All By Himself!

My little boy is growing up. He has moved on from oatmeal every morning to real cereal with milk, just like his brother! His favorite is Blueberry Mini Wheats. He does a really good job feeding himself!

Concentrate...

If the spoon isn't working, then use the fingers of course!

Showering The Ebroms

Michael Travis will be here soon so its time to celebrate before his birth! We had a nice little shower at Kristina's favorite breakfast place, The Magnolia House. We had about 16 in attendance and everything was so nice. We knew it would be an emotional day, given all that has happened during the pregnancy, but we were all ready! Kristina and Mike, and Ellie too, were blessed with love and many, much needed items for little McTravis.

Ashley did these beautiful flower arrangements.
Kristina's FAVORTIE book: On the Night You Were Born

Jennifer made Michael's name for his room...let the tears flow!

Look at these CUTE shoes!

I made a scrapbook for the pregnancy and his first few precious months....more tears!

Ashley made a blanket with his initials...and of course, more tears!

And this is the car seat cover Ashley aslo made. She is so talented!

We are ready for you sweet boy! Can't wait to meet you!!

Playtime Together...They Can Do It!

Just a few cute pictures of the boys playing together. Ethan likes to read to Isaiah...and tonight he was reading their favorite book "Go Back To Bed Edwin!" (VERY cute book!).

Camping Excursion

This week Josh took a couple of days of vacation so we could have some fun family time. He had really been wanting to take Ethan camping and asked if I wanted to go...so we decided to make it a family event!

Ethan was very excited! Despite the forecast, we were going anyway (when you tell a 4 yr old something exciting, there is no going back on the promise!). So we made the quick trip up to Ink's Lake and set up camp.

Setting up the tent, Ethan was a big helper.

This is Isaiah's "cheese"...he is so cute!

Once we got the tent up, Isaiah wanted to play inside. He like it so much he didn't come out for a while!

Josh and I were talking and I look over and Ethan has taken it upon himself to go to the bathroom...I guess he didn't want to wait to go to the bathrooms!

Very protective big brother

Fish!

Ethan wanted to get in the water so I suited them up...

Little did they know how cold it was!

After Isaiah fell over he wanted out!

He watched Josh and Ethan in the water...

...and he wanted back in.

But it was still too cold for him!

For dinner we roasted hot dogs and then after some fishing we had s'mores!

The next morning we were up VERY early (with a terrible night's sleep) and decided we didn't want to stay for the rain so we packed up and went on home. Good thing too because it turned out to be a HUGE storm with lots of flooding! It was a very short trip but a fun first experience for the boys! We will probably go again when its a little cooler!

Carrie Underwood

Back in February, Josh surprised me with tickets to see Carrie Underwood in Austin. I am a HUGE fan of her and love all her songs, with a few exceptions. I couldn't believe it...I would have never guessed he would do something like that! Only catch was it wasn't until May...so I had to wait 3 months before I could enjoy my birthday present. I didn't care! I was so excited!! Time passed pretty quickly and before we knew it, it was May 12.

I dropped the kids off with Tom and Laura to spend the night, since we knew we would be getting back so late. I picked up Josh and we were off. We were really worried about traffic getting to Austin but it didn't take long at all to get there. We stopped for a quick bite to eat and then headed over to the Frank Erwin Center.

I was really anxious to see where our seats were in comparison to the stage. You can check these things out online but it doesn't give you a real clear picture. We get in and our seats are awesome! We are on the second level, FIRST ROW!

After a while of waiting, the show started. I knew beforehand that Sons of Silvia (new band) were opening for her but it was a surprise to also get to see Craig Morgan. Now I'm not really a big fan of him, but I knew some of his songs from the radio...but I was impressed! He put on a great show! It was full of humor and I knew most of the songs he selected to sing. After he sang for about and hour it was time for them to change the stage for Carrie. I knew it was going to be something awesome because the setup behind the curtain was huge. After a fifteen minute break it was time!!

The stage was awesome...they had these curtains on the back (see in the picture) that lifted and there were screens behind them that she had a different background on for each song! I tell you the time, effort, MONEY, and creativity that went into designing this tour was amazing! I will warn you there are alot of pictures, and they are not the best quality, but she was SO good it was hard for me to choose just a few! She sang for about 2 hours, singing literally almost every song on her CDs.

She entered the stage from below, through the hole. So cool!

She opened with "Cowboy Casanova"

I was worried that she was going to wear the coat tale outfit the whole show, but I was wrong. She had 9 costume changes!!

This one was one of my favorites. She came out and sang "Just A Dream". While she sang she sat on the swing and they swung her on the stage. The background and her outfit were definitely my favorite of the night.

Then she started talking about her song writing and how she alone wrote "Temporary Home" and it was one of her favorite songs to sing. I loved this one because this is one of my favorite songs too.

This circular part at the front of the stage did all kinds of cool stuff.

Now this was my absolute favorite part of the show. She goes backstage for a wardrobe change and then comes out singing on the back of this truck, as it is being LIFTED in the air! It went all the way out into the crowd and around the front of her stage. It was awesome!

After that she had her friends from the Sons of Silvia band (who btw I did not enjoy but this one song she sings with them is great) come out and perform the song they sing together.

She also did this cool thing where she came up from below again wearing this gown, which I think was some sort of thing they just put around her. All the lights were off because there were these cool color changing patterns all over her dress. It was neat. Here she sang one of my other favorite songs "Change".

The background matched her dress.

The only slight disappointment was the song she chose to close out the show. I like the song just for some reason it didn't seem like a good song to end on. This was by far the best concert I have ever been to, and I've been blessed to see alot of people in concert. She was amazing and I would go see her again in a heartbeat! Thank you so much to my so thoughtful husband for taking me (she's hot so that helped :))! I love you so much!