Monday, August 29, 2011

Guilty

I know my blog posting has been scarce.
I have a lot to catch up on.

This is why its hard to get caught up with anything-
I walked downstairs for a second to get my clothes out of the dryer and I come up to find...
2 girls playing in the water
emptying the soap dispenser
and half a tube of toothpaste in the sink
(I heard some mischievous giggling as I was walking up the stairs, peaked in on them and opted to grab the camera before they had to help clean it all up:) 
 Then they try to play the "but mom" look on me-
and it halfway worked. (how do they learn this so young?!?!?!)
 & I can't help but laugh when Ansley is sporting a "panty necklace", as Avery informed me -thank goodness they were clean!!!
Oh these Girls!  
Its a good thing they're CUTE:)

Friday, July 8, 2011

5 Years

5 years ago today I married my Best Friend!

{I'll just leave it at that and not get too mushy here on blogger}
Some of my fav memories of just us over the years
 Manti Pageant 2006
 July 8, 2006
 On Marta for the Cowboys/ Falcons Game 2007  (for the record-COWBOYS WON)
 Disney World 2008
 Up in the old Gold Mines Cooke City, MT 2009
 & all those GA football games!  Rain or Shine:)
Love you Joey

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Father's Day

We love DADDY!!!!
We started the morning off with Cinnamon Rolls (Daddy's fav)
and Avery gave him the card she wrote for him along with some treats she picked out.
(She was so proud she wrote it all herself.  I just told her which letters to write and to leave spaces or else it would all be one long word)


 We came home and had a ham for dinner and just relaxed and spent time together.
I love those days.

Little Photo Session after Church:
Kisses for Daddy
 Ansley says, I'm tired of this-
 But if I have to I'll just pick my nose
 Or pull my hair out

I couldn't have picked a better Daddy for my kiddos.
He is the BEST!

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Kitchen in Stages


When we bought the house:
 The kitchen gutted, new sub-flooring and paint:
 Joey and I opted to save some $ and do the flooring ourselves (with the help of my brother)
 Oh and Avery too!
 Such CUTE workers
 Flooring complete:
With Appliances:
 Excluding light fixtures and cabinet hardware its FINISHED-whew:
I've never been so excited to cook and do dishes before!

Memorial Day Weekend


For Memorial Day weekend we headed down to my parents house!
The guys went fishing early Saturday morning and they caught quite a bit.
Avery joined the guys and said she loved it.

She doesn't look so sure...
Later we headed over to Shreveport for the Mudbug Festival.
I have been telling Joey about this since we have been married and was excited to take him even though he does not love crawfish like I do;)
 So I know this pic is a little tacky but I can't help but laugh because there was another one of these set up in the kid area and the display was with mudbugs in the sun.  The line for that one was really long and I didn't feel like waiting.  When I saw another picture cut out place with no line I gave the camera to mom and rushed back with Joey to hold the girls up.  I guess this is why there were no kids in line for this one...:)
The rest are pics from the festival with the family.
We love being able to spend time with them!











Grandpa introducing Ansley to crawfish
My baby brother
Its always fun to go back to the ward I grew up in
Ansley seems so grown up to me now  :(
Mom got a new dishwasher while we were there and Avery and Joey made a house out of the box.
I love that Joey gets older and older but still he knows how to be a kid!
He is the BEST
Blowing Bubbles with Grandma
My good friend growing up and College Roomie Robyn came in that weekend too and we got together with her and her husband Sunday afternoon.
We talked and laughed and reminisced on old times.
Robyn with Ansley
BFF's!!!!
Our last weekend with Mingi.
He left to go back to South Korea and we will miss him!
When we got back we headed to opening weekend at the neighborhood pool.
The girls LOVE the water!

Monday, June 20, 2011

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was such a treat this year!
My Mommy came up to visit and helped me with our new house.
We started out in the flower bed and between myself, mom, Mingi and Joey we pulled out all the old stuff, including 3 stumps and replaced it with this:



The girls loved spending time with her.

Originally Dad hadn't planned on coming up BUT I think he felt like he was missing out on all the FUN-  all this stuff is right up his alley.
He called in and got off work so he could come up too!
He pressure washed the back decks for us (see how he put TEXAS in it as he was doing it)
and cleaned out the creepy crawl space.
He is pretty AWESOME!
Mom helping me out;)
Mingi and Avery working
Avery loving on Grandma
Ansley loving all the popsicles Grandma feeds her

My girls love Mingi so much and so do we!
Joey and I call him our Brother from another Mother;)
It was a wonderful Mother's Day weekend
& I didn't have to cook, clean, or change diapers!!!!