Ty's 9 month pictures

I usually do all my computer 'stuff' on this little baby laptop I have, but when I am editing pictures I use my desk computer, so I got on to the desk computer today to edit some of our Halloween pictures and as I was about to delete a bunch of pictures that I have already posted I realized I missed 2 very important posts...Ty's 9 month pictures and Ty's very first hair cut!! I can't believe I never posted these...gosh I suck!!!

Anyways, my friend Crystal took these for me and got some great shots! These were taken on 9/1/2010 making Ty 9 and a half months old! His hair was crazy, but I love it and those little curls...It was hot and Ty just woke up, so he wasn't in the best of moods, but Crystal and I had fun!

I love this one!


Crying because we gave him a rock to hold and he kept trying to eat it so we took it away!



Finally got him to give us a real smile!

Day at the Park

(I'm posting out of order again...but everything else I need to post I need to do on my other computer to resize and edit things, so oh well as long as I'm getting it done right.)

Since there wasn't much for us to do on Halloween day, we decided to take the boys to our favorite local park and have some fun! We started the day off fishing, it was a little slow. Trey caught the first one and then Tucker caught the next, then Trey caught one more. They were so little and there was a crane by us Vinny tossed 2 of the fish to the bird. Since fishing was so slow, they decided to call it quits, so we took some pictures.

Vinny brought along Tucker's bike, without training wheels on to practice riding big boy style! After about 10 minutes of practice, Tucker was really getting the hang of it. I took Trey and Ty to the park to play and Vinny kept practicing with Tucker and now he is a pro! He can even start and stop on his own! We are so proud of him and he is even more proud of himself!

Since Ty has gotten walking down cold, he has moved on to trying to climb on things. This was the first time we let him free on the playground. They had a smaller sized climber and he was all over it. Trey was a great big brother and even helped him go down the slide for the first time. Ty didn't 'love' it, but that could have been because Trey was holding on really tight, so not not drop him.

Tucker and Vinny finally made there way back to us and Trey got his turn to practice without training wheels. He did okay for a little bit, but he was still scared so he ended up crashing a couple of times. He said, "I still want the bike with the training wheels."

We had such a fun day and were all tired and thirsty, so we headed home to finish up on the rest of our Halloween prep.

Field Trip!!

Trey's preschool took their annual field trip to a local farm! We had a great time, but we did miss Tucker, since this is the first year he couldn't come because he is in kindergarten now. It was nice though, for me, to only have one big boy. This year they had something new that I absolutely loved, a barn with hundreds of jack-o-lanterns. It was AMAZING...there were so many details in those carved pumpkins...all different characters and things. So, SO COOL! It was dark, so Trey was a little scared and we walked a little fast. I could have spent hours in there looking. We love this place!

Getting into the fall spirit.

Even in October it doesn't feel much like fall yet with highs still in the 90s, but nothing gets us in the fall spirit better than visiting my favorite ranch! We have gone to this place every October since living here. I love it and there are a bunch of fun 'farm' activites to keep us busy all day long! It was a blast...(I'm behind...we did this back on Oct. 11th)

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So I posted things a bit out of order...so make sure you look under the Ren Fest post for the boys baseball post!

Our Handsome Boys!

I snapped these pics at the Ren Fest...I love these shots. I LOVE this one of Tucker..he is such a good photo taker! Trey can be such a booger at times...he is anti-picture right now...as soon as I snap the shot he is smiling at me..saying "that was my mean face!" Ty's cheeks look extra chubby in this one...I just want to nibble on them...he was making a face at me too!

Fun at the Renaissance Festival

We had a fun-filled family day at the Ren Fest in our area!

We let the boys do some fun activities!!







We walked around the entire place, which was huge and had some great food...I wish I would have taken pictures of what we ate, but I was too busy eating :D Anyways, we had a fried peanut butter and jelly sandwitch (which was GOOD) with ice cream on top (which Ty loved), a turkey leg, corn on the cob, beef jerkey, a lamb gyro (which was my favorite, although I was a getting over a really bad cold, so I couldn't taste very good...) and we also got a frozen lemonade and a frozen pomagranite slush, which was good too.
Ty's face cracks me up...he was just in awww of all the sights and sounds...I wish we could have heard what he was thinking because it is definitely 'different' there!
The highlight (besides the food) was the Joust! Tucker LOVED it the most...he wanted a front row seat! It was pretty neat!


Trey wasn't as into it as Tucker was, it was hot and all he cared about was drinking his frozen lemonade. He was nice enough to share it with Ty...even though the drink was about as tall as Ty.



Rolling down the hill after the joust.


We ended the day with 2 pretty awesome wooden swoards! Daddy sure does spoil his boys!

It was such a fun day and everyone was exhaused afterwards! If you have never been to a renaissance festival before, you should definitely check one out! It is quite an experience!!!

In the 'swing' of things...

Baseball and T-ball season is in full swing!! The boys have been asking to play, so we signed them up. It turned out to be a little crazier than I expected because all the games are on weeknights. Each boy has two games a week and one of those days each boy has a game at the exact same time on exact opposite sides of the complex (about a half mile apart). Oh well such is life of a Baseball Mom :D



This is Tucker's 2nd season, last year he played t-ball at the Y, but this year we found a new organization to play for and he was old enough for Coach Pitch!!! He is THRILLED about this and really LOVES it! I am one proud momma, he has hit the ball every time he is up and the last few games, he has been hitting it all the way to the outfield! He needs a little work in the field, on where to throw the ball or when to not throw it, but he can field a ground ball, catch the ball (well, like 75% of the time), and he has a great arm! It is so fun watching him play!





Trey is playing his very first year of t-ball, but is not loving it. He was excited at first, but it is wearing off. A couple of games ago while playing short stop, a boy from the other team (who hit really hard) hit the ball, it bounced and hit Trey right in the mouth. And ever since then, it has been a struggle to get him on the field to play. Once he is out there, he enjoys it, but he is not very happy about playing anymore. I wish he wasn't scared though (or whatever is keeping him from wanting to play..we also think part of it might be because he isn't playing with Tucker and he is used to having Tucker there with him for everything, so that has been a HUGE change for the boys since school started.) He is one of the best hitters on the team. He does need to work on his throwing a bit, but he does a great job when he is actually out there on the field.

Happy Fall!

Everyone loves Fall in this house, so to celebrate the season change I bought the boys wooden pumpkins to paint. They love painting and are getting better at it everytime...meaning more paint on the project, less on the table, chairs, hands and well the rest of their bodies for that matter.

College Spirit Day

Today at Tucker's school is wear your favorite college shirt..we happen to only actually own 1 college shirt in Tucker's current size...

In case you can't read his shirt...it says Wisconsin! Have a feeling he is the only kid with that college on his shirt :D
I wore my shirt to show my support too. (Just ignore my bad attempt at a picture...it's hard to do a self picture with my big camera and I don't trust Trey to hold it either...but you get the idea right? And Ty woke me up at 5:30 this morning and didn't go back to sleep...so needless to say I'm tired)


Oh and FYI, if they happen to have an NFL spirit day he will wear a Green Bay shirt!