OMG!! I am 30

This was a day, I never thought would come, but it was here and gone and now I am 30. Patrick through one heck of a party at my friend Marty Godolphin's house and a good time was had by all.

Jamaica

We had a nice relaxing time in Jamaica. We stayed at the Sandals Royal Carribean, all-inclusive resort. We ate and drank to much but had a nice time. Here is Patrick on the private island where we had dinner one night.

Patrick loves to show off his sailing skills. They had to come save him this trip. :)

Patrick and I met a fun couple in Jamaica. Patty and Budda kept us company.

Houston Road Trip

We made the long car trip from Kansas City to Houston in July. We broke up the trip by staying in a hotel in Dallas which the boys loved. The boys loved seeing Gramma and Papa Cook and even got to take a special trip to the beach while Patrick and I got away.

Here is Jack at the Houston Childrens museum pretending to be a chef.

Gramma and the boys made me a cake for my birthday.

Thomas being a chef at the childrens museum.

The hotel in Dallas had a water sprinkers that were set to music. The boys loved them but got squirt in the face unexpectedly several times.

The boys LOVE their Gramma!!

Sleeping in the hotel.





In the police car at the childrens museum.

Happy 4th of July!

Baseball

Another baseball season, has come and gone. The Wilshire Farms Yankee's did great! The only game lost was the very first game of the season. But don't worry, the Yankee's came back to beat the same team later on in the season. Thomas had a great time with his dad as coach and really was a great hitter! Patrick was a great coach that all the kids loved!


Now on to fall football......
Happy birthday Patrick!

The Wilshire Farms Yankees

Thomas giving his million dollar smile
baseball ready

such concentration

Dad and son. Love those boys.

1st year of swim team

Swim team started in June and Thomas had a great time and was a very good swimmer. He would walk across the street to our neighborhood pool every day at 9 AM to swim.

Here he is getting ready to dive off the block.

Thomas and some of his swim buddies.

Look at that view!

Swim meets were 5 hours long, but they were always having fun!!

It's been a LONG time!!

I have not blogged all summer. It has been THE busiest summer we have ever had. Baseball, swim team, vacations. It has all been great!! Well I am going to sit down and get some of it done now.

Neighborhood pals

We just love these boys. They love hanging out in the backyard and playing a version of cops and robbers where the 'jail' is under the hammock. Just had to get a picture of them all together.

Memorial Weekend

We had a great memorial weekend. On Sunday we went to Grandma and Grandpa Smiths where we cooked out, went to kiddie land, played in the sprinklers and had tropical snow. Can't beat it!! It was a really nice long weekend with the family. This had to be Jack favorite thing he did. Going on the train at kiddie land with Katlyn. He called it 'James' from Thomas the Tank engine.

Lizzie and Jack in the sprinklers.

Mom and Christy, relaxing and watching the kids.

Thomas and Peyton on the roller coaster.

Lizzie on the caboose.

Thomas and Peyton are still loving the train even though they are 7 and 8.

Katlyn is such a good cousin to Jack. She helped him out everytime.

This was the funniest part of kiddieland. Thomas got going so fast on the spinners that he turned green right in front of us. He was fine after he got off, but his facial expressions had us laughing so hard we were crying.

Spiderman and Batman at the Cook house

Watch out all you evil villans. Spiderman (aka Jack) and Batman (aka Mason) are here to protect our neighborhood.

Thomas' last soccer game of spring 09

Thomas did great in his last soccer game. It was a close game which ended in a tie 1-1. We were really proud of the way Thomas hustled.

Daddy's Socks Rock

Here is what happens when you leave Jack alone for 5 minutes: He has his dads tube socks on, over his sandals (which barely strapped) along with a pen drawing all over his belly.
That looks hot Jack.

The new sleepovers

Much to Thomas' dismay, Jack has been asking to have sleepovers in Thomas' room. He is getting a little scared at night and would like to sleep with his big brother. Here they are last night when I told them in a stern voice 'Get to SLEEP'. I guess they don't take me to seriously.

Later on that night, Thomas was sleeping and Jack was singing over his sleeping shoulder the ABC song. I didn't get a picture of that because I didn't want Jack to know I was listening, but I still don't know how Thomas slept through it. It was so funny.

A sunny thunderstorm???

The boys were very confused yesterday morning when it was sunny outside, but there was a thunderstorm going on. "How can that happen" Thomas asked.

Luckily there were no tornadoes in Kansas. Two hit in Missouri and caused quite a bit of damage.