It's here again...School begins!

We had a great summer and wrapped it up with a few fun things. The kids had the week off before school started, so we took advantage and went to the movies and saw Pete's Dragon (it is a must see), shopped for new shoes, got some cool haircuts, played in sprinklers and of course made a lemonade stand.

Landon helped the kids make this cool lemonade sign. He is the best daddy!

Sprinkler Fun!

BIG BOY haircut! He was ready for meet the teacher.

Laney and Kipton were both so ready and excited for school to start.

~Laney started 3rd grade making this her second year at Carver Center. We absolutely love it there. She had a wonderful first day of school yesterday and was so happy she got to see her friends.

~Kipton started Kindergarten at Washington Math/Science Institute (which is one block away from Laney's school). Score!!! He also had a great day and was so excited to go back today. He knew a few kiddos from his pre-school, so that made it fun for him.

Here is our first day of school pics. I may or may not have cried yesterday when I dropped them off ;(

And a little flash back! I don't know why I do this to myself.

Here goes another school year full of fun filled memories.

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I have to add a picture of this cute little chunk who just happened to have a half birthday! (Little behind on this one, he will be 7 months in a few days).

-He is sitting up on his own
-Waves and says "hi"
-Says "Momma" all the time and has said "Dada" a few times
-He learned this new way to express himself... a lovely HIGH pitched squeal. It will get everyone in a restaurant's attention. Yikes!!!!
-He loves baby food, everything except peas (can you blame him)
-He rolls all over the place. We call him roly poly.
-He has lots and lots of rolls!!! Makes for extra time in the bath to clean all of them. haha

We love our little Kingston!

Great Wolf Lodge

Fourth of July weekend we packed up and headed to Great Wolf Lodge. We planned the trip with Tanner and Jodi and the kiddos. We love our time with them, and since moving to Austin we don't get to see them near enough, so this time was definitely needed.

The kids were so pumped and could hardly wait to get to play with their cousins.

I really wish we could have visited more. Great Wolf is crazy packed, so it seemed we chased kids all weekend. Next trip will have to be at a beach house or somewhere with less people so we can just visit and watch the kids run and play around. The kids had a blast with the water slides, pools, arcades, games and shopping.

My LOVES (and little wolves) in one picture!

Sweet cousin Parker!

Sweet cousin Liam!

Best I could get with a fussy, sleepy Kingston. lol!

Pretty girls with pretty tans!

Landon and Tanner had fun on the ropes course!

Poor Kingston came down with a fever two days before we left for our trip. He had an ear infection and raspy lungs. The doctor said he would be good to leave out of town, we were just instructed to do breathing treatments three times a day.

Well, let's just say traveling with a baby is hard, but traveling with a baby with an ear infection is even worse. He was great on the car ride, but was pretty fussy all weekend and super sleepy. He lasted a good two hours in the water the first day but was done with it the second day. He had a few rough nights and go figure the day we arrive back home, he was as happy as can be. I am so glad he started feeling better because that was a little tough.

But these kiddos had the times of their lives, so it made it all worth it.

There are lots of birthday's in the month of July for our family, so we got to celebrate Tanner, Parker and Liam on this trip.

So glad we had a weekend to sneak away and can't wait for the next trip with a happy, healthy baby :)

Tyler Trip!

We loaded up and headed to Tyler on Father's Day weekend to celebrate my new niece, Josie, that will make her appearance very soon. (4 days to be exact, we will get to share a birthday) :)

My mom and I threw my sister, Chelsea, a baby sprinkle. She had already had another shower, so this one was mainly for family. We had an ice cream bar with all the fixings and had it at my sister's house that they just had built. It was gorgeous and I was so excited to see it all fixed up.

Getting SO excited to meet this precious one!

Sisters are a girls best friend!! Don't know what I would do without them!

Fun thing about my their new house is all the land and cattle! We had so much fun riding around looking at the gorgeous scenery, feeding the cows and relaxing.

I was also able to talk my sis into taking a few pics of our family on her land ;) Love the way they turned out and love even more that I didn't have to stress over picture taking because they were free. lol!

This old barn was so cool!!

We had a great weekend in Tyler and are looking forward to going back soon to meet the precious little Josie Earlene!

Austin Trip!

Memorial weekend we went to Austin to watch cousin Parker in her dance recital. That girl has some moves. She is a great dancer and we were so happy we were there to support her.

PROUD COUSIN LANEY

Parker's Dance Team

The boys! They weren't too interested in all these girls. lol.

Just a little wind blown. ha!

 We stayed in a hotel this time around, but the kids still had sleepovers of course.

Memorial Day was Laney's actual birthday this year. So we got to celebrate her before we headed back to Midland. We planned on going to a fun little restaurant with putt putt but it was pouring, so we went to Gattitown (which by the way, is LOTS cooler than the one in Midland).

Of course Daddy had to join in on the fun!

We drove into Midland and went straight to Nanny and Papa's for a birthday dinner, swim and Birthday cake.

I would say we had a great weekend watching Parker and spending lots of time with our family!

Laney turns 8!

Sweet Laney Capri turned 8! She requested a slumber party this go around and I was so excited. I was thinking how much fun, and how easy! Well little did I know that slumber parties are hard, hard work but the memories we made were well worth the late, tiring night ;)

Here is a line up of our fun night! (Plus an overload of pictures).

We had her party on the last day of school and she had early release so she helped me get everything ready. This was probably a mistake, since she knew the line up she was asking the whole night if it was time for the next activity. I know for next time to keep everything a secret ;)

First up pizza on the trampoline!

Decorating cupcakes with as much sprinkles as you would like. Our dog Ellie liked this part. She had her fair share of sweets that night.

My mom helping with Baby K. She stayed until everyone fell asleep and also came bright and early the next morning. Couldn't have done it without her!

Opening gifts. Laney could hardly wait for this part. lol

And of course a water balloon fight.

Painting the driveway!

A few dads stuck around and played with the water balloon launcher. The girls loved this part!

We then went inside, got in our jammies and colored pillow cases. This was the most quiet all evening. haha!

Finished products!

We busted out the glow sticks and had a dance party ;)

And one more sugar rush, smores on the fire pit Landon fixed up. I couldn't have done it without Landon either. He fixed up the yard, filled water balloons, put up the tent and hung out with 11 little and 3 big girls. haha!

Pedicures and Manicures!

Movie time with popcorn! They were all crashed by 1:30 am. The invite said "Party all night, Sleep all day" but I am glad we wore them out enough they didn't hold me to that.

Twinkies!! I love sleep overs with my BFF. This wasn't planned but we thought it was so cute they matched.

A big shout out to my BF Katy and mom! They both stayed until all were sleeping and were over to help early the next morning. We were wore out, can you tell???? I owe them big time ;)

Thanks to all the girls for being so sweet and coming to celebrate Laney turning 8!!

Bad news.. Laney, Landon, Me and even Kingston all came down with the tummy bug the next day. Booooo!!! I am so grateful that nobody else got sick though. Just made for lots of laundry for us ;(

Big thanks to Tanner and Jodi for keeping Kipton occupied. They went swimming in the hotel and Kip had lots of fun. He didn't want to hang out with all those girls... one day he might enjoy that..lol.