We Love The Science Museum!

The Science Museum was awesome! I think it's safe to say that was the highlight of our trip! The best part for me was the astronaut ice cream. When I was a kid and going to school in Beaver we used to take field trips to the Space Museum in Liberal and we always got astronaut ice cream but no one seems to remember that but me! ;)
Future Weather Men maybe??? Looks like the boys could have a future reporting the weather! Hope that Oklahoma tornado doesn't carry them away!

The are in a tornado tunnel here. It was blowing so hard their eye lids were flapping!

Look at that hair!

Tristan was watching cuz make sand dunes! Now we know how Beaver Sand Hills change all the time!

Braden and Lauren on the tree totter \-/

Braden on the 3 story tree house! I tried to take Tristan down the 3 story slide and got stuck! Not really made for adults I found out. Not a fun experience! Stacie had to come rescue him half way through.~~Note to self...No more spiral slides until he is old enough to go down them alone!

Baylor was showing him cool tricks with this thing! It made some cool tunes!

Drummin' for Lauren

Braden was showing Dana and Stacie how to change their voices. There were so many fun things to do!

Playing on the big mouth! How appropriate! ;)

Grandma with Tristan, Baylor and Braden making the hot air balloon fly.

Baylor and Braden

Lauren and Stacie

And I couldn't forget this kodak moment! He got this stache with his tickets at Incredible Pizza. It was stuck on so good he had a red mark on his face after he ripped it off!

Mini Vaca In OKC

We also met Dana, Stacie, Braden, Lauren, Grandma & Baylor in OKC for a mini vacation for a few days. We had a great time! It was really nice having all the cousins together.
Lauren, Stacie & Braden driving go carts at Incredible Pizza. Looks like Stacie was winning at the time. I was standing on the bridge taking pics and Braden kept looking up waving at me on the way by. He was cracking me up!

Baylor thought he was something else! He got 2nd in the race but counted it as 1st cause he beat everyone in the family!

He went crazy on the bumper cars! Crashing into the 2 adults that were also riding!

We also went to the zoo. Tristan and I went while grandma went to get Baylor so they didn't go with us...Not that they missed much! It was the worst experience we have ever had at the zoo! T slept the 1st hour or more and once he woke up we only saw about 4 animals!

The elephants are gone for 2 years so we had to resort to the statue for a photo op! Here is Tristan, Lauren and Aunt Dana riding the baby elephant.

We did see a gorilla and an orangutan! All the kids really liked that! Other than that we saw GIANT turtles that were cool and Sea Lions and that's about it! We thought it was a big bust! I guess it was too hot for any of the animals to come out!

Lauren posing on a giant lizard.

Tristan's 1st Trip to Big Beav!

We went to Beaver for a couple of days to see Gram, Grandpa, Aunt Tam, Darci and especially cousin Elzee. The boys seemed to have a pretty good time. Aside from the dirty looks Tristan got when he was borrowing Elzee's swing :)
I don't don't if anyone will believe this but I actually FORGOT my camera...Hard to believe isn't it? I usually have it at all times and I had set it out to take and just took off without it. I was so mad! So all the pics from the Beaver trip will have to come from Darci and Gram. These are from Darci's camera. Hopefully Gram will send me some more!

They were playing tug of war to see who could get the whopper!

I think they may have been sticking their tongues out at each other.

Tristan found lots of toys at Aunt Tams that he thought he might need at home!

Getting Ready For A Fun Filled Week

Meet our new friend Patches. We went to eat lunch with daddy yesterday at the new and improved Great Plains Regional Medical Center. And we had to check out the new gift shop. And look what we found...The cutest sock monkey we have ever seen! We named him Patches and Tristan hasn't put him down since he got him. This may be his new best friend!
Look who thinks he's #1!

Patches don't got nothin' on momma! And NO he is not trying to get away from my kisses!

The love of mommy's life! He definitely has me wrapped around his little finger!

Tomorrow we are off to Beaver for a couple of days. I am excited to see him and Elzee play now that they are older. And Gram will get some quality time with her little greats. Then Saturday we are going to OKC to see cuz, grandma, Aunt Dana, Stacie, Braden and Lauren. That trip will be a lot of fun too! Tristan will get to take his first trip to the ZOO. I am sure I will have tons of pictures to post as soon as I get home.

1st Haircut

I plopped him in his highchair today for his first haircut!
I know the crazy hair is a little exaggerated but he has really been needing it cut.

I put Sesame Street videos on the computer and he was such a good boy. I don't even think he knew I was doing anything to him.

He never even moved except for the few dance moves when the good videos came on!

Look no more crazy hair over his ears!

I know his bangs are a little jagged but by the time I got to that part he was tired and rubbing his eyes so I'll get them when he sleeps.

Handsome baby boy!

3/4 Thru Our First Year As A Family!

Wow! I can't believe we are already 3/4 through our first year as a family. He has changed so much in the last month. Talking and playing games he has taken on such a personality of his own. I was going through old pictures today and saw one of Baylor when he was 1. It's crazy that 8 years have flown by and he is 9 now! I am not ready for time to fly by like that with Tristan. I am so thankful for the time I get to spend with him everyday. I can't imagine missing a second of my growing boys life. He is such a blessing to us and we will spend the rest of our lives trying to do right by him. No matter what happens in our lives we always have him to puta smile on our face. Thank you Tristan!

My sweet angel! This is my favorite picture ever of him! I melt when I look into these eys!

At 9 months he weighed in at 23 lbs and was 31" long.

It was hard to get many smiles out of him. He was way to busy looking around at all the new things he had never seen. I guess this one is more of a smirk than a smile.

He looks so big here!

Yes he is about to put something in his mouth! I stopped him before it happened but it made a cute pic!

The new Phillips 66 model ;) Checkin' out the fishies!

He found a hiking stick.

I think he wanted to crawl through all the grass here.

So cute!