Everyone's Turning 30!

Pretty much everyone of our good friends is celebrating the big 3-0 this year. Unfortunately we have missed lots of parties but we did get to go to Austin's. It was baseball games complete with a pretty pink limo! For my 30th Jeremy and I went to Capital Grille and stayed downtown for the night. The next day we got have the couple's spa package. Lots of fun and it was nice to get away with my sweet hubby. I would post pics from that but it seems I am in the same dress that I have been wearing in several other occasions on the blog! It does make me feel better for what I spent on that dress :)

I just have to post pics from Austin's b-day. Pink limo and all!

Guess I should explain about the pink Limo. Jami's good friend Sue (in the white) and her husband have a Pretty Pink Limo company. It was available the night of Austin's party so she us cruise around in it before and after the Astros game. It was so much fun! Most of the time it gets used to take little girls to the Hannah Montana Concert or for birthdays or showers or stuff like that.

Dirt Pie

We spent Memorial Day at Amy and Gary's and had a blast. All the boys play really well together and Brooklyn is always excited to see her Baby BFF McKenna. It was Jeremy's Birthday so I brought his absolute favorite dessert, Oreo Dirt Pie. Anytime I ask him what he would like for dessert this is what he wants. Apparently Brooklyn loves it too. I didn't find out until later that you shouldn't give chocolate to babies under one, oops. For whatever reason Brooklyn was bib-less. Thanks to my fabulous new washer and dryer their wasn't an Oreo to be seen after this outfit was washed! This is the washer and dryer that makes me LOVE doing laundry. It also provides family entertainment to watch the clothes spinning around because the lid is see through. It can also hold 29 towels or something crazy like that. This was a selling point to me because if I can't wash the sheets plus the mattress pad and maybe quilt all together it's just not worth the time. I know Mom you are shaking your head and thinking none of the stuff is getting clean but I beg to differ!

Anyway here's an action shot of the boys on the massive water slide!

Can't wait for summer!

Weston loves the splash pad! Brooklyn would rather sit on the sidelines and watch. Just being the princess she knows she is! She loves to be in the pool but not a fan of water splashing all over her. I would have to agree.

Bowser

Weston loves to dress up. Here he is telling me he wants to be Bowser from Nintendo.

Not sure I did exactly what he had in mind. But I don't have to many goo goo bowser costumes laying around. Spiderman, Buzz, Batman, Superman, Cowboy those things we have. But when he start using his imagination that's where we get into trouble! ha ha!

Thankfully he has already decided he wants to be Darth Vader for Halloween. That one I can do or at least buy somewhere. We'll see if he stays with this I think it would be really cute to have Brooklyn be Princess Laia. He also wants a Star Wars birthday party for when is finally 'big and five!"

Back to the Nintendo characters, he only plays Mario when he is with Hunter and Hayden. He does have it on his Gameboy but usually only plays that on a long trip somewhere. However, he talks about these characters like they are his best friends. Mario, Luigi, Loshi (yoshi), Bowser and Princess Peach. Princess Peach is usually who I get to be when we are playing. Cause Mom your a girl so you have to be the girl. Makes sense to me! Yoshi is usually always with us. Driving next to us in the car or flying to our house in his Shrek airplane. We went to eat one night and he just knew Yoshi was going to be there. When we got to the restaurant he was so sad that Yoshi didn't come. He told me he must not have had the right directions. I thought these guys were all invisible so I pointed to a table and said "look there's Yoshi right there" "Mommy he's not here you would see him" Oh, well of course I would. Guess you're right Weston we need to get him directions. Later that night he drew out a map to our house that he wanted me to mail to Yoshi. Weston's imagination is quite large and I need to make one really long post all about his Shrek house. Don't you dare ask if Shrek lives there. That will get you a very frustrated no!

W.W.W. or Wendy's Wedding Weekend

Wendy and Kyle got married in Temecula, CA just outside of San Diego. It was gorgeous! We stayed a winery and had such a good time.

It made me want to get married all over again, to the same man of course! Such a beautiful and romantic setting.

Wendy was my roommate our senior year of college. In fact we both worked at a church daycare but we hadn't really met officially. We knew Brooke in common but that was about it. One day we finally worked together and she needed a roommate and my roommate had just gotten married so the first time we met we decided to live together! She is definitely one of my life long friends.

Growing up to fast

Weston and I were outside and I wanted to get some pictures of Weston being Weston. If that makes any sense. He loves to play ball and be silly. I think captured some of that. I was looking back at pictures of when Brooklyn was born and I can't believe how much he has changed. His face doesn't have as much of that baby face look anymore. He's four now and I remember thinking when Hunter turned four that they don't seem so little anymore. I feel like I have a big boy now. I just keep thinking that next year is my last year with him before he starts school and no way can that be true. I can't even get started on that fact that Brooklyn will be one in June. That went by even faster. Weston has become obsessed with being 5. He told someone the other day at the store that "I'm almost five". Whoa! Slow down there buddy I'm not wishing this year away for anything. I asked him why he wants to be five so bad and he said "because when you're five your big!"

Several times older ladies have come up to me and commented on the kids and several times they have said "enjoy those babies." I hope I am enough. Maybe this is the Lord's way of telling me that even though you had a tough week with them they aren't little very long.

My house 7:30 A.M.

What's yours like?

A friend sent some pictures out labled like this and I thought it was so cute. But really who are we kidding at my house this is more like 9:00 A.M.

I was surprised this morning was just the boots and cowboy hat because it can be anything from the knight costume to buzz lightyear, spiderman or batman. I never know who will be eating breakfast with me! But if Weston truy had his way he would be in PJ's all day long. He recently got to wear jammies to school and he thought it was the coolest thing ever. When I told him he ran up the stairs shouting "PJ's, PJ's, PJ's!"

Easter

This was the first Easter that it was just our little family of four. With Weston's birthday two weeks later I wanted everyone to come that if they were going to have to pick one. It was also the first time for us to do Easter at Second Baptist. I am one of the nursery coordinators now at Second and worked the Saturday service. It was so fun to see all the babies in their precious Easter outfits.


Brooklyn wore a dress Nana got her before she was even born and Weston asked if she was Princess when he saw her in it.


Later in the afternoon we had some friends come over to cookout and hunt Easter eggs. I couldn't stand for Weston not to have someone over to hunt eggs. We have found some great friends here and it was so much fun to share the Easter weekend with them.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The kids St. Patty's Day pictures~

Lovin' those lashes! Let's hope Brooklyn gets blessed in that department too. It would be so much fun to put mascara on those lashes to see their full potential. I'm sure my husband and son would strongly object to that. It was just a thought. . .

Weston went through a phase of about two years where he refused to have his picture made. Thankfully he's out of that now and loves to be in pictures.

Brooklyn wasn't really in the picture taking mood. She just wanted the camera. She was just stating to sit really well at this point but I still used the boppy to help her a little bit. Every time she would reach up for the camera she would face plant. Never seemed to bother her though, she would just roll over to her back and start rolling around all over the place.

I put a sheet up on the posters of the bed thinking it would be a good back drop. I'll have to try it again sometime with sheets that haven't set in the dryer for two days. Maybe it was worth getting the steam option on my new dryer.

Brookie's Pig Tails

Never could I have imagined how much fun dressing up a little girl would be. Especially the hair. When I was little I used to put my baby doll's hair in a bunch of little pony tails all over her head. So trendy even back then. . . ha ha
I'll spare Brooklyn and just put in two little pig tails. Is she not the cutest thing ever?!

Ryder Lance Larson

Ryder is HERE!




He is 7 pounds 13 ounces, 20 inches long and absolutely gorgeous! I love his jet black hair and he has tons of it. He has the darkest hair yet of one of our babies.
His bigger and biggest brothers think he's pretty great.

My niece and nephews

Here are some pictures of my precious little niece and my cute nephews. Since I only blog about every six months I haven't put any pictures up yet of Madison and it's been a long time since I posted some with Parker and Hunter and Hayden.

Madison isn't she gorgeous?!

Madison and Brooklyn opening presents at Christmas

Parker and his big fish! I am still shocked at how a two year old and three old can be patient enough to fish!

It's pretty hard to get a good pic of four kids! But thought this was pretty cute even if I got Sheila's hand in it! Weston and Hayden

Bubby and Sissy

I think it would be real cute if they called each other this.

I LOVE this picture of the two of them

This is how most of the pictures of the two of them turn out!

I always have to let Weston have a silly face picture.

Brooklyn

She goes by Brookie, Brookielyn, Brookly, Brookaboo (Weston's favortie), and Brookadee. I have to have nicknames for my kids and she has a ton! She is eight months old now and such a delight to us. She is getting a little bit more vocal about how she likes things and what she wants. If any of us leave her sight she screams, we walk back in she's as happy as can be. If she drops a toy she wants it back right now! Weston is pretty quick to give into what she wants. We finally moved her up into her room and out of ours just about two weeks ago and she is finally sleeping through the night. Well, by my standards anyway, which mean a full 11 hours. She is happy, sweet, gives hugs and kisses, and we just adore her. Weston is always telling her how much he loves her and how cute she is. He'll say "you're such a cutie baby, Mommy she is SO cute isn't she" "You are so precious to me, Brookieboo" It's pretty sweet. He does not like it though when he puts his toys in her mouth. "Mommy she's going to get it all wet, and yucky!"

At six months she was 14 pounds 2 ounces and at seven months was 14 pounds 3 ounces. She got pretty sick during that month with RSV, pneumonia, and a double ear infection. So she ended up losing some weight but I was surprised to see she didn't gain more than that. It's so funny though because she is definitely a chubby chubster and I love her big cheeks and her rolls on her little thighs.

My Westie

I can't believe that he is coming up on 4 years old. Okay so he still has a little over four months to go but it will be here soon. Probably about the time of my next post! ha ha

He has done a wonderful job of being big brother. No one can make Brooklyn laugh like he can. I think it's been a little hard on him adjusting but he is always so sweet to her. He is constantly saying Mommy isn't she SOOOO cute? The other day I told him he is SOOOO cute too and he said no Mommy I'm a boy. Then I said well you are SOOOO handsome and he was okay with that!

A few things about Weston at 3 1/2

Favorite Color- Red. Lately everything he has been coloring has been all red.

Favorite place to eat- Pei Wei and Hasta La Pasta or as he says Pasta, Pasta

Favorite Food- Spaghetti and pizza

Favorite thing to do - play outside and ride his bike

He loves to play baseball and play with friends. When asked at school during Thanksgiving what he was most thankful for he said his good buddy Caleb. He even told a worker at the YMCA that he and Caleb were brothers! Weston is funny and has a great belly laugh. He loves to color and can color for hours on end. He makes up songs about things we are doing and loves to tell stories. He has a great memory and asks lots of questions.

Here is a conversation of ours when I was dropping him off at school and we see a friend of his.

Weston: Mommy God didn't make Reba

Me: Well of course he did Weston

Weston: No, she told me that her Mommy did

Me: hmmm. . .

James Dobson's book "The Strong Willed Child" was definitely written for him. I think later on in life this will benefit him but it makes parenting him difficult at times. He is persistent, smart and likes things in order. Of course he always knows what to say to make me laugh or change the subject. During a battle of ours one day I told him he was making me very angry and he said "I don't make you angry I make you happy!" Well what do you say to that??

We were playing with blocks the other day and he wanted to make a parking garage for his cars. We lined up blocks and stacked up blocks and I decided to make the block go at an angle just for something different. Weston looks over at it and says "Mom it doesn't go like that it needs to be like this." He promptly moved it back like it's "supposed" to go. He is a lot like his Daddy!

He played soccer for the first time in the Fall and had a lot of fun. Jeremy was one of the coaches along with our friend Tommy and another guy. After the first game Jeremy and I were a little worried that he was to young and we shouldn't have started him yet. We went back and forth with we can't let him quit but should we continue? It was that bad! There were 11 boys on his team and about 9 of them cried the whole game, wouldn't play, and said they wanted to go home, my boy included. He also didn't understand that there was only ONE ball. After the game he said those boys weren't sharing that ball with me. Thankfully there is a Houston soccer team and we found the game on TV. We watched it with Weston and told him we just wanted him to have fun and that there is just going to be one ball and that's how you play. After a few more practices the second game went so much better! He had a great time, made some good friends and scored some goals. We played with two of our friends and made it a tradition to practice, play and eat pizza!