Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Easter, Mississippi and year of the locust

We had a wonderful Easter with just the 4 of us. It was very relaxing and just what we needed!!

I could just eat these two little cutie patooties up!!

Monday after Easter me and the kids headed to Mississippi for a week and a half!! It was the last time I will be making a trip to Mississippi with just myself and the kids!! Right now it is only a 6 hour drive but as of next week it will be a 10 hour drive!! We had such a great visit with family and friends and of course I had to hit up all of the cute children's boutiques to get the kids some clothes (like they needed any). When we were in Mississippi all of those terrible storms came through that produced tons of tornados! I have a good friend that lost her house, a friend that had a tree fall on her house and their two cars and a girl that I went to high school with lost her dad. It is devastating where those tornados came through. Tuscaloosa, AL and Smithville, MS got hit really bad. Smithville which is a very small town is basically gone. Please pray for all those who were affected by these devastating storms!

So it is the year of the locusts! These type of locust come out every 13 years! While we were in Mississippi they started coming out of the ground. There were tons and Brady loved them! We went around my parents house picking up the shells and the live locusts. They were everywhere! If you were outside you could just hear the roaring noise they make, it got louder everyday and now my mom says that you can hear it in the house!!

All over plants.

Brady having fun playing with them.

These are the ones we picked up and put in a bucket.

All over the tree!


This pic is for you mom!! LOL

Oh and we are moving a week from today!!!!!!!!! I wish I could snap my fingers and already be moved in and unpacked and everything hung on the walls!! If only it was that easy!!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Newborn photo session

Here are some of the pics from Willa Kate's newborn photo shoot when she was 6 days old. Thanks to Cassie Spalding Photography for coming to the house and taking these amazing pics.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

New House!

Here are some pics of our new house! I am very excited to get moved in! We have been so blessed to have had 2 brand new houses!! When we do have to buy an older home we aren't going to know what to do! The master planned community that we are going to live in has lots of great things! We have a welcome center with an awesome cafe and a fitness center that has zumba, yoga, bootcamp, sculpting, and spin classes! Also the main pool has a 70ft slide that was built inside this huge hill and there is a splash park and a regular park. Throughout the community there are other parks including one that is a short walk from our house! Also our house is one house from the end of the culdesac and there they are going to have a dog park and by next summer there will be a pool there!! Oh and there are miles of walking and biking trails and a large creek that winds in the neighborhood and connects to a lake at the welcome center and you can kayak and canoe in there! Also there are tennis courts, basketball courts and soccer fields!


playroom


Dining room before hardwoods
after
Living room before hardwoods.

after

Love my new kitchen!!
Here are some pics of the community!

Welcome center with lookout tower!







Beautiful trails!
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Willa Kate is 2 months old!

I can't believe Willa Kate is 2 months old! She is getting so big! We had her 2 month check up today and she weighs 10 lbs. 6 oz. (40 percentile) and is 23 (75 percentile) inches long. She did great with her shots!! She is smiling so big and doing lots of cooing! I could just eat her up!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Update

I figured I needed to update everyone on our move! We hope to be closing on our house in Houston in mid May!! We went house hunting a couple of weekends ago and found the perfect house! I will write a post on our new house soon! We are very excited!! I am going to miss all of my friends I have made here in East Texas and my fabulous playgroup! I hope I can find one in Houston that is as Great as the one here is!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Willa Kate's Birth Announcement!


Back of announcement

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Louis Vuitton for sale!!

I am selling one of my older Louis Vuittons. It is the Batignolles Horizontal. They still sell this style for $930, I am asking $400! email me if interested! I will be posting this on ebay soon!


Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Tripp

I read lots of blogs, but there is one that I really wanted to share with ya'll. It's about this cute little boy that has a rare genetic skin disease called "EB". They said he wouldn't live to his first birthday. He will be 2 in May!!! I am going to warn you that you will cry! Courtney, Tripp's mom, is AMAZING! She has blogged about her daily routine with Tripp and I really do not see how she does it!! Tripp really is just precious and He is my hero! I could go on and on about Tripp and Courtney but I will let you read about this little miracle boy for yourself! Oh, and her most recent post has the cutest videos EVER of Tripp dancing. They have put the biggest smile on my face! That little boy has got some major rhythm!!