Family

In early August, we had a little time to get together with my dad's brother's family. We got to celebrate little Wyatt's first birthday together (Erin's son) and also go to a Rangers game together. It was an extra special treat (and kind of impromptu) to have Lela fly out to join us for the weekend!

Gin-Gin brought some exciting mega bubble wands. Wesley enjoyed them in his pj's.

We also went swimming at Audra's apartment complex. Here is Uncle Stan hanging out with the two smallest dudes of the bunch, Curtis and Wyatt.

Wyatt's first birthday party!

The second cousin crew at the Rangers game:

Curtis, Wyatt, Libby, Wesley & Gus (with Nate & Erin)

We also had a family visit to the Kimbell (minus Colin, he had to stay in CA to work)

And just for fun, a picture of the boys sporting their boots.

July Catch-Up

There are a few more pictures from July I've been meaning to include on the blog. So 2 months later…

Wesley was very proud of his robot creations from duplos.

We had a weekend visit with Golly and Granddad.

And we even started a little of this. But we have made very little headway since. :)

Happy Birthday to Wesley!

Today is Wesley's actual 4th birthday, but we had celebration #1 two weekends ago so we could celebrate with Mimi (her 90th birthday was yesterday). This was at least her second celebration, but when you turn 90, I think you get to celebrate as many times as you want.

My parents brought a nice bbq meal for lunch that was yummy. My Aunt Debbie and her kids, Kristen and Eric also came from Austin, and they were extremely helpful in getting everything together.

Wesley wanted a Little Einsteins cake this year, and I did not feel the inspiration to try to make one at all. We got one from HEB. I dropped it. It actually made it out surprisingly well, thankfully.

Wesley got a Cars bicycle from Misha and Gin-Gin along with a Cars helmet from Mimi. We exchanged the helmet for one that fit his noggin a little better, but it's still red and black to match his bike.

Curtis made a pretty good haul too, even though it was Wesley's birthday.

That evening, after Mimi, Debbie, Kristen and Eric took a field trip to the Kimbell Art Museum, we all went for pizza at Texas Royal. Then we came back to the house for a second round of cake (requested by Mimi) and visited. It was a good day. We still have one more celebration to go with JM's family (they were unable to come to this one).

Mimi's 90th Birthday Celebration

On July 9th, Mimi's church had a triple birthday celebration for three of their members who turn 90 this summer. Mimi is one of them! Mimi's actual birthday isn't until the end of August, but the other two honorees had their birthdays earlier in the summer.

We kicked off the day with a little pre-party reading entertainment.

And Mimi and Wesley watched some video footage from our California trip on the iPhone.

Here is the camera crew gearing up for the event.

First, there was some congregational singing. Each honoree got to pick three of their favorite hymns. It was a little tough to keep two little boys content during every verse of nine songs! Then we got around to eating barbeque that was smoked by one of the members. It was pretty tight quarters, so there was a lot of socializing to be done before we all got through the line. It was worth the wait!

Wesley entertained himself with Mimi's "Birthday Girl" balloon which she happily handed over to him.

Wesley was proud to write his own name in Mimi's HUGE card

Then came time for cake and ice cream. Each birthday boy/girl got to pick their own flavor of cake. Mimi chose Italian cream. The other two were chocolate and carrot cake. Members also supplied various flavors of yummy homemade ice cream.

Wesley chose carrot cake

The happy birthday girl

Wesley and Curtis had some fun little playmates

Once the festivities were over, Mimi took all of her goodies to the couch and thoroughly enjoyed looking through each and every card and gift. She looked especially cute (and happy) reading all of the notes on her humongous card that everyone signed. There were lots of chuckles, and then she concluded her time, with "Well, that was very heart-warming!" And then she invited me to read through all of them myself. I obliged. :)

Here is Curtis enjoying his latest book installment from Misha and Gin-Gin when we returned home. He is learning new words all the time!

The Chinese Outfit

This post is for my sister. I barely squeezed Curtis into the cute little Chinese outfit (she had originally gotten for Wesley) before it was too late. Wesley had his own photo shoot by Lela when we were visiting Austin in 2008. He was 15 months (above). Here is Lela's post with pictures. Here, Curtis is 19 months.