june...

I can't believe June is almost over. When we agreed to this move I figured we'd have at least 3 months left to veg in Houston, but there has been no vegging!!!

Here's what we've been up to....

The boys decided to have a tea party with Claire's tea pot. I wish I could say this was stagged, but it's not! :) I will be holding this one over their heads one day...

We went to the lake and rented a boat with some friends. I didn't get many pictures.
Blakers was exhausted. Something about boats...he goes right to sleep on them!

Then we went to Sam Rayburn Lake for a week with my family. Clearly Matthew is a bad influence on my children! :) The boys enjoyed all the attention from their cousins.

Claire has turned 7 months!

She's learned to clap...

and do "so big"....


and can even get to a sitting position from laying on the floor! She's growing too fast. No crawling yet. She just pushes herself backwards or rolls.

I haven't even started on her one year album or finished my pregnancy album for her. I usually do all that when they turn 6 months, but life has been crazy with the move, that I haven't had time to start. I didn't even take her in for her 6 month pictures! gah! I'm slacking! Hopefully July will slow down for us so I can start scrapping again.

Well, I'm off to get bed. I hope to get some peaceful sleep like this...

claire's latest tricks

Here are a few of Claire's tricks she can do....

She's getting better at sitting up.She's done this trick a few times and I finally caught her on tape. You'll have to excuse my annoying voice!

And lastely, I'm not sure if this is a trick, but this girl is CONSTANTLY falling asleep with her foot sticking out of bed! You'd think I didn't have bumper pad on or something!

what do you do...

when it's 3 PM and a million degrees outside???We take silly pictures of the kids! Or of Claire trying to attack Andrew's goldfish.
Easy entertainment...for everyone!!

little update...

I have so much to update on that I'm a little overwhelmed!!

First, Blake turned 3!!

He thinks he is such a big boy now! We just did a family party that night, but will have a party with friends in a week. He and Andrew are going to have a party together.

Andrew graduated from PreK!!

He's SO excited to be starting Kindergarten next year!!
This was our first year at this school and we loved it! We had a great group of parents and kids. And the teachers were AWESOME! We are sure going to miss it.

Claire is growing like a weed.

She is 6 1/2 months now. I took her to the Dr. yesterday for her well visit and she's in the 68% for weight and 94% for height! She has her two bottom teeth in and I think she might be cutting another. She's such an easy baby too! ALMOST makes me want another! However, I think 3 is enough!

In other news...we are moving to Nebraska! Everyone keeps asking how I feel and I think it's all happening so fast that I haven't had time to really think about it. Matt is working with the same company and will start up there early August! It will definitely be a big change for us, but I'm excited to see what God has in store for our family. We will really miss our sweet friends here.

campin, eatin, playin

Matt took the boys camping last weekend. They got dirty and had a blast!

Uncle Josh and cousin Jack even came down for a night!!

They had a playground and the boys really enjoyed the slide.

And, here's where they all slept. I must say that while I did miss them, I SURE did enjoy my time at home with Claire!! I've always thought she was an easy baby, but it wasn't until then that I really got to enjoy it! She's so content and easy going. And it's crazy how much time I had with just one kid!! Needless to say, I'll be pushing for them to go camping every year! :)

On another note....
Claire started solids this week!! She started with peas....

and she liked them!!!
Girl went to town on those peas. She's not six months yet, but my doc said if she seemed ready I could start her early...and the girl was ready!!

And here's just a cute pic of the boys I took one evening. I think this was right before they started fighting on who could sit on the top!
However, Mommy won that battle because we don't sit on the top!!

kids

I love when the boys play outside because it's easy entertainment for Claire. She loves to sit and watch her brothers. Won't be long and she'll be out there romping around with them.

We registered this little guy for Kindergarten.
I can't believe it. Seems like the thing to do here is homeschool, but that's just not for me! He's very excited and thinks he's riding the bus. Not sure if that will happen tho.

Claire turned 5 months this week.
She is such a sweet baby. I have been blessed with 3 easy babies...of course when they turn 2 they usually make up for it.
She loves her brothers and thinks they are pretty funny.This kid is just a mess!
Tonight Claire had a HUGE messy diaper. I got her all nice and clean, but wanted to dip her in the tub. Blake was in the tub by himself and I asked him if I could put Claire's tub in with him and clean her off. He told me to take her to my tub. I explained to him that I couldn't do that because if something happened to him I wouldn't hear him. He said he didn't want Claire to smoosh him so I just gave her a bath in the kitchen sink. How do people do that? She was slippin' and sliding all over the place!
Well, that's it from here!

where to begin...

I'm officially a soccer mom!

Andrew started playing Upward soccer a few weeks ago. So far he's enjoyed it. The season is only 8 weeks long. We've had one game and they did really well. We'll see if he wants to play next season.

We got the kiddos a fish tank.

They have been wanting one for EVER! We went to Pet Smart to look at the animals and came home with this. Not sure if you can see them, but we got 5 fish.

And Miss Claire is trying to grow up way too fast on me. This is her latest trick...

I'm pretty sure she's doing some sort of Yoga move. :)

Well, that's the latest!

swingin' and helper

The weather has been SO nice here!! We've really been enjoying being outside. I dread the summer tho!

I decided to try out Claire in her swing. She wasn't too sure at first....

but ended up loving it!!

Andrew wanted to help. Claire looks a little nervous.
LOOK! I actually got a decent picture of Andrew!

Blake? Not so much! Well, it looks okay, but it's blurry because the boy couldn't be still.

Andrew wanted to give Claire her bottle the other day. It lasted a whole 5 mins because she was taking in more air than milk. :) She kept grabbing the bottle and this was annoying him.
So, he held her hand to keep it down.

It's sweet things like that that get me through my crazy days!!

another random post

Our church had an egg hunt for the kiddos. The boys had fun. Okay, so they don't look like they are having fun in this pic, but they did! :) This was their first egg hunt this year. At first Blake, wasn't sure what to do, but he caught on quickly. And 3 egg hunts later....he's now a pro!!

Can't believe it's already Easter. Seems like it was just Christmas! Wish this year would slow down!!!

And this is for my sister...

The boys love their pillowcases! Blake uses his pillow all the time. He's constantly pulling it out of his room. He's a mess!! And he loves Hungry Hippos! I do too!...probably because it doesn't require me to think!!!

Hope you all have a great Easter! I hope to get a decent pic of the kiddos...but I'm not holding my breath!!