Happy 1st Birthday to our baby!

Happy Birthday, Angel Baby!  You have brought so much joy and love into your Momma and Daddy's lives.  We can't believe one year ago today, God gave you to us to watch over for Him while on this earth.  We love you so much!! 

Pimp my ride...

Yea for our upcoming switch to the bigger, more comfy, forward-facing ride!!

Going Bonkers

Happy Friday everyone!  I have been such a blogging slacker these days...don't know what it is...not much time, I guess.  Last Saturday, Jeff went to the UT game in Austin with some of his buddies and I wanted to get Thatch out of the house to do something fun!  A girl I met at our neighborhood park suggested we try Going Bonkers for something different to do, so on Saturday, we did.  Thatch really enjoyed it...we got there at 9am right when they opened to try it out before the craziness set in with a jillion little kids.  We had the place all to ourselves...it was really a treat!  Here are some pics:

The Latest Trick...

11 months!!!!  I cannot believe my baby is almost a year old...in some ways it really makes me sad and in other ways it makes me really excited to see what lies ahead in this adventure called parenthood (now that I say that, I think I might read this someday and realize I had no clue what I was writing).  Anyhow...this is the boy's latest trick...He will stand up and dance a little and then all the sudden just bend over like he is about to do a front-roll...Jeff and I help him with the front-roll on occasion.  It is so funny!

So...a few things he is doing at 11 months...he will wave bye-bye (when he feels like it); he will stand on his own and will cruise like crazy through all the furniture going from piece to piece, but isn't quite trying to walk without something to hold on to; sometimes I think he will try to say 'banana' or 'nana'--the boy LOVES his food still!!  He loves all vegetables (baby food and steamed ones I make), he loves fruit (rasberries, blueberries, BANANAS, grapes, you name it...he'll eat it), he likes mac and cheese which I made for the first time the other day, mashed potatoes...the list goes on...I hope he always eats this good!  But his most favorite thing to eat is....drum roll.....CARPET!!??  Seriously, the child must have some sort of deficiency...he is constantly eating carpet!  Jeff and I joke that we will have to replace areas in our house because he is pulling the carpet out and eating it.  He knows the best places to go where carpet is easy to pull out and chow down...it is driving us NUTS!  Anyways, hopefully this stage will pass soon.  He calls everything 'dada' and only says 'momomomoma' when he is upset...go figure.  OK, I'll stop with the crazy list for our precious boy for now.

Always a ham for the camera!

Our little gladiator

I love my boys!!  I want to eat them up!

San Antone, the Beechnut Party House, and one cute little boy!

Hola everyone out there in blogger land!  We have had a busy couple of weeks...mostly fun, but yesterday was a big, bad ugly!  I caught some kind of stomach bug...YUCK...I haven't been that sick in a long time.  It is so difficult being sick and attempting to care for an 11-month old...to say the least I felt like a horrible mom!  I'm a lot better and am on the road to recovery.  Thatch caught a milder version of what I had...luckily, he only had fever and only felt miserable for a few hours.  Here are some recent pics:

I love this picture!  I got him these awesome boots (to wear to the National Finals Rodeo when we go later this year)...thanks to Mica and Abbie for convincing me to get them, I would've been so mad if I hadn't.

On, to our mini-vacation...a couple of weeks ago, the Tiptons, the Meltons, and Jeff and I went to the hill country for a little get away.  We went on Thursday night, got in late to the Beechnut Party House (so named for the street it was on, it was hardly a party house with 3 couples exhausted from lives full of craziness and little ones)...we were a little worried when "Jim" didn't answer our call on arrival, finally on the 3rd call he answered and gave us the code to get in the house...whewww!  Below is a picture of our crib for the weekend...
On Friday, the girls went to the outlet mall...lots of fun and tons of shopping.  We were NOT very good influences on each other, quite the opposite actually.  We did come to the conclusion that "outlet" malls are a not what you would think...we found no crazy deals and steals.  We found stuff to buy, don't get me wrong, but nothing that we came away bragging about the great prices.  We had a great time and enjoyed rare alone time with great friends.  Friday night we ate at Mi Tierra, the most heavenly Mexican food ever, and topped the night off walking along the Riverwalk.  On Saturday, we went through the hill country to a winery and had lunch, it was really good food...however, we all agreed that we had never enjoyed a 4hr lunch...this place was what you call RELAXED!  Good thing we weren't on any kind of schedule.  We drove on to Fredricksburg and walked around the cute little shops, by this time we were pretty broke, so there weren't many purchases.  Sunday morning we got up and drove to Driftwood, TX (outside of Austin) to have lunch at the Salt Lick, hands down the best BBQ I have every eaten!  Here are the boys getting ready to chow down!  Hope you all are having a great Thursday!

Not much to say...

We haven't had too much exciting going on in the Christ household lately, hence the lack of blogging.  Just a couple of things...

1. I'm loving this weather!

2.   I am addicted to the olympics...seriously, I am NOT a night owl, but I look at the clock and it's 11pm before I even know it!

3. We have some exciting stuff coming up in the next couple of weeks, so I will have lots to blog about...yea!

4. I know 25 people who are preggo right now!!  (that could be an exaggeration, but GEEZ, don't drink the water...congrats to all my cute preggo friends, you know who you are!)

HILARIOUS!  Thatch and I went for a walk in the rain the other morning, you can imagine the stares I got from people leaving to go to work...we had a blast and he loved it!

How cute is this chair?  My in-laws got it for him for xmas...our car was too full for it to fit, so we just got it (sad)...if you can't tell, it says LSU tigers and his name on it...LOVE it!

Little monkey...(I have NO idea why blogger started underlining everything)

"Can I just have my milk and go to bed??"

Messy little eater :)

Swimming lessons and my funk

He loves his 'nanas!

Hello to all...not much to update.  I have to admit I have been in a bit of a funk lately, just at times feeling totally BLAH.  I realize that I should not be this way, feeling like if one more thing goes wrong, I might just lose it...I have SO much to be thankful for and I know that.  I just keep telling myself that we are blessed in so many ways, and we are...these "little things" don't matter in the big scheme of things (little things being broken A/C, a brand new unit, mind you/broken garbage disposal/broken ice machine...do you see a pattern here?).  Anyways, enough of my bad mood...on to other topics...

This is a regular scene at our house...can you say baby gate?

Thatch and Sophia chilling in their strollers

Last Wednesday, my some of my family from Germany came through big D on the way to West Texas and we had a wonderful visit!  It has been so long since I have seen Becki, Reinhart, and Suzanne, and a new addition, Miss Sophia...we have missed them and really enjoyed spending time with them and seeing our babies together!  I only wish we could have had more time...

In other exciting news, our Wednesday night small group is reading a great book, Seeing the Unseen.  It is sooo interesting...all about spiritual warfare.  I have to admit, I haven't ever been taught alot about this kind of thing, it has been very eye-opening for me...I'm seeing more of how Satan attacks us and how real he and his angels are.  I can't put this book down, I'm loving it.  

Now, on to the little swimmer...he started swimming "lessons" yesterday.  You would think that I would realize there is not much swimming you can teach an almost 10 month old, but when I saw the age for these "lessons" at our gym started at 9 months, I was a total sucker.  I was so excited for him to start and yesterday at 5pm was the first session.  We got there and Jeff and I are the only people in site, except for a couple of kids getting private lessons.  When the instructor finished, she said "are you guys here for Splash 101?"  We said we were and the "lessons" began...I got in...she threw some bath toys in at Thatch...he splashed around...we went to the deep end...she sang a couple of songs...told me I looked akward holding him in the water (excuse me?)...she "taught" him to pull himself out of the pool (what?!)...and that was it.  No other kids showed up...I was a bit irritated, mostly at myself for not realizing my child isn't going to swim the backstroke before his 1st birthday, but SERIOUSLY, $100 for something I could do in my own private tub and not have to scare the public by being in a swimsuit!!  Arrrrghh...anyways, we will continue the sessions twice a week for 4 weeks and see what other adventures we have.  At least Thatch gets time in the water, which he loves!!