Tripp's Best Friend

Tripp, Ma and I went to Dana's baby shower on Saturday, to celebrate the pending arrival of Tripp's best friend, Carter. We had a great time and Carter got tons of stuff, he is set! Hurry up little guy we can't wait to meet you! The adorable pregnant ladyMa, Tripp and Tripp's crazy hair! All the sudden last week he started to grow hair, I love it!

Tripp and Auntie Big Karl :)

Baby Mum Mums are a Hit

The mystery is solved, I know where they get communion wafers from...they say, "hey it is Easter Sunday, go to Wal-Mart and get some Baby Mum Mums for communion." Tripp seems to love them. It made me so nervous at first, I kept trying to pull it out of his mouth when a piece broke off, luckily dada was there to not let me be crazy overprotective mama...I sometime forget what a big boy he is now....and the fact that these melted in mouth in 10 seconds and Tripp has 1,000,000,000 times more drool than the average person, not sure he even got a taste before they dissolved!

A Day of Firsts

In honor of the record low temperatures we have had this week Monkey had his first swim lesson! The pool was heated to 86 so it was actually really nice and Tripp L-O-V-E-D LOVED it! He would have stayed in the pool all day if I let him. Here we are on the way to the lesson...yes...those our ice sickles on the window in the back ground.

Ready to go!

After his swim lesson we went to Leighton's first birthday party, which was also Tripp's first birthday party. He slept for most the time, then woke up to eat, then pooped...just another normal afternoon for him, pretty sure he had no idea he was at a party.

I LOVE THESE BOYS!

Look at the wonderful surprise I received in my e-mail this morning from my two favorite boys...too cute!

Smart Little Longhorn...

...he closed his eyes before the last 3 minutes... Thanks again Ma and PawPaw for babysitting our little monkey :)

On another note, no I am not disappointed in our Longhorns, the defense did well and I think Gilbert will be really good next year!

First Christmas

It is tradition in our family that you are allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve, so Kent and I let Ty and Drew open their gift from us when we got there. It was a cardboard rocket ship....we are still debating who liked it more...Ty and Drew...or Kent and BJ.... Getting ready for bed on Christmas Eve, my favorite picture of my boys :)

Ty and Drew also got to open one gift from their mom and dad, Tripp LOVED Drew's train he got. He watched it go round and round for ever, then he decided to crash it with his hand, I know what someone is getting for their birthday!

Making cookies for SantaThrowing reindeer food in the back and front yard (aka oatmeal with glitter glued to it)Picture of the boys in their matching Pjs, this was a super easy picture to get, they all just put the new toys they were playing with down, sat there, looked at the camera and smiled, it only took one shot to get this one....(not sure if sarcasm comes through on a blog post :))...glad we finally got a good one of them though, I love this picture. Christmas morning!!!!! Ma and Paw-Paw

Tripp needing no help opening gifts...

The aftermath...


Not sure why BJ and Lindsay didn't like their gifts from me and Kent, not sure they ever said thank you....you're welcome Lindsay and BJ, enjoy your coffee mug and Miley CD :)

Lucky Lil Texan, Tripp Got Snow for His First Christmas!

Yeah, yeah I know I am super late with these posts - better late than never (yeah, yeah again, I know - better never late)...Tripp is one lucky little boy, we went to Burleson for Christmas this year and it snowed!!!!!! It was awesome and so much fun! Here is the first picture we took, which looks like rain, because we were certain that was all we were going to get and we wanted to capture the moment, boy were we wrong, it kept coming and coming! Here are the boys making snowmen on ML's kitchen table...she wasn't home...I swear they didn't get anything wet ;). Drew got the boot from this picture because he is standing up too high and it makes it look like my head is cut off on accident, he is to the right of Tripp and I can assure you he looked super cute as well :)

Tripp was a little confused about why it was so cold but he seemed to really enjoy it, and no one got sick afterwards!
These two may look innocent in this photo but don't let them fool you, they were hurling snow balls at women and children...okay okay...we were all having a super fun snowball fight, it was awesome, I am just mad because they had better aim...

Here is a picture snapped right as they hurled one our way...

All in all it was a perfect Christmas Eve!