Birthday Parties to Rangers Games

We enjoyed some outdoor backyard water fun at our friend Henry's birthday party!

It was so fun to have Sydney, Owen, Lincoln and Heather get to come visit for a few days at the ranch. I am thankful for the way that friendships continue to develop between all these cousins!

Going to Rangers games. One of my favorite things to do. I do not really particularly enjoy baseball and especially do not like watching it on TV. But in person I love watching it!! And eating the ballpark food :)

Thank you Lindsi for teaching Burton to draw on his arms!

Adalynn chose her own outfit. Since she does not own a chambray button down shirt...she chose this button down to wear over her dress :)

Burton has started wanting to dress himself. He chose to wear this baseball shirt, but he insisted on wearing it backwards so that he would be able to see the baseball. And, his new favorite is to wear these green socks pulled up with his running shoes!

Burton's 2nd Birthday

This little guy is two years old. How does the time fly by so quickly. 

Burton loves:

Food: milk, grapes, fruit snacks, tomatoes, peanut butter, broccoli, and pizza.

Playing any sport: basketball, soccer, football, and baseball...to name a few.

Loves playing with trucks that have a trailer to attach to them.

Going to the ranch and checking the cows and horses.

Copying anything and everything that Daddy or Papa does.

Being cuddled.

Playing outside.

He does not like:

Sleep.

Eating meat (except for on the rare occassion).

When daddy leaves for work.

.....I'm sure there are more things, but I can't think of them right now.

Petting Mr. Moose. He loves to pet him and say hi to him first thing in the morning and as soon as we arrive home.

He loves to be cuddled and rocked to sleep.

Adalynn helping make cupcakes for Burton's birthday party.

Rocking and reading bedtime stories with daddy.

The cupcakes Ady helped make.

Burton thought that having "campfire on my cake" was the best thing ever! He asked for more campfire on his cake several times for the next few days after his party.

We are so thankful for friends and family that helped us celebrate this special guy!

And this video was a couple of days before Burton's birthday while we were in OKC with Nate and Terah. We had a little celebration with cake and "campfire" for him!

Spring Time And Lovin' It

We had a great time in Oklahoma City. We spent a month there for Matt to do training for work. The FAA academy is located in OKC, so we usually spend at least a couple of weeks a year there. This trip was especially fun because my sister, Terah, and her husband, Nate, and their five kids are living there. So we stayed with them for the month! We loved getting to have some special time with them.

While there we visited the Clydesdale Horse ranch. The kids were a little afraid of the large horses, but out back the ranch had a couple of miniture horses, that the kids loved petting!

We also spent a day and drove to Tulsa, OK to see some sites. We visited the Gilcrease museum which had an amazing kids area. We literally could have spent two hours just in the kids part of the museum!

And then, back in Abilene, this is Adalynn's sweet friend, Grace. We are so thankful for the friendships that continue to develop as we build community here in Abilene.

And we have really enjoyed some great time working on our flowerbeds, garden and trying to get grass to grow in our front yard at our new house!

We got to spend Easter with Nate and Terah while we were in OKC. It was great to get some one on one time just us two families!

And, we loved getting some cuddle time with Tucker too!!

And, watching Gwyn, Jolie and Colton play soccer was something I especially loved!