I've Fallen Down a Rabbit Hole!

Walking by the play yard at our apartment complex I was sure I had fallen down Alice's rabbit hole after the White Rabbit when I encountered the biggest mushrooms I've ever seen.Truly I expected to see a little blue caterpillar blow smoke into my face and ask me "Whoooo are Youuu.?"

My Baby's not a Baby anymore

Baby Brenton just turned 2. He's a delight and his personality has blossomed and we are seeing more and more of who he is everyday. He's "Mr. Mischief" for sure and it's all I can do to keep him out of finding trouble. I'm sure we'll be memorizing many verses in the future about avoiding mischief.

Brenton is a Worsley through and through and is a big fan of Mickey Mouse. He calls him "BoBo". Not sure why as the sound does not occur anywhere in the word. But we all know that name very well. Being a Mickey Mouse fan and a family who loves Disney we gave him a little family Mickey Mouse Party.

We used our many sets of Mickey Mouse ears from our trips to Disneyland as party hats. We invited our sweet friend Micah, who also recently moved here from Santa Clarita and whom Brenton adores; and we had a blast swimming, playing "pin the nose on Mickey", and "mystery Mickey", having cake, opening presents and, of course, watching a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode.Mystery Mickey Mouse - I hid these little Mickey Mouse heads all over the house and the kids went looking for them. When they found them they added them to their chart. Micah was partners with Brenton.
Happy Birthday Baby!

Fourth of July Favorites

I wrote this blog entry a year ago and was waiting to get my first picture of Cade and Isabel transferred from old fashioned negatives to a disc to download (since I don't have a scanner). And so here I am a year later, waiting again for the same thing. Maybe I'll never get it transferred but I still love these sweet Fourth of July memories and so want to share them. This year we celebrated our first 4th of July in Texas and so missed our annual picture with Cade, but he was not forgotten as you'll see at the end.

Nearly every Fourth of July for the last 8 years we have been with our good friends, the Lycklamas. Beginning in 2002, when Isabel was 2 months old and Caedmon was 7 months old, we got together for a BBQ, and watching fireworks and all the fun that comes with Independence Day. That year we took a picture of the two of them along with another good friend, Pearson Gardner. Ever since that time we have been doing the same thing every July 4th. We have many other friends who get together too and we always enjoy swimming, BBQing, and fireworks; and we always try to get in an annual picture of Isabel and Cade. We have only missed one year in the last 8, 2006, thus no picture here. Enjoy watching the kids grow below.

2004 - I think Caedmon had just eaten a cookie.

2005

2007

2008

20092010 - our first Fourth in Texas

Rockn' Rangers

The youth group at our church was selling tickets for a Texas Rangers game. Jason took advantage of this to take James to his first ever Major League Baseball Game: Texas Rangers vs. Seattle Mariners. James had a blast hangin' with his daddy and Mr. Kiningham and his three boys and all the other people from Grace Bible Church. He ate...and ate...and ate...Jason's means of keeping him awake through the whole game. When he came home at ELEVEN O'CLOCK that night he proceeded to tell me about the cotton candy and the Spiderman fruit snacks from Mrs. Zeller. Oh what a happy night that was. Oh what a happy boy (and daddy) to get to enjoy a baseball game together.Here the boys are checking out the Dallas Cowboys stadium across the way from the Rangers stadium. I guess it was pretty impressive!

James with the Kiningham boys - Caleb, Nathan and Grant with the Cowboys stadium in the background.

New Haircut

Where has my baby gone!?
(Just in case anyone is confused, this is
Brenton, not James)

Fun at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens

A few days ago our family went to the Grapevine Botanical Gardens. It's not a very big garden; it's actually more like a nice park. But, our family had a lot of fun, before it got too hot.

The girls had a fun time trying to chase down this bird.

Love This Boy!