Alicia and Ethan

I am so Lucky to be able to wake up to this smile every morning! I love it. She has the biggest smile and the chunkiest cheeks! Besides about 1 hour in the evenings she hardly ever cries she loves to sit and talk to her brothers and sisters and has become such an important part of our family! We love you so much!
Ethan is such a good big brother and he has been in awe of Ali ever since she joined our family. It was so cute the other night he wanted to hold her so we layed her down by him and this is what we got! It was adorable. I love my kids so much and I really enjoy these precious moments!

Speed Racer

On Friday night we invited some friends over to build box cars and give their Mom's and Dad's a chance to go on a date. We had so much fun building these cars with them. Jake even equipped his with GPS. I think Bri may have had more fun than the kids. :) After we got our cars finished we watched Speed Racer. I'm not sure if the kids really liked the movie but they did enjoy the popcorn and hanging out in the cars.

Texas State Fair

We headed off to the state fair last week on Brian's Day off. It was a nice cool day and we realy enjoyed walking around and checking out all the fun stuff. If you love fairs you should come to this one! There are always so many people there and so many things to do and look at. It was much cooler and less crowded this year than when we went last year and we had a great day. The kids loved the bird show and doing little hands on the farm. Bri and I realy enjoyed all the cars, it was fun to look at all the smaller cars that we will not be able to fit in for a very very long time :)

Playing & Happy Birthday Babe!

Logan working on the computer like Daddy does.

Ethan creating a house out of crayons :)

Mady practicing her radio calls


Happy Birthday! This is the I know i need more candles then this face :)
I love it when Bri's birthday finally rolls around and we are the same age for a little while then i can stop hearing the you are so old jokes :) I love you babe and I hope you had a great Birthday!

Seasons of Change

I love Fall! I really miss home and the mountains this time of year but I am still grateful for things cooling down and moving into fall. Since November of last year things have been interesting for us, we have been enduring lifes trials. Some have been small, others tragic, and some have turned into immense blessings. Through all of this my sweet husband has been amazing. He is such a blessing in my life (and pretty Hot also!) he keeps me grounded when i want to freak out and has supported me through some pretty tough times. I don't know what I would do if i didn't have him to hold my hand. Today he got a new job doing something he loves and has been looking forward to for a long time and I just want him to know how proud I am of him and excited that he gets to follow his dreams! I Love you babe, thanks for all you do for our family!

Joy

I love being a mom. It keeps me on my toes all the time but my children have found a loop hole in my ability to keep them out of trouble. Nursing... the boys feel they have free rain when i am nursing Ali. To them when I sit down to feed Ali it means: I have 15 minutes to make a big mess and or get into as much trouble as I can. There have been numerous times my adorable mischiefs have created quite the mess for me to clean up during these few minutes I have with my new baby. Any suggestions? This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago, after nursing I went into the boys room to find this: Ethan had emptied all three 120 count boxes of Kleenex that were supposed to go with Mady to school. It does look like fun though.

"Mom will cupcakes really turn me pink?"

Is it really already the middle of September? Time is getting away from me these days... the last couple of weeks have flown by with Mady in school. I wanted to post some funny things the kids have said lately, they are always keeping us laughing with their perspective on life.
After reading the cute book Pinkalicious that we have heard so much about we made pink cupcakes. Mady was saying she wanted to eat all the pink cupcakes so that she could be pink... she then asked Ethan if he wanted a pink cupcake with which his reply was a very stern and concerned "No" the matter was dropped and after about 20 minutes Ethan came into the kitchen and said "Mom if i eat a cupcake will I really turn pink?" The poor kid had been so concerned and thinking about it the whole time he really wanted a cupcake without being pinkalicious! :)
As for Mady they were watching a cartoon that had someone losing their teeth. Ethan then came in and said Mom Mady is trying to hit me. I went to have the talk with her about how we don't hit each other when she quickly responded "Mom i wasn't hitting him I was trying to knock his teeth out backwards!" aah, the joys i love my kids so much and they are always keeping me on my toes!
The weather out here is beautiful today. It is 70 right now and we are sitting on the back porch watching the kids swing and play baseball. This is heaven.