Greg and Trinity's weekend

Greg and Trinity had the awesome opportunity of another campout this past weekend with their Adventure Princess Group. In case you don't remember, this weekend the weather was pretty miserable around here- thunderstorms and really cold! To add to the pleasure of that weather, they were actually in Oklahoma...crazy cold! I haven't gotten too much information from the two of them about what all they did, but he did finally send me an email he sent to someone else when describing his weekend. I had to post it...it's too funny! I guess if I had been there it wouldn't have been too funny though.
Well, Trinity and I made it back to Dallas yesterday around noon, but it took until about 10 last night before my toes felt like they were back to normal. We got up to Camp Classen around 7:30 Friday night. Our cabin was the furthest from the parking lot and they didn't have any roads that went directly to said cabins. They did provide little 2-Wheel carts that we used to load up our gear and take to the cabin, but they weren't very big, so we had to make multiple round trips. Luckily for us the rain hadn't started yet, it was just cold and windy. Now on our last campout to Grady Spruce we had nice cabins with kitchens, tables, refrigerators, and multiple bathrooms/showers.......I was expecting something similar. Instead we had one room with 6 bunk beds and a bathroom that had 2 sinks and one toilet which did not have a door that would close all the way. Ithink we lost a bet or something. Woke up Saturday morning and all of the trees were covered in ice....the ground, which had been reddish/orange dirt the night before, had turned into mud. Went to breakfast, and the rains really started coming down. Left there and went to the BB gun range........added thunder and lighting to the rain. Back to the cabin to change out of wet, muddy clothes...just in time to head back to the Mess Hall for lunch and then to see the"snake Man". At this point it's about 3pm on Saturday afternoon and mys houlders/arms/legs are starting to hurt because I've been carrying Trinity everywhere we went. We went back to the cabin, and the rain slacked up a bit to a slow drizzle. With the tree covering, not that much water is getting through, so we decide to build our fire again. (Did I mention we are under a wood-fireban. Even though it's currently raining on our heads, we can only burn charcoal). That lasted for about an hour (I did start throwing wood on, but it was so wet it filled our whole area with smoke) then the rains came back and we scrambled to get back inside the cabin without slipping in the red goop they call mud. My toes have been wet and cold so long I can't feel them. Went to dinner....more rain. Went to the "bonfire" without the fire.........more rain and wind. Got back to the cabin, girls fall asleep quickly and the Dad's decide to try the fire thing again. We start our charcoal burn and look around. Through the trees we see the other tribeshave large wood fires burning so we decide to join in. One guy lets us have the rest of their lighter fluid and we scavenge some big logs out of the woods and stand around the "fire" for a couple of hours shivering. We'd have gone inside to talk, but there wasn't enough room to keep the girls from waking up. When the lighter fluid ran out, so did our enthusiasm for standing in the freezing cold. One of the Leaders came by and said he had never seen mud like we had around our campsite. I've never been so proud. then he tells us that someone should volunteer to be on the Council so that we'd get a better choice of campsite. Sunday we were up and packed early. Made multiple trips with the 2-wheeled carts again. The sun was out and the day was already warmer at 7:30am than it had been the past 2 days combined (maybe an exaggeration). We ate breakfast and left. Trinity had a pretty good time with her friends, and I'm sure that's what she'll remember.

We were glad to have them home yesterday and I know they were glad to be here too! Trinity took a LONG nap yesterday and I think Greg wished his nap had been a little longer.

Last night when they got home they handed me a registration form for a family campout at this same conference center. I guess he doesn't know me quite as well as I thought if he actually thinks I would go for an entire weekend without a shower! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!

Happy Valentine's day part 2

One of my other favorite things of Valentine's Day this year is a set of papers Trinity brought home from school. Her teacher asked each kid a few questions about love and I have to share the responses with you. They are WAY too cute!!!!! I'm not going to list the other kids names because that would just be WAY too much!

Kindergarten Thoughts on Love

Question: Who do you love?

"my dog"

"My pet lizard"

"my fishies"

Trinity: "My dog and cat"

"Sea Monkeys"

"My fishes"

"my mom"

"my dad"

"My teachers"

"My sister"

"my fake dog- Snowball"

"My fish"

"My teachers"

"fish"

Question: How can you tell when two people are married?

"They walk beside each other"

"by the rings"

"if one is buying something for the other"

Trinity: "Because they drive together"

"When they buy bottles and pacifiers"

"I can't tell"

"They wear wedding dresses in cars"
"They talk and they are nice"

"Lots of kissing"

"All the kissing"

"They kiss each other too much"

"they live in the same house"

"kissing"

"they have kids"

Question: How old do you think that you will be when you get married?

"18"

"29"

"19"

Trinity: "19"

"20"

"I'm not going to get married"

"I'm not going to get married"

"50"

"40"

"71!"

"26"

"20"

"50"

"90 hundered"

Question: What kind of boy/girl do you want to marry?

"A rich one so she can buy me a flame car"

"A doctor because my mom is one"

"A teacher"

Trinity: "A doctor"

"A lawn mower"

"I don't want to get married!!!!!"

"I will build a robot girl"

"A doctor so when I get sick I don't have to drive anywhere"

"My mom"

"smart and I'd like to make her be sill too"

"A doctor who works on tummies"

"A teacher"

"a doctor because he gives shots"

"Jenna Green" (a girl in their class)

question: How many kids do you want to have after you get married?

"10"

"2"

"100"

Trinity: "2"

"10"

"0"

"0"

"3"

"40"

"89- The robots will take care of them and me and my wife will lay and relax"

"100"

"1"

"1,000"

"I don't like babies"

Side comments on love

"Cupid shoots you in the bottom for you to fall in love"

"lip kissing happens with love"

"Being in love makes you so nice to the boy"

"When you are in love you give lots of valentines away"

"When you are in love you throw pies at each other"

I hope you enjoyed those as much as we have! I absolutely love Trinity school and her teacher, I guess this kind of fun stuff is just one of the reasons.

Happy Valentine's day

Today has been a wonderful day! We started out with Daddy being back home for breakfast and that made all of us very happy, there's no better gift! The girls quickly got ready for school after a breakfast of red, heart shaped bagels courtesy of Nini- they were excited about their parties! They were both decked out in Valentine's jewelery and hearts everywhere they could put them. They both had a great time at their class parties and got their fair share of sugar to boot!

While Trinity and Emory were at school Greg surprised Addison and I with a visit for lunch. Not only was it a complete surprise to see him walk in the door, but he was carrying a box of long-stem red roses! Have I mentioned how lucky I am to have such a wonderful husband?!?!

After a day of baking cookies and Peanut Butter Yummies for Greg and Trinity's camp-out this weekend, I didn't really feel like making dinner, and would have been hard pressed to find the space for preperation as well, so Greg treated all us girls to a yummy dinner at our neighborhood Mexican Restuarant (again, have I mentioned how lucky I am?). While the girls were getting ready for dinner Trinity and I were visiting while Addison was helping Emory change clothes (again) so Emory decided she would "fix" Addison's hair for her. Well she got her bottle of sparkly Tinkerbell lotion and COATED Addison's hair with it so she could "style it". I wasn't able to get upset with Emory, it actually brought back too many memories, or at least stories of me at Addison's age. You see, when I was just about one my mom was getting ready to go somewhere and I was sitting in the high chair when my sister decided she wanted a little more attention, so she grabbed a brand new bottle of Elmer's School Glue and squeezed the WHOLE THING on my head!!!! I can only imagine the panic my mom felt! I knew the lotion in Addison's hair was nothing like this, so I just kind of giggled and ran Addison in for a bath (we were already supposed to be walking out the door to meet Greg) and gently reminded Emory of the rules while trying not to laugh. I did take a picture of the lotion filled hair and I will eventually figure out why I can't upload my pictures and share it with you.

After dinner we came home for quick baths and bed-time preperation before sharing the girls' Valentine gifts with them. I couldn't ask for a better day than one I got to spend with my family!

Hope you had a wonderful day as well!

What a little fashionista!

As I'm sure you know, Emory is WAY into dressing up, make-up and babies...totally a girlly girl! Well we went out to dinner Monday night and since my sister was with us (Greg was out of town) Emory decided she needed to get all fancy for dinner. She put on her make-up and got on a pretty outfit. When we got to the restaurant she ordered a chicken leg to eat. After a few minutes of her sitting and staring at it we told her to get started eating. She said, "I'm not going to eat that (her chicken), but I'll eat the rest." When we asked her why she ordered it if she wasn't going to eat it and she said, "Because it will mess up my lipstick, silly."!!!!! Seriously...she's only three! We finally convinced her it would be okay, she can put more on after dinner and she did end up eating.

By the way, we really missed Daddy while he was gone and are so glad he made it home safely last night! We also really appreciated Nini staying with us to play and help out while he was gone!

Emory's three year old stats

We had Emory's three year check-up today. It's only a month late...:)
height: 39" (85th percentile)
weight: 31 lbs 6 ozs (50th percentile)

Dr. said she's healthy as a horse, as always! She has been on the same percentiles for height and weight since she was six months old, so she's just growing right along! We were really surprised her height wasn't higher in the percentiles and her weight lower. She is solid as a rock with all lean muscle- she has six-pack abs...no kidding! She was wonderful at her check-up, no complaining (except for being cold when she was having to wait for the doc without her clothes on) and no tears. She's such a trooper!

She is so grow up already, you'd never believe she's only three if you carry on a conversation with her. She was talking to me about her baby and wanted me to change its clothes. We were in seperate rooms and I was trying to explain to her this baby's clothes don't come off, but she wasn't believing me. She came walking into the kitchen and said, "Excuse me Mommy, but I need to discuss this with you. See, right here the clothes velcro, that means they come off and you can wash them if they get dirty." I was so tickled by her grown up words and tone of voice, it made it extremely difficult for me to explain to her why the clothes really don't come off:(

I sure do love my little angel!

We've been busy

I know I haven't been very good about posting lately, but things have been a little hectic. Also, part of the reason I post is to get my pictures up and right now my connection to get the pictures on the computer is messed up. I will have a ton of pictures and videos to post once I get to the store to buy a new connector!

We had a great weekend this past weekend! We had a fun family dinner Friday night, followed by our weekly slumber party! I love the mornings after slumber parties because Trinity and Emory always sleep late! I actually got to sleep until about 7:30 and it was wonderful! On Saturday we had a lot of great family time. Greg had to work for a little while in the morning (he didn't get to be #2 by sitting around doing nothing), and after that he was all about playing with the girls! Trinity and Emory played so well together all day, they didn't even WANT to watch TV or a movie, I don't think that has EVER happened! They even ate lunch together, just the two of them! It was so great to see the two of them so happy together! Saturday night we went to the North Texas Basketball game with Greg's brother and his family. The girls had a great time eating dinner and playing with their cousin! They were all so silly together! We had a great time at the game, until the last two minutes of the fourth quarter when Emory started throwing up on the seat in front of us (thank goodness the whole row was empty) and Aiden's nose started bleeding! Crazy! They are both fine now! On Sunday Greg stayed home with the little two and Trinity and I got to go to church, jut the two of us. After scarffing down a quick lunch Trinity and I were off to a birthday party. She had a great time doing ballet with all her friends! Even the boys had special parts during the ballet party and really seemed to enjoy themselves! We had a wonderful weekend!

Yesterday with the temperatures near 80 degrees (hello, it's February!) I took the two little ones on a field trip to the zoo and we all had a great time! Addison was really excited about seeing all the animals and hearing their different sounds! She posed for quite a few pictures too. Emory was pretty funny, she was really scared of the gorillas, tigers, lions and the crocidiles and didn't really want to sit to watch any of the animals, just wanted to see them and keep moving. I think we were the first visitors in the zoo for the day so we had most of the exhibits to ourselves. Emory got to sit face-to-face with some of the monkeys, only a pain of glass seperating her from sitting in their laps! The penguins swam up to the glass to play with the girls and we got to watch them eat their breakfast. The little monkeys put on a great show for us and were vocal about being upset because we left. After picking Trinity up from school yesterday we went to the zoo and played for nearly two hours! Addison loved sitting in and playing in the sand and trying to climb the slides. I think I'm the only one who was worn out after all that fun, I slept really well last night!!!!!

Now, on a completely seperate note, Emory seems to be completely potty trained! She hasnt had any accidents at all since last Tuesday...that's a whole week! Of course she's having a hard time going #2 (which is why she got sick Saturday night), but she'll get there!

AND...Addison has taken two steps by herself! She is by no means a walker, and I'm not in any rush to get her there, but she is definitelly making great strides! She is talking up a storm too! She seriously talks NON-STOP! Of course we can't understand much of what she says, but she sure does have a lot of it to say! You can tell she's speaking in sentences and usually tell when the sentence is over and she's starting a new one. She is so much like Trinity with her language developement!

Trinity is reading really well! She is able to sound out almost any word put in-front of her!
We're so proud of all three of our girls and how well they're growing!

Oh, and HAPPY FAT TUESDAY!!!!!

Given a little props

and a great big thank you! Greg finished #2 in the entire Texas Republic for the month of January (at work)! Woo-hoo! Way to go!
Thanks for working so hard to provide for all us girls! We love you and appreciate all you do! You are the best husband and daddy we could ever ask for!

The littlest mommy

So here I am changing Addison's diaper (which is often a job needing two people) and Emory is standing at the foot of the changing table looking at Addison. Emory said, "Oh Mom, Addison's missing a sockie sock, she needs it on her footy foot her toesy wosies don't get coldy cold." Okay, I don't talk that way, so I'm not sure where she got it from! Then she finds the sock in Addison's bed and gives it to her and starts talking to her (in her sweetest voice), "Baby Girl, do you know where you put your socky sock? That's right, on your foot. Good job Baby Girl!" Then Addison starts squirming around a little so Emory picks her shoe up from her changing table, it was a soft sole shoe (Robeez if you're famaliar with all this stuff), sticks her hand inside and starts pretending it's a puppet! She started talking in a disguised voice and said, "well hello there little girl, my name is shoe. What's yours?" Addison got the biggest kick out of her big sister/little momma...and so did I (but you're not allowed to call me big momma or any variation of that).

We've always known Ems was a great mommy to her babies and she is so caring and loving this doesn't really surprise me at all! I just love the details of this specific story and wanted to share it and have her read it to her babies when she's a Mommy for real!

Wonderful weekend

On Friday I had the pleasure of meeting my dear hubby in San Antonio for a night of dining and celebrating with the folks from his office. (Their office kicked the rears of all the other offices across the country so it was a little treat for all of us). We spent Saturday morning walking around and eating on the River Walk before heading up to Fort Worth to celebrate my sister's birthday with everyone. The girls had a great time with my sis and parents while we were in San Antonio, getting spoiled of course! They had a shopping excursion to Target, got to play at the park, play on the computer, take bubble baths and get all made-up! Here are a few pictures of their fun

Celebrating Nini's birthday at dinner was greatly enjoyed by all! Thanks for including us in your celebrations! Hope this year is your best year ever!

Break through?!?!

I think Emory might have finally had the ah-ha moment and I couldn't be more excited or proud of her! She has finally figured out the concept of controlling when she does and does not go to the bathroom! She has not had an accident in over 24 hours!!!! I hate to count my eggs before they hatch, but seriously...this is huge! Keep postivie thoughts coming our way and we will hopefully keep this trend alive!