Belated Birthday to Taelynn

I am so behind on blogging, I said that I would post random pix of the last two weeks then in looking at the pictures I realized....oops..... I forgot to post anything for my baby's birthday. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TAELYNN!! I can not believe my baby is three years old already. We went to McDonalds for her little party, she invited 4 little friends and they played for two hours. It was a good time and oh my goodness, so easy!! Jasper wants hers there too, I think we might just do that. Anyway these are some of the pictures from Taelynn's big day.

She got the stroller and baby and necklace as presents and HAD to play with everything the second we got home.
Here is more presents, the purple dancing shoes and the purple tutu from Granny. Thank You Granny!!! Taelynn loves purple!

Taelynn and NiNiHer princess cake turned out AWESOME!

Here is the crew. Taelynn's friends.
Good Times, Good Times!
A girl who knows what she likes. $money$

Happy Girl!

The balloons were a hit! She wouldn't go and play for the longest time all she wanted to do was hold the balloons.

Taelynn and J'Knox and Catherine.

Havin' a BLAST!!!

My Favorite Thing to do in the Summer

Okay, here it is! Hollie asked this question about the summer and my answer is-I LOVE our road trips to New Orleans, and the stops along the way. My girls gotta get a cajun fix every now and then!!!

Family Nothin' like'em!

Father's Day!

This is all the dad's we got to spend Father's Day with. From left to right it's John, Jody(John's brother), Lisa's dad John, and Al my father-in -law! We had a great day, I just hope John had a wonderful time. I think he did. The girls were so excited to give daddy the gifts they picked out and our sweet Savannah made her dad the SWEETEST card ever!!! He LOVED it! After church we went to my sister-in-law's house for some pool fun in the sun and a shrimp boil. Let me tell you I sure missed being in New Orleans when I started smelling the shrimp, and I truely missed my PawPaw. He spent this Father's Day with our Father in heaven. My Granny had kinda a blue day he was missed by all. Granny I LOVE YOU!!!

This is John and his brother Jody. All the guys spent the afternoon watching golf on one tv then Deniro movies on the other outside, while Lisa and I took over thier job playing with ALL the kids in the pool(7 kids). I was soo... tired last night but it was worth it to see my baby having a good time with his brother and dad! Love you John, you are the GREATEST dad ever and the love of my life!!

Summer fun with cousins

Oh my! Vacation Bible School is almost over just one more day. This year has to be my favorite year yet, ALL of my kids are having a blast! We have kept soooo... busy this week I have not had the chance to keep everyone updated on the week like I had hoped. My nieces Tate and Rawlin have come to VBS this year so I have had the extra bonus of seeing them everyday! We have all hung out together for the last two days, I hope they have had as much fun as we have. It makes me smile to see cousins laughing and playing together.

Taelynn FINALLY got under the mushroom today, she has NOT liked anything that sprays water like a shower. (not even sprinklers)

Savannah, Madison(Tate's bff), Tate, Rawlin, and Jasper all waiting in line for the slide.

Here she is, Jasper has really fallen in love with the water slides this year. We are all really having a fantastic summer so far. I will keep everyone updated on any new news. For now I will say "goodnight!"

"Saturday Night Fun"

I know this is a little late, better late than never. (It is VBS week I will probably be late all week) Saturday night we got a chance to go the zoo for a special event for Northside babies. (all babies that were born at Northside Hospital) This was a great night, the kids LOVE going to the zoo, Savannah was the only one who remembers this zoo though. The kids got their faces painted, got snow cones(which BTWcan not compare to sno balls), and got a chance to ride the train, plus see all the animals. The kids thought is was very cool to see Timone(merecat), Pumba(warthog) and Simba(well you know, lion) all in a row. Savannah's favorite I think was the Panda, Jasper, of course loved the monkeys and Taelynn was so excited about the elephants.
Daddy and his girls
Momma and her babies!
The kids loved all the statues throughout the zoo and had to take a pix with just about everyone.
At the end of the night everyone was hungry so when this close to Varsity you can not pass it up. Although my little ones were tuckered out!!

"Summer Day"

Our Daddy is sooooo.... GREAT! I was out with Savannah and Jasper last night for their swim lesson and John was at home with Taelynn, this is what him and Taelynn played with while we were gone. How cool, the girls will not let me take it down!

My girls were so cute this morning they played so good together. While waiting on me to get ready for the pool they hung out in Jasper's room just like this for the whole Beauty and the Beast movie. (this NEVER happens)

One of my oldest friends came over today to hang out at our pool. My friend Karen brought her little boy Ty and her soon to be step daughter Meggie. This is Meggie with Taelynn she had so much fun with her in the water. I love catching up with old friends, we had a great time seeing each other again. It was nice to meet Meggie and I can't wait to meet the rest of the family. Karen, I am so happy to see you so happy !!! I love ya girl!

Meggie was awesome with the kids and they would not leave her alone. Jasper was thrilled to have Ty over at our pool. He is getting so big and he can swim like a fish, I mean sooo... good.

Here is Savannah and her friend Sara she has gotten to know at the pool. It was good to see her at the pool today, she spent the night there last night and again tonight . Savannah is having a fantastic summer so far, and there is more to come. I am so happy for her, we have VBS next week and I am bringing two of her friends with us all week. It would not be the same if I did not have extra kids.

Just a thought...

I was just talking to someone and was reminded of how AWESOME GOD really is. I wish that my mind , my eyes, my mouth, and heart were always focused above on God. I just got news that someone in the ministry needs prayer. No one is perfect! People fall all the time, things are not always great! I know because my family has been through a great fall, but God has reached down dusted us off and said you are OK. Just like a dad would do. This process was not overnight actually it took us a while but I can honestly say "Thank you God for letting this come to the surface of my family, it has shown me what is really important in life and more on how to see You more in our daily activities. John and I are better because of that fall. I can love more deeply and smile all the time when my kids are in our presence. Thank you for ALL the blessing in my life and the health and happiness of my kids. The simple activities we have to do this summer. The vacations that we have taken, and are going to take soon. Just everything Lord, I can not say enough about You, God!!!! Well, guys thanks for listening to me, I just HAD to tell God what was on my heart right now! We are all truely blessed with a God like our God! I hope everyone has a wonderful day and remembers it's Gods doing.

Apology

Sorry about the blue font color below I know it is hard to read. I am not sure what happened, I just changed a lot of stuff on my blog and I guess I messed that up, anyway, it will be better next time! I know this sounds funny but if you highlight it, it is easier to read. Thanx for checking our family blog, I LOVE sharing, my family with you. (maybe some of you could let me know what you think, by signing up and posting comment??!) I really like to sign on and read my comments it is also a great way for me to know who is keeping in touch.

It's my party.....

Well I obviously have not gotten posting pix down pat since right now all my picture are from the end of the night to the beginning of the day. Next time I will do better! Anyway yesterday was my birthday and I got to spend all day at the Towne Lake Hills pool with one of Savannah's friends. I LOVE the sun so I was glad to be at a pool!!! After that we went home to shower up so I could take all my girls to get their toenails done. How much fun is that!! I LOVE having little girls they are tooo.. cute. After getting all our toes done we went to meet daddy at my favorite Italian place, Ippolitos. (yum! yum! yum!) JoJo also joined in on the fun, you can see in the pix below. I am sooo... pleased with my Savannah, last night for dinner she had seafood marinara.(clams, mussels, shrimp, and scallops) she loved it and ate all the seafood! Those of you who know me I don't stray away from the plain stuff on the menus too often so this was a big deal I thought I was going to waste the money on her entree but she surprised us all! Go girl, don't be picky like your momma. My little Taelynn getting he toes done!

Here is my Savannah getting sooo... big!
Jasper making sure she's doing it right! (everything has got to be perfect)
Me, the birthday girl!
Too...many toes!

Jasper coming down the slide, never the same way twice.

Sisters, nothing like 'em!
Savannah must have gone this water slide 100 times.
Sisters havin' fun!
Savannah and Ariana munchin on munchkins! These two are going away to camp this year, the will have a blast!!

A day with cousins....

Today we took my sisters two oldest kids to the dentist office for a cleaning, being summertime I had my whole crew with me. Fun, Fun, Fun, not! No really it was not that bad we actually had good times thank goodness they go to a dentist that has lots to play with while you wait. This is my sister Nicolette with my oldest daughter Savannah.

There is a tree house there that the kids took over and had a blast with. This is Gavin looking out the window with Jasper and my niece Grace in the background.

How cute is she??!!! (trying to roar like the tigers all over the walls.)

Having a pow wow in the tree house, I am sure up to no good!

They have all different kinds of xbox and nintendo games there too. They thought they were too smart trying to figure all these games out. Taelynn did not have a clue! But cute anyways.

After the dentist we took the kids to McDonalds to have lunch and play. I am so thankful that we got to spend some time with them. I wish we could see them more often the kids are absolutely crazy about each other and it is a lot of fun to watch them play together. Thank you Nicolette for letting us hang out with you today the time was priceless! Congrats to Gracie, on her first day with panties!!!! she did great!!