Not much news to report now...but no news is good news right!

He came home happy as a clam, told me some of the songs they sang, didn't know any of his classmates names, but is excited to go again tomorrow.

I told him I'd take him anywhere he wanted for lunch today to celebrate his first day of school. He choose Bennigans...we showed up to find out it closed. Sadness! But he was happy with Wendy's too.

He's pretty cranky though, so I've told him to take a nap, but I hear noise from upstairs, so I'm not sure it's working. Time to put on my stern Mommy face and go back upstairs. Wish me luck!

I had been told by the school district there had been a mistake with Aaron's paperwork and that the school bus would not be picking him up the first week, that I'd have to drive him to his preschool (He's going to K-T Private Preschool). Imagine my surprise when the bus showed up at 7:35am! Luckily we were ready, but since I had been planning on taking him, as he drove away I was filled with sadness seeing my little 4yr old leave on the school bus.

I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he said blueberry muffins, so I got up early to make muffins before Paul went to work. I helped him get dressed in some of his new school clothes, and as you can see he looks adorable, of course! I told him it was ok to be a little scared or nervous your first day, but he said he was just excited so more power to him!

I have some errands to run, so maybe I'll drop by the school just to make sure he got there ok! It's ok for me to be a little nervous the first day too...right?





About an hour after he left I was composing this blog when I got another surprise. Aaron's school called to tell me he threw up! I guess he was more nervous than he thought! I quickly drove down there, and he was doing just fine so I left him there for the rest of the morning. I've got another 2 hours or so before he gets home, and I've got tons to do, but I'm just worrying about him.

The other thing that surprised me, was Brian's reaction to Aaron going to school. I guess I had prepared Aaron for his first day, but hadn't really talked to Brian about it. He cried when Aaron's bus drove away and threw a tantrum as I tried to get him to come back in the house. When we went to the school he immediately ran over to Aaron repeating his name numerous times and joined them in circle time. He was sad again when we left. I'll have to spend some really good one-on-one time with him this week as he gets used to Aaron being gone.

Well, it's back to the laundry and dirty house, I'll post again when Aaron gets home!

It's only been two weeks since posting, but I already feel like there's been a ton going on. The big ones though, were me going to Girls Camp with the Young Women in our church and Brian turning 2 years old! Unfortunately, right now the computer we put our pictures on is not connecting to the internet which makes it difficult to post lots of pictures. I can load a few onto my flash drive and do it here on my laptop, but it's MUCH slower than I'm used to doing, so it's kinda annoying. Sorry to all my friends who want to see all the Girls Camp pictures...I took over 100! Instead I'm going to write a bunch and just add a few pics.

Have I ever told you guys I have the best mom? Well I do! She watched my two boys the whole week I was gone, and my fabulous husband moved into my Mom's house so that he could take charge of them in the evenings. I knew the boys were well taken care of, so I left and didn't look back. I was gone Tuesday through Saturday.

Now I'm not the best camper, in fact I never really went to Girls Camp when I was a youth, but since I'm in the Young Women's presidency I felt it was a great opportunity to get to know the girls and have fun with them. And that I did! I got all girly with them and stayed up late at night chatting about boys and books and the Young Women's program (but mostly boys). It was a lot of fun and while I'm exhausted, I'm really glad I went. I'm glad I wasn't in charge, we had a fabulous camp director and assistant camp director, but I'm glad I took the opportunity to participate.


We got back Saturday afternoon (Brian's birthday), and after showering and relaxing a little, took the boys to Chuck E Cheese so I wouldn't have to cook. We were negligent in getting good photos there, but the kids had a blast, and to be honest, so did Paul and I! The pizza is marginal, but who doesn't like Skee-ball or Whack-a-Mole?


Although Brian's birthday was Saturday, we celebrated it Sunday with Grandma. I made him a racetrack cake, and it looked like this,

although it was supposed to look like this.
Not too bad for a beginner I guess. At least it tasted ok! Brian got lots of great presents and I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite.

He went to the doctor today for his 2yr old check up and was in the 90% for height and 75% for weight. He's a happy healthy little boy though and we couldn't be happier that he's part of our family. He still just loves to laugh and is totally into kissing everyone. He requests tickle time often and likes to try to tickle us as well. He and his brother get along most of the time, and I'm sure he'll miss Aaron when school starts next week.

Brian is a joy: He loves his ABC's, singing (singing his ABC's), being read stories, & playing catch with his dad - or anything involving a ball. He's addicted to TV and movies, but loves playing any games and just playing with us. He is easy to laugh. Even in the middle of throwing a tantum, if we start laughing, he'll start laughing, then he'll go back to throwing his tantrum.



It doesn't have to be said, but we'll say it anyway. We love Brian.

Ok, so technically it's not new, it's a 2005, but it's new to me and I love it. And it only had 21,000 miles on it when we first looked at it. We are very excited and the kids love it too so far. It has leather seats, a navigation system and DVD player, can seat 8...it's totally awesome! Yea us!

We had a great July with lots of fun activities, but not nearly enough pictures to show for it. Here's some highlights though.

Fourth of July we went to Lake Conroe with Mom Fuller, Gary and Rene Wojnowski (friends from when the Fuller's lived in Oklahoma) and Chandler and Heather Knies (friends from our ward). We went fishing and boating, relaxed in the house, ate some great food, and watched the fireworks across the lake from the comfort of our home. It was a great weekend and we were glad we were able to spend time with friends.

Aunt Lis (Paul's sister) came for a week and we went to Moody Gardens, shopped, watched movies, went to the library, hung out, played games...we had a great time. Thanks for coming Lis! Paul took one day off and we went to Moody Gardens and saw the Aquarium Pyramid and the Palm Beach. The kids did well and everyone had a great time!



The air conditioning went out on my car :( so we've spent the past month looking online for the right car for our family. (Thanks mom for loaning us your car for the past few weeks!) We sold my car to CarMax and bought a 2005 Honda Odyssey. It is fully loaded, lots of bells and whistles for us to play with and get used to and we are VERY EXCITED! I'll post pictures later this week after we get it detailed and looking perfect.

Tropical Storm Edouard hit just East of Houston on Tuesday. We made sure we were prepared, and it was good practice, but not necessary for this storm. We got less than 2 inches of rain, no strong wind and no power outages. Paul got to work from home though and the boys had a great time playing in the rain! I'll take storms like this any day!




Brian has turned into one kissy boy! He kisses us constantly. We love it and encourage it! He went from being a very non-cuddly baby to quite a cuddly and kissy toddler. Here's some pics of him kissing everything in sight!



Here's one last slide show of some of the cute pictures we've taken in the past month of the boys in the shower, at the Astros game, and with their dad..