The Welchs

2009-06-24T22:03:00.003-05:00

Summer time in Texas is quite warm to say the least! :) So that leads to lots of fun in the water for every occasion. This event was at our friend Maddison's 2nd birthday! Thanks for the great time!

This was Liv's fist time in a pool and she loved the water

It wore her out and was very ready for her nap.

2009-06-24T21:44:00.002-05:00

This is the veggies that were waiting for us when we got back from our trips to MI and AR. That zuccinni was the size of my forearm!

2009-06-24T21:29:00.002-05:00

This is Brian's new haircut he decided to give himself...... what do you think!?!?

Alivia's 1st birthday

2009-05-30T16:41:00.006-05:00

My baby girl has turned a year old already! I can't beleive how fast time flys. My parents were able to make it down for the event. We missed you Grandma and Grandpa Welch. Our friends the Lybberts have a little boy, Nathan, who is 5 days older than Alivia so Heidi and I decided to do a combined party. Here are some pics from the day.

Papa is trying to keep the gang happy while they waited for their friends to arrive.

This was my first "start tip" cake. I took three round cakes and pieced them together. I cut two of the circle for the ears smaller with "cookie cuttering" them with a small bowl. Then cut a little out of those so they would butt up against the large circle for the head. For the "black" ears I used chocolate frosting from a tub. For the face I used homemade butter cream tinted flesh color. The eyes are outlined in black Wilton tube frosting. Her tung and cheeks are Wilton's pink glitter gel. The bow I made out of ribbon I had here at the house.

Livy and Nathan opening their gift from their friends!

The cakes! Nathans daddy Blair decorated his Mickey cake and I did Liv's. Great job Blair!

Can we eat it yet?

Score!

Livy had lots of fun in her cake as you can see. So much so that she had to get a bath in the sink.

What is that?

2009-05-30T16:19:00.006-05:00

Tyson was eating a favorite snack and he passed out watching a movie. I just had to capture this.

Alivia had a similar experience with a peep. How ever when she was done she wanted more, forget sleep!

Livy likes her treats. When Grandma Hackett was here she gave Liv this treat but she was so tired that she couldn't finish it at first ....

BUT......

She gladly finish when she woke up.

He is risen

2009-04-13T10:34:00.002-05:00

Easter morning!! I know that easter eggs and chocolate aren't the real reason for the season but as a Mom I LOVE putting stuff like this together. Target had a great deal on movies and so the boys both got one and a puzzle.

Tyson helped Livy dig through her basket for her big girl silverwear and her Abby Kadabby doll and socks.

Alivia and Brian are all dressed up sitting together after church. Tyson decided he wanted to sleep more than take pictures.

Livy enjoyed letting the wind catch all of her easter grass. The boys had a great time helping their sister with her first egg hunt.

Father son campout

2009-04-13T10:08:00.003-05:00

The father and son campout was this weekend. Tyler was ready to take Brian with him but Brian didn't like the fact that Mommy wasn’t' coming too. Also Tyler didn't want to leave Tyson behind. So we had a little camp out in our backyard. Here I am cooking the traditional camp food.... Hot Dogs!

Tyler talking on the phone. I don't think he could survive without the internet or a phone. :)
The boys had fun running around the tent and throwing their footballs around.

Do you hear what I hear?

2009-04-13T09:55:00.002-05:00

So Tyson has a heart murmur and we had to go have a bunch of test run to make sure that it wasn't going to effect his quality of life. So here are a few shot of our time at the office. He is doing fine and doesn't require any meds or any follow ups. YAY!!!

Alivia is saying hey boys where is my sucker!?

the rest is yet to come

2009-04-13T00:32:00.001-05:00

I still have more to post but that will have to wait till tomorrow. Good night!

I love to see the temple....

2009-04-13T00:14:00.005-05:00

So I've had to go to the bookstore twice last week and the boys HAD to get out and take a walk around the temple. Here are a few shots from the day.

Double trouble

2009-04-13T00:03:00.002-05:00

Both the boys had to go to time-out the other day and so daddy put them in the same spot. It turned into a photo op instead of time-out, oh well!

Party time again! :)

2009-04-12T23:44:00.002-05:00

Our friends had their son’s birthday party at this really cool park in New Braunfuls. The kids had a blast! They got to eat yummy cake and ride the train with their friends.

Livy had a great time chasing the ducks

Here is the beautiful host Tiffany! Thanks Tiff it was a great party! :)

Don't they look so happy!

Here is part of the family.

This was Alivia's first train ride and she loved it! She kept squawking the whole time, it was so cute!

It's party time

2009-04-12T23:22:00.004-05:00

Inflatable Wonderland is a really fun place here in SA. One of our friends had her son's birthday party here and here are some photo's from that day.

St. Patricks day!

2009-04-12T22:59:00.004-05:00

So there was a sweet family in our ward that hosted a St. Patty's Day party and here are some pics of the kids and a cake that I made.

This was Alivia's first time to see and touch a dog! She really loved Sascha.

WAY behind!!!!

2009-04-12T22:57:00.002-05:00

I am going to try and catch up on all of the things that we have been up to. So here it goes.....

30 years?!?!?!

2009-03-27T19:44:00.003-05:00

Happy birthday Rodney Welch family. Thanks for giving us eachother, we love you!

He's 2 !!!!!

2009-02-09T13:06:00.004-06:00

So here is the Word World cake. Tyson's favorite episode of Word World is Frogs rocket so here is it on his cake. If you can't tell it says ROCKET. Everything in Word World is made up of the letters that spell that word.

For fun I had a "dress-up" and face painting for the kids. They could pick from several Word World characters. As you can see Tyson's is Sheep with a birthday hat and Brian is Dog.

Here the kids are making animal cupcakes.

Grandma Hackett and Papa sent the birthday boy some balloons with a little monkey and suckers. He was so excited! When the delivery man came he shouted, " BALLOONS!!!!". Thanks Grandma and Papa!

Free Food!

2009-02-04T00:38:00.006-06:00

So today at Denny's they were giving away free Grand Slam's for everyone so here are some cute pics from the day out.

Aren't my boys so handsome!?

This girl went at her Jr. Grand Slam! I wish I had got a pic with her and the sausage. She would not let go of it. When I tried to take it from her she threw a FIT! She at half of the sausage and 2 of her pancakes, now you know why she is such a big girl. :)

Here we all are! Beleive it or not we only waited 25 minutes before we sat down and the line was all the way across the parking lot. Fun times!

Progress on the garden...

2009-02-04T00:20:00.005-06:00

FHE #3 is getting the garden ready for the soil and putting up the frame.

Here the boys are "helping" Daddy dig a space for the frame.

Tyson is holding the board strait so dad can pack it in.

Here is a VERY stubborn rock that took me like 15 minuets to get out! This was not my favorite part of the day.

Here's Livy doing her best to help.

Alivia's first Hair-do!!!

2009-02-04T00:07:00.003-06:00

Here is my first attempt at doing Livy's hair. If you can't tell what I did it is little piggy's.

Play dates

2009-02-03T23:54:00.005-06:00

So Anna and Alivia have the same shirt and the other day when she came over to play they just happend to have "their" shirt on. Aren't they cute? :)

Here is Tyson giving Nathan som lovin'

Here are the kids chowin' down on granola bars. Yum, yum!

2009-01-19T21:29:00.003-06:00

So here is FHE #2 on plants. Here the boys are showing off their hard work. They filled the seed pots and helped Daddy put the seeds in.

2009-01-12T22:49:00.005-06:00

FHE this month is on things that grow and how we do it. Tonight we learned about flowers and veggies and where they come from and how they start out.

We all had fun making flowers. Brian's are the "Flying Triangle" and the a few small ones you can't see. Tyler made the yellow dandy lion and the white and yellow Daisy. Tyson's is the springy orange triangle. Alivia made with Mommy's "help" the pink and purple rose. And I made the other pink and purple flower.

Family Pictures 2008

2009-01-02T00:30:00.025-06:00

We had more family pictures taken over Thanksgiving. Thanks Myra, they are awesome as always. We're sitting in a dry creek bed just behind Grandma Hackett's backyard. These are some of our favorites.

And we also did some studio shots of the kids. These were for Christmas cards that we never sent. Tyson fell as he was runnng down Grandma's driveway earlier in the week, hence the wounds on his face. (Brian - 3 yrs, Tyson - 21 mos, Alivia - 7 mos)

And Alivia got her baby pictures done too. She loves having her picture taken.

Alivia's fist video

2008-05-02T22:05:00.005-05:00

Watch me make some cute faces. You have to turn your head sideways in the beginning, but it's worth it.

Family Pictures Christmas 2007

2008-04-12T11:45:00.011-05:00

Tyson (10 Months)

Brian (26 Months)

Our Family

Tyson Walks

2008-04-12T11:38:00.001-05:00

Some of Tyson's first steps (New Year's Eve 07) at Grandma Welch's

Brian's Wounds

2008-04-11T21:23:00.006-05:00

Fell off Gramma's stairs (Christmas 07)

Tyson Gets a Haircut

2008-04-11T21:14:00.004-05:00

Tyson gets a haircut (3 Feb 2008)

San Antonio Roots

2007-11-07T20:56:00.000-06:00

Saludos Amigos! Life is great down here in the Alamo City. We love it, and we bought the house to prove it. After three years of apartments/cardboard boxes, were putting down roots! Come and visit us, we have an extra bedroom.