A Girl and Her Dog

Landrie LOVES Snoopy! No surprise, but 2 instances lately have proved just how much this girl loves her dog.

A few weeks ago after church, Landrie was holding Snoopy's collar in the front yard while I went to find her leash. I heard Landrie say "Uh Oh" and looked down the street to see Snoopy several houses down. I dropped everything (but my cell phone) and started running up the street. As soon as I got close, Snoopy would take off running again.

Once I realized this wasn't going to be a quick rescue, I called Lamar to come pick me up so we could drive to find the dang the sweet dog. When Lamar went to get Landrie to come back outside, he heard her crying, "What have I done?"

We finally found Snoopy about 6 streets over in the older part of our neighborhood. I wish I had thought to record the conversation that Landrie and Karsyn had with Snoopy:

Karsyn: "Snoopy, you could have been hit by a car!" She's obviously heard this a few times before.

Landrie: In between sobs, "Snoopy, we don't run away from Mommy. That is very bad!"

Karsyn: "Landrie, why did you let go of Snoopy?!?"

We were laughing so hard we were crying!

Tonight, Justin got to experience the die hard devotion to Snoopy.

He came over for dinner and played with the girls while I ran to the store. I forgot to shut the garage when I left. It was about to rain, so he let Snoopy into the garage without looking to see if the door was shut first. Snoopy took off!

When I got home, Justin was driving up with Snoopy in the car. Landrie was still balling her eyes out while smiling and laughing at the same time. It took a good 15 minutes to get her to settle down.

As indifferent as I am about Snoopy, I realize that she is too special to Landrie to ever let anything happen to her.

Easter Weekend (Part 2)

At Meme and Papa's house, we celebrated Easter and Birthdays once again. With 9 kids 8 and under it's always a fun, but crazy time. I love the 2 pictures below because we could barely contain them while we "hid" the eggs. Since it rained that morning, we put them mostly on the driveway and even hid a few on the cars.




Karsyn knew what to do this year and had no problem filling up her bucket to the top. Landrie filled hers up about halfway and declared she had enough.



After the egg hunt, we ate dinner and then did the birthday party for Karsyn and Madison. Lolly made her famous Strawberry Cupcakes (yummy!) for Karsyn's cake. When it was time for Karsyn to blow out her candle, she nearly burned her mouth. Oops!



We had a great weekend celebrating with all of our family. It was hectic, but I wouldn't trade it for the world! We are so blessed to have such an awesome family!

Easter Weekend (Part 1)

This was a weekend of celebrations! Not only did we get to celebrate the real reason for Easter, we got to have lots of birthday and family fun!


Karsyn had her 4th of 5 Birthday celebrations with Gigi, Grandpa and crew. She was thrilled to have a Dora cake.

We also celebrated Grandpa's 60th Birthday! We had fun with lots of family and friends, plus 60 pounds of crawfish and a pinata.

Silly Boys in Silly Hats!

Landrie, Karsyn and Camden had fun playing together too! We can't wait for her sister Braelynn to be here either.

Gigi and Grandpa, we had a great weekend with you! We can't wait to see you again soon!

Easter Party

Today the girls had Easter Egg Hunts at school. I tried to take pictures of them before school, but only Landrie wanted to cooperate.

We're so excited to have a day off from school tomorrow and to spend time with all of our family. It will be a great weekend to celebrate all that God has blessed us with!

Bluebonnet Beauties

Only in Texas do you subject your children to taking pictures in a pile of weeds...

They sure look cute though!

Happy Birthday Karsyn!

I can't believe to be posting this, but Miss Karsyn is 3 years old! It seems like just yesterday that she was born, and our lives were forever changed.

She is constantly moving, usually very happy and sweet and extremely independent.


She goes back and forth between being Daddy's girl or Mommy's girl - though lately, it's Daddy hands down.

She loves school and has such an imagination.

She and Landrie are eachother's biggest fans!

We are so blessed by this Sweet Sweet Girl! I love you, Karsyn Alyssa! Happy Birthday!

Spring Family Pictures

Not my finest day

Today is going to go down as not my finest day as a mom. Last night, Karsyn got sick as we pulled in Matt & Missy's driveway. She immediately acted fine so we thought it was just an isolated thing. She even said she was hungry and ate a hot dog and some pasta salad. I'm sure you can see where this is going...

She got sick again over there and we quickly made our exit. Luckily we live right down the street, so I walked her home while Lamar helped clean up.

I went ahead and called in for the day, but was expecting her to contine to be fine. She ate breakfast fine, but was laying around a lot. I decided to press my luck (BIG, BIG mistake) and get my nails done. She watched a video on my phone and then as I was half way through, lost her breakfast all over my pants and herself. YUCK!

My nail person, grabbed towels and a trash bag and I cleaned her off and we kept right on going. She's asleep now and hopefully will be done with this yucky stuff soon. I'm praying that no one else gets it.

On a side note, Karsyn's 3rd birthday is Sunday. When you ask her how old she's going to be, she holds up 4 fingers and says twenty one! Silly girl! I got it on video and will try to post it later tonight.

UPDATE: Landrie just came home and looks like she's ready to blow. Round # 2 here we come!