FPC The Growing Tree End Of The Year Program

Today was Karoline's last day of 2 year preschool at First Presbyterian Church, The Growing Tree. She has such a FUN time. I am very thankful that God provided such a wonderful place for Karoline to attend. I am also thankful for her teachers, Mrs. Lackey and Mrs. Kenny! They were SO sweet to her, especially on her first day when she wet her pants 3 times because she wanted to use "mommy's potty" at home. I know Karoline will really miss her friends and going to school but she is looking forward to next year. Here are a lot of pictures from today. It was so much fun.

Performance-
Karoline did great for her first official performance. The 2 year old classes sand Baby Bumble Bee and There's A Pig On Your Head (or something like that). She even found me, waved, and didn't have a break down!

Karoline's at the bottom right corner...

You can see how happy Anderson was to be there :)... he honestly was good the WHOLE time.



Family Picnic-
After the performance they had a family picnic with all kinds of activities and bouncy houses/ slides. They had all the families lunches in these cute little bags. Everything was so cute and well planned. It was pretty, hot day but we all had a great time... we were just very sweaty (then I got to go to work and oh was I gross!).











Fun with bubbles!


My dad had a lot of fun with the bubbles too!

This is my sweet friend Amanda & her daughter Hannah- she lives in the neighborhood, her son Grayson was in Karoline's class, and she goes to Wellspring. I am SO thankful for God providing great friends here like Amanda.


** ALSO- I just wanted to announce that my best friend, KIM, had her baby today! Little Cohen Andrew Jones was born and was a 9 lb baby boy!! I hope to get pictures soon!**

Backyard Fun On Memorial Day

Yesterday while TJ worked we played in the backyard for a while. I took an opportunity to have fun with the camera because I just don't do that enough! Hehe... This was BEFORE we went to the pool for a few hours and I got BURNED to a crisp :( I will learn to REAPPLY sunscreen! We had a fun day though.

Sidewalk Chalk- Man and Woman's Best Friend!

We have a new blue bird family moving in. The last family flew off with their babies so we took out the nest and a day later a new family arrived. I have really enjoyed having the blue bird house. Thanks Dad!

Happy Memorial Day

We celebrated Memorial Day yesterday with a cookout at Pine Lakes. Today TJ has to work. No holiday if you work at a golf course. Mom and Dad invited us to join them and we had a great time. We met a a few new families and spread the word about Wellspring! The food was yummy and Karoline decided that it was the day to stop being so afraid of the water. She started to jump in without holding someones hand! We played hard in the pool for a LONG time. Anderson has no interest in the pool but runs wild in the grass. I think he loves it so much because our back yard is just dirt mostly (we are praying the grass will grow). Anyway, we had a festive time... dad took these with his cell phone camera.
He ran around this lawn a hundred times!

Anderson wanted to go play Corn Hole with the big boys...

Gandaddy trying to teach Anderson how to be a linebacker...

Karoline ate Watermelon for dinner... that's it! She was too busy swimming!


Karoline swam all day long!


*** I posted a new blog post on our Wellspring Partners Blog yesterday. PLEASE PLEASE take some time to read it... click HERE ***

"We Should Have Had A Child Our First Year Of Marriage!"

This is what I say to TJ every time Chase comes over. Have a child then wait 5+ years and have two more :)

Chase just moved in two doors down from us and she is so sweet. Chase has a special place in my heart because she is the only girl with 3 brothers and her dad and uncle keep her most of the time. I have never seen her mom but I know they got married just a few weeks ago and they have been together for a long time. I think she works most of the time. I PRAY we may minister to this family. Anyway, I always enjoy letting her escape to my house and get away from all those guys PLUS she is GREAT with my kids. It is so nice having an older child around to help entertain the younger one's. Karoline thinks Chase hung the moon. She just loves her. Here are some pictures of them playing while TJ and I got to just relax on the swing...

Sick And Tired And Paint

Sick- TJ

Tired- ME & TJ

Paint- ME

Today was supposed to be the day TJ and I worked ALL day, kid free, to finish up all these little house projects we have to finish and paint the foyer which was my birthday present. Well, I guess he really didn't want to and decided the best way for him to get out of all the work was to wake up in the middle of the night throwing up, have a high fever all day, and stay in bed. Seriously though, he is really sick... it's going around this town and our family.

So I was left to try and paint a two story wall alone. Didn't happen... obviously. I did the best I could and tried to get as high as possible. The more I looked at how high it is I thought I should call a professional. With our health insurance not being so great right now I would rather pay our friend Tyler a little money than risk the chance of TJ falling. So Tyler will be coming to finish what we can't next week. But so far it looks 1,000,000 TIMES BETTER!

The color is a taupe color so it's kind of hard to see in these pictures... the lighting was not that great...

Before

After

Before

After- so not close to the top

I also painted a large square of magnetic paint in the kids play closet that is under the stairs. They LOVE it. For those of you who want to try this paint I had to stir the pant for 10 minutes + before actually starting to paint and then painted 4 coats to get a little more magnetic power. It really only hold light weight magnates. I hung the Leap Frog toy that you put the letters on... You could also do a layer of the chalk board paint on top but I like to keep the chalk outside :)

Your American Idol...

A LONG Week

Oh it's been a LONG week!! A short recap:

- I had to work on Saturday and had an open house on Sunday and was SO ready just to spend some time with my family!
- TJ had all his wisdom teeth taken out on Monday
- Tuesday my mom, dad, and I were all SICK (my mom way worse than my dad and I but I was still in bed all day!)
- Mom was sick again today and TJ had the most pain today than any other day but he's doing well
- RAIN and COLD- which mean two kids stuck inside all day and a NOT happy dog
- I think Karoline is going through the terrible 2's LATE and Anderson is going through them EARLY!!! We are at a hard stage of parenting right now.

Anyway... we had a lot of good things go on too. Saturday we got a big, fun package of hand-me-downs from Pressley and a few birthday gifts. First let me say she LOVES getting Pressley's old clothes. She is so proud when she wears them and tells me that "Pressley is letting me borrow them!" They also sent this PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS Auburn smocked dress! It's a little big but she INSISTED on wearing it on Sunday... she was so cute!!



Anderson's head is getting better and he is doing well... he has kind of been ill this week but I think it's still teething issues and possibly a little of what I had.


Buster REALLY wanting to go outside but the rain kept coming...

We were really excited that my dad was feeling well enough and broke away from his work to come for a quick visit tonight... we were really missing Prissy too. She LOVES to play with Anderson's ball.





I also got my fun birthday gift from TJ's mom and sister. It's a Pandora bracelet... I'll have to take a picture of it but it's really fun! A great gift!

I hope yall have a great week and weekend...

Video...It's Been A LONG Time

I have not posted a video since January I think... I FINALLY am able to do them on MY computer and not have to use TJ's mac so maybe I'll post them more often. Here is Anderson singing to The Backyardigan's theme song and pointing out his head, nose, etc... he was quite distracted but don't worry... he has them all down :) Enjoy...

Bumps, Bruises, & Birthday

I'll start with the bums and bruises... My little man took quite the fall yesterday and scared me to DEATH! I wanted to head straight for the doctors office. His goose egg looked SO bad , I called the doc and went through a list of things and she said he should be fine but she wanted to see him this morning. That was good because I never did a 18 month well check for him so we did it today! He's totally healthy, got too shots, and he is still my tiny little man. He still does not weigh what Karoline weighed at a year old. Here are his stats...

Weight: 23 lbs. 4 oz. (still around 12-15%)
Height: 32 1/2 in. (around 60%)
Head: 18 3/4 in.


I had to add this because I never want to forget Anderson's love of playing with the tea bags...


Today was my 29th birthday... my LAST year of my twenties! It was a good day... Karoline wanted to know if I was going to get to go to school with her and have cupcakes. She did go with daddy and pick out a cake. It was yummy...

Notice TJ changed the numbers to 92!!...


After we sang happy birthday TJ and I went to Longhorns for dinner (my favorite!) and then to Home Depot where I got 3 gallons of paint as my birthday gift! TJ is going to paint the foyer and it will NOT be easy. It will cover up the last pit of white walls in this house. It was a good birthday!