Miss Morgan Walking

I wanted to share these videos of our little Princess learning how to walk. She is getting sooo big and it went by sooo fast!

Our trip to Colorado

We started our trip off on Thursday night at Sky Harbor Airport. Shawn, my sister, Morgan and I all flew into Denver. We did not arrive until after mid-night. Then we drove down to Colorado Springs where our family lives. My cousin Chelsi graduated from high school this weekend. It was very rainy most of the weekend, but the weather was still beautiful. We got lots of pictures of the new babies in the family.

We were also able to see my dads side of the family. We have not seen them for a couple of years now. What a great visit it was!

On Saturday night the boys decided it was time to play Rock Band. Zach was the guitarist, Travis and Jeremy were the singers and Ang, Chelsi and a few randoms were the drummers. Zach was in costume for this!

Here are the new mommy's with their babies.

What a GREAT time we had visiting with our family! We love you ALL!

Busy...busy...busy

Well, I feel that I have been to busy these days with this substitute job. I only have 6 1/2 more days of subbing and then it is back at home with my Princess. The past two mornings have been very hard to leave her, but I know she is in good "Grandma" hands.

Morgan turned nine months on Monday. She still does not want anything to do with crawling, all she cares about is walking. I think we are going to skip the crawling stage. She has started to play "Patty Cake". If you ask her if she wants to play "Patty Cake" she will immediately start clapping and then she will point at one hand for the "mark it" part of the song. She is still teething and doing great with it. She has started to eat a little bit more solid foods such as, waffles, toast, and crackers. She finally got to have her very first swim party with Liz and the kids. She loved the water.

We are planning our trip to Colorado. Two more weeks and we will be there. Both my cousins, Michelle, and Stephanie have had their babies and we are so excited to meet them. This will be the first trip where all the grandkids and great-grandkids will be together. Stephanie and Jeremy had little Miss Peyton and Michelle and Skylar had Mister Wesley.Shawn has started working on our backyard. We just moved into this house in September and had to go through the HOA to get our backyard plans approved...we have a green belt behind our house and our fence is open, so that is why it has to be approved. Well, we are finally ready to put in some grass. Living right across the street for the Camelback Ranch Stadium, we are hoping they do some sort of 4th of July event so we can have a party at our house.

My 1st official Mother's Day was great. I started my day off in bed with Miss Morgan playing at Shawn and my side. Then I headed off to church. After church we headed over to my "bed ridden" sister's house for Mother's Day lunch with my parents and my aunt and her baby. I found a t-shirt for my mom that needed Morgan and Zach's hand prints on it. Well Zach was pretty easy...hand prints on the shirt and then he was off to wash his hands (only). Now for Morgan it was a different story...the picture tells all! So fun!

Morgan loves hanging out with her Grandpa!

A little update...

Yesterday we had Morgan's re-check at the dermatologist office. Her eczema has now gone away and we are good to go with just preventative treatments. Morgan is much happier as she is no longer scratching all the time and making herself bleed on her face. We also had Miss Morgan's nine month check up. She is weighs 18lbs. 15oz. and is 29 inches long. Such a big girl she is getting to be.

Here is our little ballerina! I cannot wait for dance classes to start.Just one more of Shawn and his uncle out working on Zach's bed for his birthday.

Over the weekend Zach decided it would be nice to wash my car...I think he just mostly wanted to play in the water because it was so hot, but I got a clean car out of it!!

Zach's 10th birthday

Well Mr. Zachary turned 10 yesterday. We had my parents over for dinner last night and celebrated with cake, ice cream and of course presents. Shawn decided that we would get Zach a new bed for his birthday...only we did not want to just go pick one out and buy it, so Shawn made the head board and the foot board. Zach was so excited...as you can see when he first looked at it!

A story of a substitute....

Well, I am now on week two of this long term sub job I accepted. What was I thinking? The first week went okay, the class is good for the most part. Yesterday a student brought a shoe horn to school...not just your normal 5-6 inch shoe horn, but a 2 foot long shoe horn. He was swinging it around at the end of the day calling it his "teacher whacker". He said, "If a teacher messes with me then I can use this to WHACK them with it!" WOW! I gave him a one way ticket straight to the office. Seriously I am not sure that I can deal with behaviors like that for 3 more weeks. Well that's it for this sub. story today...stay tuned, I am sure I will have more next week!

Another great weekend

This weekend started off with our Improv night at our church. What a great family show that was put on for us by the company Dramagenics. Nothing like a great laugh and hanging out with family and friends.

Saturday night Shawn and his Uncle Scott raced their quads out at Speedworld. It is a little nerve racking for me to watch, but they did great. Shawn came in first place and Scott came in second place. This was Shawn's second time racing and his second 1st place trophy!

Shawn is the one in the black and his uncle is the one in the red. This was during the test and tune part of the night.

Here we are out supporting daddy!

This is Shawn's mom with the kids.

Miss Morgan showing off her 2 bottom teeth.

Shawn and Zach playing in the tree at my parents house!