little cousin lucas turned o n e this last week! we had so much fun at his first birthday party. too much cuteness with 4 boys, 3 and under 🙂
thank you for letting us share in this special celebration!
happy birthday sweet boy! excited for your year ahead!
xxoo
especially our girls 🙂
well i think we did it all!
whataburger – check
good mexican food- check
gramps’ bbq – check
blue bell ice cream – check
thank you so much chad and mendy for letting taylor come “home” for her senior year spring break. i know the girls created great memories! it was a really, really busy week but just knowing she was here and happy made me so happy! you don’t realize how much you miss them till they move away. i can’t believe she’s getting ready for college.
my first babies are growing up so fast! growing up beautifully!
i love you so much taylor, i’m posting this exhausted picture of me. next time let’s not wait till last minute to get a picture together! talk about baggage claim under my eyes ha!
so excited for your adventures ahead sweet girl!
xxoo
alleluia what a beautiful weekend!
i don’t know if it was a good idea to get that new memory card for the camera… another picture overload post. but these boys just look so darn cute hanging on to their baskets 🙂 we headed out to bc on saturday evening and got so busy playing we almost forgot to dye easter eggs! it was okay though because jack, after two eggs you were done and samuel it was bed time for you as you tried to color everything in site.
rise and shine! sunday morning you boys woke up only twenty minutes before go time ( getting in the car to get to mass on time!). you checked out your baskets, ate breakfast and put on your sunday best.
this was the beginning of taylor’s spring break. we were so happy to have her here for easter! it’s been almost four years since she has spent an easter with us!
{jack i just realized you look like you are about to take off in this picture. silly boy}
we missed our neighborhood egg hunt so this was the only one jack was able to do this year. he absolutely loved it! especially because it was just him and joshua and all the eggs they wanted. samuel once you found one you wanted to open it! i have never seen you eat so much candy before. sweet tart jelly beans must be the way to your heart.
we spent almost all day outside. jack i don’t know how you kept going all day. samuel you crashed before we left the neighborhood. we just love days like this, so thankful for the family we have near by! we sure miss those that can’t always be there with us!
happy easter 2014!
xxoo
the surprises just keep coming!
saturday afternoon we picked up taylor from the airport! we haven’t seen her since last summer in gulf shores! boy is she missed, as is the rest of her family! we are so lucky she decided to spend her senior spring break in the great state of TEXAS. we asked michaela to meet us on our way out of town for the easter weekend. i told her i had some things i wanted to give her mom but it was top secret. needless to say, there was lots of squealing and hugging 🙂 they went on their way to surprise the rest of family and friends. we have lots of things on our to do list with her this week.
we are all so excited!
xxoo
so brace yourself for a post with picture overload. we laughed, we cried, we pulled off a great surprise weekend!
it was a weekend full of surprises! dinner on thursday, a birthday party on friday and a girls night out on saturday! we only wished our other sisters could have joined in on the fun! thank you holly for making the long haul! you really made the weekend special for our seester!
dana your girls were such a huge help and i’m sure everyone is relieved to not keep these secrets from you anymore. thank you to michaela for taking over baseball practice so your dad could be there for dinner and to erika and bailey for watching our little ones. dinner was all about the birthday girl and not the kids running around the table 😉
these two were were inseparable and oh so adorable!
we were able to squeeze in a t-ball game saturday afternoon. talk about cuteness overload, as jack would say ” joshua ran super fast!”
saturday evening us girls went to palm sunday mass together. it was so special as always and such a treat to not be distracted by little ones… thank you gramps!! thank you also to granny, gramps and bailey for watching the little ones while we went out for the evening to dinner and find our hidden talents at painting with a twist 😉
so many memories made this weekend! what would we do without our dana?! she is such a blessing to the entire family!
cheers to 4o years beautiful sister!!
xxoo
what a fun weekend you boys had! first weekend of really gorgeous spring weather and two great birthday parties!
saturday we celebrated cousin bailey’s 1 4 th birthday! i don’t know how that baby girl has grown up so fast! we sure do love her! she has always been such a big help to us and hands down, always has been the best go to for sweets galore 🙂 jack you weren’t ready to try out the skates just yet but you and samuel sure loved watching joshua and daddy go super fast. great music and a colorful room, samuel you were in awe!
sunday afternoon, we were invited to a zoo birthday party for our friends charlie and henry! what a great day for a birthday party! the weather couldn’t have been more perfect! both of you boys were so excited you didn’t even take a nap!
a zoo party isn’t complete without temporary tattoos of your favorite zoo animal 🙂 those were such a hit!
happy birthday to all these spring babies 🙂
xxoo
we did it! granny and i had been preparing for this busy weekend for a while. with the help of daddy we did it! jack you were in heaven for f o u r whole days. you had joshua, the outdoors and the wii all to yourself. we created great memories this weekend amongst the hustle and bustle of it all.
jack, you and joshua were so much fun to watch. you did pretty well taking turns with things. you try so hard to be just as big as him. you also let sam know he is to little for a lot of things.
samuel, i think you found your hero this weekend. i had been wondering when you would take notice of the cooler older cousin. you would run up and just stare at joey. it was so funny to watch you with him. you were really watching everything thing he did!
you also couldn’t wait to get your hands on the four wheeler also known as the “joe.” if no one was on it, you ran as fast as you could over to crawl up on it.
i know, i know, samuel i just can’t keep the camera off of you! you are my guinea pig since your big brother is always running off to play. i’m soaking up all this time of your sweet baby face!
flair affair was a hit! we were so thrilled with how it turned out. there were so many other beautiful and creative tables i had to get pictures of! erika had an amazing performance as well! so much fun to end our crazy weekend!
thank you so much for letting us be a part of your night erika! we are so proud of you! also, thank you to granny for letting the kids have such a fun weekend!!
xxoo