Playin' at the park with Tater!

Today we played at the park with Jenni & Tater!  It was HOT!  But, no one else was at the park!  We found a nice place to picnic (minus the picnic tables & shade, plus the wasps/yellow jackets - poor Tater got stung within the first five minutes!) and play.  Not many people seem to know about it yet.  :)  It's awesome!

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Playing at the State Park

We played at the state park today with some of Brant's friends.  The boys had a blast!  I feel a little bad that most of the pictures are of Owen... but, he was having so much fun! The other boy in the photo is Joseph.  Our friend's son.  He adores our kids.  Owen is up on a tall metal slide.  He did that over and over and over.  ON.HIS.OWN! So much courage in that little man.  He even ended up carrying a volleyball up the slide!  With him!  No help! There was a crane or some other type of bird that decided to hang out with us for about 10 minutes.  AND, the sunset was amazing!

Lookee who's TWO!!!

YUP, Our little Owen is two, today!  We didn't do a party. We didn't do much at all... that breaks my heart for him, but, at the same time.  He's two.  He's got more than enough "stuff"... so, we just did a family thing this year.

 And.. I took pictures. It's nearly impossible to get any of him smiling AT the camera... but, these are pretty good. 

And, I took that cookie from up there to daycare.  So, he DID celebrate with his friends.  Sierra (an awesome kiddo that is too old to be in daycare but too young to be at home alone, helps out now.  Caleb call her his girlfriend.  Owen loves her to pieces!) took the picture of Owen and me.  Good, no?

Any who, at two, Owen is a STINKER! 

He is a copycat, I can do it myself, sweetie, meanie, swimming, laughing, dancing, singing, pushing, playing, running fool!  He loves us all...he'll tell you if you don't believe me.  His newest cute-for-now habit is to say, "Not you. ME!" for the name slot when we do the repeat-after-me-phrase of "I...love...fill-in-the-name-here." His green eyes astound me.  His brown-blond hair is so soft and wispy. I love that little man!

Materinty Shoot & Fun with Colors

I've known Janet since college.  She's the band director, now at Ballinger.  She let me do a photo shoot for her (& 2 year old Ashtyn).  Janet is ready to meet little Hunter.  In fact, she's over 39 weeks... and on Tuesday (we did the shoot on the Saturday after said Tuesday) she was already at 4cm and 50% effaced!  What a trooper!  Here, I am showing off my newly acquired talents aka - Fun with Photoshop! (& my awesome camera).  Enjoy!

Bluebonnets are blue-ti-ful!!!

I loved taking my boys (and my dad's) pictures yesterday.  Here are just a small smattering of my favorites. Owen is in that "I refuse to look at the camera or smile -- so there" stage.  FUN.  But, lucky for me, he's a cutie even when NOT looking at the camera. Sinker.  Caleb, on the other hand did fantastic!  Such a beautiful - I should say handsome - blond. I am truly blessed!  This one of my dad is his first good shot since my sisters wedding - 4 years ago!  It was time for a new face book profile picture.  NICE!  Anywho, we took most of these at the Llano 4-H club.  It was jam-packed with bluebonnets.  God sure painted a beautiful canvas for us to enjoy!  AWEsome!!!