The Sellers Boys

Sunday, September 25, 2016

June Vacations Part I - The Drives and Utah

June was a fast paced month. Right after school and piano and baseball and scouts ended, we packed up and headed for the mountains. We made our way through Colorado where the boys saw snow for the first time in a long time, then went to visit cousins and Aunts and Uncles in Utah. Here are the first photos from that part of June:

Stopped to check out sort of a random National Monument in Aztec, New Mexico. We'd never heard of it, but stopped for breakfasts at a McDonalds right by it, so thought we'd check it out.

Walked around the Aztec ruins, crawled through the tunnels, and learned a little about how life was way back when.

I think this was on the drive back, but the boys never miss a chance to check out dinosaur related things.

High up in the Colorado mountain pass, they discovered some white frozen substance called snow. It's not something you see often in Texas, so they were excited about it.

On the way back I made everyone stop at this random volcano I saw from the highway. We drove up to the top and then hiked around the crater. It was hot, it was bug infested, but overall kind of cool.

Hung out with the Utah Sellers and Cousin Wyatt from Missouri, here climbing to the waterfall.

Even Grandma Cindy came along!

Even got to spend some time with Uncle Andy and Aunt Theresa!

Still behind... now May

May brought the end of the school year and the entrance to Summer. The boys goofed around as they always do, we took a trip with the scouts to NASA in Houston, and the piano semester ended.

Just brotherly things...

Paul and his friends riding the tram around NASA's headquarters in Houston. Thankfully, there were no problems to call home about.

Myself and Adam Michael checking out the Saturn V rocket on display. NASA ran out of funding for the moon missions after they built this one, so it just sits in a warehouse for tourists to check out. It's big, as in really big.

Nolan made a friend he called Wormy. I'm fairly certain Wormy was eaten at some point.

Adam, aka Captain America, took his mother to the Super Hero Dance at the community center.

Paul... uh, was Paul.

And they all got dressed up for Paul's end of semester piano recital!

Just a little behind... from April

To say I'm behind on my blog updates is a bit of an understatement. I'm not sure what happened, but I guess everything got busy in May and then summer hit us with vacations, work, and everything else. Either way, we never stopped taking photos. I'm pretty sure Becky took close to 14,000 over the course of the summer (only a slight exaggeration). So I'm going to do my best to post some of the best, but it's pretty incredible how fast time flies by. Here are photos from way back in April... the end of Cub Scouts last year, Adam's birthday, Windfest, and visitors from up north.

That's Dexter and Paul. Both of whom have gotten bigger, but only one annoys Becky by constantly digging up plants in the back yard. We're trying to get Paul to knock that off.

The big kid almost at the end of his Kindergarten school year, here at the Cub Scouts annual end of year event, Blue and Gold.

Paul moved up and passed on his blue shirt for the brown shirt of the Weebelos. Only two years of Cub Scouts left.

Adam turned the big 6 years old and got some cake on his face to prove it.

Then Brookie B came down for a visit for the second year in a row! Hopefully they make it a tradition.

The Windfest Parade, an annual event here in Portland.

And then there's Nolan, as always.

If you're coming to South Texas of course you've got to make it to the gulf and here at Port Aransas. The weather in April was fantastic for such things.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Easter Eggs and Fancy Clothes

It's become our tradition to go to the Fulton Mansion in Rockport for the annual Easter egg hunt, and the boys always have a fun time fighting for those candy filled eggs. It's also become a tradition for them to get dressed in their Easter best for one day of proper photo taking. I'm way late on posting these from back in March, but here's some of the fun they had: