Austin really loves the water. His favorite time of the day is bath time. I think we are really lucky that our zoo has a waterpark in it because Austin loves it! He does not like feeling the gound on his knees though so he crab crawls. I have a feeling he will be walking soon :-)
I can't believe my baby is nine months already! Wow time really flies. I thought I would give a little update about our cute little man. Austin is a very curious little thing. He crawls around and explores everything and definitely keeps us on our toes. There are things I never thought were dangerous until he came into our lives. For instance, the door stoppers have a little white cap on them that he has figured out how to pull off.....then it promptly goes into his mouth. He is really so much fun and has a great personality. I am so thankful that I am able to stay home with him :-)
This is Austin getting his first haircut from daddy. He wasn't too sure about all the vibrating going on.
Soooo cute in his little vest.
He loves to help mommy empty the dishwasher. Well really he throws all the silverware around and then looks up and smiles at me.
He loves animals. There is this really neat park that Papa Johns owns that is near our house and we love to go there and feed the ducks.
This is Austin and the duck sizing eachother up. Austin holds his own.
Austin and I love to go to the zoo together. We look at all the animals, splash in the waterpark and play at the playground.
When I go into another room, Austin likes to follow me...well actually chase me and he laughs the whole time. He cracks me up
I just came back from an awesome trip to Calgary. I think I spent half my time eating and I probably gained a few pounds but man was it ever delicious! When I first got there after a long and exhausting plane ride I drove out to my mums place to stay the night. All the things they tell you about flying with babies is true (aka it is awful)and Austin is at a very mobile age. He wants to be moving constantly. Thank goodness this very nice lady on the plane asked to hold him for awhile. She ended up holding him for an hour and a half! Thank you Susan...whoever you are! Anyway the next day we went to the Okotoks swimming pool to swim with my very adorable nephew Evan and Aunt Kira. This was Austin's first time in a pool and he loved it! He spent most of his time spashing everyone and trying to drink the pool water. He definitly does not have any fears about the water. He wanted to dunk his head under. Then we went to my mums restaurant (Route 40 Soup Co) and ate the best food ever. I am not kidding about this. My mom lives on a ranch and it is so nice to be in the country and enjoy nature.
My dad had all the kids over for steak night (I am not joking about all the eating I did) and it was so nice to see everyone. Here is Austin and Carter having a bath together. We are determined that they will be the best of friends :-) 
We decided to take a walk even though it was cold for me. Yes I have become used to nice weather sorry to say. It was freezing the first couple days I was in Calgary. Why do I want to move back? Anyway here is Evan and Austin going double dutch in the swing. Aren't they cute?
Evan was so nice to let Austin borrow his little car. Yes it is April and I am wearing a hoodie!
I had the awesome opportunity to go to Time Out for Women with my mom and my sister's in law in Edmonton. It was just amazing! I laughed...I cried and I was spiritually uplifted. They asked us throughout the whole thing to think about one thing we absolutley knew for sure. This is what I know: I am a daughter of God and I am truly loved and blessed. If any of you have the chance to go I would highly reccomend it.
Austin with his Papa.
Austin with Granny Lanny
Besties posing in front of Jared's fireplace. Thank you Mel for watching Austin when I went to Time out for Women. You are a great Auntie!!
I made my brothers take this picture with me. I always see sisters have this pic and I wanted one too!
Mel's mom had us over for a Lebanese feast. She made 12 different Lebanese dishes and it was delicious. My fav was the Lentils and Baba Ganoush. Yum!
It was our 6 year anniversary while we were in Calgary so my parents watched Austin while we went to the Keg. I am so grateful to have a wonderful husband like Hans! He truly is my soulmate.
This is on my dad's back deck. It was so nice to spend time with my family. I miss them so much! It was worth flying with my wiggly baby.
I can't believe how fast Austin is growing. He was riding on this pony and he looks so old. What happened to my little baby?? He is now crawling and cruising!
We had a wonderful Easter! We painted eggs at the Dickson's house and this is silly Hans showing Austin his very "interesting" egg that would spew out the yolk.
Austin loved looking at the eggs. He really wanted to eat them though. I had to pull a piece out of his mouth. This kid will eat anything!!
Austin is very close to crawling here and getting very proud of himself.
For the Kentucky Derby festival they have an awesome airshow. We braved the crowds and partied with all 800,000 people who showed up. Austin loved to watch the jets pass by overhead. It really was quite amazing. We plan to go back again next year.
Family shot at Waterfront Park
Austin and Hans watching the jets go by.
Hans decided one day that he "needed" stepping stones outside so off we went to Home Depot but he was not satisfied with the quality of stones there. What to do?? Well of course he concocted a way to make his own! He made the stone mold out of roof flashing we had lying around and a piece of plywood. I was a bit skeptical at first but I think they turned out really well. What do you think?
The final product.
Hilton Head is a place where everyone rides bikes around so we had to join in on the fun. Janelle and I called around to find the best deal and Bicycle Billy ended up being it. He was a really great guy and of course Janelle ended up getting the best deal with him. The picture is of Hans with Austin on the back cruising near the ocean.
We ended up having really great weather and so we spent alot of time at the beach. The water was pretty cold but of course I still had to swim in it!
We had "guys day out" and "ladies day out". For guys day out they went golfing. There are ALOT of golf courses on Hilton Head but I have no pictures of that because Hans never takes any. For ladies day out we went and got pedicures. We (I should say Janelle) found a really great place and they did a wonderful job.
You cant go near the ocean without having a "crab feed". We went to a place called Crazy Crab and had a wonderful meal. The second picture is of us trying a Southern drink called Cheerwine. Notice that I am cheering and Megan is whining. Yeah...we were probably tired.
We also went to this lighthouse in Sea Pines which was really neat (first picture is on top of the lighthouse). Then we went to the nature preserve and went on a gator hunt (second picture we were hunting for gators and we found a bunch) . We had a wonderful trip to Hilton Head! We are definitely going to go back!
My hubby the dentist!
Local people coming to get dental work done.
Goofin around...
I love this picture of my dad. This is SO him!
My two favorite men working together
Hans flying high
Lovin life!
