Summer Fun part 1

We spent a week with my parents and with Mark and Kelsey at a condo type place and we had so much fun! We went swimming and we played games and went swimming again, and again and again. The Hispanic genes are pulling through! lol. The boys are sooooo brown! So brown and so darn handsome, heehee.

Ryker loves air hockey! We had a great time playing! We played mini golf and board games too! He's pretty awesome at battleship!

This is the face Brasser gives lately when I ask for a smile, heehee! I love it! We had a great week, the boys did not wanna go home!

There was a biggo bath tub , the boys had a blast... just a dab of shampoo, turn on the jets and bubble city!!!!

Wicked!!!!

My niece Kaylee and I, We had a blast!



Russell's brother Ronnie Paul and family passed through town a few weeks ago. They were on their way out to West Texas for vacation. But.... JUST had to stop along the way to see the awesome and incredible show Wicked!
Russ is not a huge fan of musicals so he became the babysitter for the little ones and

I JUST had to go along! The play was in San Antonio at the Majestic and boy was it AWESOME!

I loved it. It was great and I cant wait to see it again!!!!!

Congratulations Kelsey and Mark!

Congratulations!

I am a little late Posting this but better late than never! Kelsey graduated in May from Schreiner University with a bachelors degree in Psychology. We are really excited for her! She has worked so hard to finish school! Mark also received an associates degree in Biomedical engineering. They recently moved to Waco so that Mark could finish up a second degree.

I was excited to have a picture taken together! Delaney couldn't be there and we really missed her so next time we are all together again we've got to snap a picture!

WE ARE PROUD OF YOU, SAY WE ARE PROUD OF YOU! WOOOO-HOOOOO!

YEA KELSEY AND MARK!

Marvel Mania

My best friend Christina is incredibly talented!
We wanted to make Ryker and Brassers room into a marvel character room, and I didn't want just posters or just boring stuff on the walls. So I bought some canvas and paints at Hobby Lobby and made a call in to my BESTEST friend. She is so awesome! She is very talented but totally doesn't recognize it! So she painted these pictures for us and we love em!

Ryker was so excited about them! In addition to some marvel posters and comic books his room is pretty neat!

I thought this one was so neat! They all are really! I am lucky to have a talented friend that will share her talent with ME!!! YEA!

Deja Vu

Hmmmmmm, There is something familiar about the whole broken arm process???!!!! SHEESH!
Brasser broke his arm in March and Ryker broke his arm last week!
It must be all the extra food they demand, lol....It just weighs them down!

So Ryker went to spend the week with grandma and grandpa in Odessa. I got a call on Sunday evening from grandma saying "I think Ryker broke his arm, have your insurance info ready and I will call you back." Meanwhile Ryker was screaming in the background. Luckily Russell was just pulling in the driveway from work and he was able to think clearly. Had it just been me home I probably would have packed Brasser and I up and headed to west Texas.
So it turned out to be what they call a "buckle", same thing Brasser had. He said he wanted to stay at grandmas and grandpas so we called every day to make sure he was doing okay. No one could spoil him more that's for sure.
As you can see this broken arm has not affected his ability to play XBOX Spiderman!

Happy Birthday Ryker!

Rykers birthday was on May 25Th. He turned 6 this year! Yikes! Time has flown by so fast. He was born at 6:10 on a Sunday morning, he was 38 weeks along. He weighed 8 lbs. 150z. He was our little sumo wrestler. We celebrated his birthday several times this year. He celebrated with his kindergarten class, cupcakes and a special little birthday hat. And water day was that day too!

We celebrated with our family with presents and then we went to a pizza place, we ate and ate and ate. Then we played games we had a good time. Russ discovered that if he played this strong man- sludge hammer game,lol, that we would get bunches of tickets so by the end of our outing the boys bought alot of neat prizes. Fun times. He also had a birthday party with friends from church and his awesome cousin came too. They had a blast, pizza, cake and xbox all night long. He got a new spider man game and an Iron man game. Russ stayed up with the kids and played and snored and played again.
He had a really great birthday! Grandma and Grandpa took him to buy some "faster running shoes" he was excited to see if he could be faster on the playground! We cant believe the school year is over now too and he will be a first grader next year. Wow, bitter sweet!

Yea! I Am Finished!

So, for the Stake Relief Society Women's Conference every ward has been assigned to make a center piece. Every table will have a center piece from a different ward. Some how our ward missed the memo about this and during our weekly presidency meeting, I must have been high or something, lol, because I volunteered to make it!

Sheesh! Shortly after I became WORRIED! So of course I called my mom to share my idea and to ask her if it was even possible, she is incredibly creative so I knew if I had her help everything would turn out awesome. But....Our schedules haven't been meshing well so we only had a few hours together to brainstorm. The theme is Temples: Pattern For Life.

My mom is very talented. We came up with an idea to make the San Antonio temple as an outline with an arrangement of Texas flowers in the center. She made the flower arrangement and help come up with the "how to" part, But the execution part fell on me because she had to head back to work.

So after many late nights, I have learned how to measure, paint, use an exacto knife and super glue my fingers. HaHa. It has been challenging but I am kinda proud of myself! My momma has rubbed off on me a little! I know it would have turned out even better had she done most of it herself but I have to say I'm a little impressed! Yea! I am building my "Mormon girl" skills. lol.