We went camping!!!

Well to a camping party anyway!  Katie threw the best party ever and converted her house/yard to a camp ground for Tyler's birthday party!  (some of the decor may or may not have been made during a rushed lunch hour, in our work clothes and heels, in the driveway - or maybe not hee hee)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mikayla loves helping the littles and helping with the games!   

 

 

 

There was rock painting, bracelet making, and stump painting stations.

 

 

 

Wagon rides! 

 

 

Tyler's Trail was an obstacle course complete with stump jump, a hollow tree, binoculars, and a balance bridge!

 

 

Stump puzzles 

 

 

 

 

 

My personal favorite..... flying smores!   

 

 

FLYING!!!!!

 

 

Sack races 

 

 

 

Beautifully themed food

 

 

The whole gang!

 

 

It was AWESOME!  I can't believe our little buddy is 5 years old now!!!  What a great party to celebrate!!!!!  Thanks for having us Katie!!

Well - the time came.

The time came....

 

it was met with some happiness

that tried to be disguised as not being happy

but secretly seriously happy

until the time really came

 

but our little miss has glasses now.

 

She wanted them SOOOOO bad until she had to get her eyes dilated to make sure she really needed them.  Turns out she really really did need them.  She only needs them for the school day/reading/working.  Not for play and other times - hopefully she'll get used to them. 

 

We got her two pair (just in case...we have one as a back up and/or just changing it up whenever she gets tired of one pair, she can switch to the other).

 

I wish the colors showed up better but her first pair is a brown wire frame with designs on the sides and the second pair is a very pretty blue Harley Davidson pair with a white stripe down the side. 

 

So she's happily pretending to be unhappy about the new specs.... and she's seriously obsessed with cleaning them! 

 

 

 

So there we have it 100% of all people on both sides of our immediate families have needed glasses.... I guess the trend continues!  Hopefully it'll be a long time until she has to wear them all the time.

 

Ack she looks so grown up!  WAAAAAAAA

Christening!!

Well we're usually on time for these types of things - so in true fashion we bought bottles of champagne to Christen our boat but just hadn't done it yet.....

 

So after our FABULOUSLY amazing ride yesterday, we decided to Christen her!! 

 

We took care of some housekeeping items like emptying the holding tank and getting diesel - then we motored around for awhile.  It was an AMAZING day!  It was VERY windy out so we chose to motor around.

 

 

 

It was GREAT to be back out there again, this has seriously been the longest we've gone without boating....seriously in about 17 years...we've not gone this long before so it made it even more rewarding to be there!

 

 

Little miss was extremely happy!!!!

 

 

There was a sail boat that ran aground and was seriously stuck in the sand - we tried to help pull them out, thankfully a motor boat came along and being they have more power to pull them out of the muck they were able to get free.  They had a heck of a day, the sail was ripped, the boat got stuck and who knows what else happened to them during their three hour tour, but I'm pretty sure they kissed the ground when they finally got on it. They had chartered the boat for the day and it was a disaster (well that's what they said anyway).

 

 

Michael did an amazing job as usual being the captain.  We weren't able to dock at Kemah, they were full and actually the boats that were there, were spaced just far enough apart that we couldn't get in.  So we just went back to our marina and hung out and Christened the boat.

 

 

Now, to keep it real......

 

the first take on the Christening is below.....

Take One

 

and the 2nd.......

Take 2

 

So after it was all said and done (getting the boat name correct and the non popping cork - have to say we had a MAJOR laugh attack with that!!) (I'm still literally laughing out loud reliving that moment)....we just sipped champagne and hung out before heading home!!!

 

 

Cheers!!!!

 

Rodeo days!

What fun we had!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course we found the petting zoo!

 

 

 

Mikayla did cry for the calfs during the calf events...she looked at me and said "Mommy make them stop"  (I am sure my dad was having flashbacks from when I was little, they bothered me too)

 

Then Danielle Bradberry (she lives here and won The Voice) sang the anthum, I was star struck just from seeing her!  She was on TV...and is (in my world) a  huge star!!!

 

 

Here we are!!

 

 

 

We were anxiously waiting for Blake Shelton to come out.

 

 

 

There he is!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Then Miranda came out and sang with him too!!  It was awesome!!!!

 

 

 

We had a GREAT time!!  Next year we need more time there during the day because there is so much to see and do but it was still a great day/great outing!

Little Flower Retreat

We have such a great group of kiddos/moms this year, it's alwas been good it just seems more relaxed this year for some reason, which makes it more fun for us too!

 

We had some great crafts to do along with some great lesson sessions too!!  The neat part is next year, we'll be able to stay at school and do little flowers right there too because they're opening the school for the first time ever!  I/we can't wait!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a quick little St. Patty's day fun....skittles seperated by color :)