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......!

Mother's Day....plus two extras

We hope everyone enjoyed their Mother's Day. It was my first, so i definantly enjoyed it! John took all of us (including bailey) to Honeymoon Island for a morning at the beach which was really nice. He also made me a great homecooked breakfast and dinner. What a great husband and kids I have! Thank you- I had a fun day!!


My mother's day cards, flowers, and gifts from John and Austin.


Mom and kids taking a break..........


Dad and Austin hitting the waves.


In the spirit of mother's day I had to put this pic up of my little helper assisting me with the vaccuming....let's just hope his eagerness to help with chores continues until he's 20 or so!


My mom bought Austin this animated cookie monster (kind of like the tickle me elmo) and he hasn't quite figured it out yet- as you can tell from the pic!

Austin's first beach trip

Couple weekends ago we took Austin for his first trip to the beach. He loved it! We bought him this little float with a shade that looks like a crab and he was perfectly happy to float out in the water with us :)


Am I cool or what??!


Austin trying to figure out what this sand stuff was......


Austin and John out in the water floating....the water was so pretty and clear that day.

A Day at the Park

Here are a few pics (and a couple extra) of an afternoon at the park....


Austin pushing his walker at the park


Grass is sooooo interesting!


We got austin a bike seat for the back of John's bike and he loves it! So we have been taking lots of bike rides in the evenings. He does look silly in that helmet!


This is where we find austin alot these days....exploring our kitchen cabinets. We keep saying if one day we can't find him, just to look inside this cabinet and he probably will have crawled inside here!


Last but not least, Bailey had a great time at the park and decided to pose for this picture :)