Thanksgiving week

Thanksgiving week was sure fun in our house! We went to the aquarium and prepped for our big dinner at our house.

Zane chilling in his bumbo.

Who you calling cute???

Chandler got a black eye... I can't remember how

I love this sweet smile of my HINKS!

Can you see the black eye?

Discovering bubbles

Checking out the fish

More bubbles

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!

This one too

Checking out the big tank

This is what Zane did the whole time. This was one of his first outings out!

We had so much fun. We packed a lunch and ate it there too!

Catching up on the catch up

I have so many things I need to catch up on and so many things I want to elaborate on but for now it will be short and sweet which I think people like, right?


Troys brother and his wife sent Chandler a birthday present and BOY WAS HE EXCITED FOR IT! They sent Hinckley a gift too which I thought was very thoughtful of them. For some reason Hinckley really struggled during Chandlers birthday. I think it had a little bit to do with the fact that daddy missed his birthday this year. *SIGH* BUT HE WILL BE HERE NEXT YEAR FOR HIS BIRTHDAY!!! YAHOO!
Woops some how these got mixed up


It was a Thomas the Train pillow pet. Chandler LOVES ANYTHING TRAINS! LOVES THEM! THANK YOU UNCLE TRAVIS AND AUNT JENNY! YOU ARE THE BEST!A few Saturdays ago we took Daddy to the aquarium in town. He was such a trooper because #1 Chandler peed through his diaper on his shoulders. YUCK! #2 He watched the boys while I ran to K-mart to buy new pants for Chandler and trying to watch these 2 at the aquarium alone is tough they both want to run in different directions. Don't worry we scrubbed Troy down pretty good. Thank goodness he had the jacket picture below that he could just take off his other shirt and put this on!

After the aquarium we rode the train to the zoo but we decided to just ride it to the zoo and back I guess we were all a little tired. PS we went to show our year membership to get into the aquarium and I was shocked to find out I didn't put Troys name on it. It was one of those moments of oh yeah thats right you were gone a year... THAT SUCKED BAD. I am glad you are home. I hope none of you ever have to go through a deployment because they are horrible. WAY TO GO RACHEL D. FOR MAKING IT THROUGH WITH ME! And any other military mommas who read this blog! We have been listening to this radio station that is playing Christmas songs and there is this one song that Josh Groban sings,"I'll be home for Christmas" and it has soldiers on it saying, I am going to miss my 4 year old this year opening presents, I want to give a shout out to my family back in Alabama, Etc. Troy and I both cry like babies when it comes on. Tears of pain of him missing last year, tears of joy knowing he is home THIS year, and tears of sorrow for those still over there. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND KEEP THEM SAFE. Okay now I am all tearing up just thinking about the song.

Okay side tracked. Sorry... Look at this picture. Is it not precious of 2 of my favorite boys?!

Doesn't Hinckley look so GROWN up in this picture. Oh man I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THIS KID! LOVE HIM TO PIECES!
This is at the aquarium steering the boat
Oh I guess I liked this picture so much I put it on here twice!
Friday nights are my absolute favorite now! I use to dread them when Troy was gone. A few Fridays ago we rented a dance wii game and laughed and laughed and laughed until I almost peed my pants. Not really since having my 2 boys something has changed with my bladder. OKAY! SORRY TMI I know but does anybody else have that problem? It totally bites! I can barely jump on a trampoline anymore.
SIDE TRACKED AGAIN! Okay I am focusing... No really I am going to focus

This is Chandler at the mall a few weeks ago. As we went in the doors we saw this little beauty just sitting there with no little kid to play with so we snatched it up and he was in HEAVEN driving it. HEAVEN I tell you
We also stopped by Best Buy. Can you tell they are related?! LOL!

A Summer Saturday

My boys kept up with the dancing from last night

dance like a robot
Some cool fancy footwork
LOVE THIS PICTURE! LOVE THIS PICTURE!
Chandler LOVED the flowers at the botanical gardens. He is such an outdoor person
I LOVE THIS PICTURE! LOVE IT!
HEAVY, HEAVY!
STUCK! STUCK! Hahah... funny kid
Where else would Chandler be? Yes by the trains
Picture taken by Hinks
Picture taken by Hinks
Nasty SPIDER. SICK.
Watching the ducks
He wanted to pet the ducks
No really he chased after them
He followed them right up to the water
The butterfly pavilion
They had BEAUTIFUL butterflies here. My favorite was the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.. Its blue
This kid thought he had conquered the world by jumping on this ant
Can I get in Mom?
Smile!
Chandler was so scared of the huge ants, until his brother started punching it. LOL!
So he sat on it and I got a cute picture
And another cute picture
See he started punching it too
They were dancing on the ant, swaying from side to side
I see the light at the end of the tunnel... Do I? Do I really see that light? Sometimes it seems so dim... But I know its there and getting,

MUCH BRIGHTER!

Hinckley was pretending he was a dinosaur cracking out an egg
roAR! ROAR!!!!!!!!
Back into the egg?
GRRRR!!!
Every time we go to the ABQ aquarium we hope that the sting ray pool is open so we can touch them. It was open today and boy did we have fun. I actually touched a shark too. It was sick. Like in a bad way.
He had just touched it. He was pretty excited!
Sitting at the big tank at the ABQ aquarium. He loved watching the fish, sharks, and sting rays go by us

Can you see Hinckleys hands folded? He kept throwing coins in the wishing well and would say stuff like this, "I wish, I wish, I wish SO BAD that I get a green fire truck for Christmas." HA! Funny kid

Then he would blow on it, I guess for good luck? Where does this kid come up these things?