Zoo

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Gorgeous weather. We decided to take the kids to the Zoo. I have tons of pictures. I think I am going to just post the kids pictures instead of all the animal ones. I have not edited any of the photos. We had tons of fun and Grandma and Grandpa came along too.

Stitch in front of the flamingos Minnie in the bat cave
their wing span

This is as close to the Alligator she would get.

Grandma took her on the carousel

My handsome guy

The kiddos with Grandma & Grandpa

On the Kangaroo

Minnie & I went and fed the birds.

Baby elephant

School Project

This is Stitch with his log cabin. We have been talking about the early Texas Settlers. This is the type of home they would build. He did an awesome job. Best part he had fun doing it.

4 years ago

4 years ago today we ventured out on an unknown journey. We moved to the state of Texas with NO job, NO house, and NO family. What were we thinking? We had a 1 year old and a 6 year old, a cat and a dog. We were coming out here on faith.

It has been 4 years now that we have lived here. We are so glad we made the move. King Louie got an excellent job with Bell Helicopter, we have a gorgeous house, and tons of family and friends. =) Seems like we have always been here.

This is the rental house we moved into when we first got here, we lived here for 6 months until we bought our house we are in now. Stitch at the state line.
Here is our moving truck, pulling King Louie's truck, I was driving our other car. We don't have either car anymore. Wow has life changed in 4 years.

More Fun Pictures

Here are some random pictures of the kiddos that I took the past week.

Minnie and her Build A Bear This was the kids after the Ash Wednesday Service.
He always looks away when I take his picture now, so I take what I can get. Doing his Vocab.

Minnie and baby Hannah.

We love to stop and get Happy Hour at Sonic, we love their slushies.

Picture Obsession

I do LOVE to take pictures, but little Miss Minnie LOVES to get her picture taken more. She is always asking me to take her picture. She just cracks me up. She will just start screaming my name from where she is, and then once I come running to her to see what she needs, she will say CHEESE!!!!! She thought this was so funny that Peanut was in her drawer. Please don't look at the messy room.

Valentines Day

I am a little behind on my blog. These are pictures from Valentines Day. Stitch did not want any part of my pictures on Valentines. He was not feeling well, his allergies were really bothering him, and so he stayed in bed all day and read the 4th Percy Jackson book. We had given it to him for Valentines and he read the whole book in 1 day.

Minnie and I bot got flowers from our favorite Valentine. Daddy!!! Here she is with her tulips. Here she is being a Diva!!!
This is the night before Valentines, she thought it was so neat that her and her Baby Hannah matched. Thanks Grammy for the fun outfits for her baby.

On Valentines with Baby Hannah, and Eloise, dressed in their Valentine outfits.

Good night my sweet Valentine. Another cute outfit Grammy got her baby. I made Minnie's Valentine jammie pants.

Cousin Sleepover

Wed night last week we had a sleepover with Cousin Boo. We slept at her house. Boy was that an experience. The girls had fun being together but once it was time for bed, it was a disaster. Boo knew Minnie was out in the family room and she refused to go to bed. She screamed most of the night for Minnie. Of course Minnie slept through all of this. I think it was around 4 that Boo finally crashed. Lets just say I love my Niece to pieces, but we won't be staying over anytime soon. I had bags under my eyes all day.

This is Boo's kitty Lucy, she slept on Minnie for part of the night.

Bowling

Dedicated to Mike

May 22nd 1954 to February 12th 2008

My mom and Mike on their wedding day July 1st 2006

Friday February 12th was the 2 year mark of Mikes Passing. We have decided to always get together as a family and do something special 0n this day. Not really a day to mourn but a day to honor his life, and remember the good times. Last year we went all out since it was the first year and we went to The Great Wolf Lodge here in Texas. This year with the snow, we stayed more local and went bowling, and out for lunch. The kids had so much fun. Even little Boo got to bowl. They put the bumpers up for the kids, and I think Aunt Belle needed them too. They also let the girls use a ramp to roll their ball down. This helped them so much.

My mom was on a bowling league when us kids were younger, and she even brought her own bowling ball which is as old as me. Ha Ha......I am usually not very good at bowling. but I found this really cool purple ball, and guess what I even beat my mom. I was very proud of myself as that will probably never happen again.

Stitch is ready to bowl, he did really well, although he was thankful for the bumpers on several occasions. My mom and her ancient ball

Boo, trying to bowl without the ramp

Minnie getting ready.

She had to put her fingers in the hole every time, I am surprised she never dropped it in her toes.

Snow was Gorgeous

I was up at my mom's house when we had our huge snow fall. These are all scenery pics from her house. It was so gorgeous to see the snow on the trees. A few limbs had fallen from the weight of the snow. Now I know this is nothing to others who live in the snow all the time, but for us this is huge. Last Winter we didn't get any snow and so far this winter we have had snow 4 times. A white Christmas, Aleksia had a White Birthday and now a white Valentines. The snow is melting but still on the ground.

The view from her front porch My car at my mom's house.

Trees in the backyard
I took so many pics of the trees, they just looked so pretty

A view down her driveway and down the street

Snow Fall from Heaven

We had record Snow fall here in Texas. 12.5 inches in our area. It was so beautiful. Snowed for 24 hours. The kids had a blast playing in the snow.

Boo loved to eat it. Stitch had fun throwing snowballs at everyone
Uncle Beast even played in the snow.

Minnie Mouse thinks it tastes good too

Helping Stitch make a snowman

Snow break

Stitch made an angel

Eating more snow