back home again..yeah

Well we made it! Once again Owen did absolutly awesome until the very last leg of the trip. On the flight back to Portland he lost it. I could not get him to nurse or relax for anything. Of course after he cried himself to sleep and we were waiting at the baggage claim a man came to give me advice on how to deal with the pressurization. Thanks. He just would not have anything I tried to do. I think he almost bit off my nipple :( I was waiting for more folks to start giving me tips for next time. I am really glad he was the only one!
He slept fairly well last night. We fell into Texas time way too easily so I am a bit worried about getting back on time here. I think it will be a bit easier than I thought. We went to take a "nap" at 6:30 last night. We officially got up at 6:30 this morning! There were a couple of wakes and nursing moments throughout but not bad. It is time to get back to normal and no more night wakes. He was up about every 2 hours while we were gone. He was also teething but I think it was just a combo of everything. Travel, new place, teething and no more grandma! After we get all settled in I will upload some photos. I have to get them off of Mike's camera and computer.
Time to unpack :(
here are some pics from when mom was in town.

still in texas

unfortunately Owen has not been the main attraction lately so I do not have many new pictures of him! (Unfortunately for all ya all-fortunately for me!) I forgot to mention that we are using disposable diapers on this trip and the picture of Owen in the previous post of him grabbing himself should make a bit more sense now!!! no he was not just grabbing himself for the hell of it! or at least i don't think so!! last night we checked out the Alamo and the River Walk. Ate dinner on the river and walked about town a bit. Nice city. street signs suck and the roads are really crazy. other than that the weather is fab. I think i got a bit of a sunburn today. (a bit exaggerated...i got a bit pink. not hard to do since i am pasty white!) I have not been able to do a whole lot since i have to pick the boys up at 11:30 everyday for lunch. We are far enough from downtown that as soon as i would get down there get parked and get to exploring i wouldn't have long. Tomorrow the school is taking them to lunch so i may go downtown for a gander.

The Sutton Hall is in Austin at the University of Texas. That place was beautiful. So much history and the architecture was amazing. We came back to the hotel and read up on the 1966 Charles Whitman tower shootings that took place there. Pretty creepy. Sad.

It was actually the 171st anniversary at the Alamo. There was a "celebration" (for lack of better terms) over the weekend but we went on Tuesday so there was not much going on. And it was already closed by the time we got there.

Texas

Howdie there y'all. We made it to Texas! The last week and a half was total mayhem so here is a quick update to let you all know that we are well and a few pictures so that I do not get yelled at! I will take some more time tomorrow hopefully to update and throw in more pics.. until then...

a weekend with g-ma

here are a bunch of pics. I am tired and going to nap, sorry not much dialogue for now.

grandma is in town

Mom and I have been all over town since she has been here. We went to the Goodwill bins. Mike went as well, probably the last time for him to go too! Not that he didn't enjoy it but he was over it much sooner than mom and i were! We also went soaking at the Kennedy School. It was great. Mom got some cutie picts. We have pretty much just been chillin' out and takin it easy for the most part but when we get out it seems like we run all around. It took mom 3 days to actually break out her camera. I know, can you believe it??!! But since she has taken quite a few. Here a some samples of what is to come! Enjoy. Hope there is no problem viewing these. Let me know.

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catching up

We have been a bit preoccupied since mom has been here, but here is a few pictures to keep all of you happy!

The other night we went to our friend Becky's house for dinner and after we went to a local coffee shop called the Waypost to "hear some music". (Right Becky?!) Whenever given the chance Becky like to steal the camera and go crazy taking fun pictures so here are a couple. I(I have not really had the time to really look through them to find the best ones, but here a a couple!)

I made Owen a giraffe! You can not really see it but it is really cute. He totally loves it too! It makes me so happy that he likes the things I make for him. He has been chewing on the flax sacks that I made too. Yeah for me, go momma! I also hung a string of beads from my sun visor in the car for him to play with and once again it was a winner!

For those of you who do not know Mikes birthday is on Valentines day as well. He takes his girls out for dinner on Wednesday's, conveniently so! Bethany found her old Bears sock (singular) and gave it to Mike for his b-day!! Cute huh? She also wrote him a story and made him a styrophoam birthday. The cake was styrophoam because there were so many candles on it that it was a fire hazard! She thought about that all on her own.

I took owen into Mikes work last week. All the women loved him. I don't think that i posted these pics yet.