Dinner tonight

After dinner, as I was putting Levi to bed, Colt decided to flush some plastic balls down the toilet. Ah, the fun of age 2 and a half!

New Year's Resolution

5 Days down! 5 weeks, 2 days to go. My new years resolution this year is to give up sugar until my marathon on Feb 14th. I am trying to be reasonable by not setting my time frame for an entire year. Gotta start small-ish. I've done great for 5 days now. Hopefully the hardest part is over, but I guess we'll see. I've been using stevia in my morning tea, but that's about it!

Anyway, I ran across this video that gives me a renewed desire to keep with my goal. Warning: don't watch with a full stomach.

Here's to you striving to reach your New Year's goal(s)!

They don't come any cuter than this...

Thanksgiving 09

This year my mom invited us to have Thanksgiving in Tulsa, which was an offer we couldn't refuse. So we loaded up our car and made the LONG trek! All I gotta say is thank God for DVD players and sisters who agree to go along for the ride. We had a great time. My grandparents used to live in Tulsa, and all I remember of it as a kid is that it was so ugly. This time, however, it was beautiful with all the leaves changing colors. Glad I had an opportunity to change my mind about this town :) And Thanks Mom for hosting us!

Levi had a blast pulling down ALL of the books off my mom's bookshelf in her living room. He did this about a million times. No joke :)

Andrew, Alethea, my mom and me

My mom moved to Tulsa mainly to assist her 94-year-old aunt (left). Aunt Madaline took us to Luby's, which ironically is Ty's favorite restaurant. Yes, we ate at 4:45.

My mom lives in this cool complex that has riding trails, a garden for residents to grow their own plants/food, and, of course, a tree with a face on it.

Andrew and Amy. Aren't they cute?!

Ty's great uncle, Bill, also lives in Tulsa, so we took an afternoon to visit with him. He loved Levi! What's not to love?

On the way to and from Tulsa, we stopped in Ft. Worth to stretch our legs at my grandparent's house. Here we are with my grandad. He's been in poor health recently, but I think it lifted his spirits to see Colt and Levi for a bit. He's also a UT Longhorn fan (can't you tell from his burnt orange sheets?).

Well, that about wraps up our Thanksgiving adventures. We had a great time with family and are very thankful for all of the blessings that have been showered over us this year.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17

Toddler Time

Took some fun pictures of Colt recently. Thought the blue hat was kinda fun.

Also, I walked into Colt's room during nap time the other day, and found him asleep reading a book in his rocker. Sometimes reading is hard work!

I'm baack.

Hello blog reading friends,

I've been gone for so long that I hardly remember how to post. There are probably just a few readers remaining, and I'm so grateful you still remember to check in! Last month, my computer decided to call it quits. Fortunately, my amazing husband had created a computer fund to buy me a new computer for Christmas, so he was able to swoop in and get me a new computer in a jiffy. Unfortunately, all of my pictures are left stranded on my old PC. (Although our friend, Shiva, is trying to recover them for me. Keeping my fingers crossed for you, Shiva!) This whole event has made me realize how fortunate I am to have posted so many of my favorite pics on the blog. At least I can print them off of here if I need to. That said, I have a renewed sense of purpose in my blogging (which was sorely missing before, if I do say so myself). So, now that we are back in business, let me get to those pictures!

At the end of October, we took a trip to a pumpkin patch. It sure is hard to get Colt to look at the camera these days, and Levi was super entertained with these strange orange ball-like things I kept asking him to hold. The good news for Levi is that I forgot to buy a big pumpkin to sit him in (unlike Colt here). Ha!

7 months

Before my little boy turns 8 months in a few days, I guess I should post a few of his 7 month pictures.

What a pair! Not the best picture, but the only time I could get Colt to give Levi a hug. Colt is still adjusting to having a little brother, and more so now that Levi wants to play with Colt's toys.

What a cutie!

See, Colt does share occasionally. Levi loves bubbles as much as his brother.

This month:

Separation anxiety has begun.

Levi went to his 1st baseball game (to watch Uncle Dusty).

Levi loves to put TINY things in his mouth... leaves, grass, etc. We have to sweep his mouth often when he chokes :(

Started waking up more often at night. We know you aren't hungry, and we really aren't very interesting to be around at 4am, so just do everyone a favor, and stay asleep.

We try to only give Levi a pacifier when he sleeps, although he really doesn't use it much. However, since he's gotten 4 teeth this month, he seems to like the paci during non-nap times too.