Bring on the Cereal!

Tag had his first rice cereal just a few days ago. He is loving eating from a spoon! He's been watching us eat now for a few weeks, and looking very interested. So we went for it...and here are a few pics that captured the moment....and a few things that Tag might have been thinking. (!)

I'm not so sure about this, Dad...

Whoa! What was that?

Hmmm....different texture....let me process this....

Ooohhh....so that's how big I'm supposed to open my mouth, huh?

Hey... it's not so bad!

Look at me! Aren't I big stuff eating solid food and all?

Yeah, I think I could get used to this! It's really yummy! Bring it on, mom and dad...

Easter 2008

Easter morning with our four little chickens. :) It was a chilly, beautiful morning to celebrate that our Saviour is risen!

Yes, those are matching sweater vests on the boys. C'mon...they're only little once....

And I could just eat up the matching dresses. I figure this may be the last year that I can convince Faith Anna that this is oh so cute. She's starting to have her own fashion opinions these days...




Mama and her baby boy

Easter lunch at my Mom and Dad's house. Brandon wanted to know where he could get a sweater vest like Tag's....

Granny Boo loving on her little man...

Posing with Pop

Beth seemed to especially enjoy the green frosted cookies...

The girls loved making Tag laugh

Handsome...

Looks like we wore out Hannah and Haden! Hope they'll come back for more fun soon!

Aunt Tag came for a visit...

My Aunt Tag, Uncle Joe, cousin Tobie and her kids, Hannah and Haden, came to visit this past weekend! Most of you know that our Tag was named after my Grandad, Peter "Tag" Taglialavore. But what you may not know is that his daughters, my aunt and my mom, also went by "Tag" when they were young... probably because their last name was so hard to pronounce. Anyway, it stuck for my aunt, and she has gone by Tag ever since. She is a very special lady in my life!

Tag loves Tag...

Joe, Tag, Hannah and Tobie

Uncle Joe and his "baby girl"...

We took my aunt out for some birthday lunch...

All the girls at a cute little cafe around the corner...

Birthday girl! Is it the big 50?

Natalie, Brandon and Tobie goofing off at my parents house...

Caroline, Hannah, and Faith Anna dying eggs... where are the boys, anyway?

Sweet Jes and Nat

Tag loves his cousin Caroline! Check out those lime green signature earrings...

Faith Anna getting some loving too. Tag was not short on attention this weekend!

Oh...here are the boys. We found them outside playing football of course. Cousin Haden with Logan and Peter.

More loving from Hannah...

Double the love... Tag and Claire...apparantly loving their fists.

My mom's turn for the double love...and the kids still shoving those fists in there! C'mon, Claire...you can get them both in there!

Tag with the "big girls"...

Loving on Daddy...

All the kids having supper. We are one truly blessed family!

Rocket Town

Logan and his Papa Dude built a rocket last week... and of course sent it home for us to test out at the park. :) After going to several hobby stores to find the right "engine", he and Luke finally got it working and that sucker flew about 300 feet! Very fun. Thanks Chris for making this so much fun for our boy!

First launch... a success! (just landed in the creek....) 2nd launch also a success! (but the parachute never opened....) Check out these funny videos.

My Beth-girl and I...

Look at these cute girlies...

....we're going to have lots of fun together over the next 50 years or so....

Galveston Reunion Fun

Fun times with old friends this past weekend! We gathered a few families together from the past and had some good hang time. Scott Torn put it well when he commented about the wonderful sense of community we all feel together. It is amazing that after almost 10 years we just felt like we were able to pick right back up where we left off. These are a particularly special set of friends for Luke and I because we shared so many of our "firsts" together... We got married the same year as the Torns. I still remember Secily and Scott's crazy honeymoon hurricane nightmare! We all rented our first old antique houses together...the Torns and the Chiles actually lived upstairs/downstairs from each other! Luke and I were over on Avenue K living next to our 99 year old landlord who we affectionately called "Ya-Ya" (grandmother in greek). We got our first dogs together... well, we actually got one of Maddie's (Scott and Secily's dog) puppies....and the Chiles got sweet Rufus! We were all pregnant together for the first time and had our first babies the same year (Abby in May, Sam in September and Logan in October). And we all moved to Fish Village and bought our first houses together. We have great memories of strolling through the neighborhood together with our little ones....and countless suppers at each others houses. And the Sheets were a constant through it all. Cori Layne was born in Galveston while we were all there...so many suppers and Sunday afternoon meals at their house...lots of late-night sing-a-longs and games of Broom-a-game (I don't even know if that's how you say it!)...and of course dozens and dozens of batches of chocolate chip cookies. Such good memories.
We were having so much fun catching up this weekend, that I forgot to take any pictures! (Plus my little guy wasn't feeling so well...) So Luke grabbed the camera on Sunday and took some random party pics for me. Thank you, sweetheart! :) Secily and Sarah seemed to really be the photographers this weekend, so I can't wait to see what they send out.


Zach and Will

Little Tag needing some extra-loving...

Chris and Lenore's youngest, Luke Chiles. What a cute boy!

The Chiles' oldest, Abby, with Faith Anna and Beth. They were fast friends this weekend! Had a secret hide-out with a secret code and everything!

Scott and Secily's youngest, Anna Scott. She and Tag are just days apart in age. What a sweet little angel-girl!

Kara with Levi and Miss Gini Sheets...who is headed to ACU this coming Fall. Wow...how can that be?!

This was the favorite pastime of the weekend...lots of games of hoop going on. This is Sam and Jack Torn, Logan in the orange shirt, Emma Chiles in the green, and Luke Chiles standing by the pole. They all had so much fun together.

The boys.. Luke Chiles, Logan, Jack and Sam Torn

Chris and his daughter Emma... she's the same age as Faith Anna.... very sweet little girl.

Ben, Luke, and Landon. The Sheets sisters threw a fun Tool Shower for Landon this weekend..and all the men attended. We hear they ate lots of good breakfast and gave Landon marriage advice. Hmmm...wish I could have been a fly on the wall!

Kyle, Bernita, and Lenore

Tucker Torn (Scott and Secily's third) and Anna Matlock (Brian and Kim's little girl). These two were little buddies...

Scott and Ben

Anna making her mad face with mommy, Kim... so funny!

And here's that sweet smile we were looking for... :) Anna was a cutie-pie. She was very fascinated with baby Tag...loved to touch him and check on him. And was also very curious about where the milk came from. hee-hee. :)

Can't wait to see you all again! Thanks for a wonderful weekend. So refreshing to re-kindle old friendships...