Happy Anniversary!

Yesterday, my amazing husband and I celebrated 7 years of wedded bliss. I am so crazy about this man and I am so blessed to be his wife!
This picture was taken on February 20, 2004, at our rehearsal dinner.

(click on the picture- it's awfully cute!)
I doubt he will ever read this, but I just want to say that I LOVE YOU SO MUCH and I am SO UNBELIEVABLY HAPPY to be your wife! I can't wait to see what our future holds!

October, Part 2 (FINALLY!)

October seems like a long time ago, but I'll do my best to recap the second half of the month.

We went to my cousin Anna's wedding in Oklahoma City. I made all the food for her bridal breakfast and, if I do say so myself, it was pretty dang. I didn't actually get to eat much of it, but I assume that's a good thing, since it means that apparently everyone liked my stuff.

I made The Pioneer Woman's CINNAMON ROLLS and they were a-maz-ing!
Way too much butter and sugar for any definition of healthy, but seriously delicious. AND they're pretty easy. You should make them soon! (It makes about 50 cinnamon rolls and I freeze them all before they get a chance to rise. That way, I can take them out of the freezer, let them rise and bake, and have fresh baked cinnamon rolls anytime my family wants them.)

I wanted to get a picture of all the food, but by the time I got around to it, the table looked like this. One completely empty platter, one mostly empty platter, and a pumpkin pie dip-filled pumpkin without any pumpkin dip left in it.

Lexi couldn't stay awake for the entire drive home. She doesn't look very comfortable!

My boy is such a great traveler. He watched his portable DVD player and stayed quiet pretty much the entire time. He has been a good traveler his whole life. Look how cute he is!

One day I got home from musical rehearsal, and saw this in Lincoln's doorway.

The boys were having a party in Lincoln's room!

HALLOWEEN! Lincoln was a super awesome Spiderman and Lexi was a very cute fluffy white kitty.

Spiderman and Nana!

Our cute family. Lincoln is a weirdo.

So. Dang. Cute.

I LOVE this picture!

Lincoln did a great job teaching his sister how to trick-or-treat.

I am sad that this is the best picture I got of my babies and me. Scott doesn't know how to use my camera very well and had it on the wrong setting! Oh well. Better than nothing!

WHEW! Ok, there's October. Let's see how long it takes me to get around to November!

New Header!

After having the same pictures of my kids (and our whole family) on my header for MORE THAN A YEAR, I've finally updated it! Slowly but surely, this blog is getting a bit more TLC. I think my kids have changed just a tiny bit since the pics in the old header. The pic of Lincoln was 20 months old, the pic of Lexi was about 14 months old, and the pic of our family was 2 years old! Now they're all new :)
I am working on our old computer (which we were without for more than a year, thanks to incorrect information from a not-so-great computer repair place) today so I don't know when I'll get to post the rest of October. I have to back up everything from that computer and restore everything back to factory settings. The, I'll have to update it to what we want. It is probably going to take me most of the day. Oh well- Scott is going to fold all of the laundry for me since I'm doing this for him :)
Have a great Wednesday!

October, part 1

To make up for the fact that I hardly took any pictures in September, here is a month that is going to have to be broken down into 2 or 3 blogs! LOTS of photos of October. Let's get started.

We made a visit to the local pumpkin patch. We spent way too much money on gourds, but also had a fun time before we headed home.

We caught the hayride and I got some pretty cute pics.

This girl ADORES her Daddy! And what an amazing Daddy he is! I couldn't ask for a better man to share this wonderful adventure with!

I just love this boy. He looks so much like his Daddy but his personality is 100% me! He is a TOOT!

Lincoln called this our "family pumpkin". Click on it for full view, it's much cuter that way.

Lincoln's pumpkin was a storm trooper (a la Star Wars) and Lexi's was Dora. They were cute, but HARD to make!

Lincoln and I made the 5 hour drive down to visit his new cousin, Mae. He loves her!

He checked out every finger and toe to make sure she's perfect. She is!

We went to the zoo one weekend.

Lexi was less than thrilled to have her picture taken.

Stay tuned for October, part 2!

SEPTEMBER!

I don't know why, but I didn't take many pictures in September. It was a crazy month. The kids were in school, I participated in a local children's consignment sale, I started work on a local high school musical (I do the music direction and vocal instruction), etc, etc, etc.

Lincoln got in trouble at school a couple of times (for talking- go figure) and had to shovel cow poop every time it happened. He's been much better lately. He says he thinks shoveling poop really helped.

Lexi started Mother's Day Out (yes, you DID just hear The Halleluiah Chorus! I have two days a week to myself!!!) and she loves it. She insists on wearing her backpack on her back (duh) and her lunchbox around her neck, just like in this picture, every. single. day. One day I tried to show her how to carry her lunchbox on her shoulder and she FLIPPED OUT! I decided to pick my battles and she continues to carry it like this :)

My sister Mitsi and her husband Josh had their first baby on September 26. Little Mae Louise came into this world at a whopping 5 lbs 14oz. She is such a sweet little thing!

We took advantage of the warm weather while it was still around. It is slipping away quickly! My kids sure do love to blow bubbles, so we did a lot of that in September.

Lexi loves to play dress up. She has several different outfits and her grandparents even keep dress up clothes at their house for playtime. She is such a girly girl (although she's extremely accident prone, rowdy, and tough).

August Recap

I am a horrible blogger. I used to be so good at it and had so much desire to update it frequently, but then I went and had a second child and now I have no spare time. Blog is definitely last priority. Since I'm so far behind, let's go all the way back to August!

We went to my grandparents' lake house in East Texas one weekend and had all sorts of fun. It was nice letting them get to spend some time with Lincoln and Lexi without anyone else around. It's hard to get to know people when there are so many others around! Normally, we only make it to their house when the whole family gets together. These days, that means 27 people (and their dogs. literally)!

We went to the "beach" one day.

I buried Lincoln in the sand. He pretended to be a Mer-Man.

Lexi did NOT love the feeling of sand between her toes! Here we are with Mom-Mom.

Lincoln was brave and rode on the tube for the first time. He loved it!

I love these boys!

Another weekend, we went to Medieval Times as a birthday present for Lincoln. He loved it (we all did)! I can't wait to go back- but not til Lexi's old enough to go too. Lexi stayed with Great Aunt Penny and Great Uncle Gary while Scott and I took Lincoln to the show. Lexi sure does love her greats!

Lexi snuggling with Great Auntie P.

Instead of buying a cheap (and uncomfortable!) nap mat for Lexi to take to Mother's Day Out, I made this. It took quite a bit of time, but it was easy. I love it!


I headed to College Station to help out with my sister's baby shower.

Me, Mitsi (sister), Anissa (Mitsi's friend), Laurie (Mitsi's friend), and Candace (sister-in-law).

More birthday stuff for my boy! We had a party at the park. He wanted a Transformers cake this year.

So that was our August in a nut shell. Hopefully I will post September soon.

Happy Birthday, Lincoln!

My boy turned 6 today! He is such a good boy. He is kind and caring. He loves his family and friends and he loves Jesus so much. He's smart, too! He taught himself (!) to read within the past year and can write well too. He's also hilarious and a major source of entertainment for us. I love this boy so much and am so glad that he's mine!


My boy as a newborn. All 7 pounds, 15 ounces of him! SO cute!


Cutest two-year-old boy EVER!


After his 4th birthday party... Where did my baby go???


SIX YEARS OLD! Going to public school and loving it!