Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Abbie Grace and Casey


Abbie Grace's best friend is Casey from church. Casey's dad brought these dresses back for the girls on a recent trip. Aren't they sweet!?!?!

10 Months Old



Here is sweet little Evan's 10 month picture! He is so adorable:) (if I do say so myself!!) His blonde hair and blue eyes make my heart melt! That is Ian in the 2nd picture at 10 months old...

They have the same smile!!!

Friday, September 05, 2008

Poor Sick Evan


We have a sick house right now. Abbie Grace and Evan both have double ear infections, Evan has bronchitis, and Ian and Abbie Grace both have stomach flus. FUN FUN! Here's a picture of Evan getting his breathing treatment. His mask is a little fishy:)

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Pics











My Mom, Grammy, came to visit last week and we had pictures taken...Abbie Grace is like her daddy and does not like portrait studios!


Thursday, August 14, 2008

9 months old


Evan is 9 months old today! Where does the time go? He is crawling all over the place and says hi and dada in between all of the sreaming and growling he does when he is mad!
(look at the size of those feet!)


Evan and Granddaddy


So many people ask us who Evan looks like since he is blonde hair, blue eyed...well he looks just like my daddy. You may not be able to tell from this picture but they both have big blue eyes and receding hair lines!

Trip to Texas

Evan loved playing in the grass















Abbie Grace had fun on the horsie swing too!
















They love their Granddaddy!














Riding the horses at the Stockyard














Our wonderful Virginia friends that moved to TX















Evan and Blake finding something to get into!
















The kids and Taylor riding the horse (she's only 4.5 and rides by herself!!)








We took a family trip to Texas to visit my dad for 5 days. It was lots of fun for everyone although the other passengers on the plane might not agree! Evan took his first plane ride and did ok with the help of a little Benadryl! All of the kids were able to ride a horse, see the Texas stockyards, and we also got to visit some of our dearest friends on Sunday. Ian wanted to ride horses and eat steak and that we did! It was really hard to get up and run today with these extra pounds from all the beef eating we did!

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Evan

Pics






Abbie Grace LOVES chicken legs!

Sorry I haven't posted yet...here are some pics from the recent weeks.

Monday, July 14, 2008

8 Months Old



Thursday, July 10, 2008

Singing Debuts

Here are Abbie Grace and Ian's singing debuts...

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Camping





Joe took Ian camping last weekend. Abbie Grace, Evan and I went out for dinner but didn't stay the night. They had a great time sleeing outside:)

Thursday, June 26, 2008

First Haircut




Abbie Grace got her first haircut today. It was only a trim but she was so excited! She went with me to get a haircut first before I took her to the little girl "Spa" called Bella Spa.

Swim Lessons



Ian started swim lessons this week. He's doing really well. Next week the swimmies come off though!


Abbie Grace's Birthday Party








Abbie Grace turned 2 on Monday! It's so hard to believe. She had a party last weekend with her little friend Casey. At her 2 year appointment today she weighed 27 pounds 15 oz. She talked so much the dr could barely ask any questions!




Thursday, June 19, 2008

What's happening with the Beckers?

Sorry for not posting more often and only posting pics when I do anything but I figure you can get the gist of our lives from the pics!
Since returning from vacation Evan continues to have an ear infection. He's been on antibiotics off and on since our ER trip in SC back on March 17th. We go back next week to see if it's finally cleared up and discuss tubes. He has cut his top 2 teeth which didn't help him feel that great either but they are here now. He's trying to get in the position to crawl which is so cute. I'll try to get some pics of that. We started table food this week too so now he hates baby food and screams when they give it to him at daycare...Definitely a morning baby and screams most nights from 5-7:30 unless he is being held. So most nights he is attached via the baby bjorn or the back pack so that I can get stuff done. Still has great big blue eyes that make your heart melt:)

Abbie Grace is potty training and doing fabulous! The Lord knew we needed a break after Ian! She does really well at school and only has about 1 accident per day because she doesn't get the pooping thing yet...it's still early though! At home we tend to have power struggles to get her to go but most of the time she will go. She definitely has the middle child personality and tries to fix everything and be a little mama. Her speech gets clearer every week and she loves to sing.

Ian is getting to be such a big boy...he picks out his own clothes and dresses himself every morning. He knows which are schools shirts and which are church shirts and does pretty good about matching things. He starts pre-K in a few weeks. It's hard to believe, huh! He loves to do things with Daddy and is a big helper...most days. It's always sweet when he wants to curl up in my lap though and snuggle since it doesn't happen very often.

Joe and I are good too. We stay pretty busy with work and the kids. I am trying to get caught up on my scrapbooking. I'm trying to do individual books for all the kids so it's pretty time consuming! They better appreciate these things:) Ian does enjoy looking through his books though so it' worth it. I always throw projects into the mix if we ever have a free few hours so there's not too much rest for us! We have both been running (exercising) a lot lately and take the kids with us which is fun. My next race is the Marine Corp 10K in October so that should be fun. I may try and do some shorter races before then but we will see. We still have a small group on Sunday nights which we love and are volunteering at church some too.

So as you can see our lives are crazy busy right now. It's just a season though and one day we will look back and laugh at these days! We would love to have visitors if anyone needs a summer vacation!

Fathers Day





7 Month Evan