Aaah, it's been so long...

Whoa Gabey looks a little bit crazy in this picture. In his defense, he was a bit sleepy. This is at an Astros game. Thanks Mike and Layney for the tickets.So I don't know why I stopped doing this, but it seems to be a constant trend in my life. I stop blogging and then I miss it, and feel like i'm missing out on awesome opportunities to document our lives. Plus, it's so cool to be able to see what everyone's up to, I miss knowing what's happening a 1000 miles away. So here I go again, hopefully i'll last a bit longer this time. We got home from a long visit in Utah about 2 months ago, and were happy to be home. Sarah, my little sister, came with me and she just left to go back to Utah. She is sorely missed. We've just been trying to catch up with our buddies since she's been gone. Sophi and Gabe missed playing with their friends, and so did I. As much as we love little Sasa, we are happy to be hangin out again. Here's some recent pics.

My little guy

Everyone that knows Gabe knows that he loves monsters. He talks about "da monstoo" all the time, he talks in a growling monster voice all the time, and his favorite book of all time is "Where the Wild Things Are". It's really funny. Another obsession of his is cars and trucks. It's all about cars. Really his whole vocabulary consists of monster and car words and noises. Whenever he talks on the phone to anyone he has to tell them all about "da cawrs". Recently our friends gave us this big toy truck to borrow for a few days, he's hardly let it out of his sight. The other day we were in the parking lot and all of a sudden we couldn't find Gabe. We called him and started looking around for him. Then a few seconds later we see him trying to climb into this guy's truck. This guy had his passenger door open and Gabe saw it as an opportunity to jump in I guess. Luckily he was nice about it, Gabe was pretty upset when we had to take him away from that big ol truck. How does he know that he's a boy. I never told him.

Swimming Fun

Check out my big girl! She is getting so big, and it is so fun to watch her play like this. Enjoy!

Galveston

These are the lovely beaches of Houston Texas. They are not the greatest of beaches, but they are beaches. They even have waves sometimes. I have seen people surf there believe it or not. It takes about an hour to get to Galveston and we usually make a day of it. Here are some pics that we took down there.



Gabriel was a little scared of the water. He wouldn't even let us hold him going in. So he stayed by the towels and played in the sand.

Happy 4th

It was a hot and sweaty 4th in Houston. We had a great time though. We started out at the parade. We got lots of candy and fun 4th of July things. It rained in the afternoon (like everyday) and cooled things off a little bit. Then we went over to Jenn and Ryan's and ate until we were about to explode. Delicious! Then we went to the fireworks and listened to the kids yell happy July. It was a lot of fun.

I had to

While Carli was away in Utah, I grew some pretty sweet facial hair. I am pretty sure that it would be permanent except, Carli doesn't like it all that much. She says that it hurts the kids faces when I kiss 'em. I don't know, but I wore it proud when she was gone. I let her see it when she got off the plane and she was pretty mad about it. I was hoping that she would see it and just fall in love with it. No such luck though. What do you think?

I just don't get it!?!

Hello again

There is so much catching up to do. I have been out of commission for a while, and I am sorry. Utah looks better than ever. I always forget how beautiful mountains make everything. See what I am talking about. Who knew that swinging on swings could look so good? I don't know, but the wedding was just so much fun and very beautiful. He did it in the back yard of a friend. This guy is a professional landscaper and it was absolutely gorgeous. This yard had everything from a waterfall that emptied into a pond with live fish, to a putting green with different locations for tee off. We took it on one of the tee off spots about twenty yards from the green.
All in all it was a great time.