Uncle Scott's Rehearsal Dinner

Wedding, wedding, wedding!  Lots of wedding activities this weekend!  Uncle Scott got married and the kids now have a new Aunt.  We began the festivities by going to rehearse at the church on Friday night.  These three goofballs were the flower girls and ring bearer and all very excited about their roles--well, I guess the older two were really excited.  Lila was way more interested in running around the church.

 This picture really sums up the kids that night:)

 J man was really good throughout the entire rehearsal--I was very proud of my little stud muffin.

 After about five attempts and a few different poses, we finally got all three kids to at least look towards the camera.  Too bad I had to hold two of them in order for this to happen.  It's no wonder I've developed a new pain in my lower back!

 The big kids did pretty good standing on their names and listening to instructions about the big day.

 Meanwhile, wild woman Lila was on the run for at least a  solid hour!

 It is truly shocking that she slowed down long enough to walk down the aisle.  Although she totally dismissed big brother's attempt to hold her hand.  Miss Independent.

 After that, she was on to roam the halls some more, so the big kids were on their own for round 2.

They both did great and we were able to go have some good Italian food at the rehearsal dinner.  Gigi and Boom met us there and we all had a really enjoyable night. 

After Lila had finished her meal, she was set free to visit all the tables.  She made several stops at Uncle Scott's just to give him some sweet kisses on the cheek.  It was so cute. 

Stay tuned for wedding pics!

Long game, Longhorns

October 8th, Gameday! 

 Jackson's ball game was at 9:00 this morning.  Happy to say that the Cubs won!  The girls got ready to cheer on the Longhorns and put on their uniforms to wear to the game.

 Even Hoppy, the class mascot who is spending the weekend with us, helped root for the Horns today.  Maddie taught him how to get his horns up:)  But alas, it was not enough! 

Oh well, we had fun wearing our orange and white, and there's always next year.

Now we are ready to cheer on the Rangers tonight.  Let's go Rangers!!

Pumpkin Time!

Fall has arrived!  And we are oh so thankful!  This week the kids and I stopped by a pumpkin patch on our way home from school.  I let them all pick out a few small pumpkins and they loved it.

 While there will definitely be more pumpkin pictures to come, I just had to document their pumpkin love.

 They all picked out a spot to pose with their cool new pumpkins.

Yay for Fall!  Now bring on some cool temps!

Rowdy Ranger Fans

A few Sundays ago, Boom took Jackson to the Rangers last home game of the regular season. 

 Jackson was more than excited after experiencing the awesomeness of a Ranger game a few weeks before.  He counted down every day during the two weeks leading up to it.

 After all, he knew that he'd get to go early and do all the fun hitting games beforehand.  He'd get to eat hot dogs, cotton candy and ice cream.  What he didn't fully grasp was how great his seat was going to be. 

 They were literally 12 rows behind Nolan Ryan!  What a view!  Both my dad and Jackson brought their gloves to try and catch a foul ball.  While they didn't catch one, a really nice lady who worked for the ballpark saw them trying to and ended up giving them an official Rangers baseball.  How cool is that?!

They had a few professional pictures taken at the ballpark.  Here's one of the best.  Thanks, Dad for taking J to the game.  Thank you also for staying after the game was over and letting him run the bases.  He will remember it for many years to come. And I love that.

Go Rangers!!

Baby Luau

Our real address is on Swan Ct., but you can really just remember it by this short phrase: Party Central!

 This past weekend we hosted a couple's baby shower for our good friends, Price and Taylor.

Since we already had lots of luau decor, we decided to stick with the same theme.  Who doesn't love a luau?!  The guys really enjoyed hanging out, drinking some beer and watching the Ranger game.

 Us girls hung out indoors and really enjoyed getting to catch up with each other, without kids!

 After Jared got the sliders ready, it was time to feast.  And what a feast it was--everything was so good!  Thanks, girls for all helping out with the yummy food:)

 It's been quite a while, but it feels like not that much time has passed since us 5 were cheering for GHS.  Go Owls!

 After dinner we all started making our way out back. I had to get one pic with my hawaiian honey.

 Then it was time for some fun gift time.  Here are the happy parents holding up the present we got them.  I love this little winter outfit and had Temple's name embroidered on the back.

Perfect patio evening and the Rangers won! It was a great night with awesome friends. Congrats, Price & Taylor!  We can't wait meet Pointer Sister #3!!

Carrie Underwood

Trying to get these three to sit still is similar to catching three birds and asking them to do the same thing.  Good luck.

 But put on a video of Carrie Underwood, and they will be instantly mesmerized!

After breaking the spell that she had over them, Jackson jumped up and began rocking out on his air guitar with her duet partner, Brad Paisley.

 The kid may have a future on the big stage!

 This little goose danced so hard that she spun around and fell down.  Thanks, CMT for a few good laughs!



Luau Wedding Shower

Like I said, we have been really busy this weekend.  Yesterday we had Jackson's baseball game in the morning--he did great and got two doubles off of the coach pitch!  He didn't need the tee at all!  After that Daddo left with Poppi to go help Uncle Scott move into his new apartment.  While they were gone doing the heavy lifting, the kids and I went to have lunch with Meme and wish her a happy birthday.  When we got home from that, it was time to start getting ready for Lyndsie and Scott's wedding shower at our house.

Thank goodness I had some help!  Maria offered to come over early and was a big help getting all of the food ready.  She's also a fan favorite with Maddie:)

Memaw and Poppi came early too to lend a few more hands.  Love this pic--Maddie's doing her best "cheese" face and Lila is saying cheese while eating a goldfish.

While the girls were getting everything ready inside, Jared, Andrew and Poppi were working on the patio.  The guys hung lights and then Jared started grilling the chicken. 

Even Jackson was trying his best to help and really liked assisting me with lighting the tiki torches:)

Right after we got it all under control, the happy couple arrived.  Aren't they so darn cute?

Thank goodness everyone came hungry because we had plenty of food.

We found this child grass skirt at Meme's house.  She brought it back from Hawaii when they went sometime in the 1970s!  Jackson thought it was so funny and wanted to wear it for a little while at the party.  Love this kid.

J also got the best seat in the house and had his dinner outside, sitting in his daddy's favorite chair, so that he could watch college football on TV!

While he and Maddie ate dinner outside, Lila was busy holding court inside.  She loved climbing up in Uncle Scott's chair...

and thought wearing his big hat was really funny.

When it was time for presents, the kids all got a front row seat!  They were so excited to be able to come to the adult party, and for the most part they did pretty good.  The last thing J asked me before going to bed last night was, "Mom, was I good enough to be invited to another party?"  The kid loved him some luau fun.

The kids got Uncle Scott this very cool tool box and they got other really fun gifts, too.

All in all it was a very good night.  Jared convinced Maria to hang loose and it turned out to be my favorite picture of all of us!