Visit With Santa

We took the boys to see Santa at The Villages of Allen again this year. Connor was very proud of the letter that he wrote to Santa... He did not want to send it off in the mail, he wanted to read it to the big guy personally!!! Santa graciously took a few extra minutes so that Connor could share his writing! Love this picture!!!

More Technology

Posting from my cell phone worked... Now let's try posting via email!!!

Sent from my iPhone

Can It Be This Easy?

Testing out technology... Can I really post a blog from my phone?!?! We will soon see...

New Family Memeber

For the longest time the boys have been asking for a "baby dog." The Easter Bunny had tried to fill this desire by leaving each one of them a Webkinz baby dog in their Easter basket. While this held them off for a while (they pretended to feed and walk these stuffed animals on leashes!) they continued to ask for a "real baby dog." Well, Christmas came early for Connor and Garrett... Roscoe the dog joined our family in Early December. Needless to say, they boys are on ecstatic! Connor has done such a super job already at feeding Roscoe two times a day and reminding his brother to give him water. They love playing with Roscoe (sometimes a little too rough, but we're working on that.)He has certainly found his place in the family.

It Has Been A While

Wow... my last post was in March??? Reall??? So much has happened since then. Going to do my best to try and catch up. Will add more pictures later.
April: Celebrated Easter at our house with the Grimes Family. Daniel was home but left a few weeks later to go overseas to Afghanistan.
May: Busy times at the end of the school year. I went with Connor's class on a field trip to the Dallas Arboretum, there was Field Day, and of course we wrapped up the school year and kindergarten was over!
June: Summer fun at home with the boys. We stayed busy in the sun and by the pool as much as we could.
July: We were still enjoying the time off from school. I celebrated my 36th birthday... when did I get so old???
August: We celebrated Connor's 6th birthday by going bowling at Strikz. The beginning of the school year business began and before you knew it.. Connor was starting the 1st grade and I started teaching 4th grade for the first time!
September: Not a whole lot going on in September other than Fall pictures and dress up days at school.
October: Fijnally in the swing of things, we celebrated Garrett's 4th birthday at Falcon Field Park. The family went to the Celina Pumpkin Patch and the boys dressed up like football players for Halloween.
November: Connor lost his first tooth this month! He was excited to find that the tooth fairy left him $5 under his pillow. I explained that the tooth fairy was generous becausr it was his forst one...
We also took Shawna out for her 21st birthday (now I really feel old!) and took a road trip to Kentucky to celebrate Thanksgiving with Shawn's mom.
Whew!!! That's the last 8 months in a nutshell! I'm going to try to do better about posting things more frequently.

SNOW!!!

Well, not only did we have a white Christmas, but we also had a record breaking amount of snow on February 11th! After school, the boys and I came home to play! We had snowball fights, made snow angels and a little snowman! School, of course was cancelled the following day so we were able to stay home and enjoy it some more!