Few more party pictures

Here is round 2 of pictures fromt he party. There were young babies and sweaty 7 year old boys everywhere. It was a great mix, and a lot of fun.

Margaret with 4 month old Camdyn.

Baby Jackson loved the pool.

Papa and Jackson playing with a balloon.


Best buddies Artie and Truett enjoying some cake.

Owen's 7th Birthday Party

We celebrated Owen's 7th birthday on Friday night with swimming and pizza. It was madness, with 12 kids swimming at the same time, there was practically a tsunami of waves. All in all, it turned out great, and sweet Owen even told me thanks for the "great party". There was water balloons-- which I won't ever do again-- it took an hour to fill up 300 balloons and they were all done in less than 2 minutes. There was a pinata, and I am glad I bought the plastic bat-- because with these strong boys, it would have been demolished on the first swing with anything wooden whacking at it.

The pig pinata missing 1 ear.

The ymmy cake. Owen wanted to eat the piece with the beach ball, so I cut out the entire ball for him-- which was huge-- and I am sure that Robert finished at least half of it.

Bryleigh Moon, with little sister Lindy, and mom Nanci.

Water gun man--WATCHOUT!!!

The calm before the storm....

Seussical the Musical

The first grade class put on a musical called "Seussical the Muscial". Owen was Dr. Seuss--the actual author of all the books. He did such a good job. He even had to say "welcome" in spanish at the beginning of the show. And afterward, we all went for ice cream at McDonalds because friends JZ, Mazzy, Artie, and Gwen came to watch the show. It was a great night.

Owen and Miss Hendrix after the show.

Truett and Artie on the front row, ready for the show to start.
Both of them did really good and sat and watched the whole show.

"Welcome to my Seussical"

Owen with Claire (Thing 1) before the show.

Owen and his good friend Joseph before the show.

Here is a small video from the end of the muscial.

Owen turned 7 (& Dr. Seuss practice)

Owen has to perform as Dr. Seuss in Seussical the Muscial for the school before his evening performance tonight. So here he is as Dr. Seuss on his way to school. For just turning 7, he sure has a lot of gray hair.

Well, my baby is officially 7 years old. We celebrated with dinner at The Texan Cafe after soccer practice. Owen opted for pudding instead of a piece of pie, and of course, little brother Truett had to put the candle in his pudding too!

The 309 piece Lego set from Meemaw and Grandpa made this 7 year old very happy-- this picture was taken at 7:15am by the way-- before school started-- which a lot of Legos so early in the morning.

Owen woke up to a new bike for his 7th birthday. He wanted to have a bike that had a kickstand, and a hand brake, so here he is with his bed-head and boxers checking it out first thing birthday morning!


It has been a busy time for Owen. The first grade at his elementary is putting on Seussical the Musical and Owen is acting as Dr. Seuss. Here is a video of him singing some of the songs from the play.

Jackson takes his 1st Dip in the Pool

Jackson is turning 1 in June, and Kayla is having a pool party for him at our house, so she wanted him to come take a "dip" before then. Here are some pictures of the little dude-- who is walking everywhere by the way!

Jackson loved the water. It was a little chilly, and the extra wind that day didn't help keep him warm, but he never cried or seemed upset by being in the pool.
And he called everything a puppy-- the dog, the cat, Owen-- everything was "puppy".

A small video of Jackson splashing around on the step of the pool. Truett is hollering about a wasp in the background... so try to ignore it!

Truett and We Will Rock You

Here is Truett singing along with his head phones on to We Will Rock You.

I have enjoyed getting to spend time with just Truett while Owen has been at school. Truett is chattering up a storm, and having entire conversations with me. We were on our way to his school today, and he asked, "How did Santa know I like pink bubble gum?" And before I could answer him, he asked, "Is Santa really little?" So I asked-- why?--and Truett said, "Because he works with all those little elves, he must be little too." My only answer was that it all works by magic.

Then of course Owen is headed in another direction. He informed me that his penis tells him what to do (what a man already, huh?). What he went on to say was-- that when he swings really high on the swing, his penis "tingles" so he knows to stop swinging so high. My guess is... this is just the begining!

There are so many funny things they say, I hope I can remember some of them to perhaps use to embarass them when they are teenagers! ;-)

Truett Chasing Butterflies

There have been a million butterflies around our house this year. I'm not sure if it is from all the rain we had earlier this year, but there definitely seems to be more of them than normal. Anyway, Truett spent some time trying to catch one. When he finally did-- he put it in a jar for just a few minutes-- before releasing it back into "the wild".

Pioneer Farm 1st grade Field Trip

The first grade field trip this year was to Pioneer Farms. It is a place where you can get a look at how people lived in the 1850's. Here the class is actually learning about a piece of stone that was carved into a tool for cutting. There was a one room cabin where a family of 13 kids lived, and when Owen learned that the boy children slept on the front porch, he was dumbfounded. There was a blacksmith and a farmer, and even kids running around as they would have 150 years ago. Of course there was no T.V. or computers, and that seemed to bother Owen the most.

Being nice to a barn cat.

Here is the class next to the smokehouse. Owen said, "So that is the place you go to smoke?"

Owen, Joseph, and Nick goofing around.