The Super Mega Post

So, once again, a thousand pictures:) They are for all the family who never get to see our sweet children! So lots of pics so you can see what we have been up too!

Tayla at her V day party at school.

The teachers are so sweet to Noah. They let him join in all the fun. Noah decided it was his turn to be in the middle, so he jumped right in:)

I love how he just sits there with the other children waiting for further instruction! He loves going to Tayla's school parties! Loads of pizza, capri suns, cupcakes, and goodies...who wouldn't love them!

Noah loved decorating his own cookie...or rather eating his cookie with globs of frosting.

He even licked his bowl clean.

Tayla had Addy come and decorate with her..although they too were more into eating the frosting plain.

Tayla had a field trip to Duessan Park in Summerwood...15 minutes or so from school. They had a great time playing on all the equipment, playing games, seeing the buffalo, etc.

We arrived a bit early to meet everyone for the field trip, so Tayla, Noah and I fed the ducks some bread. It was the first time for Noah...he thought it was pretty sweet. He didn't even mind every time they nipped his finger to grab the bread. Noah got better at throwing it through the fence so by the time we were out of bread they didn't get his fingers:) He didn't stop saying "duck" all day after that!

Tayla wasn't to into putting cotton on her nose and jumping like she was a bunny...but still enjoyed all the other games that didn't involve petroleum jelly on her nose:)

So...we love our missionaries! We love to have them over and try to feed them often, or go out on visits with them often. It's great for Dez to have a good example of a good guy not too far away from her age!

Noah and his best bud Max! They are so cute together! They say each others names perfectly and get so excited to see each other! (that is milk coming out of his mouth..I know sick) I just love how Max is snuggling up to him!

Tayla is in the phase where she wants me to take pictures of her randomly all day. I love it because I love taking pictures, but sometimes they are really weird pics. This one isn't weird, but she really wanted me to take a picture of her braids in her hair...which you can't even see in the picture.

Tayla had her rodeo week at school and loved dressing up!

When she got to school, I couldn't help watching her with all her little friends. They all circled around each other and compared rodeo outfits! lol, it was super cute!

Noah and Nate! Nate has worked in Katy, which is quite a drive from home...usually an hour on a good day...and so after dropping Tayla off at school one day, we made the trip for the first time since he'd been working at that location, and surprised him for lunch! We had such a great time and Noah was so so excited to spend time with Daddy during the day. He was being so cute and kept saying, "Dadda Dadda!"

We love our Noah so much! He's so sweet. He is just so lovable and for the most part, pretty chill. He still loves food, and suckers...a lot! I need to have a post just on him...just for my records...so I can remember all the sweet, cute, and funny things he is doing right now so I don't forget.

I turned 27!!!! Wow, I'm old. I know I say that every year, but for some reason 27 just seems too close to 30! I had a great birthday and Nate and the children and my friends always make it so special for me:)

Such a curious boy! He's being a peeping tom and looking at the neighbors back yard at their puppy.

So..we got lucky and we were given free tickets to go see the Houston rodeo and watch a concert after!! Nate's boss invited us to go and join them in the Exxon Mobil suite!!! It sure was nice, lol! We had all the food, and goodies we wanted! We had such an awesome time!

Mutton Busting was Tayla's favorite!

Tayla was SOOO crazy that night. I don't know if it was the ice cream or what, but she was acting so silly! Here is a picture of her silliness.

And another..she was being wild! It was cracking us up!

We took another trip to Sea World San Antonio!! It was really last minute, but Nate has been working constantly and so he took off a few days and had a blast spending time as a family! I loved this picture because Tayla is being her crazy self and you can see Nate, myslef and Dez in the mirror:)

We stayed right on the riverwalk and loved walking around at night along the riverwalk.

We took some cool pictures:) Dez didn't plan coordinating with the wall.

At Sea World, Noah and Tayla loved this thing...you can't really see the entire thing in the picture, but there is this rope stuff everywhere and Noah was determined to climb it..although he couldn't do it himself, so I was nominated to help him. I am just glad he didn't insist on going through all the tubes...

The kiddos loved all the sea life exhibits!

One of our friends from church gave us tickets to go see a basketball game! The Rockets vs Utah Jazz!! It was fun to go root on our home team...although It was weird because we usually cheer for the Rockets because we live in TX, but I found myself getting bugged at people being mean to the Jazz players...not that I could even name ANY of them, but still.

These two are so cute when they play (most of the time!). Noah is at the age where he can play games with Tayla and of course copy anything she does, or says. It's pretty funny to see some of the things she gets him to do, lol. They are good friends, and it makes me happy! I am going to do all I can to make sure they like each other as they grow up.

We all love Dez! You can tell how much Tay loves her:) And it is so stinkin cute when Noah says, "Hi Dez" perfectly, lol.

We had a great Easter! It was a little different since we didn't go to church because of general conference, but it was still fun. We had the missionaries over for dinner so it was nice to have company over:) Tayla was mostly excited to finally get Princess and the Frog movie from the Easter bunny!! And band aids...which she uses about a box a week.

Dez was most excited about her itunes gift card..and all her sweets of course.

Noah's first time decorating eggs!! He loved it, and loved the fact that I let him hold eggs by himself...but he kept trying to eat them and had a fun time cracking them when he realized they cracked when smacked against the table.

Tayla loves doing anything crafty with her hands. She took decorating her eggs very seriously, lol.