2011

I am glad to see 2010 go an bring a new year. I am not so thrilled that it will bring me two 4 yr olds. I cant believe they will be 4 in less than a month, the time sure has flown by. They bring such joy to everybody an they are truly the loves of my life. An in 2011 we will be welcoming a new little one into my family (not me) my sister. I cant wait to find out what she is having! Just wished she lived closer but maybe that will come true in the next couple yrs. But def. excited for a new baby an hope to get to go up there many times.
I have alot of new years resolutions hopefully I can keep to all of them. I am really going to try hard.

So heres to a great 2011.

A beautiful flowergirl an handsome jr.groomsman

The kids had the honor to be in Joels cousin Beverly's wedding. I cant tell you how excited Addison was to be a flowergirl, she called it her wedding an talked bout it everyday. Landon would say something bout it every now an then but was not near as excited as his sister. An words can not express how adorable they looked in their dress an tux.





Thank you Beverly & BJ for letting them be apart of your day! They loved it.

Christmas 2010

I know its been forever since I have posted. An in 2011 I am going to do my best to blog everyday or at least a couple times a week, along with taking more pics.

We have been very busy this Christmas season, we have gone an seen Santa (aka Joels uncle) in Sundance Square in Ft. Worth. Decorated two ginger bread houses, made tons of yummy cookies. Christmas parties, Christmas programs at school. I will leave you with some wonderful pics.

Fixing to go to the Candlelight Service

Santa had come to our house

My Avery girl

The Kids with Dad and Adina

Landon playing with Addi's Baby Alive (good blackmail in the teenage years)


Making gingerbread houses with Nana


After their school performance

First Day of PreK

Boy was I sooooo not ready for this day! The kids started PreK today an I cant believe it, they cant be old enough yet they just cant. But they are an they needed something to do they were getting so bored here at home with me, we would do stuff but they need to be in a school atmosphere. So we have been telling them about it for months an they always kept asking are we going to school today. So finally I could tell them that yes we are going to school today. They were so excited to say the least. We had tinkerbell an spiderman backpacks, batman an princess lunch boxes an napmats.

Brother an Sister

Just had to share these pics.

Our Favorite Neighbor

The kids favorite neighbor Blake was getting a new firetruck at Pantego Fire Department an asked us to come an see it, an he would show the kids the firetruck an everything. So of course the kids were all bout it esp since it was Blake. They have alittle ceremony for the new truck an everything.

(the new firetruck)
Waiting on the ceremony to start

They do a ceremony where they bring in the new truck by watering it from the old truck. An after they ask everyone attending to dry it off so the kids had a blast doing that.



Thanks Blake for inviting us an thanks for being a great neighbor!

Joels 30th Suprise Party

(the pin he had to wear at dinner an the party haha)
I decided since Joel was hitting the BIG 30 this year that I would throw him a suprise party! Boy is that work, an trying to keep it from him was the pits I hated that part. Then you have him trying to plan to do something on top of that texting an calling people. But we(it only took a small team lol) pulled it off! An I think til he pulled up outside he was suprised. I was so glad people came to celebrate with us. An he def. deserve it, he works hard taking care of us I wanted to do this for him.


(the kids hitting the 30 pinate)

(some of the party)

(Allen & Daniel)

(Mike, Brian & Paul)

I really slacked on taking pictures I should have taken alot more. But I guess you live an learn.....

Circus

Joel decided that for his bday he wanted to take the kids to the circus. An since we havent been able to go to a circus all together I said of course. We went with Paula an Carlos to the Barnum & Bailey Circus. We got their early to go down on the floor an see the clowns an some performers. The kids had a blast an they did very well sitting thru the entire program. We really had an awesome time!


(Landon wanted nothing to do with this clown, an I figured since he had a skate board he would love it but nope!)

(with the shows motorcycle, again Landon wanted no part in it)


(me an Joel being silly an I love how Landon snuck in the picture)

We had a wonderful time thanks Nana & Pawpaw Carlos

Visit w/ Kyle

On the way home on Sunday we decided to stop an see our friend Kyle. I went to junior high an hs with Kyle an Joel knew him from school as well an from ag. He takes care of cows an gets them ready for shows like Ft. Worth stock show an things like that. So we knew the kids would be thrilled to see some cows. They ended up liking the kittens he had way more than the cows. But they still had fun, an it was good Kyle could finally meet the kids. These cows def. had the life. Fans blowing on all day long, hardly any poop in their stalls. A freezer they could go in. They were very cute cows an expensive an worth alot of money. We had a good time!

Natural Bridge Caverns Wildlife Ranch

On Saturday we decided against going back to Sea World due to it being so hot an the weekend an it would have been crammed pack with people. An I dont have two patient toddlers so we decided to find something else to do. We were going to go to Austin an see the University an show Landon were hook'em horns play. But we were going to be driving home the next day so decided to show him then. So we headed to San Marcos I knew I wanted to hit the outlets for school clothes. We decided the Wildlife Ranch. I was alittle bit disappointed in it, we have been to Fossil Rim in Glen Rose an that was way better and CHEAPER. We got there late morning an most the animals were already trying to find shade, but the kids got to feed alot of animals. Before we started we went into the petting zoo with the goats. These kids love animals no matter what they are, esp Addi. She wants to pet everyone of them. In the car Addi said lets take a pic of our family. She is big on getting all of us together close an saying "we are a family" its so stinking cute! After the ranch we headed to do some shopping it was alot of fun

Childrens Musuem in San Antonio

Friday we decided to head out to the children's museum in downtown San Antonio. I had heard alot of good things bout it so I decided we were going to try it out since its like 100 degrees outside an needed something indoors to do. The kids had alot of fun but they loved this trolley car that was up at the front the most.


They had a ball area up front where you could put the ball in an shoot it out!
A bubble an sandbox area
They had all types of things the kids could play with, they had the front part of a actual airplane, where the kids could sit in the cockpit area. We just played around there for awhile here are some pics.

Who said it was just for kids, Joel played with this thing for probably 20 mins.