Wordless Friday

Fun-filled weekend

This past weekend, my cousin Beau and his wonderful wife Joni came down for a ceremony for Joni's brother-in-law.  We were lucky in that they stayed with us for 3 nights!!  We had so much fun with them and their 5-month old, Grant.  He is such a precious boy and they are great parents to him!  Here are the boys very upset...it was way beyond naptime...too funny.  

Thatch had a ball playing with Grant...here Thatch is playing a little too rough...picking on the younger guy.  It is amazing, though, Grant can already crawl, sit up, and even pull-up on things...the child is AMAZING for 5 months old!

Our boys in their matching camo gear...love it!

Sweet Grant, he is such a good baby!  How sad is it that we did not get ONE picture of any adults the whole weekend (at least I didn't, I think Joni got some adult pictures of her family, but we got none of the 4 of us).  That is my goal, to start including Jeff and I in our picture-taking...I've noticed that we are not usually in any of the pictures we take...they are all of Thatch it is ridiculous!  We miss you, Jones, Beau, and Grant...we don't get to see near enough of each other!  We can't wait to visit you guys in Arkansas...and who knows maybe someday soon we will all live closer together ;)  

Thatch and Uncle Don

I love this photo!  Our friends Janelle and Adam gave Thatcher this Gruene Hall t-shirt when we went down to visit.  The other night he wore it to small group and Don commented that he had that same shirt.  A couple of weeks later, I had Thatch in the shirt again and my camera and small group was at Don and Tianay's house...I told Don he was in need of a wardrobe change and waaaaalaah...too cute!  

Vacation!!

Bob and Janice, our wonderful hosts!

Did I mention how beautiful it was there?

Can I just say that I am the bomb for being brave enough to ride this river?  It was a blast!

I love my uncle Bubba!

Don't you love my retro highchair?  It was cousins Janice and Sharon's when they were babies

Me and my Daddy and the fish we caught!

My mom insisted it was cool enough to wear this hat...can you tell she likes me in hats?

OK, blogger is not working with me on the pictures, so they will have to be on top...I tried to warn you of how many there were.  I've been MIA lately because we've been on VACATION!  Boy, did we need it.  We went to visit some of my family in Colorado...it was wonderful.  To close, I have to jot down a few things a want to remember about Thatcher right now...he is 9 months old in 2 days!!

-he has TWO teeth, they are so freakin cute in his big smile

-he said 'mama' on our trip...TWICE...um...when I was

 no where near...of course...Mom and Dad told me about it when I returned from whatever it was I was doing (thanks).  He has since said it in front of me (and no, he has no clue that I am his mama)

-he has said 'dadada' a couple of times too (again no clue who dada is)

-the child needs to wear a helmet on his little noggin...he knocks his head on anything and everything, I've stopped counting the goose eggs; I won't go into the falling off the bed story-ending up at the doctor days later with first irradiation exp

rience here...Grammy has had enough grief :)

-Thatch LOVES the water...we took him swimming at the Embassy Suites pool (luckily he doesn't go under the water yet, it was me just ask

ing for some dreaded giardia-ish disease...)

-he is trying to stand up...for the love, help us Lord...crawling is bad enough

-when I say he puts EVERYTHING in his mouth, I am not exaggerating...the short list...dead wasp, beetle, rubber band, door stopper rubber cover, floss...please do not ask why all these things are on our floors  

Happy hump day people!