mommy's day

well i hope all the mothers out there had a great mother's day! i know we sure did. it was a pretty typical sunday except i got spoiled a little extra. i got up and got ready to workout and deuce brought me my cards (and his truck or at least the trailer portion of it) and then he helped me open the gifts as well. after the workout i spent the afternoon laying in the sun while deuce n played like boys do and dave bbq for me. we also had some fun making brownies.

deuce brought me his card and truck trailer

here he is helping me open my gift

deuce playing (throwing his toys) in bronco's pool

deuce bailing when bronco decided to join

mommy trying to steal some extra kisses for mother's day (deuce totally not cooperating)

more playing in the dirt

mommy trying to steal more moments with deuce (deuce still not cooperating)

we made brownies and i decided to let deuce lick the whisk (his first batter experience)

"man this stuff is good"

i'm not sure who was having more fun celebrating mommy's day...me or deuce?

and what brownie is complete without milk?

well that's all for now

luv mel, dave n deuce!

easter and backyard fun

so as usual it's been a while. nanna came to visit in mid april and was able to stay a week and enjoy easter with us as well. deuce, like always, had the time of his life. he def loves his nanna and spends the next several days after she leaves going from room to room looking for her. this time when she came in he actually got to miss school for the whole week (talk about spoiled). which leads right into easter morning. you would have thought that it was christmas all over again. nanna/the easter bunny had to bring deuce everything he could possibly need for summer backyard fun.


so we'll start with easter and lead to the backyard

this is what deuce was greeted with easter morn

nanna decided to show other uses for the bouncy ball

and what's that phrase......"monkey see monkey do"

the only pic we managed to get after church

mommy hiding easter eggs

deuce hunting them

easter 09 rakes family photo

nanna helping deuce water the tree with his new watering can

now for some backyard fun that we have been having in the last couple of weeks now that the weather has warmed up

deuce going down the slide

deuce n bronco playing in the backyard

deuce getting in bronco's pool completely clothed....he just had to have that stick

nanna n deuce have fun with bubbles

checking out the new sprinkler

we also got a visit from the taylor family. carol anne is the one that used to watch deuce so it was nice to revisit with them even if it was for not so happy reasons. kyle used to be stationed with dave n dc but had gotten out and has now been recalled and will most likely deploy after training so if everyone can please keep them in their prayers, i'm sure they would greatly appreciate it.

kilee n deuce playing with the rocks. they were transferring them back n forth and back n forth between the two buckets

and then kyle started blowing bubbles and really excited deuce

well that's all for now

miss everyone like crazy

luv mel dave n deuce!

1st haircut

that's right...u read it correctly....i finally broke down and cut his hair. i kept holding off thinking the front would catch up with the back AND that it would become curly. well, two weeks ago i came to the realization that neither of those things were going to happen, so we cut it (the back, that is). living in this lovely small town (ha) there wasn't very many options for places to go and dave refused to drive to wilmington (the "big" town about an hour from here) to get it done. he wanted to do it himself, but i told him let's at least get him one decent haircut before we butcher it ourselves. no, kelly i'm not as confident as you guys. so we went to the fantastic sams and here is how it went.....

so after waiting for about 30mins we finally went back and here is the before shot

so with the backyardagains playing on the dvd they wet his hair down and went to town

still very focused on the backyardagains

and ta da... the finished product

and his first lollipop for a job well done.... p.s. i think the car seat is still sticky

well that's all for now!

luv mel dave n deuce!

family time

so as most of you know we spent the last weekend in february in h'ville/houston/austin. yep all three in one weekend! but it was a blast. so here is how the story goes.... well after much debate of even making the trip because deuce was sick with the flu then a touch of pneumonia, we hit the road or shuld i say skyways and landed in austin where we were supposed to meet up with the ellis' and be picked up by the chances' in the "henke hooptie" (yes i realize that none of us are actually henkes' anymore but we just can't let it go, and our husbands i think have finally learned to just live with it). once the ellis' arrived after an hour delay we loaded up in the 15 passenger van (quite a site to see) that we rented for the weekend festivities! we made it into h'ville with everyone happily in tote except for deuce who cried/wined pretty much the entire way. we left the next morning for houston pretty smoothly, minus the fact that we were all prepared for much warmer weather. the zoo was great with lots of funny moments. we then made the treck to u.lary and a.linda's for his retirement party. it was great getting to visit with everyone before the party got started. then it was back to h'ville that night, which we made poor kelly drive and most of us fell asleep and those that didn't sure thought bout it. the next morning we got the whole crew ready again for church and then kenzie's baptism that afternoon. plus deuce went to visit his great granny repka and great nanan marchoine. the baptism was very nice and kenzie did great. then it was back in the hooptie and on to austin. deuce got to stay with nanna for the next week. dave and the ellis' left out monday morn and i stayed in austin to visit with new mommy tam tam and the chances'. so all in all it was a great visit but once again i did terrible with the picture taking. so here are some of the few pics that i ended up with.

the first set of pics are of deuce battling the flu/pneumonia

the fevers kind of wore him out and he fell asleep watchn tv (backyardagains)

notice the soaking wet hair....its from finally breaking one of the many fevers he ran

after spending half the night in the emergency room he was having a hard time sleeping so he got to sleep with daddy (not me because he took over my spot)

he started to feel better thursday night before we traveled which is why we decided to go

next are the pics from the weekend festivities

so here we are loading up the "henke hooptie" at the airport

i would say klayton has seen his daddy do that a few times!

deuce n i checking out the goldfish

daddy n deuce going down the slide at the childrens zoo

check out those prairie dogs

deuce talking to the frog

deuce jumped right in at the chance to pet the goats

everyone enjoyed the giraffes

cousins on the fisher side

deuce enjoying lunch after kenzie's baptism

the time i got to spend with tam tam n jillian and of course james was wonderful. just wish it could have been longer (but tammy may not agree). i was all about swaddling and scheduling! i know shocking coming from this free bird. but anyway thanks tam tam for letting me spend some time with your new little one.

me and jillian

new mom tam tam (who looked great), me and jillian

i tried to get a pic with jillian and deuce but he just wanted to run around and play

so those are the few pics i remembered to take but it was a great visit and i guess we were too busy having fun to take pics. but i promise i'll try to get better!

until next time,

luv me dave n deuce!