Twin's Baptism

We traveled to El Paso last week to have the twins Baptized and for a visit. All went well. The babies and Andrew were good on the trip up and back. Even though we had a rough start going. The batteries in both my car and Marc's died as we tried to leave. Then Marc forgot his phone. It was such a nice visit.

I was worried at first that I wasn't going to be able to find a Baptismal gown for both babies as we only had one. It's the one that my Aunt Anna made for Kathrine and all us kids and most of the grand kids have worn. Well, it turns out that Anna's mom had made one very similar for Richie when he was born so we got two almost identical Baptismal gowns. They looked so cute. Andrew wasn't too happy that Timothy was wearing a dress. When he saw him in it he said "Wait! He's wearing a dress! I think he needs to take it off.". So cute!

Bernadette getting Baptized

Timothy getting Baptized

Bernadette with her Godparents, Margaret (GAM) and Robert

Timothy with his Godparents, Michael and Elizabeth

The bow Bernadette is wearing, my sister gave to her, and

we are to save it so she can wear it as a garter for her wedding.

Bernadette

Timothy

El Paso Trip Part III

I have been trying to get these pictures up for days, but for whatever reason they wouldn't "add". Anyway here are some pictures from our White Sands trip. We just love White Sands and try and go once a year. The day we went it was PACKED!!!! Almost every dune was full. I hadn't seen that many people there in a really long, long time. It was kind of funny, the first family that was next to us was from China and then after they left the next family that came was from India. We lent the 2nd family one of our sand sleds and they had a great time. They also thought Andrew was the cutest, funniest thing they'd ever seen and want to get their picture with him and came to hug him bye bye when they brought the sled back. They even asked him if he wanted to come with them and he said yes and then thought better about it. Which is kind of scary that he was willing to go at first. We all has such a good time.

The sunsets here are just beautiful!

Aren't we cute!

Here is a picture of Elise, Me, Joseph, Margaret (GAM) and Andrew

He had so much fun sliding down the hill in the sled.

When you live in the desert the only kind of sledding you

get to do is sand sledding.

His face says it all.

My mom and my Aunt

My cousin Matthew (Andrew's new bff) was digging a big hole

that eventually was deeper than Andrew was tall.

Getting deeper. I wish I could of had a video of Andrew running down the hill and when he saw the hole he put on the brakes, but kept sliding down and fell perfectly into the hole, body first and disappeared. This was the main reason the family from India thought he was so funny. Word just don't do it justice.

I think he was having fun.

Picnic time anyone?

How Elise, who is almost 13, and I managed to make it down the hill

on the sled is still beyond me. Even James looks a little shocked.

This picture of Eileen and Andrew was just too cute!

Wordless Wednesday ~ Andrew in a Hole

El Paso Trip Part II

Here are some more pictures from our trip. On our way to White Sands (those pictures to follow soon) we stopped at the Air and Space Museum in Alamogordo, NM. Andrew was so cute following James around the whole time. He liked looking at all the rockets and spaceships. He even got to land the Space Shuttle in a simulator.

Here he is in front of the Mercury Capsule

Andrew and his new bff, Jame in a mock up of the

inside of the shuttle

He really liked this "rocket"


Here he is with "The People" (left to right Eileen,
James, Joseph and Elise)

Here they are in front of a US rocket

Andrew and "The People" inside the Mercury Capsule

El Paso Trip Part I

I have a ton of pictures and stories from our El Paso trip so I decided to separate then into several posts instead of just one long one. First off, Andrew had the time of his life and I don't know how he is going to get back to his normal boring life now that we are home. He just thought Grandad was awesome!!! Andrew followed him around like a little puppy. He walked right behind him every time he came home asking "Grandad, where were you? Where are you going? What are you doing?...........". He wouldn't even leave the house to come with me and my mom. He told us "no, I want to stay with Grandad". This was in part to the fact that Grandad took him to the park to play baseball and golf on more than one occasion. He also had a good time seeing all his cousins. Firsts, he got to visit with "My Friends" (Elizabeth's family) on the way up there, then he got to see "The People" (Kathrine's family) and "John Michael" (He refers to Michael's entire family as John Michael) during his visit. Which was great for me, I didn't have to entertain him for a second. He replaced "Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy" with "Grandad, grandad, grandad.".

Our firsts activity was a visit to Western Playland. For those of you who don't know, Western Playland is a little amusement park in El Paso. It has been there "forever". I have pictures of me as a baby on some of the same rides you will see Andrew on. He had a great time. First, with Joseph and Elise, and then the rest of "The People" came later on. They have lots of rides just right for a kid his age there. But, typical Andrew, he wanted to do some big kid rides and cried when he couldn't go on the bumper cars.

Grandma also has a HUGE water slide that she can put up in the backyard. He liked playing and splashing everyone. Then he decided that he was going to hit golf balls on the top and then climb up to get them down. After playing in the water he and "The People" decided that they were going to play in the mud. I think they ended up playing longer in the mud than in the water slide. Typical, "you buy a kid a toy and they play with the paper". So this ends the first 2 days we were there. More posts and pictures to come in the next couple of days, so check back.

Family Fun

We had a really nice time visiting with Grandma Kate, Grandpa Jebb, Aunt Amanda, Uncle Brandon and Briannah while we were in MI. Andrew was into everything Grandma and Grandpa were doing. He was constantly trying to look at and touch Grandma's sewing, especially the box of sequins. He wanted to talk to Grandpa on the "cell phone" all day long and would make sure Grandpa got his phone out too. Not to mention playing had held card games together. The poor cats were glad to see him go I am sure. He would chase them around and after Christmas he would use Buzz's laser to shoot them. It did take him a while to warm up to Bart (the big, fluffy, grumpy cat). Andrew also loved playing with his Kissing Cousin (cousin by marriage) Briannah. The were just 2 peas in a pod. He would even cry when they would leave at night. They would spend their time fishing for the magnet fish while trying to escape from the alligator. Then it was time to practice sledding in the dinning room before we tried it outside for real. Andrew thought it was funny to plop on Briannah all the time. You would hear her say "Andrew get off of me!" every now and again. He even did it while they were sledding. Once they were down the hill, back went Andrew and poor Briannah was stuck underneath. Too bad she doesn't live closer. He sure had fun and I know he is going to miss everyone terribly.

Grandpa, can you hear me now?

Who's winning?


Sledding warm up in front of the tree


Awww! Too cute for words


They would even sit and watch movies together.

Imagine, Andrew sitting still!

Every time Jake the cat got in someones lap, Andrew had to follow.