Look Who's 5!!!

I'm 5!!!!!

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Happy Birthday Sweet Karsyn Alyssa!!!  You bring us so much joy each and every day!  I love you to inifinity and beyond!!!

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Happy 7th Birthday Landrie!!!

I cannot believe that my baby girl is 7 years old!!! I keep telling her to stop growing up, but she just laughs and says she can't. Landrie is such a SWEET girl and I'm so proud of my big first grader! She is sweet, gentle, compassionate, loving, and so much more! She is adored by her little sister and makes me smile every day. I love her spontaneous hugs and "I love yous". I hope they never stop.

Happy Birthday Landrie Nicole! We all love you so much!

Happy Birthday Sweet Karsyn!!!!

I can't believe my baby girl has gone from this:






To this:

She changed my world for the better on 04-05-06 and has changed it every day since then! I LOVE this girl!!!

Sweet Landrie Turns 6!

Landrie took this picture herself! Pretty good, huh?!

I can't hardly believe that this girl is 6 years old! It seems like she was just born yesterday! Here's 6 things about Landrie:

1. Landrie is 48 inches tall and weighs about 40 lbs.
2. She's now lost 2 teeth!
3. Landrie loves sweets! She would choose a piece of Lolly's cherry candy or a chocolate kiss over any food any day!
4. Landrie loves going to school. She claims her favorite thing is recess, but I know she loves it all since she pretends to be Mrs. Bennett all the time.
5. She's a "closet" performer. She loves to sing, dance, and pretend as long as no one is watching. If you acknowledge it, she clams up or gets mad at you for smiling at her.
6. Her imaginary brothers are Nick, Joe & Kevin Jonas! She talks to them on the phone and they sometimes come to Daddy's football games with us.

Happy Birthday my sweet girl! No matter how old you get, you'll always be my baby!!!

Happy Birthday Pops!

Pops and his Girls!

This is Pops the Monkey. His tag reads:

You always seem so big and strong
And you teach us what's right and wrong
You look at me with such pride, too
Pops, you love me and I love you!

Could that be any more perfect?

Happy Birthday Pops! We love you!!!

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!

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!

Party Pooped!

This weekend was a whirlwind of activity! We started Friday with a football game. We had another disappointing loss. The Buffs are going to be named the "almost team" this season. We've had 4 heartbreaker games losing each in the last minutes of the game. Gigi and Grandpa met us there, and the girls were thrilled to see them.

They gave me some relief Saturday morning while I got ready and had a little bit of down time before the celebrating began. Gigi and I did some shopping in the afternoon while the girls napped, and then it was party time!

The party was great! The weather was much nicer than last year and the kids had a great time. I've got pictures coming from several different cameras, so I'll be posting pictures hopefully tomorrow.

Landrie was definitely spoiled!! She's stocked up on cool t-shirts, Hannah Montana and Camp Rock gear to last her a long time.

Thanks to everyone who came and especially to Gigi and Lolly for their help with the party! I couldn't have pulled it off without you.

She's 5!!!!!

It is so hard for me to believe that my first baby is actually 5 today! That seems so BIG! Some days I see glimpses of a future teenager, while other days, she's still my baby girl! I can't wait to see what this year will bring.

Happy Birthday Sweet Landrie! We love you!

Pumpkin Fun at Four (Landrie's Birthday Part 4)

With Landrie having an October birthday, I decided that a Pumpkin-themed party would be great! We had heard about the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch and it didn't disappoint!

The party was inexpensive and fun! They provided a covered table area, a free hay ride and for party favors - a small pumpkin. We brought cupcakes and drinks and that was it. The kids loved all of the cute character cut-outs and the adults loved the picture opportunities! Unfortunately, it felt like it was over 100 degrees outside! Landrie was crying as she opened presents because sweat was dripping in her eyes.

The party went so well and was so much fun, that we're repeating it again tomorrow! This time, I'm in a little over my head as we decided to invite several more families. We're expecting close to 40 kids! I'm sure the party will be great!

The Big 3! (Landrie's Birthday Part 3)

Landrie's 3rd birthday was the first one in our new house. I was a little fearful of kids on the new carpet, so we scaled back - as much as you can with 3 siblings, 5 cousins and their kids, grandparents and great-grandparents! I think we still had close to 40 people!

In all the craziness, I only have a few pictures. They're pretty cute though because typical Landrie - she's covered in chocolate icing! She could care less about the cake, she just wants the messy icing!

On her "real" birthday with the grocery cart and Curious George toy Mommy and Daddy got her. She got her kitchen from Gigi and Grandpa, so we thought the cart would be a good addition. She still plays with the kitchen now.

Karsyn celebrating Landrie's birthday for the first time. She looks really excited. ;)

Little Cowgirl (Landrie's Birthday Part 2)

For Landrie's 2nd birthday, we had a Cowgirl Party - pony and all! We hired Chunky Monkey to come and entertain our family and friends. Landrie still talks like she remembers the actual day. She likes to remind Lolly that she forgot to get a carrot for Chunky Monkey! She was a little timid at first, but I think she enjoyed it in the end. She was a precious little cowgirl!