May

Another fun month down, schools out, Summer Red Raider Orientations are starting and Alexander is 10 months old! Hard to believe, but it's been a great 10 months and looking foward to the last 2 before his first birthday!

This is another year of weddings for our friends. Alexander and I drove up to Heather C's wedding shower in Booker a few weeks ago. We stayed with Uncle Marcus and he came too. It was a fun weekend for Alexander to show off his crawling ability.

Mother's Day was nice. At church, they asked all the Mom's to wear hats. I think most people were surprised that the youngest mom at church would actually go along with the other Mom's. Jason didn't think the hat suited me very well, but I sure got a lot of compliments at church and am obviously very proud to show off that I am a Mom. Alexander wore his "Mommy's Allstar" baseball outfit to church.

We went to Fort Worth and Dallas two weeks ago and had one of the best trips back we have had in 3 years. It was great to see people at TCU on Friday and eat at Mama's on Friday night. I got to celebrate Heather's birthday!! And we had so much fun with Nana and Bumpa. Saturday in Dallas with Nana and Bumpa and at Erin and Kevin's Wedding was too much fun!! We loved the hotel, Alexander got to roam around downtown Dallas, and it was great to catch up with Pi Kapps from all over the country.

Alexander's best tricks are "Give Me Five," "Clap, clap," and covering his face with clothes to hear, "Where's Alexander?...There He Is!"

We had to get out some new clothes for the wedding weekend. Outfits with hats are too cute. But I think Alexander and Mommy have one thing in common, they look better without hats.

Someone was having too much fun trying on new clothes that our friend Davis gave us...

Who, me?

This Memorial Day weekend, Zia Lindsey, Nana Gayle and Great-Grandma Ruby are driving in. Can't wait! Drive-in, cook-out with friends, and lots of playing and crawling around. Three days off!! We'll try to take some more pictures and keep you updated. Next week, we are without daycare and Alexander is going to have an intersting week with three different babysitters and a day spent with triplets. Maybe we'll get some pictures of that too!

Easter

Here's our little TV star. :-)

Well, we are a month or so behind and have many pictures and videos to post. But here is little of Easter weekend. The Saturday before Easter we spent the morning shooting a commerical for University Medical Center (UMC) at our house. This is the hospital where the cleft was found in the first sonogram, where Alexander was born, checked in for jaundice and weight loss, and where he had his lip surgery. It's also the hospital where Children's Miracle Network raises money and buys equipment. As the commercial puts it so well: "It's our hospital."

I thought we would have these pics posted long before they edited the commercial, but alas, the first commercial is out and airing on local TV starting this week. Here's a youtube link to watch the first 30 second commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMyn6gVnqc The second one should be out soon and then the 2-minute website commercial that I am looking most forward to on UMC's website...coming soon! Also hoping to see some of the photos they took during the shoot. Ours are not quite the quality of theirs.

Easter Sunday was a great day as well. We took Alexander to church early for Easter Brunch and the egg hunt. It was fun to watch all the children hunting eggs. The service was good, but bittersweet. It was the first Sunday since our pastor left. More to come tomorrow...it's time to go home!