cece growing up!

so i'm more than behind on how fast CeCe has been growing up!

she's been rolling over since 2 1/2 months so its no surprise that she started crawling at 5months!

she was army crawling for a couple days, and then pappy decided she need a little help.

and with one 5 minute session on the floor with pappy she had it,

and hasn't stopped moving since. 

this little lady has brought so much joy and happiness into our lives.  its hard to imagine our life before her.

having a sweet little baby around is amazing and so fun, its hard work sometimes, but it is really nice to have a baby around again.

i mean look at that smile!

Utah summer!

after our fun time in colorado with spencer's family we headed on to utah.

spence cashed in his paternity leave, 2 whole weeks so we spent 1 week in colorado and 1 week in utah.

thanks cece for letting daddy get extra time off work!

and here she is doing what she does best

sucking in her bottom lip and jumping!

she also growls pretty good too!

Q doing her thing...being pappy's shadow and helping him with everything!

these two crack me up! she loves her paps...and he loves her too!

look how big these girls are getting! so beautiful and still the best of friends!

pappy got the girls bunk beds so now the girls room can hold at least 6-8kids comfortably.

and i think each night we were there had at least 6kids sleeping over.

gotta love cousin sleep overs.  in fact when we came back to texas the girls kinda paniced because they wouldn't be having anyone else sleeping with them. 

what a beautiful place to color, out on the deck. love utah!

4th of july alamosa

this year we headed to alamosa for the 4th of july.  spencer's favorite grandma, grandma sally had a huge 88yr old surprise birthday! her grand kids came in from all over the country to show her how much we all love her! from virginia to washington, utah to wisconsin, california to arizona, texas and all over colorado.  it was really fun to be a part of the celebration.  she really is a special, loving and unique lady.  she still has so much spunk and carisma!

Cece Marie with Sally Marie.

we love you grandma

we did the 4th right this year by spending it in small town alamosa co USA.

grandma debbie hand tie-dyed the kids shirts and took us all to the parade.

the kids enjoyed, and the weather was perfect a nice sunny 88degrees....yes in july!

cute kids!

then we went to the fireworks! they were awesome! so close you could see darrell meis and crew actually lighting them off just a couple hundred yards away. 

the fireworks were so great, that for the first time in years the girls actually fell asleep in our laps.

they haven't done that in years!

we had a great time, and hope to make alamosa 4th of july a tradition!

remember the time with no ac

our living room

after our trip to utah in may we returned to our home in texas to discover that the AC wasn't working.

not a good thing in the middle of may, nor with a 3month old.  so our landlord's friend let us stay in one of the homes she was currently selling.  it was a beautiful home, except it was empty.  absolutely no furniture, so we had to literally camp for 5days....it was a little rough and it would have been much harder if grandma debbie wasn't with us.  

our dinning room

it made for a crazy adventure sleeping on the floor and not having anything to entertain the kids with.

no toys, to books, no tv, no bikes, and really no food.  

the girls did pretty good, i think i was the worst sport of all.

finally back home, aren't we lucky to have such a great grandma!

CeCe in Utah May

CeCe and the girls and i enjoyed Utah a lot.  everyone loved meeting the new baby.  she is probably the last grand baby on the brown side so everyone wants a turn holding her.