I Love Halloween

I put this together today and it was so fun looking back at all of the girls costumes. We love Halloween!! I can't wait till this year, they are going to be Southern Belle's... so, we will see how it goes!!

These Are The Days

I am blessed

I am thankful for one simple day, this past Saturday. It started with a 5K in the morning and skating at night. One activity for adults and one for kids, right?

Not us.

The thing I love the absolutle most about my family -- we do life together. Elle and Emme ran the 5K with us and we turned around and roller skated with them at a birthday party.

I know to hold on to these precious days because I don't know how long it will last.

I do think that joe and I have always made this our priority....I think about when joe and I started dating, we were always together no matter if it was a night out with the guys or a night out with my friends.

This way of life has naturally made its way into our family now, and I just feel so lucky.

I am so blessed that God planned joe for me because of this moment we are in right now.

Sure, he was a great boyfriend, great husband pre kids, but

This is the day

This is the time that the lord truly knew that I would need joe.

Joe is the reason we do so many things as a family.

Joe is one of the good ones -- and I know that I take that for granted everyday.

Yes, I take him for granted -- its just one of my many battles that I have with myself on a daily basis.

These are the days that I want to slow down. These are the days that I will always treasure.

If I am one of those people you pray for, please pray for this: that I take advantage of every moment that presents itself to us and enjoy it as a family.

Here's to a great April and May!

Emme's school picture. It was another great year at CCDC. We repeated the 3's class with Ms Allena and made many new girl friends. Emme really blossomed this year and loved to go to school -- especially to see Addison Fox and Holden

We spent Mother's Day at the Horse races, it was so fun!

Weekends are spent together -- here at Fat Daddy's, we had a great time!

We love celebrating Easter. This year, we went to Granbury

Here is the 5K, I was so proud of them. They ran the first mile in 10 minutes!

Highlight of the year - Powder Puff Football Game. I am on the Cheer board for Coppell Youth Cheerleading. Our annual fundraiser is a game of football! Here's our team. It was a great three weeks of training and competition. I was the starting safety and back up quarter back!

Elle and Emme got to stunt with the big Cheerleaders!

Girls wishing me luck on my jersey

Coach John put me in as QB in the 3rd quarter. we had a great drive, but didn't score!

March Madness

This year's BRAT's trip (Burnfield, Ratliff and Tinsley) family trip was in Conroe. We rented a house on the lake, just down the street from my parents house. Elizabeth and Emme were really into fishing this year and their Uncle Brad loves it! Elizabeth caught two fish, here is one, really big one. She was so happy! This was also the week my mom had her mastectomy. She was just a champ! I stayed with her the first two nights back from the hospital. We stayed up late because we couldn't fall asleep and we had some funny talks about when I was younger. She is hanging in there!!

Helping our marriage stay strong are date nights once a month. We swap with the Smouse's every month so each of us can go out. We had Hadley, Harleigh and Hunter over for movie night -- Star Wars! I can't believe they are old enough to all sit on the couch and Hareligh almost likes me! It's great.... the Smouse kids wait until they are 2 to really like me and understand that i am "fun mom!"

Elizabeth had her first slumber party in March. These girls were GREAT! They all had a great time and were so nice to each other!

L O V E this! These are Elizabeth's 3 wishes. Oh to be 6!

Wish 1: My Family Getting Together

Wish 2: To have the cutest clothes in school

Wish 3: To be sweet to my family

Rodeo day at CCDC, so much fun... always!

Green Day at school...OK, I LOVE when they have dress up days at school,it makes it so fun!

And on a final note - my March Madness bracket was AWFUL this year. I had San Diego State winning it all... didn't even come close. And the Lady Bears, oh, so sad!

Rock Star Photo Shoot

We had such a great time this past weekend going down to Deep Ellum for a Rock Star Photo Shoot. My friend, Scott Birdsong, took these for us. Elle is having a Rock Star Birthday party and so I thought it would be fun for her to have some rocker photos done. Emme was onboard too and the shoot went great!

We went to a family brunch after at Dream Cafe, it was a great day!

For the Love of Shoes

I love shoes... and so do my girls, and they are way more fun to buy shoes for than me! So, to make sure I have a good record of their shoes, we took pictures. Here are Emme's shoes. Her favorite ones are called out in the colored boxes.

Craft Day

Elizabeth had to make a tshirt with 100 items on it for the 100th day of school. We made the shirt at the very top during our snow days, I think she did a great job on it!

Friday, she had early dismissal and I asked her what she wanted to do and she said make a craft. I thought she would love to have her own iron and rhinestone setter and make more shirts. Sure enough, she loved it and made 4 shirts. It was fun!

Back in Gymnastics

The girls have been in Gymnastics since 18 months old -- and we have tried many gyms in the metroplex. We are now at Texas Dreams and the girls are having a really good time and learning so much. I am most impressed with Elle's handstands and Emme's bar work. It is fun going to the classes.... my good friend, Michelle, her girls are in the same class, so we have fun gabbing and then we all go out to eat.. every Monday. It's so much fun!!!