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!

Picture Play

I was experimenting with my Kodak software. I thought these were sweet pictures of Karsyn and Lamar. She definitely has her moments between Daddy and Mommy. Sunday was definitely a Daddy Day.

(cartoon setting)

(adding text)

Soccer & Spring Pictures

Yesterday, Landrie played her first 2 soccer games. It was 40 degrees when we were out there and a ridiculous wind. I'm guessing it was less than 30 degrees with the wind chill.

Landrie's team has only had one practice, so they were not as prepared as the other 2 teams but still played their hardest. Most importantly though, Landrie had fun and is excited to play again next week.


Thankfully today was a beautiful "sunshiny day" as Karsyn likes to say since we had family pictures planned. Below are the pictures I took when we finished, but they are about the same quality as the photographer caught since Karsyn was not interested in cooperating. She was above all bribes offered and buried her face in my leg for several shots. We'll get the real pictures back later this week. I'm hoping there are a few we can use.

My Princesses

On Sunday, the girls, Lolly and I went to Elle's Princess & Pirate Tea Party. It was so much fun! The girls were greeted by Snow White and got to play will every princess toy imaginable. After Elle served them tea, Ariel came by the party to play games and entertain them. It was a great party!

Karsyn was "Trincess Barbie" as she says, and Landrie was Cinderella.

Landrie's First Soccer Practice

Last night, Landrie had her first soccer practice. We were supposed to start last week, but we had crazy cold rains for several days straight. The weather was perfect for her first day out.


Landrie exceeded my expectations last night. She listened so well to her coach and tried everything that was asked of her. I think she really enjoyed herself!

Restraining Karsyn on the sidelines was definitely a challenge, but she did good too. She joined in some of the games with the team and played photographer for a while.

Karsyn also had a PERFECT day on the potty! I'm so proud of her! We went to soccer practice and a restaurant for dinner and NOT one accident! She's doing GREAT!

Another GREAT day!

I'm shocked that I'm able to type this after Sunday not going well at all. Karsyn is well on her way to being officially potty trained!!! Yesterday, she had her only accident at 8:15 because Mommy didn't take her before our walk to see Campbell. When she woke up, her pull-up was dry and she's stayed dry all morning long. Wooooo hooooo! I'm just a tad bit REALLY excited!



I'm so proud of my littlest BIG girl!

I promise this won't become a PT blog, but I need to record this for the books. Our well-documented first attempts didn't go so well, so I'm pleased to report our progress this time.

Thanks for everyone's support and encouragement! As melodramatic as it sounds, I couldn't have made it through these last few days without it!