Stanton Olympics!!!

For the past three years, we have been going to the Stanton Summer Olympics. It is a group of young married couples that get together for a bunch of different events. We have to dress up with a costume each year. Spencer and I were WonderWoman and SuperMan last year. I always forget to take pictures, but this year I actually took a few. I wish I would have taken more, but I didn't. Anyways, the first year we got first at the summer olympics and the winter olympics. Last year, we got 2nd at the summer olympics and unfortunately this year we got third. We seem to be getting worse each year. This year we had to represent a country that started with our last name...so Spencer and I were Brazil. We got a Brazil soccer uniform. It turned out pretty good.

We went to a high school for the first few events. The events were: ping pong tournament, obstacle course and an academic relay. We did not do so hot after these 3. I did place third in ping pong, but the other two events were embarassing for us. We only had 6 points and were in 8th place out of 9 couples. We went back to the house and had 4 more events. They were: rootbeer relay, golf chipping, underwater holding your breath and small basketball goal shooting. We got first in the rootbeer chugging relay, 3rd in the underwater holding breath and I think 4th in the basketball shooting. We did not place in the golf chipping. I suck at golf. We had a chance to win the entire competition if we would have placed high in the golf, but we ended up with third. There is always next year...

. Underwater breath holding event

Spencer under water.

We stayed the night at Spencer's mom's house and Tarren slept on the big bean bag. I came in and Tarren and Spencer were both sleeping in the same manner.

We went to church on Sunday and I dressed Tarren in his sunday outfit that we bought him. It is a 3-6 month suit and he almost did not fit. He looked very handsome.

First week of school...

So, this past week was the first of week of school. It was pretty interesting. I am so exhausted from it that I didn't want to go anywhere this weekend. I just wanted to stay inside. We had volleyball try-outs for the 7th and 8th grade girls. I am an 8th grade coach, but we have to go to both try-outs to help out. So, I had to be there at 5:45 a.m. and then stay till 4:30 after school. We normally only go 3 days, but it was so hard to decide we had to go 4. I hate doing cuts. We have to pull the kids into our office and tell them if they made it or they didn't. It is so heartbreaking when you have to tell the kids they didn't make it and they start to cry. It is tormenting. I wish we did what they used to do when I was in Junior High...post a made list. This way if they didn't make the team they wouldn't have to try and fight the tears in front of their coaches. You can see it in their faces how humiliated they are that they are crying in front of you. I HATE CUTS!!!! I am not looking forward to when I have to do it again during basketball season. Other than how long my week seemed and the horrible cuts I had to do, I think it will be a good year.

Tarren's 4 month check-up

We went to the doctor today for Tarren's 4 month check-up. It is a little early because I start work on wednesday and I wouldn't be able to take him later on this month. Anyways, he weighed in at 16 lbs 5 oz. I know...he is a chunk! I can't believe how much he weighs. He is in the 80th percentile for his weight and the 75 percentile for head and height. He is 25 inches long...not too shabby. He had another round of vaccination shots. He was not too happy about those. He cried for a good 5 minutes and didn't want me to put him in the carseat. So, I held him till he calmed down and then we went our way. At least it will be another two months before we have to go through that again.

I start work tomorrow and Tarren will start going to Grandma's house full time. The first couple of weeks we have inservice so I will get to leave for lunch. We get a little over an hour. I plan to go visit my baby boy. This should ease me into getting use to leaving him all day. I still can't believe how fast the summer went. It feels like yesterday I was coming home from the hospital. I know the school year will go just as fast. For now, I must get ready for tomorrow.

Graduation...

We got up early yesterday and went to College Station for my brother's graduation. My dad came down from Kansas. I didn't know he was going to be there...it was exciting. Spencer went to the bathroom and passed the concession stand. He came back and got me to show me what it said. It had on the stand NACHOS with cheese....3.00. Well, we thought that was odd because we thought the definition of nachos was chips with cheese so it seemed a little redundant. I looked up the definition of nachos and it said: a snack or appetizer consisting of a small piece of tortilla topped with cheese, hot peppers, etc., and broiled...

We asked the concession stand workers and they ended up getting really confused. Here are their nachos...

And here is their cheese...

So, technically their sign should say... CHIPS with cheese...3.00. It was quite entertaining. Let's here it for the Aggies!!! :) I have nothing against them...I just thought it was funny.

We stayed down there and had lots of fun. Here are some pics of the fun times.

My dad, step-mom, Daniel and the kids.

Tarren's new thing...sucking in his bottom lip.

Cool Tarren!!

Cousin love!!!

My brother and his family, sister and her family and our family.

We went to Lubbock a couple of weekends ago to be there for our nephew's baptism and his brother's baby blessing. It was a nine hour drive and wasn't too bad on the way up. However, I got sick for the weekend and the trip home was miserable. I went to the doctor the following Monday and got medicine. So, these last few weeks I have not been as good about blogging or taking pictures. I do have a few though. We decided on the trip that we needed to start Tarren on cereal when we got home because he was just drinking way to much milk. My mom was kind enough to get us a few infafeeder bottles. I love them! It is so easy to feed him. I just make the cereal, dump it in the bottle and he sucks it down. I will try feeding him with a spoon maybe once a week.

He has also picked up a bad habit since we have gotten back. He is sucking his thumb. It does not matter what you do, he will put it right back in his mouth. We finally gave up on the idea of stopping him right now. We will wait until he is older and can understand a little better. I tried putting socks on his hands, but that didn't stop him either. He sucks those socks just as hard.

Another fantastic item given to us as a present is the baby hawk. I love it! We were trying to get the house cleaned up and Tarren was being fussy...so I put him in it and he actually fell asleep.

Summer Fun

Yesterday we went down to Pearland to have Tarren's picture taken. I had a free coupon from Olan Mills and the closest place was in Macy's in Pearland. So, we headed down to Pearland. The lady taking his picture was not the best. She could not get him to smile and if we tried to help she kept saying that we were confusing him. So, we got one pose for free and then the others we would have to pay for. I really just went for the free pose. It made it easier not to want to buy more pictures because of our options. They really weren't that fantastic. We were able to make it out of there without buying anything. We left there and met Spencer's mom, Lexi and Hunter for lunch. After lunch, we went back to the house and watched a movie. After the movie, we went outside to enjoy the hot weather for a little bit. Spencer and Hunter played a baseball game and I pushed Lexi in the swing. Then Spencer, Lexi and Hunter were playing on a slip 'n slide. They were having a lot of fun. I am not to keen on doing anything that requires me to land on my frontside right now...so I did not join in. I think after I stop nursing Tarren that I will find my way back to joys of landing on my stomach and chest. We hung out in Pearland until 11:30. It was fun to visit.

Spencer with Hunter on his back.

Spencer showing the kids how to slide.

Everyone should love chocolate!!!

Last night, we decided to have brownies after dinner. So, I mixed up a batch of brownie mix and Spencer decided to let Tarren have a taste.

Spencer put it in his mouth. I think he got a little in his mouth, but most of it ended up on his face.

Tarren is trying to decide if he likes this new taste or not.

He does! Why wouldn't he...he is my child!