Nov & Dec 2011

Decorating the tree
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Anna and Kyle
precious elves

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Winter birthday party
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Toothless
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Beautiful girls
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That's a mouthful.
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Jack
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Kyle - age 10
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Anna - age 7
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A boy and his Falcon
Thank you, Grandma!

Christmas Eve at Mimi's house
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Cut-throat game of Polyanna
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Pink salad
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Do get near her turkey
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Merry Christmas!
Ho Ho Ho!

Thank you Santa
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Easel from Santa
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Harry Potter stuff from Santa
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Landry's DVD player from Santa
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jThank you, GrandBobby!
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Anna and Daddy
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Bishop elves
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Anna and Bitty's new pjs
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New Year's Eve
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New Year's Eve
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New Year's Eve
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New Year's Eve
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Aug, Sept, Oct 2011

First day of 5th grade

First day of 2nd grade

New gear

I can work this computer.

Labor Day weekend at Mimi's house.

Croquet

Cards

Books

Kyle playing computer game with Jack

Kyle's new TIE fighter

Rainy day at Mimi's
Rare October trip to Weatherford

Halloween
The Dementor and The Mummy

The Reluctant Conductor

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Candy
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graveyard
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Done
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Summer birthdays

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Beach 2011

First morning out

Deciding if he likes the beach

Sand creatures

Ma and Pa

Quick snuggle

Back balcony view

Brian's spot

That's quite a pole, Dad.

More sand creatures

He really does love Meredith!
He just didn't want to go to bed.

Big waves!

Great shell hunting this year.
Meredith and Corwyn

Playing in the sand.
He wanted his shoes on all the time.

My hair bugged me all week.

Digging holes

Pretty girls about to be eaten by a sea monster

I fell in a hole!

Uhhhhhh...
Corwyn, put the shovel down, and back away from the baby.

Twins

Surveying the shells

Jam session
Or something like that.

Hanging with Mimi

Not sure about the water

Mimi and Jack

The Sister Picture

Too cool

Silly

Fishing in style

Landry fishing

Brian

Funny Corwyn

We love the beach!
I have so few pictures of Anna and Landry because they rarely left the water!

No cheese!

Zzzzzzzzz

Tuckered out
Poor guy fell asleep during lunch.
May 2011

Fishing on the Brazos

Anna

Playing with cars

2 front teeth

2 front teeth

Mayfest at the gym
bars

floor

bridge

Trophy

Coming out of a perfect handstand

high bar

pommel horse

Rings

Rings
Check out the range in those shoulders! Ouch!

More rings
He can hang there forever.

parallel bars

This pill was TROUBLE all afternoon.
Good thing he's cute. "Looloon!"
April 2011

With our friends at the playground

Fishing at the lake in Tomball
No, they didn't catch anything.

Jack didn't feel like fishing.

And he wasn't too crazy about the ducks.

Anna's birthday at Mimi and GrandBobby's.
With Landry and Meredith

Mimi and Jack

New headbands

Blowing out the candles
Can you tell that Daddy has been working on the car all day?

Jack and Sissy

At the spa!
Anna's 7th birthday.

Miss Thing!
After her manicure, pedicure, and hair style.

Post spa exhaustion

Sassy

Silly

On her actual birthday

Great gifts!

Grandma and Anna poolside

The boys eating hot dogs by the pool.

Happy 7th birthday, sweet girl!

Easter morning
Jack has already had at least five chocolate eggs by the time I took this picture.

Easter
March 2011

Why isn't it spinning?

Liking the climber
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Rockin' the fish

Checking out how the slide works.
I even let him climb UP the slide!!

Playing basketball with the big kids

Hmmmm...if I could just get out to that pool.
February 2011

They call me Sturdy.

Ready to descend!

Natural Bridge Caverns
The pictures just don't do it justice, so I didn't include many.

Cave dwellers.

Stalagmites
You can see me and Anna in the background, to give you a sense of scale.

Perking up a bit.
Don't try to take that pacifier away, though. We had to tie it to him with a hair band.

Sunset in San Antonio
No pictures of our night on the River Walk.

Emu
This guy cleaned us out of the rest of our feed bag, and the bag, I think!

Momma and very sick baby.

Zebra
This guy was smart! He would open his mouth so you could throw the food in because the signs were adamant that you not feed them by hand.

Ostrich
Very aggressive! He tried to eat Brian's hand.

Hellooooo?

These animals actually got in the car.

African cows of some sort
These were the strangest creatures I've ever seen.

At the Natural Bridge Safari petting zoo

Brian had more fun at the petting zoo.
The goats only wanted to eat the bags!

Happy Birthday, to my big 10 year old!

Anna and Sissy dancing with the Wii.
Get down!

Birthday at Sissy's house

Maybe my favorite picture ever.
January 2011

Longhorn girl

Watch me!
This is mommy having a heart attack.

Jack checks out the dinos
Houston Museum of Natural Science

Anna and the dinos
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At HMNS
Kyle is trying to blow the giant pendulum around.
Christmas 2010

Big guy

Bathing with Ken

Xmas with Grandma

Xmas with Grandma

Xmas with Grandma

Christmas Eve dinner
GrandBobby, Mimi, Landry, Stephanie, Corwyn, Anna, Kyle, Jack, and Brian

Post dinner exhaustion sets in.
Kyle and Landry

But even fatigued, a girl needs to look her best.
Anna

Santa rocks!

Merry Christmas!

The Rusk family sing-a-long

Dancing baby

Happy Birthday, Brian!

Ta Da!
He proclaimed, having strewn his green beans about his throne.
December 2010

Hang on. I've got to take this call.

Whoa, Nelly. What are we doing here?

Ok, I'll sit here, but only while I eat this lollipop.

Heh, heh, heh. I love this cartoon.
Can we move so I can see the TV better?

Are you still taking pictures?

And I'm outta here.
I bet this lollipop stick will fit very nicely into this plug socket.
November 2010

Jack's new favorite spot

After nap

Decorating the tree

Dancing around the xmas tree
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He's really not too fond of the hat...

But he kept it on for a few minutes.

Silly girl
All the sparkly stuff on the floor came off the new tree.

The tree is done!

And the decorations are up.
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Growing up way too fast
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Helping unload the dishwasher
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Everybody clean up, clean up!
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Beep, beep!
No, he has no legs.

Boys!
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Climbing on everything now.
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Handsome boy.
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A boy and his Mimi.
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Jack's pumpkin
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I'll give you three guesses which one is Kyle's.
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New haircut
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Major Flirt, Sailor Jack, and Captain K
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Anna
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Kyle and Georgie
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Let's go!
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No, I wasn't really going to walk. Silly people.
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graveyard
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Serious trick-or-treating
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Cracker Jack
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2010-09-20

Before the haircut!
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During the haircut...
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...he's not very happy.
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After!
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That's a good lookin' haircut.
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New tattoo!
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2010-08-08

Georgie, Anna, and Sadie, kicking back
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My own little pool...and dog bowl.
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Creature from the deep.
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Beach kids
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Digging a hole.
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Going fishin'
I love the color in this picture.

Napping
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This is the stingray Brian caught.
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Can you see it?
Brian got the hook out and set it free.

Water baby
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Daddy!
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This may be his big 12 month portrait.
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2010-07-27

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Fruit cake
Yes, that's Kyle, with a peeled potato, dressed in Mr. Potato Head gear...which he later boiled and ate.

Jack's first birthday!
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Everybody sing...
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The Cake Shot
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2010-07-03

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2010-06-11

Jack and Daddy in the pool
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Loving the water
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Show week at the Little Gym
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Back bend
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He's actually pretty good on the parallel bars
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Georgie
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Slumber party
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2010-05-23

Jack
9 months

Lovely
3 weeks

Blackie
3 weeks

Cutie
3 weeks

Georgie
3 weeks
May 2010

The boy loves his books!
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Sweet baby.
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Having breakfast on Mother's Day...nekkid.
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Two weeks old!
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Zsu-Zsu kits
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4-29-2010

six days old now
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sweet kittens
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four babies in a basket
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three little baby faces
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Numbers 1 and 2 newly born
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Good mommy
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All four of them in the mix
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2010-04-06

Sweet
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Sassy
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Silly
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Serious
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Stylin'
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Shy?
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2010-03-25

Little longhorn
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Loving the green beans
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His head looks the right size to me.
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Always got his hands in his mouth.
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Ok, so maybe his head is a little big.
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Flirt.
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You can see the droopy eye here.
It's not bad.

Silly boy.
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2-25-2010

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2010-01-17

The green beans go over like a lead balloon.
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Mmmm...carrots are much better!
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Loving the exersaucer.
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Sweet boys
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One....
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Two....
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Three...
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Ta Dah!
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