Aunt Jen's Wedding

WOW! It finally happened!! Our awesome (and beautiful!) Aunt Jen finally married Scott!! What a fun weekend!

We had quite the drama leading up to it though. I had a work deadline that was horrendous on April 30th, school closed down on the 29th (and is STILL CLOSED) due to suspected swine flu and many other happenings...like the stomach bug and other fun here at the Mitchell house. It was a rough week, to say the least.

However, the weekend came and we were set and ready to have fun! I went down on Thursday to spend some time with the bride and to help get ready to co-host the bridal luncheon with Cara. I just love our friends! Here we are at the bridal luncheon at Cara's house.

Jen and I on our way out to the rehearsal dinner, after a long photo shoot all over Galveston. I was in charge of keeping her dress clean, during that. Umm...she was taking pics on the beach, so that was impossible.After the rehearsal dinner, at Yaga's on the Strand.Oh, the morning of the big wedding. Chaos. THANK GOD, Matt started checking the boys clothes before heading down to the Galvez for the 11:00 rehearsal. He discovered that we did not have Carson's suit. A tad bit of a problem since he was the junior groomsman! I called my mom, (who was trying to deal with a big opening at her new store and also keeping Cannon for us that weekend!) and she ran over to our house. After ripping it apart, she finally found it in my closet. Nilza had moved it from the dining room, where I had sat it out, to there. Ugh. The Woodlands, not exactly close to Galveston! Luckily, my mom's friend was up here and was headed down to Tiki Island, so she transported the suit for us. This is the best picture that I have of Carson in his suit. I'm hoping to get something from the professional photographers since his tie was already loosened here!Then, drama #2. I picked Cade up right before Thorsen was going to come downstairs and the ceremony was going to start and he was totally wheezing and having an asthma attack. Very scary. It was one of those bad ones, where he needed a steroid or round the clock breathing treatments...neither of which I had on me. I was shaking, nervous and totally freaking out, but all the time keeping a smile on my face for Jen! Luckily, my friend Sunny had an inhaler for her little boy in her car and we used that. Matt's parents also got something from CVS that seemed to really help (they made another trip up and met Matt at the back door). He was okay for a couple of hours, but then, he was done. POOR GUY. I was so bummed because he was incredibly excited for the wedding, and looking mighy FINE too. Matt's parents came to pick him up and give him breathing treatments for us all night, BIG SAVE. I grabbed him the next morning and drove him back home for a sterdoid. (This was post him losing his adorable matching sweater vest...). Say what you want about Cade, but he's as cute and funny as they come!

Carson. I don't even know where to start with him. Our camera had a mishap and died about halfway through the reception, but you'll get the just of it. If he was a girl, I would say he was the belle of the ball! For a boy though, he was a rock star!

He hung with his Daddy!

He opened up the dance floor and got everyone moving. Oh, and I just have to make a comment about the hanky in the pocket! He would NOT let it go. He lost the jacket, then shoes, then tie, then socks, but the hanky wasn't going to be lost. He wanted to keep it to wipe his sweat! Is that a professional, or what?These other shots are in no particular order. Here is a pic of Katy and I, pre beach and blowing our hair out. This beautiful girl had a baby only 7 weeks before the wedding!! She looks amazing!!

Doug dancing with the kiddos!

Matt and I..

The fam that was left...

And more girly shots! We all lived in the DZ house at the same time in college. GOOD TIMES. It was so fun to catch up with these fun girls!

Another one of the girls!

One more of the bridesmaids. The wheels are starting to fall off of the bus here! We had a great time!And the rest is all about Carson. Oh, he caught the garter. We don't have a picture of that, but I'm sure that the photographer got it. Carson was known by all....

He danced with the bride (and brought her wine, when needed..)

He kissed the bride...He bellied up to the cake table to eat his cake, with a cute little blonde too!There were props at the wedding. If any of y'all know us, you know how much these girls LOVE their props...microphones, boas, glasses...you name it! By the end of the night, Carson was captain Stubing and loving it!All and all, a stress filled, but awesome wedding!! We love you Aunt Jen and thank you so much for sharing it with us!!

Cannon's Ear Tubes and other fun

Sweet baby Cannon had to get ear tubes last Friday. He did great! We had a couple of pics of him before his surgery, but they are on Matt's camera which is never at the house for me to download. So, here is one of him on the way home, taking a power nap. Isn't that the sweetest?

I don't know if it is because of the tubes, or he's just at that age, but his language is exploding! He says both Carson and Cade, but likes to call both boys Cade (and he yells it all of the time!). He says, "High Five" and gives us one quite often. He says Nilza, bye-bye, all done and his favorite word is still "no".
He is finally getting a little bit of hair on his head! It is blonde and super fine...I'm curious if it will be more like Carson's or Cade' s. So far, it looks more like Cade's texture, but we'll see.He loves balls! Baseballs, soccer balls, footballs....it doesn't matter. Matt got the older boys a nerf basketball net and he is always throwing balls towards it now. OH, and he has figured out how to open the back door! I was thrilled about that one. Look at his blue eyes here...Carson is still keeping busy with t-ball. The games were rained out last weekend because of the lovely weather, but we are back it at this weekend.
And here is a picture of all three boys before the big boys had school pics done last week.And lastly, I'm not sure why they like to put things over their heads and walk around, but they all three do it! They must have inherited this trait from their father.

We have a busy weekend ahead of us with birthday parties, Matt's birthday and t-ball!

Easter Fun

So, I'm a tad bit behind on updating this! We had a great Easter weekend with the three boys!! We did the egg dye, as usual. They were pretty into it this year!

They got lots of loot, as usual!

This was officially Cannon's second Easter, but kind of his first since he was only one week old last Easter. He is officially in the game this year!!

His face says, "What candy? I didn't eat any!".
We went over to Mom and Larry's for lunch and the big egg hunt. They have way more room for egg hunts than we do! Cannon was into hunting eggs this year too! Much to the big boys dismay...we had hunts for a week leading up to Easter here at the house and he'd follow them around and steal the eggs from their baskets.
I wasn't very good about getting pics of them hunting. Here's a rear view of Cade with his shirt jacked up.


Carson hunting eggs.

And the big hit of the day, confetti eggs! Next year, I am buying about 10 dozen of those and nothing else! We'll do it at my mom's of course...I don't need that mess! ;-)

Confetting eggs...also good for batting!We hope that everyone had a happy and blessed Easter!

Strawberry Picking

Since all of the kiddos were out of school today, Angie and I loaded them all into my suburban and took them over to Kings Orchard to check out the strawberry picking. It was fun! It really wasn't very far from us at all either, so we'll be heading back for sure. Blackberries will be ready next month!

Even Cannon got in on the fun. He loved to try to crawl over the rows.

Cade was really into it! He really looked at the berries and found good red ones. Unfortunately, he felt sorry for the "baby ones" and kept picking the little ones.

He came out with some good loot though!

They had a rule about not eating the berries until after you had paid. Clearly Cannon didn't follow that one!

He kept saying, "MMmmmmm" while he was eating them.

Carson and Avery kind of went off on their own and did pretty good too!

Carson with his berries.

Carson was so sweet with Arden and helped her out.

Cade managed to hitch a ride back from the field with the strawberries. We had a great time! I love outings like this!!

Stupid birds!

Really? Our backyard? This was the best place that these stupid birds could find in all of The Woodlands to lay their eggs? It's totally not safe for them here! The three boys and I ate dinner out on the patio this evening and the boys were playing around after we were done. Carson came running over to me saying, "There is something really creepy in there with eyes and a creepy mouth!!". After the snake on Sunday, I was a tad bit nervous. After careful investigation, I can tell that there are at least three baby birds in this little fake bird house. I wasn't touching it or getting any closer for fear of the mom and daddy bird who were buzzing over head.

Here is the birdhouse, which isn't even really meant for birds. It was some old decoration that I have had for years and decided it was better suited for outside.

If you look really closely, you can see one of the mouths here.And two mouths here (again...I wasn't getting any closer for fear of retaliation).And some FINE looking bird watchers. I can't even believe that I'm posting this picture of them. They are sans clothing because they decided to blow water on each other through the straws in their water cups that they had with dinner. I wouldn't let them change again since it would have been about the 3rd set of clothes for the day.It was an eventful day here. We've had about 15 or 20 egg hunts...inside, outside, upstairs, downstairs....you name it! Even the potty! YES. The older two were putting plastic eggs in the half bath potty before leaving for school today. Good times. I heard Cade saying, "Awww...Sh!t" out on the patio while I was cooking dinner. Nice. No apparent reason, just saying it make himself laugh.

In serious news, I took Cannon to the ENT this morning (we were there for over 2 hours!) and he is going to have to get tubes in his ears. He has had fluid since January and it isn't going away. He doesn't have an infection now, but they aren't clear either and our doctor doesn't believe it will clear up with antibiotics. SO, we'll be doing the surgery on April 17th. We've been through this twice with Cade, so I'm not quite as freaked out, but it makes me nervous still. Poor baby!