Birthday Weekend!

As always, we tend to extend our birthdays from one day to days!!! It's fun like that! Brent's birthday was on Friday and we were able to celebrate with a dinner without kids! One of Hannah's friends from school (that I take home from school) invited her and Jake over for a couple of hours of play time. Brent decided he wanted La Hacienda Ranchhouse for his birthday dinner. We ordered some yummy decked out queso (queso with guacomole, sour cream and beef). We enjoyed it for a couple of minutes and then our fajitas arrived! By far, the best fajitas in the world! We finished our dinner in 30 minutes! We looked at each other and said...what do we do now?? Thankfully, we found an errand to run and then went to pick up the kids. Saturday rolls around and it's time for Brent's homemade birthday dinner. He decided this year that he would like to smoke a prime rib for dinner! We had my parents,brother,sister and aunt and uncle come over to join us! It was outstanding!!! If any of you have shopped for Brent, you know it is the hardest thing in the world to find something that he needs or wants! This year, I hit the jackpot!! I had been thinking for a couple of months that I wanted to get him a Wii!! Thankfully, several weeks ago he got to play one while he was out on a trip! He came home talking about it for days!! I was so excited because I knew for sure that he would love it! So, last week while he was gone Hannah and I went to get it. We have had so much fun playing with it!! I got him the sports Wii for us sport fanatics! We have tried out every game and have really enjoyed it! Brent and I are both sore from playing it for hours upon hours! Here are just a couple of pics of Hannah and Brent playing golf tonight! She really had fun playing with it too!

Enjoying the outdoors!

This past weekend was both wet and beautiful!! We had rain pretty much all Friday and most of the day on Saturday. However, Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day. Brent got to spend most of the afternoon playing some golf and the kids and I played outside for an hour. The kids have really started to enjoy playing out in the front yard and, of course, our steep driveway! This makes a great little hill for them to ride their bikes down or the tractor! It always fun!! I have a video of Jake riding his tractor down the street. It's quite hilarious to watch. He has way outgrown it but, still insists playing with it.

Today Hannah and I went on our weekly shopping trip to get groceries. While we were there I found an Easton glove and ball set!!! We have talked about putting Hannah in T-ball with her friends this fall. I wanted to see if she would find it fun and see if it would even be worth it. Turns out, she really likes it. We threw around some grounders together this afternoon. She's pretty good. Although, there was the occasional distraction...butterflies and birds!! She would stop and say "look mommy...aren't they pretty??" Oh well, so maybe she is the kid in the outfield searching for caterpillars. That's okay. I caught a couple of pics of her anticipating the ball!! Pretty darn cute!

Also, I took some pictures of all of my beautiful landscaping the back yard. It really has come full force this year. So beautiful!

More Pictures!!!

We have more pictures to share!! Enjoy!!

A little teaser!

Well, this is a lot sooner than I thought. I have just a couple of teaser photos from yesterday. My friend edited a couple last night and sent them our way!! Check out our beautiful kids!!

Sunshine fun!

Happy Friday to everyone!!! Brent stayed home today and enjoyed some one on one time with Jake! They mowed the yard and cleaned up the garage! Such a guy thing to do. Hannah and I, on the other hand, went shopping. A great thing to do on Good Friday. She and Jake both, have gone 5 months in the same tennis shoes. This is actually a long time for both kiddos. Today I noticed that Hannah's shoes were a bit on the small side. When I asked her "why didn't you tell me that these were hurting you?"....her response..."I was trying to be nice!" How sweet is that?? We hit the Stride Rite outlet and got both her and Jake new shoes. They were having a buy one get one half off sale. Can't beat that. We came home and they enjoyed some time outside and then went off to nap time. After the kids got up we had our pictures done! I have a friend that is trying to jump start her photography business. She is great! Hopefully, we got some good shots. Jake is not so much into sitting still right now. I will post some when she gets done editing. But, for now, here are some pics from enjoying the sun.

It's been a while!

I'm so sorry for the long delay. Things have been very busy for us this year. We have have had our share of illnesses and have stayed pretty busy with the kids school. Thankfully, after a visit to the ER in February, the doctor has finally come to the conclusion that Hannah's symptoms are brought on by seasonal allergies. He has put her on Singulair and a daily inhalation treatment to keep her bronchial airways from being inflamed. So far, it has done the trick. With this crazy Texas weather that we have, she just doesn't get a break. Yesterday it was 50 degrees and today it was up to 82 degrees. But, she hasn't had any problems yet. YEA!!! I think that I have bitten all of my nails off. I'm not normally a nail bitter but, when your child has this and they cough you get nervous that they are going to start struggling to breath!! So far, so good!

On another note, Jake has been in his big boy bed for over a month now. He loves it. The deal was....he broke the crib and had to be moved over. He didn't really break it, the bottom fell out from underneath him while he was trying to take a nap. Since, Daddy wasn't home...Mommy's muscles couldn't fix it. I think he was done with it after that! Brent got home and they took down the crib together. Such a big boy now!!

I have a few pictures to share. I promise to be better about updating my blog from now on!!

Jake's new room!

Jake got a shaving kit from his Aunt Kerri and Uncle Ricky for Christmas. He loves shaving with his daddy! He may kill me later for the picture above but, I couldn't resist. Isn't it cute??