July 4th 2012

Vail Valley parade

They were throwing candy from the floats. Sage's pockets were overflowing

Reese sharing some of her Popsicle!

Me and my girl!

Most of the group!

Playing with my GOOD lens back at the house!

Carson and Sage

Reese, Sohpie, and Payton

More Parade Pictures...

The only picture I could get of the two of them

Caton helped Sage get all of his candy!!

The last morning in CO

CHEESE!

Landing back in Houston!

What a wonderful time with family! My parents did a great job planning the whole trip!  Thank you!

More of the Reunion

So much fun I wanted to share pictures from every day we were there!

Some of us went on a whitewater rafting trip!

(Ryan stayed back with Avery)

The whole group (minus my parents, the three baby girls, Carly, J, Ryan, and Suz)

Loving being at front of the raft!

Me and my favorite little man!

The rafting guide got some Sage brush from the side of the river and gave it to Sage.  He thought it was so cool!!  We put it in the back of his life jacket and he wore it the whole trip.

A little photo shoot with the three girls....hey, we tried.

Some of you think Avery never cries...HA!  Snot bubbles and all!!
She did not want to sit in the chair! (the chair she played in and sat in the WHOLE weekend.)

Now we are all happy!

HA!! A little slap from Charlie.  Don't under estimate this little girl.  She can stand up for herself!! 

A scavenger Hunt for the kiddos! Ending in ice cream!

silly faces!

hugs from Des!

reading the next clue.  Payton was so good reading the clues and letting the younger ones figure them out and find them!  We ran all over the house looking for all the clues.

The ice cream was in honor of Caton's birthday!!

Enjoying ice cream with Sage (mine had a litte Bailey in it!)
Don't leave a drop!!

Reunion Part 2

More of our reunion in Eagle/Vail Colorado!!

BOWLING!!

Tried to get a picture of Charlie and Avery together.  This is the nest we got.

Time for a walk!

 

At night we would feed the kids first then put on a movie and give them cookies or popcorn while we ate.
Worked out pretty well!

Of course Avery always wanted to sit on the stone fireplace...not so safe.
But by the end of the trip she could easily get on and off.

Family Field Day!!

Maddie (the oldest cousin) planned some fun activities for all the kiddos!

Relay race!

Balloon toss

Potty break!

Payton and Sage!

Balloon popping relay!  Avery wanted to join in!

And to top it all off, they ALL got in the spa! 

More to Come!!!

Hogan Reunion 2012! Part 1

We are back from a 10 day vacation!  We first went to Colorado for our Hogan family reunion for 7 days.  We had a great time with all our cousins and my Aunt and Uncle.  It was so neat to see all 12 of the kids together and really get along well!  What a difference 5 years makes!!  Boy have our families grown!! Here are the first of many pictures from our trip!!

Getting there..... with the Smiths (Lisa, Brian, Payton, Sophie, Carson, and Reese) and the Maderers (Carly, Jason, and Tatum)

Sage was talking about sitting next to Payton on the plane for days before we left

Playing with Dadda

Hanging with Aunt CarCar

Learning how to use a DS from Sophie at the CO airport while we  unloaded ALL our luggage 

HUGS for Carson!  Avery was ALL about Carson  this week

First full day we went to Beaver Creek. 

Took a ride up the mountain for lunch then back down for some FUN!

So much fun!

I Can't believe he did this!!  Such a big boy!

This is as far as he went, but I was still so proud of my little man!

Getting some help from Dad

No pics of Avery this day. 

We were strolling her around in hopes she would take a nap, didn't go well...