And Happy Birthday Owain!

He's not actually three until tomorrow but his party was today.

He got lots of presents - mostly dinosaurs, of course - and a marble track. Here's a rare shot of Jimmy helping to build - and not break - Owain's creations.


Have you ever heard of a party starting at 10.30 in the morning? Well they do when you're three. Heather hired the Tumblebus on which Owain and his friends reenacted scenes from Con Air.


Heather made at least five exquisitely iced cakes yesterday. Here's one of Owain's cakes with three candles on it. Oh look, it's a dinosaur. In fact, how many dinosaur-related items can you see in this photo? I count fifteen if you don't include Owain himself.


Here's what he looked like as a hatchling.

Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Jimmy turned one on Saturday. The only person who wasn't unusually excited was Jimmy himself who acts like it's his birthday every day.

These pictures were taken by Anne.

Thanks Anne! And thanks for all the pressies from everyone - even the police car with the working siren.

Here's a bunch more we took too including Owain driving race cars at a beer festival later in the day. Next up is his 3rd birthday next month. Slightly terrified by that one...

Earlier in the month, we met Heather's cousin Aunty Andria for the first time which was a blast. She's the one sat on the stool on the right - not the creepy lady staring in through the window.


And finally, Heather took the boys to the doctors today and the big news is that they got bigger and heavier. Owain is 38 inches tall and weighs 35 pounds whilst Jimmy is 31 inches tall and 25.7 pounds. I don't know what any of that is in metric but I'm sure Jimmy will have overtaken Owain by the end of the year and will soon be carrying Heather and I around.

Focus

We've got a new camera! Expect a sudden surge in posts until the novelty wears off. It's got lots of extra buttons so I'm having difficulty getting good pictures out of it.

Here's the cake from my birthday last Thursday.


And the obligatory spider shot. They're not as much fun to snap as the beasties down in Arizona.


These are called web worms apparently. Horrible!


More little animals.

August

It may be a month between posts these days, but we haven't stopped snapping. Here's the cream of the crop from the last few months. What a bunch of posers we all are!


While Grandma Lyn was here, we talked about the idea of spending Christmas in Wales. A few weeks ago she kindly bought us tickets so it's official: we're all piling into The Cayo for the holidays. We'll be around for several weeks so if anyone wants to come and visit, please get in touch. We probably won't get around the UK much while we're there but at the very least, I need to take Owain to the Natural History Museum where I first fell in love with dinosaurs!.

July

Today marks the one year anniversary of moving into our house. It was a miserable 104 degrees and I was as big as a house myself 8 months pregnant with Jimmy. July 2010 hasn't been as remarkable but pleasant none the less. We've had an experimental fish taco dinner...

Fun in the back yard...

resulting in head to toe mud...

supper outside...

a block party, mexican style...

and a mommy contrived moment of cuteness in matching jammies.

The End. Show us what you got August.

Tub boys

Look, they're both almost looking at the camera. That's probably as close as I've got.


And congratulations to my mum who as on top of Kilimanjaro a week ago! I've still no idea what she was doing there but I hope she took some good photies!

Double Bloggage

Two posts in one day??? Yes, only reason being I forgot to put up this real cute picture of Jimmy.