A little from our lives!: August 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

Dedicated to Texas

Yes, yes, among all our travels this summer we also went to Texas... that is where my mom's side of the family is and I haven't seen them in a few years. It was a lot of fun and Lincoln warmed up to them pretty well. This is what we did while in the Lonestar state.

We played in the water at the science museum and sat in a big mouth (we did more than that there too but that was one of Lincoln's favorite).

We went swimming a few times, and Lincoln loved his new floaty toy.

We went 4-wheeling (Linc LOVED!!!!) and saw my uncle's ranch with all the cows.

Hung out with good ol' Petey - Lincoln loves dogs! He really loved him from afar and always wanted to pet him but Petey would come up licking him and then Lincoln pushed him away, but still wanted to pet him. It was hilarious!

We celebrated this...

With this result...

Making him need this.... (a bath... this pic is just after)

We also got to open these...

which made him this... :)

But the best part was hanging out with all these fine folks (aunts/uncles/cousins galore)...

(can you believe this guy is 6'8".... big compared to Lincoln... oh and me)

Even my Grandma and Uncle Mike came all the way to see us from Houston! Thanks Grandma and Mike, we were so glad you could come and visit!

This explains my kids personality to the t...

This was a cool life size (Linc size that is) chess game in the Lubbock Airport! Linc had fun...

But when we got home we were all like this...

Thanks for the great time family! We love you... Go Tech!

Wow, time is flying

So this is way later but this post is dedicated to JULY because I am that far behind. Life has just been to crazy and now that school has started it will be even crazier (so if you expect posts.... DON'T - they might be few and far between). My teacher has added an extra class and clinical (adding up to 11.5 credits, which isn’t much less than full time and I am supposed to be part time) with no extra class time so that means I have more work at home, and for anyone who knows Lincoln that makes it a little difficult. (And also, sorry I have been slacking on reading/commenting on your blogs, but I do catch up every now and then.)

So July was pretty busy, as this whole summer has been, but I finished off school and we went fishing and rafting with Lincoln. Man he just loves that water! We also went down to Utah for Maggie & Nate's sealing in the Manti Temple and were also able to camp and raft with Toonce, Joel, Dallin and baby! Fun was had by ALLLLL around. We had a nice BBQ for Mags and Nate. Then we booked it back to Provo to run in a 5K the next morning at 7 am... unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of us running, but we got spiffy shirts with "big" flags on them. And we all finished the race, oh and my sister Aubrie ran with us, as well as prego Toonce. Joel and Luke pushed the two boys in our chariot racer. Then the fireworks were that night with everyone from the race plus some friends (Villalobos, Masons, Havicans + family). It was much enjoyed and Lincoln was mesmerized. The next day we went to a water park, but Lincoln was a little scared at first. But he warmed up a bit to the water and was a little happier. He wasn’t getting much sleep because of all the traveling so maybe that is why he was a little grumpy (he normally LOVES water).

Later in the month we had a little birthday party for Mr. Lincoln before we left to Texas (since that is where we would be on his real birthday). We actually had a family party with Luke’s family and then our own little one here in Rexburg… fun pics! We also went to a demolition derby and Lincoln enjoyed it, I believe, my friend Kelli is holding him.

Here are the pics and not in any special order (sorry blogger is stupid how it uploads things and it takes too long to move them around the way I want them).

My boys enjoying the fireworks!