Suzie's Surprise Birthday

Clint's mom, Suzie was turning 60 this year, and we decided it would be fun to try to put together a surprise birthday for her. We were able to pull the entire thing off, amazingly, there were many times Clint and I, thought that somehow it would slip by either us or Clint's sister, Angee and her husband Brian. We surprised her by having Clint's dad, Bill, who lives in Australia, and his sister and husband, from Oregon, and Suzie's two Aunts from California all fly in for the party. The night of the party we told her that we wanted to take her out to dinner Angee and Brian and Clint and I, so we went to Pappadeaux were everyone and everything was all set up!! She was completely surprised to see everyone that had flown in for the party, she had NO CLUE, it was awesome!!!

Bill & Suzie

Bill, Suzie, Angee, Darlene, & Martha
The Jasper Family

I know she was so surprised on seeing Bill, since he flew all the way from Australia, and she had no idea!!

Costner's Birthday- a few weeks ago...

I know, I know I am behind, by a few weeks... oh well...

Costner's birthday was on April 7Th, and he turned six, we can't believe how fast he is growing up! We knew that for his birthday he really wanted a dirt bike, in fact he quickly learned how to ride his bike without his training wheels so that he would be able to get a dirt bike. We would have loved to have gotten him one, but we just don't have the room for one right now. So we settled on lots of leggos!!! Clint had taken most of the week off the week of Costner's Birthday to spend time with Costner, and I was hosting bunco at our house that week so he was nice enough to help out with Bunco night preparations, and because we had been planning a suprise birthday party for Clint's mom, Suzie. I don't know what I would have done without Clint home that week, he was so helpful in everything!!

Costner and Grandpa opening presents the night of his birthday

We all went up to Costner's school with ice cream cups for everyone in his class
Costner and Hudson eating lunch

Costner had his favorite breakfast for his birthday, an egg and bacon taco, then he got to pick out what he wanted for dinner, he off course wanted, shrimp, and crab, nice expensive taste!!

Even though Clint was having a stay vacation, he had to start his vacation off with an umbrella drink, it was pretty GOOD!!

Random Pictures...

I found some random pictures....

Boys waiting to eat at the mall

Kids playing in the yard while it was snowing
You can kind of see the snow, oh well we were excited to see it!

Last session of swim lessons, now Costner has moved up two levels!!

Brooks is doing very good too, he is just very loud!

Easter Egg Hunts at the Boys School

Again so behind in posting. Just thought I would post a few from the boys Easter Egg hunts at school. Brooks egg hunt was at the school playground, and Costner's was at Ridgelake park, his class took a field trip for their Easter Egg hunt. Both boys had tons of fun!!

Loving the Spring time!!

The boys are loving to be able to play outside, everyday they are outside playing, it's great!! Saturday we had a birthday party to go to, Sarah Kate, and the boys were about to go on a little Easter egg hunt and have fun with their friends. Saturday afternoon we spent the entire day outside, playing in the yard, and we ended the day with a little bit of playing in the sprinklers. This was Hudson's first time to go in the sprinklers and he had a great time, but didn't really like the feeling of being in wet clothes after he was done!

Hudson wanted to jump

He is ready for some Baseball!!

My cool Boys!

Jasper Family Get Away

Friday we decided to take off, not really having any plans, just packed a spend the night bag and off we went. The only problem was that I think that everyone in Houston decided to get out as well, because we ran into so much traffic. We ended up taking the kids to Kemah, which was so packed the kids were not able to do anything! So back in the car we went only to find more traffic, after getting so frustrated we ended up coming back home and making it in by 8:30pm. Though the boys did have fun and said thank you for our little trip! Next time we are going to plan out everything much better I think this will be the last, last minute trip the Jasper Family will take!

Spring time

Since it has been spring break the boys have been staying up a bit later than normall, but they are having a good time playing and enjoying a week off of school. This past Saturday we had a busy day, started out by Hudson getting a his glasses and then spending a little bit of time at the park, I think he is really enjoying being able to see so much better! Poor guy he is probably thinking, oh that's what my family looks like, his eyes were bad!! WE are so proud of him because he actually keeps them on! Saturday afternoon we had a crawfish boil at Clint's parents house, since his dad was in from Australia, but poor Clint was still in Oklahoma. The boys had a great time running around with their cousins and spending time with meme and papa. Sunday after church and naptime the boys and I walked around the mall, and then around the riverwalk, since it was such a beautiful day we wanted to get out and enjoy it!

Friday Hudson and I went down to meet with the skeletal dysplasia group at Texas Children's, they are definitely saying that Hudson does have the Spondyloepiphyseal type of dwarfism, but does not appear to be that bad! Hudson was originally diagnosed with Sticklers syndrome, but now they are re-diagnosing him with dwarfism, they have a lot of the same issues, but that he will be a bit shorter. The doctors wanted us to have some more x-Rays of his spine, and they want to monitor him on a yearly basis. Monday he and I went down again to TCH to see his plastic surgeon that corrected his cleft palate, the palate had opened slightly and we were worried he would need another surgery soon. I also was concerned because he isn't really talking much and when he does say his few words they are sounding very nasally. But the doctors didn't seem to be too concerned and said the would re-evaluate him next year. So all good news!

Clint came home on Monday night, he was only gone a week, but it felt like so much longer. I think because he doesn't travel as often that when he does go it seems so LONG! Tuesday we spent the day as a family and took the kids to seven acre woods to run around and play before the rains came in. The evening we spent with Clint's family again, so the kids went to bed very late, and they are a bit tired today!

Trying to get everyone to get a picture

They now look exactly a like

Seven Acre Woods

Riverwalk, they both wanted out!

Papa, Jasper, and Hudson

Stash, Brooks, and Hudson

Hudson loves to get on Brooks Scooter