Tuesday, July 20, 2010

{Jaydon..Our LOUD mouth}Lots of posts ahead

We have been finding lots of frogs in our yard. I don't mind frogs. We would get them in Tulsa and i would always pick them up. SO, i am the one that will pick up the frogs in the family when no one else will.....until i saw this HUGE frog. This picture doesn't show his size...he really was BIG and FAT. They start hoppin out all over the place when we mow the lawn. Here in Texas everything is bigger....BUGS are bigger...we have found HUGE spiders...biggest i have seen since i last lived in Oklahoma, which was a tarantula. The grasshoppers and crickets are HUGE. Instead of the big bumblebees that we got in our backyard in ohio, we now get BIG wasps. EVERYONE here owns an SUV or a truck. They are EVERYWHERE. Not kidding.

We went on base and it was awesome. The base is it's own little city. It's so cool. We drove by the housing and looked at it and it was REALLY nice and we were kind of wishing we would have lived on base after seeing it. Oh well. We still like our home. Here are the boys watching the fighter jets take off one after another and flying overhead. They loved it. They thought it was an air show.
We went to a fun pool/splash park the other day. It was 102 degrees out! Anyway, it was an awesome pool/park for kids. The boys and i will have to go a lot when shane starts working. Tanner burned his feet on the cement. He learned quickly that the ground gets too hot to walk around in bare feet. We like it here so far. The people are great. Texas is full of just genuinely NICE people. They are so nice and helpful. I couldn't believe it at first, considering where we came from. Workers in the stores actually WANTED to help me find something. They would come up to me and offer their help. I was caught off guard at first! haha! Not kidding. The ward here is fabulous. The spirit is felt very strongly and the people are just so genuine. I feel like i have known them a lot longer than we have been here. We have been there for two Sunday's and we already have callings and are already set to give talks in church this sunday. Shane was called to be the institute teacher and i am the Activity's Day Advisor for the 8-11 year olds. That will be fun. And i am excited about being able to still go to Relief Society. :) Tanner has to give a talk in primary this sunday too. They are really putting us to work right away! :) But they are all so wonderful.

Now, these next set up pictures are hilarious to me. Jaydon is by far the biggest loud mouth of the family. H doesn't know what it means to be quiet. When he wants ANYTHING he just YELLS SO DARN LOUD. Really, it is quite annoying. But it makes me laugh at the same time, laugh with shock that i have a kid who is so loud. Here is Jaydon fine in the first picture. I told the boys to go stand by him so i could get a pic of them.



Here he is in the second picture...NOT HAPPY. He wants the boys AWAY from him and doesn't want to be touched!!
Still absolutely ticked off!!!...


Still mad...



Still very mad...

He was acting this way b/c he wanted his milk. Because as soon as i pulled him out of his chair and gave him his milk he was totally fine. He has TONS OF spunk and personality. I am getting nervous about how his two's are going to be. Actually i have been nervous for awhile.














2 comments:

Blake Jones said...

Your summer sounds CRAZY like ours!!! Blake and Remi also got a flu bug. Along with all the boys in my family. Remi got sick half way through our drive out here. It made for a long second day driving. I don't know how you do it with kids getting car sick. This is the first time I can remember that one of our kids threw up in the car and it was miserable.

Anyway, hope all is well there. It is funny to hear people who used to live in Cleveland say things about how friendly people are where they live now. It's like that here too. Everyone is SOOOOO nice. Good luck with your new callings.

Lauri said...

When I was little and we lived in Texas, I would walk ahead of my Dad while he mowed and save all the little frogs from the mower! :) Hahaha. It was my mission in life as a four year old, I guess.
I can't wait to see the boys in a couple months!!!! Can't believe Jaydon is so big already. It looks like Gav is tall now too! (And ready for SCHOOL!! AHHH!) Miss you guys tons. Glad you are enjoying Texas so far. Just DO NOT start cheering for ANY TEXAS TEAMS, ASH! I'm serious, woman...we will have issues!!