Monday, November 30, 2015

Noah's 8th Birthday Party

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We are taking a road trip to Dallas to attend Noah's 8th birthday party at Medieval Times!

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Surprisingly, we all arrived at the same time!

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The kids are loving their crowns!

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The birthday boy, Noah, with his parents, Jennifer and Jody.

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I love this family picture!

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Kinsey and I love taking selfies!
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The kids are checking out the horses.

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We got suckered into buying these super expensive glow-in-the-dark swords!

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We have been asked to take our seats.

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Our meal consisted of tomato soup with bread and chicken then we ate birthday cake for dessert.

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Lola caught the rose from our horseman.

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Playing with Lola's crown!

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Our horseman picked Ava to be the Queen of Love and Beauty!
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The King is talking to the birthday boy, Noah.

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The girls are excited to see the Queen!

What a super fun night!!!

Sunday, November 29, 2015

My Hair and Beck Sleeping

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I drove to Gilmer this morning to get my hair cut and colored by Amanda.  Shannon offered to watch Kinsey which I know she loved because she got to play with Emma and McKenna.

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I love taking pictures of the kids sleeping! The crab Beck is holding is from our beach trip last week.

Gym and DQ

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The gym I go to is completely different than the one I went to in Dallas as far as attendance.  In Dallas, all of the New Year's resolution people would pile into the gym for the first few months.  In Tyler, the gym is always packed when school starts then it will go back to it's normal size after a few months.  This doesn't happen in January which is so crazy to me!

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As a first week of school/hump day treat, I took Beck, Kinsey, Conner and Emma to Dairy Queen for some yummy ice cream!
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Third Year of Dance

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Kinsey and I having fun taking some selfies!

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Love this sweet girl so much!

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This is Kinsey's 2nd year at Candy Crocker's School of Dance and we missed the first day of class last week because we were at the beach.  Another reason to not take a late summer vacation.

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Sweet Mikel returned from last year's class!

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

First Day of First Grade and PreK

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Our handsome boy is starting first grade at Bullard Primary.  I think I'm more nervous than he is because this is his first time at public school!  (We missed Meet the Teacher because we took a late vacation.)

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Beck's desk

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Beck's teacher, Mrs. Nichols

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Now, it's Kinsey's turn!  Her private school starts at 9am.

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Kinsey's desk

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The first thing the kids did when they got home was take off their first day of school clothes and put on their pj's!  Lol!!!

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Monday, November 23, 2015

Getting Ready for the First Day of School

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It's a tradition to put our first day of school clothes on our favorite stuffed animal.

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Look at her long legs!!!

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Mommy is being funny!

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I put Beck's favorite Little Debbie fancy white cake in his lunch box with this note.  And, I gave all of their teachers some meditative bath salts because I'm sure they will need it at some point during the stressful school year.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Our Last Day in Pensacola

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Kinsey and I sat on the patio this morning looking for dolphins and then something happened.  It's one of those moments that I wish I could turn back time or have a do-over.  Kinsey leaned over, lost her balance and fell.  Her face hit the concrete floor!  It's a moment that played over and over in my head and made my stomach queasy.  I quickly picked her up and took inside and called for Brent.  He knew something was wrong because he could hear her crying.  I had to be strong and not freak out because I didn't want her to freak out.  We put ice on her mouth to help with the swelling but she's going to be super sore for a few days.  And, she can only eat soft foods because her two front teeth are loose.

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I had planned on staying in the condo with her but she wanted to be with Daddy and Beck.  We are going to make the best of our last day so let's have some fun in the sun!

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We found/caught a fish!  It must have been on it's last leg for us to be able to catch it!
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I'm very impressed with our collection of shells.

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By the way, a cheese stick is not the best thing for Kinsey!  We had to quickly teach her to use the side of her mouth instead of her front teeth.

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Beck loves throwing dirt at the birds!  They think he's giving them food and keep coming back!

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Unfortunately, we waited until the last day to take family pictures.  I did not want to take pictures but Brent insisted.  Beck is ready!

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Poor Kinsey is not ready at all!!!

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She was a trooper!  We were able to get some good shots thanks to our photographer, Kiki!  But, these pictures make me sad.

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We tried to find the really big crab again but we only found little crabs tonight.
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I know this picture is fuzzy but I love that Kinsey is still wearing her pearl necklace.

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We got up super early the next day and drove all the way back home.