Pre-Kindergarten

I can't even believe my child is in Pre-K! We are so excited for him to be at our church in their state certified school program. His teacher seems really nice and it looks to be a very productive year. I leave in 30 minutes to pick him up --- hope he had a great first day!

Homemade ICE CREAM in 5 mins!

My mom sent this to me from another site...so easy and fun!

1 Tbsp Sugar
1/2 Cup Milk
1/4 tsp vanilla
6 Tbsp Rock Salt
Qt size baggie
Gallon size baggie
Ice Cubes

~make one recipes per person and everyone gets their own bag.
~Mix the sugar, milk and vanilla into the Quart sized baggie. Seal it up!
~Measure the rock salt into the gallon baggie and fill it about 1/2 way with ice.
~Place the quart sized baggie inside the gallon baggie and seal it up!

Then hand them over to your kids, put on some crazy music and shake the baggies (or toss them back and forth to each other)!!! In about 5 min you will have ice cream!

Add fresh blueberries!

How adorable!! Yummy!

Pretty in PINK!

My eyes will be seeing pink for a while! IT'S A GIRL!! We are absolutely estatic. This is such a wonderful blessing from God.

Summer's End

I know it is not even August, but this was our last shindig for the summer. BJ has officially gotten his study material for his Captain's test, so we will not be seeing much of him for the next 4 months! He's got 4 books and tons of guidelines to memorize between now and November. However, we had a great time at Galveston yesterday. Landon couldn't get enough of the sand, water, and shells. We watched the baby clams dig into the sand and then back out again as the water washed over them -- it was so crazy looking -- they looked like baby rocks that move! We had dinner and even rode the ferries (Landon's first big boat ride - ha). It was a great family day!!

No more training wheels!

Landon has begged us for 6 months to take his training wheels off. With much hesitation BJ decided to do it yesterday. As you can tell BJ was very concerned and packed all the first aid items as we headed to a school parking lot. Well....we never had to use the first aid kit and within 5 minutes Landon was riding his bike with no training wheels! I was shocked. It's not perfected obviously, but he's on his way. It was so funny because after he would ride a long straight away and then get a little wobbly at the turn he'd stop, get off, and say "I need a break". We kept encouraging him back on...we are very proud of him!

AHHHHHHHH!!!

We are having a baby!!!!!!!! I am almost 14 weeks. My doc appointment was yesterday. I heard the heartbeat - it was 146. God is creating a little miracle. We can not be more thankful!!! Thank you for all your prayers.

Frio River 2010

So we had a great time on our trip despite Landon having fever the whole time and us leaving a day early! We left a day early, but we actually wound up stopping at the Natural Bridge Caverns and the Natural Bridge Wildlife Park which was so fun. We did get to ride the river once which was so relaxing AND we saw millions of bats exit their cave to find food for the night (an attraction in Concan). All in all it was very relaxing and very eventful. Landon is still fighting fever, but doc says JUST A VIRUS. The story of his life when he is sick.














This picture is a blast from the past - 5 years ago! Wasn't he the cutest baby!! His first trip to the river.