greatest hits

operation: christmas card picture 2012 is underway.  since my money tree is dead, i cannot afford professional pictures of my boys at this time.  and knowing my baby, it'll take me a good six weeks to get a picture of him looking at the camera with even a hint of a smile.  

so forgive the photo dump of my boys playing in the yard.  phase one of operation: christmas card picture 2012 was in progress, and while none of them card-worthy, i did snap a few pretty cute ones.

here's a peek at the best of my week (by the way, more things happen throughout the week, but it isn't guaranteed that i'll remember them by the time friday rolls around unless i snapped a picture of it.  pitiful.  early-onset dementia, maybe?  i kid, i kid.)

1) this boy.  he's a fragile little bird sometimes.    the whining either makes you want to gauge your eyeballs out, or give him extra snuggles.  usually the latter.

 2) phase one of operation: christmas card picture 2012.  ben finally has it down after 4 1/2 years.  now for that other one....

 3) last soccer game of the season. thank god.  ben scored another goal.  woot!  another soccer season under our belt and a new trophy for the shelf.

 {ben's cheerleaders}

 4) my niece.  sh was a big sleepyhead at my house this week, but when she was awake she would stare at me like this.  i will never tire of it.

 5) a picnic in the front yard with my littles.

{mmmmm...peanut butter and snot.  crosby's favorite}

looking forward to an aggie game, a fancy evening out, and happy hour with my girls.

how was your week?  what are you looking forward to?

love,

coco

greatest hits

hi y'all!  how are you?

we are good here.  we actually stayed in town last weekend, so we have been homebodies.  it feels good.  here's what's up:

1) oy.  my baby now climbs on top of tables.  tall tables.  how do you baby-proof a table?  hmmmm?

2) we waited until the very last minute to get pumpkins from our neighborhood pumpkin patch, so all that was left were the giant, million-dollar pumpkins.  we carved them (which apparently crosby thought was a total snoozefest), placed them outside only to have them immediately devoured by squirrels.  wtf?  

the great pumpkin fail 2012.

 3) the next-to-last soccer game of the season. woo-hoo!!!!  big ben scored his first goal EVER, so this game will go down in the books.

 {this is what happened when i told the boys to look fierce.  hilarious!}

 4) halloweenie!  we had a precious little moo-cow, batman and mickey mouse.

 {only one of them was having fun.  guess which one.}

looking forward to the last soccer game of the season and back-porch sitting with a friend.

how was your week?  what are you looking forward to?

{roxie, how was the park and polyphonic spree?  sounds dallas-y and awesome.}

love,

coco

greatest hits

so as you have probably noticed, there has been a little greatest hits hiatus.  it has been a shitty couple of weeks (not to worry, we are all healthy and will be fine in the end).  but amidst the crap, the kids keep on being cute and doing things that are worthy of picture-taking.  so here are a few of my favorites as of late.

1) at a play-date of epic proportions, i snapped a picture of this serious little boy smiling for me.  joe paradise is a sweetheart.

 ben told me recently that he didn't like any of the girls in his class because they are just cute.  he only loves beautiful girls like ellie grace and maggie.  thatta boy.

 2) did you know that gorillas collect acorns?

 even very, very fierce gorillas.

 3) mums make me happy.

 4) soccer season is upon us.  ben loves it, although he has no earthly idea where the ball is at any given time during his games.  it is, shall we say, entertaining.

 crosby is ready to play, obv.  and i have a feeling, when he does, he will probably know exactly where to find the ball on the field.  just sayin'.   

 {three generations of fans}

and while i am trying to look on the bright side of things, i should mention that my sweet friend jessica had a baby girl, layne thomas chobot!!! 

looking forward to sarah having her baby (finally!!!) and a weekend spent in ugg boots.

how was your week?  what are you looking forward to?

love,

coco