Skyler's Birthday!

Today was the first of many birthdays that we will be going to in this "birthday season" otherwise known as spring/summer. Skyler started it out for us with a Batman birthday party! These two were very excited to go.....
I always insist on walking when I am headed to a friend's house that is within a one mile vicinity.

Batmannnnnn!!! (Jace, Wes, and Madden)

Odette and Evie!

Big kids (Lacey, Alegria, Skyler, and Lee)

Tucker didn't want to cooperate for pictures.... so these were the best I got!

Someone ended up passing out for the entire party. It wasn't exactly a bad thing as it gave my arms a break and he really needed a nap.

Alicia made Sky's cake! It was so professional

Present time! When we walked into the party we saw the toy we had gotten Sky almost immediately sitting in his room amongst his toys. Luckily, Target will take anything back and now Sky can go pick out something he wants there! He was sitisfied with the giant bag of M&Ms that accompanied his toy.Thank you hug Then it was cake time! Skyler was insistent that he not make a wish when he blew out his candles. Maybe next year!

I like the inside :)

Alicia did it all on her own! I was amazed. I had like 5 people helping me (including Alicia) on Tuck's bday last year while Dewy was gone. She did it alone with 2 little kids! It was so fun and now we can look forward to Jace's birthday when her husband will be back! Woohoo.

Yard In Shambles

Being out of the house all day means the housework gets seriously neglected. Luckily I got all caught up on laundry and some deep cleaning this week. Scrubbing floors and floorboards included. It's so nice once it's all done! Unfortunately this situation won't take care of itself either....

or this....

the little golf-cart-riding men that check up on everyone's lawns that live on post will be coming around soon. This weekend is the goal! Luckily Dewy enjoys mowing the yard and give me the simple job of sweeping the excess that gets on the porch. I'll take it!

I noticed at breakfast this morning that his biceps were looking enormous. His workouts are definitely showing growth!

The Arnold World Fitness competition was on tonight. Dewy and I enjoy these sort of shows now that we both have gotten into working out so much. It was insane how huge the women could get. I assume they have to take drug tests for sterroids and things as well. How they get this big is beyond me! Not a goal of mine.... but it still amazes me!

TUBBY TIME!

Am I the only one who calls it that???? I think it has something to do with that annoying children's show that used to run called the Teletubbies. They'd always say 'Tubby Time!!!' right when it started. Somehow I've connected it with tub time for the boys. Oh well!

I love clean little babies!
And now I have 2 of them! Yay.

As you can see, Tucker's rash has been dying down with the help of an antibiotic oinment and a fungal cream. The doc gave us both to use and one of them has been doing the trick! Finally...

This is their first bath together... normally Wes takes one separately but Tucker has been so good about being soft with him that I decided to try it out.

This month was very hectic. Very hectic and very busy. Things are getting back to normal now which is nice, but it's quite frustrating that the moment I have a new baby and my husband back from deployment time seems to go at light speed. Grrrr.

Dude

We got Tuck a new hat that I love. It matches one of his shirts so I have something to pair it with easily enough!

Our lawn is a complete disaster right now so we needed to buy a mower. Tucker wanted the rider lawnmower.... unfortunately I can't hand out $1500 dollars for the comfort of mowing on a soft seat.
I think Tucker may even mow it for us if we got one of these. Sorry buddy.

Laundry has been overwhelming this week. Like 20 loads in two days I think! Oh goody. Wes sure likes it. Snuggling in warm blankies.... what could be better?

Date Night! Sorta....

Well last night was officially the first night Dewy and I have had alone together since Wes has been born! Don't get too excited. It was for an FRG meeting, and it was 20 minutes long haha. None the less... I had to take a picture of the amazing moment.

We decided to all dress in comfy clothes since we are in them when the evening comes around anyway. Even Tucker wore his sweats.

He didn't even pause when we let him in the childcare area and immediately ran to play with the other little kids. That was somewhat comforting and the only mishap that happened in the 20 minutes of meeting time was Wes leaking through his outfit with a blowout. Ohhhhh Wes.

They served pizza which Tucker was ecstatic about, and once everything was cleaned up we let him in to have a piece. He's finally grasped how to take small bites out of the pizza and eat it as a whole so we don't have to cut it up. It was pretty entertaining watching him walk around acting like a big person eating his pizza.

Such a happy boy!

We Love the Park

Saturday was all sorts of jumbled up. I don't even remember what happened. I remember realizing we had zero food in the house and adding grocery shopping to our list of many things. We had a birthday dinner to go to for Matt and ended up bringing his present over to him and cancelling. Tucker's nose was on a running rampage and his rash looked as bad as ever, so bringing him to a festive evening of fun would be a little selfish on our part. We got 3 redbox movies instead.

Sunday was a lot more relaxed! Finally a day to catch up. I was able to get allll the laundry through the machine (including Dewy's clothing just now returned from deployment), as well as hem a dress for Erin for the ball coming up. We decide to take a walk to the park before dinner. Tucker insisted on not getting in the stroller for the first half of it and walking by daddy.

When we got to the little park all Tucker wanted to do was go play with the big kids that were already there! He looooved them and their huge bikes.
He's in like a "pee your pants this is so exciting" stance. The kids were really sweet to him and indulged his interest in them and their big kid toys.

As usual, Wes is hidden in blankets.

On our way out we noticed this....

a bit much I'd say! 5 years old.... really???

One Car, No More

Friday I needed to get out to do something active so I decided a walk would be nice and then I could multitask and make calls to my family too. My dad is stationed at the base in Afghanistan where the Koran's were burned so there has been a lot of nerveracking things going on. He says they are on complete lockdown, including water, all forms of sewage disposal, food, and anyone coming to or from the base. Is sounds horrible! Luckily my dad found a porta potty that no one knows about and hasn't been completely filled up. Ya, disgusting.... not to mention how nervous I am about it all. It is definitely a very dangerous place right now.

It was pretty windy on our walk and it made a nice little obstacle course for us.


Dewy and I have been planning on getting another car and finally just had to forget our other errands and just go get one. The coming week was scheduled up so tightly we knew we couldn't handle it with one car. We just buckled down and spent Friday evening getting another! We had done lots of research online and found the best deals to be down in Austin, so down we went!

We were both set on good gas mileage, newish car, and not white. Although really it was just me that was picky about the color. I don't want matching cars! Sorry!

We found the perfect fit. It was an amazingggg deal on an '08 volkswagen passat. Our limit was '09 in car year, but they gave us suchhhhh a good deal we couldn't turn it down. It is heavenly!

It is reallyyyy spacious for front and back seating which was important to us since we plan on using this car for road trips if need be. The trunk is large enough to fit the double stroller... also a must.
We just loooove it.

We were heading home at 6 and decided it was a Chili's night to celebrate our new purchase!

Please ignore mismatched hair color and skin tone.