Port Aransas 2011!!

16 of the 17 people in our family who went! Yummy seafood!

Mom, Jon and Lissa takin' the boat out to ride the waves in...


The "grandkids" in our family

Haha--Haley's fiance Kris catchin' some zzz's on the way to Port A- using Jakey's blankey to hide the sunshine!

The sweetest and best little traveler-- 3hrs both ways with no restroom breaks.

Jakey loves Kris! And jumping off of the float, too.

Happy Boy!

Beach baby!

Some of the family relaxing on the beach

Me and my honey

He is totally a nut! He'd run to the other end of the pool with no one near and jump in. Once or twice he did it with no floaties and actually popped back up to the surface. I was hoping it'd scare him to deter him, but no.

Sweet face...

My family

This boy is 2.5 years now! Crazy!!

Playin b-ball w/Uncle Jon and Mitch

A sweaty 6.5 month pregnant mama and her baby boy!

The ferry ride! No dolphin sighting this time but Jakey loved it.

Last weekend we headed to Port Aransas for our annual family beach trip. This year there were 17 of us! We had booked our stay later than usual and had no options but two older condos with 3 bedrooms each. We were certainly not up to par with the 3 story beach houses we've had the past few years with 3 balconies, outdoor kitchens, granite countertops, etc, etc. However, we had an absolute ball! This place was older but clean and had lots of amenities. We played sand volleyball several times and tennis a lot, too. Since we had a super close walk to the beach, some of the guys would go down and fish at night. We played tons and tons of games and ate tons and tons of yummy food. I am so thankful for my big family that gets along so well and shares so much love for eachother. It seems like there's never enough time when we're together and we miss eachother when we're apart. We missed Daddy Joe again, and can't believe it's been almost 3 years since he's been gone. Looking forward to all being together eternally one day!

4th of July!!

Jake and friends after their parade. =) Too cute!

"Mr. Bian" being silly!

The sweetest face there ever was.




Jake tackling Mr Brian... along with several others. :)

Jake and "Ben-Ben" as he calls him.

Precious!!

Just before the parade.

Daddy and Jakey

My sweet family. I love my boys more than anything!

What a fun 4th of July weekend we had! We had lots of time as a family and with friends and family, too. We spent time on Friday night as a family going to the mall to get a couple of things for Jake's big boy room and a couple of cute things at Janie and Jack. Then we went to Cheesecake Factory before heading home. Saturday we met some friends at the splashpad for a picnic and then Sunday we went to church, lunch with Jeremy's family and then home for naps. Sunday evening we spent at my parents playing games and hanging out. Monday morning we had Jake's friend Clint's 2nd birthday party at the park and then headed for the Creekside pool and floated the lazy river. Monday night we went over to Brian and Nikki's for delicious food and great friends! The kids colored, put on a parade and just played and had fun. We truly had a perfect weekend and are so thankful for eachother, our sweet boy, our family, our friends, and our freedom! Thank you, God!

*PS- pic quality horrible due to the settings on my camera being messed up. So glad I could salvage some of them and save the memories! Sorry for the bad pics. =)

Family Camp 2011!

fun kids crafts Nikki put together!

Daddy and his boy!

Sweet baby Gibson!




Jakey and his buds

So cute!

Matt, Mom, Lissa

The most gorgeous face!!

havin so much fun!

Well, I did not get a good variety of pics at this year's WOCC Family Camp. I didn't even get one of our family together in our matching shirts on Saturday. I am glad I got a few cute ones. We had a blast! We learned so much from the lessons on the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan. If you've not read it I encourage you to. If you have no idea what God is truly all about, this book gives you the big picture of what his love is for us and what our love for him should look like. Jeremy did the lesson for Bible class on Sunday morning and he did such a good job! I really thought it put it together well and was well prepared.

We also swam, played volleyball, kickball, card games, talked, ate, sang songs, played family olympics and just had tons of fun getting away and spending time with our spirtual family. Jake didn't want to come home and immediately after pulling out of the camp he asked to go to family camp again. Then he asked where about 40 people were by name that we'd spent the weekend with. We're so blessed to have him surrounded by great people, and people that he loves spending time with too. Life is good! And we only have much, much more to look forward to this year!!

Astros Game 2011

our seats were several rows above the bullpen

sweet and happy boy! (Gammie's arm got cropped out, but we were worried about him being close to the street!)

so cute!

swinging over the fire hydrant

watching the game!

trying to whistle like Gammie :)

clapping for our team!

kinda lookin sleepy!

The sweetest face ever!

Last Tuesday evening, while our A/C in our house was out, we went to the Astros game with my mom, dad, Court, and Shad. We had free tickets thru the Y and really enjoyed our night! This was Jakey's second astros game.

Christmas Day - Magnolia and San Antonio!

this boy is so obsessed w/tractors! he loves his new tractors from Gran!

yucky shot of me, our family as we were loading up to head home


aunt Lissa and jakey!

"awww, huggh!" as Jake would say

fun grab bags (holes cut in tops of boxes with lots of fun things inside that you can only feel for, not see! love this tradition!

LOVE when he lays on the floor w/his feet like this!

he was using the pillow that keeps the cold drafts of air outside to "hit" people-- it was so cute. He's definitely all boy when it comes to finding anything to play with!

pound--pshhhh!! He loves noises after he pounds it!

too cute not to snap a pic. He'll sit EXACTLY like ____ (insert bigger kid/adult). Soo cute!

my folks!

Matt's top present on his pile was a VS bag...it was cologne =))

Haley and Beaux matching in their gray :) so cute!

We had a great Christmas! Jeremy had over a week of and we got to spend Christmas day in magnolia with my family and then headed to San Antonio for a few days. When we got home we had about 6 days left before he had to go back to work. What a nice "vacation" we got to spend playing all sorts of games with our family. It was a blast and it ended too soon!