Monday, October 17, 2011

Bowling Coast Trip July 2011

Most every year we take a trip to the Texas coast with the entire Bowling family. This years trips was the most amazing. The kids are at such a great age. The twins loved the beach! It was their large sand box. Cedar was indifferent but had a great time as well. These trips are super exhausting and a lot of work for mommy and daddy (as well as our helpers) but soooooo worth it! I love that our kids have such a big family and for them to spend time with them every year is just priceless. Here are a few of my favorite pics from the trip. A special thanks to Aunt Amanda for taking and sharing great pictures!!
Ice cream break on the beach. What better place to eat messy food?
I believe this was a toy story break. All the kids together could get a little overwhelming in the room. It was nice to pop in a movie for a decrease in the noise and energy level when getting ready for a meal with the family.
Cedar in his beachwear.
Aunt Amanda is not only a great photographer but she is a talented seamstress as well. She and grandmommy teamed up and made the kids all matching outfits for photos on the beach. This is the best one of my three. It is actually the only one out of many that all three faces can be seen. The beach really enhances short term attention spans.
I know this is not the best picture but I love it because of the look on Calla's face. This excitement is what we got to see from her especially the entire time we were at the beach. She just loved it. It warms my heart to see her so happy. She would run down to the water and when it caught her she would turn and run back to the sand. She did this over and over and over laughing all the way. It was so sweet!
Cousin Lilly and Calla are here with uncle Rusty checking out the fish in the water below the restaurant we ate at.
The beach was so exciting that Cedar just couldn't take anymore. He fell asleep. When my arms were about to fall off I took him up to the room. He didn't wake up until I put him in the bath. Too much fun that day.
Our big wonderful family (most of it) at the aquarium in Corpus Christi. The kids really loved the aquarium also a good age for it.
The bowling brothers goofing around at the beach.
Cedar enjoying his ice cream pop.

Sweet face.
Eleanor and Uncle Mitch at the fish restaurant.

Uncle Mitch and Cede hanging out after eating. They share the same middle name, Brett.
Calla and daddy at the aquarium.

Uncle Mitch and Carter. We are so blessed to have so many wonderful aunts and uncles that love our children! We love them too!!

This was at the Dolphin show which sounded like a great idea, but ended up not being for Carter. He cried through the entire thing and made me miserable and I am sure the folks around us as well. It could not be over fast enough. Calla and Cedar enjoyed it though.
The twins leaving the aquarium with Uncle Mitch and our soon to be Aunt Eleanor. They are going to make wonderful parents one day!

Carter in his cool shades.
Fun in the car. Overall all of the car riding, the kids did really well. They actually tolerated better than I did.
MawMaw put together these wonderful backpacks that were full of new toys. This dinosaur was one of them. This kept the kids busy all the way to the coast. Thanks mawmaw you knew just what we needed!!

July 2011

7/18 Dress up fun.


7/16 Oh my! He does love yogurt.



7/5 Yes, now they all three play under my cabinets.


7/4 Carter hanging out with daddy in the back yard on the 4th of July.



7/4
They had been playing in the pool. Cedar looks like he is deep in thought.



7/3 This pool was so much fun this summer. The kids loved it. Cousin Cade had fun playing with them too. Carter is playing with the air pump. It is sometimes very strange the things that he seems to get attached to.



7/3 Cedar in the pool.



7/3 Calla enjoyed the sprinklers.



7/3
Still hanging on to that air pump. He wouldnt put it down, didnt want anyone else to get it.




7/3
The day of swimming and playing just wore Cedar out. He wanted to swing and was instantly asleep.



Tuesday, October 4, 2011

June 26 2011 Photo Shoot

My amazing students last semester gave me the best gift ever! They gave me a photo session with a great photographer (one of the students). We went up to campus on June 26th, 2011 and took tons of pictures. It was so hot but the kids had a blast and we got some really good pictures. Here are some of our favorites!

Last half of June 2011

06/27/11
Cedar loves his room. I'm not sure that he will ever want to give it up to go in with Carter. This is his toy basket. He really enjoys playing in it with the toys.

06/20/11
Daddy was building in the back yard and the twins wanted to help. They were bring daddy his supplies.

06/20/11

This is our little garden. It was so fun at first and then it really just became annoying when it got so hot this summer and we watered and watered and didn't really get any decent produce. Maybe next year?

Hands full of chalk. Cedar loves to draw, but most of the time he is happy just holding it.
06/20/11


06/20/11

06/20/11
Cedar is still on thickened liquids so he doesn't get Popsicles unless I make them. So I made some special for him with thickened juice. He had a hard time understanding which end he was supposed to start on.