We picked the tile!! Its hard to tell in the picture but it looks very nice! We cant wait to lay it all out... The kitchen is not going to be very fun because of the angles in it. Ken has been laying it all out on graph paper to help us decide the angles! That's a lot of work! Because of Chris giving us the black appliances this tile works even better.

I'm ready to get outside and get the yard looking better too now! It looks like a disaster. Grass doesn't grow here I'm finding out so we want to get rid of as much of it as we can so we grow things that work in this climate better. We have a lot of researching to get done on that subject.

Avery is crawling! Sort of... She sort of scoots and moves her legs along with it and its as close to crawling as shes going to get for awhile! I'm sure in the next few days she will be all over the place! We need to get a couple of baby gates to keep her out of danger now... Its so cute to watch her try though. Trais is the best big brother ever. He absolutely loves her to death! He is always sitting on the ground and letting her crawl all over him and getting her new toys when she gets bored with the ones she already has. He is so thoughtful of her!

Trais is still very excited about soccer and the Easter Bunny even brought him his 1st real soccer ball! He was very excited about that and has been practicing his dribbling for 2 days now.

The Easter bunny brought both kids very cool stuff in their baskets. They made out like bandits as usual. Trais did a flashlight Easter Egg hunt through the city of Round Rock! Donny let him use his headlight too so he had an advantage in the game! Their were tons of kids. I couldnt believe how many people turned out for it! Avery will get to do her 1st egg hunt next year!

We are still working on our trip up to WA for this summer and we hope to be able to work it all out, but its going to be tricky since Donny had to use a lot of his vacation time up for when he was in the hospital! So, were working on it and will hopefully be able to give out some dates to ya'll here soon!

Love ya all!

Trais started soccer!!! Yay! He loved it too. He went right into the game and looked like he was a natural! That of course made us happy. He cant wait to go next week either and said that he wishes they had practice every day! His team color is neon green, and we thought that was bright until we saw some of the other team colors... They had a team that looked like a Christmas Tree and a team full of boys that wore hot pink shirts with purple shorts and hot pink socks! I signed him up for Summer soccer also (which I may regret, when I have to sit outside on those evenings that it's 95!) but he loves it so I will encourage it!

After his game this week, Trais and Avery Layne and I went over to a very small Farmers Market and walked around. We didnt get much except some snacks and hot cocoa for Trais, but we had a good time! After the Farmers Market we went to Sheplars (Country Western Apparel Store) and got Trais his Cowboy Boots and Cowboy hat! All he needs now is his belt buckle and he says he needs a lasso! He dressed up this morning and hasnt taken the hat off yet! I may have to pry it off his head at night when he goes to sleep. hahaha! He looks very cute.

Hey! My parents and Grandparents came and went! We had a great visit with them!!! I am glad they were able to make it down here. We went to the Rodeo Austin and got to see Josh Turner. Trais LOVED the rodeo and said that he would like to get into working with horses a little! While I totally encourage that... I don't even really know where to start. 1st step though is to get him the boots! We are on the lookout for that!

Well last week gave me the biggest scare of my entire life! We almost lost Donny!!! I wont go into full detail but, he has a blood disorder that ended him up very close to dangerous and in the hospital for 4 days. He had a very fast recovery as well thankfully! We will be following up with the hemotoligist weekly for a few weeks and then monthly for awhile to keep on top of it and make sure this never happens again. I was so scared of loosing him! April and Ken came down on an emergency flight when they heard what was going on as well. After he recovered we ended up having a great visit with them. We even went back to the Rodeo again and got to see Craig Morgan which was awesome! Thank you to everyone though who was here for us when we were so scared with Donny!

Trais and Avery are of course doing great as always. Trais is in his swimming lessons and Avery is rolling all around the house. She should crawl here very soon. Oh and Trais finally lost one of his front teeth. The other one is very loose as well.

Jen and Trysten are here and we are having a great visit! We were both a little apprehensive about it since the last time we even saw Jen it was not on the best of terms, but it has been great! The boys picked up right where they left off. They play and then fight and then play and then fight some more. We went to a cavern down in New Braunsfals (sp?)! That was very cool. I sort of expected Trais to be scared at first but he did great! He thought it was very cool.

Well I have to go so I will sign off now, but I will upload pics in a bit!

Love you all!!!

Don, Jus, Trais and Avery Layne!