Happy 4th Birthday to Colton!

We had so much fun at my sweet Colton's 4th Birthday party! We had a few of his friends over to the house, had a bounce house and lots and lots of fun!

Here are his friends Kolston & Cade...both are on his tee ball team...and all three boys turn 4 within 1 week of one another! Fun!

(love that my child is the one hamming it up for the camera...ugh)

Some of the decorations that kept me busy a few days before...
He started talking about his party in November (when Kennedie was planning hers) and said he wanted a "transfAAArmer" party. He's never seen a cartoon, movie...doesn't even have a toy! I guess it's just a boy thing!
So, here's the cake HE picked...

And he even had a particular transfAAArmer that he wanted at the party...Bumblebee...he learned about it from a new book he got for Valentine's. Granny found this awesome bumblebee balloon!

Our friend Brenda gave him one of her neat candles, just like the one she gave Kennedie for her birthday...have you ever seen anything like it??

The boys wasted ZERO time breaking out the new nerf guns...

Ashlee Morgan...

My wild boy!

Brookelyn & Ashlee

The 2 daddys were having just as much fun as the kids! ha!

Colton has been talking about his own mower for ages...and he finally got one! That's one happy birthday boy!

Sweet, sweet Harrison

The girls started a game of "telephone." Pretty cute...K was telling me that she couldn't understand the whispers, lol!

So much fun! Pure joy!

Happy birthday to our sweet brother bear! We love you!

Ice Day 2K11

Never in all my years growing up in Texas, did we ever have this many days out of school due to weather! On Monday, they talked about how we were in for some bad weather...but seriously?! Tuesday morning I woke up at 4am to hard sleeting on my bedroom windows. I couldn't sleep, so I turned on the new...SCHOOL CANCELLED! We were excited! Well, that one day (of ICE!) turned into Groundhog's Day. The kids and I were cooped up for 4 DAYS! Talk about stir crazy! James was sweet enough to kick the Tahoe into 4 wheel drive and take us for a little outing to WalMart yesterday. We needed eggs, milk and bread...and a new Wii game...priorities, people! The first 3 days were solid ice. But Thursday evening the snow started to fall...and kept falling! We ended up with about 7-8 inches!

Daddy had to work so the kids were stuck with (the not-so-fun) Mommy. lol!

My angel girl.

Sweet boy!

Just a cool picture! It's our rubber mat by the back door.

Ok. My camera was on continuous shoot mode, meaning if I hold the button down, it shoots continuously. That is how I caught this...

Apparently Kennedie was feeling up to a snowball fight.

But failed to inform brother. He didn't see it coming and it hit him smack in the face. Not happy.

Which meant game over for him. So he quickly came back in and cuddled with the heated throw.

And after Kennedie profusely apologized, he of course forgave her.
And just one more...

Mansfield ISD asked us to share our snow day pics of their students...so i played with this one...fun!

Hope you all stayed warm!

Stock Show & Rodeo

We had such a fun day at the Stock Show and Rodeo on Friday! The weather was absolutely gorgeous!! And I was thinking about how nice it was to not have to drag a stroller, diaper bag, find a changing station to change diapers, pack a heap of snacks and sippy cups...we are finally at a new stage of life...fun, but a little sad too.

Here's my almost 4 year old! So stinkin handsome in his cowboy boots!

Looking at all the cute little animals. The favorites were the alpacas and the kids, lol!
My boys had to go up and check out a cool motorcycle...look at that face!

This part of the rodeo is always so fun to watch! A bunch of high school kids chase around a bunch of calfs. They have to tie them up and drag them into the chalk lined square. The top 5 win money and the rest get new boots.

Yum-o!!

These guys are amazing! One of them even had surgery ONE WEEK AGO! Crazy!

The best seat in the house...Granny's lap of course!

Kennedie was really looking forward to the bulls so that she could see the clowns! Talk about crazy!!

We walked through and looked at the bunnies...we saw a few TWENTY FIVE POUND bunnies!!!

And finally, we had some GORGEOUS seventy degree weather today. We spent the afternoon in the backyard playing. We just signed Colton up for spring tee ball, so we let him practice hitting with a helmet on...so cute! Silly boy!

Bday Post, Part II

Since James' birthday fell during the week, we decided to have a little party at our house on Saturday with my parents and sister and brother-in-law.

(The expressions in this post are HILARIOUS!!)

Here's present time...the kids both made cards for Daddy. Colton's usually have stick figures...and dark blue crayon. When I asked him to draw something else, he draw a huge circle over the daddy he had drawn. When I asked him about it, he said it's his thinking bubble! Smarty!

Kennedie got a little embarassed when he read her card, silly girl!

These are the 2 best present opener helpers ever! This cracks me up! Here they are pulling a shoebox out of the gift bag....
...then Colton just walks away from Daddy and opens the shoes on his own...HA!!!

(Again with the faces, lol! It's a tough job to surprise James. I think I got him with the new electric smoker!

Then Colton jumped right in to "read" his new smoker cookbook! What a ham!

High five! Thanks for your present help, bud!

I was trying to get a cute candid pic of Apple & Kyle...but his eyes pretty much disappeared in the shadow of his hat! And silly Apple!

And here's Granny & Poppa's candid...aren't they cute?!
Tomorrow is their 36th wedding anniversary!

We love you guys!

Happy Birthday, James!

Today is my James' birthday! We're doing a small family party this weekend, but we wanted to do a little something with the kids tonight. This was my attempt at a family picture ON OUR NEW COUCHES!!! Don't you just love the way Colton posed himself?!

Kennedie had been eyeing this light bulb box that has been in the kitchen for a few days now. Well, James finally emptied it and gave it to her today. She quickly filled it with little "gifts" just for him. Sweet girl.
They were so excited to help him open gifts!

Wow! A box from Justice?! Lucky Daddy!

Staples for his new staple gun...

He wanted carrot cake, so I attempted a new Paula Deen recipe...um, YUM-O!!!!

Happy Birthday, babe!
We love you!

Christmas Catch-Up

Whoa, bad, bad blogger! I feel like the past few months have been such a whirlwind! We had Kennedie's 7th birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, holiday break...whew! I'm going to spread out the posts a little...

Here's my girl at her school Christmas party. I love watching her around all of her little friends and her awesome teacher.

Her class played a Christmas version of pin the tail on the donkey. She made them spin crazy, was picking them up...made it so much fun!
Here's the BFF's! Jessalyn & Kennedie

Then we ALL spent the night at my mom and dad's on Christmas Eve. It was so neat because all 3 of us have husbands now! (James was on shift, but surprised us by coming home early Christmas morning.) Speaking of Christmas surprises...Colton spiked a super high (super scary) fever the morning of Christmas Eve. Luckily, our pediatrician was open a half day and saw him right away. He ended up testing positive for strept AND the flu!!! Poor baby! And we think Kennedie actually started out with the flu and passed it on to Kennedie...so she was too far in to it to be treated...you have to have the meds 48 hours into it to do any good. Luckily, this was a high fever, achy flu and not the vomiting flu...whew!

So, with the wonders that are Motrin...we had a wonderful Christmas morning!

LeDoux even got a cute squirrel tree toy...Colton helped him check it out.

A remote control truck...COOL!

Apple loves Brett Favre & the Vikings...

One of the biggest hits of the morning were the velcro Nerf guns...complete with protective eye wear and chest pads, lol! Look at him peeking out from behind the tree! Ha!

Kennedie has all of her gear on! Look at Kevin peeking out from behind the couch...ha!

Poppa even got in on the war!

And he got attacked!

Crazy girl!

Merry Christmas to you & yours!