Whoa Baby!

Wow...it has been a busy week! My third sister (Lara Jane) came into with her family. She has one boy and three girls! We had a blast!

They came in on Wednesday and we headed downtown to have lunch with Travis. (Travis had to work the whole time they were here.) After lunch we came back to the house and played MarioCart on the Wii. The kids LOVED it! Thursday we spent the day at a the beach in Galveston. Here is my little beach babe...

After the beach we got back into Kingwood just in time for dinner with Winkle Danny and Aunt Norma. Then, on Friday, we all headed downtown again to eat with Travis and to go to the Zoo. It started raining during lunch so we decided to go to the Aquarium instead. That was a lot of fun...

On Saturday morning, LJ and her family headed home and Travis and I headed to Austin. Our friends Tim and Katha got married that night!! They are such a fun couple!

We found out on Sunday (on the way to meet all of our Austin friends for lunch) that Saturday night, Tim was carrying Katha across the threshold when he stumbled and dropped Katha on her head. She is fine. However...Time fell forward and hit a dresser, knocking himself out cold and slicing his cheek open. He ended up at the hospital and got 10 stitches on his cheek and 13 stitches on the inside of his mouth. He and Katha were on a plane the next morning to Costa Rica for their honeymoon!! What a trooper!!!!! :)

So now we are home and I had my 6 week check up this morning. I am all clear for normal activity...so I can finally start working out and getting rid of these last few pounds of baby fat. They also drew blood for my final diabetes test. Please pray that the diabetes is official gone and I don't have to prick myself ever again! We will know the results in a week.

Now an update on Jayden: we haven't been to the doctor or anything...that is September 2nd. However, we have a sleeper! The past five nights have gone like this...

1) slept for 7 1/2 hours

2) slept for 8 hours

3) slept for 8 hours

4) slept for 7 1/2 hours

5) slept 9 hours

It has been wonderful!! I felt so refreshed when I woke up this morning and I am going to treasure this time, because I know this pattern will probably not last very long...she is only 6 weeks old!

I need a nap...

For more pics you can go to the picture link in the links section on the right.

Weekend O' Fun!

This weekend was fun. Travis and I had some hard work to do, but we had fun doing it.

As I have mentioned in previous posts, our dogs are escape artists. They get out of our yard all the time. Well, it doesn't help that our fence in the back yard is over 15 years old and the boards are easily broken. We have even had our neighbor dogs break through into our yard. So, we decided to build a new fence. It has taken us a week to do it, but we finally got it done with both of us out there all day on Saturday and in the afternoon yesterday. Here are just a few shots to sum up how I helped...

Who can tell me the most important tool on my toolbelt?! :)

On Saturday, one of my friends from high school (Sara Jane) came into town with her family. She has two little ones (Ashley who is 3 years old and Zachary who is 3 months). At dinner Saturday night I took Ashley to go to the bathroom. She was taking quite awhile, but as no one else was waiting for the bathroom, I just let her take her time. The whole time she was in there, she was talking in her made up language. It was quite cute! :) However, after some time had passed, a woman walked in and was waiting patiently for the toilet. After a minute we hear, "Poop?! Are you going to be coming out all night?!" It was so hard not to bust out laughing. I love that kid!

Happy Birthday Jenny!!!

Happy Birthday to You...

Happy Birthday to You...

Happy Birthday dear JENNY!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday to the best sister-in-law in the world!!

Um...This is the ONLY picture I have of us...we need to fix that:

Holy Cow...I Went Blonde!

So...my mother-in-law came over to let me have an afternoon to myself on Friday. I have had a coupon for a really nice hair salon since we moved here, so I decided to go get my hair done. I went in to get highlights and a cut...here is before...

and I walked out with this...

Yesterday Travis started to build our new fence, for the backyard. Pop came over to help him. They worked all yesterday afternoon with about a 20 minute break because of rain. It isn't quite done, but they got a great start!

While they were building the fence, I got to take Jayden to her first baseball game on her 1 month birthday! It was so much fun! I forgot my camera, but my friend Jennifer took some pictures. I will post them once I get them ;)

To end the day, Judy brought us all dinner. I am blessed with some great in-laws! :)