An afternoon in the Park

For a family activity last month, we went to the park here are just a few pictures from that exciting afternoon.

Tucker, Dana (diana- sister in law) and Walker (cousin)

It's Offical

It's Offical Aaron graduated from ASU on Thursday May 14, 2009. He has his Business Administration Degree. This has been a long road for us. But here we are. Next stop... Masters in Legal Studies.. Another 2 years! But we can do it.We are very proud and so excited to have reached this milestone in our lives. Yay!

My new love

I just wanted to do a post on how much I love my little Paxton. He brings so much joy and happiness to my life.
I love that he smiles at me whenever he sees me
I love that he laughs at me and Preston
I love that he wakes me up in the middle of the night to eat by making little baby noises
I love that he is part me and part aaron (not that the other boys aren"t, haha)
And I love that we spend may hours of the day swaying "dancing" together.

Happy Easter

Every year on the saturday before Easter my moms extended family does an Easter Picnic, where we hide Easter Eggs, have breakfast and play baseball. Well this year Tucker was a little more into the opening the Easter Eggs and eating the candy rather than hunting Easter Eggs. Sorry these pictures aren't very good. The kids got ahold of our camera and I haven't figured out which settings they change, yet!

Preston and his collection of Eggs.

Daddy and Tucker. Tucker looks so happy to be there at 8am!

All the boys in matching shirts, ties, and pants.

HAPPY EASTER

Texas

This year for spring break we got to go and visit my grandparents who live in Texas. We had a great visit and would have liked to have spent more time with them but, we were unable to. This was a very special trip, as it was Paxtons first trip to Texas and the first time his feet touched dirt, Texas dirt, very important that we get that correctly.But, for those of you who didn't know Paxtons name is a family name, my grandmother had a little brother named Paxton who died as a child. So, it was very special to me to see my grandmother hold and have another Paxton in the family.We also got to enjoy a wide range of weather. For example when we left Texas the high was 39 degrees, when we got home to Arizona it was like 80 degrees, in one day we gained 50 degrees. It was a great trip!

Although we where glad to get home cause Aarons older sister was here visiting from North Carolina. It was great to see leah and let her get to know our crew of boys! (which she has also!) And to make the return home even better my cute sister in law had her baby, finally!! haha We where so glad to get home in time to see beautiful little Ryley. All in all it has been a great couple of weeks. Here are some pictures from Texas.

Preston rolling down, one of the many grassy hills of East Texas

Tucker discovering dandylions!

Grandma Bland with New Baby Paxton




Grandpa Bland and Paxton

A sunday surprise

Sunday afternoon we look out our door and find this! We knew it was raining awful hard but had no idea it was actually hailing. It was really fun to watch it fall. That is about as close as we get to snow. Outside our back door.
Right next to the house by the kitchen window. It looks like snow.

Out the front door, again looks like snow.

Three wonderful blessings

Preston is such a good helper with the baby, sometimes too much. To make life more interesting he has carried the baby down the stairs by him self. Yikes!
Three of the many blessings in my life.

Paxton in his blessing outfit.

I love this picture! Look at those blue eyes. I love it.

Another one of my favorites! Ending on a smile.