Sprinklers

So way back at the end of June and beginning of July my awesome parents helped us put in our very own sprinkler system. Zane did the physical labor and my dad and mom had the know how. We now have a 4 cycle system and it works all by itself. You may say whats the big deal. I say huge, um like who really wants to drag hoses around your yard all day to hit every bit of grass when this amazing system can do it all in just 1 hr, this used to take me like um 4hrs, plus in Texas heat.

Here is my dads happy dance saying we are done we are done! Yippy!!

And of course our little Konnor, saying I love sprinklers I can run all over the yard and get hit with water! Yeah man whats better than that!

Oh I know whats better naked trampoline jumping with water.

And I could leave off this picture I know it doesn't fit with the theme but oh well. I hadnt been feeling good for um lets say july 1st through Aug 12ish. And on one Sunday after church we came home and I went to take a nap. Well Keegan came in and said "momma I nap with you" how could I not let him attempt it. He climbed in and gave me huge hugs as you can see. Luckily he got bored in a few minutes and I got my nap but it was a precious moment that reminds me why I want more kids.

Portland Fun July 09

Konnor's 2nd Birthday Party

Konnor will be 2 this Wednesday the 24th. On Saturday we celebrated Konnor's birthday with the whole O'Brien family. We had a lot of fun. Of course it started off with the traditional pizza meal, then off to swimming for at least 2hrs, then presents and cake.

Grams and Calli took other pics of the fun too. Thanks everyone for the great gifts he loves them.

Way long ago

A while back like hum Easter weekend gma (Zane's mom) came to visit and here are slide shows of that great trip.

Gma came on Wednesday night to visit with us. I had to work Thursday morning then we had lunch and headed to the Dallas zoo. We all had a blast! We rented one of the wagons and that was their first wagon ride. We found out that the best way to see half the zoo was to ride the tram, no chasing the boys or trying hard to get them to look. It was great we just sat back and looked at everything. We got to see some things like the waterfall which you can only see on the tram not by walking. Then off to the other side of the zoo with a detour at the Merry go round. Really not much at the other side that day they went straight to the water to play and we missed the other fun stuff by 30 min, oh well they didn't know they missed anything. Pictures show how much fun they had in the water. Luckily I remembered spare clothes this time.

Friday I cant remember what we did, sadly no pictures to remind me. OH wait I worked the morning, we had lunch and then went to see Monsters vs Aliens. We had a relaxing day.

Saturday we went to the Lifetime Easter Party. Again lots of fun, bounce houses, face painting, egg hunt, music, crafts, food, and pictures with the Easter Bunny.

Afterwords we went home and made sugar cookies, and decorated some, went to the park and played and flied some kites too.

On Easter after church we had a egg hunt at our house in costumes, oh yes costumes. Then we headed out to Calli's house for the family gathering and a real Egg Hunt. They even put one in the pool for Colton to get. We then decorated more cookies and hung out. Lots of fun again.

Grandma thanks so much for coming we had a blast having you here with us.

Big boy Konnor

Today just a few minutes ago Konnor requested to go to the potty so I said sure thing. I had just taken Keegan a few seconds before that. At my amazement when I put him up he pushed and farted then pushed again and did a number 2 on the potty. I am so happy for the big boy he told me he needed to go and he did it. Yippy!!! Now we just gotta see if he will keep on with it I guess. Maybe time for underwear hmm, we will see. Yippy I am so excited.

Keegan's School Picture

Our little boy is growing up on us, he just got his first school picture taken. If you have noticed any trend in our usual pictures our boys dont like to look at the camera or anything like that so we are extremely excited about this picture. He looks like such a big kid and a model too. Here is my parent bias now, he is the most adorable and cutest little dude.

First Dentist Visit

We postponed the first visit long enough. Last Friday Zane took Keegan for his very first check up. Apparently he had to hold him down fighting for him to even look in his mouth. We found he had 2 cavities to fix and a chipped tooth. So today Zane took him again to get the work done. By the experience at the previous visit they knew they would need to partially sedate the kid first. So he got his silly juice and watched cartoons till it took affect.

Once he got all loopy they got to work and fixed him all up.

No we gotta get Konnor to the dentist, because I think he has a questionable tooth.

Patio Fun

Check out what I have mom, haha

In or out im not really sure what I want

Zane is such an awesome dad. I love how he is so willing to take the boys and do anything they want him to do. This particular day they were both in awful moods all day for me at work and at first with Zane too. While I was making dinner he got out the bubbles and they had a blast and wanted to hold the bottles themselves. I would never do in the patio because of the mess but the care free man says sure buddy go for it, they only dumped one small container each, not to bad I guess. I took a peak outside and Konnor had the bubble wand in his mouth trying to figure it out but no biggie his container was empty it had already been spilled out. They love basketball too, Konnor is pretty good check out his shot.

Awesome shot man

I told you I could do it

St Patricks

As Ashli being a bit Irish with the maiden name of O'Brien we were lucky to have had gma Brown find these awesome shirts for the boys. Not many people would think of them as Irish because its not so name obvious anymore. But here they are our supper cute pasty white little boys in their fancy new shirts.

Happy 4th Birthday Keegan!!!

We cant believe our little Keegan is 4 now. He is such a big happy boy. His 4 year check up is next friday so we will get his stats then but roughly by guess 40lbs and 41 in. He is doing amazing at his new school, he is learning so much these days. He can now say all his abc and count to 10, and tonight in his bath he was singing twinkle twinkle little star. We know he is an amazing smart kiddo he just has a hard time getting it out in ways we all understand but he is improving so much with the help of his teachers at his special school.
This morining he came out of his room ran through the streamers at the hall and jumped up and down when he saw his present from us, a brand new big kid basketball hoop.

After Ashli got off work and Keegan finished swim lessons we all got home just in time for the family to come over to celebrate. We had papa johns pizza, then hung out and played. Then opened the presents, Keegan got awesome stuff he was so excited.

Gma and Gpa got him a soccer goal for the yard and some learning practice books

Calli, Joel, Colton and Danika got him baseball bases and a basketball

from ggma and ggpa Mikkelsen a train starter set

Here is the awesome cake I made its a baseball mit and cupcakes as baseballs.mmm mmm good