Austin turns ONE!!

Austin turned one year old earlier this month on the 12th....John and I can't believe a year has gone by already! What a big boy we have to love now! It is so fascinating and funny to watch him each day and all the things he can do now--he certainly keeps us busy chasing him around all day!

We celebrated with Aunt Mandy at home that day and waited until vacation for his party with all of our family....in short he wanted absolutlely nothing to do with the little cake we had for him- it actually made him cry! We spent the day at the pool having fun and he got some great gifts from everyone-thank you! You'll see below- John and I got him a radio flyer wagon.......



What a sweet birthday boy face!


Austin's birthday boy attire....


As you can tell, Austin was extremely amused by some birthday balloons I attached to his highchair.


Ready to hit the road for a ride in my new wagon.....


Our first wagon ride with dad at the park.

Sunday Swimming....

Before we left on vacation, our friends Leah and Ricky invited us over - along with the Woods family- to her parent's house for swimming and a BBQ. We had a great time hanging out with everyone and Austin loved swimming and running around with Tyler on the porch.


We had just turned Austin's carseat forward facing, so the ride to Leah and Ricky's was his first facing front- he sure loves being able to see the world go by this way!


What's in here? Austin sure knew where to find the good drinks!


Before we left Leah's parents house, Austin took a try at their piano to play us a few tunes!


Tyler, Chris, Austin and leah swimming.....


Tyler and Austin playing drums on the cooler with snorkle gear!

We're back!

We are back from our vacation so I will try to catch up with posts and pictures to fill everybody in over the next few days................


We finished our parent- child swim lessons a couple of weeks ago and brought our camera to the last lesson to take a video, and of course the batteries died.....so this is the only pic we ended up getting of Austin's "graduation"!


Taking a dip in the kiddie pool one night in our back yard......


Austin loves to eat watermelon- look close and check out that red mess!

Zoo Day

We went for our second trip to the zoo a couple weekends ago and took my sister along with us. It was hot, sweaty and very crowded but we had a great time! Austin seems to love the zoo so we will be making many trips there in the future.....


This was probably john and austin's favorite part of the day- the sting ray pool where you can "pet" them and feed them. Austin loved this and was so good at putting his little hand in and waiting for them all to swim over to him....


John and I and the drooler..........


it was REALLY hot that day- here are two sweaty boys checking out animals......


austin and his aunt mandy- they had a great time together!


Petting the big goat in the petting zoo with dad.....austin was so great at going up and patting all the animals- he practices a lot with bailey!


Looking at the wallabies with aunt mandy. if you think he looks like a curious little man in this pic, you are right!


austin thought this thing called a bearded pig was so funny......!