Summer Fun!

So this summer has been busy and fun. We are trying to keep busy...especially Mavrick and I. Lots of swimming. We got the opportunity to go to a flooring convention just right over in Lake Charles at a Casino. Yes...it was at a casino but we didn't go into that part of the hotel. They had a HUGE lazy river, good food and it was free since it was put on by one of our flooring supply reps. So we said...why the heck not. =) Mavrick loved the lazy river and the hotel room! Holy Moly did he and little Liam love jumping on the beds. We had a little scare though...at 3 am I woke up and heard the door to the room open and close. I thought it was Ryan which I don't know why I thought Ryan would be up at 3 in the morning. But I stood up in bed and the room was pitch black and I asked Ryan if he went somewhere...then I realized that Mavrick was not in the bed! Talk about a Mother and Father's worst fear!!! Waking up and your child is not there. So Ryan jumped out of bed faster than I have ever seen him before and bolted out the door and sure enough Mav was in the hallway a couple of rooms down. He just felt like exploring in the middle of the night I guess. Luckily, everyone in the hotel was down in the Casino area so not too many people were up on our floor. Still...huge scare and lesson learned. Don't just lock but bolt the doors. =)

Thats my little boy!

View from the floor of the Great and Spacious Building we stayed at.

We have also made sure we have swam a lot. Since my current condition is "pregnant" I don't venture outside in the Texas heat very often unless I am by a pool. Haha.=) Mav is getting so good at swimming. He still uses his floaties but he is starting to be a lot of comfortable with the water and kicking. I think we are going to put him into swimming lesson next spring. He is so fearless with things once he does get comfortable I want him to learn to swim pretty quick so I don't worry so much when we are around a pool.

We are loving the summer. 

Love,

Me

Fathers Day 2012

I am so sticking behind on all my posts. So since this is kinda my journal and I cheating a little and back dating these posts of where they SHOULD be. =) Father's Day this year was a little different. Mavrick and the "unborn child" are not old enough to do anything for Daddy yet on their own so I usually do a little something something. Ryan had been wearing these shoes with a HUGE hole in them for 3 months. They looked so trashy and if you know my husband he HATES spending money on any type of clothing or apparel and is probably the most picky guy when it does come to shoes or clothing. So an intervention had to be done. I get so nervous about buying him shoes that I actually said a prayer before I went shopping to help me find some. Haha. =) Silly I know but it ended up being a success. I found some that were a pretty good brand of running/nicer shoes for him to wear and then a pair of croc flip flops. I know. I know. They are crocs but they don't look like it and they are so stinkin' comfortable. HE LOVED THEM! I have been trying to get him out of those Australian Girly ones for 3 years (and immediate family...you know which ones I am talking about) and finally I found some that he liked. This was a milestone in our marriage. =)

Second thing I ended up doing for him was making him a scrapbook of just pictures of Mavrick and him for Father's Day. Each year I plan on adding to it and as we have more kids. I love Father and child pictures and some of them are my absolute favorite in the whole world so it was a fun project. Ryan really, really liked it. I am not a scrapbooker people. The clutter, the options, the mess, the expense...I usually can't handle it. But a friend down here has a scrapbooking business and she showed me a while back how to do these one event/one design albums and they are perfect for me to do. You can see some of hers here on her blog but that is kinda what I did. Not every page was the same but I only had 3 or four page layouts that I stuck with. I look at it all the time. I was so proud of myself. Haha. =)

All the time I spent shopping and cropping was totally worth it. I didn't spend a lot but the things I gave him he absolutely loved. I might have to best baby daddy in the whole world. I really am so grateful that my children get to have such a wonderful Father. My Father-in-law is such an awesome guy so it shouldn't surprise me that he learned from one of the best. =)

That morning we woke up really early cause we were heading over to my Dad's to cook breakfast and celebrate with him. But the night before Father's Day my little brother's Jay and Jordan came over and we made cheesy little cards for him. Jordan found the funniest joke online but I can't find it. Anyway...my Dad ended up loving it. We also gave him a golfing package and the boys are going to all go play a round of golf with him sometime in the fall. I am so grateful for my Dad. I have always been kinda a Daddy's girl. He has always been so involved in my life. Its kinda funny how I married someone who is like him in so many ways. Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there.

Below are a few pictures of Ryan and Mav right when they woke up on Father's Day so don't judge the pictures to harshly. =)

Happy Father's Day!

Love,

Me

Visiting the Dinosaurs!

So this past Saturday we went to "Visit the Dinosaurs" and can I just say that it might have been the best $40 we could have spent?! This kid is OBSESSED with Dinosaurs at the moment. Mavrick was in heaven!!! It was worth every penny to see him say "Wow" every 5 seconds and chase him from exhibit to exhibit. I love our little boy. Ryan was trying to read everything and finally we gave up on that cause it was kinda curbing his excitement so we let him down and he went NUTS! Just running from exhibit to exhibit saying "WOW! WOW! WOW!" and pointing. He was so cute too when he would look at other people around him who were not quite as excited about the Dinosaurs as he was and start pointing and jabbering to them like he was saying "Do you see that?!". Also when he would beat us to the next exhibit he would look for us and say "Dad! Look! Whoa!"

Like I said...Money well spent. =) Below are a few pictures of our little Jurassic Adventure. 

 

Love,

 Ryan, Kayla & Mavrick LeBaron