Brek's Baptism

Brek turned 8 on the 12th!!!  My little girl is getting so big!  We're so proud of her for making the decision to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  She was so lucky to be able to have BOTH sets grandparents there for her baptism along with TWO aunts and cousins!  Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes her way.  We're so glad you were thinking of her from afar. :)  She was baptized the day after her birthday on the 13th.

 Brek and Daddy

The whole family

Bruce decided to fall asleep on the way there so this was the best pic we could get out of him 

Brock was able to baptize Brek

I love these two all in white! 

Aunt Kristin, Brek, Grandma andGrandpa 

Bruce, Tyce, Nana and Jax

Nana was trying to take a pic with Brek when the boys jumped in!

I couldn't resist sharing these ones of Bruce's silly face! 

Again with silly Bruce :) 

Tyce, Nana and Jax 

Brek and Nana 

The whole crew!

Thanks for coming!!! 

Papa, Nana and Brek

The baptism was so special, and Brek was so sweet.  We are so blessed to have her as a part of our family.  We are so proud of her!

Train them up!

This video was too cute not to share.  Bruce was talking to Daddy one night while he was "doing the dishes."

Elgin Wildcats

It's football season!!!!

 We had our family football picture taken 8:00 on a Saturday morning so I was able to snap a few of the kids while they were all dressed up.

This is the "normal" picture.  Haha! :) 

Summer Fun

I was recently reconnected with my best friend Leah from high school and found out that she lives about an hour from us!  I was so excited!  We made a trip to her house to play one day.  We had a blast!

The kids all loaded up in the mule to head down to the pond 

We had so much fun playing in the water!  We got to jump on this awesome trampoline into the water and then canoe around.  They also have chickens that my kids were LOVING!  After our trip, Luke told me that he wanted to save his money to buy a chicken. :) 

The kids were pretty wiped out from our fun trip to Leah's! 

Luke and Bruce in their dinosaur shirts

Bruce has been making these funny faces for the camera lately.  He cracks me  up. 

Tyce all dressed up for church

He got this suit as a hand me down from some friends, and he loves it!  Doesn't he look so handsome?? 

I think this is our best sleeping picture to date.  Can you believe Tyce fell asleep like this?! 

Brek and her friend dressed up as twin nerds :) 

Bruce and Daddy

Love these two!

Uncle Brandon's Visit

One of the favorite things for my kids to do these days is give Bruce a piggyback ride.  And he loves it! 

Brock's brother Brandon was able to fly down here to visit us for about a week, and we had so much fun with him!  I hope he had fun, because I wouldn't blame him if he didn't!  He was busy working the entire time!  Brock had him doing football workouts up at the high school and then he was kind enough to help us out with a little car maintenance.  He's the best!

The boys all went camping one night down at Bastrop State Park.  They came back super sweaty, hot, and tired!  July is not exactly the best time to go camping in Texas. :)

Meanwhile back at home we were having GIRLS' NIGHT!!!

Shenanigans 

What's girls' night without a little fingernail polish? 

All of the girls who came to play! 

Brek had so much fun! 

We went fishing a different night...

First, crawdad fishing.  No luck. 

This lake was a no swimming lake, but Brek just couldn't stand it! 

That Sunday when we got home from church we turned around to see this.  Haha!  Nice mustache, Luke!  I'm pretty sure it's chocolate...

Brandon and Brock doing football/training stuff 

This super creepy spider was hanging out in our backyard one day.  Luke said, "I think it's a banana spider."  Okay... I looked it up.  It totally was a banana spider! 

This poor boy was having too much fun with the kids one day and fell into the bunk beds.  He knocked his 2 front top teeth back a bit.  I was freaking out!  I called the dentist here, but they were out to lunch.  So I called Dr. Keys and he was gone on a fishing trip!  Called Mom who called Kevin's office and got the info we needed.  I needed to set the teeth back in place.  Yikes.  Brock and I did our best, but they were still a little bit out of place.  His mouth kept getting more and more swollen and purple.  I took him into the dentist the next day where they did an X-ray.  Everything was fine.   

Silly pictures with Brandon before he leaves! 

Those boys were wore out! 

This was the next day.  You can kind of see his swollen upper lip.  He almost looked like a Who from Whoville.