Longhorn Boys

yup, my boys are longhorns by birth.

So Different!!

here are pictures of my boys that are really similar, but they look so different! its so crazy to have one baby that took my genes and one that took nathans! fun though :)

New Chair

For some reason, Nathan was SET on getting Owen his own chair for the living room. After searching a bit, we settled on this fabulous lounger from BabysRus. Gotta love it :) Owen sits in it all the time!




in other news, this kid is moving EVERYWHERE. i swear owen wasnt moving until he was like 6 months. if you believe it, i placed caleb in the middle of the mat on his back, and this is where he ended up...



AND last, owen still has his moments with wanting to do things that the baby does. for example...




i LOVE these boys!

confession

confession: im the worst blogger ever. im sorry. so many other things take priority these days, like naps, cleaning, jumpy gym, ya know. hey, at least i update from time to time.

here are a few pictures and a video from owen playing in the rain recently. he LOVES to play in the rain! however, every time it rains now, he gets VERY upset if i dont let him outside. little stinker :)









on a different note, i joined lifetime fitness! here in austin, lifetime fitness is the size of a mall. its absolutely huge, including a cafe, hair salon, spa, indoor and outdoor GIANT pools with huge water slides, over 200 treadmills and equipment. its crazy. they also have great childcare, so im going to see how it goes. i need the workouts and owen could use the socialization. ill let ya know...

everything is going so great in austin and with our church. i absolutely love the people and the town. i have nothing to complain about and so much to be thankful for!

Make Believe

Nathan and I watched Barney's Land of Make Believe with Owen about 10,000 times yesterday. Half of the time he isnt even watching, he just wants it on in the background. Needless to say, we have all of the songs memorized and go to bed singing them. Well, this morning, Nathan was sitting on the couch, looked up at me and said "Ya know, if there were a Land of Make Believe, I dont think the government would be taken very seriously. Can you imagine marching into war as the army from the Land of Make Believe? Your morale would be pretty low, especially if your weapons were rods that looked like tiki torches."

Really, honey? Really?

videos

i was going through some old videos on the computer, just trying to organize things, and i found 2 videos that i never blogged. theyre a tad old, but still great. well, great if you love my kiddos :) first, here is owen helping in the kitchen-



and a quick one of owen crashing trains-



and last, here is the routine that nathan and caleb used to do every night for about an hour. sometimes 2 hours. :) whatever it took to get that baby to sleep!

power post

i feel like since i neglect my blog so often, i have to come back with a big power post after a long absence. or post a few entries at once. eh, whatev.

not too much has been going on around the sherman household. well, a lot has, actually. just nothing too new. our family went over to the stewmans house today to watch the UT football game, which was fabulous! as we were all getting dressed, i realized that im the only one without longhorn clothing! i have some stuff, but nothing burnt orange. i think i may need to go somewhere near campus and buy a cute UT dress or something. im not much into t-shirts these days. ill work on it.

our church is going SO SO great. the people are just so incredible. ive managed to make some incredible friends and to get into a mentorship type role with our teaching pastors wife. she is so wonderful, and im excited to learn as much as i can from her. AND we have an official name! its Providence Church. pretty great. we're going to send out a blog update to all of our supporters with the new name and information.

here are a few pictures as of late. i love my boys :)







another quick note i thought of- yesterday i got to go to starbucks by myself and i had time to mop the floors. when nathan came home, i said "you know youre a mom when a wonderful day means going to starbucks and having time to mop the floors." his response was- "um, honey, i dont think all moms would consider that wonderful day." so true. i guess i am a little special with my intense desire to have clean floors.

all for now, more later.