Long time

Sorry it has been awhile guys. We just spent two weeks in Texas visiting all the family. I will write about that and show some pics soon. I am currently trying to get my house back in order and the erupting volcano of laundry done. Here is a picture to tide you over.

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday we attempted and outing to the pumpkin patch with some friends. We had a great time for about an hour. The kids saw some animals, took some great pictures, looked at the straw maze (they were all to chicken to go in), and ran around and had a great time. It started to sprinkle just as we got on the hay ride. By the end of our hayride the rain was coming down pretty good. They dropped us off at a patch of small pumpkins so each kid could pick one. The problem with this was that it was as far away from our cars as possible. By the time we got our pumpkins and got to the car we were all soaked. We had planned a picnic to eat there, but had to move it to one of our houses. The kids had a great time anyway!

Jace and a miniature horse (or something)

Hayden looking so cute and posing for mommy Mason, Anna, Jace, Hayden, Jagger, and Mark Me and my boys (Hayden was ready for a nap)Jace soaking wet

KC

I just wanted to post a few pictures from our trip last weekend. We went to KC to see my sister and her family. They were in town for a conference and I went to entertain my sweet niece and nephew. We also got to visit with some of my friends from high school. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of that.

Micaela and Jace at the Nature Center
Jace and Micaela at the park

The only picture of Hayden... at the park
Jace, Riley, and Micaela at the KC Zoo

You just never know...

what you will see or hear with Jace around. Just a couple quick stories for you. The other day I was driving to Taco Bueno with the kids to get some dinner (Clint was on call and still at the hospital). We see a fire truck and Jace says to me "I like red, but a pink fire truck would be my favorite!" Pink is his favorite color right now. I hate to admit it has lasted longer than all his other favorite colors. Second story. This morning we were heading to our weekly walmart trip. I walked into the garage and pushed the button to open the garage door. I turn to close the door to the house and I hear Jace screaming. I turn around and see Jace hanging on to the garage door as it is lifting him of the ground. By the time I get across the garage, Jace is 3 feet in the air. I couldn't stop laughing, but felt bad about it because Jace was crying because he was so scared. Last Story. This morning the Orkin man came to spray our house (no we don't have bugs it was a preventative thing). Jace is normally very shy. For some reason though Jace followed him around the house talking his ear off the whole time. I was amazed. You just never know what you will get with Jace around.

Labor Day

I know this is a little dated, but I had nothing else new to blog and have been meaning to get pictures of Labor day posted earlier. Clint's parents flew in for an extended weekend. The boys and I went to pick them up from the airport in St. Louis and went to the zoo for the afternoon. Here are a couple pics from the train. This was probably Jace's favorite part, except maybe the camels. After the zoo we headed back to Columbia for the night. On Friday we went to Kansas City to the Great Wolf Lodge. It was a blast. It was basically a large hotel with an indoor water park. They had an outdoor pool area too. The room was great. It was decorated like a lodge would be and had a little log cabin with bunk beds in it. Jace loved his new room as he called it. The following pictures are of Hayden swimming with his pops (Jace swimming on his own, with floaties, behind them) and Jace counting to 3 before he jumps in to his daddy.
On Monday Clint and his dad played golf why the boys and Sandra and I hung out. We had a great time and would recommend anyone going there. They have one opening up in Grapevine too sometime soon I believe.

Miscellaneous Adventures...from Clint

Hello all. Clint here. I got the directive from Kristin that I needed to learn how to do this blog thing, especially since I always tell her it needs to be updated. So...without further ado, here is my first shot at this thing.

The last week or so has been very adventuresome for Lasiter gang. We had the good fortune of having my best friend, Chris Kneip, come up to visit us from Jackson, Mississippi. He is an orthopedic surgery resident in Jackson. We hadn't seen each other in over two years since we graduated from medical school. The last time Jace saw him he was only 11 months old, now he is 3. That didn't matter though because Jace took to him like he had known him the whole time. Of course he did call him "Curse" or "Cursey" the whole time, but they had fun together nonetheless. Kristin and I also enjoyed getting to spend some time with him again catching up on old times and playing some golf. Thanks for coming Chris!!

Here is Chris with the boys.

This weekend was also very fun for us. On Friday night the Tidmores kept Jace and Hayden for us so that Kristin and I could go to dinner and a movie. We had a great time and really enjoyed seeing "The Bourne Ultimatum." I highly recommend this movie to anyone who has not seen it, especially if you liked the first two "Bourne" movies. On Saturday we reciprocated the favor by keeping the Tidmore kids, Anna and Mason, so that they could have a nice dinner and a movie. Kristin and I decided to be brave and get out of the house even though we had four kids. The first annual Columbia Balloon Festival was taking place Saturday night and we knew the kids would enjoy it, so we went. You should have seen the looks on people's faces when they saw Kristin and I with two double strollers and four kids all 3 and under! Luckily the kids were great and the balloons were awesome. Jace and Anna really liked seeing all of the balloons right there in front of them as they filled up and took off. Unfortunately the wind started blowing toward the end of the night and they had to cut the "illumination" portion short, but it was still tons of fun. Here are some pics.

Jace, Anna, Mason, and Hayden

Balloons, balloons everywhere!


Aren't we just a good looking family!!

Lastly, but not leastly (does that really make sense?), the gang had one last adventure before the weekend was over. To the batting cages and driving range. Kristin and I got some cuts in so that we can rule our co-ed church softball league and then we hit some golf balls. As you can see below, we have the next great golfer in our midst. Jace had a blast swinging at the golf balls, and he even hit a few too!

Look at the setup. This one went at least 5 yards!

Like father, like son!

Well, I hope you have enjoyed my first post. Hopefully there will be more in the future, but I will have to see what kind of reaction I get from this one and also see if Kristin lets me do it again! Thanks for reading.

Future Wildcats

Paying those big bucks to Abilene Christian University is paying off big. Not only did we receive a great education, we found each other. One other big perk is the free t-shirt you receive after you have a child! Seriously, so worth the thousands upon thousands spent. Thanks mom and dad! All jokes aside, we do love ACU and really hope our children decide to go there too. Maybe they really are born to be a wildcat like the shirt says.

ACU has a magazine called the ACU Today that they send out to Alumni and people who donate money the ACU. Each issue they have a page or two of peoples children in there free t-shirts. We never took a picture to submit off Jace so we took one of the two of them and will see if they make it into the magazine. Here is the best shot we got.

Is it a bad thing that Jace, being 3 years old now, and Hayden, almost 7 months, can both fit into the same size shirt? They are both wearing a size 12 month onesie!