Hot Shots Invitation

Great news!!! Hannah has been hand picked, by the owner of the Tumble Bugs, to join a group called the Hot Shots!! Brent dropped off Hannah this morning and was handed a note as he was leaving. Here is what it said:

Congratulations! I think your child has potential and possesses the right tenacity to be a great gymnast. The Fireflies that have been selected really thrive in the gym. This Hot Shots program will allow them longer hours of training, introduce them to new skills that others at their age are not ready for, and help create a love for the sport that will last a lifetime! These classes will also be geared for advanced gymnastics in preparation to our USAG (USA Gymnastics Association) competitive program; yet will remain the FUN that has always been the roots at TBG!

Brent and I talked about it and we are so impressed with Hannah's gymnastic abilities and are so very proud of her!! When I read the note earlier, my eyes welled up with tears of joy!! She is such a remarkable little girl and Brent and I are so blessed to have her as our child!

This new program would begin at the end of August and is composed of about 8 girls. It would be 2 times a week for an hour and half. We thought we would leave it up to Hannah on whether she would like to join or not. I talked to her about it on the way home for school today. She was very excited! I explained it would be more time in the gym and her response was....."so I can be on the bars and beam more???" I told her yes and of course she said that she wanted to do it. If you haven't seen her in class....she is awesome on the uneven bars and the balance beam!! No FEAR at all!!

I haven't forgotten that we have another child!! I know the last posts have been about Hannah but, Jake has been under the weather this week. I took him to the doc on Monday because he was coughing quite a bit. I think we caught it early enough to were it didn't get too bad. He has been on steroids and breathing treatments this week. Tomorrow we go back to the doc to see if all is good and if it is....back to school he goes!!

Today Brent left to go out to Mississippi and we probably won't get to see him until next Tuesday!! So, it's going to be a long week here without him!! But, thank God for the business! This past Saturday, Brent had a trip landing into Mckinney airport. We took the opportunity to go out and see him and the new plane. We even got to ride back with him to Red Bird!! This was a huge treat for us! Ya know, that was most of our dates back in the day. Meet him at Mckinney airport and fly back to Red Bird just to turn around and drive back to Plano. We loved it though! Those were the days!! Anyway, here are some pictures of the kids on the Citation!

This is one of her favorite poses!

Pilot in training!

Now....new pics of the airplane!

And this is what he gets to fly in when working....sweet ride, huh??

Hannah's new room!!!

That's right...Hannah has a big girl room now! We decided to upgrade her furniture and make her room a little more like Hannah! She got to come with us and decide what furniture she liked and what mattress she wanted. We decided that this would be an early birthday gift for her. The new furniture fits perfectly in her room and really gives her a lot more space to play! I decided to take the time and paint her room and fix it up all nice and girly. I figured that I owed it to her since I didn't paint either of their nurseries! I picked out the paint and then decided that it would be really cool to put up a chair rail!! Man, that was a beating painting with 2 different colors. But, I'm glad that I did it!! It looks really cute. I still have a couple of things that need to go up on the wall but, it's pretty much done...as of today!! I did the caulking on the chair rail and touched up the paint today! I took the pictures tonight so that we could share it with you!! Next time you are at our house, I know Hannah would love to show you her new room!! She loves to show it off! Stop on by anytime!

Happy 4th of July!!!

I hope everyone is having a great 4th so far!! Brent was not able to be with us this year due to technical difficulties on his new airplane!! :( We are so sad but, we are going to make the best of it! Our new friends, Chris and Alicia, have invited us over for dinner and fireworks watching. They live next door to my parents. They are great and have a 2 and half year too!! Aiden is a month younger than Jake!! All 3 of them play very well together!!

Earlier this week I bought the kids a pool at Wal-Mart. They start swim lessons on Monday so, I thought it would be a good idea to get them acquainted with the water! I also bought Hannah some goggle. They are Dora, Dora the explorer goggles! She calls them "gobbles!!!" She's so silly!! I hate to correct her when it's so cute and she's so serious!! Here are a couple of pics of them playing in their pool!

working on trying to blow bubbles

Hannah in her "gobbles"

Just a couple of minutes ago I asked Hannah to get her clothes on and get ready to go over to Aiden's house!! This is what she did.....get ready to laugh a little!!!!!

Of course we can't forget about Jake!!!

Being a stinker as always....we love them!!!

Finally some cool air!!

Since our first summer in this house, we have always struggled with cooling down the living area and kitchen! We have bought small fans to put all over the house in hopes of cooling it down. That worked very little and we still had to turn the AC down just to survive in the heat of the summer. A couple of weeks ago I was looking online at Home Depot and found some really good deals on ceiling fans. We ended up getting one for the kitchen and one for the living room. The one that I originally bought for the living room had some technical difficulties so, Brent returned it and got a really fancy 60 inch fan!! I was quite impressed. It goes great with our decor and is awesome at putting out some great air flow!! We have had the AC on 79 most of today and it happens to be one of the hottest days of the year so far. I think we topped out at 98 degrees! With both fans going, Hannah has told me several times already that she is cold!!! YEA! Maybe we will survive in 09's heat!! Brent and Robert had a fantastic time putting both fans up!! We really appreciate all of Robert's help!! He is always up for helping out on all of that stuff!! I took a couple of pics of the fans to show how great they are! They probably look better in person but, you get the idea!

Yep, that's my husband....always the funny guy!!

Thanks to Lindley and Stephanie, we now have an abundance of little hot wheels cars in our house. Brent broke out the box a couple of days ago to take a trip back in time. It was Hannah's day at school so Jake was here to look on to all of Daddy's treasures. He got out this basket of cars,trucks, and trains and Jake was suddenly in heaven. He has been playing with them for hours upon hours since they made their way out of the box. I took these today while he was playing with them!! So cool that he gets to play with his Daddy's old cars!!

A little behind!

Well, the title speaks for itself. Yes, I haven't posted in a while. The kids had all of last week off and Brent was not around for most of it. It was a little hard to find things to keep the kids busy and entertained for 12 hours out of the day. Thankfully, we were able to spend most of the week at the park and the gym. They were okay with that! This week they both started their new class schedule. Hannah is in pre-K on Monday and Wednesdays from 9-2 p.m. and Jake is in the 3yr old class on Tuesday and Thursdays from 9-2 p.m. It was a little bit of an adjustment switching days and packing lunches for both but, all in all it has been great. It has been so nice to have Jake in class a couple of hours longer than normal. It gives me some great one on one time with Hannah. I have been dropping off and then coming home to walk with each one of them. We then get to visit the park for a little while! Today was Hannah's day at school and also her tumbling lesson. Since Jake was normally in school on Wednesday's it always worked out for me to watch her without chasing him every which way. Today was a different story. He was everywhere and I didn't get to watch her. Thankfully, they have another class that I switched her to that coincides with Jake's day at school. Next week will be a little better, I'm sure.

A couple of weeks ago we attended the graduation ceremony for the pre-k kids. Hannah's class was part of the ceremony even though they weren't graduating. They gave us a peek of what they worked on this year. It was really cute watching her up on stage singing songs. She did so good and looked so grown up. I took a couple of pictures to share!

And for you great grandparents up in Arkansas...I know we don't get to see you as much as we would like but, that doesn't mean that Jake doesn't remember who you are. I took this after he picked it up and said very clearly "Grandma and Pop-Pop!!!" Seriously....too gosh darn cute!!!

Key West Trip

Our Key West trip last week was absolutely the best! We had so much fun and did a lot of relaxing!! This was a much needed trip for both of us. Key West is such a neat and colorful place to go. There is a lot of history, many things to see and some yummy food. So yummy in fact, I gained a couple of pounds! Oh well, it's vacation! We enjoyed going on a dolphin safari. We had to actually search for one but, one finally came around. It was pretty to watch! It came up a couple of time and then finally rode the wave in the front of the boat!! They took us out in the middle of the ocean to go snorkeling. Very cool....so many beautiful fish. Then towards the end of the trip they took us to the sand bar out in the middle of no where. He pulled the boat up onto the sand and let us venture out. This is where we found our shells for Hannah. We even got to see a couple of sting rays!

Although we very much enjoyed our time by ourselves, we still missed our little stinkers! We were glad to get back and play with them! Check out our pictures from the trip!

the view from our room

the pier the jetted out from our hotel....and the beach that we lounged at

The sandbar that we played on

After our dolphin trip, this little manatee visited the marina

Evidently, they like to drink fresh water from the hose!

I know this picture is fuzzy but it was at night and this was the best I could get. This is the 90 mile marker at the southern most part of the island....90 miles to Cuba!

We decided after walking around the island for 3 days.....we would take a break and rent a scooter. Pretty fun!!

Our last excursion...a sunset champagne cruise on a catamaran!! Oh, and we saw another dolphin!

Sister and Brother fun!

Who said you can't have fun playing with your sibling. Even if that means dressing up with them. Sound familiar Robert? Poor Robert just didn't have a chance. With 2 older sisters he was going to play whatever we were playing. Which usually included dressing him up in our clothes and covering his hair in barrettes! Ha,ha,ha...it was fun and he was too little to know the difference. Bringing that into modern day times....check out the picture below!!

This was from earlier today. Jake thinks that it is crazy fun dressing up with Hannah. For now it's cute we might think twice a little later in life if he's still doing this! We have had to make our own fun indoors lately due to all of the rain that we have been getting. We have been having a little bit of behavior issues with Jake at school the past 2 weeks. It seems as though he has been the bully of the class!! Thankfully, today we had a break through. He was back to his normal self!!! YEA!! Since we are nearing Mother's day, I got a little treat from the little man today and it totally is true!!! Check out what he made for me!

That was the highlight of my day! After dinner we had no more rain showers so, it was off to the outside we went! Hannah has been enjoying her umbrella with all of the rain and even if it's not raining....well, she still find it fun to play with!!