Savannah is Gonna Be TEN!!!!

Savannah's 10th birthday is tomorrow. Wow! How time flies. I can't believe that it has been 10 years since she was born. I guess I am getting old because it sure doesn't seem that long ago. We are so proud of Savannah and the sweet, sensitive, caring girl that she is. She has been a delight for these 10 years and I pray that the next 10 years are as much of a delight! Tomorrow, she gets to pick where we eat and what we do for the most part. She is looking forward to that. Later this week, she is taking her best friend to a waterpark for the day and then they are spending the night here. John is taking the other three kids to spend the night at his parents, so it will just be me with the two "Big" girls for the night. You know that they are really growing up when they transition from the HUGE parties at the skating rink or Chuck E. Cheese to the having one friend go do something special!

Here is my sweet Savannah when she was a toddler!!!!

Blayne's BIG Week

Blayne graduated from pre-school this week and we attended the sweet ceremony. He also had "Field Day" at school. He had a great time with his friends. Blayne had done well in pre-school and had enjoyed making friends. John and I have decided to keep him home another year and start him in kindergarten when he is 6. He is very smart and can do may things academically, but we feel that it would be beneficial to him to spend another year at home. So, I am looking forward to another year at home with him and doing a lot of fun things together. We plan to spend time swimming, going to museums and the zoo! Blayne will enjoy another year home with Reagan too! Here are some pictures that highlight Blayne's week. I will not make you sift through another slide show, although I could with the hundreds of pictures that I took!

First Grade Awards

Crazy Busy

Well, things have been very busy around here. Sunday, Reagan was crying and had lots of drainage after church. We thought that she might be getting sick, so it through us off for the entire day! We were SUPPOSED to attend a graduation party and then AWANA awards and a picnic at church. John and I decided that Reagan needed to stay home. So, there wasn't enough time to make it to the graduation party and then come home in time for the family to make it to church by 4:45, so we had to miss the party (sorry Caitlyn!!!) One of the many things that I have learned with four kids is that things OFTEN don't go as I have planned.
Missed HER party!

Yesterday, John spent the entire day tiling our shower. You can go into the post history and see pictures that I took when our shower leaked LAST fall! I am so excited to be getting our shower back! He is supposed to grout it today or tomorrow.

Tonight is Blayne's pre-school graduation. He is really excited to have us come.
Today was Whitney's award assembly, PTA brunch, I had to work at school AND I had to go buy a bunch of stuff for a baby shower that I cannot attend tonight and take it to my church. It started POURING while I was out and I got soaking wet!!!!
Missing the shower for them...


Tomorrow is a lower key day. Just a b-day party in the morning and Savannah's end-of-the-year party in the afternoon!

Piano Recital Pictures

Here are pictures from today's recital. I will try to get John to put video on here tomorrow. They did a good job. The duet was beautiful that Savannah played with Mrs. Deisher.

Happy Birthday to Blayne and Savannah!

We had the FAMILY birthday party today for Blayne and Savannah and then the girls had their piano recital! Here is a slideshow of the party, and the piano recital will be on later...whew!

Playing at the Packwoods'

We went to the Packwoods' house after early release from school today to swim and play. We took our neighbor, Madi. The kids had a great time as it was a wonderful day to swim! Regan took a bath with Libby after the swim, and I think that she liked it more than the pool! Camden got in trouble and the sitter made him sit out and then drop and give her push-ups. Made him stop and think for sure!

ANOTHER pulled tooth!

Whitney was opening the toothpaste with her teeth tonight and "pop" out came another tooth! That is one way to do it! It fell into the sink and she couldn't find it, but I recovered it before it was washed away. The funny thing is that she was JUST saying that she needed to make more money for this particular toy that she wanted. Immediately after it fell out, she was celebrating knowing that she had just made some more money because the tooth fairy would be coming tonight!!!

Babe's Chicken Shack

We went to Babe's last night for dinner. There is one here close to where we live, but we were meeting a co-worker of John's that was staying in far North Dallas, so we met halfway. We had never been to this location. It was really neat. The co-worker is from Canada, so we thought Babe's would be a fun place to treat him to. John has nver met this guy face-to-face. He has only communicated by phone and internet. It is weird to think of working with people that you NEVER see! It was a fun time.

Little Texas is Here!

My cousin had his baby yesterday. Well his WIFE had their baby. He was a big boy and weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces...that is a BIG 1st baby!
I liked this picture of my cousin, Jim, and his baby Texas Dallan.




And to think that this was a year ago....boy A LOT can happen in a year!!!

Some of my Favorite Wedding Pictures from Today

Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Garrett!!!

Big Boy Blayne

It is hard to believe that our boy is FIVE today. Here is a little look at his five years...