Boy meets Girl

Baby Troy has to be tough to survive miss Paige.  She is literally smothering him with kisses and love!  She's very happy he's here!

Here is the meeting of cousins Annabelle and Troy.  He couldn't resist trying on one of her adorable bows!  I hope these two have many fun times ahead playing together!!!

daddy the dentist

If you have a wiggly tooth, seriously stay away from Layne (especially if he has pliers!)

Kyler on the other hand was thrilled, as losing teeth is about his only source of income.

I've forced the boys to do summer swim team this year.  Today they had their first meet and I really had to beg, bribe, and threaten them to do their events.  (It should'nt be this hard to have fun!)  They finally gave in and did great!  I'm such a mean mom I know!!! 

Kyler coming in strong from his freestyle!

If nothing else, they're cute!

hospital days

I do hate the hospital pictures.  You think you look all good and then when you go back, you always look so tired and worn out but I had to post this one with the others since baby is so sweet and alert!

New kid in town

We're in love with a new boy!  He's name is Troy David Liston.  Born May 26th.  He weighed in at 7 lbs 14 oz and 18 1/2 inches long.  He is so sweet!  Thanks to everyone for all the help with entertaining my other kids and celebrating his welcome with us!

His first car ride, he looked so small in his carseat!

 

Our family feels complete now.

Please stay small for a while longer.  We love you!!!

No school!

I packed up the kids and headed to Hill air force base museum.  I've never been there and have talked about going so today was the day since there was no school.  We made good time and got there in an hour.  

Sometimes at museums, my kids are really ready to get out of there after 15 minutes, but today they spent 2 full hours saying, "look at this," or "take a picture of this so we don't forget it!"  It made the afternoon really fun since they all had a good time!

Of course Grandma is always ready for an adventure!

Thanks for coming along!

They had a hard time choosing their favorite planes, there were two huge rooms full of either bomber planes or fighter planes.  The boys decided the best one was the "blackbird" which is made for speed and can fly 35 miles a minute.  We liked the video on that one!

Maybe one of them will play into my secret ploy and become a pilot so I can travel! or not.  Either way, we had a great day and are ready for school in the morning!

Love

So, maybe when you think of Valentines day, your thoughts turn to hearts, candy, flowers, love...but what about the Monster Truck Show?  Well, that's what these boys decided to do for the afternoon and they had a great time.  They went with grandpa, and of course uncle Jake and Brady who drummed up the whole idea!  They came home with stories and were very excited so it was a successful day!  Sadly, Paige and I had to respectfully decline the invitation to go!

 

Here's all the lone girls without a date for Valentines, while the men were away!  We did have fun and really, there is nobody quite like a sister!  You can have no real plans and silly the afternoon away!  (of course mom has now transformed into being our sista too!) 

 

We ended with a nice "romantic" dinner for the family and a double hitter of movies.  I'm always nervous cooking for Layne's dad but Layne and I won his praise!  I was sad to see this fun day end!  I love you!  (you people know who you are!) JoJo

Kids!

Even though Zach's birthday is in September, he was able to celebrate today. He had forgotten about a gift card from Target and it's really been burning a hole in his pocket since he found it last week. He searched all the aisles and settled on a hovering remote control aircraft. Well, we got home and the tears weren't far behind. On it's third flight he let Paige take the controls - right into the wall- and broke off a wing. It still hovers inches off the floor and so after a bit of sadness, he's back to playing. (I could've told him he was choosing a dud, but who wants something stable, like a board game?)

Paige admiring some of her gifts from her Valentine pixie.

Kyler did awesome on his first oral report ever! Mr. Milton S. Hershey was quite a guy, so if you'd like to know more, just ask Ky!