The new way to mow!
So apparently mowing the lawn in your undewear is the new thing. At least daddy is wearing shorts, right? I guess it helps that Kaiden is wearing boxer briefs instead of whitey tighties! LOL I wonder what our neighbors thought???

New best friend
We went to Sea World this past weekend and we let the boys each get a toy from the gift shop. Kaiden originally wanted Shamu, but he decided to get a vibrating dolphin. We went ahead and got Zachary the Shamu and he LOVES it! He goes to bed with it every night and hugs it randomly throughout the day. In the morning when I get him out of bed he has to pick up his Shamu first and then he is ready to go. Kaiden keeps asking if he can take his dolphin in the water but I keep trying to explain to him that he will not work anymore. He is ready to go back to get a Shamu that goes in the water. I will have to post Sea World pictures later. We went with our friends The Reese's and Shelly has all the pictures on her camera.

Look mom a new pony!
Our neighbors next door thought that they would pass down this old rocking horse to us since their kids had outgrown it. My boys love it, especially Zachary. Is he not the cutest little thing! He looks so proud that he got on there all by himself.

Easter with family
We spent Easter with my family on the Saturday before Easter Sunday at my brothers house in Friendswood. We had a large group there...it was my parents, my brother(Chris) and his family, my brother(Erik) and his family, Erik's in laws and brother in law, and Cousins. The kids had so much fun finding all of their eggs.

First cousins (Zachary, Maggie, Cameron, baby Brady, Kaiden)

Kaiden was so fast that I really never got a good pic of him because he was running too much.

Zachary had the Easter egg hunting thing down to a science. He would pick up an egg, put it in his basket, bend over to get another egg while accidentally tipping over his basket which meant that he had to pick up more eggs. At one point he even tried to hide eggs again so he could hunt them all over again. This continued all the way inside after we were done hunting. If you took his basket away, beware he would scream. He was even a egg snatcher and stole poor Maggie's eggs that got dropped. She is not walking so I guess he thought they were fair game. LOL


Pops and baby Brady

Checking out the "goodies"

Erik and his new son Brady...too cute

Zachary thought he scored big when he found goldfish in the egg.

Easter Egg Hunt anyone???

So I think we ended up doing about 5 Easter Egg Hunts this year, not including the family one. My boys had a blast at every single one too!

Easter Egg Hunt #1 was with the church playgroup. I was watching Noah that day too so I opted to leave the sleepy Zachary in the stroller, poor baby!

Easter Egg Hunt #2 was at our local park in our neighborhood. I was a brave woman and took 4 kids all by myself and I survived!!! I think I'm ready for more kids. LOL I took my boys and also Micah and Sohpie. They did great and had so much fun. they each even got a basket filled with stuff.

Easter Egg Hunt #3 was for Kaiden at school. Since I teach there I was able to go see him. Don;'t I look cute wearing my bunny ears???

Yes Kaiden is a ladies man at age 3...he always has the girls chasing him in class. LOL

Easter Egg Hunt #4 was with my moms group. There were only a few kids but we made the best of it and the kids had a blast finding all the eggs in the woods.

The babies were trying to put their eggs back into this hiding spot. i guess since they only got two eggs each they thought that they would re hide them over and over again.

Easter Egg Hunt #5 was at a community park where we went last year. they have TONS of eggs and break it into age groups. Zachary was really tired and was more interested in holding his basket and watching everyone. Kaiden was a sweet big brother and collected eggs for him.

This is Kaiden telling daddy the Easter story with Resurrection eggs. I had told Kaiden the story the previous day and he also learned it in class at school. So he was telling daddy everything he knew. No daddy is not sleeping, his eyes are just closed. LOL

Kaiden's Fractured Collar Bone
It has been 2 weeks now that Kaiden has fractured his collar bone. On Sunday March 29 we were headed home from a wedding in Dallas and decided to stop at the rest stop in Huntsville. If you have not stopped there it is pretty cool. It's fairly new and has a playground and a nature trail. We thought it would be great to let the kids get out and burn off some energy after being in the car for so long. Kaiden was going down the twirly slide and landed on his arm. All I heard was this blood curdling scream and I knew right away that something was wrong. He calmed down and told me that his arm hurt, and kept pointing to his left chest/collar bone and could not move that arm very much. We went ahead and headed home, gave him some medicine, a nice hot bath, and put him to bed. The next morning I woke up and decided that I needed to take him to the dr. since he still could not move his arm very well and said it really hurt. We went to the dr and then took him to get xrays. The dr. called me that night and told me that he had a fractured collar bone. There is not much you can do for a collar bone, they can not cast it. It has to just heal on it's own. So we went Tuesday and got him a sling and a figure 8 strap.
We had such a hard time getting him to wear it and leaving it on. How do you tell a 3 1/2 yr old to be "careful" and to not use that arm??? The sad part was that we had to tell him to not play, he was so upset.
He is doing much better now and can actually lift his arm , not all the way, but he can lift it. He technically does not have to wear the sling and strap anymore, but we are going to make him wear it when we go somewhere just so that his shoulder stays in place a little better. This whole situation has made me a little more stressed out these past 2 weeks because he has almost re injured it several times. That boy is way too active to be slowed down by a fractured collar bone!


Figure 8 and sling. We had to safety pin the sling so that it woudl stay in place.

Rodeo-Brooks N Dunn
On Saturday March 21 wen went with my parents to the rodeo, again! My mom got some tickets through work so we took the boys with us. We had so much fun and they boys had a blast. Our seats were awesome because we sat right next to the cutes where all the action was about 7 rows back. It was perfect because we had perfect vision and never really had to look at jumbo tron to see what was going on. Brooks N Dunn played that night at were great! Zachary LOVED it. He started bouncing, dancing, clapping, and even blew some kisses. He was so excited that we were cracking up. Afterwards we went and walked around the shops, ate some rodeo food, and let the kids play in the agriculture area with the animals. It was such a wonderful day...thank Nana & Pops!


I guess there was something interesting going on over on the side that caught mine, Zachary's, and Kaiden eyes. :)

AWWW My parents dancing to Brooks N Dunn! Aren't they cute!


Kiaden and his Pops watching Brooks N Dunn

Zachary cheering on Brooks N Dunn...i told you he was excited!

Bekah's Birthday and family day!
March 20 was Bekah's birthday! We decided to spend the day with the boys and enjoy some family time. We took them to a local park where we had a picnic and went on a nature walk. That night we sent the boys over to spend the night at our friends, the Reed's house so mom and dad could have some quality time together. All in all it was a great day and I could not imagine spending my birthday with any one other than the men in my life, Nick, Kaiden, and Zachary. Thank you boys for making me feel so loved on my birthday! I love you!

Zachary having a good time in the car!

Kaiden, the photographer actually took this photo of me from his car seat while we were driving. I was highly impressed with his picture taking skills.

Did we mention that Zachary LOVES apples? Daddy takes the skin off and Zachary goes to town trying to eat off as much apple as he can with only 5 teeth. Too cute. Watch out because if you take it away he gets MAD!

What a sweet angelic little face! Of course eating his favorite...watermelon!

AHHH the men in my life! What would I do without them?


Zachary was pointing at everything! Doesn't he look like a big kid walking with daddy?

I love this picture of my two adventurers. They look like they are on a mission.

Zachary LOVED all the walking. I swear the minute you put him down he would take off and laugh or smile the whole time. He was in heaven!

We finally made it to the creek!