Snow, snow everywhere!

Only once in a blue moon does it snow in Houston. Jackson and Lily Kate got to enjoy it this year! Jackson loved it and Lily Kate enjoyed the first few minutes and then enjoyed the rest of the time inside!

The Beach

We had the most amazing time at the beach! Our house was right on it which made for very easy access early in the morning with 4 kids in tow! The weather was great and teh boys including the dads actually got in one day! Enjoy!

Enjoying the tide...

Dance moves with the 'ginormaous' lollipop from Gamma
More moves
Gotta love Riley's cheeeeeese
A brief moment of calm
The boys
My boy!
They could have run up and down the beach for hours.
Lily Kate lounging

Riley stretching!These manta rays were awesome! They were literally right up on the shore!

Lily Kate is needed!

I was looking through the blog and took notice of how few pictures there are of Lily Tater... My new mission is to take a ton and post them ASAP! Jackson's birthday party is tomorrow so we will for sure have the camera out for that. Until then...

Trick or Treat

Halloween went off without a hitch! Jackson and Justin were the best skeletons ever and Lily Kate dazzled as Dorothy although her ruby red slippers kept falling off!

Jackson trying on his uncles awesome costume!
Justin and Ryan
Andrew as Lego man and Jackson in awe.
Cool skeletons
Skeleton dance...
more dancing

Whitney and Andrew
Lily Kate's friends at school

Great big brother

While sometimes it is harder for Jackson to bond with his sister, ie fight, bicker, argue, knock down... because she is literally perfect :) He does find many ways to show his love for her and we happened to catch this one on film.

ESPN...

Jackson has been going around tonight humming a very familiar tune... dududu dududu. Ok probably not the right way to type it but you all know what I am talking about. Then after I asked him why he kept repeating it he replied with, "Well Mom how come that is all I hear on the weekends?" Guilty as charged. By way of Alabama football on Saturdays and Fantasy Football (Justin) on Sundays and Mondays he probably does hear that fabulous tune a lot! Out of the mouths of babes...

MUD!!!!!

It has been raining so much here lately! When we finally get the chance to play outside there is nothing but mud so Lis and I let the kids go at it! They had the best time and as you will see were completely covered...

Promised Pictures...

Here are a few pictures that I have taken over the last month or so! I can't believe how fast my babies are growing!

Jackson and his first girlfriend... Riley Grace! (Although he doesn't know it yet :)

Jackson and Jakey glued to the tube watching Scooby Doo! Oh and eating Hot Tamales... terrible parents we are.

Lily Kate loving the swing. The higher she goes the more she laughs!

See what I mean! Growing like weeds!!

NANNY NANNY BOO BOO!!

Long time no post...

So sorry! Really have no excuse for not updating... Purely lazy. Unfortunately, I am posting on Justin's laptop so I won't be able to put pictures up. My computer's keyboard is not connecting for some reason and when I call MyApple to get help they tell me that my 30 days "out of the box" time has run out and I need to go search the website for help. Ummmm, well I can't search the website if my keyboard isn't working. Wish I had some family member that worked for Apple and could help with some troubleshooting. Hint hint.
Jackson is completely consumed by Legos these days. He was so lucky to have gotten my brothers ancient Legos, literally over twenty years old, and we have ofcourse added to his collection and what do you know you can't tell the difference between the two. Amazing these things are. Hours are lost just putting together make believe creations. Guns, ships, cars, planes, houses, space stations, Riley attackers, you name it we make it. So into it that he wouldn't let Justin clip his thumb nail because it was needed to take his Legos apart! Which is true. If you don't have one long nail those things are stuck like glue. He's doing fabulous.
Lily Kate is sitting up. She has shown us that she can sit up for several minutes. Her record is 20! She is such a happy little girl. We are continuing to play with her medications. Weaning her off two and probably starting a new one soon. She continues to have one or two seizures a day, just depending on whether she naps or not. She is really loving being in the swing these days. We have on on our playground in the backyard and she loves going high. Literally lets out cackle laughs. I have a few pictures of this that I will upload soon!

Jackson, Jackson everywhere!

Jackson has been on several adventures this summer!  Lately, he got to go to a Cardinals baseball game (it just so happened they were playing in the Astros ballpark).  He was decked out in his Card gear and ready to cheer on Pujols! He also went to the Butterfly center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science which was awesome!  There were butterflies everywhere and it was so hard for him to not touch!  But one of the men that worked in the center was very nice and let Jackson hold some of the butterflies that were swarming around him. He left a very happy boy after spending two hours surrounded by butterflies and insects of all kinds!