Sunday Afternoon

After church on Sunday we came home for a little more porch swinging and visiting before we headed for home. Here are the last pictures of our short visit. Thanks again Juen and Darrell.








The kids about 15 minutes after we left!

Sprinkler Fun

After a hot day in Austin we spent the evening watching the kids run in the sprinklers. Brigham wasn't so sure about them. He kept running away. As soon as Abby figured out that it was fun to get wet she was like the energizer bunny. Who needs to go and and visit a ton of places when you have a perfectly good sprinkler.







As you can see from the video Abby also enjoyed swinging on the rope swing. She could have done that all day as well. You can tell that I am an experienced cinematographer because I gauged the distance for filming perfectly.

Dear Liza

While in Austin I was able to meet up with a long lost friend from high school. We haven't seen each other in ten years! Somehow we both ended up in Texas and finally were able to catch up.
As Liza said its amazing that ten years can go by and nothing has changed..yet everything has. So true. She has two beautiful kids now and is still the same gal I loved in High school. Dear Liza, it was great to see you again. I hope we can get together again and lets not make it ten years (by then all my hair may be gray.) Thanks for driving to see me. Hopefully next time we can visit longer and you can meet Abby as well. Love ya!

Tractor fun-Austin

This past weekend Seth and I took the kids down to Austin to visit his grandparents. They live in a rural area on some beautiful property. Even though we were only there for a day and a half we had a great visit. We visited in April this year in hopes of catching cooler weather. But, with our luck, we hit the hottest weekend of the year thus far. We had a great time playing on the land, swinging on the porch and just visiting. One of the main past times was riding great grandpas new John Deere. As you can see the kids couldn't get enough.

Goof

Thomas

Last weekend I attempted to take the kids to see Thomas the Train. Since Seth was at school I was a little hesitant since I had no idea where I was going nor what to expect. Nonetheless I went. As we were getting into the car Brigham fell inside the car and put a gash in his head. The kind you are just not sure what to do about. I tried calling Seth to no avail. I then tried my brother in law who is a paramedic, to no avail. So I decided to ere on the side of caution and I took him to care now. The Doctor said it was borderline and thankfully needed no stitches. However since it was really swollen, bleeding and deep in one spot he put him on antibiotics and assigned a topical ointment. Maybe it was a sign I shouldn't have taken the kids to see Thomas.

Skip ahead a few hours and we finally make it to see Thomas. I was under the impression that the festivities around Thomas were free so I didn't take a lot of cash. I figured we could just walk around and look. I was wrong. To even get in the area where the stuff was you had to pay. ( I was later told that you have to pay once the tickets to ride Thomas sold out, which they were when we arrived) Abby was so excited too. When she saw the Thomas bounce house she started giggling, but when I told her we wouldnt be able to go in it she melted down. I was able to take a few pics of the kids on the outside of the festivities. Some others were doing the same, and I set the kids on the tracks and snapped some pictures. Then some man came out and yelled at us because it was a safety hazard even though we were not on the same set of tracks Thomas was on. But we came and went in a very short time. On the way home the kids were upset with the lack of time we spent but there was nothing I could do about it.

Then come to find out on our adventure somewhere along the way I ran over a nail and woke up to a flat tire. Not to mention its in a spot they wont fix and we just bought the tires a few months ago! Sometimes I wonder why I even try.

Zoof

We were able to go to the Zoof (for those who don't speak Abby that means Zoo) last week. Natalie, my sister in law, and her three kids came as well as Cheri my mother in law. We had and excellent time. It was hot and smelly but still it was fun to watch the kids get so excited. Abby asked to see the lion every ten seconds which was hard to accommodate since it is in the back of the Zoo. However when we did eventually see it, we were able to hear it roar and make some other crazy noises. Abby kept asking me why he was coughing. As Natalie pointed out the lion roared the last time we were there. Abby is going to expect a performance every time she goes now. I think Brigham was more enthralled with the birds who kept trying to eat our lunch then with anything else. It was a challenge with stroller wars going on but it was good times. I got such a kick out of the meerkat it was so human like. Look at the picture close I cannot help but laugh when I see it.

Sleepy Heads

My kids are unusual sleepers. Often times I awake with Abby in my bed (several times a night.) Or sometimes Briggs wakes up for no apparent reason and talks late into the night. But, as I have posted before I often find my kids in weird sleeping positions. Here again are three more examples.

Brigham asleep upright in the corner of his crib. Poor exhausted fellow.

The flash woke him up :(

Abby taking over my bed yet again. She sleeps like a frog.

Both legs through the crib. When we moved him he had big red indention's on his legs.

Park Adventures

We have been spending a lot of the time at the park these days. The weather has been great and the kids love it there. Summer is approaching fast which means we are likely to be here most every day. Its amazing how much fun they can have at the same place over and over. I love it because its free and I get some sun. Cant lose.

Up the slide, right?

Ready...set...go!

Siblings

Future driver...watch out!

Briggs loves these steps

Abby loves to push anything in the jogger

Brigham has been attempting these steps for quite some time and he finally accomplished his goal! I love the clapping when he gets across. Can you tell he falls at the end by my gasp?