Springtime in OK

Thought it would be nice to post some spring time pics I've been taking around here with my Mother's Day present! It's a new lens for my Nikon camera I got for Christmas! I am having all kinds of fun with it as you can imagine!



It's absolutely beautiful here this time, of course there is the occassional tornado warning, but when the sky is blue and the grass is this green it's a small trade-off! I have been immensely enjoying hanging out on the porch with Chet watching the world the go by and the boys play. It is currently my favorite place to be. This is LIFE! Happy Spring!

Long time no blog!

Yes, it's been a while but I will make for it now! There, of course, has been a good reason - My hubby is home!!!!! Just a mite distracting from everyday life! He came home May 6th for a three week visit. He goes back on Tuesday after Memorial Day. The boys didn't know he was coming. You would think they would be clued with all the extra cleaning I was making them do, but they just thought I was being mean! :) So here are some of the pics of Chet & Ethan seeing their dad for the first time since January! And this of course is my nomination of America's Funniest Home Photo of the year! Ha! (No dads were injured in the taking of this photo!)

"Will you scrapbook with me?" He said...

Now, I was in the middle of a pretty big project I've been trying to finish, but when Ethan came down the stairs and asked me this and looked at me those big brown eyes of his, how could I say no? He even said to me, "You can finish your stuff after we scrapbook." Oh, little boy. I looked at him as he created his page and thought of how much he's learned in the last year and how tall he's gotten. How we've been working on him doing more things for himself. How he'll be in kindergarten all day next year and how he's not quite my little baby boy anymore. You always know as a parent you have to let your children go, but who would have thought it would hurt so much at age 5. I love you, E, and in my heart you will always be my little baby boy.

Treasure Found

Just had to share this last one because I think it is my new current favorite. Probably because the pictures mean so much to me. They are from our amazing vacation to Walt Disney World in December 2004 with the whole family including my late Grandma Dorothy. (Miss you, Gigi!)Most of these pics are from our dinner in at the Biergarten in Germany at Epcot which was an especially fun night and holds a lot of great memories for me. If these pics aren't big enough to really see the photos let me know because I might be able to post them a size larger.

Showing off

Just wanted to show off some of the layouts I've been working on. I got to go with Stephanie to a crop on Friday night, which I haven't done in ages, and surprise, surprise, I completed some layouts. Of course, these pictures we had taken over spring break were pretty easy to be inspired by. Hope you enjoy!

I think Chet looks just like his dad in this single shot of him...

And there, of course, are the three cutest boys on the entire planet! Yes, that's a completely unbiased statement of fact.

Grandma and her boys

This one may be hard to see, but that's my dad standing on the diving board of pool at his house on Alessandro when he was a teenager (or younger?). This picture is a Christmas card his family sent out from Sunnymead, California, one year. It was nice to finally put it on paper, I've been meaning to do it for a while! Now, "Denny" will live in my scrapbook forever! Love you, Dad!

Spring Break

How lame am I that I haven't posted any pics of Mom & Melissa's visit yet! (Well, Chet's birthday was technically during this time, so I guess I did post some....) We had a fantastic two weeks! It does get tiring when we are all together though, perhaps that's why it's taken so long to get these up! Anyway, we managed to cram a whole of fun in to 14 days! I won't bore you with all the details, but one of our favorites was the zoo! It was pretty cool and breezy that day, but it didn't stop us from seeing all the animals and letting our own little monkeys run around they playground for a while! The zoo (just about anywhere) is such a great kid place! We also managed to celebrate lots of birthdays! Melissa's birthday is the beginning of March and Tracey & Rich each had birthdays within days of Melissa's arrival, so we made special plans to go to dinner (Abuelo's - yummy!) the night Melissa got here! Fun for all (except the couple that got seated next to the kids end of our table, if you are reading this - sorry!) Aunt Cindi even came up from the Texas the last weekend they were for some girl time with Mom and later playtime with all of us! Rich made a delicious steak dinner for the whole brood! It was nice to have Mom & Melissa around to help out with dinner and all the other stuff that I don't usually get a break from!




Andy, my little nephew, is getting so cute and so big and he talks a mile a minute....wonder where he could get that from.....The three boys had a ball playing together, at least most of the time. Ethan was a little concerned that Andy was taking possession of all his toys and he had to mediate a few fights, but in the end I think they had a good time together and Chet was really great about helping them work out their differences. Of course, it helps that they both idolize Chet and want to be like Chet.
So, that the quick version for now! Enjoy the pics!

What a difference a month makes...

As I was looking at my March pictures, I thought you might enjoy the stark contrast between the beginning of March and the end of March! I was actually surprised to see the snow picture in there when I opened the file! So happy to see green again! So happy that Spring finally arrived! Happy Spring to all of you!