Saturday, November 28, 2009

Thankful to be Seven

On Thanksgiving Jason turned seven! He was so excited for his birthday, but even more excited to see his cousin Sophie and Grandparents (More later on that visit). Yeah for turkey dinners, pie and birthday cake.
Link Birthday Cake

Jason Facts
Favorite Toy: DS
Favorite DS game: Zelda
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Song: Knights of Cydonia
Favorite Candy: Candy Corn
Favorite Book: Snails in School
What do you want to be when you grow up? "A Principal"

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Tree Quilt

I already posted pictures on my facebook account, but I love my quilt so much I thought that I would put a couple more up on the blog. The finished size is 65x82, it turned out quite large. There are 30 blocks total. I rarely keep quilts for myself, but Matt liked it so much, and my friend Christine told me that I needed to keep this one. I don't even want to think about the $$$ I invested in this one! The boys love the hidden spider that I free motioned hanging by one of the trees. I love the binding (which is kinda hard to see in the pictures) I pieced it together with some scraps that were left over. Everyone that sees it tries to pick out their favorite tree! Which one do you like?





Can you find the spider? See it's bigger then me!

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Brazos Animals!

We took so many awesome nature shots at Brazos Bend State Park, we needed to share some of them. Here are my favorites!
A bird eating a frog!

Handsome Gator!

Yeah! One of my most favorite animals! A golden orb weaver. They are so pretty, and they spin yellow silk, just amazing!


We refer to this picture as the standoff, we watched this standoff for a long time to see if there was a winner... But in the end the gator just went off into the water. We did see an alligator attack a huge dragon fly, but that was about all the excitement we saw.

Big birds

Big alligators! We saw 14 alligators total!

Big, blue and beautiful dragon fly!We even saw some savage children!

Grandma Joani and Bapa Visit

We were able to have some visitors a few weeks ago. Grandma Joani and Bapa came to Texas just to pay us a little visit. We had so much fun with them. Since they were here over Halloween they got to celebrate with us. We took them to Kemah to see the Boardwalk and the Ocean, It was fun because we took the kids (and grandparents in costume). Then we went Brazos Bend to see some beautiful sights and always some alligators. We even got to celebrate Jason's birthday early.
Jason showing grandma how to put together his new Lego's- Jason's a master lego builder and I think that Grandma was impressed!
Jason in costume at kemah... This reminded me of that scene in Indiana Jones... "Fly yes... Land No"


Riding the Kemah Railroad... who enjoyed it more, the kids or bapa?

Dressed to perfection! It was so fun to have the kids in their costume, everyone loved them, we got so many complements, and comments. I loved it when people knew who Ian was! We were told that Jason had the best Indy costume ever!
Here we are at Brazos Bend, we had beautiful weather, and the animals were out enjoying it !