The Jump Around

Noah and I went to The Jump Around this morning with Maddie and Reyna. It is a huge room full of blow-up air castles, slides and obstacle courses. As you can already guess, Noah had a blast. He ran from air castle to air castle climbing, jumping and completely enjoying himself. He is just pure joy, and it shows all over his face!

Do you think he was having fun?!

Noah and Maddie - ready, set, go!

one of the obstacle courses

making his way to the slide

face first everytime - it's more fun that way!

Life Group Cook-Out

Kristi & Webb hosted our Life Group get-together this week. We had a delicious cook-out, and the kids played their hearts out in the swimming pools. It was so much fun to visit with everyone and watch our sweet children play together. Marco and I are so blessed to have such a wonderful group of friends to share our life with. They are truly an answered prayer, and we thoroughly enjoy spending time with them.

Mr. Happy

Bella & the boys

Maddie & Noah chillin' in the swing & enjoying some yummy goldfish

How 'bout some sugar?

the cutie-patootie gang

my sweet and silly friend Rosalynn

Nick and Mr. Cutie-Pie (who is now mobile!)

Lots of Love

My two favorite guys

I love my little man!

Marco's Business Trip to Canada

Fairmont at Banff Springs

Marco was wined, dined and given a tour of

Calgary and Banff, Alberta while he was in Canada.

He was able to see the truly beautiful landscape of mountains,

lakes & trees.

The weather was perfect in the upper 60's and low 70's

the entire time he was there.

Lake Moraine

A giant glacier in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Row River in Calgary,

which is created by snow and ice melt from the glacier pictured above

The Olympic Village ski jumps from the 1988 Olympics

Puppy Love

"Ro Ro" & "Oocey", as Noah calls them, like to lay under our dining room table. Noah enjoys sitting under there with them so he can love on them. Lucy and Romeo are such good dogs and so tolerant of toddler love.

Hanks Family Reunion

We all had a great time at our family reunion. Noah was quick to make friends with everyone. He was on hug duty as soon as we arrived. He went around the entire room giving every single person a hug, and some cuties even got two! Even though everyone there was family, most everyone there was a stranger to him b/c we only see them once a year. Even so, Noah had no problem loving on all of them and engaging their playful side.

Noah with his cousins Cassandra & Cassara

Noah with his "Aunt Crazy"

Aunt Revis & Noah

playing peek-a-boo with Aunt Glo

Noah and Daddy

Cousin Dylan and Noah

Noah and Kenley drawing on the table with chalk

Noah playing with his Cousin Brice


Grandmommy and Noah

"Aunt Crazy" giving us a twirling demonstration at the famous family auction

Noah spraying Granddaddy with a water gun

Noah loves to jump into the pool

Noah and Granddaddy

It sure is exhausting entertaining our family all day!

Cameron Park Zoo

Noah with the "mingos"

After our visit to the mall, we headed to the Cameron Park Zoo. It was beautiful and huge compared to the Abilene Zoo. I took the stroller, of course, but even though it was huge and an incredibly hot day, Noah walked the entire way without ever wanting me to hold him.

I can remember my Dad telling about a family trip to Carlsbad Caverns. I was young (probably about the same age as Noah), and my dad carried me the entire way through the caverns because I didn't want to walk. He swore we'd never go back again. I think of that often and am amazed how Noah LOVES to walk (or run) everywhere. He is always on the go!