san angelo: part 2

here are a few group pics, i love this family!






and for those of you who were concerned, BATTLEPLANKS LIVES!!!!!!!!!
the evidence:

san angelo: part 1

we had an incredible trip out to beautiful west texas to visit with gammy and gan gan. the trip was made complete with the addition of uncle ross and heidi. we all had a fabulous time! check out the most varied-activitied trip ever!


the boys did some ranchin' (don't worry folks, the cows hardly felt a thing and were rewarded for their good attitude with a ton of cake, for real, at least that's what they call the cow food).


the kids had a ton of fun playin' train with the train king himself, uncle ross.


hot day in texas? no worries, set up a sprinkler in the backyard and we are set!


wills, just being wills.


we had a lovely passover seder. it was so wonderful to share in traditions with our friends and family. i had even prepped sunny and wills on the night's events and they joined in on the chorus for dayenu! i was so proud!


we even got to celebrate uncle ross's birthday!


sunny the princess at the park.

ya want eggs with that??

a final camping post, i promise!

folks, i know this is getting excessive here, but i couldn't help it with all of the great footage from the trip!!

the daddies carrying the little ones away from mermaid island


i think berry looks pretty good preggers with three little ones... maybe they shouldn't stop at two :)


we had craft time and sunny made a spectacular puppet. good work sunny buns!


notice how sunny and wills will stop at nothing to impress eepers.


our posse, what a crew!




and i leave you with a last moment of zen...



(ps- feel better soon amir! love from sunny and wills)

camping

my beautiful family in a beautiful texas river, a match made in heaven.


wills + runa = love


sunny giving her babies an afternoon snack. she is such a good mommy!


a picnic on the shores of mermaid island.


no road trip in west texas is complete without a stop in the dq. yum!


pretty much speechless on this one. kids say the darndest things!

canoe dreams

we had never been out to south llano river state park, but we knew there would be water there. when we are headed towards water, we start to have canoe dreams. so we (and by we i mean brent) packed up the canoe, and got goin'!



then we drag that thing down to the river.


and there was one short and glorious trip made by the boys



for the rest of our time there, the canoe was used in a different way than we had envisioned.






it was worth all of the packing for sure!

new rock n roll video, made on location

we went camping last weekend (there will definitely be more posts and wrap up from our great weekend with west texas and the ingrams). while we were there, sunny and wills paid tribute to their new favorite band, peelander z. we got to see this band during SXSW and have been checking out thier videos on line since (and you can too, http://www.peelander-z.com/). here is their cover version of our fave song, "so many mike".

shiny happy people

more from wills's party. oh, and a little follow up, today our TWO year old has finally (we hope) recovered from his birthday sickness 2011. go wills!

nothin' but smiles at the kids table




party scenes




sunny and brynna lovin' life at the bounce house





uncle ross and heidi


ginny and whit


amir and faye


gan gan (let me say, this guy needs to learn how to relax and enjoy a party!)

a party to remember

we had a big plan for wills's birthday party... but as we have so often been reminded, things don't always go as planned when you are a parent. wills woke up with a fever the morning of his big day so we had to let our friends know that they should be weary of coming into the germ-ville for a party. lucky for wills, the day was incredibly fun and special with the help of some incredible family members and brave friends. we still had a rockin' good time and it was a day to remember. there will be more photos to come, but for now, here is the the birthday boy getting that special serenade.

happy birthday to wills!

what is happening??? how can this boy be two already?? i just can't believe that two years ago today we got to meet our precious and special little baby boy, and now he's all grown up!! this baby is a kid!


we decided to have a special morning adventure with sunny and shana to the park. it was a gorgeous day, perfect for the birthday boy.






wills even had a birthday milestone, he made it UP the slide!! i don't know what it is about going the wrong way up the slide, but it's every kid's dream!




happy birthday wills, we love you so so much!

dance class!

i got to watch sunny's dance class again, pure cute bliss! on this particular day they were doing an interpretation of "the very hungary caterpillar" by eric carl.

warm up


the caterpillar in the cocoon


being butterflies