Moving on...

to another blog! 

As I have mentioned before, Blogger has been a pain in my booty lately.  It is finicky about uploading pictures and putting them where I want them to go.  It doesn't put paragraph breaks where I want to put them. And so on.

Sooo....I have decided to move my blog to Wordpress. So far it has been good!  It puts pictures where I want them but I still have had an issue with it not putting a paragraph break in the final copy where I put it in the rough draft. But I can deal with that :)  (Just so you know that I do TRY to use the skills I learned in English class!  Oh, and if you see any grammer problems or spelling problems...I'm sure it's not my fault either! :)

My new blog address is www.thekingstexas.wordpress.com

I was able to import this whole blog into the new one...so check it out!
Katie

Momma, momma!!

Ryan likes to make sure everyone is involved in whatever is going on.  One day, he and Michael were looking through some pictures. As he saw each one, Ryan would face it towards me to show and tell me who was in the picture..."Ry ry, momma",  "daddy, momma"...then he came across one of me..."momma, MOMMA!"  For some reason, that was hilarious to me!  I still think of it and smile :)

Ryan has started calling me "mommy" sometimes and I think I heard "mom" once too. Not really ready for "mom" but I guess I better get that way!  

P.S. I am so annoyed with Blogger right now.  It is messing up all my pictures I put on here.  Also, when I look at the blog on my MacBook, it looks fine but when I look at it at work on a non-Mac, the pictures are all messed up!  I am going to try to figure out what is wrong or find out more about another blog program to use. 

Sweetness...

Sweetness is one of my names for Ryan.  It's a great description of what Ryan is :)

The other day at supper, we held hands to pray.  I asked Ryan if he wanted to pray.  (I had no idea what he would say or do.) Ryan took a second and then he said "Jesus.......loves me, this I know!" 

Pure preciousness.  

We have had a crazy week with crazy rain every day.  This morning, about 5:15, the thunderstorm woke Ryan up. After I got him in our bed and back to sleep (I thought), there was a LOUD thunder.  Ryan lifted his head up and said "whoa nellie!" I had a hard time not laughing out loud!

Race Day

For Michael's birthday, we gave him a drive in a Nascar at Texas Motor Speedway! He has always wanted to do that so it was fun to get to give it to him :)

 We were so thankful for the clouds!  

When we got there, they had about a 30 minute class on what to expect, what to do, etc.  

 These are some of the cars they raced with that day...

 Ready to race...

 Michael drove 10 laps two different times so he had two race cars...

Michael said it was great! The top speed you can go in the cars is 150mph and he had it topped out.  The first set of 10 laps, he was getting used to the car and track so the second 10 laps, he really had fun! I could tell by the smile on his face when he got out of the car :)  (you have to climb in and out of the window like a legit driver:)

They offer a ride around the track in this....

Mike and I took the drive! It was fun!  They get up to about 60mph and at one point he stopped in one of the turns at the very top of the track so we could see how steep it is.  Very steep!  I had no idea. 

I'm so glad that Michael had fun:)

Cross that off of the to do list!

Children's Museum

A while back, mom and dad went with me to a doctor's appointment for Ryan in Houston.  Afterwards, we took him to The Children's Museum. They have an area for toddlers and after he warmed up to it, he had a great time :)

It is no surprise that one of his favorite things was driving the cars. Being the cautious boy that he is, he doesn't like it when toy cars move or make noise.  These were right up his alley because they did neither of those things :) He even took a girl on a ride!

Memorial Day 2012

I started several blogs but it wasn't letting me download the pictures I wanted.  Sooooo, I have some old blogs that I never finished.  Here is one and I will try to finish the rest soon!

We had a fun and relaxing Memorial Day weekend.  My parents got Ryan on Friday so Michael and I were able to get some stuff done around the house.  We went to their house on Saturday afternoon and had a great, relaxing time.  Michael was able to do some fishing and kayaking.

Ryan FINALLY got in the kayak with Michael! It made Michael so happy :)

Mother's Day 2012

This was our Mother's Day picture that I never wrote about! I am so thankful to be Ryan's momma!