A Visit to Dr Pepper, Texas!

Today we visited Dr Pepper, Texas which on ever other week of the year is known as Dublin, Texas.  We went for the 120th Birthday Celebration of Dublin Dr Pepper.  We toured the bottling plant, the Dr Pepper museum and some of the other happenings of the day.  Joey and I have talked before about going for the tour and museum as something fun to do that is close to us, but never have until today. It definitely was a popular place to be!  Paw-paw, Nana, and Granny are here with us this weekend, so we had a fun outing!

Keaton enjoyed his water while we enjoyed our Dr Pepper!

PS - Just in case you're wondering if I was being lazy and not putting a period after "Dr", you might want to look closely at a can or bottle of Dr Pepper.  After the 60s, the official logo no longer included a period after the "Dr". Just a little piece of trivia that I learned today! :)

Big, bright eyes!

This morning Keaton had a very long nap, and when I went in to get him up from his nap he had his big, bright eyes peeking up over the crib.  It was so cute that I ran back into the living room to grab the camera.  Luck for me, Keaton is very cooperative and continued to play peek-a-book with me and posed, so I got lost of cute pictures!

8 Months

We were so busy having so much fun this weekend that we didn't take Keaton's 8 month pictures on Saturday.  So last night we we out in the backyard for the monthly photo shoot.

Take 1

 Take 2

One month



8 months

At 8 months, Keaton...

• eats baby food twice a day (morning and late afternoon).
• eats anything and everything you give him.
• has a 6 ounce bottle after baby food and an 8 ounce bottle the other two bottles.
• eats Puffs and Cheerios and some other small finger foods.
• recognizes the Puffs bottle and gets really excited.
• rolls all over the floor to get to the toy he wants.
• jabbers all the time.  His jabbering is starting to include other consonants.
• claps his hands, claps one hand on his leg or his foot.
• loves to be outside.

Family Reunion

Sunday we went to Winters to Granny's family reunion.  Everyone posed for family pictures.

Cody, Keaton, Jaden and Jaxon

Granny, Donna, and Bill



Jason, Jami, Jaden and Jaxon

For the record, even though it was calculated that out of the three Roberts siblings, Tami has missed the most reunions, she was there this year. We just didn't get any pictures of her there, but I am sure that she will be in the official reunion photo album. :)

Granny was happy to show off her newest great-grandson!



Weekend Fun!

This weekend Jason, Jami, Jaden and Jaxon came to visit.  I have a few pictures of the fun time we had.  I know Jami has some too, so I will be watching for her blog to steal some pictures or to link to.

On Saturday morning Jaxon and Jaden helped me make Monkey Bread.  They cut up all the biscuits and covered them with cinnamon and sugar.

 Saturday afternoon Jaden, Joey, Jaxon, and Jami played games.  Keaton helped Jaden out for a little while.

 Sunday morning the boys all got up and watched a few cartoons together before we got ready to leave for Winters to go to the family reunion.

We all had a fun time hanging around the house playing together!

Holden Uganda

Today Keaton is sporting his Holden Uganda onesie.  This is a great organization founded by Snyder residence in honor of their son Holden who as his mother states it best, "was in his eternal home before he was born".  When I read Holden's story it brings tears i my eyes to think of my baby who I only carried for a few weeks and was not able to hold and hear cry, and for this family and mother who carried her little boy for 9 months and was not able to hear his cries or bring him home from the hospital.  For more about Holden Uganda and Holden's story, you can click here to go to the Website.

The best picture of the shirt.

Love the profile picture.

Notice the drool about to trip of his chin.  This is a common occurrence these days!

And his new trick - clapping!

Memorial Day

When we were shopping last weekend, I over heard some Lowe's employees discussing how Memorial Day has joined all the other holidays in becoming a commercialized holiday with all the big sales that are held over the weekend.  While this is true, I think as with everything else it is all in how you look at it.  Do you focus on the day off and the big sales or do you focus on the day off to enjoy family and friends and to celebrate the freedoms that we have to enjoy family and friends because of those who served.  It can be said that we enjoyed our family and the freedoms we have to freely gather together.  We are thankful for those that served and do serve our country.  Joey wrote a tribute to his grandfather and his service to his family and his country.  Both of our grandfathers loved their families dearly and served their country.  While reading his post, I realized that both of our grandfathers passed away the same week, in different years.  I never met his Grandad, and he never met Gurr. I know we both wished we could have, and I know they are both watching over us from heaven above. 

Early this week, I posted how we spent the first part of the Memorial day weekend.  We continued spending time with family on Monday when Bill, Donna, Granny, Jeff, Tami and Cody came to spend the day with us.  Everyone had a great time being entertained by Keaton; he is quite entertaining these days.  We also enjoyed a wonderful meal together and visiting with each other.

Cody and Keaton having a good time!

All smiles!

Keaton watching Cody play Wii.  I love how Cody has a Will remote in each hand, and Keaton has a ball in each hand.  As you can see it was also nap time for those on the couch.