Pencil Project

I found this cute pencil on pinterest, and pinned it under "Projects for Jason"! :)

But, he's got a bigger project going right now; he's building a new swing set and monkey bars for the kids, so I actually did it, and it's so easy!! 

I might add a wire hanger to it, and some raffia, and hang it somewhere next year! Should I write something on it? I thought about Back-2-School, or School Rules?? Or might just leave it like it is! 

Shopping Trip to RR

Every August we head to the outlets at Round Rock to do some back to school shopping with us girls! Since Addi is getting so big (cry me a river), we need to venture to some other stores that aren't at the outlets, and it just is too hard to make in one trip, so yeah for MOM, she bought us a hotel room, and we went down a day early!! 

We checked in, but turned around and walked out to start shopping! We started at Steinmart, which I thought was an old person store, but actually Brianne and I both came away with some cute clothes.  Then we went to Old Navy and Marshalls. 

**(And seriously, how does Maggie know how to take a selfie!! HA!)**

For supper, we ate at Joes!! It was so good. I don't know if it's because it was 7:45 when we finally ate, and we were all starving, but we all cleaned out plates. Kylee got the kids fish sticks. Y'all they, were not the fish sticks you see around here. They were big, and so GOOD!! You know me and my food! Ha!

We went back to the hotel, and swam for a bit, and hit the sack for the next day at the outlets!

It was fun! We got some cute outfits to start school, and thanks to a Mom who loves to buy clothes, shoes, socks, underwear, jackets, and hair accessories for all these munchkins!

TMNT 4th Party

We celebrated Jaxon's 4th birthday Ninja Turtle Style. He decided on that a few months ago, and it turned out really cute!! 

There were many friends that came, and the kids were excited that cousin Chelsea came, and even SPENT the NIGHT!! :) 

Ninja Turtle Masks for ALL!! 

Singing Happy Birthday!! 

It seems with an August birthday you MUST have some sort of swimming! Every year I wonder who would give birth to a child in August with the heat being so HOT!! Ha!! 

Jaxon's 4th Birthday

 On Thursday, Jaxon turned 4! Love this boy more than life! 

I hung streamers in his doorway, that all the kids loved. Guess I'll have to do it for the others birthdays. We had a donut, and blew out 4 candles that morning! 

Rio 2 was showing at the $1 movie, so we went and did that. Maggie and I skipped out since she doesn't sit through movies, but the big kids loved it. Kylee was so cute; the day before the movie she said "Mom, I think the two birds have baby birds in Rio 2." And THEY DID!! :) They say it was a cute movie. 

Then Jaxon picked Rosa's for lunch, and we came home, and hung out with Aunt Hay Hay before she flew back to school, and had Ole Gin for supper!

Jaxon is growing up before our eyes. I see him make the "nice" choice on a daily basis, when he used to yell or not share something. We've been telling him, he is really acting mature. 

He loves to sleep, often requesting for someone to put him in his bed. He hates to brush his teeth. 

He loves ACTION. He loves his superheroes and especially the Ninja Turtle masks, and weapons. He adds noises, and crazy jumps with all his weapons. He takes his cars on crazy jumps, and says, they are "flying monster trucks". He loves to build high towers, and has recently started following the instructions on how to build animals with the Duplos. But, he also has started using the small legos to build.

He says he loves cows, and wants to be a farmer when he grows up, and he wants to play football. 

I love being his momma! 

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Happy birthday to my sweet Jaxon 

who fills my heart with more love than it can hold!

Praising God especially today for your life that has been given to our family. 

Dancin' Fools!

Ok, not quite dancin' fools, but they do like the idea of getting out on the floor and running around like crazy kids! 

A friend from high school got married last Saturday, and Jason was a groomsmen. At the last wedding this summer, Kylee sat out of the Wedding March, but she informed this time, she WAS DOING the wedding march. 

I told her she had to find a boy to do it with, so she of course quickly answered, Karter, but she remembered at the last wedding that he had 5 girls doing the wedding march with him. Such a handsome catch! Jaxon decided he wanted to do it too, and said he would ask Addi. 

I mean thank goodness for cousins being around!

And that's exactly how it went; they all got there partners and followed the grown-ups in front of them. It was so cute!! And Kylee was super happy that she got to participate! Now, she is ready for Uncle Josh's wedding in 2 WEEKS!! 

The rest of the dancing consisted of them running wild on the floor. Maggie danced in my shoes, and she also took 500000 pictures of the floor, and I think she snapped this one of me! Ha! 

The kids and I left pretty soon because Jaxon was practically begging for somebody to take him home and put him in bed! :) Jason stayed behind to decorate the groom's truck! 

Love these small town weddings!

A Sweet School Shower

Four of us hosted a sweet, little baby shower for a special friend. She happens to be a school teacher, so why not have a school shower!! It turned out really cute!

Look at those cute apple sugar cookies!! Yum!! I think I want to order some more for the start of school! :)

And everyone got to take home an apple. I loved all the chalkboard and school buses!

Now, just waitin' on baby Jensen!