My brother Eastin is getting married to Devon on August 23rd. I am so excited for them and to have Devon in our family, we all love her! So congratulations to Eastin and Devon- only a couple weeks left!

My boys are so funny, they are always saying and doing such cute things. They have been playing so good together lately! Preston wakes up really early every morning- like at 5 or 5:30. I am not ready to get up at that time, so he comes and tells me he is awake, and then he goes and plays with his legos and watches tv. I can always tell when Gavin is awake because they start getting very loud laughing and playing (and sometimes fighting). This morning I hear them say something about a cricket and Preston comes in to tell us that there is a cricket in the house. Patrick and I are still sleeping, so we tell him to kill it, but I know that I am going to have to go and get it soon. A few minutes later I hear a bang and one of them screaming like a girl and I started laughing. Preston came in a little later to tell the tale of how Gavin shined the flashlight to make the cricket hop and Preston smashed it with my shoe. After it was dead, Preston said that he picked it up by its antler and flushed it down the toilet. I loved that he called it his antlers, I wish I could have been a fly on the wall this morning!
Another funny thing Gavin said a couple days age- he is still wearing pull-ups at night because I am not ready to trust the all night potty training. Instead of buying pull ups, I bought underjams because they were cheaper. That night as he was putting them on he said "These are so comfortable! Mama, when you get bigger you should try these"!
I love having these two boys, they are so fun and entertaining. I finally registered Preston for school yesterday, he is so excited but I don't want to send him. Gavin said "I don't want Preston to go to school" and I asked him why and he said "because Preston is my best buddy". They are such sweet, good boys and I just love them!

We bought a boat earlier this summer, but we had some work done on it and it took forever, so we only went on it a couple times. We finally got it back last week and went out one evening. Preston and Gavin don't love it, but are getting better. It probably doesn't help that every time we go out it is really windy so the water is rough. I think it just makes it more fun!

They love to wear sunglasses to keep the wind out of their eyes, Preston usually has a towel covering him from head to toe so he can't see anything. I guess it takes the fear away if he can't see where we are going.

Patrick and Schuyler took the boat out to see how well it really drove and to do some spins, the boys were very glad that they weren't on it with them!

I just love this cleaner- I have the blue one and after cleaning my kitchen or mopping my floors, the whole place just smells good! Sometimes getting a new cleaner inspires me to clean (at least for a day or two).

Look what I did!

I took the boys to the Lowe's build and grow kids workshop this past Saturday. They had so much fun, and loved building something themselves! They both wore their aprons all day long for about 3 days. I am going to try and take them to the Home Depot one as well because it was so fun for them. My babies are getting so big!

No more diapers!

We can finally say goodbye to diapers! Gavin really loved his diapers and had no desire to be potty trained, but when we finally got him to wear his underwear, he basically trained himself. I am so pround of Gavin for doing so well. He only had a couple of accidents and wakes up dry every morning. Preston was also a big help, I think he did more than I did! In this picture, Gavin opened his last pack of diapers and came in carrying all of them, he loves to smell new diapers!

Mama, where's the hermit crab?

So this morning Preston comes into my room with a worried look on his face and says "mama, I can't find my hermit crab anywhere in his house. Where is he"? So I asked him if there was a way for him to escape and he says he left one of the doors open yesterday. Part of me is thinking "good, maybe this will be the way we get rid of that thing" (apparently they live forever and require little attention) and the other part of me is thinking "I have to find this creature so my boys aren't traumatized." Anyway, we tear the room apart, move beds and dressers and go through everything I can think of. Finally I find him hidden in a giant pile of matchbox cars. So I put him back in his cage and all is well for the hermit crab. I was kind of freaked out about a missing creature in the house!