February

Isaac is loving his new digger! He's getting pretty good at steering it around too.

Lillie spent all day making this Nutella hazelnut cake. It was one of the most delicious things we have ever eaten! It has an awesome crispy hazelnut meringue filling. Yum!

Cheeto lips!

      After we moved to Austin Isaac was missing Grammy and Grandad and vice versa. We met halfway in San Marcos and Grammy took Isaac back to their house for a day. Isaac was totally in hog heaven! They took him to Walmart and let him pick out a toy. He chose a red power rangers sword that made fighting sounds. Well, he wanted to play "swords" so they went home and Grandad fashioned swords for them out of cardboard and aluminum foil and they had several epic battles. I love that man!-

      Cub Scouts at our house - always a good time, always crazy!

Here are the Wolfs passing off their chef requirement. 

And the Wolfs had some kind of building thing we were learning

 Grammy and Aunt Laura taking pretty selfies before heading out for a night at the theatre

 Isaac is potty training!

 Valentines Day

Heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's

Tickle Fights! - Our family tickle fights are the best!

Happy 9th Birthday Grant!

Going to the movies with his friend Bennett Peterson

A fancy crepe breakfast with the fam!

I'm pretty sure there's nothing in there besides whipped cream :)

He has been looking forward to this 2DS for a looooong time!

Loving his 2DS and new betta fish

I can't believe that you're 9 already Grant! 

You bring so much fun and excitement to our family and to the world! 

We are so lucky to have you forever Grant!

Fun with Isaac at the Austin Nature Science Center:

Grant reading to his Betta for a school project

Grammy and her favorite non-human item

We spent the day exploring Zilker Park in downtown Austin soon after we moved here. We had a lot of fun picnic-ing, playing games, and hiking and biking around the lake. Lillie took her new camera to play around with some artsy shots. A couple of my favorites are pictured below:

My goofy girl

Grammy pulled out some old memories and sent them over. I thought it would be fun to include them here!

Grammy and Mom, I think I'm about 18 months old here.

Lillie at 1 month with Uncle Jerry

Lillie at 5 months visiting TX for Christmas

Lillie at 1 month visiting TX

Mom (circa 1999) and Grandad 

Mom's college graduation - I'm about 6 months pregnant with Lillie here.

Lillie 3 and Sam 1, visiting Aunt Allison's pig at O'Connor HS

Aunt Laura 2, Mom 8, in Galveston, TX for a mini family vacay

Grammy and Great Grandma on Easter

Lillie 1, the summer we spent with G and G in TX

Lillie 5 months

L and Grammy

L with Great Grandma on Christmas - visiting Great Grandma in the hospital

Mom dressed in her costume for the renaissance project at Olympia Hills Elementary - 6th grade

Grandad some time in the 70's

Mom, Aunt Laura, and Grammy before we left to Austin to see Phantom of the Opera

Tim and his friends Don and Ben took a backpacking trip to East Texas. This is the 2nd trip they've taken and they have a great time! I really hope these trips become a habit.

Lillie's choir concert at Four Points Middle School.

I have been telling her for a couple of years that she should do choir and that she would love it so much. When we moved to Austin and she had no option for Home Ec she finally tried it out and she loves it!

Traveling back to SA for game nights it quite a haul but ALWAYS worth it. These are our friends for life!

Grant always enjoys an afternoon cuddle (or an anytime cuddle) with this sweet kitty.

January

Traveling back to SA for game night is one of our favorite things to do. 

Luckily we still live close enough to make this happen on a semi-monthly basis.

With the Larry's, The Watson's, and The Gardner's.

Visiting Grant at Grandview Hills Elementary for his 3d Grade Expedition.

Isaac chilling out in the van with a movie and pizza on the way home from a successful Costco venture. This is one of his favorite places to go!

HEB with it's Buddy Buck machine is another fav of Isaacs. Here he is getting an Instant Winner! 

Cul de Sac friends:

Amazingly we moved to Austin and immediately made friends with our next-door neighbor who, like William at Sable Crossing is one year younger than Sam and lives immediately to our right. We're super stoked to have friends to play with outside again!

Sid, Sam, and Grant

Isaac loving that his scooter helps him keep up with the big boys

A sport they came up with using a skate board that they have termed "butt boarding"

(I'm actually blogging this April of 2020 and a 13 y/o Sam and 11 y/o Grant walked by the computer, saw this pic and said: "oh yeah, butt boarding! Let's go outside and do that again!"

3 y/o Isaac took this one of me and did a pretty good job!

Oh Grant, I love your picture poses!

 Grant 3rd Grade Field Trip - The Austin Zoo

Brandon, Elise, Mya, Grant, Safa, Isaac, Aarya

Safa, Aarya, Grant, Elise, Brandon, Mya

 Lillie is so good about playing with Isaac. He's a poopy-pants sometimes despite how good she always is to him. Often though he loves it when she takes time to play with him.

 Pinewood Derby - 2018 - Grant - Bear Scout

Dad teaching G how to slick the nails so the wheels spin faster

Cheering for his car to come in 1st against Luke Sanchez

Luke Sanchez, Noah Hill, Bennett, Jack, and Megan Peterson, Houston Bourne, Grant

Bennett and Grant

     Lillie got a new camera for Christmas and is doing a lot to learn how to use it. One afternoon she took Isaac in the backyard for a fun photoshoot:

     Nana sent Isaac some money in the mail. That combined with his bday money was enough to do to the store to buy a fun toy. Where did he want to go? One of his favorites - HEB!

      One of Sam's old buddies from San Antonio moved up to Washington about a year before we came to Austin. For his birthday his mom brought him back down to hang out with old friends. Of course, we had to make the quick drive back for the night! Here they are having a blast at some jumping trampoline place:

Spencer, Harlan, Preston, Sam, Keith, and Keith's Bro! 

     Making sugar cookie "gingerbread men" for FHE

Jesus Want Me For Sunbeam - Isaac's 1st Day in Primary!

     Isaac wasn't sure what to think at first but then decided that he loved it! His teachers said that he got really involved with singing time and loved that he still got to be in class with his friend Sarah Jones and Tessa Orr.

Happy New Year 2018! Climbing Mt. Bonnell

     To ring in the New Year we went hiking with Aunt Katie for day at Mt. Bonnell. We love Austin and all of its amazing hikes. It's so much fun to explore our new city!