The Big 5 Years

The Happy Couple
Man and Wife
On Our Way to Maui!!!

College..one of our first dates
My Wedding Party
The boys doing the sorority pose

Rusty and I have been married for 5 Years today!! Where has the time gone. I feel like we have packed tons of fun into these five years. We have been through so much together. I am so lucky to have such a great hubby and a husband who loves the Lord and leads our family in his path. Tonight we are going to eat somewhere fancy and then staying at a hotel, pictures to follow. I can't wait to see what the many more years hold for our family.

He is really into jumping into the water...but he doesn't want his face to get wet. When he is swimming he has to watch his feet kick, it is hilarious.
Mac is her bikini. We love that girl!
The new ride
Paxton ready for the windy ride
SueSue has a new ride. A Convertible. I thought Paxton would think that riding outdoors might be fun, but he get very irritated by all the wind in his face. We had our first ride to the pool the other day...sunglasses, suits, and sunscreen. What summers are made of.

Not very Excited...check out the bush on top of his head
My Super Cool Two Year Old
My Bald Baby...notice the clip!!!
Our first real haircut. The one that I did and butchered did not count. I will never attempt a boy hair cut again. We thought the first time we would make it special and go to a kids hair cut place called Snip It's. It was pretty cool, it came with a free sucker and prize at the end. At first Paxton was not amused, but later warmed up to the idea. He looks so CUTE, not that I am biased or anything. He is so grown up looking:) Mackey watched as Paxton sat in the cool chair, she will probably not get her first hair cut for a least a year. I really think that I could literally count the hairs on her head. We love our bald baby though.She has finally got enough that the toupee clip flower can now attach to a few strands.

The scary elephant
My Girls

Paxton is so proud of his catch...Mackey looks a little nervous!
One of the cool toys at the party place
The train...not for Paxton.

This week was a fun week. Grandma Cox, Great Grandma Kal, Cheryl and Cori came to visit. There was a mall trip, swimming, and they kept Mackey and Paxton while I worked and Rusty went to New York. This weekend Paxton went to an awesome Birthday at Amazing Toy Creations in the Galleria Dallas. There was train sets, animals, houses, farms and other really cool things for Paxton to play with. He was deathly afraid of the train set...literally throwing a fit about having to ride it. For some reason he was o.k. about riding the elephant that was about the size of a horse and screamed as it walked the track. GO Figure!!! I was scared of the elephant. This Saturday also Rusty and I hosted the Sunday School Party for our class. We had about 50 people. It was lots of fun it included: golf with wiffle balls, horse shoes, and washers, and of course lots of good girl talk. PatPat and SueSue (even though it was their anniversary) cooked fajitas for the gang. On Sunday Mackey was a little celebrity. They called Friday to ask if the preacher and music minister could use her for a skit. She was attached to the music minister all three services and made quite the show as the grabbed the microphone each time to sing a little ballad for everyone. Sorry but there are no pictures..due to having to be there so early we forgot the camera. We had a very exciting and eventful week/weekend. We are looking forward to relaxing a little this coming weekend. Hope everyone has a great week.

The Grandparents with their "favorite Girl"
The boys

The family minus Paxton at the wedding
Father and Daughter
Mackey got a lot of attention with her dancing moves. Her she is spanking. She loves the attention.

Rebecca and Josh: Josh looks a little nervous after seen her spit up so much...I think he secretly liked her though.
Drew was in love with Mackey: He loved to kiss and she loved to receive.
Grandma and Mackey


This weekend we all headed to Oklahoma to a Cox Wedding. Joey and Ashley have tied the knot. It was a beautiful ceremony on the water and then LOTs of fun and dancing. Even Mackey did some dancing. The highlight of the reception was the balloon guy. He was so talented and could make all kinds of things...Paxton got a dog and a train. Paxton and Drew did not go and did fairly well with the babysitter. We had a great time seeing eveyone we don't get to see very often.

The Girls
SueSue and Paxton after the show
Mackey and Mommy
father and Daughter

The Men: Brent, Cal, Rusty, and Ben
PatPat, Mackey, and SueSue enjoying some fireworks
Paxton and I

Happy 4th! What could be more fun than spending a holiday with long time friends and family. We loaded up the car and headed to Grapevine to grill out with Ben and Tiffany and our parents. We had great fun talking and just hanging out. Later that night we headed to meet up with the rest of our college friends to watch fireworks at the Grapevine Lake firecracker show. Mackey just laid on the blanket with her PatPat and SueSue while Paxton hung tightly to my leg. He really is not a fan of fireworks. I think it is the noise. We had a great time, though short, it was fun just being with old friends. We are blessed to have those friends. We have watched each other grow in many ways. We all knew each other pre married life. So we have seen everyones weddings and now (though Rusty and I are winning the "who has children" category we are soon to be blessed by a "little Wall". Those are the friends you cherish forever, the ones when you get together it as if no time has passed. Rusty and I are very blessed.

Preparing for their beach trip at the end of July
Paxton's twin...
Ringing the bell
Thought he was super cool with the hat
Isn't McKinney's fire station antique and full of character

Mackey's fireman
Driving the BIG truck
The Gang

We are SOOOO tired of rain, seriously I think it has been 10 days of rain and they are predicting rain the next 10-14 days. Can that really happen? My neighbor went out of town and said that we could go swimming all week whenever since we were babysitting their bunny and fish. Of course, it has rained everyday since they left not allowing us to swim at all.

Last week we got the privilege to go the McKinney fire station, what more could a bunch of firemen want than a ton of moms and there two year olds coming to trample all over their equipment. Paxton loved it. He was all about driving and ringing the bell.

Is it normal for you child that is almost 7 months to crawl but not be able to sit-up. I think she can't sit up very well because she doesn't have the enormous hinney that Paxton had. This week she has been officially getting up on all fours and frog catapulting to where she wants to go. This has created a bunch of sharing lessons for Paxton. She hunts her prey and then frog launches to it...she wants to play with Paxton and his things and this is all new to him. On another note of parenting lessons.

Rusty and I are desperate to know what you do when your 2 year old climbs out of his bed, opens that child proof door, walks down A LOT of stairs, and across the house and then stands at your bed and stares you in the face repeatedly. This has become a REAL problem. There is only some many times that you can walk back up and put them in bed. We have been putting him back him his crib after a couple times of this . I feel like we are going backward putting him in the crib. Any suggestions???

Paxton and Karleigh...he loves her!

The Birthday swing set which he really is not that into..
Paxton, Karleigh, Mackey, and Fisher
Our new babysitter

What's Going on...

Rusty: He is in town and has been all month...yeah! He has been working hard during the day and coming home and being dad. The yard has been keeping him pretty busy lately. Baseball season was pretty much rained out every Thursday so that was sad for him since that was his fun each week. I am sure that his skills have not left him though, the pitching arm is warmed up and ready to play...Give him call!

Whitney: I have been busy watching kiddos. I had the chance to go to market with the Hagen family and shopping has never overwhelmed me...but I WAS OVERWHELMED! It was crazy, 1st you realize that everything you buy is half of what you normally pay and 2nd How in the world could you ever possibly see everything in 4 days. I have been asked to work in the nursery on Sundays because Paxton is considered in nursing terms a 1 on 1. What can I do?? He cries the entire two hours requiring one sweet older lady to spend her whole time with my child and his tears. Rusty and I have planted some new flowers in the beds out front so that will be so much fun to watch Rusty's labor come to fruition.

Paxton: Other than crying in the nursery every Sunday, he is REALLY into transportation. We were unable to have a car birthday party because Paxton is borderline psycho about cars, trains, and planes. We would have never moved past the car party napkins. He has begun to say lots of funny things and is still VERY busy. He doesn't know yet but he was enrolled in Mother's Day Out, starting in Sept. I cannot wait. I already checked and they do not refund your money and they will not give up on your child should they cry the entire first few months. We rarely give him Coke...I thought I would tell you a couple of his funny stories for the week. We went to Sonic and I asked him if he wanted Apple Juice or a Orange Slush and he said, "I want Coke." His vocabulary has increased TONS lately and it is so fun to see his personality with words. By the way he did not get coke!! We love our little Paxton but he keeps us very busy.

Mackey: Sweet Mackey. She is the winner for "Best Baby Award". Everyone comments about how great she is. She is scheduled to have tubes placed on July 5th so that is exciting...no more ear infections for the Cox Family. She is so precious and her smile makes you laugh. She is 13lbs, yes still very little for 6 months, but can guzzle a bottle in no time flat. She is working on sitting and loves fruit. She is into Paxton's cars, which he is not happy about. We are now focusing on sharing and being nice to our sister. Mackey is so excited about Paxton going to Mother's Day Out for all the quality time she will be able to spend with her mom.

Life is crazy but we are loving it. We are love watching the new words that Paxton learns each day and also enjoying watching Mackey discover all the things that her feet and hands can do.

We recently had family pics. Laura Haun had the difficult task of getting two children under two to smile and look at the camera. It was fun seeing the results.

83 Years

The girls
The men
They must have scored, Paxton was into giving Big Willy high fives.

He must have seen Big Willy using the cane and thought it looked like a good way to get around
She was really into the people watching.
The ice cream that made the night

Paxton and Big Willy are exactly 81 years apart. What has begun to be a tradition...we spend Big Willy and Paxton's birthday in a suite at the Ranger Game. We had a great time and Paxton really got into the cheering. We got the hook up through Gib. The Ranger food service brought in a cake for Paxton and Big Willy complete with candles. They also brought in awesome friut but the highlight for Paxton was the ice cream and the stuff to make Sundays...wipe cream, nuts, and strawberries. It was a great night and a great way to wrap up a birthday weekend.