Crazy Hair Day

The kids were way excited about crazy hair day at school. Kya wanted her hair to be like Cindy Lou Who from, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Conor wanted 3 mohawks. We thought he looked like the mayor from the Grinch.

Kya got an award for her hair and A LOT of attention. She loved it.

Tub Tub Time!

Crew and Taft's first bath together. Super fun!

Taft's first "Hawk." It's barely there.....look hard..... I promise it's there!
How 'bout now?
Daddy after tub time. haha! don't be fooled. He's very much enjoying our house full of energetic little munchkins. Although I have to agree it can be exhausting sometimes.

Faces

These are the sweet faces we get to wake up to every morning. Life is good! Tom wanted a picture of all 4 of his kids to have on his desk at work so we sat them down before church with a candy bribe of course. I thought we did pretty good.

Our sweet little Taft smiles constantly these days. All you have to do is walk by him or just look at him and he'll smile, coo and laugh at you. It's heavenly with him around.

No more braces!

Conor is super relieved to have his braces off and we all think he looks so handsome! I just can't stop staring at him.

Tom and Crew's fish

Tom had a monday off in April for some reason, I can't remember why, but the kids didn't have school off. So Tom took Crew out fishing and mama stayed home to get some things done around the house. They found a new fishing spot and brought back dinner! Tom grilled them and Crew was so proud that he had provided dinner. What a great little provider!

Spring Break 2011: Roosevelt Lake

Almost every spring my parents rent a house (now 2 to fit us all) at Roosevelt lake. It's always so relaxing and fun. We all go away thinking, "man I wish we could just live there." Thanks Grammy and Papa for the great time, awesome memories, and most importantly the open tab on ice cream!

Jeff and Briston Papa and Crew

The game room

Ice Cream!!!

Games and Crafts
Fishing and fishing and more fishing.

Crew found one of the few areas of dirt. He sat there for a long time just loving that dirt. Leave it to a 2 year old boy to find that. I love that he was contained in one spot for so long!

Papa, thanks for instilling the love of fishing in all of us.

I think this is the first year noone saw a rattle snake. We've got some cool stories.But don't worry we saw a bull snake instead.

This cardinal was very intrigued with us. He keeped perching on our backyard fence and the nearby tree. I wish I'd gotten a better picture. He was beautiful!
I love this pic of Briston and Crew. Crew was blowing bubbles for him.

My fishermen!

Kya is such a fun cousin!
This lady worked there and she apparently likes to rescue these little baby bunnies so they don't get eaten by snakes. The poor starving snakes! Anyway it did make for some cute pics of the kids petting them. Crew stuck around for a long time, very intriqued with the little fur ball.

Crew with his Grammy and Papa.

(I found these next four pictures on Tom's camera. He has his own camera that he likes to take with him on his hunting and fishing adventures. I'm thinkin he's a better photographer than me. I love the pictures he was able to capture from the boat. He's hired!)

Labor day weekend

While Gramps and Grandma were here we celebrated Crew's 3rd birthday with swimming, pizza, cake and presents. That is Batman on a motorcycle on his cake. He calls him Thatman. For the next few days he carried around one of the gift bags with his presents inside and his balloon tied to it. When he went to bed, the bag went with him and when he woke up in the morning and came downstairs, he was dragging the bag with him.
Crew makes our lives more bright each day. He is very energetic and fun and says the funniest things. Tom and I smile and laugh every day over something he has said or done. We're so happy to have this amazing little guy in our lives every day. We love you Crew Asher!

We brought G&G to the airport on Monday and stayed to watch the plane leave. It is a teeny tiny little airport so we could get up close to the plane. I had to take a pic of the baggage car thingy cause the kids were super excited about it. Kya said, "I think that's the one from Toy Story." As you can see Taft was unimpressed with it all.

After we saw the plane off Tom packed us some burritos and we went to our new favorite fishing spot. Since it was Labor Day and we needed to celebrate. Tom caught the only fish of the day.

(So now that I'm caught up on the present I am going to try and post some fun stuff from the spring. I got a bit behind during my pregnancy and move over the summer. Since I print out our blog as a family album/journal I'm hoping to get caught up.)