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Special Visitor on the Soccer Field
Jeffrey had a special guest at his latest soccer game, G-G-Pa! G-G-Pa is Cynthia's Dad, and we were so happy to have him come out and watch Jeffrey play!Water break!Matthew's Dad comes to EVERY....
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Mayfest 2012
Mayfest is the one time during the year that Avery gets to "show off" the skills that she's learned during the course of the school year. She looks forward to it each year, mainly for the trophy or...
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Callie's biggest fan
Callie's biggest fan is undoubtedly, Jeffrey! All the time I hear him saying things like, 'Callie you are just so cute!'. Today, though, I had to write down what he said as he was playing with her......
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day was super fun! We headed up to Chandler and Heather's house and we had BBQ and homemade ice cream and Texas Sheet Cake all pool side. It was awesome! The kids always have such a great time...
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Last Day of Kindergarten
She's officially a Kindergarten Graduate!... And, it's totally true that I shed a tear when they sang "And now we're in FIRST GRADE!" at their celebration. She's too big... She needs to stop growing...
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Sunday in SLC
We left our house on Friday, June 1st, at around 4pm and drove for 24 STRAIGHT HOURS. You may think, YOU'RE CRAZY! However, it wasn't all that bad, and I'd totally do it again. We left right after...
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SLC Children's Museum
I think we filled every available minute with cousins and Aunts and Uncles. It was a constant party/sleep over at my Dad's house! Before we left for Bear Lake, we wanted to do something we hadn't done...
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Minnetonka Caves
After a few days in SLC, we went up to spend the week with my entire family in Bear Lake, Ut. We had two little apartments right near the marina. It was a perfect location! Right outside the apartment...
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Family Home Evening
After dinner, we headed out for Family Home Evening, starting with Bear Lake's "famous" raspberry shakes.... we probably should have done this last, but whatever...Frankly, I think they're okay.... The...
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Hanging out with the Cousins
After Bear Lake, we had a day to just hang out before we loaded up the car and headed back to Texas. It was so nice to have a couple days extra to get in more family time! Notice the plastic bag my son...
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Saying goodbye!
My older kids thought it was hilarious to plant a big kiss on their cousins... they'll probably regret it later when they see this. Luckily their cousins didn't mind their crazy Texas...
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First Cereal Feeding
One week before Callie turned 6 months, we gave her rice cereal. None of my kids have ever liked it. I always buy the box of rice cereal because I feel like I should and then I use 1/4 cup and throw it...
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Knies Family Staycation
From two weeks of family in town here in Houston, I have six pictures. That's what happens when you loose your camera. On the first day of vacation... I finally found it the night before everyone...
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Summer
Everyone asks, "So, what have you been up to this summer?"This is what we've been up to so far...Crafts with friendsLounging at the poolEating lots of strawberriesStaying up way too late and falling...
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Pool Days
I decided this year that I was going to enjoy the pool season and try to not feel overwhelmed at the pool with all four kids by myself. SO, I went to target and bought swim vests for my non-swimmers(I...
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Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey
This was a first for 5/6 of us... Matthew apparently went to the circus when he was 7. Not that I feel like I was jipped as a child, but our family didn't really go to "shows" of sorts, other than on...
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Bahama Mama's
Going to get snow cones is probably our family's favorite outting. Cheap, fun, and totally tasty. After dinner we piled in the car and headed to Bahama Mamas. Side note: In California... let me...
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Houston Port Authority
At the beginning of the summer I found a blog listing all of the free things to do in Houston, one of them was to take a boat tour down the ship channel (leading to the gulf of Mexico) with the Houston...
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Back to school hair do
Here's the post a lot of you have been waiting for.... but first of all, I have to acknowledge where I get all of my creative juices flowing....here are a couple of my favorite...
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