celebrating daddy!!! thanksgiving!! grandparents day!

november is so busy for our family! troy's birthday was the day after thanksgiving this year! bill and rebecca and memommy came for thanksgiving and we also had a few friends who had no family in town! daddy mel and memommy attended grandparents day at providence! i took mckenzie grace to a local poduction of the nutcracker and it was such a magical experience for her. i couldn't stop watching her glowing face!the day after thanksgiving we awoke to busted pipes and a flooded downstairs! the movers arrive on the 26th and we will then know what we are up against!! trusting....

tcu!!!

daddy mel always treats us to a tcu game in the fall! this year we got to celebrate with the sigma chi class at joe t garcia! then on saturday we went to the game!

dallas texas american girl doll store!

mckenzie grace finally got her dream...her dolls name is madeline grace! we had lunch and the quads came for austin and the sielings from pine cove!

creative home birthdays!

november was a busy busy month! mckenzie grace had a baking party at home with our special friends from school and church! owen had a father son angry bird party!! we praise the Lord for a community of friends who love the LORD!

my baby girl is five! we celebrated...and celebrated...and celebrated....

a baking party at home...rise and shine celebrations...lunch and cupcakes at school..dinner with aunt kerstin....i love you little girl!! you screamed the first two years of your life...you kept me on pins and needles for two years...now i simply enjoy everything about you!!!

Halloween 2011

we continue to celebrate kerstin's success and healing! my astro boy and snow princess....then in honor of daddy mel...

go horned frogs

fall 2011

fall fun! owen and daddy are doing bsf together...mommy and kenzie girl are doing bsf together...owen is loving soccer and kenzie girl is our ballerina and gymnast! we are so thankful for friends and the many opportunities we enjoy! the sad face is our boy trying to deal with loosing his first game. mommy has not done a good job of providing opportunites to loose! since he has been able to "play" games...mommy always let her kids win...the joy of trying to undo the mess i made!:0) both kids love their daddy! they enjoyed a night out at an astros game this summer!

more pine cove

pine cove

pine cove continues to be a family tradition that brings memories galore...spiritual growth...

owen loved his "chival rush", his best friend at camp is tommy green from baton rouge, kenzie girl loved the horses, daddy acted like he was 20 at the pool...and we even won some of the games...(we are the old parents) so that is a big deal

"FIRSTS"

july was a month of "firsts"

owen presented the gospel to a friend for the first time

mckenzie-grace got her first haircut

owen lost his first tooth!!!

owen wanted to take memommy to the jungle for her 90th birthday

summer time! summer time!!! we celebrated the fourth of july at the country club and got to dunk daddy in the dunking machine! we have been to dallas and got to spend the day with the lipe family! we took memommy to rain forest cafe for her birthday lunch! and we praise the LORD for kerstin's amazing recovery!!!