August - Visits home and Birthday Parties!

It is hard to believe that it has been a year. The time sure flies!

Folding clothes with dad

Here is Patrick matching socks with daddy, he likes to match by taste! LOL Jacob showed no interest in helping at all, he decided to chewing on the coaster was much more fun!

The Boys and Maggie

Poor Maggie! Now that the boys are mobile she is in trouble. She is so good with them and they love her.

The Zoo

We went to the zoo on Friday. They had a 4th of July celebration. Victoria decided to take most of the pictures. We enjoyed the zoo but pushing this huge stroller up and down the hills is getting harder and harder.

Patrick Crawling

Patrick is finally crawling! Unlike Jacob who fumbled and wobbled for a few weeks before he finally crawled, Patrick just looked up and decided to cross the room yesterday...and hasn't stopped since!

Jacob Crawling!

More beach pictures

These pictures are from our last day. Trying to get everybody to smile and look the same way was just about impossible.

At the Beach!

Here are some pictures from the beach. Zach is so dark that he looks Mexican compared to my pale children. I couldn't keep sand out of Patrick's mouth.

Bath time!

This was bath time. Patrick looks like he has 8 elbows! Look real close...HAIR!!! We are growing hair!

Victoria's Dance Camp

While staying at home with mom, Victoria was able to go to a "Jonas Brother's/Camp Rock" Dance Camp with Barbie. She had a blast!

Joseph's youth group scavenger hunt

The youth group did a digital scavenger hunt last friday night. The kids had a list of things and then we put them into groups and sent them out into the community! Here are some of the ones Joseph did....the first one is him being a sneaky ninja (in case you couldn't tell!)

Mother's day and the boys dedication

The boys did real well at the dedication. Of course we were almost late for it...the trial of getting four children ready and out the door on Sunday morning. The childrens choir sang a song for the mother's, too. Victoria is really enjoying it and her teacher is giving her a song to learn so that she can sing a solo in church. We will see how that goes! The funniest thing is that our church gives out prizes to the mother with the most children (who still live at home) and another mother and I tied for it.

The boy's dedication video

Here is the dedication...Joseph took it so it is a little wobbly. We had them dedicated on Mother's Day at our church, Una Baptist. I made the mistake of grabbing Patrick instead of Jacob and almost broke my back!

Just some pictures of the boys

We had to give the church some pictures of the boys for their dedication. I took these the day they were due (of course). It is so much easier to do with Patrick. He is not the wiggle worm that Jacob is.

Jacob too!

Here are the pictures of Jacob I took for it. The few that he didn't fall over giggling or try to get the dog who wouldn't leave us alone.

mmmmm - Chocolate bunnies!!

Here is the evolution of the boys first chocolate Easter bunny. First, sitting on the blanket, not quite sure why they are only in their diapers. Then the first timid bites of it. Finally, they really dug in and we had to take them away so they wouldn't get sick from too much candy. Bath time was a blast that night!

Easter

Here are the kids at Easter. I had to wrestled the grass away from the boys, and threaten Joseph and Victoria in order to get the one picture of all of them.

Playing the bells

This is Victoria's group on Palm Sunday playing the bells. The song is "This is Holy Ground".

Children's Choir

This is Victoria and our church's 1st-3rd grade Children's Choir singing on Palm Sunday