Jim's Father's Day Card

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James 9 months

Davis says that this is "boss" face, so whenever he makes this face we all call him "Boss".

Just one more of our many nicknames for James.

Yes, he is a drooler just like his brothers!! He is cutting his first bottom tooth.
Poor James just can't get the hang of crawling. He has been working at this forever! He rocks on his hands and knees and is crawling backwards. He finds a way to get around, rolling and army crawling. Any day I expect him to take off, he can't get any closer but I have been saying this for over a month?!



He is still sooo smiley!

The Albuquerque Zoo

Albuquerque has an great zoo, so after Dev's game on Sunday, we went to the zoo. It is a huge zoo that you could easily spend all day at, but we only had a couple of hours to spend there. It ended up being a long day and everyone was exhausted!

Posing for pictures was not on our agenda for my grumpy baseball boy!

Davis met a new friend, a baby camel.

James is always full of smiles.

We went around the zoo with one of Dev's teammates and his family. The little boy's name is JoJo and his little brother Jonathan is Davis's age. They had a lot of fun playing together the whole trip.

We found the Cougars!!

Behind Dev is a huge loin basking in the sun on a rock.

Memorial Day Weekend in New Mexico

For Memorial Day weekend we went to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a baseball tournament. We left on Friday afternoon and came home Monday evening. The drive only took about 3 1/2 to 4 hours, it was perfect!! Devin had games on Sat, Sun and Monday. They lost the first two games and won their last game. Devin played great, he pitched every game and then mainly played third base. He had a single and an RBI. The boys loved staying in the hotel. Three teams from El Paso traveled to the tournament. There were about 30 families and we all stayed in the same hotel. The highlights of the trip for the kids were the indoor swimming pool, the free breakfast buffet(they love the silly little things?) and going to the zoo!! The highlight for me was our sweet baby James, he was such a easy baby to travel with despite cutting his first two teeth and he slept the whole drive home! We did not have a lot of free time, just a lot of baseball!!

Davis was in on all the action. He knows all the kids on Dev's team by name. He was so cute cheering in the stands!

Dev playing third base.

Jim and Davis in the stands.

James spends way too much time in the stroller! But he loves just hanging out and watching all the kids. We put cheerios on his tray and he will sit for hours watching with us. He loves being at the ball park.

Devin's Spring Concert

Davis was proud of his big brother!

James keep busy playing with his cousin's doll. He had never seen one before.

This was taken after the show on the stage.

Devin is in the top row with a white shirt and tie.

Devin had his spring music concert at school, themed "Hollywood." The kids dressed in their fanciest clothes. The boys were given top hats to wear. It was very cute.

Easter 2009

We had a wonderful Easter. It was a beautiful day here, mid 70's. We started the day with an egg hunt at the house with just our family. Then we went to church and then we had brunch with my parents at the El Paso Country Club.
Easter Brunch

James loved the eggs!

Daddy put silly bunny ears on James.

James keep grabbing Davis's whistle necklace. It was family day at church which means daycare only for kids under 5 years old and no kids church. So the boys were with us during the Easter service. They handed out "busy bags" for the kids on the way into the service. The bag had coloring books, crayons, candy and little books. It was a great idea but in Davis's bag was this whistle necklace. I guess they don't know my Davis!!! NO-he didn't blow the whistle during the service but I had to threaten him with his life. Oh, he was soooo tempted.

The boys kept James entertained during brunch.

Davis had a Easter party at school. That is the great thing about the boys going to a private school. They get to celebrate god's holidays and learn why we celebrate them.

It was a great party. They had an egg hunt. They each got 16 eggs. We put their names on the eggs so it took them along time to find all their eggs.

They decorated cookies and had hot chocolate. Devin was quite jealous, they don't have big parties anymore.

Davis's 5th Birthday

Baby James and my niece Andi!

He was so shy while the kids sang to him.

Davis had a great 5th Birthday. He celebrated on the 7th with cupcakes in his class and his party was on the 9th. The party was held at the Fiesta Lanes bowling. He invited all his friends from school. We had about 15 children. It was a great time! His theme for the party was Star War, Clone Wars.