Flashback Friday - Volume 32: Florida 2013

At the end of June, we headed to Florida for a week long vacation.  We flew into Key West where we stayed for 3 nights, then we drove north to Miami to visit Grandpa Buster and Lisa for another 3 nights, then drove north once again to Winterhaven for one night where we went to Legoland for two half days.  We had fun going to the beach, swimming at the pool, taking a glass bottom boat tour, eating good food, and the older boys enjoyed a Florida Marlins game with daddy and Grandpa.  Legoland was the highlight of the trip...we ALL loved it!  We did both the amusement and water park and they were so fun.  The boys were brave on their first roller coaster experiences, and I even got to ride one on my own...brought back memories of Astroworld!  We highly recommend visiting Legoland!  Toby did great on both flights, but did not enjoy the car rides, which were long at times!  I think he must have felt cramped in the backseat as we had all 3 kids in the same row and he was smack in the middle!

Picture overload below in no particular order!

Beach in Key West

Toby took a long nap on the beach

Doing the tourist thing

Beautiful view from our boat tour 

The boys made a new friend "Brandon"

Swimming at Grandpa's

Silly boys in their new visors since we forgot hats!

Eating cherries with Grandpa

Ready for some fun!

First stop, the carousel

Amazing!

Arriving in Key West...we got the Shamu plane!

Flashback Friday - Volume 31: Celebrating Gigi

In May and June, we celebrated two milestones with Gigi. The first was her 60th birthday in May. Russ, Kelly, and Brent planned a surprise party for Janice at Café Adobe. We all met for lunch and had a great time visiting with friends and family. On June 23rd, Janice and Robert tied the knot. They got married on the FantaSea which sailed out of Kemah and it was such a fun and pretty wedding. There was a full moon that night and it was really neat to sail on the water while eating, dancing, and celebrating Janice and Robert!

 

27, 28, 29

May has been a busy month, and the boys recently hit some age milestones.

Kyle turned 5 on the 27th.  He had a fun Memorial Day birthday that started out with opening presents from mom and dad in the morning before heading to the neighborhood pool celebration in the afternoon for lunch and swimming for 3 hours.  Afterwards Nanna and Poppy came over to bring Kyle his presents before we headed to Gigi's for a joint birthday dinner for Kyle and Brent where he was gifted once again.

Ready to rip into them!

Nerf gun!

The lego set he has been talking so much about

More legos and his camo shirt

Cupcakes at Gigi's

His favorite color green 

Toby turned 3 months on the 28th.  I always said 3 months was when the babies became a little more fun...of course this was also when I was usually headed back to work!  I am happy (and lucky!) to get to stay home with Toby post 12 weeks!  He has entered his 4th month by doing lots of talking, smiling, laughing, and he has even taken long morning naps in his crib the past 3 days.  Tuesday and Wednesday were 1 hr 45 minutes and 2 hours today!  Then I had to wake him from a second nap of one hour nap to go get Kyle today.  Maybe we've turned the corner on napping?!  The secret is the white noise and laying on his tummy.  Don't judge, it's what works for naps and I check on him often!  Sometimes he'll take the pacifier, but he isn't the best at keeping it in his mouth.

More tummy time!

All smiles!

Ryan turned 2 1/2 on the 29th.  He spent his day being the typical 2 1/2 year old!  He can be a little toot and has begun to protest his nap more, but he still needs the rest!  He has been falling asleep on his floor since after I leave he climbs out of bed and yells "mooommmmy" for a few minutes before giving it up.  He often wakes up 30 minutes later realizing he is on the floor and will either fall back asleep there or today I put him in his bed and he went right back down.  His new favorite phrase is "what where mommy?"...love that silly boy!
  

Sweet big brother

"Mommy, I wanna hold him"

Put his shorts on all by himself

He ran away when I said I wanted a picture!