sick puppies...

Tiny 2 and popcorn haven't been feeling well....I had to make them sweet tea yesterday....



Let's see, Thursday Andrew had a class trip to The Pet Center to his his partner in education, so I have some pictures of that. Later that day I had to go pick him up because he started running a fever at school.... this is definately good timeing for a 3 day weekend.

Saturday, Randy got tickets from work to see the Mizzou basketball game, and the Cardinals Caravan was there an hour before the game, so we got some Cards autographs (mostly rookies, and Rick Horton....I'll ask Randy what all there names were again later). I forgot to take my phone off the charger before we left and didn't bring my camera, so I have absolutely no pictures, which I wasn't happy about until Austin calmly reassured me... "it's okay mom....I have a good camera in my head..."
Really, that's the best camera of all....

Simple things

These are some random pictures, but things are finally calming down....

Austin got an igloo making kit, so he can put his ice making towards something productive...
He actually froze these blocks and then piece them together to build the igloo...

One day Austin just wanted to play inthe bath tub....so after an hour here's how wrinkled your fingers get! These pictures don't really do justice to how deep those wrinkles were!

Andrew has been working on his soapbox derby car. I took the easy way and bought a kit that was already cut (thanks for the tip, dad!)

so first the basic...

And with Andrew's "lightning" paint job....

I'll post the finished product when we get the wheels on...

Christmas update

So my new years resolution should be to keep up on my posting better! Sorry for taking so long, but htere's a condensed version of our christmas...I hope to post more later.
We had a really nice christmas...

The boys got up about 6:45 and they had kindof dressed themselves(I guess so I wouldn't tell them to go get dressed). Andrew got a amtrac train he wanted and Austin got a keyboard to sing his songs on!

At my mom and dad's, we had all of us home, which was nice...

here's a pic of the siblings...

Reaghan was baptised, and I wanted to show her dress because Janet made it out of her own wedding dress... it turned out beautiful...

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....