Houston, we have a problem...I'm behind again...

Hello everybody! So it has almost been a month since I wrote last. No surprise there. I wanted to get on this thing and catch up before my parents get here! They're on their way from Washington State to come visit us and meet Caleb for the first time! They're also bringing along my Grandma (who is almost 84 years old)! What other Grandma that age would torture herself with such a horrendously long drive - just so she could meet her newest great grandchild?! She is way too sweet! I just want to pinch her!! Anyways - they should be here in a few hours. Did I mention they left 3 days ago? Is that horrible or what? They have to stop every couple hours to get my Grandma out of the car. Ugh. That's way too long a trip just to come visit little ol' me! ;) But hey! I'm worth it! Or so I've heard... ;)

Oh! Before I get started on all the pictures - I have some big news!! NO!!! We're not pregnant again! Are you crazy?! What do you think I am? Some kind of animal?!!! ;) Kristin and I finished up our first year of homeschooling!! Kristin is now officially done with Kindergarten!! Hooray!! Summertime here we come!! We have big plans for the summer - mostly for Kristin (little spoiled girl). Some online reading and math lessons, gymnastics, soccer, piano lessons, swimming, zoo, aquarium, children's museum, gym time (for me), bible study (for me) and our usual summertime destination...SeaWorld. I'm also considering putting Katie in a ballet class (at Kristin and my old ballet school). She really wants to do gymnastics with Kristin, but they only have a mom/tot class for kids under 3 and I can't do it with her now that I have that Caleb kid. ;) I'm hoping we make the best of our free time (now that we don't have any school lessons to do). I'm really hoping I don't end up lazing around everyday and wasting the summer away!! Somebody please!! Hold me accountable!!! :)

Okay - enough of that! On to the pictures!!

Before we left Houston, we made sure to visit the Space Center

Jason and Kristin playing in the Kids Space Place

A shuttle pod from the 60's

Moon-landing scene

More moon-landing scenery...

A moon rock for us to touch

Some history on the moon rock

Jason and the girls testing out their strength on other planets (depending on gravity)

Jason would make one crazy-looking astronaut... :)

Kristin and Katie's favorite place at the Space Center

Me and the boy (who snoozed the day away)

The nose of an old space shuttle

Kristin and Katie next to the space shuttle's cockpit

Me and the kids in front of the cockpit

Katie hitching a ride on Mommy's leg because she's too lazy to walk down the stairs herself. ;)

My little monsters

On our way out after our visit was stopped short from hurricane winds/flooding outside... We ended up missing the one thing I really wanted to see (the tram tour - a peek behind the scenes of NASA at the Johnson Space Center).

A McDonald's a couple blocks away from the Space Center.

I wish we had picked another day to go to the Space Center because not only did we miss out on the tram tour (because of the weather), but we also risked being whisked away in all the flooding on our way back to the apartment!! Jason was pretty good at finding ways around all of the worst roads. We drove by a few cars that were half under water!!! Houston has some crazy arse weather - that's for dang sure!! At least we know how much our Highlander can handle when it comes to deep waters!!

Later that night, Kristin was overly excited to have made Caleb a small crown which she proudly propped up on his little head. We laughed and laughed...he didn't seem to mind... :)

Caleb at 2 months old (April 19th)

Kristin, Katie and Caleb (Katie wasn't as willing to cooperate)

A few days later we stopped by this huge wall waterfall by the Galleria mall after going to Joel Osteen's church. It was great! I don't know why the heck it's there or who put it there, but we liked it!

Our cute little Kristin-poo

Me and the kiddie-poos

Me and our little man (he isn't easily impressed) ;)

Jason and the girls

Me, Katie and Caleb

I want one of these in my backyard! :)

Hello!

Kristin's latest puzzle (she's super motivated to finish puzzles by herself - now that she knows she's younger than the age listed on the box) :)

Caleb doing what he does best - lazing around with a big smile on his face

Caleb was really excited about our stop to Buc-ee's on our way back to San Antonio (they actually had some REALLY good beef jerky)!

It's bath-time!! "Hey! No peeking at my nether region!!" ;)

My three big headed cuties

We got back to San Antonio just in time for Kristin's gymnastics team to receive their leotards. She was SO excited! She has been talking about getting her leotard for over a month!!

Our little cutie smiling as usual

Kristin at gymnastics

Okay - I have to get going!!! This has taken longer than it should have! My parents will be here in about 20 minutes! I need to run around and pick up the house, so it appears as though I'm perfectly perfect and have everything under control!! I'll try to get on here sooner, but it'll most likely be another 2 weeks before you get anything more out of me. My parents will be here for one week to visit and then we're off to Disneyland for Jason's week of leave. Yay!!

Easter Weekend 2009

Are you surprised to be hearing from me so soon? Yeah. You should be. For some reason I have a little time on my hands and I thought I'd surprise you all be doing something very unlike me...not wait a month between posts! I thought I'd try to get all caught up so I don't have to do such a big post a month from now. ;) Even though I'm sure you all enjoy the extra long posts! ;) We're still in Houston. Jason has 9 more days left at the hospital here before we can head back home, so we don't have much longer! As much as I enjoy not having a whole house to clean or any errands to run - there's something nice about being in your own house...especially sleeping in your own bed! This bed is SO uncomfortable! It makes our bed at home seem like a Temperpedic mattress (or as Tony always called it - an astronaut bed)! :) Anyways - let's get caught up! :)

What better way to start off a post than with a picture of ME and my little boy?! ;)

Caleb at 7 weeks. He started cracking cute little smiles at 6 weeks. Of course the first person he smiled at was Jason...but seriously - who wouldn't smile (laugh) at that crazy guy!! ;)

For Easter weekend we drove out to Dallas to visit Aunt Shelley and Uncle Jim. Coming from Houston, it was still just as far away as it normally is (coming from San Antonio), but the time spent with family is always worth the drive! 5 hours of driving + 3 kiddos = aggravation! Even so - being with family is well worth all the tears, screaming and my bulging angry forehead vein that come with kids and a long drive! :)

The next afternoon, we lounged around being lazy watching TV and doing nothing. For some reason we felt compelled to watch the rest of the Lizzy McGuire movie with Hilary Duff. At the end of the movie, Hilary Duff was singing some song and it was at that point that Becky and Rissy decided to break out with a little enthusiastic dancing. Much to their embarrassment, Jason had decided to videotape them...and to make it worse - I'm putting it on my blog for all to see. I guess I'm one of Jason's accomplices now. I've gone over to the dark side. ;) I still love you Beck and Riss! It was highly entertaining! I wish Jason would have started videotaping it sooner! :)

Becky and Rissy's debut dance off

That night, we met Uncle Jim and Aunt Shelley at the kids' high school to watch Becky and Rissy's softball games. Unfortunately, we got there after Becky's game had just ended! I was mostly upset that we missed her singing the national anthem before her game! Argh!! She sings before all of the games, so maybe we'll make it to a game on time next year...

The crazy Capra clan cheering for Rissy and her team

Don't get in Rissy's way! She's intimidating!! Seriously. ;)

Jason showing his support

The excitement is building...

Jason leading the crazy cheering Capras

Jason breaks out with a robot dance. It was highly entertaining...and only a little embarrassing... ;)

Uncle Jim and Aunt Shelley with a couple of my monsters... ;)

The next day, Jason and I - along with Katie, Caleb, Mike (who also came to visit while we were in Dallas), Mark, Becky and Rissy all went out for a little shopping. I really need some new clothes, but I'm still 13 pounds away from my pre-preggo weight (and I'm breast-feeding), so nothing fits right! Argh!!!! I want clothes!!!! That night - Uncle Jim did what he does best - a BBQ! Mmmm...yummy!!! Before bed, we watched Slumdog Millionaire on their big screen in the theater room. It was pretty good and I know everyone loves it, but I don't think I'd want to watch it again! The guy wins millions of dollars on a TV game show, but he only knows all the answers because all of the questions had to do with something horrible that happened in his childhood/adolescence! It was a great movie, but too depressing to watch more than once!

The next night (the night before Easter), the girls' colored the eggs

Rissy at work on her masterpiece

Caleb enjoying the swing that Aunt Shelley bought for him for when we're visiting. He really did enjoy it - prior to this crying episode!

Later on, we watched another movie called The Changeling. Not as good as Slumdog, but almost equally depressing. During the movie, Caleb smiles for his Uncle Michael while they get to know each other. :)

Caleb and his Uncle Mikey

After staying up far too late watching that movie, I finally went to bed at 2am - which is probably why I woke up too late for church the next morning! Eek!! It's okay though - I can still praise God on my own for the awesome gift He gave us that very first Easter...besides we go church the rest of the year, so I didn't miss out on a one-time thing!

Aunt Shelley, Jason, Michael and I hid all of the Easter eggs while Becky and Rissy hid the girls away in a room. I had originally only brought two Easter baskets, some candy, a little bag of plastic eggs filled with candy and a couple little toys, but Aunt Shelley added a huge bag of candy-filled plastic eggs, stuffed animals and toys to boot! Even Jason and I, Caleb, Mike, Mark, Becky, Rissy and Micah got some Easter surprises! Aunt Shelley is such a cutie! :)

The booty...

Uncle Jim and Aunt Shelley with Caleb - the best surrogate grandparents ever!!!

Kristin in search of more eggs

It didn't take long before Katie got the hang of it (especially when she found out there was candy inside the eggs...)

My two little cutie-poos in their Easter dresses that Jason's Mom made them

Inspecting their baskets

Caleb - still too young to appreciate a good present... ;)

Mike with his goodies

Uh-oh...we all know how much Jason's loves temporary tattoos!!! ;)

Rissy and her Twilight shirt

Me, Becky and Rissy admiring our skip-it toys ;)

Becky sniffing all the new baby smell off of Caleb

Oh no!!!! It's a room full of half naked guys applying tattoos on each other! This can't be good! ;)

Mike helping out Mark

Jason is overexcited...

Aunt Shelley comforting Caleb after his Daddy applies an "I heart Mom" tattoo to his tiny little hand!!! He hates it!! ;)

Michael showing off his tats ;)

He's starting to recover from the tragic tattoo incident...

Nooooo!!! He can't suppress the memory!!! ;)

Jason and Mark are apparently very proud of the work they've done ;)

To make matters worse, the guys ask me to take pictures of them with their new tattoos. I think they were going for a tough guy/trailer trash/red neck look. I think they pulled it off! ;)

More embarrassing photos of the red neck squad... ;)

After a fun-filled Easter Day...complete with temporary tattoos, we packed up the car and headed back to Houston. So far, we've been busy with home school lessons, feeding kids, changing diapers (when is Katie going to realize my need for her to use the potty?) and going to the gym after Jason gets off work. We've also enjoyed some of the local restaurants on the weekends and went to the Space Center. I'll write more about all that later though. For now - I must tend to my little Milk Hog (a.k.a. Caleb). Toodles! ;)

Kristin practices spelling some words on the window (with window markers of course...this is fun for Kristin, but it hasn't proved to be a good example for Katie - who now thinks it's okay to write on windows and walls with any writing instrument she finds fit to do the job)! Eek!

Kristin - my big little helper - with Caleb