six months!

ok, so jack is now 6 months old. well, actually, almost 7 months! what!?!? you say... yes, i hear you. i can't believe it either! and he is getting so big. he rolls all over and started army crawling about 3 weeks ago. he is so fast. he moves from room to room and gets in to everything on the floor. yes, today i pulled him out of the trash can at our computer.. yikes! of course, his favorite things are non-toys... like the remote, phone, and any sort of string or straps. and here is a video of him going after the remote.



well, here are the stats....

height: 27 inches
weight: 18 lbs. 1 oz.
teeth: 2 with a third on the way

i tell you, this kids is awesome, he is so happy and loves to play!

the waterpark

so, finally the kids and i am back and we made our first trip to the waterpark with grace and raegan. jack was an old pro, but this was a first for grace and raegan. holy smokes! they had a blast. they loved the little kiddie pool and slides... grace was crazy on the slides and they all loved the lazy river. since is it 100+ degrees here, the waterpark was perfect. the kids had so much fun and cried when we left. hallelujah for season passes!

family fun

after 2 1/2 weeks of missing the girls, jack and i drove out to missouri so we could spend a week at the lake with my mom and dad and rachel and danny and their family. this is a yearly tradition and we were so excited to be able to get everyone together (minus aaron). bryan drove up friday night and stayed for the weekend and then had to head back to work, so we missed him a bunch.

so, the cutest thing ever was how much grace and ty played together. they just loved each other and had so much fun playing. they were so cute together!


this is one of my favorite pictures of them playing on the stairs.


also, the chicklets love to play with jack! they were all over him and i think by the end of the week he was finally used to being around everyone (after 2 1/2 weeks of being alone with just me and bry, it was quite the adjustment back to the reality of being mauled by toddlers).


we had a few adventures on our little boat, and the kids loved to get their life vests on to go for a ride!




grace and aurora were best friends/cousins at one minute, then the next someone was getting their feelings hurt (i think grace did most of the hurting), but such is the drama of 4 year olds.


jack is getting so much better at eating his food and loves to eat... anytime someone is eating, he looks at the food longingly and wishes he could have some too... no wonder he is so big!



ty is so adorable and shy... i just love his little facial expressions and personality.


and finally, here are rachel and i. i miss her so much and wish that we lived closer and could see each other more. she is the best sister ever!

happy birthday, raegan!

well, raegan turned 3 at the beginning of this month. in the midst of buying a new home, moving, and all the craziness of summer, i am just getting around to posting the pictures...

the weekend of memorial day, we drove to kansas to go house hunting and stayed with paul and natalie in olathe. fun! we found a house we love and got things rolling with that. on memorial day, my mom drove up to pick up the girls and take them back with her to missouri for a few weeks. this is a fun tradition that we have in my family, when i was growing up rachel, aaron, and i would spend 3 weeks of the summer with nannie and papa in albuquerque. it was so fun and some of the best memories i have growing up. so, we decided that my parents would continues these fun times. and this was the first summer. so, my mom came a picked up grace and raegan and they drove back to missouri, while bryan, jack and i drove home to oklahoma.

can i just say... so sad... and so bored. life without two little girls and only one baby was so different. me and jack were so bored and made a trip to the waterpark practically every day. man, i missed those girlies like crazy. and while they were gone, raegan had her birthday. i was pretty sad to miss that, but we skyped the whole thing and it was great.

so, for about the last 6 months, grace has been asking raegan what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday... dora or tinkerbell... i think that these were the only two options that grace gave raegan because these were the kinds of cakes that she had wanted for her birthdays and i made for her. so, raegan has been saying for the last few months that she decided she wanted a tinkerbell cake, so we had one ordered and it was too cute!


raegan had a great party! the roberts' came over and celebrated with them and she received a plethora of gifts, including every barbie movie she didn't already have, barbies, polly pockets, and little dog she named sparkles.



so, i can't believe that raegan is already 3 and such a big girl. i love her to death and here is a look at the last 3 years.

oh, the day she was born... doesn't bryan look like 10 years younger instead of 3... hmm...


here she is again with grace for her polka dot themed first birthday party


and finally, last year, when she turned 2.


happy birthday, raegan! we are so grateful you came to our little family! we love your awesome personality and your sweet smile!

bbq anyone?

after 2 weeks of not using our grill, we find this...


i've told bryan we can't use our grill until these birds hatch and leave the nest, but i'm thinking we just need to get a new grill...