heading back home

We are very thankful for our time in the Colorado mountains.

On the last day we ate yummy food and did lots of shopping.

  Gary took this postcard worthy picture and I'm in love.

We are hitting the road now for home.  I'm grateful home has a new feeling now than it did a year ago.  We are going home to our new home.  We are feeling settled since buying a house.  We won't be moving from state to state and we will be cherishing every memory we make.  These babies aren't babies anymore and they will be driving and going to college before we know it.  So for now, we're enjoying every trip, every activity and loving this life God gave us.

July 4, 2016

Our July 4th was pretty low key and that was just fine with us.  The good thing about being back in Waco is that we have lots of friends to keep us busy.  We have been taking advantage of Gary being off work and enjoying every minute and so it's been a super busy summer so far!

Today was all about us hanging out together and staying somewhat low key.

We bought sparklers and smoke bombs and just hung out here at the house since Gary starts his new job bright and early in the morning.  I'm so excited for him!

God is good and he has shown that since we made our move back home.  I'm so happy with our choice to move.  I'm excited to see what else God has in store for us.  I can just visualize the home I can't wait to purchase.  I don't mind renting for now because I know that in time we will find the right spot for our family and I'm hoping that includes a pool for these hot summer months.  We have three summer birthday celebrations in our family and a swimming pool would be amazing.  

I'm saying all that to say...I can't wait to look back at this blog in a couple of years to see where we are compared to where we have been!  I sure do enjoy this scrapbook of ours!

Muted Monday - A trip to Tonkawa Falls

Mother's Day 2016

  

We celebrated my first Mother's Day back in Texas.

I had a great day with my people.  They spoiled me all day long.

We all cracked up laughing when we set up the timer for this picture.  Lily licked Hayden right on his face.   I couldn't find the selfie stick so we did the best we could with the auto-timer on my iPhone.  The family is so sweet to let me get pictures.  I asked for a family shot and they totally knew it was coming!  I've got them trained right! ;)

All  I wanted for lunch was Chicken Parmesean.  

Gary decided on Carino's, back where Gary and I worked once upon a time.  We splurged on Italian nachos, a salad, entree and a tiny dessert.  The dessert shocked me. It said mini, but it was really mini.  I got a tiny square of cheesecake and I was not impressed by it's size.  I saved my chicken parm to take home and finish for dinner.  I purposefully only ate a little so I could have room for dessert, but the dessert was definately different since we worked at Carinos. Kindof a bummer, that they were out of TIRAMISU. What in the world??

Gary got chicken picata and the kids got pizza dippers.

After our lunch they took me to HEB and let me pick out a hanging basket for my back patio.  I'm easy to please.  Anddddd since the cheesecake I ordered was so tiny we ended up getting another whole cake. LOL!  oink.  It was just a little frozen turtle cheesecake, but we all had more dessert and laid around full for the rest of the day!

Happy Mother's Day to all my favorite moms!!

the big grape bubble gum challenge

We started off our New Year with a bubble gum blowing contest!  

The kids love chewing gum.  They are always asking for gum gum gum. While shopping I saw grape flavor Hubba Bubba at the checkout line and it made me want to chew gum.  I remember blowing bubbles as a kid and it was the best fun.  

Y'all, chewing gum isn't for sissies.  That piece of Hubba Bubba was huge.  I couldn't get it chewed without a jaw cramp.  I finally started blowing bubbles after about 10 minutes of chewing.  It's like that big blob grows 4,000 times its original size in your mouth and promptly loses it's flavor and gets hard. 

Chewing gum and life issues are similar huh?!  Some things start out full of flavor and you have to conquer that blob to get it to the bubble stage. Then after a few bubbles you move on and spit out the hard gum.  

Leave it to me to over analyze our gum chewing fun. ;)  

Back to the contest... 

 We all gave it our best shot, but I think I actually had the biggest bubble.  I tried to get one of Gary's giant bubbles on camera, but it popped too fast, so we're just gonna say I won. I'm pretty sure the kids are ready for a rematch soon!  

Go Bears!

Tonight was the first Baylor football game!

Hayden was focused on the big game!

We had a fun night snacking and staying up past our bedtimes to watch the season opener!

We served all the gold and green food we would find as we watched the Bears win!

Sic'em!!

2nd week of school celebration

The kiddos survived their second full week of school, so we decided to treat them to a dinner out!  We jumped in the Jeep and off we went.  You know crazy momma had to take a selfie!

These pictures are courtesy of the iphone self timer app!

Hayden and his faces.  sigh.  Every single picture we take he is making some kind of goofy face.  

We ate a new to us restaurant called Henry's in downton Acworth.  We ordered calamari and hush puppies as appetizers.  Their hush puppies are to die for and I could have eatten the entire basket.  I ordered blackened catfish on a bed of jambalaya.  Hayden settled for chicken strips, but he did tell the server they were the best he'd ever had.  Layla had penne pasta with Alfredo sauce.  Gary had some amazing looking dish with cream sauce filled with chicken.  The atmosphere was amazing and it was definitely kid friendly, as it was so loud in there.   We had a fun night out and left for home happy and full!

Happy Easter and baby bird eggs

We had a fun Easter!

Since we just got back from Ohio and didn't want to go grocery shopping we decided to eat our Easter lunch at our favorite Mexican food restaurant.  

One of my favorite things as a child was eating fried fish on Easter Sunday.  We'd always have a fish fry with hush puppies and the works!  So, I felt I should have fish tacos for lunch.  They never disappoint and I love the flavor of the corn tortillas.

Layla ordered table side guacamole, and it was delicious!

We always switch who sits by who when we dine out.  Does your family fight over who sits by who like ours does?  

Silly little egg face!

The birds hatched!  They are starving!  We watched all day as the mom and daddy birds monitored the nest and fed the babies!  It's such a wonderful learning experience for the kiddos!!

Happy Easter!  I hope your day was great!!

Biggest Baylor fans

We are loving supporting the Bears even though we are here in Ohio.  Gary has always been a Baylor fan, of course I'm a fan cause of him and so on and so forth.  It's a fun team to support win or lose and we have been fans through it all.

I can't wait to go back to Waco someday and see the new stadium.  I'm sure the campus is very very different from when Gary and I lived there.  Hayden says he's gonna be a Bear someday!  I hope so!

Football weekends are so fun with friends and family. Sic'em!

Fourth of July 2014

I love looking back at Forth of July's in the past!

I love my family and we had a wonderful day celebrating the Fourth of July!

We love making memories!

College football fun!

When I was a little girl I was a huge Texas Longhorn fan.  I wanted to go to The University of Texas at Austin my whole life.  I don't even really know why, but I was a little girl and thought that was the school for me.   

My daddy is a Texas Tech fan and I knew I'd never move that far away from my family. Ha!  I never considered Baylor because it was so expensive and Waco was too close to home.  Oh the thoughts of a teenager.  

All that to say:  I met Gary while he was attending Baylor and I became a Baylor fan to support him.  So, since approximately 1997 when Gary and I started dating I transformed into a Baylor Bear fan.  It took years and lots of rivalry, but since I never attended UT it wasn't ingrained in me to stick with loving that team.

The kids are now Baylor fans obviously because we are.  Hayden thinks it's pretty cool that his daddy was on the Baylor football team, even if it was for a short time.  This year Baylor football is having an amazing year and it is so fun to watch the games with our buddies here in Ohio.

Every week when the rankings are posted we all look forward to seeing how our teams are doing.  We have some really great friends who cheer for Ohio State.  We also have some friends who cheer for the West Virginia Mountaineers.  It has been a fun football season to say the least. 

We're all looking forward to the weeks to come!!

Sic 'em Bears!

Working on our skills

The weather today was perfect for a golf game! The kids were so excited to go play golf with dad!

I was worried about Layla getting bored. She likes golf, but doesn't love it. You know what? She did great! She out drove me hitting from the tee box a few times. I was so proud of her.




She had the most fun driving the golf cart she and I shared. She's a great driver and she had so much fun. She felt like she was driving a real car! We hit some hard bumps a few times and bounced out of our seats. We stated laughing until our tummies hurt!

She was also a great coach and supporter for me. I got super frustrated a few times. I had a horrible round of golf and she was good about making me calm down. I'm way to competitive sometimes.




Hayden had a great golf round and Gary did pretty good also. It was fun to watch Gary golf. He loves it so much!




The weather was absolutely perfect for golf! I'm loving the peaceful pictures and the big puffy clouds against the blue sky!


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