Ear Deer

While driving home from church today we passed a deer on the side of the road. Heath yelled from the backseat, "Look it's an ear deer."  We quickly questioned what an "ear deer" was??  He replied, " Well, it wasn't a horned deer."  After silencing our giggles, we informed him that those were called Doe. 

House Renovation

This year for my birthday/Christmas/ Mother's Day/ect...  Chris let me have our house renovated.  We decided to remove the wall between the kitchen and the living room to open it up and give us more space.  And, frankly, I was tired of being stuck in the kitchen by myself cooking while the rest of the family played in the living room.  We had the cabinets stained and new granite counter tops put in.  We also had the old flooring pulled out and the concrete stained underneath.  I love the new look.

Church Camp 2013

Eating Ice Cream to save us from the heat

Taking a bath in a very small tub to wash off the ice cream.

This years bible class.  They are missing quite a few in this picture.

Vacay! Kemah/Galveston

We vacationed with some friends of ours that live in Victoria and their two Adoable daughters. We all met up at Glaveston and had a great time seeing the sights and playing on the beach. It was great to see our friends again and get away from the small town.

Moody Gardens

Boogie Boarding with Daddy.

Even the grouper wanted to get in on pictures.

Feeding sting rays.

The boys favorite part was the carnival rides.

No trip would be complete with put a stop by Bass Pro. Hunter insisted I take his picture by this boat. I think their daddy has been brainwashing them. 

Summer Track

This year the boys joined the summer track program. We didn't make it to a track meet because we were gone on vacation.  However, we thoroughly enjoyed some of the practices. They were the youngest kids out there. We will definitely have to work on form and want-to, but they did pretty good. 

Superhero Birthday Party 4 1/2

As I usually tend to do, I went a little overboard on the twins 1/2 birthday party this year.  It was a  Superhero theme and the boys were Super excited about it.

Mimi sewed 20 superhero capes and embroidered each one with a different superhero character for boys and girls that attended the party.

Mrs. Keva came down with her family and stayed the weekend with us.  After making the cake on Friday night, we spent ALL day on Saturday before the party decorating the back yard.

This was the city scape that was going to be the back drop for the cake table.

This was one of the games we had set up.  Each "Evil Villan" green balloon was filled with candy.  One at a time, each child was given a Nerf gun with a dart that had a tack glued to the end.  When they shot the "Evil Villan" the candy fell out like a mini pinata`.  All of our Superheros had a chance to take down the "Evil Villans."

Unfortunately, about 30 minutes before the party started it began to rain and hail.  At first I thought it might be a quick little shower to cool things off and then it would be over.  I was wrong.

It rained for another 45 minutes after the party started.  We had to move everything and everyone inside.  It was God's way of telling me that I over plan.  Everything turned out alright.

Even our "photo booth" had to be moved inside.

After a while, the sun came out and dried out the water and we were at least able to play our balloon pop game.  The kids loved it.

It was a SUPER fun birthday party.  Happy 4 1/2 Heath and Hunter!

Party Teaser

It's birthday party season at the Amthor household and here is a little teaser of what I've been up to. With the help of Keva we created this awesome cake.