Happy 3rd Birthday Lola!

Happy Birthday Sweet Lola! You are such a beautiful blessing in our life! You are SO FUNNY and have such a sweet heart. You love Lucy and Hank so much!!! You love wrapping your arms and legs around us giving us huge hugs. You love going to school. You are the only girl in your class and that doesn't phase you a bit. You play so well with other. You LOVE TO SING! You sing almost everyday. You make up your own songs about the things you see around you and do it in the most darling high pitched voice. You also love to read. You love to read all our stories at night all by yourself. You have a very creative imagination and make up the funniest stories.  You are very determined and love doing things by yourself. You have amazed Dad and I with all you have done. You mastered potty training day and night so quickly - you were potty trained at 2 yrs 2 months and we are thankful for fewer diapers. You have been so great about going to school and you walk in with such confidence every day. You are the most friendly little girl! You love saying hi to people and you LOVE SANTA!! You play so well with older kids - Thanks to your big sister Lucy. You look up to Lucy so much and enjoy playing with her best! You always say "Lucy is my bestest friend". You and Hank are buddies too! Sometimes you decided to ditch the girly stuff and join Hank playing cars - he loves it when you do that and so do I. You make every day so much better and brighter. I can only imagine what God has in store for you this next year. You are beautiful inside and out and I love you with all my heart!

Thanksgiving program & decorating for Christmas

The girls were precious at the Thanksgiving show! Singing & a little dancing!!

We decorated early this year! We had a blast. Poor Hank didn't participate he went to bed early but he loved it when he woke up!

The last tball game was super cute. Adam did an amazing job as coach. He got each child their own bobble head trophy and gave them all special awards. 

Lola - Rookie of the Year!

 Adam is not only the best coach but the cutest coach too!

 Lucy got the award of Miss Fashionista! Funny award but perfect for her. She only wore her uniform the right way at the first and the last game. All the other games she either wore a skirt, hat, jewelry or something to spice up her outfit!

Adam's High School Friends + Kids = one fun night!

It happened to be that while we were in San Marco Erik & Katie, Troy & Lauren and Trey & Caroline,  were all there (or close) too! It was the first time we were able to get together with our families and it was so fun. The kids played PERFECTLY!!!! Rare for kids ages, 4,3,2 & 1 but not one fight!!! They had so much fun!!! It is awesome! We are planning a spring get together so the kids can play more and we can enjoy more than just a night with these amazing families! 

In birth order - Lucy, Kenadi, Molly, Lola, Reese, Chloe & the only small man HANK!

 Lola, Kenadi & Lucy coloring

 After the plate parade the girls did - a big team huddle!

 All smiles from both kids and dad! What a good crew!

Thanksgiving 2012

We spend Thanksgiving visiting Adam's parents in San Marcos. They have a great amount of land and it was amazing weather so we spent a lot of time outside. You can't beat that in November. We celebrated Thanksgiving and Lola's birthday! 

Lucy enjoying her silly glasses

 Lola and one of Poppy's favorite - the harmonica

 Hank was a little sleeping and was searching for a spot to sleep

 Hank's Christmas gift from Grandmommy and Poppy

 Lola's birthday gift  - as you can tell the kids loved the cars and had a blast! This is pretty much what we did the entire time. When the cars needed charging - it was about the time the kids did too and that was the cycle. 

On another note - since Adam's parents are in the same place as the outlet mall - I did some damage!! I got everything at least 40% but mostly 50% off - which was nice when I walked through J.Crew's doors:) Oh that store makes me happy!

DATE NIGHT!

So going on dates in our family is a big deal. Adam and I go out on date night once a week and the girls have started to BEG to go. Adam is really good about taking them to each do special things but this past week when Adam and I left the girls were NOT HAPPY. So...it was their turn for date night. They picked out their own outfits, both wanted braids in their hair, headbands and of course lipstick. They were so excited - dinner and Finding Nemo at the theater. 

Hank and I hung at home and played for about an hour with his football. 

 Hank headed to bed with his football.

 BBQ was the spot for dinner!!!

Special!

The other morning we were all sleeping. Lucy came into our room and said "can i make breakfast" well sure!! She made everyone cereal. It was so sweet because she got each person their favorite kind - milk spoons and drinks!

Lola and I enjoyed a very special day together when I got back from my trip. I had not even thought that Lola may not be happy with me since I was gone so long but she was not happy with me. I felt terrible - but all it took was a day of nails and she was happy and my girl again! It was such a fun day!

 She picked the gel nail color and it was awesome - it stayed for like 2 weeks which was awesome!!!

Hank's First Haircut

After 16 months of growing his hair it was time for a cut. He was perfect and happy to be in the chair. 

 I had to hold his head straight because his sisters kept distracting him - but he did really good!

Happy Boy!!!