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No real news around here to share, but I had some cute pics on my camera:

Jackson working on his alphabet puzzle. He has to match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter.

Ben thinks his brother is so funny!

Ben playing with his new grill from Papa John & Nana. 

Handsome boy before church

Sweet Ben decided he needed the big chair to himself. Thankfully, that only lasted 1 day!!!

Love his imagination

Brother Reading Time

Ice Cream with GranMartha at National Day of Prayer in Town Center

He takes his ice cream seriously.

Have you tried Cake Pops at Starbucks? I splurged the other day and got some...YUM!

When we were in TN a couple weeks ago, Ryan built this bridge from the cabin to the playground. What a fun daddy! The boys love it. 

Thanks Dad! 

Happy 2nd Birthday Ben!

Happy 2nd Birthday Ben!!! We love you so very much!

We've been celebrating all month. We are so thankful for our precious boy! You had a great 2 year old checkup. You weigh 34 pounds (96%) and are 3' 0.5" tall (94%)- big boy!! The doctor agreed that you are absolutely perfect. 

 We went to Abilene for Ben's birthday weekend to be there for Uncle Morgan's ACU graduation. (Way to go Morgan!!!) We had a graduation/bday party Friday night. I took Ben to Party City and let him pick out what kind of party he wanted (yes, we had a -straight from the party store-party since we pulled into town about 15 min before the party). Ben chose Diego! He LOVED his Diego party!!!

 Jackson was so excited for his brother!

 Papa John & Nana got the cake! So cute!

 Trying to be patient...

 Party People: Uncle Morgan & Great Granddad

 Lovin the cake

 Whenever we asked Ben what he wanted for his birthday, he would say "a red present." He got a red one! Sweet boy!

 Jackson was such a big "helper"

 Poor kid doesn't get any attention.

 Leah, Ryan, & Morgan

 We had a Diego pinata!

 Stick the Rescue Badge on Diego

 Tia Leah blowing Diego bubbles with Jackson

 Great Dad is always such a good sport!

 The boys and I went to the park to play with our friends Lindsey & Ava during the graduation ceremony on Saturday. We had such a great time playing with them!!!

 Ben loves his Uncle Morgan & Papa John

From Abilene, we went to San Antonio for a few days. We stayed at the wonderful Hyatt Hill Country Resort (thanks to Pops & GranMartha).We had the BEST time!

When we checked in, they asked how old Ben was. I told the lady he had just turned 2. After we got in our room they had milk & cookies delivered for his birthday!

 My handsome 2 year old playing at the resort pool.

 We pretty much camped out on this little beach for 3 days.

 Jackson was cracking us up on the lazy river. He would lay in his tube and RELAX as we floated.

 Ryan buried Jackson in the sand.

We've loved celebrating our Benjamin this month! Thanks to everyone who has made his bday so special. He is a seriously blessed little boy to have so many loving people in his life!

Celebrations!

 
Last week was full of celebrations!

We celebrated my BFF Wendi and baby Jake (coming in july) at her FCCC baby shower! We can't wait to meet precious Jake and have a new friend to play with!

We celebrated Kathryn's 25th birthday with the fam Friday night! Happy Birhthday, Kaki!!!


Lastly, we celebrated Mother's Day this weekend! Ryan sent me to get a pedicure Saturday afternoon and we spent Sunday afternoon with my family. We were supposed to be honoring my mom, but leave it to my parents to get Kathryn & me special presents for being good mothers to their grandchildren!!


Ryan and I are so blessed to have such good mamas! We love you, GranMartha & Nana!

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Tennessee

My mom, Jackson, Ben, and I went to TN last week to visit the extended fam! We were there Tuesday through Saturday and had such a nice visit. Thank you Mom & Dad for sending us there!!! There's nothing sweeter than great-grandparents playing with their great-grandchildren.

Jackson & GranMartha at the airport

My mom, Pa, & Mary

Pa reading to Ben. I think Ben said "We're at Pa's house!" about a thousand times last week! They're big buddies!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pa bought Jackson a new Cars puzzle for them to do together. So sweet!

The boys playing ball with their almost 87 year old Pa!

Jackson taught Pa all about the iPad

Riding Pa's tractor

We went to visit my grandmother (dad's mom) at her nursing home. She looked great! As soon as I walked in the door, she knew exactly who I was! We had a special afternoon visiting and playing Bingo.

BINGO!!!

We went to dinner with my mom's Aunt Ann and my Aunt Mary.

This was a serious game of Zingo!

Pizza Party! Jackson requested to sit next to Ma. They had a fun time together!

My cousin Carrie just had a beautiful baby girl, Sienna. These are some proud Great Aunts!

Carrie, Sienna, Pa, Ma, Ben, Jackson, MB

 6:30 on a Sat evening = empty flight!!! I think there were 38 people on our plane...so nice! Jackson LOVED the whole flying experience. He got really into it. Such a great little traveler.

Sweet Ben was a great traveler too!