Introducing Ainsley Erin

Ainsley was born Thursday, December 17th at 8:55 am. She weighed 5 lbs 14 oz. We are so thrilled she is here and is doing great!!

My Aunt Ginger and Uncle Dave gave us a “Family Advent” book. We have been reading the book every evening as a family and doing the devotions, Scripture readings, fun facts and activities. It has been a lot of fun! Tonight’s activity was to make Oatmeal Chocolate chip cookies. Blakely was a good little helper!!

Ainsley Update

If she does not arrive on her own we will go to the hospital and induce next Thursday. Ainsley will be here December 17th!!!

Snow Days!

Getting Ready for Ainsley

This weekend was spent getting ready for Ainsley.. well her room anyway. We got new carpet, set upt the crib, found an old dresser of mine and hung a few things on the wall. Here is what we have so far.

Thank you Joanne for the adorable curtains- you are so talented!!!

Weekend With Sue Sue and PaPa

before Church- they said she sat during the service and did so good

driving boats in Kemah


about to take her first ride on a "choo choo"

Blakely got to spend the weekend with SueSue and Papa a few weeks ago and I had my first weekend away. I missed her so much but you can see she had a great time!!! Thanks SueSue and Papa for the pictures.

Happy Halloween

B loved riding in her new wagon- thanks Sue Sue and Papa!!!

the farmers

B loved the pumpkin daddy carved

We had such a fun day! We woke up and started the Halloween festivities . First thing we carved our pumpkins. Blakely helped me pick out all the seeds so we could roast them while daddy carved away. We think he did a great job!!! Then later on in the day we got ready for a Halloween birthday party. The three of us dressed up as farmers. We ended the night with a little Trick or Treating. It was a great day!

Have you seen this?

You may have seen this but it is new to me. I just got it the other day- I had a coupon!! I just wanted to share…

The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition is an activity the entire family will enjoy. Based on the tradition Carol Aebersold began with her family in the 1970s, this cleverly rhymed children's book explains that Santa knows who is naughty and/or nice because he sends a scout elf to every home. The elf watches the children's behavior and reports it back to Santa each night. By morning the elf returns to its assigned home and hides in a different location, allowing the children to play a delightful hide-and-seek game. It comes with an Elf doll that you get to name and then register online at Santa’s Workshop!!! Too cute!

Fall

Here are few pictures from this fall. Sorry it has been so long. Our computer crashed and I was told I lost everything. We found someone to work on the old hard drive and it looks like he was able to recover most of our stuff- including all of our pictures yeah!!!!. I will try to post more often now that our computer is back. B picking her pumpkin


playing at our Little Gym party

B and Ty playing in Hutto

Blakely loved Ty's car. She is asking Santa for one for Christmas!!

pictures

Jack's b-day party

ready to cheer for the longhorns

playing at the Childrens Museum

Family Trip To Wimberley

We had a fun and relaxing family vacation in Wimberley Texas. We stayed in the cabins across from our land and enjoyed family time, swimming, a little shopping and great food.
We had a fun and yummy dinner at Salt Lick. Best BBQ ever!!

A view from the cabins.

Hunter at the bottom of our tank. We are wishing for rain!

The outside of our barn

Inside the barn

We started out every morning with a family walk.

18 months

Well Blakely is doing great and growing. She had to get one shot at her 18 month check up. She made sure to point out her “boo boo” and would even cry a little if she thought about it. She is in the 86% in height and 46% in weight- told you she was growing! We were told we needed to visit a pediatric dentist :(. Sue Sue helped us do some investigating the other day so I think we finally picked one. She will go in a few weeks to her first dental appointment.

In case you did not hear… IT’S A GIRL!!! Blakely will have a little sister in December.