My baby is 1........I can't believe how fast time flies!!! He had a double birthday party with his cousin Dawson, and they were so cute!

Trey has also started walking.......It is so fun to watch him! He's not quite sure of himself, but everyday he gets better!!!!

Okay so the last month has been a blur, especially the last couple weeks......
First, Tryston started swimming lessons with some friends, and he did pretty good!

Then to every one's surprise, we got a visit from Doug and Beth!!! :)

We got a call on Saturday morning saying that they were in the NY airport, and that they would be here by 10:30 pm!

We went camping over Memorial weekend with the "whole" family, and it was a lot of fun!!! Doug went on a walk and found a baby deer, we caught a bunch of horney toads, trey slept a lot better then I expected, and we all just totally enjoyed Doug and Beth!!!

I watched Malea's kids, and Dawson and Trey decided to climb on the tool bench and play......they are so cute together!!!

Trey's crazy static hair...

Visiting Clint...

Malea did a "Roadtrip" photography class, and Allee, Tryston and Trey were some of the models......Tryston loved being a cowboy (thanks em for the outfits, and amber for the pics!!:) He called himself "Cowboy Tryston"

I also wanted to get some cute pics of Trey before the big hair cut.......

Our last night together before Doug and Beth left for New York......Doug was having a hard time breathing, that is why they surprised us.....they had to come home to figure out what was wrong, and they now know he has asthma!!

Wow......busy month, but we had a lot of fun!!!

Easter

A little late, but that's my Style.........

Photos.......

As most of you already know my sister-in-law Malea is the one that takes all of our family pictures.........and she does a FABULOUS job!!! Anyway I just thought I would let you all know that she is offering a mini session and a photography class........check them out, and then go to Tickled Pink Photo to schedule!!

Crazy Hair Club for Babies......

These are pictures of Trey and my girlfriend Alesha's little guy Dedrick........ They both have the craziest sticky uppy hair do's I have ever seen, and they are both Au' natural......so many people will say to me "ya, it's probably from all the static in the air..." or "I can't wait to have a little boy, so I can do that to his hair" Nope, I don't do anything to it, it has been like this from birth :) Sometimes it's really crazy, and I think I should cut it.........but it is sooooo just Trey to me, and I love it!

Dedrick




Trey

And this pic is for Alesha so she could see my picture wall in my bedroom...........we both did almost the exact same thing, and we didn't even talk about it or say anything to each other......

Cal-if-or-ni-a

Last month my mom, Trey and I went to California to visit Bryce. (He is at Camp Pendleton finishing his infantry training) It was kind of a quick trip, but it was a lot of fun to spend time with Bryce and enjoy some nice weather!! Saturday we spent the day at Knott's Berry Farm. It was sort of busy because they had a special going on with the tickets, but that didn't stop me and Bryce from standing in line to go on the roller coasters!!! (Love, love, love 'em!!!)



Can you believe how crazy Trey's hair is?????? It is everywhere!! Almost every single person we saw stopped to touch it, it's so fluffy! It is actually his 9 month birthday in this pic......I love how happy and smiley he always is!!!!


Sunday we went to church on base, it was kinda different.......it was in an old church house that has been there for forever, but it was fast Sunday, so it was cool to be able to listen to all the boys bear their testimony's!! Surprisingly there were actually about 30 people there, Bryce said that there are usually only about 10.......


He had to check in around 5, so I took a couple pics of him in front of the "machine" that he will be driving.......watch out! Oh yeah, did you notice his glasses???? Every Marine that wears glasses or contacts has to wear them.....on the weekends you can put your contacts back in, but Bryce has been getting infections from his. So he wore the awesome glasses all weekend :)


Anyway, I had a lot of fun spending time with Brycie, I miss him so much!! And it was nice to be just me and my mom too!! (I could always use a good girls trip!)

Rewind.........to the past 3 months :)

This is a mishmash of updates from the past 3 months........this is for you BETH :)

My bithday!

Dusty and I went down to Las Vegas, spur of the moment, for my Birthday.....I think it was actually the first time I had left Trey too (a little scary for me) But we had so much fun! We ate a yummy dinner at CPK and then went and saw "O", which was so crazy good!!! This next pic is our room with our upgraded view, isn't it fantastic?!?!?!



I will never upgrade the view again!!!!

New Year's Day

We went up to Pine Valley on New Year's Day with Brandon, Malea and their family for some tubing.......but......when we made the first turn and the truck got stuck, I looked over at dusty and saw the biggest grin on his face, I knew we weren't going to do a whole lot of tubing! It was such a nice day, and the kids had so much fun playing in the snow! And right when then sun was starting to go down we finally found the "tube hill of terror" and were able to go down a couple times, it made it all worth it!!!

Christmas

The annual picture with "Santa Clause" I thought Tryston was going to be nervous, and that Trey would be fine.....but it was totally the opposite!




When you shop for Christmas throughout the year, I think you forget about a lot of stuff......I couldn't believe all the stuff Tryston got from "Santa" this year! Trey got the short end of it......diapers, wipes, and a couple other things.....Thank goodness for hand-me-downs and wrapping paper!

"Adult" December birthday dinner!

Family Pictures

My whole family was in town the week before Thanksgiving......so we got to eat to big feasts! We had a lot of fun spending time with Bryce while he was home for a few weeks. Brandon, Amy and my newest little niece Bailey (it was the first time I met her, and she isn't so little :) were here from Texas. Zack, Lisa, Kaya, Ethan, and Stella traveled down for the occasion! It was just a big family affair!!!

Lewis/Smith Family Tree.....


The Benzon's


The Bromley's


"Us"


Tyler and Jess


and PFC BW Lewis :)


p.s. All my pictures are always taken by the fabulous Malea from Tickled Pink Photography!!!

Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Great Grandpa and Grandma Ellett. It was so low key and laid back......perfect!!!

Birthday Pictures

Trey's 6 Month pics..... (now that he is almost 9 Months....)



Tryston's 3 Year pics.....

New York

We got to go to New York on Christmas day to visit Pampa and Ma'maa for a week. We had so much fun! The flight there was a piece of cake, both of the boys did so good! Tryston absolutely loved the airplane! We spent most of our time at the house hanging out, watching "kid" movies, playing cards, and eating Beth's yummy meals (one of the things I miss about them being gone.......Sunday meals with the whole family!)!!! We also got to tour the city, go to the mall and the movie Desperaux, and attend church.......which consisted of maybe 12 people total. We had a blast, and can't wait for them to be home!!!


In the City.....



Eating at Crepes on Columbus.....



At the Mall.....


Hanging out at the house.....



On our way home.....

Since we had sooooo much fun, we knew something would have to go wrong......right??? Anyway when we got to the gate to check in, to go home, the guy was kind of weird, and asked if we could come back in a minute. So about 20 minutes later we went back and they had given our seats away!!!! Dusty was so MAD.....and after some choice words, getting on and off the plane 3 times, they finally figured it out! Like I said we had sooooo much fun, and Tryston is still talking about it!!! Thank you so much Pampa and Ma'maa, we LOVE you!!!