Taking matters into his own hands...

Today as I was rocking Bryson and we were singing together, I was stroking my hair thru his long curly locks, which had gotten a bit too long and were beginning to hang down in his face (esp when we would go swimming...) "Bry, you need a haircut, dont you? We need to cut this hair here so it wont be down in your eyes..." His response "yah..." and off he went to go play while I went to go do the dishes....

A few minutes later (I know you all know where this is going....) he comes back around the corner with a hand ful of red curls in one hand and Micah's fiscar scissors in the other... you guessed it, he gave his bangs more than just a trim... I had told myself that I was gonna let him be little for one more summer.... we put off the buzz cut one more year... I loved those baby curls! But he took matters into his own hands and changed that decision real quick! :o)

So he now has a summer time hair do.... still a cutie, but just a cutie w/o curls... I do love that his eyes look super blue!

And look how much he favors his big brother now!

Here is Coby at about 3 or 4 years old....

Happy Birthday, G-Dad!

Citizen of the YEAR!

Attention blog readers:

Proud momma moment ahead... lots of bragging to follow! Consider yourself warned...

My sweet Micah was awarded Citizen of the YEAR for his class this morning in the closing assembly. He was so sweet.... proud and excited, grinning from ear to ear on the stage... yet humble about it with all his friends. It is one of the highest honors for an elementary student at Brentwood Christian, and we are so proud of him! He has got such a great balance of sweetness, BOY-ness, giggles, & brains! He has grown (physically & emotionally) so much this year, and we are so blessed to have had Mrs. Patterson as his teacher. She has this enthusiasm for school and a passion for reading, and it has been completely contagious for Micah. She also has a love for our Savior that has been reflected in her teaching... what a blessing!

Way to go MICAH! We love you!

Sweet....

Downtown Austin...

Even though we live near Austin, we rarely venture to the downtown area... especially at night... I am a chicken. Micah's 2nd grade class had a family field trip to see the bats under the Congress Bridge on Friday night, so off we went...

Here are the boys on the path along the bank of the river... it is so beautiful down there!

Our "entertainment" while we waited... she is juggling fire while on his shoulders and he is hula hooping and turning around in circles. Clint sais he thinks we should do this as our side job....

Here was our other source of entertainment... Mrs. Patterson's dog, Parker. For Bryson, it was love at first sight. We will never know how it was for poor Parker... I do know that Bryson was covered in Golden hair by the end of the evening!


Waiting..... still..... Cason is officially grouchy!

Micah and a few of his friends... on the front row!

Finally.... the bats emerged... Hard to capture on camera, but so cool!

We hiked back to the car and decided we would drive by and see the capital building all lit up at night. We noticed people coming in and out, so we parked, almost got run over crossing the street, and went to visit our state capital! The first time for 3 of our boys. They thought it was cool. They were impressed by the canons & the old-timey water fountain, and Cason said that the buliding was "Amazing!" :o)

The capital building was so pretty all lit up at night time...

Beautiful...

On the "fancy stairs" as Coby called them...

Here is the gang on the "echo star" in the middle... And yes, we took Bry for a visit to the capital potty shortly after this pic was taken!

The view of our family from the star... the camera was on the floor and we are facing down. You can see the ceiling in the background... the boys thought this was so cool!

We made it home around 11:00 that evening. No one had gotten a nap that day, and I was completely floored that we made it with out a singel melt down! What a fun, spur of the moment trip!

Boy scout graduation

Micah and Coby had their graduation ceremony for Boys Scouts. Coby graduated from a Tiger Cub to a Wolf. Micah graduated from a Wolf to a Bear.

Here is Coby with his buddy, Cade... you can see their face paint from their ceremony:

Micah wearing his new bear scarf.


Micah "scarfing" Coby with his new Wolf scarf.
Sweet brothers...

Austin ZOO

my little preschool class took a field trip to the Austin Zoo for our letter "Z" weel. It was tons of fun! I am completely in love with these precious kids!!

One of my favorite things about the day was that I got to spend it with my FUN friend, Terri (Twig). It was so great to hang out and catch up!

Sweet friends

RRROOOAAARRR!!!

On the train

Cas-O and momma

Me and my class! I am gonna miss these guys!

Somethin's missing!

.... and he pulled this one himself!! How cute is that little grin!?!

Happy Mother's Day, Momma!

What a blessing that you are not only my momma, but you are one of my best friends! Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for me and my family. We love you, Mimi!

I had a great mother's day surrounded with lots of loving and sweet notes, hugs and kisses. Clint let me sleep in and cooked breakfast and then when I woke up to get ready for church, the boys had written me a scavenger hunt which led me to lots of sweet notes and then Clint surprised me with this:

Way to go, honey!! LOVE it! Still trying to figure it out, but LOVE it!!
We went to church together and headed to mom and dad's for lunch and so fun pool time. Mom and I got to relax by the pool while the boys swam. Then we ended our day with a fun outing with some friends to the park for our HomeGroup.... A perfect day!

Happy mother's day to all my mommy friends!

Bryson and Brinton

Best Buds 4-ever....

Look how these 2 have grown!

Retreat 2009

Retreat 2008

Retreat 2007

Bryson's big catch!!

We went on our family retreat with our church this past weekend (more pics to come)... and Bryson caught his first fish! He was so funny about it. He asked if we could put it in our tank! :o) He didnt want to touch it (or for it to touch him) but he was excited to see it and watch daddy throw it back in...

What fun! We are already counting down the days til next year!!

Childrens Ark Open House

This past week was our Childrens ark open house where my preschool class performs for their parents. This year we were puppy dogs and they were so so cute!! I was directing the kiddos as they were singing so I left daddy in charge of the camera... arrgghh!! (ok, but in his defense, he had the other 3 boys and was trying to keep them still and quiet!) I will have to get pics from another mom who took them from the front! Cason is on the middle row, closest to the camera...

The evening was crazy, crazy, but somehow we got the opportunity to take a quick family pic... it wasnt planned, it just happened... thanks, Ms Jolene!

Haiden and Cason...best buds



My co-teacher and dear friend, Ms. Lori and me with our sweet boys, Haiden and Cason... they are both in our class.

This was one of Cason's favorite art projects... Jackson Pollock paintings

More Bluebonnets

Here are a few more pics from our bluebonnet photo session this year.... sweet boys!