Baylor Football Game, Clifton Football Game, & State Fair... Oh What Fun!!!!

A couple of weeks ago we took the kids to first home Baylor game!!! Jackson our future football player!!!

Cameron our future cheerleader!!! Our little girl has been going to tumbling class for almost a year and she can now do a back handspring with only a touch of a couple of fingers on her back!! I will try to get it on video this week.

Our cheerleader and football player!!! Man they sure look alike!!!

This past Friday the little leapers got to cheer before the Clifton football game!!!

Me and my little cheerleader!!!

Waiting on the football players to run out!!!

She loves to put on her glitter makeup and have her hair curled!!!

They went out on the field and did a two cheers!!! She did her kart wheel in between the cheers.

Cameron doing her cheer!!!

Waiting for her name to be announced.

What a ham!!!! Cameron three big loves: cheering, tumbling, and dressing up!!!

Future Clifton football player and cheerleader.

This past SAturday we took the kids to the State Fair of Texas!!! Jackson loved all the rides!!!

Cameron rode every ride that she could!!!

Its a bird, its a plane, no its Cameron on the swings.

Cameron was so excited that she could drive the kiddy bumper cars by herself!!!

Cameron with her tickets!!!

There was not too many rides that Jackson could ride but he enjoyed watching his sister ride the rides!!

We had a great time at the fair. If you ever go you have to try the fried cookie dough, the fried peanut butter & jelly sandwich, and fried oreos... all which are well worth the calories!!!!

CAMERON'S 3RD BITHDAY PARTY!!!

As most of you know, Cameron loves to tumble so we had her 3rd birthday party at Texas Dynasty in Waco. The birthday girl with her Tinkerbell cake!!! The bakery lady at Brookshire's in Meridian does an awesome job!!!!

The 3 year old birthday girl!!!

Peaking into the gym. She can not wait to get out there!!

Jackson and Cameron playing with the balloons while we decorate!!!

So cute!!!

Grandad with Maddie and Cameron. (Maddie will be one in about 3 weeks!)

Jackson swinging on the rings!!! Hang on monkey!

Maddie jumping on the trampoline!!!

Jackson playing in the ball pit!!!

Cameron jumping on the trampoline! You should see her toe touch on the trampoline!! Pretty good for a 3 year old.

OOOOHHH!! More balls. Jackson always get excited when he finds a ball to play with!!!!

Jason and Judd eating ice cream!!!!

All the kids waiting on the cake!!!

Where's my cake?!!!

The girls all had Tinkerbell headbands so we had to get the boys pirate hats!!!

Cameron blowing out her candles!!!

Cameron and Bailey

Cameron opening up her presents!!!

Cameron is having a blast with all of her new toys!

A Hanna Montana play dress! Say What?!

Thank you everyone who came to Cameron's 3rd Birthday party. She had a blast and loves all of her new toys. Now only if she could find a way to keep them from her little brother!!!!

3 year old and 15 month check ups

Today we had Cameron's 3 year old and Jackson's 15 month checks up. Cameron weighed in at 36 1/4 pounds and was 39 inches tall. Jackson weighed in at 25.2 pounds and was 31 1/2 inches tall. Cameron got one shot and Jackson got 5!!!!! Other than that they are healthy as can be!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!

Today Cameron turns 3. It seems like yesterday she was born. She has become a very bright, strong, independent, loving, caring, and very hard headed little girl!!! She challenges us and herself everyday! She loves to tumble, cheer, play on swing set, and loves spend time with her cousins and aunt Mindy. She loves to dance, watch Mickey Mouse Club House, Hanna Montana, and Zack and Cody. She cannot wait to go to school next year and to start Tball this spring!!! She is such a blessing and a joy to spend time with. God has blessed us with a precious little girl. Happy Birthday pumpkin. We love you so much!!! Due to labor day weekend and daddy had to work her party will be next weekend so I will post pictures as soon as I can!!

Our trip to NYC and Cooperstown Dreams Park

We were so lucky this past June when the Clifton 12U select baseball team asked Jose to travel with the team to Cooperstown, NY when they play in the August 15th-21st tournament at Cooperstown Dreams Park!!! There was no way that I was going to let Jose go to NY without me so we all packed our bags, booked plane tickets and headed to NY. We decided to go ahead and stay in NYC for a couple of days as well. If we were going to fly into LaGuardia Airport why not!!! We had a awesome time and can't wait until our next trip to NY!!!

Cameron and Jackson watching the airplanes take off and land!!!

Cameron was so excited to ride on the plane. As soon as we took off and was in the air, she fell fast asleep for two hours! (our trip took 3 1/2 hours)

Jackson fell asleep right before we boarded our plane and sleep for the first two hours of the trip! Cameron and Jackson did so well on the plane ride!!!

Our hotel was only 2 blocks from Time Square!!! As soon as our driver dropped us off at the hotel we checked in, dropped our bags off in our room and took off sight seeing. This was down town Time Square on a Wednesday night!

I have always seen pictures of Time Square so when I actually saw it in person I felt like a kid in a candy store!!!

Cameron and Jackson had a great time watching all the people walking by and the lights!!!

The next day we got up and went to the NBC studios to see the taping of the Today Show! We got lucky and Meredith was out talking to the crowd and she spotted Jackson and Cameron started talking to them!!! Gotta use the kids when we can!!!

We also went to the Empire State Building!

The view from top of the Empire State Building. The big rectangle of green you see if Central Park.

Also a view from the top of the Empire State Building over looking the Hudson River, the Financial District, and the Statue of Liberty.

View of the Financial District from top of the Empire State Building. We did not have time to go down see the Financial District or the Statue of Liberty.

Picture of the four of us on top of the Empire State Building.

View of the Hudson River and New Jersey.

We went up on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. This is what was left of it when we looked up!

More down town Time Square!!! Got to love the Taxis!

I looked up and I saw two horses with police man on them in Time Square!!!

Inside of Toys R Us on Time Square they had a Ferris Wheel!!!! The Toys R Us store was 3 floors!!! A kids dream. And of course both of the kids were asleep when we went in!!!

In Lego land they had a Statue of Liberty made out of Legos!!! Too Cool!

We had to go to the M&M World to see the wall of any color of M&M that you could ever want! It was so dreamy!!! We love M&Ms in our house!!!!

The famous Broadway sign!!!

We went on a carriage ride through Central Park!!!

The entrance of Central Park!

Trump International Hotel and Tower!!!

We see Tavern on The Green in Central Park!!

The four of us in Central Park.

Jackson chasing a pigeon in Central Park.

Cameron playing on the playground in Central Park.

Riding the Hobby Horses in Central Park.

Once Cameron woke up we told her about the Toys R Us store and she had to go back to see it for herself.

And of course we had to ride the Ferris Wheel!!! Cameron had a blast!!

We visited the famous Trump Towers!!! So cool because I used to watch The Apprentice back in the day!!

Friday morning, Flo Rida performed on the Today Show Summer Concert Series!!!

Friday at noon we picked up our rental car and head to Cooperstown for week. On our way out of the the city we got to see the old Yankee Stadium! The new stadium was right beside the old one but my camera shooting was too slow to get!!!

Cameron and Jackson at Cooperstown Dreams Park on Saturday!

The Clifton Cubs select baseball team in opening ceremony.

Jose dressed in his umping attire. For those who do not know Jose has been umping the little league games in Clifton for the past two years!!! He really enjoys be around the kids!!!

Saturday night after the opening ceremoney, they had a skills competition. Jose got to help with the King of Swat! (aka Homerun derby) The winner of King of Swat hit 8 out of 10 homeruns!!!

Our future Cooperstown Dreams Park players. (Believe it or not there was a girl who played on a California team. She started at second base and hit 6 home runs thoughout out the tournament. Her team ended up winning the tournament. And according to some of the 12 year old boys she was pretty hot!!!!) Cameron and Jackson ready for a long day of baseball!!!

After a long day of umping 4 games Jose was pretty tired and fell asleep with both kids jumping all over him!!!

I was left to play with the kids until like 11 o'clock while Jose feel asleep at 9pm. (You can see him sleeping in the back ground)

Finally they fell asleep snuggling up to each other!! So cute!!!

Another day of Jose umping. He had 3 games on Sunday, 2 games on Monday and Tuesday, 3 games on Wednesday, and 1 game on Thursday!

Jose in action!!

It ended up being 91 degrees while we were up the usually it is in the mid 80s. I bought the kids little squirt bottles to keep themselves cool and to entertain them. We were so lucky the my dad was able to go with us to help me out with the kids while Jose had to ump!!!

In between games we had time to got the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The four of us with the plaques of first inductees in the Hall of Fame.

Jose umping so more games!!!

He only had a couple of fans yell at him during the tournament.

Cameron and Jackson with some of the Clifton select team.

After the boys would finish their games they would come over to Cameron and Jackson and play with them!!!

Cameron Danielle Ritz

Cameron and Jackson with the Clifton Cubs Select Baseball Team!!

Jackson with Jordan Larance.

Jackson and Cameron with Hunter Harris.

By the end of the week Cameron told me that Hunter was her new boyfriend.

Cameron, Jose, Nicole, and Jackson

The Clifton team getting their Hall of Fame Ring and being inducted into the American Youth Little League Hall of Fame!!!

Jose (the second one) getting his ring and being inducted into the American Youth Little League Hall of Fame.

On the way back into the city I got a picture of the New Yankee Stadium!! We wish we would of had time to go to a Yankee game while we were in town!

A picture of the city going back to the airport.

Cameron on the plane ride home. She is looking a little rough!!

Jackson loved looking out the window while on the plane. So our 10 day trip went really well and we enjoyed ourselves very much except for the plane ride home. We arrived at the airport and saw that the other flights to DFW was delayed except for ours which was good. We boarded our plane and ended up sitting on the runway for 4 1/s house with 54 planes in front of us and 20+ planes behind us due to the storms that were in Dallas that morning and the hurricane that was coming up the coast in NY!!! Once we did take off we had to stop in Nashville, TN to fill the plane up because we wasted the gas sitting on the runway for so long!!! We ended up land at DFW at 9:30 pmwhen we should of landed at 5:26 pm! The kids did a great job being on the plane so long. T hey took a 3 hour nap while we sit on the runway. Other than that we had a great time in NYC and Cooperstown and can't wait until our next trip up there!!!