My how time flies!

I love comparing old and new pictures to see how much my boys have grown. Here is Hunter the first day of school 2009. He was ready for his first day of preschool. Little did we know what an incredible year he had in store. His teachers were wonderful and nurturing and so much fun. Hunter just loved school!

Here he is in May 2010- so grown up and ready for summer. I cannot believe in a few short weeks he will be 4 1/2. How does the time fly by so quickly??


Now, it would not be fair to not include Blake. Here he is in September 2009 at 9 1/2months.

And again May 2010 at 18 months.


Love these boys!

Once upon a time....

....in a city called San Antonio, lived two of the cutest little boys you have ever seen. Their mommy did not blog often enough to record their fun memories, so she finally had to sit down and tell it like a story for everyone to see what fun things they had been up to.

Back in the month of February, they traveled a short and very "worth it" distance to the city of New Braunfels to play at the NB Children's Museum. Boy oh boy did they have a great time! Their very best friends, Kate and Luke, came along for the adventure. They also met their new friend, Rhett, while they were there.
Hunter enjoyed playing in the camping area and kayaking to Nowhere Land on the carpet river. :)

Blake, a water maniac, loved the outdoor water tables and even though he couldn't quite reach to get into too much trouble, he was in heaven.

Blake and Luke, both 15 months old, shared their shopping duties in the grocery store.

My little doctor in training.

And this was the end result of a fine day at the Children's Museum. Sweet victory!

Then, to cap off a month of rodeo in San Antonio, Cowboy Kevin visited Hunter's school and did some really impressive rope tricks. Hunter was mesmorized by his cool tricks.

We ended the month of February with a trip up 35 once again. This time it was to Waco to see the Jones crew. The boys had a great time as they always do. There was lots of fun to be had.


To get March rolling, we took a morning train ride through the park.

So then things got really exciting around here. We had a notice in the mail a couple of weeks ago that our street was slated to be repaved. Well, boy were we excited when the tractors, scrapers, sweepers and dump trucks descended upon our street. It was a sight to see. The boys loved the action and we spent a good morning out front in the grass, eating snack and watching the "workin' men" as Hunter calls them.

They thought it was big time entertainment for sure!!

In honor of Daddy's 31st birthday, we went out to dinner last night with the Stouffer family. Mommy took the opportunity of two clean and tidy boys to take some pictures out front. Here is my handsome four year old...

...and my precious and looking quite chub one year old.

Nothing better than brothers!

The two sets of matching boys at dinner. Hunter and Blake were intentionally matching, but Dad and Uncle Blake were not. So funny!

We have wonderful and impecable manners at restaurants...

...can't you tell??


So that brings you up to date with just a few things left out. Those will have to get addressed in other story from the Jones family. And they lived happily ever after. The END.

Only a week left....

....until my big 20 week sonogram. Wow! This is flying by too quickly for me. I remember with Hunter reading my Pregnancy Journal every night and taking in all of the details and information like it was my job. I knew what week and what exact day I was the entire time.

With Blake, I was pretty good about reading the Journal, writing in my own journal and knew fairly well what week I was.

Now, this time... the weeks seem to fly faster than I can count. The journal sits open on my bedside table and I read several days at once. I am constantly amazed at all of the intricate development taking place. My anxiety is much worse this time around. I hear this is very normal but I will be so glad to see that little baby with all of it's fingers and toes on that ultrasound. We are still in a toss up about whether or not to find out this time around. We did with both boys which was still such a thrill. I was completely wrong with both of them- oops! So much for motherly instinct!

This time, knowing this is our last baby, I cannot decide. Chris will do whatever I decide, but we all know that if he had his choice he would find out. I'm just thinking if I can make it past that day not knowing I can make it to the end. I know it would just be amazing to meet that little person the day they are born and be totally and completely surprised. I have no feeling this time (perhaps because I have been so wrong before) as to whether it's a boy or girl. I have felt the best this time, feel the like I look the ugliest and am carrying wide. Who knows?! With Hunter I was low and felt ok, with Blake I was high and felt crummy and this one is wide and I feel like a million bucks but look like crud. The wives' tales do not apply to me. Heartbeats... you know they say 140 and below is boy. Well that was Hunter to a T. His never went over 155 but usually hovered around 139-144. Blake's was everywhere from 155 to 178, which is supposedly girl territory. This baby is around 155ish everytime. Seriously, I do not conform to any wives' tales or superstitions. Love to know what you all think this baby is.....

This is a portrait Hunter took of me at 19 weeks. Hmmm.... no head. Oh well, you are not missing much.

Hunter on Pajama and Pancake day for school.

My wild man! Blake sporting his first mohawk at the lake.

1 Month = 300 pictures

Between soccer, camping, Halloween and playing, I have accumulated 300 pictures in my folder for October. So, here is an attempt to catch up here on the blog. Oh, and they are in no particular order. At least I labeled them!

One of 11 "Sharp Shooters"

Smores with my sweetie

Hunter, Blake, Luke, Kate and Rollins...
aka, Pirate, Elephant, Monkey, Peacock and Bunny Foo Foo

Blake and Luke on the sidelines of the game....won't be long boys!

Cari and Luke with Blake and I at the Halloween party...looks like a monkey and an elephant escaped from the zoo!!

Camping with Blake at the country club. I know how that sounds, it was very "Troop Beverly Hills-ish"

Blake in front of our tent...don't worry, he did not spend the night. He went and slept at my parents' house.

The four of us when we were visiting Chris at his office the day before Halloween

Blake eating his first taste of cake at Bab's birthday dinner at our house

Hunter helped blow out the candles

Soccer game with Blake

Me and the soccer player himself

Before the first game. Blake was wearing a little outfit Mimi (Chris' mom) had bought at Neimans for Hunter. It says "Little Kicker" with a soccer ball on it. It has special meaning b/c Chris' nickname growing up was "Kicker"- sort of sounds like Christopher.

Swinging in the backyard on a beautiful afternoon. He LOVES to be outside!

It Rained!

We finally got some much needed rain in San Antonio about a week ago. We didn't quite know what to do with ourselves, so I pulled the jump castle inside and set it up in the living room. Hunter thought I was very cool! Just a little rearranging of some furniture and wha-la! A jump castle in our very own living room. Even I got in and played with the boys and we had a blast!
Blake had a great time watching Big Brother run through the puddles! Oh, he wants to join him soooo bad!!

Hunter thinks puddles are awesome! The bigger the splash the better!

Standing in the rain....

The boys in the jump castle having a great time.

This was set up in the living room for 3 days. Isn't it lovely?

Random, here Blake and I are at Mama's restaurant on Labor Day.

Trip to the Children's Museum

We headed up to New Braunfels last week and had a blast at the McKenna Children's Museum. I loved the different things for the boys to do and we stayed the entire morning going from one thing to the next.
BANK- Hunter loved doing the ATM machine and swiping the card. It would spit out money and he thought that was great fun. He also played like he was the teller inside the bank with the money tray.

CAMP GROUND- At the camp ground, you could kayak, fish in the pretend river, tend to a campfire, play in tents, cross a bridge... Hunter is off in the kayak!

GROCERY STORE- Hunter successfully stacked his shopping cart higher than he is tall. He loved shopping and stuffing his basket (apparently he has seen that somewhere??) and then taking it to the check out. Then, his OCD mom would make him put them all back in the right place and start all over. (I think I missed my calling of arranging shelves. I had so much fun setting it all up!)

WESTERN TOWN- Here is my little cowboy riding along on his horse.

BABY AREA- Blake enjoyed the baby area in the center of the museum and decided driving was a great activity for the day!

SPACE AREA- Hunter loved seeing characters from Star Wars.

SPACE SHUTTLE- Here are my brilliant astronaut sons flying to the moon.

ART- A budding artist if I do say so myself.

AMBULANCE- Hunter drove the ambulance and then stole the 3 baby dolls from the play hospital nursery and loaded them on the stretcher in the back of the ambulance.