Houston, Portland and Easter 2009: A gazillion photos

Well it has been a while since I posted and I appologize. We have been traveling quite a bit and trying to keep up around here has been a chore! Anyways here is what we have been up to and I warn you the pictures are out of order and I can't get them to move so sorry. I'll try to walk you through the pics as best as possible.

At the end of March we visited some of our best and dearest friends in Houston. Chris and Denise Perry. They had 3 children at the time,Owen (6), Brayden (3), and Julianna (1) but now 4... Congrats on your newest addition, Mikaela Nichole!

The Friday after we come home we joined Aunt Nanny, Uncle Rick, Aunt Heather, Uncle Brandon and Zoe in Portland, TX for dinner and an pre-Easter egg hunt. It was Zoe's first time to really hunt eggs and she was so cute!

On Easter weekend, we went to Crawford to spend the weekend with Michaels family. It was a blast!

Above: Mom trying to get a good shot of the kids in their Easter wear:) Brennan was completly distracted by how much mulch he could get his hands on:)

Below: Our family at the Portland Egg hunt.
William (4), Cade (2), Zoe (1), Brennan (7 1/2mths)
I love that Zoe is snatching Cade's eggs, he finally just started giving them to her:) They were good at sharing:)

In Crawford: After all the fun of the day, the kids found an OLD trampoline out behind the barn and decided to play on it. They looked like they had rolled in a pile of ashes. The black area on Williams rump isn't a shadow it was just that black, and check out those elbows and feet:)

Easter Sunday was a beautiful Day!! What wonderful weather for such a special day.

Granny and Papa with the boys.

Papa and the kids (Michael, Greg, Jeanifer)

After the egg hunt and bubble fun, the boys decided to play Army, here they are defending their fort. They played together so well and so hard. In order from Left to Right: Grant (6), William (4), Cade (2), Cole (3)

More Army shots

Concentrating really hard on the bubbles. Aunt Jen got one for each of the kids and it was their favorite Easter gift.

Cade was so proud of his Bubble sword too:)

Here are all the kids lined up eating their loot. from left to right: Cole (3), Alyssa (9), Cade(2), Grant(6), William (4) Emily(12), Brennan(7 1/2mths)

Alyssa (9) hunting eggs

Grant (6) hunting eggs
Cole (3) hunting eggs

Brennan (7.5mths) Hunting eggs

Back to Houston.... While we were there some of our other friends Gary and Jeanie Swearingen happened to be visiting. They lived in Houston the same time we did, and moved away about the same time as well. They are now living in Florida and we havn't seen them in almost 5 years. We met at a park with another couple that we used to hang out with... Here are our adventures. :)

Gary and Jeanie Swearingen

Brian and Christy Cresswell and their son Andrew (17months)

It was our first time to meet Andrew, he is so sweet and adorable.


Back at the Perry's house here are all the kids lined up on the couch:)

Owen(6) William(4) Brayden(3) Julianna(1) Brennan(7.5M) Cade(2)

Back at the Park, the whole gang. Swearingens, Cresswells, and Caldwells

Jeanie and Brennan
We have had such a wonderful couple of months catching up with old friends and spending such wonderful time with family. Can't wait to do it again.

Just Checking In

Hey everyone! Sorry I have been taking my precious time to blog recently. We have been traveling quite a bit and I have just been trying to survive the laundry... much less trying to blog. Anyways, I have a ton of pics from our fun trips and promise to get them up this week!!! PROMISE, so please don't lose faith, I promise our blog will return for any of you still there. :)

Vagueness explained.

Sorry to all of you who aren't in our daily life happenings and are completely confused with the recent posts. I received a call the other day from a very concerned friend, and it was brought to my attention that I have been so vague that she had no idea what was going on. So I thought I would shed a drop of light on our situation, so as not to worry anyone else.

We have been at a state of uneasiness at church for a while, and have finally come to the conclusion that we might not be were God wants us to be serving. We are currently searching for a church home, that we can serve and grow our family. Which is a scary and difficult task for us. We are trying to walk by faith and let God show us the hearts and works of each congregation we visit. We know God is going to guide our feet down the road He sees fit, we just have to study and listen to what he is telling us.

I know this is again vague, but hopefully puts some of your minds and hearts to rest.

On My Mind Today!

Hide Me Away, O Lord
Keith Lancaster

Hide me away, O Lord;

Hide me away, O Lord;

In the day of trouble'Neath the shelter of Your wings,

Hide me away, O Lord;

Give me Your peace, O Lord;

Give me Your peace, O Lord;

In the day of trouble'Neath the shelter of Your wings,

Give me Your peace, O Lord;

Safe in Your dwelling place;

Safe in Your dwelling place;

In the day of trouble'Neath the shelter of Your wings,

Safe in Your dwelling place;

Response to the comments

In response to the comments on the last post.... Yes I completely think Brennan and William look alike, and continue to look more the same everyday. Brennan even has a similar demenor to William at 7 months old. Here are all the boys all around the same age, give or take a few months....

And about the forks... Yes I do know the guilty party, but it was payback. Don't worry though we have already joined forces and chosen the next target... Beware, the forking bandits will strike again soon. :) hehe.

Our Spring Break, in review.

I know that my children are not in school, there for Spring Break shouldn't really be applicable to us, but I like to observe it anyways. So for Spring Break this year we had a blast... It started as a normal week, wake up, walking, playing, lunch, nap, playing, dinner, bedtime... Here are the brothers all playing together. This was the first day that I heard, "MOM, please come get Brennan, he is tearing up the track!" I'm sure this will be a phrase heard pretty regular over the next year. Monday night, playing Mario Kart with Daddy. Cade and William are better than me at this... I'm almost a little bit embarrassed to admit that... but I know I stink at Video Games.

Here is a picture of Cade lining up his cars... William used to do this too. I love that Cade has reached this stage, it is so cute.

Brennan is CRAWLING... this day Brennan crawled over the support pieces of the chairs... and was having a blast under the table.

Brennan and his Blue eyes.

Wednesday, The brothers and I loaded up the car and headed to San Antonio... We met Aunt Callie and Taylor and Andrew at the zoo. It was a beautiful day, but the zoo was a little crowded. Brennan was such a trooper... here he is enjoying the fresh air and his toys. I love pacifier holders, even though we don't use a pacifier I still have three that I use regularly.

here are Taylor and William, our great Navigators, with the zoo map. They were studying the map so intently.. I love that the zebra and giraffe are behind them.

Aunt Callie and Andrew(22 months) at McDonalds for lunch on Thursday.

Aunt Callie and Taylor(6 years) at McDonalds.

That afternoon the boys hung out and watched a movie... arn't they cute.

Taylor is a super hero maniac... and William is quickly becoming one... Here his is wearing Taylor's Halloween costume... (wolverine) he loved it.

Friday we left and headed to Crawford to see Granny, Papa, and Aunt Jen.

Saturday we went to the Maybourne Museum (a children's museum in Waco) It was so much fun... I wish we could have stayed longer. Here is Brennan chasing some cars in the engine room.

Here is Cade taking Aunt Jen for a ride in the fire engine. Isn't that the cutest fire fighter you have ever seen?

In the Water/Bubble room, there was a table that had flowing water, you could adjust the flow by placing walls up and they float boats and ducks down your river. Here are the boys working on there river.

They also had a weather room, that showed how Tornadoes worked and you could be a newscaster and meteorologist... Here is William the weather man, he is watching himself in the monitor and doing the weather, He was pretty good too. I would definitely tune in.

Here are the brothers in the sound room walking on a piano. It was fun to try to jump from key to key and play a song.

I highly recommend this to anyone near Waco. It was great for our young kids... and sometimes that is hard to find.



After lunch we headed back to Granny and Papas and played on the swings. Both of the boys favorite thing that they did all week.

William and Papa... Hang on William:)

This was a picture of the Sunset that night. I though it was very beautiful.

Sunday, after church we tired to get some blue bonnet pictures. Here are our sweet boys, in the midst of God's amazing creation.

William, 4 years old

Cade 2 years old

Brennan 7 months old

When we got home this is what we found....

FORKS HERE,

FORKS THERE

FORKS, FORKS, EVERYWHERE

Hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break...