1st Grade Program: Twang That Thang!

Kendall's first grade program was earlier this month. This girl loves a good school program and she has been talking about it for weeks leading up to it. She never wants to audition for a speaking part or solo, but she loves singing the songs with her friends and doing the motions. Randy and I both came to the morning show, but then he had church that night so I just brought the little girls back with me for the night showing. Kendall was very proud and we loved watching her!

Sweet friends!  

Kendall got to be on the decoration team and was very proud of that. This was part of her contribution to the decorations.

Sweet Ms. Tiller! Kendall just adores her!

 

 

Gotcha Day

We celebrated 2 years with our precious Calli last week! April 8th was the day she became part of our family forever, and we will always celebrate that day and make a big deal of it because she is so important to us! Here she is on April 8th, 2015...

 

...and on April 8, 2013.

 

 

Wow...she has changed so much. She has grown and changed physically a ton, but even bigger have been the changes in her personality. She has learned to trust us, she looks to us to meet her needs, and we are her most favorite people. We love watching her learn new things, we love how her speech is improving, and we're so thankful for the amazing way God has knit her into our family in such a unique way. It has been a crazy ride so far!

To celebrate, we went to eat Chinese food in Angleton with Kathy Pickering and Debbie and Steve Erskine, and then came back to the house and had cupcakes with them and Michelle. Kristin and Kate came over that morning and brought chocolate milk to eat with our cupcakes, and then Mary and Savannah came and had lunch with us. It was a fun day of celebrating Calli and remembering the gift she is to us.

We also gave her one of the gifts we bought her in China. When we were there, we worked hard to find 18 different presents to give her each year on her gotcha day. Last year we gave her a fish purse and this year it was a pretty Chinese comb. She is totally in to fixing our hair and her own hair these days, so it was a great choice for this year. And she loved it!

 

 

Happy 2 year Gotcha Day, Calli Faith! We love you and have loved the past two years! 

Easter 2015!

We had a great Easter weekend! Pops and Kiki came down to stay for the weekend and we had a wonderful visit with them. These girls were so excited for them to get here that they were waiting in the front yard for them when the pulled in on Friday afternoon.

The week leading up to Easter, we did lots of egg-speriments. One of them was to soak some eggs in vinegar for 3 days and then watch how they could bounce. The girls loved checking on the eggs throughout the week and then rolling them across the floor and seeing how bouncy they were! So fun! 

We also made deviled eggs, but used food coloring the dye the white part of the egg. Cooper and Calli LOVE deviled eggs, so these were gone quickly!  

Friday night we went and ate dinner at one of our downtown restaurants. We sat outside, the girls played a little down from us, and it was just such a pretty night to be outside and visit. And the food was great!  

Saturday morning was the Lake Jackson kid fish event at Shy Pond, just down from our house, so after meeting Pops and Kiki for breakfast we went there and let the girls fish. They lasted about 6 minutes before they were bored and wanted to go play on the playground. So Kiki took them there and Pops and Dad finished up fishing.

 

 

After that, we drove to Alvin and picked strawberries! We hadn't been yet this year, so the girls were ready and filled all three buckets!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a rest that afternoon, we dyed Easter eggs, and then Pops and Kiki hid a ton of plastic eggs they brought in our backyard. It looked like it might rain Sunday, so we figured it would be good to hunt on Saturday while it was still pretty outside.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We had a quiet dinner at home, all the girls had baths, and then I rolled their hair in sponge rollers for church the next morning. Granny and Papas sent them necklaces to wear on Sunday with their dresses, so we opened those before bed!

Ready for church Sunday morning! Pops and Kiki bought their Easter dresses for them, as well as new sandals and little white sweaters. I love it when they all match and we had so much fun getting all dressed up!

 

 

 

  

After our wonderful church services, we had lunch at home and the girls got to see what was in their Easter baskets from Mom and Dad.

 

Pops and Kiki left after lunch, the girls had a rest, and then we had dinner over at the Mitterlings with some Lake Jackson framily. The girls even swam for awhile...crazy!

 We had such a fun, busy weekend, and were thankful for the time we spent with everyone. We just love celebrating special days and every day with our sweet girls and love making fun memories!