Cole=God's family-officially-FINALLY

We had a long day of family reunion and baptism (plus no sleep the night before) Sorry there are a lot of pics on this one.

baptismal boy with daddy and the cake

C.A.K.E. CAKE CAKE CAKE

Mom, Us, Dad

Gma Snaadt, Me, Cole, Ry, Gpa Snaadt

God Parents - Abby and Kurt

united

loving it:)

Beginning of the water

Grandma, Mom and Cole - his poor eyes:(

Kurt comin over to make a cross on his forehead

Cole and G-pa Snaadt (both honory)

Dad bringing up the water. Good job DAD! plus a few pit stops in the bathroom with the other 2 rug rats:)

fedler fam reunion

My Grandma Snaadt has all of her 4 siblings still living so they decided to get their families together. We learned a lot about them growing up:) Wish I could have visited a little more with them. I didn't get many pictures from today, sadly. Cole apparently had a little reaction to the sunscreen and was a CRAB! (plus no sleep)

Landan and Cole cruisin around in Eva's car

Landan takin a break

visits/tball

a little sprinkler action (it wasn't as big of a hit at the hose)

Landan takin some batting practice from Coach Kurt
Cole and G-pa

Ryan and Cole - riding on the power chair

water:)

Aunt Kara and Uncle Ry brought the boys home some water guns. I filled them up with cooler water:) So the water fight, turned into cheating with the hose! Mylan loved spraying that thing-just as much as Cole LOVED running through it.

Cole chasing Landan

spraying

day 1 IOWA

it was a VERY long drive home for us. we went through the ozarks and there was a lot of construction. Cole didn't sleep much, we stopped at the outlets for about 30 minutes (ryan HAD to shop:) and there was an accident right near home that had us sitting. we were tired. but not too tired to see the boys! we headed over to kurt and rhonda's for some concrete fun.

all three boys cruisin in the monster truck

cole driving on the gravel road-right before home
sittin up front with us-while we were stopped ofcourse

Landan was a very good driver. He put it in low so they wouldn't go too fast.

new toys

got a new 4-wheeler...doing stunts already:)

cruisin

sink bath

a little JIMMY BUFFETT

I got a last minute opportunity to go to Dallas and see Jimmy Buffett! So I took the opportunity (since Ryan was actually home:)

Amanda and Joe

Abby and I on the floor!
JIMMY

Tailgatin

Melissa, Me, Abby, and Amanda

could be x-rated

We haven't been up to much lately. Just waiting on Ryan to finish upgrading so we can have him as a permanent resident again, instead of a visitor. He got home today, so maybe we can get back to what is supposed to be "normal" for us.

Cole got ahold of the rotovirus. needless to say, his bowel movements have not been solid. too much information? sorry. so the many BM's a day have lead to a terrible diaper rash. I thought what a great time to sit on the potty? air it out a little:) sometimes he likes it, sometimes, not so much. (like the blacked out part:):)

onesie we got from sherry when he was born-pretty much a sunday/stay home shirt!

upset there is no water in the can

Over the past week or so, Cole has developed some awesome "thriller" dance moves. I have been trying to catch them on video, but have been unsuccessful. Maybe this weekend

hillcrest crawl

We did a "pub crawl" on Saturday. It was for breast cancer, it went from house to house in the Hillcrest area. GREAT food and apparently I liked the drinks a little too much. (imagine that)

Jessica, Ryan, Shane

Me and Jessica
Jessica, Ryan (eating), Shane

We were supposed to go out on their boat, but settled on the pub crawl since the weather wasn't so great. It was a lot of fun - until sunday for me:)

Mother's Day

we had a good day. church, coffee, lunch, nap and play.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

boatin'

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!

Ryan didn't get to come home this weekend. We missed him. We were supposed to go to a squadron picnic up at Greer's Ferry Lake. Cole FINALLY decided to sleep a little (3 HOUR NAP!) so we didn't leave the house until 12:30. The picnic started at 10:30 and it's an hour and 1/2 drive. So...we didn't make it. BUT we have wonderful friends who happened to be out on their boat-so we got to enjoy the water instead. It was an amazingly beautiful day out on the lake.

Jessica and Shane! they ROCK! (their boat, plus they are amazing peeps)

Me, Jessica, Catherine, and Erin (the girls), and Bubba's tail

we are pretending to be tigers...you can tell right?
me skiing! it's been a few years!! forgot how much I enjoy it!
me, Cole and Catherine
Cole digging in the cooler...starting him early!

We had a wonderful day, just wish Ryan could have joined us - guess there's always NEXT TIME!!! - (that's for you jenny:)

Grandpa Lowenberg

is 88!! still doing GREAT!

Grandpa usually has a new saying with every 80th birthday:

85-still alive

86-turning tricks:)

87-getting ready for heaven

you get the point! He is doing good...next time I'm home I'm teaching him how to get on the computer! It's about time he learned!!

this pic of him and the 3 great-grandsons:)

Chilling before picture chaos!
can't wait to see him again:) LOVE YOU GPA