Life is busy in the Embleton home! As you can tell with no posting for almost 3 months! In a nutshell ...Eli is working full-time and going to school full-time, Sarah is working full-time both inside and outside of the home, and our little sweetheart Owen is growing full-time and trying to keep up with it all! Our lives are full and we are blessed! We have also been blessed with our fair share of adversity lately as it seems everything is breaking, particularly the car. Oh well, as is old adage goes when it rains it pours! I let you know when we make it out of this trial alive!:) Here are some recent pictures of our happenings....

Where's Owen?!?!?

Fun at the Ft Sam Houston Park

Owen was terrified of the animals, he wouldn't even feed the ducks lettuce!

A helicopter just happended to land on base when we got there.

Apparently the Colonel had a meeting.

The soldiers were kind enough to let us tour it!

"Are you sure these things go here mom?"Future pilot?

Believe it or not this isn't the first time we have had a lizard in our house.

Where are we living... THE JUNGLE?!?!?

Come on, really..... is it just me or does that tail

look like it could do some serious damage!

Owen is always ready and willing to help with projects around the house!

There's nothing like dancing barefoot, in a summer rainstorm!

(Aside from all the potentially dangerous pathogens swimming in the stormwater,

let's just try and remember what it was like to be a kid!)

Our first crisis as homeowners!

We slept the one night in the middle of the

summer heat with no air conditioning,

it was a very cool 91 degrees in the house.

It's a good thing we had the sellers buy us a home warranty!

Oh, and yes the leaking HVAC unit is on the second floor!

Owen is trying practicing early to fill some big shoes.

We told him maybe he should try by taking the garbage out first!

Last but certainly not least was the day that Owen got into the bandaids!!!

Thanks for reading our blog, hope all is well with you! We love "ya'll!"

Ok so I know it has been forever since we posted! We have been busy and having a great summer so far. Eli is busy keeping up with summer school. It is amazing how much coursework they can cram into 5 weeks! We recently celebrated our 5 year anniversary by going to the world's best waterpark, Schlitterbahn! We had a blast! Their most popular slide is called the master blaster. It is actually a 6 story "water coaster" with 8 uphill blasts! Owen just continues to amaze us everyday! A few nights ago we were watering the grass and it was a full moon. Owen says "oh mommy look at the moon! (pause)... (gasp) It's moving!!!!" He is just so fun! Here are some pics below of what we've been up to.

Our birds hatched a month ago and aren't they so cuuu.... ugly!:)
Much cuter!

After a long day of play, nothing beats a nap in mommy's clean laundry.

"Oh man, do we have to go home now?!?!" One of our "projects." We love our new pot rack

Watching fireworks on the trunk of our car with daddy.

Sarah had to work the 4th and 5th but that didn't stop the firework fun.

Boo, I scared you!"

Our First Pet!!!!

At the beginnning of the spring season I noticed a bird that kept flying in and out a fern on my patio each time with a new beak full of twigs, fuzz and sticks. I knew she must be building a nest far off in some tree and I felt so honored and grateful that she was pruning the dead twigs off of my fern for me. Untill one day when I was out watering my plants when I realized that far off tree was a actually my very near fern. I was so exctied I had to take pictures! I anxiously watched and waited for the eggs to hatch. Lo and behold we were blessed with the arrival of four little baby birds! How fun is that! I was looking forward to these birds leaving the nest, so to speak, so that I could begin reviving my poor dehydrated fern that had suffered from my fear of accidentally watering the eggs. I went out to begin pruning and watering again and wait a minute......... some other bird decided to lay her eggs in the nest!!!!!!! Man I should start charging rent to pay for a new fern! Anyhoo, here are some pictures of the Embleton family wildlife reproduction contribution:) Enjoy!

The other day at work I took care of a baby that was 7lbs 10oz, 20.5 inches, that was Owen's exact measurements! I got to thinking how much he has grown! He had his 3 year old check up on Tuesday, he was 37lbs and 40 1/4 inches! I was watching him sleep this morning, I know it's weird but mommys just do that, he is so long. I am amazed how it seems every morning he looks different, like he grew up overnight! I just love him so much. It is so fun watching him grow and listening to the funny things he says. The other day I called him a silly goose to which he replied "no, I not a goose, I'm Owen." He said it so seriously that Eli and I just had to laugh! What a blessing it is to be his mommy:) Here are some of my favorite pictures from his growing up so far.

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