april showers... and flies!!

oh where oh where did the month go?? we've been busy that's for sure. :) the month has come and gone SO fast. wow. cj is 11 months old today. he's roughly 25 lbs, 8 teeth, and pretty much walking. he is so busy and fun... just the happiest, silliest little personality. we are so blessed.




in mid-april, we went to supercross with our riding pals, as well as the perkins' and cousin aidan. everyone thorougly enjoyed the races.

this is a pic of randy, kaetlyn, aidan and craig walking in to the event.

the following week, i decided to have some baby k time and picked up the little sweetness from school at lunchtime. she had eaten, but i hadn't so we went to a restaurant and i got lunch. she got ICE CREAM!!! lucky kid! after lunch we went to my work for a couple hours, where she entertained my crew, then we went to see the movie 'How to Train a Dragon.' she loved it so much she cried for an hour afterwards because she wanted to see it again.... craig took her back to see it again on sunday... rough life she has.

while craig and kaeltyn were at the movie, i tried diligently to catch cj's preliminary walking on camera. not so easy when his steps were so unpredictable... i did get some cute footage though.

FRIDAY!

i just LOVE this picture of cj so i had to get them it up here. :) last night craig and i got a sitter so we could go ride 3 wheelers with the grown ups for a little bit. on the way home i was explaining to kaetlyn that kalee was a girl that was going to come stay with them and play with them for a couple hours while we were out. 'but mom,' she said, 'who's mom is going to stay with us?' she couldn't quite get the concept. it was really cute. 'you mean she's going to make me dinner? and cj dinner? how'd she get so big already? why is no mom going to stay with us?' cute stuff.

craig and i had fun and the time passed quickly. kaley enjoyed the kiddos and said she would be happy to do it again anytime, so that's a good thing. she's the 16 daughter of a woman that works at the kids' school.

tonight we are leaving for houston for the weekend. tomorrow night we're going to watch SUPERCROSS with our traction friends. should be fun times and the kiddos (and daddies) will enjoy it tremendously!

TGIF

easter weekend

unfortunately i didn't get any pictures of our family dressed up for eater morning. we were a little off kilter (more than usual) on easter morning. kaetlyn woke up at 6 am! and hung out with my dad till me, craig and cj woke up. she messed up the entire basket, egg hunt, blah blah because she was awake. then it was a dash to get ready for 9 am church, etc. oh well! we still had a good time, and fortunately they are still to young to know the difference.

we had an action packed week though. my dad came in town on wednesday night and stayed through sunday. craig and i both took friday off work to have some family time. our list of activities for friday and saturday included children's museum (kaetlyn says buseum), strawberry farm & austin zoo. not to mention, adult dinner out (thanks to tina for watching the kiddos), easter egg decoration, a wonderful easter lunch, and 3 wheeling! and lets not forget the best part - quality family time and memories shared...we were busy!

cj is such a trooper he just hangs with us and soaks it all in. sleeps where he can and absorbs the rest. wide eyes. he really wants to keep up with his sister and tries on many occasions to play with her. pretty funny. i will have to get this on video soon.

when dad got home he sent a really funny email titled 'Easter from a 3 year old: Kaetlyn Perkins.' This is what it said: 'I asked her Saturday night what happened on Easter. Kaetlyn's reply: 'Jesus got on the cross, then the eggs come.' Oh well, close enough.' Funny kid. We made it through the zoo in 1 hour, including the petting zoo and we circled that 3 times! She was so excited, running from one exhibit to the next... 'daddy, what's in this one? wow, take a picture daddy...' then on the to the next as fast as she could. it was so cute. i think we broke a record.

all of the pictures from the weekend are on the Web Album in the folder titled Easter 2010. Here are a couple cute ones, but there are many more.