Happy Birthday Austin

It has taken me all day to do this post. I decided to steal Jessica and Stacey's idea of putting up old pictures for his birthday, which led to me crying alot as I looked through so many pictures I haven't looked at in quite awhile.
It's hard to explain how fast time flies when you're a mom. It's weird how even though some days seem to last forever (and not always in a good way) the months and years seem to be on fast forward. I remember every snap of the shutter I took with my camera, but it sure doesn't seem like they were taken so long ago.
Five years... seems like my baby was just born yesterday....

Austin Patrick, born December 21, 2003, 6lbs 14 oz
Full of energy, determined, thoughtful and sweet
I can't imagine my life without you!

Our first family picture, Andrew meeting his brother for the first time...

Austin at about a month....I love this expression on his face

These last two were from today.... his funny looking cake is actually a lump of cookie dough.

School stuff

Last Sunday Andrew had his christmas concert and then Friday had their christmas part.... here's some pictures of both. I didn't get very good pictures at the concert because I had to sit so far away....

Here's Austin on Friday

Andrew was concentrating hard on painting his ornament...

The boys after the concert...

Here's Drew walking into the concert-it was the best picture I had...

Santa

I had to put this sad post up showing how fast these boys are growing...
Here's the boys with Santa when Austin was 2 and Drew was 4...


And now Austin is 4 (well, 5 next week) and Drew is 7....

Austin was very cute seeing Santa....when Santa asked what he wanted for Christmas, Austin sat there the longest time before shrugging his shoulders and saying "I dont' know"...

Catching up....

So these pictures are from the past weekish....
These are Andrew at his boy scout's raingutter regalla....they made these little boats and raced them in a gutter. Sounds simple, but we managed to make it hard. Drew lost some part that Randy had to fanagle to make new parts, and I didn't read about the waterproof paint and glue, (duh, it's in water) but Drew still had fun and actually managed to win a few heats.... that's the important part!

Anyone who knew me as a 5 year old knows this used to be my favorite shirt...okay, so maybe I still fit into it at 10.... but Austin found it and had to wear it the other day...

Last Saturday night/sunday morning we had snow! Only for a few hours until it melted, but enough to get the boys excited for snowmen and sledding! Austin had to go out and jump in it....

Rock Star Austin

Hopefully this works...I recorded this on my phone...it's Austin's version on Rudolph.... Drew got hurt and interupted, so it's on 2 seperate videos (hence part one and two)

Raeghan Nicole

My sister in law, Amber had her baby last week, and we got to go see her on Saturday...
I had to post some pictures...
(I'm still working on them, Amber!)

Born Nov. 25th 3:09pm
8lbs. 4 oz. 21 & a half inches long

The boys took to her right away, (I know, there's a shocker)