The evolution of Travis

Hi. Were you wondering if our cruise burnt down again? Well, no, it didn't burn down it was actually lovely, we've just been busy and a little lazy. I have a lot of catching up to do but thought this one was most important!

This was Travis's being born stage... September 30Th 1977 in Angelos City, Philippines

This was his toothless stage. Can you see the BYU brainwashing beginning?

This was his pouting stage... wonder where Avery gets it

This was his speedo stage. Sad I missed it, just look at those gams.

This was his ball-er stage. It was quite a long stage of his life.

This was when he graduated from high school. This post is not about me, but I do have to add that I was graduating from the 6Th grade at that time.

This was his missionary stage. He went to Argentina. Those kids really loved him. Also, the people thought he was Jim Carey

This was his bachelor stage at BYU. Again, this was quite a long stage of his life. Rumor has it that Travis was a bit of a cuddle slut.

Along with his bachelor stage, another rumor has it that he went through a "not wearing a shirt" stage, kind of sad I missed that one too.

Lots of people wondered if this would ever happen to Travis, but it did. This was his falling in love stage, hopefully he is still in this stage!

Unfortunately the honeymoon stage had to end early, because 5 months later we packed our bags and moved to Kansas City to start medical school.

This was his white coat ceremony (side note: At one point, I accidentally dyed his coat pink... don't worry, I fixed it)

This was his first day of medical school

This was the first day of second year

First day of third year

At this point a lot of stages are going on. Of course his "in love stage" has been on fire the whole time :) along with his medical school stage. Now we introduce the fatherhood stage in Trav's life.I think he likes this stage most of all.

This is his first day of 4Th year, he looks really excited!

Now were getting closer to his present stage, but before that here is his graduating from medical school stage. It was a pretty neat day!

Now is his present stage. He is in his husband, father and now doctor stage. For some reason I get embarrassed to say he is a doctor, because this is who we are talking about.

He started his residency 2 weeks ago. It still feels weird that we are starting this phase. We have a long way to go, and residency is going to be really tough, but we are excited!

Oh and Travis has his own business card...

I may have to make an appointment some days so that I can actually see him!!!

I don't want to get too cocky, because he is still pretty dangerous and could kill some people, but Travis, good job on everything. We have had some crazy times in medical school. Thanks for all of your hard work and for dedicating so much time into learning how to be the best doctor. I know you will be amazing and you will love what you are doing in life! Thanks for finding a good living to support your family... I know one day we will see it!

That would have normally been a good ending to a post, but since I didn't really do a post on his actual graduation, I wanted to just throw in some more pictures of it. 

Enjoy!!!

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Brandi and Me

Orson and Jim

A lot of his buddies

The wives wanted a little bit of glory too

So did she

Also big thanks for our parents. They were so supportive!

I hope this one's a little different...

This was what happened on our last cruise

It was our honeymoon. If you are thinking of this witty comment, "it must have been a pretty hot honeymoon" well stop! Its been done before.

We had 4 great days of cruise, but some idiot with a cigarette wasn't being responsible, and as you can see, burnt half the ship.

They ended the cruise that day, and flew us home from Jamaica. Don't worry, we got our money back!

Anyways, the point of this post is to say that we are trying this cruise thing out again. Wish us luck, and if the ship is going to burn down, at least let us do our freaking awesome excursion in Dominica... PLEASE!!!

DId you know?

That Avery loves bubbles?

Well she does... also did you know that Grandma Tam and Grandpa Jones are here?

Well they are... more on that later!

Sorry ladies!

He's taken

Ahhh yeah!

Hope everyone had a great cinco de mustache!

Wong Oh Wong!

April was such a fun and busy month. I couldn't decide what to post about, so I just posted about everything. Sorry if you have a full schedule, but your just gonna have to take the day off and catch up on the Charles family. I think I posted about 7 or 8, so be sure to scan.

Triathlete

Travis and I decided to switch roles. He did the Ft. Leavenworth triathlon and I was the supporter! Why? Well, I guess it was so that he could have the attention and glory for once. It was tough for me. It would be like if he were to sit on the sideline of a Halo tournament and support me! It was actually pretty fun to be on the sidelines. And I actually think I got more of a work out chasing Avery, than some of the pro racers.

A bunch of people in our neighborhood did this race, so it was fun to be their support as well. I was the only one there for all of them, so I was the babysitter, photographer, keeper of keys,clothing, cameras and I was the cheerleader.

Travis did so good! It was neat to see him perform, this guy isn't typically a worker-outer, so I loved seeing this side of him. Keep it up babe!

Before the race

After the race

Here are the little cheerleaders

Amy never misses a race, for not training at all, she did amazing!

I wonder if this was Michelle's face during labor. She is always smiling!

Kim just finishing the race

The Pope's getting ready to start the bike part

The group

Travis, your stock just went up in my book! And you are totally going to bring head bands back.

We heart cows

Last time we went on the Shatto Milk Farm tour, I was about 8 1/2 months pregnant with Avery. Since cows are her favorite, we thought it was time to take her. She was in Heaven because she was able to pet baby cows. We were in Heaven because we got to sample the milk. We tried chocolate, root beer, orange, strawberry and banana milk. Is it weird that my kid hates chocolate milk? She loved the other kinds though, and we just had to buy some banana and root beer milk. Delish!

Leroy, you've done it again. We are fans!

PS Leroy is the owner.

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Royals game

Travis had a whole week off (thanks Jim) so we took advantage and hit up a midday baseball game. Avery lasted a whole 10 seconds before she wanted to start exploring Kaufman stadium. Good thing we went on student day and our tickets were cheap, because we hardly even sat in them. Another good thing was that Kaufman stadium has cool things to entertain kids like all the fountains, a fountain park and also a play ground. Some not so good things about it was sitting by a bunch of college tards. They were idiot kids, with horrible mouths! Another not so good thing was that the Royals lost. They really need to get it together!

You can see the tards in the back of the picture (and thanks Babe, for cutting half my head off!)

The fountains

The monkey

Even though they lost, we had good family time!

A couple of first's

It was Jack and Jen's birthday, so what better way to party then at Chuck E. Cheese's?

Time flies when you are having fun, and after about three hours, Trav looked at his watch and remembered that it was way past Avery's bedtime. Chuck, I'm sure we will be visiting often!

Also, Avery officially qualifies to go to nursery (in our church you have to be 18 months). I can actually go to Sunday school and listen, although I think my attention span has been damaged because after about ten minutes my mind wanders.

Here she is on her first day

Yes, she is wearing a formal dress. 

She did great! Avery, stop growing so dang fast!

Tea Party

Since the last one was so much fun, we decided that we were going to go all out.

Kim supplied the house,tea and tea cups and everyone else supplied the amazing Great Britain food

and the local thrift store supplied these stellar outfits

It was a lovely night!