Black History Program

To celebrate Black History Month, Jenna's school had a program. Here's Jenna and Ian before the program.

Here they are on stage. It was a Langston Hughes poem; they did a fantastic job reciting it together. Jenna was so animated and natural. We were very proud of her.

After the show, posing for a few pictures.

Kylie and Andrew hamming it up at the program.

This is what Landrie looked like all night because if she didn't have a sucker she was yelling "Jeeennnnnnaaaa" across the cafeteria.

"Brown skin and earin' holes."

Okay...so the title may not make sense to all of you.

A couple of years ago Jenna came home from school declaring that she had two wishes. She wished that she could have brown skin and earin' holes.

This past weekend we were able to grant one of those wishes. Here she is waiting for her skin transplant...just kidding.


She did such a good job. While we were waiting we watched a 2 month old baby get her ears pierced. The lady warned me to take Jenna out of the store because that baby was going to scream, but we had a talk about how the baby is too little to know that it only hurts for a second and didn't understand how cute she would be when it was over. Yes, that baby SCREAMED, but Jenna stood strong and got up in the chair. After the first ear she gave me this look as if to say...that was it? I thought this was supposed to hurt? All of this from the girl you can probably hear getting a shot from a couple states away.

Big Smile

Landrie is getting to be such a little girl. Here she is in her little pink jumper. All dressed up and happy as can be...

Yesterday morning I was waking the girls up; I started in Jenna and Kylies room. While I was trying to convince them that it was morning and they had a great day ahead of them, I sneezed. Here's the funny part. From the next room I hear Landrie(who I thought was still sleeping)... guess what she said...I am not even kidding...she said "Bless You". It was so funny. That made my morning.

2 Flower Girls in the Making

With Auntie Jamies wedding getting close, we got the girls in to be fitted for their flower girl dresses. They are SO excited. I am sure that on April 4th they will both want to sleep in their dresses, because it was a fight just to get these off of them at the store.
This is the actual style that they are getting.

I know that it is Jamie and Mitch that are getting anxious for their special day, but I'm pretty sure that these two will think it is all about them.

The Father-Daughter Dance

Jed, Jenna and Kylie at the Father-Daughter Dance.

What a special night for these two. Having their Daddy all to themselves.

A Beautiful January Day

All smiles at the park.

It was nearly 80 degrees. It felt like May. Deanna, Jodi, and Andrew met us there to run around and have some popsicles. Before we know it everyday will be in the 80's. Can't wait!

A Night Out!

It is a rare occasion when Jed and I get to go out. On this night we were celebrating our friend Stacy's 30th birthday. Ingris was set to babysit and we were headed to downtown Dallas.

In this picture the girls were anxious for Ingris to arrive. They have so much fun with her. We are grateful to have someone who loves hanging with the girls that we trust so that we can enjoy ourselves.

Jed and I at BARCADIA. Just like it sounds. It's a bar, it's an arcade and it's a great time.
The girls and I. From the left Stacy, Jessica, myself, Emily (who is such a good sport being 7 months pregnant, but wouldn't miss her friends birthday) and Anna.


Here's Emily and Ruben getting ready for a game of Jenga out on the patio. We had a ton of fun with this.

Almost February?

First of all I would like to appologize for our lack of blogging lately. I know we took some pictures these past few weeks, but am having trouble locating them. We got a new camera after Christmas and it seems that when we download our pictures they go to a random non-disclosed location. So, we are currently hunting them down. Until we find them or take more, here's Landrie imposing on Sammys personal space.

Christmas 2008

Here we are on Christmas morning. The girls were up at the crack of dawn eager to begin opening gifts.

Stockings first.

High School Musical 3 Barbies. A big hit!
Landries Rescue Pet. I had no idea what this was, but Landries daycare lady kept telling us about how she freaks out when the commercial comes on TV, so we found it and bought it.

She loves it. The dog walks and swims. It also comes with some very stylish green goggles.


Landries favorite part.
Walkie-talkies. Also a hit, but they try to use them while in the same room. We'll keep practicing.
Landrie also got a ride on princess thing. She can sit on it and scoot around the house. And the bonus is that it plays really loud princess music and has no volume control. Thanks Santa!

Jenna got a bigger bike this year. We are working on getting rid of the training wheels.

Christmas day was so nice out that we were able to got for a walk and test out Jennas new bike. I have to admit that a small part of me would have liked to be around a little bit of snow, but it was nice to be outside too.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas Eve 2008

We allowed the girls to open one present on Christmas Eve. Of course the girls talked about it all day and were a little let down to open up a pair of pajamas.

Kylie's class made reindeer food at her Christmas party, so we saved it until Christmas Eve and went out to sprinkle it in the yard. For those of you who have not made reindeer food it is made up of oatmeal and rasins, with a little bit of glitter to help the reindeer fly.

It couldn't have been more perfect. The minute we walked out side a plane must have been flying by. Red bliking lights in the sky. We panicked at first thinking we should all get in bed quick in case Santa was a little ahead of schedule.

After the reindeer food was down we went inside and Jed and I enjoyed the easiest bedtime of the year. No one getting up for a drink of water or to tell on their sister on Christmas Eve...love it!