Summer's Here!!!

The summer's flying by already, and I'm loving every minute of it! Except the hot-ness, of course. I think it's been over 100 degrees more days than not in June, and that's annoying, but at least we have air conditioning, right?

I haven't posted pictures in awhile, so here are some to catch you up!

At the Dallas zoo with PaPa and cousins


Jack grabbed one of Daddy's ribs. Yummy!


Easter Egg hunt after church


Our family on Easter Sunday. It was chilly!


Fun in the bluebonnets


Lovin' the sprinkler ball


My sweet, wet boy


Learning to use a fork, and very proud of it!

Jack's Birthday

Okay, I know his birthday was over two months ago, but I have to go back and post some pictures of it. He had a great time, as you can see.

I took off the day of his birthday, and we had pancakes for breakfast, one of his favorites!


We also decided to take him to get his first haircut. It was so long and in his eyes. We took him to a little kid haircut place and he did great!

Before...

After...


We had his birthday party the following Saturday, and he had so much fun! He LOVED his cake too.

His cake


He enjoyed it!


With MiMi and PaPa

Long Time, No Blog

It's been awhile, and yes, we're still alive. The last few months have been really busy, and somehow I've gotten out of the habit of doing this. But I'm trying to get back in...this has been like a virtual baby book, and I know my mom is missing it. So here it is, for you MiMi!

Today is Mother's Day, and I've had a great day of feeling appreciated and loved. Motherhood is full of so many emotions, and sometimes it is so overwhelmingly tiring. But it's good to remember what it's all about and that it is TOTALLY WORTH IT! They showed this video at our church this morning, and I cried (sobbed really) through the entire thing. It just really cut right to the heart of how I feel about Jack and being a mom in general. Enjoy. And Happy Mother's Day. :)

Haven't blogged in awhile. We're still here. Jack's had a sick couple of weeks. We went to SingSong at ACU to see Jenny. When we got there Friday night, Jack started to get sick. He had some sort of stomach bug coming from both ends (sorry). He still seemed happy and normal, just had some unpleasant diapers and throwing up moments. And we only got to see Jenny for like 5 minutes. Literally.

Then on the way home, Matt got the stomach bug. It made him feel sick to ride when I was driving (no comments please) so he drove home feeling terrible, and we occasionally stopped at the DQ for me to change an explosive diaper. Fun!

After we got over that for a few days, he got sick again! On Tuesday morning he woke up not acting like himself. He had a temp of 100.9 and Matt took him to the dr. (Yea Matt! I just don't have too many days left!) and he had strep throat! It made me feel so bad that he felt so bad and couldn't even tell me. But once we started him on the antibiotic he seemed much more like himself. This is his first antibiotic, so I guess that's not too bad of a record.

Since I last updated, Jack's learned some new things. He's laughing out loud a lot more, which is fun. I'm hoping to get some video of that soon. And...here's a big one...he's started walking! Yea! It really surprised me because I just didn't think he was ready yet. But Thursday night, he started taking a few steps from me to Matt and back to me. It was so exciting! He's been practicing a lot and getting better and better. Just in time for his birthday on Thursday. Can't believe it's almost been a year already. I'll save the sappy stuff for the birthday post. Speaking of birthday...



For some reason, Blogger is changing the colors on the invitation. It looks much better than this, but I can't figure out how to fix it, so you get the idea!

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Ethan, Jack's cousin and best friend, is 1 year old today. Happy birthday Ethan! We miss you!

Clapping!

So Jack figured out how to clap tonight and we actually captured it on video! I was just thinking earlier tonight about how he hadn't learned how to clap yet, so I was showing him again. Then, a few hours later, he just spontaneously started clapping, and I grabbed my camera. I haven't had much to write about lately--of course Jack is still as cute as ever. He has 10 teeth now ( no that's not a typo. He really has 10!) and he's learning new things every day. Here's a video of some of his first claps.

Christmas!

So Jack had a really fun first Christmas. Of course he didn't really have any idea what was going on, but he liked waking up and playing with new toys. He loved playing with his cousins, Allie and Ethan. And he loved all the good food his MiMi fed him!

Here are a few pictures of our trip to Amarillo.


Christmas Pajamas


Santa was good to Jack!


Christmas morning!


Chowing down on the turkey!


Rockin' out with Daddy before bed


Our little family


Jack's new wagon