Congrats Lucille!

My parents

My sister and Russell with Lucy and Lily

Lucy with her Godparents-Me and Ronnie Dale

Lucille's Baptism with the Ogburn Family

Earlier this summer we had the excitement of celebrating Lucille as she received her First Holy Communion. We celebrated mass then had a family get together out at my sister's house. I can't believe Lucy is going to be in the third grade this year! Time flies!

Pickin Peaches

I loved the pictures of us pickin peaches in the hill country! I hope to make this a tradition as it was so fun!
Of course my son maybe took one tiny bite of a peach. He only has his certain fruits he eats. His main source of fruit is Apples. Blah! My boy will not eat his fruits and veggies :(

Summer time vacation!

Our cabin in Fredricksburg

A Peacock park in Austin

Hiking Enchanted Rock

Having a Beer, Root Beer that is, in Luckenbach Texas

Peach Picking in Fredricksburg

We took a summer vacation to Fredricksburg in June. Joey had to work at his Austin location and we decided to take advantage of that! While Joey worked, Joseph and I visited my good friend who I've known since 1st grade. She took us to Mayfield park where there were about 20 beautiful peacocks. Joseph Loved walking behind them and watching them open their feathers. We even saw a male courting a female. So cool! Then she took us to swim in the pretty river in Austin. I think I could live in that city! Love it.
From Austin, we headed to Enchanted Rock. The drive was beautiful! We made it there while Joseph snoozed in the back seat. So he did hike the entire way up, half the time chasing his hat up the rock that was blowing in the wind. The boys even explored through some rock caves. I heard there were daddy long legs in there so I waited at the entrance. Heading down the rock was a different story. Joseph pretty much had enough rock hiking at this point. Joey had to carry him all the way down. Enchanted rock was so beautiful we want to go back. After the hike we headed into Fredricksburg to meet our friends and find our cabin just outside of town. The cabin was very spacious overlooking a pecan tree orchard, goat farm, and egg laying hens. Joseph had his own room with a twin bed, he picked his room and loved it. We enjoyed picking fresh peaches, walking around downtown, and eating German food. Our friends have 2 boys younger than Joseph so we spent a lot of time just relaxing at the cabin too. Each evening we took a walk to the tank and sat

out on the pier to listen to the martins chatter and the huge bullfrogs.It was a great vacation despite our friends boys having fever the entire time...I just knew Joseph was going to catch what they had but luckily we didn't! We will probably go back next summer and I can't wait!

BULLFROG!

Ellen and I! Picture taken by Joseph

First day/Last day

Joseph's 1st Day of school this year in the FROG class!

Joseph's last day of school! I dressed him the same on purpose.

Ms. Judy the teacher assistant and Joseph's friend. He always tells me his friend is pretty :)

FROG- Fully Rely On God
The frog class was so much fun this year. Ok, it wasn't all fun, but the last 2 months of school were pretty good. Joseph had some patient and kind teachers who had to help him learn the basics of school and rules and having friends. He did spend many days in time out, and I even had to go pick him up early because of his behavior. BUT.... it was a learning experience and all three of us learned a lot this year.  I am looking forwards to next year, he will stay at this school for Pre-K. I'm excited my baby is growing up and learning so much.

Summer is coming!

Today is Joseph's last day of school. I cannot believe the school year is over. The year started out with challenges but he has done really great the last month of school. His progress report showed much improvement in behavior. Bye bye Frog class! Next year he will be in the Dinosaur class and will be going 4 days a week! Joseph always want to go, go, go. He never wants to be home. When we go visit Joey's parents he always wants me to just drop him off, and he always wants to stay the night (without me). He is his father's child, never meets a stranger and wants to play with other kids all day long....So you can see how I decided on the 4 day a week for next year. I can keep him busy at home, but he wants to play with kids..not Mom! This summer he will join me in my exercise class an hour a day. They have free childcare and the teacher is very sweet and he enjoys playing there. He will have swim lessons twice a week, he started this in May and I will continue throughout summer. He LOVES the swim lessons. He will be going to 2 VBS's, he will go stay with my parents for one week (I hope to finish decorating his room at that time!!) Also, our neighborhood has a club pool so we plan to swim several times a week too. New neighbors moved in next door and we were very excited to see they have 3 kids and one on the way. I'm hoping he can play outside with them this summer too. Joseph has always made us laugh and he keeps us laughing every day. Here are some funny things he has said.
"My nickname is Joseph my REAL name is JOEY." He says this ALL the time...
"I got peep rockets on my pants" Yes, he peed on himself.
I donated a toy he had and one day he was looking for it, I told him I gave it to a little boy who didn't have any toys. As he is looking around at all his toys he says "Well now I don't have it!" very upset....
We play "funny names" and one day he named me Hairball.

Bobby's wedding

I do love weddings and I know my son does too. He is a dancing fool! Bobby is Joey's brother's best friend and we were lucky enough to get invited to a small wedding on Saturday morning. It was Paris theme ! It was very kid friendly and I'm sure that made all the moms happy. Joseph even had a small gift for him at the table! Little do-dads that kept him busy during the toasts, eating, and visiting part of the reception. Once that music started with the disco lights and fog machine- WOW- does my son have some moves! He danced until he couldn't dance any more, he rubbed a blister on one of his feet. So once the blister was there, he only wanted Daddy to hold him and then he fell asleep for about an hour on his shoulder. We enjoyed a breakfast brunch with gourmet coffee and teas. Yummy wedding cake and lots of little chocolates :) Congrats Bobby and Belinda! 

Spring Break!

SB started out with ICE when we arrived in Corsicana!

Took a little trip to LaVon, TX to spend time with my BFF since 7th grade. She is expecting her 3rd baby soon!

Cousins came to the big city of Houston to visit us. We took a trip to the Houston ZOO!

He had so much fun being with Tee-Toe

Spring is here and although I miss my old flowers at my other house and the singing of my beautiful purple martins, I am trying to make my house a home here. Mom came for her week of SB and we planted a bluebonnet garden and another garden with standing cypress, lillies, and a moonflower. Joey will eventually put me a sitting bench in the front and I am slowly putting up some birdfeeders. I won't have purple martins at this location, but maybe I can get some bluebirds at least. So far in my back yard I've seen many bluejays, a Carolina wren, a hawk, mockingbird, and a woodpecker.

We had a nice week off. Joseph and I traveled to Corsicana the Thursday he got out. We got to see Lily in her play "The Little Mermaid".She was beautiful as you can see.

We then took a rode trip up to the Dallas area so I could visit my good friend and her children. Her daughter is my Godchild and I hadn't seen her in a long time. We had a great visit and the kids got along great. She has a 3 yr old,. 2 yr old and one due next month! She's a busy momma. After the trip to LaVon, we spent one more night with my parents then headed home to get ready for my sister to come visit for 2 nights, then my mother came for a week. Between all that I 've had the stomach virus and now I'm pretty sure Joseph has the croup...

Good news is that ever since spring break Joseph has been so good at school. His teachers say he is a different child, every day has been fantastic. He is keeping his hands to himself, using his words to the teacher when he is angry, and just following directions. Thank goodness, maybe something finally clicked in his 4 yr old brain. I was beginning to worry. So let me knock on wood now that I'm telling everyone he's good in school :)