Houston....We Have A Problem

Our computer is fried.....literally.

Part of the cooling fan broke who knows how, or how long ago, but regardless.....it's fried and we need a new one.

Luckily my brother is a computer nerd, I mean GENIUS and he can build us a new one for way less money than we could buy retail.

Our computer should be up and running shortly and I will finally be able to post something new.

(My laptop is fickle and only lets me get on blogger ocasionally and I can't post pics, so hopefully the computer gets done soon!)

Another Sign That Austen's Growing Up

Austen has outgrown his highchair. He's actually been too big for it for a while now, but I was in denial. I finally realized that he needed a booster seat when it actually became painful to try to get him in and out of the highchair. I looked forever for a toddler booster seat that lets you buckle them in (a necessity for Austen since you litterally have to make him stop moving long enough to eat a complete meal) and I finally found one. I'm happy to say it's perfect and he loves being able to sit at the table with us when we eat. I asked him if that meant he was a big boy now and he said "no, I'm a big kid." Apparently that's a bigger deal to him than being a big boy. Anyway, here's a cute pic of him loving the new booster.

We're Still Enjoying The Wamth

It's still warm here, at least during the day, so we are soaking up every last bit of it that we can! Hope you're enjoying the day off, I know we will be!

More Lamenting

Not only is it getting darker earlier, but our beloved splash pool isn't open in the mornings anymore and after Mon it won't be open at all!!!

I am seriously sad about this!
Austen LOVES to go and it wears him out like nothing else.
I know I can't stop the cold weather from coming, but I just want it to stay warm for as LONG as possible! Austen is not an indoor kind of kid!

I Blinked And Summer's Over

I can NOT believe September is already here!!!!
Summer went by way too fast this year. We have been having so much fun doing all sorts of things. I thinks it's been so much fun because Austen is just at a FUN age!

One of the things I'm going to miss the most is our nightly family walk.
When Brian gets home from work we eat dinner as fast as we can and then we go wander around the neighborhood.
Austen usually collects rocks as we go, Sophie pees on everything, and somehow we seem to end up at Coldstone a lot. Not quite sure whose idea that is.....
(On a side note Austen insists on having shorts with pockets just so he can collect things. On our last walk his cargo shorts were so full of rocks that he could barely walk because his pants wouldn't stay up with all that extra weight.)

Here are my cute boys. Austen insisted that Brian wear his hat backwards too.

Austen likes to throw rocks into this fountain thing......and this is a pic of him going in for a kiss after all his rocks had been thrown.

Collecting more rocks for the pockets.

Ya Know That Crazy, Neurotic Dog We Have.....

Well, yesterday was her 8th birthday!
Even though she keeps me up more than Austen most nights, we still love her and truly think of her as part of the family.
She hates kids, but she tolerates Austen pretty well (as long as he doesn't try anything crazy like ya know touching her).
Can't believe she is already 8.....time goes by way too fast!
Happy Birthday little Sophie Soph.

How Is This For Weird?

A few weeks ago, I was driving home from my Mom's house and just decided to turn down a random street. It was all in an effort to look at a new housing development, but on the way I found the most random thing ever. A herd of elk. These people have a herd of seriously huge elk just roaming around. This isn't in the middle of nowhere or anything, it's right off of a really busy main street. I stopped so Austen could see them and he of course thought they were the neatest thing ever. After I drove through the cute new neighborhood and found my dream house I noticed that these same people also have a herd of bison behind the elk herd. There were actually a lot of them and even some babies. And because that wasn't strange enough they also have two ponies and a donkey.

Anyway, Austen insists we drive by them now everytime we are on our way home from my parents house. One time when he was having a little terrible two's meltdown we drove him out there just to calm him down. Brian even got him out of the car to feed the pony and donkey.