Shelby and Mallory's Birthday Party

Chloe and Shelby

(Chloe and Shelby are 4 months apart.)

(Shelby and I share a birthday....October 21st! She was born on my 30th birthday!)

Mallory and Kyle
(Mallory and Kyle are also 4 months apart.)

Teresa and me
(We are 10 months apart. :))

(We grew up living 2 houses down from each other.)

Kyle LOVED Chuck-E-Cheese!

On Saturday afternoon, we celebrated with Shelby and Mallory at Chuck-E-Cheese for Shelby's 4th birthday and Mallory's 2nd birthday. We had a fun time playing games, eating pizza, and eating cake. The last time we went to Chuck-E-Cheese, Kyle was about 6 months old, so this was all new to him! Chloe played games with Shelby while Everett and I again took turns chasing Kyle around.

We hope you both had a very Happy Birthday!!

Shelby and Mallory B-Day Party Video

Colin's Birthday Party

The Birthday Boy...COLIN!

Kyle, Taylor, Chloe and Macie

On Saturday morning, we celebrated with Colin at the pumpkin patch for his 2nd birthday. We had such a great time riding on the hayride, eating candy and cookies, eating "scary" cupcakes, playing on the bounce houses, and getting Chloe's face painted! Everett and I took turns chasing Kyle around. We were very tired by the end of the party, but he had such a good time running all around the pumpkin patch. Chloe had a fun time palling around with some of her little friends. With all the chasing around, it was hard to take many pictures. Here are a few pictures that we did take. Also, here's the 2 minutes of video we were able to take.

After having a little sugarfest at Colin's party, we headed off to Shelby and Mallory's party for some more fun and sugar!

Colin B-day Video

2008 State Fair

We went to the Fair on Sunday with Rachel, Tony and Lorenzo!  We all had a very fun time!

FAIR VIDEO

Friday Night

Cookie Time!  

Chloe, Kyle, Colin and Taylor

Tent Time!

Colin, Taylor, Chloe and Kyle

Movie Time!

Colin, Kyle, Chloe and Taylor

We had our family pictures taken on Friday night.  We can't wait to see them!   A little preview is on Tiffany's blog.

We then went over to the Day's house and cooked out while the kids played!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the Pumpkin Patch today.

We thought it would be a little less crowded on a Monday afternoon.

Little did we know that a near-by elementary would have a ton of parents and kids show up....

Chloe and Kyle had such a good time. Chloe picked out a little pumpkin for herself, and she also picked one for her grandma.

Then, she and Kyle spent the next 45 minutes running around the pumpkins and playing on the bounce houses.

Hook 'em HORNS!

What a great game! After Saturday's win against OU, we are #1.

Hope it stays that way! We have such a hard schedule in the weeks to come.

We love our LONGHORNS!

Our Little Model!

Last weekend, we were at the mall, and they had a model search. We signed Chloe up, and she got to walk down a runway and pose for a picture.

Poor little thing froze up on stage, but she was so brave to keep walking and smiling in front of those hundreds of people. Really....there were hundreds! I couldn't believe how many were there! We talked to some who had driven from Tyler, Waco, and even Oklahoma to be there!

Some kids were walked down the stage by their parents, and I asked her if she needed me to help her, but she said she wanted to do it all by herself!

Here's a little video of Chloe walking down the stage. :)

Twin Baby Shower!

Chloe took a few of Madison, and this is her favorite one.

I took this one of Chloe.  She looked way too cute...I had to have a picture of her, too!

My cousin, Brandon, and his wife, Heather, are expecting twins in January!

We went to her baby shower last weekend.

Chloe had a great time playing with her cousin, Madison, during the shower.  They dressed up in princess dresses and played with dolls.

Chloe also kept busy taking all the pictures while Heather opened presents.

Here are some pictures from the shower....a little look at Chloe's photography talent!

Congrats and can't wait to meet Baby Molly and Baby Hayden!!

September 2008

Chloe

Miss Independent:

Chloe is wanting to do most things for herself! It all started one morning a couple of weeks ago when she woke up......I went in her room, and she had already gotten dressed and was brushing her teeth! Then, she wanted to fix her own bowl of cereal. I gave her a cup of cereal and a cup of milk. She poured them in the bowl herself. She kept saying "I'm a big girl!" That day, I had plans to eat lunch with some friends I used to work with. I had planned to drop Chloe and Kyle off at one of those hourly drop-off playcares. I ended up dropping just Kyle off, because Chloe decided she was a big enough girl to go eat with "the big girls". She did great most of the time!

Magazines:

                 

Her favorite thing to look at is toy magazines. When one comes in the mail, she spends hours just going through it and telling us everything she wants. I doubt she remembers most of what she tells us. She points to something and says, "That would be good for me." Then, she looks up at us to see what we'll say. I went online and ordered her some toy magazines.

School:

She loves it! It's fun to hear about what she is learning!

Kyle

Talking:

Most of the time when he wants something, he says "Mama mama mama mama."

Homer (our dog) is "Momer" or "Momo"

"Go bye-bye"

"ook a da"(Look at that!)......He said this a few times when he was pointing to the stars in the sky.

Most of what he says is very hard to understand, but he is really trying!

Cars:

His favorite thing right now is cars. He rolls them all over the ground and tables and makes a "vroom" sound as he does it.

Running in the Grass:

He loves running in the grass. Whenever we get home from anywhere, we let him out of the car, and he runs all through our grass, up and down the front steps and then back to the garage to go in the house.

SEPTEMBER 2008 VIDEO

NOTE: On the clip with Kyle and Lorenzo, Kyle is not hitting Lorenzo with the pan.....he is hitting the fireplace bumper! :)

Weekend Birthday Party!

Taylor, Chloe and Jane

Kyle throwing a ball!

Chloe broke the pinata!

The 3 birthday girls! Macie turned 3, Addison turned 1, and Amelia turned 1.

We went to a birthday party on Saturday morning for Macie, Addison and Amelia.

The kids had a very fun time running around, hitting the pinata, and eating hotdogs and cupcakes!

Hope you all had a very Happy Birthday!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!

September 10, 2001 in Cancun

September 16, 2002 in Maui

December 24, 2003

November 27, 2004 (6 months pregnant with Chloe)

August 12, 2005

June 18, 2006: Father's Day

(That morning, Chloe and I woke Everett up and told him I was going to have a baby!)

October 21, 2007

April 12, 2008 (Our first weekend away without the kids)

September 8, 2001

We were married 7 years ago today!

Happy Anniversary! I love you!

1st Day of Preschool

Chloe started preschool today at her "new school".  She always calls it her "new school" whenever we drive by.  She was so excited to go!  She walked right in, put her backpack away and did what her teacher told her to do.  I stood outside the class for a few minutes just to watch.  

When I picked her up, she had the biggest smile on her face.  I could tell that she wanted to tell me all about it!  She told me about reading books, playing with playdough, playing in sand, getting a smiley stamp, having a snack, and using the little potty.  She kept very busy during those 3 hours!!