June 2010

The end of May and June are always sooo busy for us, and this year was no exception. Of course, we celebrated Sissy and JT's birthday in June. (I'm going to do separate posts for their birthdays.) There's end of school and the beginning of summer -- pool time. This year we also had W.O.W., which is our church's VBS, the week right after school let out. I taught in Sissy's 2nd grade class. It was great fun. And, Father's Day.

Random Pic...Nap Time for "the boys"

Love my babies who just turned 8 and 4; they are growing up sooo fast.

Happy Father's Day to Daddy!
We celebrated by taking Daddy out to eat, cookie cake and gifts.
I could not have asked for a better father for my kids. Daddy is an incredible father. He's fun, loving, devoted, responsible, teaches, generous, disciplines, hard worker, strong...
We love you Daddy!


The cookie cake sums it up...


Another random pic...JT played cowboy the week of WOW since the theme at VBS was a ranch.
Yee-Haw!

A few pictures from WOW

I taught with Kelli. So, it was easy for the kids to remember their teachers.

I had a great time with the kids. Teaching kids is definitely not my strong suit, but I enjoyed spending time with the kids and sharing about God.

The boys in our class with one of the teen helpers

The girls in our class with another one of our teen helpers

Sissy with her friend, Kendal, who came to WOW with her

After school let out, it was already HOT so it was time to pull out the wading pool for the backyard and head to the big swimming pool too.

Yippeee for Summer!

I'm not quite as happy about summer as the kids, or the teachers. I love spending time with the kids, but summer brings LOTS of time together, Texas HEAT, swimming suits and the outdoors, complete with bugs. I'm just not an outdoor girl. You will NOT find me camping out. A hotel is my version of "roughing it".

End-of-School Party for Sissy

Here she is with her teacher again...she just LOVED Mrs. B.

2nd Grade Friends

One of Sissy's friends who has been in her class all 3 years

More 2nd Grade Friends

May 2010

The highlight in May was Sissy's baptism. I posted the pictures on my May 5th post. This was very special and I cried as I watched her. An act of obedience and public profession on her faith in Jesus Christ. How can we top that?

We celebrated my birthday and our friends' anniversary at *The Melting Pot. This is the 2nd year to celebrate together...guess this will be another one of our traditions together. The dinner was FABULOUS and the company was great. Love you hubby and friends!

CHOCOLATE fondue...Yummy!

Just one day at home with JT...found him in Sissy's window with Peter Pan.

Zachary, my nephew, turned two! The family got all together to celebrate.

What happened to the baby?


Flip flop weather...summer toes

We took a train ride from the Ft Worth Stockyards on the Grapevine Train. Daddy and I had promised JT we would, and he was not about to let us forget it. Fun for all.

JT was SO HAPPY to ride on a big train. His cousins and grandparents joined us.

Little stagecoach, big girls

Choo-Choo Train!

Waiting on the train with Papa.

April 2010

In April, we went to the race track with Daddy. The pictures didn't turn out, but we had a great time. Some of our friends went with us, which made it lots of fun for the kids. The race track is a great place to take kids...they can be as loud as they want, they don't have to worry much about messing anything up and there's fast cars to watch.

We had Cousin Ariel over for a sleep over and they all looked so cute for church that I grabbed a couple pic's.

These two are two peas in a pod...cousins 2 months apart. They have grown up SO MUCH.

Preschool Art Show...JT with his master pieces.

By now, you know JT likes trains...choo-choo trains that is. Well, did he hit the mother load. A friend from church has a older son that had ALOT of the Geo Tracks trains. Since he had out grown them, he wanted to pass them along to a younger boy who would love them like he did. That would be JT. He was SO excited and thrilled. If we set up all the pieces, it takes up the entire dining room with the table pushed over. Needless to say, it doesn't stay out all the time. I'm sure Sissy, JT and I will be rebuilding the train town this summer.

Easter 2010

Easter is always special...we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I'm beyond words grateful for Jesus' sacrifice so that I can be saved. And, even though this is the reason for Easter, we always end up with pictures of mostly the "bunny" part of Easter.

Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Day at our house -- we had friends join us for the hunt and lunch. Here they are checking out their loot.

Easter Morning...going to the Lord's House

Aren't they adorable?

They dress up nice, except we couldn't get JT to wear his church shoes.

Pretty Girl

Goofy Pic...there's the kids I know

Easter treats after church...CANDY!

Another one from hunt in our backyard

Every Easter, our church has a celebration for the kids. The kids wouldn't miss it. Egg hunt, animals, games etc... Their cousins & friends joined them...too fun.

The big girls posing.

Ready to go get eggs!

How does the youngest one end up with the most eggs?

The big kids...ready to go "hit it"