Aiden's First Zoo Trip

While we were in Texas, Aiden got to go to the zoo for the first time. The temperatures had been over 100 for weeks, so most of the animals were inside. There were still a few out to see and Aiden had a fun time. Here are some of the pictures that Aiden took of the animals at the San Antonio Zoo.




The rhinos were really stinky (as usual), so my mom told Aiden to tell them to take a bath. Aiden then turned toward this rhino and said, "Rhino, you are stinky. You should take a bath and get all clean and then you won't stink any more." When we asked him later what the smelliest animal in the whole zoo was, he said it was the rhino.

July Vacation

So here are some of the pics from our family vacation. Unfortunately, some of the really cute ones are on my mom's camera. It's hard to be mom and photographer too :-)

We visited with Joe's parents for several days. His sister and her two sons were there at the same time. Aiden really enjoyed playing with his cousins. Samuel is 5 and Joey will turn 4 just after Aiden turns 3.

Aiden, Samuel, and Joey enjoying a wonderful pancake breakfast on Grandma's back porch.
The boys enjoy a bedtime story read by Grandma.

A little later in the trip, we went to a children's museum. Aiden spent 5 or 6 hours there and had a blast the whole time.

Here are pics of Aiden in the rocket on his trip to the moon.

He also got to be a bat and go kayaking.
There were tons of other things to do there, but I didn't get any more pictures. I was too busy playing with Aiden :-)

Father's Day

I didn't make a cake for Joe's birthday due to an overabundance of leftover sweets from other things. So, I used Father's Day as an excuse to bake. Joe got silly and said he wanted a green cake, so I flavored a plain white cake with lime jello. It tasted great!

I also made a shirt for him this year and am very happy with how it turned out. I'd never done any embroidery before.

This is the front of the shirt.

And here's the back!

Old Pics

We just got back from our big family vacation, so I thought I'd update the blog. When I started looking for the pics from the trip, I found all these great shots that never got posted!! So, I'll do the vacation separately. This is just my trip down memory lane.

This is Aiden the robot with his robot hat shortly after Christmas.

This is the first Sunday that he wore this suit to church. It's getting a little too short in the legs and sleeves now.

Here are the pictures from the snowstorm back in March. It caused a lot of damage to trees and plants, but it was certainly beautiful.

Here is Aiden's first snowman. It's not very tall, but he thought it was great!

Aiden kept taking the head off the snowman to use for snowball fighting.

Eventually the snowman was kicked over. He didn't even try to defend himself!

Aiden and I took a walk around our neighborhood after the snow stopped.

This picture is from May. It's nothing special. We just thought he loooked so cute in his blue jeans with the blue jean jacket.