The Complaining can now STOP....

I have been complaining for years about our wedding pictures and Paul was sick and tired of hearing about it, so 6 years and 2 kids later we set out to get married again. I rented a tux, bought some flowers, used our fabulous photographer, and we did it all over! Paul never realized he would have to marry the same girl twice! Anyways, I'm so excited to print some pictures off. There were so many good ones, but here are some of my very favorite....

August

OWEN SURVIVED

Eric loves playing in the car and has figured out how to lock it, but not open it! Anyways, he locked Owen and himself in the car during the hottest part of the day - don't ask me how. Luckily I was able to call a locksmith and he came immediately and saved my babies. Poor Owen though was as bright as a cherry by the time he got out. He drank 2 full sippy cups of water, before crashing in bed!

CAKE PARTY

Linsay and Jenny are awesome, they came and taught all my YW how to decorate cakes! They all went home with beautiful cakes and had a lot of fun!

1st TIME

This is the 1st time Eric has ever randomly fallen asleep while not in his bed or car seat. I guess nursery really wore him out! It's so cute, because if you look close enough you can see mini nilla wafers still in his hand that he just didn't have enough energy to eat.

WYATT'S BABY BLESSING

Poor kitties! Eric was in Heaven, cats, ice cream, and cousins! What else could a boy want?

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY OWEN!!!

I decided to make fish cupcakes again! BIG MISTAKE! It's totally worth the $50 just to have someone else make something cute, unless you are doing something really simple. Don't attempt these unless you know what you are doing and have an extra 12 hours to spare!

We had a pool party and here are the boys chillin at the pool. Paul decided to lay out until he looked more like Brent :)

Owen was getting cranky until we put that cupcake in his mouth! He couldn't stop chowin it down even to breath!

Opening presents! He got some cool gifts! A catepillar from Grandma and a Mr. Potato head from Aunt Jessica!

He was tuckered out and crashed immediately when he got into the car! It's so fun having him face forward now! That was his favorite gift was moving into his big boy car seat!

BRITTANI IS A NURSE!!!

We are so excited for Brittani who just finished nursing school. I did another marathon drive to San Antonio and back, but I wouldn't miss this for the world. All the nurse graduates did their final walk in RED shoes! Too cute!

We are so proud of Brittani who received the MOST AMAZING NURSE award and will have her name engraved on a plaqe that will hang in the school Forever! Congrats again!!!

We decided to all pose for the picture!

WARD YOUTH CONFERENCE

PRICE BABY BLESSING

It's so fun having so much family in Texas! My parent's where the pioneers that moved to Texas for school and now we have over 40 relatives that have joined us!!! Texas is the best! Hurry, move on down!!!

June

Good-Bye Party for Brindlee :(

Grandparent Time!!!

We had a June full of grandparents! Every house we went to we had more Grandparents, but I don't think you can ever have enough!!!

Our first stop was Grandma/pa Smith! They had fun with craft time!

We even made a trip to Idaho and were spoiled rotten by Grandparent's Lee! Eric's new word is fire truck so they took us by the fire house and we got a full tour!

And of course we stopped by Grandparent's Black to say Hi! We always love our visits!

While we where in Idaho we were able to see our good friends Jaime and Craig! We sure do miss you guys! Thanks for letting us stop by and say Hi!

When we got back it was cousin Heaven!!! We had 5 little boys and Eric just loved it! He especially loved his Aunt Heather who did everything for him!

Happy Father's Day!!!
What Great Dad's! They even made the dinner!
Owen's First Haircut!

May Update

SCHOOL IS OUT :(

Eric had MDO every Wednesday morning and loved it! He really misses his friends and especially his Great Teachers!!!

Only 83 more days.... but who is counting?

Why I Only Blog every Few Months......I can't find my desk!

This is so embarrasing, I have a million projects and I need to figure out I can't do them anymore with 2 kids!

CANNING

I was so proud of myself that I finally learned how to can Jam!

Every year Paul hints to me that his mom and sisters are making jam and it would really be nice if I did too.

So Happy Father's Day Paul, here is your stinkin Jam!

It really is good though!!!
TDA - SAN ANTONIO

My mom is the best!!! She watched the kids while Paul and I went to TDA for the weekend! It was so fun and I think the first weekend we've had together without ANY kids!!!

BRITTANI IS ENGAGED!!!

I'm so excited, my little sister is getting MARRIED!!!

Congrats again!!!

I got married again too, but I'll post those pictures next month ;)

TEMPLE TRIP

Here's our awesome YW!

I love how the guys always try to jump in our pictures!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy Birthday Rachel!

OWEN IS 9 MONTHS!!!

I can't believe he is already 9 months!

He's crawling...eating real food...
goes up the entire flight of stairs without falling...

and can pull himself up, especially to watch veggie tales!!!

April Update

Happy Easter!!!

MATAGORDA

This is why you don't take kids out to eat. We turn around and next thing we know both kids are playing in the water and we have to fish them out!!!

HANDPRINTSI think this is so cool. One of my YW has her entire bathroom covered in handprints and names, so of course we all had to leave our mark while we where over there!

WHAT - It's ALREADY April? - March Update

This is what happens when I leave the boys alone for less then 30 seconds. Eric was eating yogurt at the table and must have thought Owen was hungry so he loaded up his spoon and headed over to Owen. Anyways, this is how I found him!

I went ahead and put Owen at the table so Eric could feed him better.

It's always a treat to have Mom, Dad & Brent come visit!!!

Rockets Game

It's weird saying Rockets instead of Spurs! I'm still a huge Spurs Fan! Go Tony Parker GO!!!

Eric has just found that he can ride UNDER the Cart! This is now how he prefers to travel when we go grocery shopping.

YW is SWEET!!!

We did New Beginnings and the theme was YW is sweet. So we made sure to have TONZ of candy. I was in charge of the new YW gifts and so I did little candy buckets with their names on them. I thought they turned out pretty cute. I'm NOT crafty at all, so anything that is somewhat presentable I am VERY HAPPY!!!

Paul is a SURVIVOR-

He is now known as Scar Face and is not let out of the house without TONZ of sunblock, because this beautiful Face-Lift cost us over 3 Grand!

YW BOARD

I had to post some pictures of the YW board that we did, because I thought this turned out soo cute! The girls did such a great job, and people can't help but to stop and look at it! It's now the new hang out place, and the boys now try to jump into any of the pictures I take so they can make it onto the YW Board!

SPRING BREAK

I am excited that Spring Break was ONLY a week! Everyday our neighbors house was either beaned, TP'd, or egged. Our other neighbor had the front of his glass door broken and there were just WAY too many kids out! I'm getting TOO OLD to put up with their nonsense!

TIME OUT FOR WOMEN

We missed Heather for this Time Out, but we are excited because we are going to California for the next one to be with her! We had a great time hanging out, and survived the Gi-NORMIC ANTS that were in our hotel room. In the two days we stayed at the hotel we stayed on all 3 floors, and mom ended up getting the place for free!

It's nice getting spiritually uplifted and getting some time to reflect without crying kids! Thanks Mom for always giving us these times together!

CRYSTAL'S BIRTHDAY DINNER

Friends are so great! Thanks for inviting me to come hang out with you guys and Happy Birthday Crystal!!!

VICTORIA'S BIRTHDAY!!!

We are so excited to have a New Young Woman!

We all got together and went to Chili's to celebrate! We even got some cool hats!!!

DAVE RAMSEY

This was EXCELLENT!!! Anyone that wants to know how to better manage their money in these crazy economic times, or just have more control, this is a MUST! He is really FUNNY and is a MUST see if he is in a town near you! You can also listen to his radio show or watch him on FOX Business.

MARCH MADNESS

We are having a little March Madness tournament at our office! I just thought this trophy was too cool! Anyways, to see who wins visit our BLOG.


TWO BOYS IN A TUB!!!
Sorry everyone, I got the CUTEST BOYS EVER!!!
I love Eric's pose in this! Who does he think he is!
We are working on Eric talking and I think in this video he says his first word without being prompted! He is always cracking us up!

Happy Valentine's Day!

With only 24 hours notice and a VERY AMAZING HUSBAND,

for Valentine's I ditched the boys and went on a cruise!!!

SO FUN! This was my first time, so for those of you that haven't experienced cruise life, let me just show you a few of the highlights!

Isn't this amazing! They made this special for Valentines!

We went out of Galveston, and even though it has been picked up a lot, you can still see a lot of damage and garbage left over from Hurricane Ike.

Here is our ship!

It was definitely ECSTASY!

Here was our table we ate at every night and some of the food!!!

FOOD

Usual Meal: 2 appetizers, main course, dessert, hot chocolate + anything else you wanted!!! We ate like that at least 3 times a day with free snacks/pizza in between meals!!!

CARD GAMES & SHOWS

After meals we headed to the theater to get our seats and play some cards.

Each night they had some type of performance to watch which usually consisted of half-dressed girls, comedians & a professional juggler!

SPIN CLASS

I was a little too ambitious one day and decided since I actually packed work-out clothes I should actually use them. Mom & I signed up for a spin class which cost us $10 each and what I think was a total WASTE!!! There is no point in working out on a cruise so DON'T DO IT!

DENTAL SEMINAR

We even got 6 hours of CE while on the cruise! How cool is that.

In the picture is the guy that put on the seminar!

PUTT-PUTT GOLF!

It was a little windy, but we had to try it out!

We got one hole in before it poured down rain on us!

TATOOS

I had to do something crazy while I was gone, so I got a tattoo!

CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN &

ICE SCULPTURES

TOWEL ANIMALS

Every day they would make our beds and then leave a cute animal on it to greet us when we got back. Mom actually went to a class and learned how to fold these!

COZUMEL - ATV RIDES

To make our Cozumel trip memorable we all got one heck of a Mexican Massage!

I had to get this picture because YES we were the LAST ONES ON THE BOAT!!! And when I mean last, we weren't close to being last, WE WERE LAST!!! We were AMAZING SHOPPERS!

DANCING

HOTT TUBS

The biggest downfall about being pregnant is no Hott Tubb, so I took full advantage of my Hott Tubb time!!!

ELVIS!!!

Elvis even came and did a performance!

Here's the group of us! Thanks Mom and Dad for letting me jump in on the FUN!!! It was AMAZING, and a great get-a-away for me!!!