Grammy's Birthday

Mom's birthday was on July 12th.  It fell during the week and just a couple of days before Jill, Ryan and Koen had to leave.  Since we all had to work that day, Matt just picked up dinner at Buca de Beppo on his way home and we took the easy route!  Great food and wine......no clean up!!  The boys all dined shirts off..more on that in a second.

Jill had these matching shirts made for all of the boys.  I had camo ones made for them last summer, so we tried to duplicate it again this summer.  The pictures went about as well this time as they did last time.  A year later, no improvement on the cooperation!  This is the best picture of the four of them.

This one, well..Cade's face is priceless!  He's loving this.

They are kind of facing the camera here:

Fight!  Always a physical altercation with this crew...

Almost good of the big boys

Have I mentioned how awesome Cannon's eyes are?

Jill even tried to jump in and help...it didn't work!

We decided to give up and have cake instead!!  Grammy and the boys!

Remember what I said about blowing out your own candles...it isn't going to happen!

Happy Birthday, Grammy!!  So glad that we were all in one place to celebrate with you!!

Family Pictures - July 2010

Since we only see Jill, Ryan and Koen once a year, at best, I thought that it would be great for us to have some pictures taken of all of us.  So, we braved the heat and had a photographer come out to Mom's house to take some pictures of the family.  Any of you with young kids know that taking group pictures is anything but fun!!  We were all sweating and miserable by the end.  However, we got some great pictures that I will cherish forever!!  Enjoy!  Just click on the picture and it should take you to the slide show link.

Family Pictures - July 2010

July 4th

We really had a low key July 4th this year. It fell on a Sunday, so the big Woodlands parade was on the Saturday before.  We decided to skip it this time around....it was hot!  They boys were into for about 20 minutes last year, and well, we were just lazy this time!  Plus, Jill and Ryan were here and we were trying to hang out with them as much as possible.  On the 4th, we had everyone over to our house and just grilled and hung out.  Carson and I found some blue and red hair gel the week before and it was a big hit!  Check out my crazy man with his faux hawk.

All three boys with fancy hair!  It didn't do much in Cade's surfer hair.

We then all headed up to watch the fireworks show at Augusta Pines.  That is the true honey hole for fireworks!!  There is no traffic, you pull right up into the parking lot, they have seats for you, and we even took in our own drinks.  How fantastic is that??  The Woodlands really puts on a great July 4th deal, but it requires much planning and much traffic to get in and out of there for the big show.  Our boys don't know the difference at this point, so Augusta Pines is the place to be for now!!

Here are the kids enjoying the show.

Jill and Carson.

All in all, a really tame 4th, but I sure enjoyed it!!