Graduation

Yes, he finally did it! It was such a fun and exciting day! Special thank you to Grandpa for the pictures! And also to the family who did come thank you for making it a special day for Adam!

Kei, didn't do too hot during the ceremony. Thanks Aunt Vikki for taking care of him so I could video the ceremony.Adam shaking hands with the president of UT Tyler.

This was their guest speaker and he was a hoot! Gave hugs to all the graduates.
Love that smile! It says, "I'm done!"
Cam thought Daddy looked a little funny in his dress.


Lunch at our place after ceremonies. Pops, Josh (sort of)and Adam.
Carrie and Vicki.


So, since it was actually Aunt Vikki's 40th we did a cake for her too. She's done so much for us these past couple of years.
Adam's cake. Not close to what I ordered, but still cute and the right colors!


Cam had to cut the cakes. He's so very independent.
Picture time. The weather was gorgeous! Very windy though.
Adam and his second family :) Pops (Buel), Uncle Josh, Adam, Aunt Vikki, Grammy (Tami) Natalie, Kayla, Cameron and me. Wee man was taking his nap. Too much excitement.

Grandma (Vicki), Adam and Daddy/Grandpa. The proud parents.
The other proud parents! Grammy and Pops.
The proud grandparents! Carrie and Papaw was sick this morning but sent his love. Hope you like the pictures!

So of course my aunt gets them matching jammies they must be subjected to a small photo shoot! I think they are starting to favor each other more.


Kei is finally coming around to our bedtime routine of reading stories. He wasn't as interested as Cam was at this age, but that's okay. It is so much fun to sit there with them even if it's just a mini Bible story.
I can't believe I caught this on camera! Cameron very rarely hugs his brother. It's amazing to watch them grow together and learn to love each other.
Of course we got Aunt Vikki in on the shot! Thanks for the jammies Aunt Vikki!
This was the morning of the day of doom for Kei. He took a few pics and then busted his head on my desk to the left. All that came out of that though was a line bruise across the little sore on his chin you see in this picture.

We went to the store after that and when we got home, Kei tripped and scraped his head on the concrete. This was followed by a night of throwing up. His little body did not like all that head banging he did. There was a small bruise on the other side of his head from the desk incident and the photo really doesn't show how awful it ended up looking. Not a good day for us...not a good day at all.A couple of days after Thanksgiving we put the tree up. Normally Saturdays because Adam always works black friday. I hate that day. But then we get to decorate the day after and that is a lot of fun :)
Cam putting the first ornament on the tree! It's a little Polar Bear of course!
Kei thought the lights and beads and garland was AMAZING!
Yeah, see...beads.
Kei helped Aunt Vikki with her tree in the dining room. It's fun to have two trees in the house!
We did Thanksgiving with Grandpa and Grandma and our cousins so on Friday we had a Birthday dinner for Pops with all our leftovers! What a FEAST! The festivities proved to be a bit much for our little Cowboy fan. He crashed in the floor while watching Chipmunks!
Before the crash. I thought it was cute that Kei sat down with his big brother. He trys to do everything like his big brother :) Sometimes it goes the other way though.
Cam is wearing, yes, a football "helmet" and throwing his "football." That is an Easter egg. Good form if I say so myself.
Kei just looking oh so big boy.
We got his curls OFF this time. Of course Daddy liked it but I love the curls...they'll come back :D

Finally!!

I'm so very proud of my husband! It's been a rough three years but we've made it. Adam has worked so hard to achieve this and words cannot express my gratitude for his sacrifice and commitment to not only school and work, but his family here. He has two boys and a wife who love him so very much and are so excited to have him home more now!

I would also like to thank family and friends (especially Aunt Vikki) for your support and prayers through this period. Aunt Vikki, we are so grateful for our home and your help. We love you and thank you for taking care of us so we could take good care of our boys. You are still stuck with us until Adam finds a job though :D

If you happen to be in town, please stop by like the announcement says for the open house!

Thanksgiving Feast

Thursday was our Thanksgiving Feast at school. I dressed the boys up for kicks and grins and because it's just fun to dress up my little guys from time to time. Cam looked so handsome :) I love this shirt Grandma Vicki!So goofy!
Kei had the grouchies this morning so the only smiles we really got were if I was holding him tickling him.
See-grouchies!
Doesn't he look so sweet! Cam got this from a friend and didn't get to wear it all that long. Kei's got a while on it.
It was really hard to get him to take a serious smile.
We're having lots of fun this fall. It's the first time we've really been able to talk about the changing seasons and what goes on.

I still have to get the pics from the camcorder so I'll have those super soon.

What happens when Mommy takes a break...

You know, kids are worth every ounce of trouble and destruction they may bring. This is what happens when I take breaks or get occupied doing other things around the house. Laugh, go on. Remember, I'm gonna be cleaning that peanut butter up for a LONG time.


Yummy sour cream... this was last night, but I still wasn't watching him.













Kei just looks like an orangutan to me.













We had mexican food last night and Kei liked it...not so sure his shirt did though.












So....
Adam and I got the new WoW expansion pack and while we were loading it and looking at it I let Cam have some peanut butter and those 100 calorie pack oreos. He's pretty responsible as 3 year olds go. I thought he could handle it for a few minutes at least. I was SOOOOOOOO wrong.









Any bets on how long this is gonna take me to clean up? I'm not really sure how the cars fit into his scheme...I'm not really sure what he was even thinking. Somehow I don't think he would know either.








"Mom! I cleaned up the living room! I did my chores!" No, really. That's what he said. I'm sure Adam taught him this one. Just cover it up with a towel and somehow that means "It's Clean!"

Birthday gifts...

Being cute at dinner time. Kei is very entertaining at the table. I wish he would talk but his smacking sound for food is too funny. He sees your food and smack, smack, smack.

Cam has rota virus. Fun, fun...he's been just laying around for almost 5 days now. I finally took him to the dr. to be told to pretty much keep doing what I'm doing. Oh well. He's worth it! He was really excited that Simon decided to lay down with him. You like his tag. I wonder if he'll ever outgrow that or his thumb.
Simon is laying with me!!! Simon is really good with the boys, but he really doesn't snuggle with them at all. What a treat for Cam.
I subconsciencely dress me and the boys alike. Yesterday was brown day although you really can't see my shirt. I don't mean to do it-in fact, I didn't even notice until about dinner time last night.
Since we went to the dr. instead of nap Cameron had an early bedtime. 6!!! I carried him to bed and changed him into his pull-up and he didn't budge. He did wake up about 7:15-bathtime-because he peed out of his pull-up. Way to go mom... Oh well, he was back in bed and asleep at 8. Quite a quiet night.

All these photos were taken with my birthday present! Adam got me a new camera...It's adorable! White with pink polka dots. I really had a great birthday. Adam took me to dinner at Olive Garden and the boys got me some cute pink jammies with different colored polka dots! 27 ain't that bad :) I love you guys. Thank you for making my birthday a special day!! You guys are the best gift ever!

Hello! Yes, it's been a long while. A LOT has happened since the last post. I have to admit though, it's not as fun posting without pics. My camera has failed me. BUT Adam got a really spiffy camcorder at his Best Buy retreat in Miami and it takes pretty good pictures!

First, Kei is getting ALL of his one year molars at once! We've had a rough weekend but he's all grins now. He ran pretty high fever and found it pretty hard to sleep. We're giving him Tylenol before bed now and that seems to be doing the trick. The slobber is out of hand though.

He's just so happy. He's content to just hang out with brother, play with his trucks, get into the trash and any other gross thing and snuggle! He is my cuddler for sure!
Cam has got allergies right now. Lots of coughing but he's doing really good other than that. He's starting to eat more veggies, YAY! He's learning a few sight words and, the, of and he knows trucks like nobody's business! We're are addicted to the Tonka books. I picked out a shirt for Kei for Christmas and it said Bulldozer on it. I showed it to Cam and he said, "That's not a bulldozer- that's a excavator!" He was right, and I can't believe I didn't notice, but we're keeping it.
SOOOOOOOOOO...One of our good friends was at the Halloween football game, Jacob. He was doing one of his many jobs as EMT there...I think. So Cam got an upclose and personal tour of the ambulance! Mr. Jacob even let him wear some fire gear! Lemme tell you- the kid was on cloud nine! He even got to play with the lights!
Kei wasn't feeling good but just to show you how snuggly he is, he has only met Jacob 3 or 4 times but wanted to be held and snuggled sooooo bad! I was a bit jealous. He was snuggling with anyone who'd hold him- including an adorable little girl who I've never seen before in my life. Anyone but me that is.
So we did Chunky monkey and Pirate this year. Thanks to old costumes and Rachel who gave us Brooks costume from last year. Cam really played it up...well some, with some help from mommy. Ahoy there mateys! He LOVED his pirate "tickles." Daddy did a full out beard Halloween night for the game. BTW, the football game was Kayla's senior night! We just couldn't miss it. Plus the boys did Halloween with my mom and dad and the girls at the bandboosters carnival (which they loved and I loved because I got a whole night off) and they had parties at school. We just showed off to a few neighbors first. Special thanks to Grandma Sylvia for the treat bags and the card that was oh so true!Daddy and his monsters.
Kei's party at school. He had no problem eating an entire cookie. One of the mom's was totally shocked. He's the smallest in class.

This is Cam's class! It's a really big class for 3 year olds, but Mrs. Gayla and Mrs. Rebekah are awesome!These kids got almost too much stuff. I'm gonna have to give some of it, er, a lot of it to my sisters. I didn't go all out on the "tickles" like daddy.
Also, thank you Grandma and Grandpa for the cute cards! Cam knew exactly what he wanted. A cement mixer to put his candy in. So he got a toy tonka mixer that mixed nerds, skittles and other things that were no fun trying to get out. Kei got a baby tonka truck set so he could be like brother and have his OWN trucks! Cement mixer included of course.