Houston and Great Wolf Lodge

Alright, so my apologies for the picture overload again! We had a super busy but fun weekend last week and I tried my hardest to cut down on the pictures but failed to do a very good job at it! 

We started the weekend off by going to Houston on  Friday. My Uncle Rick (he's really my dad's cousin but we call him Uncle) turned 60 and retired from Union Pacific so my cousin, Carla, threw him a surprise retirement party on Saturday. We've haven't been down to visit that side of the family since Korben was Logan's age and I cannot tell you how good it was to see so much of my family!! We had an absolute blast and the look on Rick's face when he walked through the doors to his party and saw everyone was priceless! One of my favorite parts of the weekend was watching my young cousins, Morgan and Mikenna, with Korben and Logan. Korben lovingly referred to them as "my girls" and every time they left the room, he would ask, "Where did my girls go? I need my girls!" It was precious. Korben and the girls were pretty much inseparable the whole weekend, except, when Morgan and Mikenna were fighting over holding Logan! :) Josh and I got to have the girls hang out with us for a while on Saturday while Carla finished up some last minute arrangements for the party and we had so much fun with them! I adore those kids! And I realized when we got home and I started going through pics on my camera that I got so many with the girls and I did not get a single picture with the man of the hour, my Uncle Rick! Sorry Rick, maybe you should work on your cuteness so you can make the cut next time! ;)

Uncle Jamey and soon to be Aunt Tonya with Logan :)

Super Korben!

Trying on the new puddle jumper for the first time

Carla and Logan :)

Morgan and Mikenna with Logan :)

Nothing says family bonding like some shared quality time on the iPad! :)

Logan was passed out and Daddy was being goofy, as usual :)

Passed out at the party!

Hittin' up the dance floor! 

Cake!

We ended the weekend by heading to Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine on Sunday morning to spend some time with Josh's side of the family. We met up with Josh's parents and brothers and had a great time! Even Memaw showed up for a surprise visit with Aunt Cindy and Aunt Liz! And even with all of the pictures that I got, I still seemed to miss some shots and didn't get everyone in all the pictures. Oops... sorry people! The hotel was just as much fun as I remember from our trip there last summer! We stayed in the Kid Kamp room and Korben loved it! He had his own little room area with his own bed and TV. I seriously wish every hotel had an option like that for kids! Last summer, Korben was terrified of the slides. He wasn't super enthused about them this year but he did go down a few all by himself. My only complaint about GWL is that they don't allow lap rides on the slides and this year, they wouldn't even let adults go down the kids slides at all. Korben wouldn't have been as reluctant go down them if Josh and I could have gone with him. Oh well. We still had a blast! :)

Hugs for cousin, Caroline, before we hit up the water park

On our way to do some swimming!

He actually liked the toddler slides and went down those several times :)

Riding the giant banana!

Logan hanging out with Granny 

matching puddle jumpers for the cousins! :)

Caroline was like a little fish in the water :)

Love this expression!

Korben got some new Crocs while we were there.  He loved picking out the colors and accessories. He went with green shoes and an orange strap with monster eyes, a robot, and a "Worlds Best Brother" button. We got his last pair of Croc's at Great Wolf too so this may become a tradition for us! This was the best picture I got of the new shoes. 

He LOVED laying down in "his" room watching cartoons :)

The very last thing we did (literally, on our way out the door), was build a wolf... even though it was really a raccoon!

Korben with his new "Wolfie" :)

5 Months and San Antonio

Logan turned 5 months old this week! And he is a mess now that he is rolling over both directions... he's all over the place! He is also "talking" more and more these days which is really cute. He especially likes to talk when he gets tired and tries to keep himself awake. It's really funny. He's been grabbing his feet for a while but that has also gotten more frequent lately and he also tries to eat his feet now! It's so funny watching him try to grab and pull his little rolly legs up to his face! Korben is Logan's favorite person in the world and can make him laugh more than anyone else and I love that! Logan is already so into anything and everything Korben does and watches his every move... it is so cute! We still haven't started him on solid foods yet, mainly because he just doesn't need it since chunky monkey is 18 lbs! But we'll probably give it a go in a few weeks when he gets closer to 6 months. He did have some Nutella by accident a few days ago. I was getting some out for myself and squirmy wormy got a finger in the jar and then stuck it in his mouth! He seemed to like it. :) With 2 picky eaters in the house (Josh and Korben), I'm hoping that when Logan does start real food, he will be my good eater. Time will tell I guess.

Earlier this week, Josh had to go to San Antonio for a few days for work so we decided to tag along with him and make a little mini vacay out of it. We stayed at the Westin on the River Walk so when Josh was at work and I needed to get out of the hotel, I could just get out the stroller and head down to the river to get food and have stuff to do. Uncle Joey and Aunt Jeni were off work on Tuesday so we got to hang out with them. We decided to have a zoo day! It was pretty hot so we missed quite a few animals that opted to stay inside where it was cooler, but we still had a lot of fun! Korben didn't care that it was hot and Logan stayed in the shade of the stroller most of the trip, unless we were indoors somewhere taking a break to cool off... which we did quite frequently. Wednesday was our last day so after we checked out of the hotel, Josh and I loaded up the kids and headed to the Alamo. My camera was dead at this point so we didn't get many pictures, except a couple on Josh's phone. Again, it was really hot, but we made it through and had a really good time.

5 months old!
I got these stickers to put on Logan's clothes that have his age on them so we'd know when we went back and looked at the pictures... better try it on a plain shirt next time though!



    

Fun in the exersaucer!



Happy Boy :)

Passed out at the zoo thug style

Uncle Joey with his nephews

I'm a pretty butterfly! Haha!

Jeni is a pretty butterfly too! :)

Smiles for Uncle Joey :)

You know you love him! :)

Korben was attached to Aunt Jeni's hip pretty much the whole day! He hardly left her side! :)

(Gross) hippo kisses! Those guys were huge!

Strolling with my boys :)

I have no idea what animal that was or if it even made it in the picture.

The Okapi. It looks like it's part deer, part donkey, part giraffe, and part zebra. Very strange.. but cool.

There were these machines throughout the zoo that makes plastic animal molds. Korben loved it and made a lion and a gorilla.

Smiles for Aunt Jeni :)

The poor bald eagle had been shot and have to have part of his wing removed so he can't fly anymore.

Hanging out in the AIR CONDITIONED kids area!

There were plenty of toys for Logan too. :)

Korben loved loved loved catching fish in the little river in the kids building!

Chillin' on the giant frog pillow on the water bed. 

Showing off his new hat 

The hat was just a little big :)

Me and my boys :)

Swimming at the hotel

Ummm.....

At The Alamo

Out for the count

He Rolls Both Ways!

So, Logan rolled over from his tummy to back for the first time several weeks ago and has been really close to going from back to tummy for quite some time. He could get his tummy and legs over but always got stuck on his arm (you can see what I'm talking about in the first part of the video). Well today, he finally made it all the way over! He was laying on the bed while I was getting everything ready to check out of the hotel we've been staying at in San Antonio, and he just decided to roll over! We're so proud of you, sweet Logan! :)

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Caught on Camera

I love having a video baby monitor that also takes pictures. Ours has 2 cameras so one stays in Korbens room and the other follows Logan wherever he is sleeping, which is sometimes in his crib and sometimes in our room. Here are some of the snapshots stored in the monitor... FYI: The black and white ones are like that just because the room was dark at the time and the camera was in night vision mode.