A new phase…

How time flies! I will try not to be all mushy and “deep” as Kyle(my brother) says I am over this! Ha. I can’t help it though. He is my “little” brother and it seems like just yesterday he was Emma’s age, sigh. Now he is an (gulp) adult! He graduates on Saturday, June 5th and I cannot believe it. What is also scary to me is before I can barely blink my eyes I know this will be Hannah soon walking across the stage to get HER diploma. Ahhh! I try not to think of that though and just soak up this time right now!

Justin and I were talking yesterday about how he agrees that it does seem like just yesterday that Kyle was 6 yrs old and they were all fishing on the lake together and now he is about to be 19 and how we are so proud of him! He is such a great guy with so much potential and the heart to be anything he desires! He also has such a great relationship with Christ and I hope that that only grows stronger! As it stands right now he will be coming here to go to college and then transferring to a university. He has a great plan in place and I can’t wait to watch his path that God has chosen for him unfold. I know He has some great things in store for him :) Here is a few flashback pictures of Kyle over the years before I finish my too long of a post!

     Kyle,

You know we love you so much and we are so very proud of you! Can’t wait to see what these next few years will have in store for you, I know it will only be great things! And we are so blessed and thankful to be a part of that. Your nieces love you to pieces and think you have hung the moon already! They could not be any more excited about having you here ,seriously, its too cute! 

Love you! Amber

  

Okay so in this transition we are getting ready and we re-did Emma and Hadlee’s room and its adorable!(that was too many and’s yes I see, oh well) So here are a few pics of that. They LOVE it!

Gymnastic Meet & Dance Performance

*UPDATED* Scroll down to bottom to watch Hannah dance!

 

This past weekend Hannah and Hadlee both had performances on Saturday. Hannah had her last dance performance and Hadlee had her last gym meet til the Fall. They both did great and we are so proud of their accomplishments! Hadlee advanced up and is now a “twister” after that is advanced twister, then we get into the teams! Yikes! I am totally fine with the teams because I really think this is Hadlee’s niche (sp) but I WILL NOT spend 5 days at the gym like some do! Anywho, here are a few ALOT of pics of our Saturday. I am downloading Hannah’s dance video so I will add it to the post when its finished. Enjoy!

Hadlee getting ready!Emma Claire wishing she was performing too!Hannah in her dance attire.Hadlee showing us her flexibility! Ouch!Of course little sis has to show us too ;)    Hadlee doing her front walk over.Emma Claire right behind her!Getting ready to get on the bars.These pics are slightly blurry bc I used the sport function which takes 25 pics in 2 seconds! Very neat bc you get to catch every single movement!    Slight mess up on the bars…she made the mistake of looking at her coach in the middle of her flip over :/. She was very disappointed in herself but after some encouraging words from mom and dad she gathered her emotions and did GREAT the rest of the meet!Hannah being silly!   Hadlee with her ribbons and medal :)

 

Not quite a wordless Wednesday :)

I have to say that I am so proud of this little munchkin! We traveled like crazy people this past weekend! Seriously. Her sisters were well taken care of on Friday by some dear friends. Thank you Rachelle and family, we love you guys!

Friday we woke up at 3 am (3 am people!) Mind you, I went to bed at 1 am because I was busy making sure things were organized and clothes were ironed. (I am not old, but I am TOO old for functioning on only 2 hrs of sleep) We had to be at ACU at 8:30 am to visit the college with my brother, Kyle, for football.

We visited ACU for 3 1/2 hours, met some amazzing people and coaches and just fell in love! It is an awesome college and we would be so happy for Mr Kyle to become a Wildcat! I will mention that I also got to meet a sweet blog friend, Whitney. It was a quick “hello” but we are both praying that we will be in the stands at football games cheering together soon!

So, while visiting, Miss Emma was a perfect angel! Not sure where she stuck the Emma we know but we thank her ;) She did great!

While Kyle and Justin visited one more college, Hardin Simmons, Emma and I grabbed a bite to eat. I figured taking her for another 3 1/2 tour would be pushing my luck. Ha! We also found the mall and killed some time shopping, finding some great sales.

On Saturday around noon we got a wild hair and decided to drive to East Texas and surprise my MIL for Mother’s Day. She was very surprised and we had a great visit! I received my Mother’s Day gift a little early due to a slight hair dye mis-hap. I will say that I LOVE my hair now! Pictures later about that. I am so blessed to be the mother of these 3 girls! I love them so much…never knew in my wildest dreams that your heart could have that much love! They are so wonderful and I thank God for choosing them to my gifts! (and of course Justin’s too) We are both blessed beyond belief. Our cup runneth over!

All in all we traveled 1000 miles this weekend! Wow. It was well worth it and we definitely enjoyed it but man are we exhausted! Whew!

Can you say…”The Next American Idol!”

is…….Miss Emma Claire!! ;)

Yes, our little Emma is a performer thats for sure! The cutest thing ever!

Wordless Wednesday

iPad or possibly em’sPad

Yes, my hubby got an iPad…

I got a Swiffer Sweeper Vac…still trying to figure that one out! Ha!

I DO love it though (the swiffer that is). If you have wood/tile floors its perfect for that! I use it constantly!

I do enjoy the iPad as well….currently uh-dicted to ‘Words with Friends’! Its a fun game that you can play on the iPad,your iPhone or iPod Touch…its just like Scrabble if you don’t know what I am talking about. Anyways, there is someone in our house that is totally obsessed with this little electronic device known as the iPad. This someone just happens to be 2 years old and LOVES to play “her” games and “her” drawing and watch “her” movies on Netflix and “her” music (her current favorite song is American Honey by Lady Antebellum,mine too)! Its actually pretty amazing because she can work this thing better this most people, she’s so intelligent ;)  We seriously have to hide the thing from her because if she sees it, she is on it!

I will admit that the ABC game is very good! The lady test you on your knowledge over ABC’s,colors,animal sounds and numbers.

Excuse her lovely hair…she had just gotten out of the tub and went STRAIGHT to the iPad! Ha!

A fun gift!

Not too long ago the girls received a sweet package from their Grandma Laura (my grandma, their great grandma) She had put together cooking bags for them. Each of their bags had their name stenciled on and were filled with all sorts of goodies!

She (along with my Aunt Penny if I am remembering correctly) made them each their aprons. the cutest little aprons EVER, they love them! She also crocheted (sp) them each a heart-shaped hot pad. So sweet and something they can have for a very long time…I just love these sort of gifts!

Lastly, they were each filled with a mini cupcake pan,cupcake mix and mini cupcake papers,cookie cutters,mini cutting board,mini spatula,and sprinkles! You can see Emma’s face above she was so excited(or maybe just didn’t want me to take her picture)! Emma did get her own things perfect for a 2 yr old.

THANK YOU, Grandma Laura!! They love it and want to cook everyday :) We love you and miss you!