Vacation, all I ever wanted. Vacation, had to get away

So much has been going on lately it hard to know where to start with this blog. Ryan's family gave us a baby shower on August 2, and it was great. We got a lot of cute things for Andrew and a lot of gift cards to help us prepare for his arrival. At the shower all the kids (and a few adults too) went swimming and my son showed everyone how he had learned to use the bathroom outside. Unfortunately, he showed everyone how he could pee-pee and poo-poo outside. Needless to say our host got a little extra fertilizer for their yard this year. Sorry Karen and Greg.



Then we headed up to Oklahoma with with Ryan's family to Beaver's Bend. We had a great time swimming in the freezing cold water, canoeing, and hiking through the woods. It was fun just getting to hang out with everyone eating good food and playing games. The kids had a blast, it is so fun to see them together.




The next day our family headed over to Arkansas, to Crater of the Diamond State Park. We spent a few unlucky hours digging for diamonds, then headed to the water park. I don't know who had a better time going down the slides, Ryan or Kai. That night we started back home, but made a pit stop at Ryan's grandma's house to visit with more family. The next morning we went fishing at Ryan's uncle and aunt's house and Ryan caught 5 fish. None of them were keepers, but Kai had fun getting an up close look at the fish.



We ended the trip by spending the night with Joey and Alex in Dallas, and going out to dinner with our friends Rita and Marcus.

After 6 days on the road we were ready to get home and relax. We spent the next couple of days doing nothing.

Kai started school this week and is having a blast. Today he didn't even want to come home because he was digging for treasure in the sand box with a new friend. I think this is going to be a really good year for him a school.

Everybody Get Dangerous, Everybody Get Dangerous... BooYah!

So while I was painting Andrew's new room, my ingenious husband and fearless son decided to make a slide out of the mattress we removed from the room.



Boys will be boys

LL Cool Ryan

As promised here is Ryan rapping at VBS....

Amazing Grace

We just finished a very tiring week of VBS. It was a whole lot of fun and the whole family got to participate. Kai was in the three year old preschool class, I taught a group of 5 year olds, and Ryan, being Ryan, assisted in music and dance. We came home exhausted everyday, but it was worth it!! And if anyone had any doubt who Ryan's son was... all you had to do was look to the stage. Kai wanted to be front and center just like his daddy all week. One day he stayed up on stage dancing during the three year old performance, as well as the four year olds, and the five year olds. He would have stayed up longer, but his class had to leave the gym. He woke up every morning asking if it was time to go to bible school, and he came home every afternoon telling you the name of the days bible buddies and what it stood for, so we think he got a lot out of the week. Ryan and I both got to meet a lot of adults we did not know before, and I realized that I might like to teach Sunday school (after the baby comes, of course), so the whole family took something positive away from the week. I have video coming of Ryan performing a rap on the last day.... so stay tuned.

Hot, Hot, Hot

Our air conditioner went out today and we are HOT!! It is going to cost between $3000-7000 to fix, depending on how well we want to fix it (patch it up or replace it). So while we try to figure out what we are going to do, we are sweating it out. Luckily, my parents live close and are letting us stay at their home tonight, and the next couple of days are going to be pretty busy, so we won't be home much. Just keep us in your prayers and if you have any spare change laying around, we are accepting donations!!

She Blinded me with Science

Last week we took the kids to the Science Museum. 

Here are a few fun pictures.

Monster Mash

Monsters have officially invaded Kai's closet.  He came out of his room tonight after I put him to bed and told me that he was scared.... he had monsters in his closet.  I told him to tell me about the monsters, so he said there is a red one, a blue one, a green one and a yellow one.  

He told me the red one was really really tall, with long arms and long legs, and long fingernails, and a long neck.  He blue one is really small, with a small face and small knees, and small feet and small arms.  The green one is big, just like the red one, and the yellow one is a tiny tiny baby monster.  

I told Kai these monsters sound a lot like our family, the red and green ones are the mommy and daddy, the blue one is a little boy monster just like you, and the yellow one is a baby, just like the baby in mommy's tummy.  I told him that I bet they were not  trying to be scary at all, they  probably just wanted to be friends.  

So, he sat there for a minute and thought about it and then he said.... But mommy, I forgot to tell you about the gorillas.

It was such a cute story... I just had to share.