Recent Pics

I haven't blogged in awhile, so I am posting a slide show to catch up. Since I posted, we have been to the farm patch to take pumpkin pictures, cousin Syd's 10th birthday party at the skating ring, the fall festival at church, the Zoo, and the George Bush Library to watch President 41 jump from an airplane. Hope you enjoy the pics.

Dance Class and Hayride

Here are some pictures of Em "dancing". She is getting a little better. As long as she is having fun that is all that matters to me.

Em had a 3yr old Sunday School Hayride this past Saturday. We had hot dogs and were pulled

by a tractor on a trailer filled with hay. Em and El had a great time. When we turned off the road to get their house we went over a cattle guard and then a long drive way up to their house on top of the hill. When we crossed the guard there were cows all around us. Em was excited looking out her window and the cows being so close. El got excited and pointed at them when we were on the hayride. When we went out on the hayride we saw about 7 deer in the back of the field. We actually got pretty close to them. Here are some pictures of our time out there.

"Cinnamon Butt Bread" for anyone?

We are home safe and ready to get back to "normal". Monday was a day off of preschool and a day to do nothing, PJ day for Em. She was in them all day long. She just played and had fun at home. When B-Daddy came home we did get out after dinner to go see my in-laws new house they are building. They are at the fun stage where every day something new has happened. They are installing the cabinets and trim. It is looking so nice! I let Em go in her pj's since we weren't planning on running into anyone. All in all it was a nice quiet day.

Now getting to the title of this blog. I send B-Daddy to the store Saturday night for milk. He is a sucker for the marked down bread at Kroger. He came home with a loaf of cinnamon bread. Today we were eating lunch and B-Daddy and I each had a piece of bread with butter for dessert. Em said "mom I want some bread with butt on it." I had to laugh and asked her to explain. She said "I want bread like you with butt on it." I said "butter on it?" She said yes "butt-er!" We were rolling!

Over view of our trip and pics from WDW day 2 and Breakfast at Chef Mickey's

Monday was our day of rest. We swam, rode down the lazy river and ate lunch at the pool. We had a good day of resting.


Tuesday we all went to Disney world. We rode the train, It's a small world, Pooh ride, Peter Pan, Carousel, and ate lunch with Pooh and friends. We had a great time. El wasn't too impressed with all the Characters. She cried every time a character came along. In some of the pictures it doesn't look too bad, it actually looks like she is smiling big. The babies left us after lunch and we went back and took some pictures at the props, we ran into Snow White and Dopey. Snow White gave A a kiss. He was smitten! We rode the roller coaster and Em just loved it. She said she was going to say "Ah" the whole time and she just loved it. We rode it again and she told me she was going to say "ah and raise her hands". She was so funny and loved the roller coaster.

On the way home I asked if the kids could ride in the front car of the Monorail with the driver. B-Daddy and the 3 kids rode in the front car. They had a great time.

On Wednesday we went straight to see the Princesses. We got to take pictures with all of them. We then went and saw Mickey and Minnie's house. We rode some more rides and watched the 3pm parade. We ended up coming home around 5 that day. B-daddy and I toke the girls swimming and played putt putt.

Today, Thursday, we had breakfast with Mickey and friends. We saw Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, and Pluto. El cried and Em just loved it. Afterwards we went to Downtown Disney and bought souvenirs. We found a cool castle for Em. She had spotted it the first day that we went to Disney World. It is to pricey to give to her for a souvenirs so we are hiding it on the way home and giving it to her for Christmas. She told B-Daddy that she was willing to give back her doll house for it. That is big since her doll house is her favorite toy. We had a fun time on this vacation and are packing up to head home tomorrow.

Walt Disney World and Lunch with Pooh and Friends!

First 2 days at Disney

Our First Day at Disney.

Our first day was Saturday the 6th. We got up and headed to Epcot first. When we got in we hit it lucky and were able to see all the characters and take pictures with them. The kids were so excited! We then headed over to see Nemo and friends, they have a ride that goes through and you watch Nemo and all his friends and you ride in a shell. After that we went to see Crush the talking turtle. He actually interacts with the audience and answers questions. He was funny! We then got on the monorail to try to go to MGM. The problem was that the monorail only goes to the Magic Kingdom, so from there we took the bus to MGM! Around the world in a day~! When we got to MGM we headed over to see the stunt show, but in the process we crossed the street where people were lining up to see Lightening McQueen and Mater. We were the last family to see them and take their picture. That was so God!! We happen to get in line just in time! EM was so excited!!

We headed back to our condo for a rest and then we went back to Magic Kingdom for the parade and the fireworks. We ended up not watching the 8pm parade and riding rides while the rest of the people watched. We watched the fireworks and got a great spot for the 2nd parade at 10pm. Needless to say we got home at midnight and all the kids were conked out! They were troopers! They had a great day!

Today we will be heading to Animal Kingdom and maybe Magic Kingdom again..if everyone else gets up soon! So far everyone else is still sleeping!

Blood, Sweat and Pain!

B-Daddy and I went to his new office and cleaned up some. We piled the stuff up that could be brought back and receive credit for and we picked up all the boards that would be useful to build a play house. They use so much wood for bracing and such that after they use it they just toss it. I told B-Daddy that we should save all the scraps and we could build a cool play house. So we loaded up his trailer and ended up with a load. Here are some pics. I think that we are going to have a 2-story play house!!

Where the blood and pain comes in is when I was helping B-Daddy carry a piece of Advantech (4' X 8') which weighs about 80lbs and is used to deck the floor on the 2nd story. I was walking with it and ended up running into a board with nails that was hanging off the trailer. If you look at the picture it is the longest board on the trailer. Needless to say I was done carrying boards after that!! I have a good goose egg on my knee now. I then swept out the nails and saw dust out of the office. I was good and sweaty after all this!

Have a great week! I am off of posting till the 14th. Thanks for reading!

4 Days Down - Getting closer...

Here's wher we are after 4 days of framing the office. The framing is supposed to be done Tuesday, which is good since we leave for Disney World on Thursday!

All in a days work!

They started framing the office building yesterday and here is the progress at the end of one day! All walls are now up!

Also, here are some pictures of Em & El playing in the car on Sunday.

Not much to post about, we are just trying to get our plans finialize for our trip to Disney world! WooHoo 8 more days! The first thing Em asked when I told her that Saturday was cousin E's birthday party was, "Is it castle time?" She is so excited about getting to see the castle. we are going to have a great time watching her have fun!

B-Daddy's building an office

Here are some pictures of the slab going in on B-Daddy's new office building. B-Daddy has enjoyed learing all the in and outs of building. This is his 2nd project and he seems to really enjoy it. He has others in the making. Who knows, maybe we can build our house one day!!



I will keep you updated on the progress.

Girls Pictures

Here are just a few of the recent pictures I had taken of Em and El. This is Em's 3 yr setting and El's 1 yr setting. Now the hard part, which one do I choose?!?! Em looks so grown up!! Where has the time gone?

Em was telling El to smile!!

WORE OUT!

Em was asleep before we entered the garage from Preschool. She was excited when we picked her up. She actually told me she wasn't ready. She named most of the kids in her class and she told us that she had fun!! On the way home she told me that she was really tired!

Em's first day of Preschool!!

Today was Em's first day of preschool. She was excited and ready to learn. She has been telling me she wants to learn something when we are at home during the day. I told her on the way to school today that today she was going to learn something at school.

She did great this morning, she walked right in and waved and told me bye! This is unusual for her, usually she always wants a hug and kiss before we leave her. She is going to have a great time!

Mini Vacation

We were able to go on a mini vacation this past week. We left on Thursday afternoon and came home on Saturday. We went to Lake Conroe and stayed in a condo on the lake. We had a nice relaxing time. Em and El got to feed the ducks goldfish from our balcony, they must have had about 40-50 ducks. We got to swim, and watch some movies we checked out from the resort. We pulled out the sofa bed and watched them when El went to sleep. Em had so much fun doing that. She also loved the fireplace, it was electric and not heat producing, so she would have it on all the time. If she noticed it was off she would go back and flip the switch. The picture I have of her is blurry, but you can get the idea.

We were able to shop at the outlet mall on Friday. I got so many great deals. I didn't pay over $3.99 for the clothes I bought for the girls. It was great!! I bout $318.00 worth of clothes at OshKosh for $66.10 and received a $10 gift card for spending over $50! Got to love great deals!!

On Saturday we went to the Woodlands mall and ate and let the girls ride the carousel. El laughed the whole time her horse was going up and down. She and Em has a blast.

Snow White Decided to go Blonde!!

Minor details, but our Snow White is a blonde! We bought this outfit yesterday at Sam's. I wanted to get Em a princess outfit so she can wear it one day on our trip to Disney World. I saw that they had some at Sam's for a great price. When I went yesterday there was only a hand full of them left. So she picked out Snow White, there were no Cinderella's left. She had fun putting it all on this afternoon. It even came with cute high heel shoes. Guess who is going to be Snow White for Halloween???

El wanted to have her picture taken on the hearth too!! She was feeling left out.

After Em took off her Snow White outfit she came up to me and told me "Mom, I'm a cowboy now!" Being a princess is hard work!

El's Party

El had a little party on Saturday with family. We had our Dr appt on Friday and Em and El got shots. El has been running a fever ever since and has been very cranky!! My parents stayed home with her and Em today, while B-Daddy and I went to church. El has cried most of the afternoon. Pray that she feels better soon! I am not use to cranky, crying babies. It is a helpless feeling when you don't know how to calm your child.


Back to the Dr's visit on Friday, Dr H's birthday was Friday and the nurse asked Em if she could sing to him when he came in. I reminded her that she was going to sing something for DrH and she started singing Happy Birthday. When she got to the name part she put El's name in it. I had to explain that we sang to El yesterday. He just laughed, I think he was caught off guard. He was even a little red.

Em did great, she had to have 1 shot also and she didn't even cry. She said "that hurt mom!" It was over before she could think to much about it.

Here are some pics from Saturday.

Happy Birthday to El!!!!

She can't believe she is 1 either!!!!

What are you talking about, has it really been a year? You must have made a mistake.

El was born at 2:54pm on Aug 23, 2006. She weighed 7lbs and 9oz and was 21" long.


They change so much in that first year. We are truly blessed with 2 great girls! Em has grown so much in this year also. She looks like a toddler and now she is looking more like a little girl.