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Jan 03 2011
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birthday, britton, Christmas 2010, december 2010, granny, traditions, Wedding

A Huge Recap of December

::: Hayden was in the Willis parade as Lucy from Charlie Brown Christmas:::
 We took the girls to the Polar Express Train Ride in Palestine….had a flat tire on the way there, but we made it!
 The girls with Santa (Hayden, Preslyn, Ella)
Hayden: “Mom, why did Santa shake my hand??”
Me: “Well he was just introducing himself to you and being friendly.”
Hayden: “But Mom, I already met him LAST year.”
~Ella is giddy with excitement~

:::BJ and I cranked out a few homemade Christmas gifts this year:::
:::Hayden finished her first semester of Pre-K with a Christmas Program:::
  
She was a crow
:::We shopped and cooked a TON:::
Then we ate and ate and ate and ate……..and I worked out NOT ONCE. (JOY OH JOY)
:::We celebrated with Jordan and Brad at their “Gotcha Party” for Hallie’s adoption being finalized:::
:::We helped decorate PawPaw’s Christmas tree:::
:::We had our first Christmas eve without Granny. We missed her SOOOO but I felt like all of her traditions lived on through us. We also found out there will be a new cousin in the family this summer! (Not by us!) :::

:::We had screams and squeals on Christmas morning:::
(Ella *Preslyn)
 

:::The girls got a puppy for Christmas and named her Nina Grey :::

 
:::BJ and I hosted my mom’s side of the family Christmas dinner here at our house:::
:::I celebrated my 28th birthday:::

 

:::I had my last day at my part time job and am now a fulltime stay at home/work at home mom again::: 
:::We celebrated with parties and parties and more parties for BJ’s brother graduating from college and then getting married!:::

   
:::Funny Twirl Convos:::
Ella: “Webbie, I’m gonna dance you at the wedding”
Preslyn: “But Ella, I’m so small and you sooooo big”
Ella: “It’s ok, I still reach your hands”

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Driving in the car and Preslyn gets in a bad mood for one reason or another
Ella: “Mommy, my Presthus not talk to me”
(I am trying to think through what she just called Preslyn and realize I’ve never heard that nickname before…Preslyn has many many nicknames.)
Me: “What did you say Ella??”
Ella: “My Presthus not talk to me”
I realize she is calling Preslyn her “Precious”

 (How sweet!)
Me: “Preslyn, you are not being very nice to your sister. Why aren’t you talking to Ella?”
Preslyn:(to Ella) “Oh, I so sorry your majesty, I not mad at you. I will talk to you.

No idea why the sudden use of Precious and your Majesty, but it was adorable!

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:::Hayden was a dollface of a flower girl:::
::: We started potty training x 3:::
The dog is doing the best….by far
Potty training story #1
The other day I heard the front door open. (Now for those of you who are not familiar with our home. We live on private property and can’t see any other homes from our home. We are surrounded by trees all the way around. ) So I go to see who must be going out because we were all home. The door is wide open and the twins are making their way back in both saying,
“It’s ok mommy, we just going pee-pee outside”

Maybe potty training two toddlers and a puppy at the same time was not the greatest idea.
December was a REALLY busy month for us. The first 3 days of this year have sort of been a fog of recovery. We are pumped for 2011! We have so many goals and things we want to do. We are blessed with

a fabulous family, health and salvation. We are expecting GREAT things for this year for ourselves and for all of you.

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Jan 12 2009
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austin, tessa, Wedding

Adventure in Austin

This weekend my parents and I loaded up to make the trip to Austin to see my oldest friend (by oldest I mean the one I’ve known the longest) get married. The trip started off yummy as we stopped in at a new place called Egg cetera and ate a scrumptious breakfast. My dad set up the directions on the TomTom and we headed out. So we are driving along on the highway and all of the sudden the directions tell us to take a back road, which looks like a small dirt road that no one travels on. So we Uturn, since we missed it and head off road. We continue driving all the while saying, this can’t be right, we should turn around. We keep going and the dirt road is kind of winding like some sort of three-wheel trail. Anyway, I’m not really paying attention and me and mom are in the very back seat of their durango. All of the sudden we hit some bumps and bounce around a little, then a few more and bounce a little more, and then the third set we are bouncing so high my head touched the roof. It was so funny and we were all laughing so hard! My dad said that he would have slowed down but when we hit the first bumps he realized we were going too fast for that terrain and if he would have put the brakes on he may have lost control. Luckily there were no more but it was quite memorable! By taking that road we did end up saving a lot of time, plus we had an adventure.

We had a great trip together and even though the wedding was outdoors with temperatures in the low 40’s, it was nice to see my friend on her big day!

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Nov 18 2008
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birthday, mother, Wedding

The weekend review

This weekend we had so much going on! On Friday, we went to the new Bond movie with my brother and his wife, BJ’s brother and fiancee and some pals. It was good but the plot was lacking, I thought. You would have laughed at how heavy Alexis’ purse was, with the massive amounts of candy that was loaded into it.

Then Saturday was my mother’s birthday! Happy Birthday, Mom!! I gave her some new perfume and some jammie pants that I spotted with Hummingbirds on them. Hummingbirds have kind of been our thing all through my life, because she would always call me her hummingbird when i was little because I constantly hummed, most of the time, without realizing it. My dad made some delicioius barbqued chicken and we had a fun time all together!

Then Sunday we went to the early service. Which I thought would be hard since we have three kids and have a rough time getting to the late service on time, but it actually was really nice. We were able to all come home and have a nice lunch before all the meltdowns started and then everyone took naps. That evening we headed to Aaron and Rachel’s wedding at the Parador. It was really nice and we got to see some faces we hadn’t seen in a while. Congratulations guys!! The wedding was beautiful!

Sep 23 2008
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california, hurricane, milestone, preslyn and ella 10 months, sean and alexis, Wedding

September

(Storm clouds rolling in in California)

This has been such a crazy month. I have sat down a few times to blog and just the thought of all that has occurred makes me exhausted and I walk away without writing. There is just too much to pass up.

We started the month off with our big move. It was a nice weekend and not too hot, thankfully. Our sweet friends Billy, Holly & Kris, and Chris and Kaitlin and wonderful family, Sean, Britton and PawPaw Boardie graciously helped us get the bulk of our belongings over. I finished all the painting except for one wall in our room. I would have been finished except for that the paint store gave me the wrong finish on my last trip to the store for paint. So I decided to stop and do the move, well since then i have purchased the paint but one thing has led to another and our room is yet to be completed. 😦

Then on to the wedding for our nanny. She has been planning it forever. September 12. Then the hurricane kept coming and coming and they had to postpone their actually big wedding and went ahead and did a small ceremony so they could still get married. So all the bridesmaids were at my house that morning getting hair and makeup done and then we sent them off to the wedding. By this time people were boarding up their homes and gas was getting scarce. Hayden and I rushed down to the wedding and back before the weather got nasty so we could witness the actual marriage. They are still going to do a big wedding later with all the decor and dresses, etc. Misti was beautiful and we pray blessings on her new marriage and life. We will miss you 🙂

(Uncle Sean and Preslyn)

So after we rushed back we prepared for the hurricane. It was pretty nerve wracking with three little girls. We put Hayden’s mattress on the floor next to ours, which was on the floor due to the non ability to set up our bed, due to the unfinished painting. (Yes, it is still on the floor today.) And the babies we put in pack n plays in my new huge walk in closet. It had a vent in it so we figured it would be our “go-to” spot in case of a tornado or a tree falling on the house or something. Early that morning around 4:30am we lost power. That was on Saturday. So we packed up all our food in our fridge, formula, supplies and clothes and headed to the in-laws to wait out the power outage. We started hearing reports that it could be weeks until it was restored. Gas was no where to be found and stores were closed. I got a little worried about having formula and diapers to last that long. Plus we needed gas for our generator to keep working so I called my cousins in college station and they hit the stores and gas station for us and we met halfway to make the swap. They were such a blessing! We were stocked up on food for the girls and for us for a while and they gave us 10 gallons of gas. (thanks so much john and tyan). Thankfully with the hurricane a cold front rolled in and we were graced with 60-70 degree weather for several days. It was fabulous. We had all the windows open and the breeze felt awesome. God does take good care of us!

So we adapted to the power outage. It took some planning to figure out when we could take showers and then when we would have power to cook the meals, but it was an adventure. Wednesday we flew out to California with Hayden and the girls stayed behind with BJ’s parents. Right as we arrived at our hotel we found out that our power came back on!!! THANK YOU JESUS!

California was beautiful! We loved the area we were in. It was Morgan Hill, just outside of San Jose. The mountains were amazing. The trip was very stressful with Hayden. She was out of sorts and off her routine, which made for a very rough time. But we made the most of it. I was so thankful I had left the babies at home or I would have just been a basket case.

My brother got married on Friday and the wedding was wonderful. We had such a fun time and were so happy to welcome Alexis into our family. We love her to death and are so glad to have her as a sister.

The flight home was much better than the flight going. Hayden was pretty well behaved for the most part. At one point, we were sitting 10 rows from the bathroom, someone came out of the bathroom and Hayden stands up in her seat with a scrunched up face and looks at BJ and says, LOUDLY, “DAD, I smell your poop.” It was so hilarious! Hopefully the person who came out didn’t hear her, but it was so funny.

While we were gone the girls both started standing on their own. I was so nervous that they were going to walk and I wouldn’t see, but they waited. It is so neat to see them stand though. They will be walking soon that’s for sure. Ella can do it for a while, but Preslyn is still just a few seconds at a time.

Here is a pic of them both sitting together. I don’t think I have ever gotten a pic of that yet. (Preslyn left, Ella right)

Well I have so much still to do so I must go. My goal is to have the house totally unpacked and set up for the babies birthday party, so we can have it here at the house, so I have my work cut out for me!

Take care and I am praying for the power to come on for all of you who are still without.

Jun 03 2008
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Hayden potty training, Lindsey, milestone, teething, Wedding

Milestones to record

I have been so busy lately that I haven’t had a chance to record the things my kiddos have been doing….First, Ella got her first tooth, the lower right front one on May 24. It is so sharp!!! Both of the babies have been reaching up for you to pick them up…I LOVE THAT. I think its my second favorite thing, aside from when they start calling me Mamma. Hayden has been out of school now for one week so, the plan was to really buckle down on potty training since she would be here every day. She has done so good and has FINALLY started pooping on the potty. During the last year of potty training “awareness” she has gone pee zillions of times on the potty, but would never go poop. So finally I made her sit there until she went. She read and sang…and finally called out, “Mommy I did a Taco!” Don’t ask me why she calls her poop that, but for whatever reason, I could care less, I was just so excited that she finally actually went! So her big reward for going was she could have gum. She always begs for gum, but we never let her have any. So I decided a while back that I would reward her for going poop with gum. So a gum chewer she now is 🙂 She has had about 4 accidents in a week, but that is not bad considering! We are on our way to one child out of diapers!! WHooHOO!!!

I also one of my close friends got married on the 24th. Lindsey and Brian were wed in a fabulous ceremony that I was so happy to be a part of. Your happiness and love brought tears to my eyes. I wish you so much happiness and adventure in your lives! They are headed to Africa for at least a year to help run an orphanage that Brian’s cousin runs. Pray for their safety and for them to have lots of wonderful stories to tell when they return! I’m so sad because Lindsey is my in home hair stylist…it is so wonderful to just call her up and she comes to my house and I don’t have to leave all of my kiddos or take them all with me. Good thing I’m growing my hair out! 🙂