Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Happy, Happy Birthday!! - August 18, 2012

Originally we had wanted to do a small party with the other family who was in Texas with us, however they went back home at the beginning of the week and with us also trying to pack up and be out the beginning of the following week we ended up packing & cleaning the entire day! Fun, I know!! However it has been a tradition ever since I can remember to go out to dinner for my birthday, so I WOULD NOT let that one slide!! I mean we have to do SOMETHING fun on mine and Parker's birthday! So around 4 pm we left for San Antonio to go to Red Robin for dinner...YES, we drove 2 hours just to go eat dinner!! We just love that place and that's where I wanted to go!! It was delicious and totally worth the 2 hour drive in my opinion, plus we did a couple other errands while we were there.

The Birthday Boy & Girl:

Can he really be 4 years old already??! He is growing up so fast :(
I just love this picture! Parker's face just cracks me up and really captures his personality! haha
 Tyler & Chris...I have NO idea what happened to his face! Parker said he scratched him and Tyler said the fan scratched him...Who knows! haha
 We took the gifts with us...
 He was super excited about this gift! lol They got better, this was only the first one! He also got money from family, dry-erase dot to do and number writing books, dry erase washable markers, and an Inno Tab (like a kid's version of an i-pad or tablet or something. It has games, books, color/painting, music, videos and more, plus you can download learning games and books and stuff. We thought it would be perfect for him for the 3-day drive back to Idaho!! He also got a new bike, with the birthday money he got! All in all, a good birthday for him!!)

Happy Birthday Parker and Lindsay :)

Texas House

I know this post is a little late, well really late since we are now back in Rexburg!! Oh well, my family wanted to see pictures of the house we stayed in while in Texas, so here they are!

Downstairs Bedroom...aka Play Room!

The biggest, single-pane windows I've ever seen in a house! And we may have had to replace not 1, but 2 of the panes of glass while we lived there...for 5 months! All I can say is boys will be boys!!

 Family Room:

The downstairs had 10 foot ceilings! The space under the stairs is where the water heater and furnace and air conditioning unit is.
 The TRUE front door!! Isn't it huge?!! Apparently they call it a funeral door, sure came in handy when moving the big furniture in!

 Dining Room:

(Those curtains were already up when we moved in...)
 View from the play room:

Kitchen:

All these pictures were taken with my phone on the day we moved out. This is the half of the kitchen that got soaked in the flooding incident when we first moved in!! (Parker decided to spray the kitchen with the sink hose and left about 1/4" of water on the floor!)
View of whole kitchen, from the dining room...

Downstairs Bathroom:

 Claw-foot tub, on a dolly with wheels!! lol Yes, it's true and I may have been afraid to use it for fear that it would move, but it didn't! We still only used it to give the boys their baths. 
 The door opens into the play room.

 "Front" Door:

(It's not really at the front of the house, but it's the only door we used since it's the one closest to the car!)
 View from Dining Room:

 Laundry Room:

(Front door is on the left)
 The front door is on my right, the laundry room is on my left.

 View from Front Door:

 View from Stairs:

 Parker's Room:

(He only had this bed for about a week or so because since it was a rented bed (originally for Chris' brother who left to another job) one of the other crew member's needed it, so we bought him a toddler bed instead.)
 Like our curtains??! Really wish there were actual blinds on the windows!

Tyler's Room:

 Small closet on the left, used for storage! The only thing we had to use for curtains...ugly, I know! haha
 The ONLY closets in the whole house!! 

 Master Bedroom/Loft:

All these pictures were taken with my phone right before we moved out. View from the top of the stairs...
 Door to Parker's room...
 Door to Tyler's room...
 Door to outside balcony (which we couldn't use because the owner is repairing it), the bathroom is just around the corner of the cabinet...
 View of whole room...

Upstairs Bathroom:

These pictures also were taken with my phone on the day we moved out...Kept forgetting to take them earlier!
 The bottom of the shower is yellow because the owner had re-finished or painted or whatever you do to a shower but didn't do it with the same color as the rest of the shower!

Friday, August 3, 2012

Brady,Texas Pool

A lot of time has been spent at this pool this summer! Even though we have a pool here in Mason, we still drive the 30 minutes to this pool because it is a lot more kid-friendly for Tyler. Parker swims pretty well with his life jacket on in any depth but Tyler has still been getting used to wearing a life jacket and the pool in Mason starts out at 2ft, and doesn't have anything except a small water slide, so there isn't much for Tyler to do. 
 Tyler wanted to get down and play and clearly didn't want to have anything to do with the camera! (It was break time..)
 So happy to have actually gotten a good picture of me and Parker!!
 Playing with his friend, Samuel
 That is a penquin that Tyler got for his birthday...Parker won't let that thing out of his sight!
 Chris has even gotten to play some basketball with the guys the few times they didn't have to work on a Saturday.