More Pictures of My Boys....Big Surprise

This blog has become my bragging page about my boys. Sorry if you don't care for that...I know atleast one person will appreciate it...huh, Nana?! Summit has a few new tricks. His very favorite thing to do now is clap his hands. If he hears the word YEAH he can't help but clap his hands. He also likes to give high five. He thinks it is so fun. He has also started standing for a few seconds on his own. He uses anything he can to get to a standing position and then he will stand there and play without holding on. He also loves to make noise. He plays with grandpa's drum whenever he gets the chance. He just discovered the guitar when Austin was playing it yesterday.

We went on a hike as a family last night to Rush Creek. We live in the most beautiful place ever! Don't tell anyone...we want it to stay that way.



Austin is loving the summer! He is so excited to have so much time to relax. He worked really hard this year and definitely deserves it! He's at the top of his school now...a big 8th grader. Wow...where does the time go?!

Families are so great!

Nothing much to say just some cute pictures we've taken lately.

Daddy and Summit stayed home from church cause they were sick and this is what I came home to.


Here's Summy with his Uncle's. He and Austin are so lucky to have such great uncles on both sides!

This was Mother's Day breakfast.....I was so spoiled. My boys are AMAZING! I'm so grateful for the sealing power, that I can be with them forever...I'm so lucky!

I love summer...here's Summit with Zeke and Gio at the pool.

The Crack (in the clavicle)

Austin and I have joined forces to bring you some very exciting news! Austin has his first broken bone. We're a little late in posting this cause it happened two weeks ago but that's alright. Tonight at dinner he said it almost feels totally healed. Here's the story though. Austin and his friend Logan were biking at Seven Hills (Austin's school) on friday night. Now that Austin is 13 he thinks he is superman. I thought they grew out of that stage at 5 but apparently it comes back in teenagehood. So he found a nice big jump and flew off of it. He cleared the pit after the jump but didn't land right. He flew over the handle bars, did a flip and landed on his shoulder. We were having a nice relaxing dinner at Andrew's parents house when Logan called. He said that Austin fell and hurt himself so they were ready to come home. We didn't think anything of it so Art and Roz went to get him. Then a few minutes later we got a call from a police officer asking for our information. He said Austin had been hurt and an ambulance was on its way. Ugh! So we got in the car and went down to Seven Hills. When we drove up there was a fire truck, an ambulance, a cop car, Art and Roz and Logan and his Dad. Austin was in quite a bit of pain and wasn't really sure what had happened. They got him fully stabilized in a c-collar and taped to a board because his neck hurt. Then they loaded him in the ambulance and off we went. After all that we found out it was a broken collar bone....and here's the proof. The xray is turned the wrong way but you can see the break right in the middle of the picture. Austin was so tough. He wouldn't take any pain medication until the Doctor insisted and put it in his IV.

Then it was time to go home and lay low. He sat an watched TV for three days and then it was time to go back to school.... :( Here they are watching a movie....well I interrupted them for a second to take the picture...they weren't really watching TV in that position.

Her is Austin a week later standing by the jump...he said he can't wait to get back on his bike.

And this was the look Summit gave Austin when he saw him in the c-collar, taped to the board. Not really...but I thought it was a funny picture.

Fun in the sun and the sweetest brothers ever!

My mom was here last week and we had such a blast! Summit loves the Yuba River...the sand, the sun, the water, the hike....we have so much fun there. I can't wait till we can swim in it. We found a fun trail that leads to a cool spot on the river. My mom and I hiked it twice while she was here. Summit loves being outside riding in the backpack and I am trying to get ready for the Green Family Trek this year. Summit had so much fun playing with Nana and Austin had a blast hiking with her and impressing her with his swim in the freezing river. I'll have to post a video of that later. Just like I was going to post our family pictures. Someday it'll happen. Here are a few of our best river pics.

I love my boys...they are so awesome! They have the sweetest relationship. Austin is the best big brother I've ever seen. Summit loves him more than words can explain. Summit has started really cruising now. He is quite the explorer. His favorite place is Austin's room especially if he knows Austin is in there. He even likes the bathroom if Austin is in there. The other day he followed Austin down the hall and into his room while Austin was trying to study and then later that day he sat outside the bathroom playing cause he saw Austin go in there to clean it. He eventually lost interest but it was the cutest thing watching him wait for his big brother to come out.

Scrapbooking!

Ok...so I have to confess that I always hated scrapbooking cause I wasn't creative enough, patient enough, rich enough, etc. to do it. When Summit was a bun in the oven I told my friend Polly I wanted to make a baby book for him. She had the cutest idea. You make two pages for each month of their first year. You have a calendar on one page to write all the cute stuff and fun milestones and on the next page you have a place for pictures from that month. So the goal was to have it all put together before he was even born so it was all ready. Of course that didn't work but here it is. It is so cute!!!! I'm so grateful for Polly and her creativity...actually it was from a magazine but that's alright. It's easy enough that hopefully I can keep up the tradition with the rest of the kids. Just thought I'd share the cute idea.

P.S. My mom is on the plane right now coming to see me....gotta leave for the airport!

Life is so fun!!!

It's been awhile since the last post...big surprise. So I had to put up a bunch of our latest pictures. I even found pics from Easter that I hadn't posted. Oops!

I am blessed with the cutest boys ever. Here they are hunting for eggs together.

Why does the Easter Bunny bring candy and toys when he could just leave fake grass?!

How cute is he in his little basket?

Here is a bath picture. Austin was entertaining him and he was LOVING it!!!

Summit and I went hiking last week on the Yuba River. We stopped and played in the sand for awhile. Summit loves sand...he kept picking it up and opening his hand so it would run through his fingers. He didn't even try to eat it....good boy!



Today we had our beautiful friend Tiana over and we gave her a wall hanging that I quilted for her. Her mom passed away 8months ago and she was an artist. She had designed a card with a butterfly on it and Tiana had used it to write me a thank you note. I took the design and blew it up, cut it out of fabric and quilted this for her. Both her and her mom's favorite color is Purple. She is such and amazing friend!

Here is Summit getting kisses from her dog Rummy. He loves the dog but not so much when he gives him kisses.

Here is Summit giving me a grumpy face cause he wanted to sit up.

I'm so excited....my mom is coming to visit me in a week and a half! I can't wait! My mom is my bestest girl friend and I love her so much!!!!!
This past week we went a took family pictures. They turned out so awesome but Andrew needs to crop them and all that good stuff. I'll post them when they are ready so keep watching...hopefully I'll get them up sometime before next month!

Austin Skates and Summit Crawls

Two in one day...aren't you guys lucky. Actually I just had lots to share. I took these videos after the first post so I had to do another one. Aren't these boys talented...Summit is crawling and Austin has been practicing his skateboarding.