Bath for Two

Life has gotten a little easier!

Now that Avery is older and can sit without falling I figured now would be a good time to let them start bathing together.

It really has made things easier on me! Now I don't have to fill the tub, bathe Avery let the water out, fill it again then bathe Cole! WONDERFUL... and plus they have a lot of fun together!

Uh....hello

Cole just looks so cute to me in this picture



Avery gets really excited when she is in the tub



The look Cole is giving Avery cracks me up!

Cute kids!

Cooling Down

Our Little Stud!

July 4th 2009!

I love the 4th of July! All of the festivities, family, friends, food and fire works! Yeah for the forth! Sorry, just noticing a bunch of "F" words there!

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Our 4th celebrations were great!

With any celebration there needs to be food and there was, lots of it! We met Mike & Rachel over at Mana & Annette's house, deep fried a turkey and had lots of yummy side dishes to go along! We all stuffed ourselves pretty good.

After our delicious meal we met up with Brent & Anya and headed to Galveston to play on the beach, enjoy each others company, let the kids run out their energy, watch fire works and eat some more food!

After the fire works Mike was wonderful enough to make us funnel cakes while we waited out the traffic. No celebration is complete without funnel cakes!

Cole was so much more into the fire works this year! It was so fun to see his excitement!

I think this was the start of a new tradition for our family, at least while we live in Houston!

Avery having a grand old time!



Cole & Caralyn being rambunctious toddlers



Cole loves eating watermelon!
Can you tell, look at that belly!



Our attempt at a family picture



Cole tripped in the sand and got a mouth full!
Poor kid!



Cole watching and loving the fire works



Mike making funnel cakes

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There really is nothing like being up close to the fire works with the people you love in this great nation we live in! I know it is a hassle leaving afterwords with all of the traffic and tired kids but to me it is worth it! I love the feelings I get as I watch those big, booming lights in the sky and remembering what we are celebrating!

I Did It!

I have created a new blog just for giveaways! I wanted to keep our family posts separate from my giveaway posts so booth happenings didn't get over run by my addiction to giveaways!

Please visit my new blog @: givemegiveaways.blogspot.com!

Play Set

For Cole's birthday Tom built him a GREAT play set!

We looked around at quite a few different sets and all of the cheaper ones seamed to be built cheap and the good quality sets were too expensive so, Tom used one of his many useful skills to build our own! He did an awesome job, like I knew he would! There isn't anything he can't do!

It still has a few finishing touches, like a roof, but it has the slide, a climbing wall and three different swings. As the kids get older we will build onto it to make it more big kid fun!

Cole loves it and I think this play set will get many, many years of use out of it!

Kids will be kids!

This morning I went into the other room and left Cole eating his cereal. I came back to find he had shoved 3 Trix up his nostrils, 2 in the right and 1 in the left!

I grabbed the tweezers, Tom got the 2 out and I got the 1! Goodness!

Luckily it was only three because he got them up there pretty far!

+= No Good!

Look Who's 2!

Saturday, June 6th, our little boy turned 2!

I can not believe or baby is a toddler! Where has the time gone?

Cole brings such joy to our lives! He has grown so much in the last two years! He is the sweetest boy! He loves to give his mama and papa hugs, kisses, smiles, laughs, growls...the list goes on and on!

Happy Birthday Boo Boo!

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To celebrate his birthday we had a BBQ with a few friends and had an enjoyable time!

Cole got a lot of great gifts from his mom & dad, grandparents and friends! He is such a spoiled boy to have so many people who love him!

The Guests!

Rowen & Avery~~~~~~Blake & Emily


Cole & Michael~~~~~~~Mana, John & Rowen


Stacy, William, & Blake~~~~~~~~Avery& Lucy


Tommy, Jake & Rowen

Some how we didn't get any picture of Mamie, The woman behind the camera! I wonder how that happened, MAMIE!!

The Birthday boy!

Tom at the grill~~~~~~~~Where's Cole?

Full of Surprises!

My brother Nick got married May 29th so as a unexpected surprise, that only my sister and I were in on, I took the kids and we went to Utah for the wedding!

Me and my sister had been planning this surprise visit since February and no body had a clue! The plan was when I got into town she was going to pick me up from the airport and we were going to go and surprise the parents but unfortunately Dee Dee ended up with the flu and was unable to pick us up.

An hour before our flight got in she had called my dad and told him that there were special visitors coming in from Texas but that he was going to have to pick them up from the airport! It was still a good surprise for him!

My dad and step mom picked us up and we went to their house for a quick bite to eat and then headed over to my moms before they left to go to the temple to support my future sister in law as she took out her endowments. We got there, I took Cole up to the door, knocked and then went and stood by the car to watch. My step dad opened the door saw Cole and asked with excitement what he was doing there! My mom was so surprised and so happy to see us!

Later that night my nephew had his 2 year old birthday party! I had my mom get him a present from us to make it more convincing that we "were not coming"!

A lot of the trip was spent getting dresses and a gift for the wedding. Dee Dee had already bought the tuxes for the boys so I didn't have to worry about that but we did a lot of running around.

The Thursday before the wedding was the wedding dinner! We went to Sizzler, my favorite! Can't go all the way to Utah and not eat at sizzler!

I started feeling sick that night and Avery had been throwing up! We were getting the flu!I had come all this way and was not about to get sick the night before the wedding so I had my brother in law, Eric, give Avery and me a blessing. I had a horrible night but I was fine Friday morning. My body was still a little achy but I didn't feel sick! The priesthood is awesome!

It was a wonderful day!

The whole trip turned out to be really nice but I was ready to get home to Tom!

For some reason I didn't take many picture and I do not know why! These are the only ones I took! I didn't even get any of the kids in there fancy outfits from the wedding! What was I thinking?

I was coming down stairs and heard Cole getting into something.
I went down and found him with my moms glasses on, sort of, and he had a pen in his hand and was pretending to write on a pad of paper! It was so funny!

Cole loved grandpas birds!

Dee Dee & Avery



Grandma and grandpa Child with all of their grandkids!
Cole, Avery, Braelee, Jayden & Braxton