Park Days

We love going to the parks. And the kids love feeding the ducks, chasing the ducks, and throwing bread at the ducks.  This little lake is right across from our house. 

I love how Jeter and Jerzi have so much fun with Dash!!  They beg to be the one that takes him down the slides.

She whips her hair back and forth, she whips her hair back and forth. I just love how Jerz has fun wherever she goes!

Me and Jerz and Dash go to a lot of parks while Jete is in school.  I'm gonna miss this!!

Bird Party

Is this not the sickest thing ever?  This is at HEB, our grocery store that we go to regularly.  My kids say the birds are having a bird party here, and they love to see it.  It is like this whenever we go in the evenings.  I don't love to see it at all. It's a creepy feeling to walk through this and have so many birds all around, flying in the air, on the ground, and on your cars.  They are not afraid of people at all.  Needless to say, I try real hard to avoid grocery shopping at night!!!

Little Dash Man

Dash is getting to be so funny!  He makes us all laugh every day.  He gets into everything and makes messes wherever he goes, but then he gives us that cheesy grin and we can't help but laugh.  We're in trouble with this little charmer.

He LOVES playing in the dishwasher.  If he sees it open, he comes as fast as he can and starts throwing everything on the floor.  

These are his favorite places to make messes.  He recently discovered where I keep the marshmallows.....and he got caught getting into them!  haha  He picks things up with just his one index finger.  It's my favorite.  

He also learned how to walk when he was just under 10 months old.  He's getting pretty good now, and is so proud of himself.  I can't get the video's to download, but they are hilarious!

And now that he knows how to walk, church is pretty pointless for me. I try to take him to class with me, but he can't stand to sit there for more than 2 minutes.  So he walks up and down the rows  of people, and distracts everyone, including the teacher.  Someone asks me almost every week when he gets to go to nursery.  Or they say, well good thing he's going to nursery soon.  (It's gonna be a loooong 8 months before he goes to nursery!)  That's usually my que to leave the class. So then we roam the halls.  Or play in the lobby.  Or when I've had enough, I take him on a drive. At least he's always happy at church and not crying!!! Plus, I love seeing him in his cute little church clothes.

The only thing he'll actually sit there for a few minutes and watch is this same little show called Brainy Baby that Jete and Jerz both liked when they were his age.  And apparently Jerz still likes it! HA

This little guy sleeps in the exact same position as his momma does!

Hot date to Italy

 I gave Had this cheesy little gift of a homemade passport, airline tickets, and a bunch of places me and him were going to visit, along with itineraries for each place.  One place/date a month, for one year.  (You get creative when you have no money!) Since I'm in charge, we get to go to cool places that Had would never take me. 😉 Our first date was Italy. We went to Rome and visited the Collosseum. We did a little gladiator combat in the the Colloseum.  We painted (portraits of each other) upside down like Michelangelo did in the Sistine Chapel. We ate pasta and then went for a gondola ride in Venice.  Had may have thought I was a little crazy, going to all this work and with each new activity that we were doing... but overall, it was a different, fun night at home that we didn't have to get a babysitter for, and it didn't cost us a cent!  And I got to show Had how we can have fun in other countries. :)

National Championship!

The Oregon Ducks made it to the National Championship, which happened to be in Dallas at the Cowboy's stadium.  We HAD to go!!!  So we left our kids with friends and met John, Melissa, Rob, Kenzie, Jake, and Kendall there.  

The stadium in unreal!!!  Everything is ginormous and the big screen was like watching it at home on tv.   Lady Antebellum sang the National Anthem.  I love them.  They also played Kenny Chesney's "The Boys of Fall" over the loud speaker when they were warming up.  I love that song, and it got me so excited to watch this game!  The Ducks played Ohio State. They started off the game driving down the field and scored early, getting all our hopes up.  Then it all kinda went downhill from there.  Ohio State beat Oregon 42-20.  It was still pretty sweet that we actually got to go the National Championship, be in that atmosphere, and that we got to watch our team play in it!!!  So cool!

 Thanks again John and Melissa for making this happen!!!

It's happening!!!

The day has finally come!!!  Jeter is old enough to play basketball.  I CANNOT GET ENOUGH!!!

It is so stinkin cute.  

Alamo Bowl

I'm pretty sure we're the luckiest! Uncle Mike's football team, Kansas State, made it to the Alamo Bowl, so Mike and Jill said they would get us tickets if we wanted to come to the game since it was in San Antonio!!  Of course we wanted to come!  It was so fun to get to see and hang out with family, and so fun to watch a good football game!  Jill hooked us all up with Wildcats gear, even Dashy, so we were legit.  The Wildcats played the Bruins, and unfortunately the Bruins ended up beating them 40-35, but we still had a blast.  My kids don't even understand how lucky they are that they get to go these big games!