Montana 2008!

Here are the long awaited prairie dog hunt pics. Hopefully this will save me from any more harassment from a certain Montana doctor!

Apparently in Montana, fields that look like this are full of unsuspecting, innocent prairie dogs. This is what happens to those prairie dogs when Clay & Brady are on the hunt. Sorry dogs-you can run, but you can't hide!!!

On a lighter note, here are Hallie, Riley, Bailey, & Jay with their Texas dog, Molly. Clay flew all the way to Montana with Molly in-tow. She is the cutest little dog. I think I could have become a dog person if she had stayed here a little longer.

Riley was kind enough to give her room up to Clay while he visited. Here she has custom embroidered her pillows for him in her room. There used to be a "R" where the "C" is now. Clever thinking Riley. You are so thoughtful!

Finally a Post!!!

I just realized what time it is and should totally being going to sleep, but I have been receiving SO much grief about not updating my blog I am making myself do this. We have been super busy this past month with school, sickness, unpacking, trips, and lots of fun times!

We started out the month with a trip to the zoo with our Georgia friends. This was so fun for Nathan. I can not stand birds, so I NEVER let him go in the area where the birds fly all around you. This time he got to go in with the other moms. He, as you can tell, really enjoyed it. Luckily our zoo pass is almost expired. So I won't have to have this battle when we go next.



In other wildlife news, Nathan caught a snake out in our yard a few weeks back. I can not believe he is holding this thing. He really is growing into a outdoorsy, get dirty, tree-climbing boy. We also have a armadillo in our backyard. I think he is living under our shed. Nathan and Clay decided they are going to set a trap for it. Of course Abby wants to get in out that too.

Here is our princess in PINK! She is becoming borderline obsessive with the color pink. She likes Lucky Charm cereal, but calls it Pink cereal. I think she calls it that because all she really eats are the pink marshmallows. Here she is in her pink room before bed one night. Dee(my mom) gave her this pink gown for Christmas because she said I had one just like it when I was little. Abby loves the gown! I thought it looked so big when she got it and really can't believe it fits her already.

Last weekend, Clay went to Montana and Nathan went to Fossil Rim with Grandad and MiMi. So Parsh and Mallory came up to spend the weekend with Abby and I. We had a fun girl weekend. Abby is absolutely in love with Mallory. She wanted to help change her, bathe her, and anything else she could get her nose into. I'm not sure she understands personal space yet, though. She was all up in Mallory's business. Precious cousins! We can't wait to see the trouble Abby gets Mallory into.

Stay tuned for pics from the Montana Prairie Dog hunt and our upcoming kindergarten graduation!!!

BIG News!!!

Nathan lost his first tooth tonight!!! After being whacked in the nose with the rinsing cup in the bathtub we did a tooth check. I really thought his loose tooth might have been knocked out from the whacking in the tub, but no it was just barely hanging on. I tried to get him to yank it out, but that was a no go. So mom to the rescue. I yanked it out and we did the tooth dance!! He is very excited and could hardly stop smiling tonight before he went to sleep. He is very eager to get to school tomorrow and show his friends.

We Have MOVED!!!

We have been in our new house for 2 weeks now and we are loving it!! After a crazy time getting to the closing table, we hurriedly got one set of contractors in to scrape and re-texture the ceilings and and then another set of contractors in to paint from head to toe. Then we hurriedly moved in our stuff. The painters were still painting as we were walking in with boxes and furniture. It was a hard moving weekend and week to follow, but we are starting to come out of the moving fog. All the boxes in the house are empty, but we have a garage full of boxes to go through and clean out.

The kids are having such a great time. They each got to pick the paint color for their rooms. Nathan's room is blue and Abby's is pink. Do they fit the typical sterotypes or what!?!

This weekend we have been recovering from the severe storms we had here last week. We lost a tree in our backyard and some shingles off the roof. Great welcome to the neighborhood.:-)

Fun times with the chainsaw!

Glamour girl of the block!

Muscle man hauling branches out to the curb.

Easter Weekend!

The kids and I had such fun Easter weekend at my mom and dad's. We are in the middle of trying to move. So Clay stayed here to clean, mow, pack, make the pool presentable, & do fun stuff like that. We are going to be leasing our current house. So we feel like our house needs to be somewhat clean for the tenants once we leave. My sister was also able to come with Mallory. So it was a super fun time. The kids are so in love with Mallory. Abby needs to learn a little about personal space, I think. She likes to get right up on Mal. She even tried to climb in the carrier with her at the mall on Saturday. Marcia did a great job with the slideshow on her blog. Check it out to see all our fun!

Oh Abby!

Our dear sweet Abby is 2 1/2!! This milestone has been somewhat overlooked due to her big brother turning 6, but we sure don't want to forget our girl. Here are some funny things she does right now.

• One of the sentences we hear her say ALL the time is, "I want sumpin to eat." I can't tell you how many times a day we hear this. She is a busy girl, though. All the eating doesn't seem to be packing on the pounds. She barely weighs 26 pounds!


• Last week Abby had a terrible stomach virus that lasted off and on for about 5 days. Due to the virus, she ate alot of toast. Now toast is one of her favorite things to eat. She asks for it at every meal and likes to eat several pieces. She also loves Nutri-Grain bars. I think she ate 4 yesterday. She says, "I want bar."


• Abby LOVES to talk. She just jabbers all the time. Tonight at dinner her mouth was just going constantly. He voice is too cute and we love to hear her talk, but sometimes quiet might be nice. She has a hard time going to sleep at night because she can't stop talking. She will lay in her bed and just chit-chat with herself about all kinds of stuff. So different from her brother. When he hits the sheets, he is out!

• One other thing we love to hear her say is "yours". If she wakes up during the night we have to be prepared for her to sleep with us. Whenever we go in there she says, "I go yours bed." It's just too cute and she ends up with us every time. I know she has already slept in our bed WAY more than Nathan ever has. We just love our sleep too much to have the battle of making her stay in her bed right now.


• Abby also still enjoys her pacis. I use the word enjoys, but a better word might be addicted. When Nathan was her age, we forgot them one weekend when we went out of town and he never asked for them again. I don't think she will be that easy to break. It has to be done and soon. Anyone have any tips!?!


• Tonight after Clay had tucked her in bed and started to walk away, she told him, "You come back here right now!" Wonder where she hears that.


• She also loves to pretend. Her teachers tell me she likes to pretend she is taking everyone to Sonic for French Fries.


• She is also very excited about the Disney Princesses right now. Especially Cinderella. "I watch Cinderella in the payroom!" is one of her favorite things to tell me.

This post could go on forever. Abby is just an absolute hoot. I forgot how interesting the 2-3 year is. It's definitely full of some frustration, but ALOT of laughs. We love our Abby.

She loves her daddy to pieces!

She also loves cake and ice cream.

Even though she's only 2, she's styling hair already. Maybe she's destined to work at Pizazz, Kim?

So proud of her new Dora nightgown.

This is how Abby organized her panties and some of Nathan's underwear one day. I guess that's why the makers of the step stool put all those little compartments in the underside!

What an accomplishment!

Happy 6th Bday to our Nathan!!!

Last Tuesday was Nathan's birthday. The BIG 6!!! We pretty much had a week long celebration. We started on the morning of his bday with new BB gun and then a family donut breakfast on the way to school. That night we celebrated with taco dinner at home, with Rosa's rice, and Red Velvet cake. These are all his favorite things. Then on Thursday we had the blizzard of '08, at least for us Texans! We welcomed Parsh and Mallory here that afternoon. It was Mallory's first snow. I don't think she was near as excited as her cousin Nathan. Saturday we had a big swim party for Nathan. We had lots of school friends and all of our other special friends at his party. We did miss our Atlanta friends, though. Crazy that a snow storm in Texas would keep them from getting a flight! Anyway, the party was great and all the kids had so much fun swimming.

Happy 6th to our Nathan. We love you, buddy!