DJ's First Camping Trip!

Don is in charge of the activities for our church... so since it's cooled down a lot, he planned a camping activity! It was DJ's first time camping. He LOVED it! :) We had a large tent, so we brought the pack n play for DJ to sleep in... air mattress with memory foam topper for us... we all slept great!
DJ was so excited when he woke up and said camping over and over.
He liked playing with the magnetic tent lights and of course FLASHLIGHTS!
We had a few spider visitors making homes in our rain fly... luckily they weren't inside the tent! :)
We packed up to go home... DJ kept running off, so I gave him a pumpkin cookie! Here he sat for a few minutes on the bench.
DJ ran off again... so I put him in the bed of the truck while we folded the tent. :) Muuaaahhahaha!
I just got a used iTouch for DJ to play with during church... to keep him a little quieter and STILL... (it's working so far) :) I've kind of taken it over as mine though. It's a pretty neat gadget! One of DJ's favorite things to do is listen to the ABC song OVER AND OVER AND OVER on it. :)
Another funny thing is that we had DJ in tennis shoes while camping... while DJ is used to only flip flops because it's been summer... so when ever DJ sees those tennis shoes now, he says: "for camping!"

San Antonio Zoo With Auntie Alli

DJ loves animals... and now that he's started watching a few cartoons with animals in them... this trip to the zoo was super fun for him! He loved the Elephant!
Here is DJ with his Auntie Ali!
The night before coming to the zoo, we took DJ to a park to release some energy! He was hanging from the bar above the slide, lifting up his feet making monkey noises... oo-oo, ee-ee! It was so funny...
So he LOVED seeing the monkeys jump around and swing!
We saw hippos sleeping in the water... one is completely laying on the other with his feet floating...
The other kept lifting his head out of the water. How cool to see them this close! They have HUGE heads!
"S" is for snake... ssssssss! DJ has learned on The Cat in the Hat cartoon the word & animal snake! So he was interested to see one!
We went into the butterfly house... DJ LOVES butterflies and points them out when ever we see them...
He got a little nervous at times and wanted to hide in my legs, but overall he loved it... we did too! They are super pretty!
Last, but NOT least... we went on the train ride! One of the shows that DJ LOVES watching right now is Dinosaur Train... every episode, this little dinosaur family gets on the Dinosaur Train to go explore about different dinosaurs in different time periods.
DJ loves saying, "All Aboard"... and loved it when he heard the conductor say "All Aboard" when we got on the train.
DJ got really nervous when the train whistle blew... it was really loud and we were on the very front row of the train! But I explained to him that it is the train's whistle... Choo-choo... he understood and then relaxed! :)
DJ pretended to be a doggy by sticking his tongue out and licking my face... FUN! :\ teehee
Here is DJ having a blast on the train with Auntie Alli! Thanks Alli for taking us to the zoo today!

Big Red Ruff

Since it was General Conference weekend and Don had a conference for work down in San Antonio... we decided to make a family trip out of it to go visit Mike and Alli, watch Conference with them and see their new house! Alli volunteers a lot for the humane society and I can't remember the name of this event... but the most important thing for DJ was this BIG RED DOG! Check out DJ's face in this picture! A HUGE SMILE!
DJ has been watching Clifford a lot these days... and that is what this dog got called... OF COURSE... but his name tag said Big Red Ruff. :)

DJ LOVED this doggy... and played catch with him!
DJ also gave Big Red Ruff a great big hug! Sweet DJ!

DJ SINGS! :)

So we've made a habbit of singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Start to DJ every night before he goes to bed... and lately he started 'singing' along! It cracks us up so we start to giggle towards the end... I guess in disbelief that he is old enough to sing along... so then DJ starts giggling too and when finished, he quickly says, "Do it again!?" I LOVE how he says "es-star" like how people who speak spanish pronounce things that have a T near the begining of the word, they always put an ES in front of it... like when I tell people my name in spanish... they repeat back to me Estiffany... I just say yeah! :) DJ's going to be a Spanish speaker! He also says towards the end of this video... "GO MAMA"... he says that when ever we are at a red light... EVEN when Don's driving! LOL DJ brings so much joy!! He's AWESOME!

I'll Tell You Where to Stick It! :)

So... I've done it... officially I'm opening the doors for business! I don't plan to pay the mortgage doing this... but I really enjoy the wood work, designing and having gifts to give people! :)

Check out some of my stuff on my new vinyl sticker lettering blog and become a follower!

http://www.vinylbytiffany.blogspot.com/

Making it Official.....

Since I've let some clues out about 'something' in earlier posts and want to create a ticker on the top of my blog for 'something'... it's time to make an official blog post about 'THIS SOMETHING'!
This Kurtz family is expecting a new addition to our family... baby Kurtz is to arrive around March 30th, 2011!

He's in there kickin' back... being a good baby so far when it comes to ultrasounds! We have gotten some great pictures of HIM so far.

"HIM"... so, the sonographer said that there are some 'sticky outy' parts... and that her guess would be a boy! She also said it could go either way at this point since it is early. Personally, I'm going on IT'S A BOY! ...since I found out this early that DJ was going to be a boy and it was right! AWESOME!!!! ...a buddy for DJ!

FLOODING!

Luckily at our house, we are safe from any major issues related to flooding... but houses just 5 minutes from us were being gutted from all the rain!

Here are two pictures that flooded the southbound traffic of the highway right by our house.

This looks like a beautiful sunset at a lake... but really it is about 1-2 feet of water on the highway and a field.

This is a walking bridge across the river right near our house... covered in branches and other debree... it is usually a good 7-10 feet above the river water level.

This picture is taken from the same place as the picture above, just looking in the opposite direction... which is the driving bridge southbound traffic that is flooded just to the left... this driving bridge is also usually 6-10 above the normal river water level.