MiaLuz's Big Day!!!

Yes, today was a big day. Right after the Change of Command I had to rush home to start getting ready for Mia's party. I had Chris help me make the cake. He was super excited to be helping like a big boy! Mia was right beside us being apart of all the action!

yup, they were enjoying life at this moment

i love this picture

yeah, meemaw NO SILLY STRING IN THE HOUSE!!! lol

it's like xmas for the both of them thanks to meemaw and the gang. they sent a big box of presents for mia as well as chris...

and of course chris had to get presents too....

okay, we ordered some DC posters for chris' room over a week ago and they came today, perfect for the party...
he was thrilled when he saw the ROMO poster...

and there's my lovely cake...isn't it nice? okay, not really but it's the best i could do. at least it tastes good!

already putting her hands in the cake...we hadn't even finished singing happy bday yet!

mmmm...what to do first.....

she sucked every last bit of frosting off that candle

yeah, threw it straight to the floor when she was finished!

she let me know the party was over by taking her tiara off...

meemaw called and we put her on speaker phone so she could sing happy bday to mia. she was smiling at the phone and trying to touch it. chris joined in with her.

and there's the birthday girl. I can't believe it's been a year already. how time flies!

Thanks to Meemaw and the whole gang in Corpus that sent the wonderful gifts. We love you and can't wait to see ya'll in December....

Chris' Change of Command

Today was a big day. After almost 2 months of being at Ft. Jackson, Chris finally had his Change of Command Ceremony. He is both excited and anxious to take command. He is one of the few in his battalion to have actual combat training and his credentials surpass their expectations so they are happy to have him and we are super excited to be in a place where we can breath easy knowing we don't have to worry about deployments in the near future! Indeed, we have been blessed. As part of the traditional ceremony, the wife of the upcoming commander is given a dozen budded yellow roses...aren't they pretty!?!

Okay, there's a story behind this guy holding the flag in the front. Right before Chris was to give his speech this soldier fell out; apparently he locked his knees and passed out. Four soldiers had to carry him off the field. Chris said he was the talk for the rest of the day. Didn't anyone tell him the rule....NEVER LOCK YOUR KNEES...or is it that only the band students know that?!?....right Jerm!?!

up top, Chris is on the left...it's so hard to make them all out!

the traditional passing of the flag!

Because the weather was in the 40's I kept MiaLuz at home. Chris had such a good time being the center of attention. He was proud of daddy and kept pointing him out on the field.

Sunday entertainment

So we had a loooong day ahead of us on Sunday so we started early to make sure we were outta here in time for the first day's event. While I was dressing MiaLuz I casually looked into the bathroom to see how the boys were coming along and I saw the cutest picture perfect scene....daddy and son, getting fixed up in front of the mirror. I ran to get the camera before the moment was lost.

Daddy had just finished putting Chris tie on and doing his hair. Lil chris stood there for the next 5 minutes watching daddy get himself ready, and mimicking every move he made.

he LOOOOVES his Future Missionary tag... he was showing it to me and telling me to take a picture of it!

and then of course Mia comes crawling in and I just had to keep snapping. I love to watch them two together. Chris was explaining to her that only he could be on the big boy chair cuz he was getting ready like daddy.

this is one of the very few pictures I have with Mia...I am always on the other side of the camera!

MiaLuz and Chris Jr.

Just wanted to post some pictures of this past week. I have so many cute video clips of the kids that I would love to upload but I have yet to figure it out. I have tried but I think I'm doing something wrong because it never finishes the process. If anyone has any tips I would love to hear from ya! Have a great weekend!

Chris has really gotten into batman (as you can see). He watches the movies everyday and puts on his "gear" so he can reenact everything batman does.

Mia is such a good girl. She loves to be around her brother and they play so well together. She's one smart girl. She knew these glasses went on her eyes and was trying to put them on herself but got frustrated so Chris ended up helping her out. Then they just sat there laughing at each other. They are too funny!

So this past week we had a cold front. It was in the low 50's and for us Texans you know that's FREEZING to us. To make matters worse we had pouring rain along with it. And of course on this day we had to make a trip on base. The cool part of it was that Chris as able to wear his new jacket for the first time and boy did he love it. It has the fur at the collar and zippers on the side pockets. He kept saying he looked like the Snow Buddies movie. (BTW, that is a kid's movie that's filmed in Alaska so the kids all wear those type of coats.)

....and there's his goofy face that he loves to make...
he calls it his "funny" face

So on Sunday, while I was getting ready for church, Chris was in the room with the kids. The door was closed and I could tell they were having a good time so I let them be as I finished up getting everything ready to go. As I walked in I saw the 3 of them on the floor. Daddy was reading to Chris and Mia was just sitting like a good girl, with a crazy ninja headband on her head. Poor thing, always being used as entertainment. But she seemed to enjoy having it on!!!

This book is a potty training book that Meemaw gave to lil' Chris. Where her right pointer finger is pointing to there is a little toilet button that you push. Once pushed, it makes a LOUD flushing noise with a little kids voice giggling. Well, Mia knows how to push it and loves to do it as much as possible....yeah, annoying....that's Meemaw!!!