Christmas 2012

Whew! We made it through all the holidays and had such an awesome season of parties, food, family and friends! We traveled to Round Rock the weekend before Christmas to celebrate with Lolli, Pops, Auntie Ang, Uncle Matt and Brynnlee. We had a great time hanging out with them plus seeing our friends Jason and Natalia. We love seeing family during the holidays.....after all, that's what it is all about!

Since we came on Sunday, we enjoyed Christmas Eve and morning with just our little family of 4. The kids WERE SO EXCITED about Santa visiting them this year and it was so much fun to see the joy on their faces with each gift. Santa brought Ramsey a light-up scooter and Bryson a skateboard....too bad our warm weather has left us and they haven't been able to ride them! Speaking of weather, we had a white Christmas!!! While we were having Christmas dinner at the Hinshaw's house it started snowing and didn't stop until we had about 3-4 inches. It was gorgeous and fun!

Bryson with "Minty" the snowmany

 

Ramsey enjoying the snow!

 

Ramsey with "Minty"

 Our beautiful tree....it has been taken down but I sure do love how our house looks at Christmas time!

 

 



Not even going to to go there......

I'm not even going to write about how much at suck at blogging because the 2 of you that read that already know! So instead, I'll get to the good stuff....updated pics of the kids and a quick catch-up on our lives.

 

So, as you can see the kids have grown and are super cute (not that I'm partial or anything!) These pictures were taken in late September in Round Rock. We were down there celebrating Lolli's 60th birthday and decided to have family pics taken. I love the way they turned out, lots of personality was shown for the camera guy!

 

We are in the heat of 2nd grade for Ramsey and Bubba's last year of preschool, sniff sniff. They are both doing great and loving their teachers and classmates! Bryson had a successful soccer season in the fall and played his first season of t-ball as well. He loved both sports and is going to play both in the spring as well. He also goes to gymnastics every Friday with a few of his buddies, they have a great time and come out with red faces and sweaty heads.....which makes for an easy afternoon! Ramsey kicked some major booty in cheerleading in the fall. She is petite for her age so she was the "flyer" for her squad and LOVED. They all worked really hard this year and placed 4th in competition! So proud of those Pirates!

 

Dustin has had another successful with Covidien and was recently selected to the President's Club again. This means we get to go to COSTA RICA in January!!!! So proud of him and the amazing things he does for his territory, co-workers and clients. He is such an amazing provider for us...I couldn't be luckier!

 

I'm enjoying my last year of staying at home. I am really hoping to start on Etsy store online in the spring so that I don't have to go to back to work.......no worries, I'll keep you all updated on that, I swear! I've been beyond blessed to stay at home with the kiddos for almost 5 years...its time to contribute financially. maybe. hopefully I can just win the lottery between now and the fall!

 

That's the update for now. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

 

 

FamCation 2012

We recently went with 4 other families to Lake LBJ and spent 5 wonderful days on the lake. 23 of us fit into the cabin and I think its safe to say we all had a WONDERFUL time! We had 2 boats and 2 jet skis and we all fit on them and spent hours out on the water. 

Below are some pictures from my iPhone. I'll try to update with some pics from my real camera later this week. We are ready to go back and can't wait to plan our next adventure with these awesome people! 

Our own awesome private pool.

Dustin on the Hinshaw's jet ski with Bryson and Brock. "How's your momma 'n them?!

Ramsey and Bryson with Maddie and Ava

The kids tubing!

Clean swimsuits lined up to dry on our deck.

Random

Just a few things that are on my mind on this Friday evening at 10:45.

Dustin is currently "prepping his meat" for the big smoke out tomorrow. The pit will be running ALL day. As in 7am to 11pm. SO FAR we will be doing 2 briskets, a pork shoulder, sausage, chicken and probably a pork loin. I REALLY wanted some turkey but apparently that's not a hot ticket item for grocery stores to carry in the middle of June. So, our house will smell like hell a BBQ pit for the next few days.

The kids haven't been to bed before 9:30 all summer. It's starting to catch up to them.

I've heard "I'm hungry" or some variation of that at least 2,619 times this summer so far. We are only 2 weeks in.

My friend Christine wrote a funny blog about our trip to Houston. Our meaning we were supposed to meet up at least 2 times and NEVER did. Typical. Yet, ok with us.

I've decided my favorite saying is and always will be "Bless her heart". You can basically say anything you want about a person and as long as you follow it up with that you're all good.

I have a zit. On my chin. I am 32. This seems cruel to me.

I also am a fair shade of fried. Got a bad sunburn yesterday. I'm basically a hot mess.

I watched a friends one-year-old daughter today. It was awesome. Not awesome enough for me to open the baby shop but still fun. Bubba even got into "babysitting" her. I thought he would completely ignore her.

It's now 10:50, not bad for 5 minutes.

G'night!

Welcome to Summer!

We are one week in and having a GREAT summer so far. School ended for the big kids last Friday and we kicked off summer with a pool party at our friend Elyse's house! Right after we left there we loaded up the car, took the furry friends to the boarder, and hit the road for the Woodlands! Of course we had to stop at Buccee's on the way and get some grub.

We spent the week with Jenni, Brian, and Davis and had such a great time hanging out with them. It was so neat to see the cousins playing together so well. Bryson just LOVES Davis and Davis so patient with him. They watched 800 movies, had dance parties, went swimming, visited the Natural Science museum and lots more. Oh, and we were able to watch Davis play 4 baseball games.....that was HOT but he played really well. His team made it to the championship game but lost. We also took the kids to an Astros game....the Astros lost (NOT shocking) but we had a great time.

Now that we are back home and unpacked (the worst part about going on a trip) we are going to get settled into our summer routine. I forsee lots of pool time, gym time, play-set time in our future.

The pictures are out of order and not great quality since they are from my phone but enjoy none-the-less.

I hope your summer is packed full with all the fun things in life! (And lots of vodka if not!) 

Angela and Matt's Wedding in Buda

Auntie Ang and Uncle Matt tied the knot in a perfect little wedding on May 11th in Buda. We are so excited for them and thrilled Angela is a Wilson now!!! Brynnlee slept through the entire service but eventually woke up for some pictures. I didn't get ANY pictures of the reception at their house but the 2 families did a great job coming together and making it a special day for them. We are so thankful that God put Matt in Angela's life and we look forward to seeing them grow old together! We wish them their own "Happily Ever After!"

 The Happy Couple!

 Beautiful Brynnlee

The Wilson Family

Life as we know it.....

So, Spring is coming to a close and summer is creeping up on us! Soccer season is over for the FC Cobras,  they had a great season! Lots of laughter at those games and some frustration too (ie: when Bryson cries on the field and tries to cling to Dustin's legs) but all in all the boys had a great time! Ramsey has one more game this weekend and then she is done with her season......and possibly soccer for the rest of her life. She just really isn't that into it and thinks she may go a different route in the fall. She is already signed her life away, and our money, for cheerleading in the fall so we will see what we have time for!

Anyway, no more soccer and now on to swimming lessons!!! Bryson starts next week with his BFF, Noah. Noah is truly a fish in the water, helps that he has a pool in his backyard, so I'm hoping his skills will rub off on Bryson!

We officially have 20 more days of 1st grade of left!!!! I can't believe my baby girl is about to be in second grade. I am so sad that she will be in a whole new pod next year and won't be with the babies of the school.....seems silly I know but now she is like a real kid!

Once school is out I plan on packing our days with some gym time for me, some swimming and then family time at night, hopefully riding bikes and scootering around the 'hood. The weather has been so awesome lately, we've been so spoiled! Lake trip is planned, a trip to California is planned and then the girls river trip is in August!!!! WOOHOO!

Pictures on next post! That's all I've got for now!