buddies

One of price's best buddies is Mason. They are quite a pair with a lot of energy. Here they are at Chick-fil-a's play area.

Swinging monkeys

silly faces

short shorts

Our new "trick" for solving the dilemma of what to do when quade's clothes get wet and he doesn't want to wear them, is to trade clothes with Price. This works for 2 reasons: 1) Price could care less if the clothes are wet 2) Quade's hips are so skinny that he wears the same size Price does.

Here is a picture of Quade at 4 yrs old

Here is a picture of Quade at 17 months wearing the same shorts!

Fair Day (or maybe fair night)

October 2nd was Quade's school's fair day...which means that school is cancelled so students can go to the Texas State Fair.
Since Bruce just started at his job he couldn't take a weekday off. But he could leave work a little early. So we decided to do a post-nap, evening trip to the fair.
It just so happened that there was a major storm headed towards downtown dallas the night we decided to go.
we went anyway!
Because of the storm we parked right by the entrance, the weather was cool and there was nobody there. Perfect!
At school quade has been learning about the fair and he thought he wanted to ride the ferris wheel. He changed his mind when we arrived.


We went to the bird show...the first time we had been.

I was a little distracted as i watched the storm arrive.

As soon as the show was over we sought shelter and ate a little dinner.

After only 15 minutes the storm passed and the sky was beautiful!

Tried fried cookie dough and fried butter...enough said!

Breath-taking midway

Quade's first ride...when it whipped him around he decided he wasn't a fan.

Price wanted to ride all the rides (including the big kid ones)

Convinced quade that the bumper cars were not scary and he LOVED them!

It was a great time and we made some great memories!!

special delivery

I walked into the kitchen from my office and found this!
more joy! (makes up for the fact that he threw up on the car ride home from school today). =)

Uncle Adam and Cousin Zachary come to visit

A few days before Labor Day Weekend my little brother emailed me to see if he and his little guy, Zachary, could come visit us for the weekend (his wife was going to visit a girlfriend).

They live in South Carolina and we hadn't seen them since Christmas so of course we were excited.

We had an awesome time. The boys got along great with Zachary. Quade and Price thought Uncle Adam was hilarious!

Uncle Adam's love for chocolate milkshakes definitely a genetic trait...Zachary was a huge fan as well!

Getting ready for church...silly guys!

"identical cousins"...these two guys were hilarious together. two little curly headed blondes with very happy personalities.

Finding the joy...

So with my mantra "find the joy in parenting"...here are some recent stories that have brought laughter to our home. Enjoy

Quade: i have a mosquito bite on my leg! it's right next to my favorite leg hair.


Price: mommy, mommy, MOMMY!
Me: yes Price
Price: knock knock!
Me: who's there?
Price: Price!


Quade: Daddy I want to be a pilot. like Pontius Pilate.
Bruce: um, pontius pilate wasn't a pilot. in fact he killed jesus.
Quade: ok then i'll just be a pilot


After asking Quade about what he learned in Sunday school he said he learned about Jonah and David. We informed him that David is not in the Jonah story.
Quade's response: "Well, David is Jonah's middle name".

in the car on the way to school, after saying "no" several times to the requests to watch a movie. I said we were going to listen to music. Price starts chanting "Rock, rock, rock!". then he proceeded to shoot down all radio stations until when a rock song started playing he said "yes, rock! price song."

keep the joy coming! i LIKE it!

Breaking records...

disclaimer: parental bragging below

Watts is already trying to show up his brothers.

So far he is the tallest and biggest of the 3 boys.

He is quite the sleeper...i thankfully got 7 hours straight of sleep last night (praise the Lord!).

He broke quade's record for rolling over...rolling from his tummy to his back at 5 weeks. way to go mr. watts!