hair cuts!

so we all finally got our hair cut. this isn't the best picture of the kids of course but it was at least right after it was done. Gabe-we actually cut last weekend. I have more fun pictures of him to come. Mom, this is especially for you to see what I did to my hair. I like it because it is a little different than I had it as an A-line, but of course I can't make it look quite like my hair dresser did. It is still fun though!

Bowling with the Trauts

This past weekend we had the pleasure of having Tommy's cousin and his family (Tim, Lauren, Jordan, and Brandon) stay with us. We had a blast with them. They drove down from Pennsylvania on their way down to Disney World. It was so much fun. Here we are eating breakfast as Aiselyn goes off to school and the Trauts drive on down to Florida. I hope you guess are having fun and don't sweat to death!
we finally went bowling. I have been wanting to for a very long time. We all had a blast. Here are some pictures to show for it!

Aiselyn's first day of school!

The big day has finally arrived! Aiselyn went off to school. She is so big and grown up now. The whole week before she kept saying how nervous she was, but Tommy had a little talk with her last weekend. she wanted to go with me to take dinner to the Godwins who just had a baby and on the way over she kept saying to me how she wasn't nervouse anymore. I asked her what changed basically and she said Dad talked to her. I tried to get out of her what he said but I never really got an answer. well, turns out that he told her how he would give her a father's blessing and that took all the worry away...just the knowledge that he would do that for her. I love Tommy and his desire to be a good priesthood holder and for Aiselyn and her budding faith in our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

She ended up having a great day at school that day and everyday since. Good job, Aiselyn!
Here they are eating breakfast before school.
Aiselyn as she left for school.

Aiselyn in front of the school. I love you, girl!

Gabe turned ONE!!!!!

Gabe turned one last week! we are soooo excited! He is still a joy to have around. He recently started his mommy separation anxiety but he is usually quite happy. I am so glad the Lord saw fit to put him in our family. He is such a delight in our home.

Here is a little video to enjoy from his birthday-day since we actually had his party the day after.

Trip to Colorado

Denver Ranch:
On our way out camping for our family reunion with my family, we first stopped in Dallas, TX to spend the weekend with the Foulgers. we had a lot of fun and are so thankful for them letting us stay and visit with them. Somehow we didn't take any pictures but we did have a lot of fun swimming while burning, and seeing UP in 3d that was awesome!

We then drove up to Denver where coincidently Sarah and her family were there for her friend's wedding and spent a day with her with the hospitality of the Braherds. It was so nice to meet them and see all their animals. Here are some pictures of some of them.

FISHING:

Eventually we made it to camp and had soooo much fun with everybody. The girls of course loved spending all day with their cousins, running around, and getting filthy everyday! Here are some pictures of when we went fishing.

S'MORE FUN:

Of course we had to make s'mores...camping just isn't camping without s'mores. Here are some captured moments.

We went camping at Jellystone Park in Estes Park so of course the girls needed a picture with Yogi! My parents got all the grandkids lunchboxes with Yogi, Boo-Boo, and Cindy Bear on the front.

HIKING:
we were camping right next to Rocky Mountain National Park so we did some hiking up there in the mountains and had so much fun. The kids did amazing and actually had very little complaining about the distance and such. It was awesome!

Here are Aiselyn and Abby with their cousins Lydia and Elyse.

Lydia, Connor, Ethan, Aiselyn, and Abby by the river.

Here's me diving off a huge boulder to the rapids below!

Not really, I was scared out of my pants being that high and close to the edge. I don't particularly care for heights, to say the least!

Here's my muscle man!

Here's some of us hiking.

This is us on a boulder by a waterfall we hiked to.

Here is us by the waterfall with my parents.

SCENERY:

Gabe at 10 months

Once again I have slacked on keeping up with my blog. Well, I guess Gabe is still 10 and half months old so that isn't too bad. He is still quite happy and is great to be around. Here he is playing with a fireman hat and being so adorable.
Here I am with Gabe

Here is Gabe on his 10 month birthday

Gabe just started crawling yesterday so now he is officially mobile. He still pretty much refuses to use his legs so he doesn't pull himself up yet to cruise or even walk with us holding onto his arms. Check out this video, you can kind of see how he crawls. He does what I call a frog crawl. His legs are out to the side as if he were doing a breaststoke. He was dragging them but today he started to actually move his knees as well. He has come a long way in the last couple of weeks or so. Way to go champ!!! I will still try to get better angles of his crawl to better capture his awesome moves!! OH! we also got a kitten about a month ago. He is also in this video as well as the girls of course. Some friends of ours had kittens and the first one out was a red/orange ball of fur so they named it Tommy Krebs. It turns out that he eats a lot and is still red/orange and has a lot of hair so it is true to his namesake! He is a lot of fun and is really good with the kids which is a really good thing since Gabe can now chase after him and likes to pull his ears and tail. Poor kitty, good job, Gabe. Show him who is boss!!!!

pool fun

I finally got the pool out for the kids and they have been having a blast to say the least! Here are some pictures of them.



Here is Aiselyn with Gabe

Here is Abby getting ready to do some sliding

Here is Gabe. I don't think he stopped splashing for a whole 10 seconds at a time. He LOVED it! The bummer part...he does this in the bath tub as well and is just a royal mess. But he sure enjoys himself!!!

This is a video of the kids playing around in the pool! I don't know why it took me so long to set up the pool. It has been warm for quite a while and it gives me a nice break while they are having fun. Tommy is out of town for the next couple of days sooooo guess what kids? Lots of swimming for you!!!!!!