Happy, Happy Birthday Alan Dear

The big 27, man you're old.

I hope you had a wonderful day, I love you!

Fun Times in Utah

No, we have not fallen off the face of the earth, Samuel Jacob and Minda have been visiting Minda's parents in Utah while Alan was off gallivanting in the Gulf of Mexico doing his grad work on a boat. But now we are all together again and visiting more family. We had a lot of fun with Moma and Papa in Pleasant View and visiting with Grandma Montierth and Grandma and Grandpa Fisher, and Richard and Courtney and crew. And now we are enjoying time with Boppus, Grandma Jane, Sarah, Karen and Chris and their boys.
Some things we have been able to do are:
1. Go to the Train museum
Jacob, Samuel, Papa, Afton
Jacob, Samuel, Afton
Samuel, Afton, Jacob

2. Visit the Airplane museum
Jacob was a little weary wearing an outfit, but we did get him to wear the helmet.
Sam and Afton loved to dress up like astronauts
Jacob riding on the little airplane
Sam riding on the little airplane
Samuel and Jacob by a big helicopter, they were really excited to see so many planes and helicopters


3. Visit family and friends
Sam and Grandma Montierth
Jacob and Grandma Montierth, they are finally warming up to her.
Jacob, Grandma Fisher, Grandpa Fisher, and Samuel at the Fishers
Aunt Karen and Caleb

Moma and Samuel in Oxford Idaho for the Fishers 80th Birthday party reunionOur good friends the Robinsons had us over, here is Ashley and Broden
We got to see Kim and Kaleb too, what fun!
Here are the Robinsons and our boys, Clay, Jacob, Samuel, and Broden




4. Hang out with Cousins
Sam, Mei Mei, Afton and Jacob with Moma seeing the chickens and goats at Moma and Papa's neighbors
Mei Mei, Jacob, Afton and Samuel playing with bubbles at Moma and Papa's
Samuel, Afton and Jacob feeding the ducks with Papa
Gavin, Caleb, Jacob, and Samuel pose for a quadruplet shot
Another shot in matching attire

The boy cousins hanging out

5. Go to the dinosaur museum
Samuel and Jacob digging for bones

Samuel and Jacob hanging out on a dinosaurGavin, Jacob and Samuel in the dirt, they loved this
The boys and mom looking at a diarama of some dinos

Not Much Goin' On

It has been a really nice and relaxing week. We haven't been in a hurry to do much of anything and we've loved spending some time with Dad. I took these pictures of the boys watching Bob the Builder which they got from the library. They love Bob. "Can we fix it...Yes we can."

Alan has been finishing up some school work and getting ready to go on his big boat trip and I have just been getting things going for the Enrichment Activity I am in charge of. The boys, well this has been a fun week for them. They have played, played, played.

We are excited to go to Utah for the next month and see family.

Sea World San Antonio

We have been talking to the boys about going to Sea World for a couple of months now and we finally got the opportunity to go. We told them about the whales, penguins, and sharks they would get to see and they talked about it every day last week. So they were really excited to be there. Here are my boys Samuel, Jacob and Alan in front of the penguins. For some reason the boys were having a hard time focusing on taking pictures so I didn't get many with them smiling and looking at the camera at the same time.

We were a little disappointed that the water park part of Sea World was closed because the temperature was in the 90's and we were very hot. But there was a spray park open that we were able to play in, the boys loved it. Jacob got knocked over by some bigger kid and here he is with Dad a little upset about it. Sam is below running in the water, he had a blast.
Here we are waiting to see the Shamu show. This is the one thing Alan and I enjoyed the most. It is amazing to see those animals so close.
The boys weren't sure about riding the kid roller coaster at first. But Sam went on it twice and Jacob three times. They have been talking about that roller coaster since. Dad and Jacob
Samuel and Mom.
Here are the boys when we first got to Sea World and we were waiting to see the Sea Lions. They just kept asking where the Sea Lions were and then when they came out they liked them for about 10 minutes and then they were done. Funny boys.

New Car

So we finally did it. We are a two car family now. Here are some pictures of the boys with the car. It is a light green but I just realized looking at the pictures that it looks silver in them.
The boys really love the trunk.

Our Budding Artists

This last week was kind of a crazy week. Alan has been working on a big project for school pretty much 24/7. And the boys were getting a little antsy not being able to go anywhere (since Alan had the car) and they were also missing their daddy. So we did this project one day. Some old crafting paint I had and some Q-tips, tissue paper, stickers and googly eyes and the boys made these...
Wonderful collages.

Yesterday Alan finally finished up his project so the boys and I hung outside on the patio playing with our hose and eating popsicles so that daddy could sleep.

Jacob aslo got a hold of the camera and this was the result!

Easter Outfits and Silly Boys

We bought the boys some new Easter Outfits and here the boys are looking mighty cute if you ask me. Below is a picture of the boys last year in their Easter outfits, they have grown up so much in this last year.

Jakie and Sammy love snacks. In fact that is all they ever want to eat are snacks. Last October when my Uncle and Aunt from Dallas came to visit us they brought some Nutra-grain bars with them, my uncle is the king of the coupon and I am sure got some slammin deal on them. Anyway, after that experience the boys decided that "fruit bars" were their new favorite thing. That is all they ever seem to want to eat now. Of course we only buy them sometimes, but here the boys are sharing a treat while sharing a chair.

When I lived in Egypt I bought this little outfit and it finally fits our boys.
Sam thought it was fun to wear.
Jacob not so much.

But here are some pictures of Jacob acting very silly.
Gangsta' Jakie
Playdough face Jakie.
Jakie in the dryer. Alan helped in with this one, I think he was mored excited about this than I was. Notice Jacobs crazy hair, that is why they just got haircuts.