three years old

it is birthday season around these parts.  today we celebrated carter man's third birthday!  he was super excited when he woke up this morning and saw that he had balloons just like grace did.  he said, "see.  it's my birthday today.  i got balloons!  i got green polka dots!!!"

he got a crown too!  ha!  grace thought it was a chocolate cake...i don't know where that thing came from, but it worked.

how old are you now?

free!

poppa taught him how to hold up three fingers and he is so proud of himself!

he was kinda eager to open up his birthday gift and he was hoping it was toys!

it was!  yay!!!

although, i'm totally questioning my decision to get him these huge blocks...where are they going to go???  ugh!

we took carter man out to dinner at chuck e cheese's!

he was super excited to "play games!!!"

this girl was intense...she may be a basketball star, one day.  or maybe, it was so she could win tickets which equal prizes which equal candy which equal her favorite thing ever.

happy birthday, carter man!  i love you bunches and i love that you keep my life exciting!!!

Our Christmas Break

{through Instagram}

These kiddos made a birthday cake for Jesus.

They put on their new jammies on Christmas eve and got tucked into bed, but...it took a loooooong time for them to fall asleep! 

"You know who gave me this movie?  Jesus!"

We did this a lot!

He sang baby June a song..."I like my car!  I like my car!  Not the animals that scare you! I like my car!"

We welcomed in the new year.

We celebrated my favorite girl in the whole wide world on her 6th birthday.

He ate his breakfast. Again.

The birthday girl and I saw Frozen...finally. It's totally my new favorite!

Meet Police Puppy and Princess Sparkles...they had a great time at Build-A-Bear with Grandma Grape!

And now our Christmas break is over and I am sad!  Is it crazy that I'm already wishing for a snow day?!?  'Cause I am!!!  And, it's cold.  Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go get in bed and attempt to get warm while I cry myself to sleep, but I won't be able to fall asleep anytime soon because my body is still in Christmas break mode and it's gotten accustomed to staying awake until 2am watching Friday Night Lights.  Texas Forever.

six years old

my sweet baby girl is six years old today.  crazy.  where oh where did the time go?

this girl had a kinda awesome day!

happy birthday, grace!

i think she grew up overnight.

she requested a crown for her special day and she pretty much wore it all day long.  i checked on her a little while after she went to bed tonight and she was sitting in her bed listening to her new frozen soundtrack and drawing with the crown still on her head.

after her birthday breakfast, she opened her gift and was truly thrilled over each and every detail!

seriously, she loved every single thing equally!

she is too big!!!

she wore her new shirt, listened to her ipod, painted her nails, chewed {almost} all of her gum...

oh yeah, she also face timed with lily for over 25 minutes.   

when she finally got off the phone, i took her to see frozen.  it was so good.  she hasn't stopped talking about it.  it really was so good.  i downloaded the soundtrack before we got out of the theater parking lot.  i want to see it again.  she does too.

next, she asked to go to target to look at the frozen toys and we did.  then, we picked up the boys and went out to eat at whatever restaurant she wanted.  she picked cici's.

she also received a ton of phone calls, text messages, & video messages!

she had an awesome day and i'm so thankful that i was able to celebrate with her because i think she is awesome!!!

happy new year!

we celebrated at home...family style!

we had party food

we played games

we ate ice cream

we rang in the new year with a wacky wardrobe/glowstick dance party

happy 2014

we hope you have a fun year

2013

...some of my favorite moments...

{january}

{february}

{march}

{april}

{may}

{june}

{july}

{august}

{september}

{october}

{november}

{december}