Category: Family

Easter 2013 Recap

Yay!  We have a new decent family photo!
My brother in law took this Saturday night after the Easter egg hunt.  We went over to T’s parent’s house for  a pre-Easter dinner and egg hunt with all the cousins.  It’s so nice to get together with everyone, we are so blessed to have great families on BOTH sides of the coin.Read More

Easter Basket 2013

We had a great weekend with a family dinner & egg hunt, along with a beautiful church service today.  I’m missing my family back home today, especially on Easter where we would always go to the farm.  So thankful for Jesus sacrifice so that we can live…..I’m so not worthy of anything.  Thank you Lord for my beautiful family and friends and this life you have given,
  Hope you all had a great Easter too!!!!
Although we don’t really do the Easter bunny, we did do a basket for the lil guy and here are some pictures I took….I’ll post the rest of our Easter weekend later. *Cherishing this age and these moments*

The 3 Birthday Race Car Party {That Didn’t Happen}

Sometimes you have the best intentions and then life happens.  I had all the party supplies, cupcakes, and everything else needed for the perfect race car birthday ready to go…..then Friday night happened.  Connor was up all night with a croupy cough.  My sister, Vinny, and Jarrett were in town already and my Mom and Dad got in late Friday.
 
Everyone was here!  Terence, Connor, and I got about 3 hours of sleep Friday night.  Needless to say Saturday wasn’t going much better and you could just tell Connor boy wasn’t feeling good.  I made the decision to cancel the party.  I know a party is not what’s important, it’s being surrounded by the people you love and having fun!  And we had just that.
 
Later in the weekend Jarrett got sick and my Mom started feeling bad :-/  What is going on with the allergies already TX???  “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”
 
Here is my big 3 year old….
 solid chocolate suckers from Hot Chocolates

 Here are the race car cupcakes I made.  They were really easy.  I just dipped them in melted chocolate chips and then rolled them in crushed mint oreos.  I wanted it to look like a race track 🙂

 Opening presents from Nana & Poppy

 Poppy let Connor have all his loose change to fill his piggy!
 Jarrett & Connor eating Cheerios

 They love each other so much.  Connor keeps asking where everyone went….waaaah!

 My sister found these shirts at Old Navy.  Aren’t they so cute???

Later that day we headed out to the park with my family and T’s family came over too, along with cousins Alicia & Ellie.  I got some confetti eggs for the kids to play with.  They sell them in grocery stores now.

 Our boys
 Vinny & Bonnie
 Mom is used to having two kiddos to entertain 😉
 Me & Bon

Ugh….it was sooooo windy.  Just so you know I didn’t get the Miley Cyrus haircut….that would be the wind. Thank.You.

 Big boy and his 3rd cupcake….the candle wouldn’t light!
 Me and Bonnie
 My sweet niece Alicia
 Flying kites

 Poppy!!!

We had a great time!  I miss my family already, and although everything didn’t go according to plan we got to visit and make memories we’ll never forget.

Race Car Party Planning

So if you’ll remember last year we had a Starbucks/Coffee themed green St. Pattys day birthday party.  This year Connor wanted a race car birthday party so this is what I have going so far:
Cupcake liners/toppers
I’ll probably just end up making some chocolate and vanilla cupcakes
 I found these cute street signs at a party store for about $2 each. 
 Balloons and a race car flag banner
 plates and checkered flag picks
 Cute little candles
 Party favors
 I was thinking of putting something in these??? Popcorn???
 I got these cute plastic bowls and plate on clearance for $2

I can’t believe how big these boys have gotten!  They are both 3….this was last year and they already look like they’ve grown up so much.

 Thank you Lord for these precious boys!
If I ever get preggo again it would be fun to do it with my sister 🙂

Happy FRIDAY!

Busy Week

Its been a crazy busy week.  Lots going on & I don’t really have time to blog a lot! Sorry y’all….
Blogger Biggest Loser we resume on Monday for the finale & then I’ll choose winners.  Thank you all so much for your support during this time.  A lot of changes have happened since January but Ive tried to remain conscious of my eating habits.  If you feel like continuing to link up with some of the people you’ve met through the challenge that’s great!
I’m not doing so good at maintaining this link up and I’m sorry :-/  But looking forward to Monday and reading about all of your progress!
Hope everyone is having a good week!
Connor had a great 3rd birthday yesterday & says thank you for all the happy birthday wishes!