Over a Year

It is hard to believe it has been over a year since I posted anything.  I am going to post some new pictures and some old over due pictures.  I will start with the new ones. 
It is like pulling teeth with these boys to get a picture so they are few and far between.  I will update as we go.


We missed out on the Fall pumpkin photos this year due to soccer schedule so we took some family fall pictures.  Did not get many due to our state bird attacking us the whole time.  These are not the best but I thought they were cute. 

 

Halloween 2012.  Below is the neighborhood crew plus a ninja on the right that was just trying to trick or treat.

Riley was and is a blue power ranger.  He was so excited in this costume.  When he would see other kids dressed up as a red ranger (did not see anymore blue rangers) he would puff up his chest and say "they are on my team."  And he had the biggest muscles :)

 

Jax loves Batman and had most of his gear.  He also loved that Madison was batgirl.

Birthday Party

We had a GREAT time at the fire house yesterday! Jax loved having his birthday party at it. The firemen and fire lady were so nice. The kids got a chance to spray the brush fire hose and to climb in all of the firetrucks and ambulance. It is taking forever to load pictures so I will post more tomorrow.

5 years ago - Happy Birthday my sweet Jax

These pictures are from Jax actual birthday. We started the day with pancakes with sprinkles (found out he really is not a fan of sprinkles in his pancakes) and he got to open one of his gifts. We had a party at school with another boy that has the same birthday. Then we came home and had pizza (birthday boys request), cupcakes and ice cream. He got a scooter, a backpack fireman's hose and a iron man costume. It is so hard to believe my baby is 5. In the last month I have seen him grow up so much. He loves to play Lego's and does a great job with them. He still likes to dress up and act out fireman and superhero stuff - and loves to give his brother and the neighbor kids orders. He loves all kinds of books. He wants to know everything and as nerve racking as that can get - I really love this. I know so many kids that don't ask those questions and I love that he wants to know. He is a really good big brother (he told me yesterday that Riley was his best friend -I thought I might cry). He is so excited about Kindergarten (even though he told me today he was just going to go to 1st grade first). He is the tallest in his class. He still loves to play outside in the mud. Did I mention that he loves his superhero's. He started Awanas and loves it. He always wants to do his homework or whatever the teacher tells him to do for school - I hope he keeps that up until he is at least through college. He is a great eater. He is doing really well at soccer but he really wants to play football. I am so blessed by his smiling face and all the joy that he brings to me and his dad.

Older pictures

Here are some pictures from a few weeks ago when we took the boys fishing and to the park. They really did love fishing but only lasted about an hour and then they were ready to play. I was so scared I was going to have to jump in after Riley. He is not afraid and would get to the very edge so fast and dangle his fishing rod. Unfortunately no one caught a fish. But we had a great time!

This is really late

Here are some pictures from the first day of school for the boys. It was August 29th.  They both love their teachers.  Riley actually likes going to school now!!!!  As you can see they love taking pictures - one day I will have a nice picture of the two of them and a nice family picture :)

Fun in the big R town

Our weekends have been so busy but we were able to go to the big R town the first part of May. The boys love to ride the mule and the red tractor. You can see they are fixing the tractor and helping daddy try and drive the mule. I wish the last photo was not so blurry.  Riley is all posed and Jax is so serious about driving.

You can also tell by the pictures that it was so hot. The sun has been beating down on us for over a month but today God opened up the skies and gave us some much needed rain and cooler weather.

Smooth Legs

A few weeks ago I was cleaning and thought that Riley was just watching TV.  When I walked into the living room this is what I found.  I could not stop laughing.  Please excuse my "southern" voice and my comment about the couch cushion (yes Riley had spilt juice on it earlier that day)