Spring time

I love planting new flowers in the spring time. I am not as thrilled about watering them but they are fun to look at for awhile. Here are some pictures of the new flowers and us playing outside.

Mother's Day

Bill bought me an awesome new camera for Mother's day that I have been dying to have. It is a professional camera and takes the most amazing pictures. I can't wait to share them on the blog. Here are some from our Mother's day brunch. We went to the club with Nanny and G-daddy and the boys had fun playing outside afterwards.

Cody's first haircut

We have had to trim Cody's hair many times because it is so wild and so long. But he went for his official first hair cut today at ToysRUs. He didn't like sitting in the chair and I actually fed him a bottle while she cut his hair - It worked out perfectly that way.Beforeduringafter

Double vision

My two boys I have always thought are so different. They definitely have different personalities but they do look similar in these pictures.

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Strawberries

Cody's new favorite food is strawberries. We are trying all sorts of new foods these days, sweet potato puffs, biter biscuits, bananas, grapes. Of course we are doing baby steps but next up is plain pasta and carrots! He now has seven teeth, it is amazing that a 7 month old can have as many teeth as months he has been alive. We have been fighting the congestion and aches and pains that go with getting seven teeth especially since 5 of them came in the last three weeks. They caused two sets of double ear infections and a couple of other problems. Poor thing except for a little bit of fussiness he is still smiling and happy.

It's a zoo around here

We are officially a zoo here and are now charging admission to see the mayhem. Bill adopted a little kitty from the animal shelter for my birthday this year. He is so adorable and surprisingly very very friendly. He even lets all the kids hold him and pet him. My parents went out of town shortly after and we were in charge of the bird. So here are a couple of pictures of my zoo, if you come see in person, it'll be $5.00 - conservation fee.the new kitty, Miko or Leo depending on who you are talking to.a hibernating bear - sweet as the honey he eats.Nemo the beta fishLily playing Elefun - the butterfly catching game. She is pretty good.Poppy bird

And a spiderman with more energy than10 monkeys

camping trip

Can you believe I went camping? I hate camping, sleeping outdoors, no bathrooms, bugs, tents, no AC, no heater. My motto is "I pay a mortgage every month so I can sleep indoors, why would I want to ruin that." So Bill decided it would be the perfect weekend to go camping, just for the night. I had a weak moment and gave in, I figured we could always pack up the car and head home if it was too miserable. We set up the tent on the Guadalupe River at a camping site and Bill made a fire and cooked some dinner. I did marry MacGyver so I guess it was time for me to really see him in action. We cooked smores over the fire later that night. Brayden snuck an entire chocolate bar when we weren't looking. It was the typical, "whaaa?" with a mouth full of chocolate. We all slept in the tent together, even little Cody. It was freezing!!! I bet it got down to 40 degrees or so. I had every blanket I could find on Cody and Brayden just to make sure they were warm. I didn't sleep much, not that I anticipated that I would anyway. The kids were fine when we woke up the next morning, in fact Brayden slept in til 9:30am. We decided to pack up the car as soon as we could and head back home, no reason to stay if we can't swim. We all weathered the trip pretty well, I think we were there a total of 15 hours. I am thinking we will not be repeating the trip anytime soon, but who knows maybe I will have another weak moment.Cody hanging outBrayden hanging onBrayden and Dad roasting smoresCody and I hung out in the car all morning long. He woke up at 6:30am and we ate in the car and stayed in there all morning with the heater on until the gauge read 60 degrees.The boys lounging while we pick everything up to go home.The campsite

7 months - Cody Owen

Brayden pretty much picks out his outfits by himself everyday now. I am positive that Cody wishes he could be there already. BUT, he isn't and so I still get to put him in anything I think is cute. He is seven months old already, which is crazy to me how fast it went by. I took him to the park in this outfit today and two people asked me if he was a girl or a boy - come on...green camo? a girl? Trust me ya'll if I ever have a girl I will never dress her in camo, period.

Brayden's new bike

So we have been trying to potty-train for what feels like an eternity. We have tried loving persuasion, gentle coaxing, candy bribes and finally the ultimate bribe - a new bike. In fact any bike you want is what we promised him. This didn't seem to do the trick for Brayden. It is amazing how we can be so motivated by material things and children are not. He finally decided on his on terms that he could put the pee in the potty and he had made a couple of #2's as well. So we bought the bike, we assumed it was a done deal and at least the bike would be extra motivation in case he relapsed. Today we are still working on the potty thing but he is getting better every day. I consider a two accident day a blessing. All those books and websites and people who say you can potty train in a day, a weekend or a week have never met Brayden. I know he will not go to kindergarten in diapers but he does love to challenge me everyday. Here he is smiling with Superman underwear on.

Easter 2008

Easter was pretty fun this year. We didn't do anything special just hunted eggs in the living room on Easter morning. Cody is still trying to sit up. He can do it for a short time by himself but then topples over pretty fast. The Easter bunny was really good to the kids this year and brought lots of fun toys. It is amazing when you are a kid just how many holidays require presents. Here are some fun pictures of the kids on Easter morning.

Houston Rodeo

We went to the Houston rodeo this year with Chance and Cole. We stayed with Mikey on Wed. night and then drove into Houston Thurs. morning. The kids had a BLAST riding on the carnival rides and playing games. The hit had to be the pig races though. They have these pigs that race around a ring and they name them hilarious names, like "Britney SpareRibs, Brad Pigg, Hillary RodHAM Clinton, BaRACK o' ribs Obama and Tony Porker - SA Spurs. It was great to see them race around the ring. They also had a swimming pig, no lie this pig jumps into a trough of water and swims to the other side. It was hilarious, but not as hilarious as the pooping pig that you get when you leave. The pig is a keychain and you squeeze the pig and poop comes out its behind. Brayden of course LOVED this part of the rodeo and talked about it for the next week. I wish I had a picture of the pooping pig but you'll just have to take my word for it.

Dyeing Easter Eggs

Easter was fun this year. Brayden and I dyed 11 eggs this year and put Spiderman tattoos on them. Here is he eating the 12th egg.BeforeAfter, notice all the St. Patty's day tattoos, apparently we are into tattoos these days.Cody woke up and wondered what happened.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Nani bought the boys some green clothes for St. Patty's Day. We didn't do much to celebrate but we did put some great tattoos on.