Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to the world's greatest...

Swingset Update...

Today we finished the swingset! It was really pretty easy to build, but took almost 3x as long as the manager at Academy mentioned :-) The good news is we were on the lower end of the 6-12 hrs reccomended by the directions, so I don't look like the slowest Dad ever!





The kids are really happy with it, but Grace mentioned it doesn't look like the picture in the directions. Emma (ever the optimist) explained, "It's because Dad built it with love!"

Rangers...

Josh and I had a lot of fun going to the Rangers game yesterday. We're Astro's fans, but it is good to see the Rangers playing some of the best baseball they've played in years. Josh went to a Rangers baseball camp last summer, so he was pretty content seeing either team win, and an extra inning was a bonus.



We decided to get to the game a little late, and lucked out to get seats behind the Astro's dugout. There were foul balls landing all around us, but not close enough to get to.




We're looking forward to taking the little G man next time!

Gavin's Two Week Checkup

Gavin had his two week check-up on Wednesday. He is doing great! He weighs 9 lbs even-which is the 60 percentile for weight. He grew an inch taller, so he is 21 3/4"-which is 70 percentile for height. Here are some of our favorite pictures of him.

Swingset...

The kids have wanted a new swingset since we moved into the house, and since Gavin is now here, we (I) thought it would be a great time to build one! The last set took about a week of evenings and help from family and friends to put together, so this time we decided to go with a smaller model.

All the kids were helpful, but Grace is especially dangerous with a hammer...




Josh had fun creating some shade for everyone out of the boxes too...




Josh is getting big enough to be really good with hand tools...




Here's our progress so far; not too bad for a few hours...

Botanical Garden

Today was Gavin's first big outing, which was pretty brief, but quite a bit of fun. We went to the botanical gardens in Ft. Worth to take a few pictures of the kids. They were great sports, considering the high humidity and heat!

There are quite a few pictures at the following website:

Botanical Garden Pics

...but I included a few of our favorites below!

Gavin Has Arrived!

We have a new little runt in our family, Gavin Nicholas, so it's an exciting time around here :-) The kids were mesmerized by their new little brother when they first saw him, it was really sweet to see them welcome him in:



Here's one of his first pictures, after he took a quick bath in the nursery:



Grandma, Nana, and Papa have helped a ton, and are proud of their new little grandson!

Welcome home Gavin!