Austin

This past weekend Trey had a slumber party at GaGa's and Papa's while Michael and I had a nice getaway to Austin. What did we do??? Well, nothing. Absolutely nothing! Which was the point. It was a rainy, overcast weekend here in Houston and Austin was just the same if not a little worse. So we checked into the Four Seasons and never left! Except to check out some yummy hole in the wall Austin restaurants. We hung out, and just VEGGED out....pretty nice. We watched Lifetime Movies(more for me than for Michael but he went with the flow...),CSI and SUV UNIT Reruns and drove around looking at Lakehouses! Austin is such a neat place and the scenery of the hill country is breathtaking. I left my camera at home, but def. wanted to document these little moments, snippets of time that Michael and I get to ourselves every now and then!

Gotcha!

Trey laughs and smiles all the time!!! Documenting this, however is quite the task. The minute I pull the camera out he becomes "Mr. Serious" and just stares back at the lens.....I've even tried the "say cheese" trick but he just says "cheese" with the most serious of faces....so last night I snagged a picture of his smile while he was playing! I guess this momma has to be sneaky like that! Gotcha!

Making Cookies!

at almost 22 months trey loves anything he can do to help in the kitchen! Some pictures of Trey and PaPa making cookies......his favorite part is always cracking the egg! Trey really concentrates and takes it all very seriously. His little tongue has started to hangout when he is thinking really hard!

Prayers Please

I stumbled upon these two blogs, via a blog I follow. Both families are precious and as I don't know them at all, I feel as though we would quickly become friends. I hope you will join me in praying for Field and Preston as they battle these intense open heart surgeries. Preston is a newborn and Field is under a year i believe.

The strength these parents have and trust in Jesus Christ is utterly amazing. Please pray for these babies and for the surgeons who are performing the surgery. The amount of strength it must take for these Doctors to perform open heart sugery on a newborn is amazing.

www.fieldjohnson.blogspot.com

www.pineapples-n-pickles.blogspot.com

Daddy has Competition in the Kitchen!

Trey's Big Boy Room: Part 1

Over Christmas Daddy was a busy busy guy! We moved all our guest room furniture and misc. items to the third floor gameroom, and into the 5th bedroom of the house which is now a guestroom! Since the gameroom isn't really utilized by Trey yet and probably not for a while since we mainly play in our first floor bedroom which is our playroom by the kitchen, Michael turned it into an at home gym! So bright and early mornings I am greeted by "Sean T and the cast of INSANITY" motivating my honey to get it in gear and sweat it off!

Then we started the process of creating Trey's room. I knew after a precious bunny themed,but soft and light-filled nursery I wanted something very colorful! We didn't go with a theme as much as things that Trey likes and tried to create a room he can grow with! I was nervous about going with a red color, but Benjamin Moore's "Poppy 1315" didn't disappoint me! I love the shade of red. The airplane lighting fixture was already here when we moved in. We selected his bedding from multiple places. The train pillow, sheets and duvet is from PBK and the plaid striped duvet and monogrammed blanket is from a store here where we live. The map is from IKEA and was a great find. Trey loves maps and it was the first thing he noticed when he walked into the room "map map". He loves the map that pops out of the backpack on DORA.

My thoughts are to use stickers to record all the places Trey and our family visit over the years.....Now we are just waiting on "decor" and personal things to make the room about "trey" book nook, pictures of family and friends, place to hang to art/school stuff/hobbies etc!

I simply can not wait to see the final result! We read a book or two every night in his new bed but he is still sleeping in the crib!

Christmas Tree 2010 Photos

My Mom snapped some cute pictures of trey playing in front of our tree on Christmas Eve. This Christmas was so much fun and our house is kinda lonely without "anta" around!

Opinions!

trey has become very "aware" of what i pick out for him to wear~ so on sunday when i had him all ready and dressed for Church I walked in and found him doing this.....he had moved his diaper box into the closet so he could stand on it and select his own clothes! It was quite comical.

13 Weeks!

13 weeks and I am finally feeling so much better! Baby Casey #2 has really taken me for a spin. Feeling pretty crummy, understatement, and weird food aversions like no animal meat! We are getting excited but i must admit, I feel like we haven't focused as much on this pregnancy as we did with trey and I'm feeling very guilty about that. So, on Sunday I grabbed the camera while GaGa watched Trey and took some photos! We have been very busy over Christmas getting Trey's Big Boy Room all setup! We are still a work in progress but its going to turnout fantastic!

We are not going to find out the Sex, however, Michael and I both have a "hunch" that we will be bringing home a baby girl!

Family Photos October 2010

Thank you, Shalonda, at ChubbyCheek Photography for capturing our family this year!!!

www.chubbycheekphotography.com

I must say, this one of Michael and Trey is my absolute favorite. Shalonda is a master artist in capturing what love looks like!!!

this one above is our 2010 Christmas Photo and the one below is slightly different, it was hard to choose!

i love trey's mischevious grin here, in the photo above!

"hey, whats up? and why are you taking so many pictures!"

trey was interested in the airplane above!

our growing family...I was already about 4 weeks pregnant here!!!

me and my little guy!