Chronicles of the Cross Family: July 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Sweet Sleeping Pictures!

Our nightly "tuckin" right before Mommy and Daddy go to bed. (aka- one more "Mateo fix"...recover him with his blanket time)

Road trip with Monkey...

These are not sleeping pics but had to be thrown in. A nice big sweet juicy peach... (and no that is not a haircut I gave him but unfortunately paid $5.99 for.) (Waiting for it to grow out!)

Monday, July 21, 2008

Recouping after party-rest of B-Day weekend.

So after the party...around 1:00pm we went home, unloaded everything, we all changed into p.j.s or sweats, put Mateo in bed for a very long nap, and then we took our own very needed nap! We pretty much relaxed the rest of the day...Once Mateo woke up he got a chance to play with some of his new toys...

This is Sunday (the next morning)...I just had to take this picture of his hair...rough day/night?

Then after church, we went to a big joint picnic for Granny's work. Here I am before we headed out...don't I look stylin?

And finally...this is my birthday gift from Granny and Papa, Uncle John and Aunt Missy, and Aunt Mindy! How wonderful! I will have so much fun for years to come on this! It took Daddy, Mommy, and Aunt Mindy, 6-7 hours to put this together! Yikes! Thank you all for my swingset! I love it!

Finally....B-Day Party Pictures (I know I am soo late!)

Okay...Mateo's Birthday Party. We met at a park with a playground, open grass field, a gazebo incase it rained, and a portapotty. It was perfect! And what a relief, we had agonized (ok I was probably the only one agonizing over this) over which park to use - we wanted a great park, but we weren't willing to pay the large fees to rent and reserve it...so it was kind of a risk to invite everyone hoping the park wouldn't be reserved already. So then we picked one that was great and wouldn't be reserved only to realize that a Mommy moose and her two twin baby moose were calling it home for over a week and a half. So the night before the party we were driving around town looking at parks and then calling the city to see if any of them were being used. God blessed us with the perfect little park! We didn't even know it existed until we drove by it. So we called everyone and sent them directions over email. And it all worked out! We had a great time with our little friends and our family! We did a monkey theme...

Here is the cake we stayed up half the night finishing...