My almost 2 year olds!

I can't belive that in less than a month, these two are going to be two!!

I just can't belive that I'm about to have 2 year olds, really, where has the time gone?!?

Avery is such a girly, girl! She loves to dress up and wear jewelry, her most favorite though are these mardi gras beads! And notice the tooth brush she's holding in her hand, she's a little obsessed with toothbrushes lately!

She loves wearing these goggles from their tool bench. Everytime she puts them on she comes over to me and says, "pitcha, pitcha" (picture) and then, "cheeese," wanting me to get the camera out and take her picture.

She loves these "little people" she likes to fill up her purse or backpack with as many as she can stuff in and carry them around. So cute!

Some of the cute things Avery is saying these days are:

-"Oh my goodness" anytime there is a mess on the floor, or something dramatic happens

-"there ya go" she stared repeating this after I would say it (I guess I never realized how much I said "there ya go") now she says it all the time...it's so cute!

-"Oh, no man" which is her version of saying, "awww, man"

-she says, "ohhhh" in a very long, drawn out way whenever I've explained something to her.

-and she loves to tattle on her brother. Any time I ask her who did it, or who made this mess she says, "bubby did it." She's a little snitch!

She also loves to get her nails painted. Here is aunt TT painting her nails.

And of course, Carson had to get his done too (which daddy was less than thrilled about :)

Carson, my sweet wild man!

He loves to wear anyone and everyone's sunglasses!

He still loves to swing! We haven't been swinging as much in this horrible month of August, but he still gets out there as much as he can!

Here he is after falling asleep swinging!

Carson is obsessed with Shane's truck. He talks about it all the time. Every white truck we see when we're driving around, he'll point to and say, "daddy's shruck" (and every red truck we see is "papa's shruck"). When Shane is out of town I'll ask Carson where daddy is and he'll say, "daddy, airmane, shruck" (daddy, airplane, truck) because I guess he figures that wherever daddy is, his truck must be there too! Sometimes he'll grab a bag or a purse and put in on his arm and start waving at me and saying, "bye-bye mommy" and when I ask him where he's going he says, "daddy's shruck" The boy loves his daddy (and his truck :)

His other great loves right now are light switches and the microwave. He wants me to hold him up to the light switches so that he an flip them on and off. When he's not asking to play with the lights, he wants to be held up to the microwave so he can push the buttons and wait for it to, "beep, beep." (which is what he calls it)

I have such a hard time getting a good smiling picture these days.
Everytime they see the camera they start making their silly cheese face.

But every once in a while I get a good sweet smile!

I also wanted to share a few pictures from the summer, that I never got around to posting.

Here is Carson and Shane swinging at our friends the Hammonds house.

They have the best backyard swing!

And here are some fun pictures of Carson and Avery eating some watermelon outside!

I love this "surprise" face he makes, so cute!

Beautiful girl!!

I can't believe that the summer is just about over!

I'm getting so excited about my most favorite season, the Fall, yay!!