Rebecca Lynn turns ONE!

Becky has been a very welcome addition to our family! This last year with her has been amazing. Kyla and Breven think the world of her, and enjoy playing with her.

She is starting to talk now, Momma, Daddy, some form of Kyla, bye bye, uh oh, all done, and hi (in a voice that totally cracks me up) are a few of the words she uses.

She is deffinatly walking now, and trying to run. She loves to take things and take off with them, thus the running. well it's actually like fast motion falling down a lot because when she tries to run she just trips. She can also climb on to our couch, and Brevens bed. I am not sure I like this so much as she still has no respect for the drop offs. Taking into account her new ability to walk and climb, her poor face has bruises all over. She gave herself a bloody nose yesterday when she failed to put her hands down fast enough. Poor girl.

She loves being outside and tries to escape every time the outside door opens. The other place she absoutly loves is the fridge. She LOVES to be in the fridge, and I don't mean just looking in it or playing in it, she wants to be IN the fridge. If she is in the kitchen you had better be quick if you want be in and out before she get there. Even if she is in another room, she hears that fridge open and she comes a-runnin.

She had her doctors appointment today. She isn't a big fan of the office. She started screaming everytime anyone came into the room.

She weights 19 lbs

She is tall 29 1/2 in tall

She is in the 25% all around.

Well Happy Birthday Becky!

Kyla's school birthday

So If your birthday is in the summer, you get to pick a day to bring cupcakes for school. Kyla chose Becky's birthday as the day to bring cupcakes. I let her pick out how she wanted her cupcakes made. She picked apple cupcakes for her classmates, and ant cupcakes for the teachers. Slightly backwards I think, Apples are usually for teachers. Oh well. Here are some pictures of her cupcakes. I think they turned out well.

It just cracked me up

So yesterday as we were eating dinner, we all heard Becky doing something funny under the table. As we were all distracted with watching her, Kyla, the little sneak, swiped Brevens fork and says, "Breven look, your fork turned invisible!"

"What?" Breven exclaims, "I can't see it" and begins to feel all around for his invisible fork.

(any one remember the invisible toy I looked for?)

I don't know why, but this just cracked me up. I could not stop laughing.

After a little bit we had to ask Kyla to make Breven's fork reappear so we could finish dinner.

But just so you know, when you are with Kyla, watch out for things that turn invisible.

And that's just how we roll

We now have the bikes to go on rides as a family and have every keep up.

So we went on our family bike ride to a park just up the street. It is a new park so the information on the trails is slim. So we just decided to take one and enjoy a ride. It was an easy ride.....or so we thought. As we started out the trailer stayed on the trail just fine, even if it was a bit rocky. But as we kept going, the trail kept getting smaller. Half way through the loop ( or so we thought ) it was only wide enough for one bike, we were just going to keep going instead of turning around. It wasn't so bad, yet.

After we passed the first small boulders and large rocks known as the rock gardens we weren't sure we wanted to keep going on the same trail but didn't want to turn around to go past them again so we just kept going. Surely it wouldn't get worse. But it did, and each time we would say to ourselves, we are more than half way there, we don't want to go over that agin, and it can't be worse. Funny, it did get worse. It got to the point the kids were bouncing all over the trailer, and thankfully laughing, every once in a while one side of the trailer dropping 3 to 6 inches off a rock as we struggled to get past the next rock garden. The very last part we ended up getting off our bikes, leaving one behind as we pulled the bike and kids up about a 35 degree hill. The bike being so heavy in the back that the front tire came off the the ground and it was all I could do to keep it going up the hill instead of rolling back down on Andrew. Our trailer ended up with two flat tires and the bolts holding the bike seat on were gone when we got back to the car.

It was so fun! Crazy I know but it really was an adventure.

The set up

Every once in a while, Becky had to turn around and say hello to everyone.

There were so many flowers all around It was really really pretty!!!

In one of the good parts of the trail. Even though it wasn't wide enough

A video of one of the rock gardens we went though.

A little hike.

San Antonio has a lot of state parks and other natural areas around here. So while Andrew was gone on a meet we found a new one and took a little walk.

Brev found a tree and climbed it himself.

The kids were pretending to fall down the hill. Very convincing!

Rain!

Did you ever love playing in the rain as a child? Well the other day we had a LOT of rain, so we had a river for a street and a lake for a field. It really was raining hard. Hard enough the water came up over the curb and into our lawn. And what did we do about it? Well we played in it!

this is what Becky's tounge usually looks like! Isn't it so cute?