Happy 6th Birthday Grace!

Grace,

Six years ago today you made us a family of three. You the Star that you are just had to make an entrance 8 weeks early. You haven't slowed down since. This past year has been a busy, fun, and exciting adventure for you.

You graduated from preschool.
Learned how to do a cartwheel.
Went on a plane to Mexico for vacation.
Grew out of 2 sizes of clothes.
Took your first school bus ride(w/o mommy or daddy) to go on a fieldtrip with your new daycare.
Started Kindergarten.
Quit your new daycare.
Learned to trot and canter on a horse.
The list goes on and on.

WE LOVE YOU!

Love,
Mommy & Daddy

Every good and perfect gift comes from above. James 1:17

Grace got an early birthday present

Grammy came over yesterday to take Grace to her Upward cheerleading game while daddy and PaPaw stayed at our house so daddy could help PaPaw with a "project." Grammy & PaPaw bought Grace a trampoline for her birthday (which is this Wednesday the 28th). Grace was so excited when she got home and found out there was a surprise for her. She was up at 5:30 AM this morning asking if she could go outside and jump. Later on in the afternoon Sara brought the boys over to play outside. The kids jumped on the tramoline with our neighborhood kids for 4 hours straight. Grace was so tired that Ashley haf to bring her in crying. The girls ate dinner, had a bath, and were sound asleep by 7 pm.

Cousins

We celebrated Sara's b-day last night at our house. We all got together yo eat snacks, visit, and play Wii. My oldest nephew Parker came over also. He is now 18 and goes to Collin College. The "little" cousins LOVE Parker and think wrestling with him is so much fun. I just couldn't resist posting this fun picture.

Happy Birthday Sara!

Yesterday was my little sister Sara's birthday. It is so neat to see how time changes a relationship. Growing up it was always her and my big sister against me. And she would take all of my clothes, wear them and then throw them in the bottom of her closet and I wouldn't see them again until I went digging through her messy room. I couldn't stand her growing up. Then we grew up, got married 4 months apart, moved 12 minutes from each other, and had our 1st babies 9 months apart. WOW! We are closer now than we have ever been. It is so much fun spending Saturday's together since our hubby's are at work. Our kids LOVE each other. Well they have a LOVE/HATE relationship because they see each other so much. It is so fun going to the zoo, the park, the backyard, and shopping together. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARA! I LOVE YOU!

Purple Cast

I got a new cast on the 12th. This one is purple. It is a different type of cast that covers me elbow but does not cover the inside of my elbow (not sure what that is called). This cast allows me to bend my arm towards and away from me but prevents me from twisting it anyway. Odd sounding I know. The DR. said that it would hurt worse this last week and boy was he right. Not only did it take a week of bending my arm to get the stffness out of my elbow but from my fingers to my elbow my arm just plain hurts. It will swell up at just doing the smallest thing.

Beauty Shop

Ava got some pretend make-up for Christmas and decided that daddy would be a great customer since he was watching football one night this week. She gave him lipstick and then decided to paint his toes. Grace got in on the action when the camera came out.

BRIGHT Pink

I got a new cast on Monday. The girls kept saying that they wanted me to get a pink cast. I didn't think that I could stand pink for a long period of time. The Dr. said that this cast would stay on until next Monday and then they would put on a new one. The girls love it and were so excited to get to sign it. Ava had to ask for help because she wanted her name. She can spell her name so she told Ashley all of the letters and he wrote it for her. I think that the plaster cast felt better than this fiberglass one. I can't reach any itches in this cast and it gets hotter and sweatier than the plaster one did. Isn't it cute that their names are on here.

Happy Birthday JuJu!

Happy "30" Birthday Julie! We had the BEST time last night at dinner. The wine was much better than pain medicine.

Happy New Year!

We hope that each of you have a great and safe New Year's Eve and a wonderful 2009. I'm not really into making New Year Resolutions but I do have some goals for the New Year that I will share.
*To dig into the word and draw God closer into my everyday life. He has always shown his presence to me in my life and I want to make sure that all can see it.
*To try to remain in the moment with my kids and my famly. My girls are growing up lightning fast and I don't want to look back and regret missing any of it.
*To work on our household budget and to stick with it as close as possible.
*To go on a date with my husband once a month and make sure that the conversations we have on these dates don't end up being about our sweet girls. It's so much easier to have a conversation about the girls than what we really want and need to to talk about amongst the two of us.
Here is this year's Christmas card picture! If you didn't get a card from us please don't think that we forgot you. Time ran out and now with only one hand there is no way anymore are getting done.