Little Kippy Wayne!

Oh my little Kippy! You have grown to be such a big boy and it makes this mommy sad! You are such a studly "lil man" (as you call yourself). You are for sure ALL BOY.
~You always go to the first pile of dirt and stick your hands right in it, you find every stick and rock that we walk by and insist that you throw it.
~Your favorite thing at school is the sand box. You come home every day with sand everywhere and it doesnt bother you one bit.
~You love to growl and say "I'm a man". Cracks me up!
~You like to randomly shoot things with your imaginary gun you carry.
~When I ask you to clean your room, you also ask sissy to help you. And you always put your shoes in your dirty clothes basket every time. I always know exactly where to look when we are missing a shoe ;)
~ You love, love, love doing guy things with daddy. If I say I am going shopping, you tell me you are going with the guys to golf. You love bringing your clubs along and hitting balls.
~You tell me every single morning that you had good dreams and you dreamed about mommy. When I ask what I was doing.. the answer is always Mommy was eating ice cream. hehe. Every single morning we have this convo :)
~ You love, love, love your sister. End of story.
~ You will randomly be talking and like to add in grunts and growls.
~ You are a mommy's boy but for sure wants to have your special time with daddy too!
~ You want to wear cowboy boots every day because you are a cowboy!!
~ If we ask you where you want to eat.. you pick Taco Billa (Villa).. every single time.

Kipton Wayne, Mommy and Daddy adore you. Even though you like to make messes and pour dirt all over mommy's floor, we wouldn't change a thing about you!

Cowboy Kip!

My lil man!

Sunday afternoon nap! My boys!

Toothless Laney :)

Laney has officially lost her first tooth. Her bottom left tooth had been wiggly for quite some time. We kept telling her to wiggle wiggle wiggle. It started getting so wiggly that it would hurt when she would bute into things. And I'm sure the tooth that was already growing underneath it was started to bother it too. Last Sunday it was so loose that we told Laney it has to come out this week. So we watched you tube videos on how to pull a tooth. There are some creative ideas out there folks. Of course tie the tooth with a string and tie the other part to a door, a string attached to a rocket, a string attached to a dog. We watched video after video with Laney and all these kids were just laughing and pulling teeth was a breeze. So here we are Monday (May 12th) and the poor little tooth is just about laying down. So Landon says we are getting this tooth right now. Laney starts screaming bloody murder. I mean seriously it was so traumatic just thinking about it for her. So through 20 minutes of screaming Landon finally gets the string attached (which was no easy task) and gently pulls and it's out. Wheeeeeeew! Nobody told me that was going to be that hard. All the videos we watched it was sooooo simple!   Anywho.. it was out we were happy and so was she!! Tooth fairy came and left $10... holy moly.. what was he/she thinking :)

Poor thing still has tears in her eyes!

So that left the bottom tooth on the right that had also been loose. It started moving into the space where the other tooth was. So she had one tooth in the middle and gaps on both sides... hehe. But luckily it was super loose too and when we picked her up from school on Tues (May 20th), she was so excited to tell us that her second tooth had came out when she ate a goldfish. WooHooo... now that was easy :) Tooth fairy left $5 for this one. I guess the first one was just super special :)

9 year anniversary date :)

Landon and I were finally able to celebrate our 9 year anniversary this past weekend. Landon had asked me earlier in the week if we could go out and celebrate on Friday and I agreed that night was good. As we are talking about what we might want to do, he says I think I know what we are doing but it's going to be a surprise. Well, I don't like surprises, especially if I know I have a surprise coming. So I begged him to tell me and tried everything I could to get it out of him... (I am soooo bad I know). He accepts to love me just the way I am.. haha. Anyways.. he told me to be ready by 6:15 Friday. So, I hopped in the shower and he took the kids over to my mom's. I then get a text.. "go find a surprise in the guest bedroom". So.. I run in there like a little kid a find a pretty White House Black market box and a Jessica Simpson box. I think my jaw dropped to the floor and I was all grins. (I kinda had the suspicion after asking a million questions that he might have picked me out a dress...but heels too?? awwww). He had picked out the most gorgeous dress (with the help of the girl at the store) and some pretty black heels (with the help of my sister's, since Chelsea lives in heels).

I texted him when I was ready, he walks in the door to pick me up with a dozen red roses and my favorite wine... as if he hadn't already done enough!! He even left the house in a tshirt and shorts and dressed at my moms so that he was ready. I felt so special!!!!

We then had a nice dinner at Venesia's on their back patio and followed that by a few drinks at the hotel rooftop downtown. We were home by 9:00pm like the old folk and didnt even have kids to pick up, since they stayed the night at my parents. It was a perfect evening and I am so glad that Landon chose me to be his wife :)

My gorgeous attire picked out and bought all by the hubby :)

Anxious to see what the next 50 years holds! Love you babe. Thanks for making my night so special!

Mother's Day!!

I had a fun and crazy filled Mother's Day. We decided last minute to make a trip to Baird and spend Mother's Day at my grandparents house with my grandparents, mom, aunts, sister and cousins. It's always so much fun when we all get together.

I am so thankful for my mom and everything she means to our family!! She is my best friend that I know I can count on for everything! I am also very lucky to have a grandmother that is an awesome godly role model and perfect Memaw to Landon and I and our kiddos. We are super blessed to have them both!

Love that they have an awesome relationship :) My hubby and My mommy (or his mom as he calls her)

And of course I wouldn't be a Mommy if it weren't for these two crazies!! Love being their Mommy! I came home to two charms for my braclet. One from the kiddos and one from the hubby :) Happy Mommy right here!

 We hated missing a baby shower for a dear friend and Laney's last soccer game but I was feeling bad for missing Mother's Day with my mom and grandma. Glad we got the time that we did though!

Landon turns the big 3-0!!

Anyone who knows me, knows that I do not like surprises. I don't like surprises for myself unless I have no clue I am about to get one, I don't like keeping secrets if it pertains to a surprise. Christmas time is so hard for me!! Anyways, I knew I needed to do something special for my hubby this year since it was a big milestone birthday... 30!!!! Eeeek.. I started planning a little surprise get together with one week notice and I was nervous the whole time planning. But surprisingly I kept it a secret!!! Woohooooooo! He said he didn't have a clue unltil I mentioned where we were going, then he started thinking that is weird we never go there.. haha.

Let's just say he had a blast. He LOVES surprises (unlike me) and was so happy to see all his family and friends.

Thanks to all who showed up and made his day super special!!!!!!!!

Wedding Time!!

Sorry for post after post. I am playing catch up :)

A few weeks back Landon got the privledge of officating a wedding of a former co-worker. So we headed to San Angelo for a quick little trip. My cousin lives in San Angelo, so the kids had lots of fun playing. We saw a play at the library Friday night while Landon was at the rehersal. Lots of park time and walking the river on Saturday. And Saturday night was the wedding. We had a blast to say the least!!

Kip at the rehersal dinner. He was cracking us up. A big ol salad.. he devoured that plate..haha

Some park fun!

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2nd cousins!!

The wedding was gorgeous. It was on a ranch (the road to get to the ranch just about killed us) and just so happened that the sun was setting just as they were saying vows. Turned out beautiful and of course my hubby did amazing. Landon mentioned Laney and I in his ceremony and Laney thought that was so special :)

Selfies in the car before the wedding :)

Cody and Kendra :)

Photography by Laney :)

Dancing the night away!

Honesty Award!

Honesty is the best policy :) And I am so glad that our little Laney Bug knows that. She recieved a 6 weeks award on honesty. Every 6 weeks they choose a child out of the class to recieve a character trait award. We were invited to an award ceremony, where she recieved an award, they feed us a nice meal (well as nice as cafeteria food can get..lol) and had a speaker. We couldn't be more pleased with our little girl.

Sweet girl!!

All the students that recieved the honesty award!

My mom and I surprised Laney with lunch this last week and the cafeteria lady stopped me and told me how sweet and polite Laney was. Little moments like this make you think you are doing something right.. lol.

She loves her Nanny!

Happy 9 year Anniversary!!

This year Landon and I celebrated our 9 year anniversary! I cannot even explain how much I love my Landy...words seriously cannot describe him. He is the best friend I could have ever asked for. He is the best daddy to our kiddos, they just absoultley adore him and look up to him. Landon is such a Godly role model for our family. I love that we can laugh and be goofy but can also be serious when need be. I thank God that we meet in highschool and that God placed us together. I couldn't have picked a better soul mate!

One of our first pics. Junior year in high school :)

Prom 2001:)

4/23/05- One of the best days of my life :)

Honeymoon!

My love!!

Happy Anniversary to me :)

Love my babe and looking forward to many, many, many more years :)

Easter 2014

We stayed super busy this Easter. Several easter egg hunts and lots of time with family :)

Our subdivison had an Easter party for the kids one Friday night, so we decided to swing by. They had crafts, pictures with the easter bunny and Orange Leaf yougurt. Kipton wasn't too fond of that big ol bunny but loved the ice cream..lol.

The Thursday before Easter we headed over to Tanner and Jodi's for pizza and an egg hunt with Parker and Liam. The kids had fun devouring all the candy and spending time with their cousins :)

Saturday before Easter all my family was in town, so we went to a church's egg hunt. Hot dogs, face painting, jumpers, egg hunts and more.

Easter Sunday.. Church time with the family!!!

Love this pic of the kiddos! Cousins! Wish lil Jhett lived closer.

My beautiful sisters!! So blessed to have them both!

And my handsome hubby!! SO blessed by him too and all that he means to our family!

We enjoyed our Easter!! And blessed to say that HE HAS RISEN!!