A Day at the Lake!

We went out on the boat with Nicole and Anthony yesterday for the first time this year. It was so much fun! Payton was much more interested and cooperative than he was last year. He put his life jacket on with no problem. We told him he was wearing a life jacket just like Diego does when he gets on a boat. He calls it his Diego jacket. Hey, whatever works, right?! He didn't get a nap before we left, so he fell asleep two separate times! I couldn't believe it! Braxton took a nap on the boat too. Maybe there is just something relaxing about the sound of the engine or something. Who knows! I have a feeling we will be spending a lot of time in the sun this summer. Rich thinks that Payton's hair is going to be super blond by the end of the summer. I still can't believe I have a blond-haired, blue-eyed child! I hope his hair stays light. :-)

Payton asleep on the way back to the ramp.

All the boys looking at the water.

Payton was very impressed to have is own big boy seat.

He loved feeding the ducks.

Daddy and Payton.

This was the first time he fell asleep.

Braxton is such a ham! He loves to get his picture taken!

It's been a while....

I know it has been like 3 months since I've updated this thing, sorry! I will keep up with it better from now on. I am now finished with school for the semester, and I had no time to do anything while it was going on! We are all doing great. Rich is still working in Sunset Valley. He just recently bought a '64 Thunderbird that is in really great condition and he is working on restoring it completely, so that is occupying a lot of his time. Hopefully he will be done with it soon!

Payton gets bigger everyday! There is not a word he can't say. He is our little parrot. He repeats everything these days (sometimes things you don't want him to). Nicole was watching him for me the other day and she asked him a question and he told her that he needed to check his schedule! I'm not sure where he heard that one, but it was hilarious! He loves to go to Nicole and Anthony's and play with his baby Braxton, and for Braxton to come play with him. He is much more interested in Braxton now that he can move around on his own. Braxton has Payton's Bumbo chair and the child is only 6 1/2 months old, but for the last month and a half, he has been flipping himself out of it to get the floor and get whatever it is he wants. It's hilarious! Payton always tells Nicole to put Braxton in it so he can watch Braxton "fall down!" I got Braxton on video doing it, and I am going to put it on here. It just baffles me that he can do that because when Payton was in it, it was hard for us to get him out, much less for him to get himself out! Braxton is a little Houdini!

We had a great Easter. Payton actually understood the concept of hunting for eggs this year and loved it. He also loved dying the hard-boiled ones.

One of our biggest milestones just happened yesterday. We have started to go to church at Celebration in Round Rock and absolutely LOVE it, and Payton has never been left in any nursery or childcare room at any church (or anywhere for that matter). I decided to try to leave him in there for the first time (because his best friend Addison was there too) and he did GREAT! He cried a little bit at first, but I checked on him a couple of minutes later and he was fine. I couldn't believe it! I'm so excited because I actually got to sit and listen to the message for once without interruption. Anyway, I am posting some Easter pictures and a couple of other random pictures taken in the last few months.....

Payton loves to have his hair spiked up.

Dying Easter eggs.

Looking at the goodies the Easter Bunny brought him.

Holding his basket full of eggs.

Braxton getting out of his chair.

Rich's Thunderbird.