Pictures of Preston... of course!

Here are an assortment of pictures since I have not been very good at posting lately. Some of these pictures are older since I had them on one of our cameras that I had been looking for the cord to download the pictures. Me and Preston playing with the camera

Kristen and Mandy

Dancing

Kristen and Kalene came to visit the other weekend and we had such a good time seeing them. Thank you for making the trip down!!!

Kristen, Kalene and Preston

Kalene and Preston

Digging in the dirt

My uncle Charley reading to Preston when we visited them in April

Preston and his great-grandmother Annie in April

In Klamath Falls on my aunt Lori's land

Visiting aunt Lori's horses

Family picture from February

Plumbing with Grandpa Tom as he was helping my sister remodel her kitchen in January

Preston wanted to climb in my sister's dryer (January) so we took a picture

Preston

Here are some recent pictures of Preston. He is getting so big and is such a little person now. He is a lot of fun!

Helping Daddy drive the truck

Hanging out in the trailer

Playing with rocks in the trailer

Drawing

Drawing is so much fun!

Preston loves to mimic what we do including adjusting the sprinklers with a screwdriver

Playing in the water

Adjusting the sprinklers

Preston and his grandpa when my dad came to visit a few weeks ago

Our house

Lately, we have been spending weekend after weekend working on re-landscaping our front yard. We added a new patio, replanted all new plants and a crab apple tree, stained our wooden entry and Carl built beautiful new planter boxes that I stained for our windows. He also built a few that we will put in front of our new patio but those are not in the pictures and will come. We reused our patio pathway lights by repainting them. We also painted our house last summer and we just painted our front door recently too. We have found that landscaping is a LOT of work but also fun! Our window planter boxes still need one more day before we add flowers and then I will show you more pictures. Here is the front of our house.

We love sitting out on our new patio in our chairs

Our azaleas have so many colorful flowers now

Here are the planter boxes Carl built. He is so talented at woodworking and enjoys it!

15 months old!

Time is always flying by and it seems especially fast when you have a little one that is constantly growing and doing new things. Preston is gaining more speed and he has become a good climber, which means he can climb up on our kitchen table. I know he is up there if I hear a little smelling sound (since he like to smell the candle in the middle of the table). He is also talking more daily. He constantly repeats words that we say, although many of them are hard to understand. His new favorite is to point and yell "go" at Dallas. He will also say "go" when he is throwing a ball or about to run. He also says it if he is trying to tackle Carl. As the weather has been nicer, we have been spending a lot of time outside, which Preston loves! We have been landscaping our front yard and we added a patio. When Preston came outside yesterday, he picked up our rubber mallet and proceeded to pound the pavers. He loves to watch and then repeat anything that we are doing. He is growing taller (now 32 inches tall) and he weights about 23 1/2 pounds.

Riding his tricycle

Equally as fun to to tip it over and figure out how the wheels work

Running around the driveway

Easter pictures

Well, it's been a while since Easter but here I am posting these pictures now. We were in Milton-Freewater for Easter, where we had a wonderful time visiting family and friends. Preston liked hunting for eggs in Carl's grandparents back yard although once he saw a pile of rocks and a wheelbarrow, he was more interested in putting the rocks inside the wheelbarrow. He loves being outside and discovering all the wonderful things out there...

Eating

Talking to great-grandparents Fran and Ivan

Hanging in the kitchen

Talking

Preston and Daddy

Easter eggs

He liked putting the eggs in his basket