bible Time once a week where we learn and interact with a bible story together as a family. We have so much fun. The kids really look forward to it. This night we studied the story when Elijah calls down fire from heaven to consume the wet wood. Thus the fire....I had another picture, but as a I typed I accidentally deleted it, and I'm way too tired to put it back on there right now!

Adam and I had a night away at a hotel in Rockwall. It was such a restful, romantic weekend - much needed.

Hannah likes to let the Guinea pigs nibble her toes.

Hannah's first hair cut!

Crazy Cousin Day! My sister and her husband went on an overnight retreat, so we all went to stay the night at their house. We had Crazy Cousin Day!!!! As you can see, we did science experiments and even made our own t-shirts.

Here's Hannah and my mad scientist hair! I think I look more like Punky Brewster.

Maaaadddd Scientists!

When we went to Tyler we also met up with Adam's Dad and the family. We rode go-karts. Can you see Caleb's little red head poking up in the car?

Luke and Jonah took the lead!

Pop took a boat ride with Hannah

Luke, Adam and Lee - Adam's brothers have passed him in height!

Nona and Laura Beth were there too, but I didn't get a good picture of them!

Here's my beautiful sister's debut in fame! She tried out and made it on Johnny High's Country Music Review in Arlington. I got to go to the show she was in. This picture was taken after she performed. There were so many talented people singing there - but Michelle was definitely the best! And I'm not just saying that because she is my sister.