Angels & Bandits

It’s that time again, Soccer time.

I was back and forth on
whether to put Cecily in Dance again or have her try something new.

Last year
when Pierce played Soccer, she would always run around with the team and kick
the ball. She’s also a little more aggressive than Pierce so I figured it would
be a fun change for her.

So, we signed them both up.

Bandits and Angels.

Cecily was so excited to start playing and has been doing very well. She gets out there and
kicks the ball with the other girls and they all adore her, always calling her name.
Only one little problem though…

The Jersey.

It’s been a problem every Saturday morning
that it’s too big, ugly, and whatever else is wrong with it. I don't blame her though, what girlie girl wants to wear an oversized BLUE Jersey? Yeah, I get it.

By the time we get
her in the car and get to the field she’s settled down and puts her face on. Charlotte on the other hand, is in LOVE with Soccer.
She insists on having a ball at all times and actually dribbles it very well! We'll see about that though, I'd rather have them follow their mama's footsteps and dance.

Pierce still continues to play well and is getting better and better. Still has shy episodes though...

It's not Christmas

I’ve been begging
Jake for a while now on getting us a Wii.

yes, we are a little behind on getting one, I swear we were the only ones left that didn't own one.

Having 3 brothers, videos games were a huge part of our childhood and some of my best memories were staying up all night and playing Mario Kart and my favorite, Street Fighter, with my brothers.

We fought, cried, laughed, and bonded.

I wrapped each part of the game individually and colored all
over the paper. I numbered them in order of how they needed to be opened. It
was the neatest thing watching them guess and open each one. In fact, I wrapped
them early that day and set them on the table for all eyes to look at and lets
just say a lot of bribing/chores were done…

Once they opened the presents, we played till 11pm.

On a school night too.

Cecily's new Preschool

Today was Cecily’s first day at The Ark…

A Little different
school than Applecreek since it’s at a Baptist church but it’s a brand new
school that is beautiful inside and they do a lot of neat things with the kids.

Cecily was so excited to go to school, mainly because of the cool playground
they have.

I was thinking this morning
with the excitement with the new school and stuff it would be an easier morning
to get dressed and all that. Um yeah, it wasn’t, who was I kidding?

We still argued about what she
was going to wear, how her hair was going to be, and all that…

We reached an agreement.

Or should I say she won because this was NOT what I had planned for her first day of school out fit.

OMGosh!

Her teacher is Ms. Bessie. Sorry, no pics of her, stay tuned for a later one maybe cause i know your dying to see what she looks like. :)

She’s kindof like a Maminou, a little older woman that’s super sweet
with her.

Huh? I have a First Grader?

It’s that time again, school starting and all the fun
Holidays to look forward to!

Pierce has been really excited to start school
again, he loves to learn. Last week we met his teacher at “Meet the Teacher”
day and she is going to be awesome, I can already tell. She’s one of those
women who won’t take crap from anyone but is also sweet and fun at the same
time.
Of course Pierce was his shy self and I could barely get a
smile out of him.

I LOVE his school and the
location of it. Meet Mrs. Jones…

The classroom

His own little desk! How cute is THAT!

My new obsession

I've always thought about having a "Chabby Shick" home but never really thought twice about it since I got sucked into the whole "Southwestern" style after I met Jake.

I love southwestern, but it's not me.

So, after a website my cousin Katie showed me and then telling me how easy it is to do it, I made the decision.

I'm switching.

All of it.

Piece by piece.

But i'm finally doing it.

I'm planning on sticking to some basic colors like Cream, light teal, mustard color, and so on. All destressed.

So, I made my first trip to Mckinney Trade Days and found some awesome things! Here they are...

I am so excited to get started!

This beauty below I got for $12 (and its heavy duty, good quality) and i'm going to paint it cream and destress it.

Birthday Surprise

So since I have known Jake,

lets just say he's not very creative when it comes to celebrating my

Birthday,

Mothers Day,

etc.

But this birthday, I made a point in dropping the hint pretty obvious that this one better be better than the others because mainly, I'm turning 30.
I have been dreading this birthday for a really long time. It just seems as if i've been in my twenties for so long that the "3" "0" would never come. Well, reality hit and to tell you the truth, it's a little depressing when I think about it. But I can say I don't feel any different.

yet.

So, my birthday went a little something like this.

6:30am, Jake sneaks out of bed, leaves through our back door and goes to get donuts and flowers. He walks in the bedroom with a glaze donut (my fav) and two huge numbers "30" lite up singing "happy birthday".

The rest of my day consisited of... Taking care of the kids, cooking, cleaning, and finally showering at 4pm. Later that night, Jake had the Underly's surprise me and come over to the house with a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Cake. (A birthday tradition in our family)

So, the day of, (as always).... Jake asked me what I wanted for my birthday...
I pointed to the piece of paper on the fridge and said "This."

His face expression changed and he said...

"Oh, ha ha... Can't I just buy you a present instead?"

"Nope" (With a big Smile)

I never thought in a million years I would choose household work over gifts, guess that'e one thing that changes when you hit the 30's!

Squeezing in some fun

As you may already know,

we LOVE driving down to Houston to see our cousins Nick & Hillary.

It's been about a year now since we've done that because they haven't lived there this past year as Nick was doing rotations with medical school all over the state.

But now... We are back on track!

We went down there as birthday request of mine and spent the entire weekend, laying out by the pool and just relaxing all weekend. I love weekends like that and little quick trips are so refreshing.

The kids had a blast playing with their cousin Isabelle and Charlotte was loving all the new toys she had discovered.