celebrations

They’re 2 They’re 4 Let’s Celebrate!

October 24, 2014celebrations, kids

this could not have been a more perfect weekend. the weather was beautiful and the company just wonderful! we were able to spend the weekend out in bc and celebrate our baby boys!

where does the time go? i know it’s the typical question but i just have to say it. i pulled out their pictures of the last birthdays and they feel like just yesterday….

this party was the first time to have a bounce house. it was a hit! we will be seeing more of these in our future family gatherings. 🙂

the boys enjoyed having all of their favorite friends over…

they also loved their cake! 🙂 thank you so much to all who made it all the way out to celebrate our boys with us! we just found out we will be relocating as our good lord has blessed richard with a new job! we are really excited but we enjoyed the weekend with our local loved ones even more on this special weekend!

a very happy birthday party to jack anthony and samuel fulton! we love you two so much!

xxoo

another day with thomas

September 29, 2014celebrations, kids

can this be one of our traditions? i guess while you two are little 🙂 it was our second year to go spend a day out with thomas! we headed out a little later this year and grabbed some kolaches along the way. oh you boys have good taste!

it seemed like a lot longer of a drive this year or maybe samuel you are a little louder 🙂 you both fell asleep the last stretch and awoke just in time to have a picnic in the back of the car.

samuel, you were really excited to see every picture of thomas and his friends. you also loved dancing to the music… right where the speakers were. you kept asking “one more, one more.”

we did it all. we played with trains, got temporary tattoos, stamps, played in a bouncy house train, saw sir tompham hatt, watched a magic show, listen to some great music and took a picture with thomas! we did all of this knowing we probably weren’t going to actually get to ride on the train, after multiple attempts at the sold out ticket booth.

and you two were excited through it all!

and then daddy tried one more time for tickets to ride on thomas. we were smiling bigger than the kids when someone didn’t show up for their train tickets. so we all ran to the train before it left…

we had a really great day together. samuel had enough pictures so i stopped..

xxoo

F O U R

September 28, 2014celebrations

maybe i’m in a little denial. is that why it’s taken me a week to get on here and write up that my baby is four?! i am so, so grateful that i have gotten to spend almost every day for the last four years with you 🙂 all the million questions you ask, i’m so happy you can ask me and daddy! we sure are the luckiest.

jack, at f o u r years old. you are so precious. still just as cuddly as the day you were born. you love your brother, cousins and bestfriends. you have a new love/obsession for football. you think different clothing and shoes make you fast or slow. you change at least two times a day and always ask…

“you wanna see how fast i can go?”

you love playing cars, football, waiting for the trash truck, mowing with daddy, playing with play dough and coloring. you make the cutest happy faces. you also love drawing mike wazowski. you are pretty good at that too! you love heb and car carts and free cookies. your favorite foods are chicken nuggets, hamburgers and pizza as well as any sweet you can think of 🙂 you also love singing and dancing.

you are so happy to be four!

we are so proud of you little man! F O U R is going to be so much fun!

xxoo

jude patrick is o n e

September 2, 2014celebrations, friends

they are back! { and we are so excited!} we celebrated jude’s first birthday as he had such an exciting first year!

it was such a fun day! i can’t believe how fast a year goes by. it was so precious to watch jude and all his excitement that day. later that day i messaged nadia, thanking her for a wonderful day and i hope she enjoyed that sweet sleeping baby on her… she said that was the highlight of her day. “he had too much and came to me for rest! talk about learning about God through our kids…”

happy birthday sweet baby boy!

xxoo

a birthday a d v e n t u r e {30}

August 19, 2014celebrations, dada

happy birthday {belated post i know} to the best husband a girl could ask for! richard, you finally joined me on the bright side of t h i r t y . for your 30th birthday, i wanted to surprise you and i think i was able to do it! creating a weekend of your favorite things made for such a fun weekend! friday night you came home to a new front door…

and a little hobbit to greet you!

our other little hobbit was fast asleep but he woke up just in time to celebrate.

“this was a hobbit-hole and that means good food, a warm hearth, and all the comforts of h o m e.” -bilbo baggins

oops.. your candles might have almost set our hobbit hole on fire… luckily we made it through. {cough..cough} the next morning was a whole other kind of adventure…

saturday morning, we set out to spend a full day at the children’s museum… along with the rest of the city. 😉 two things daddy loves, his boys and science. this mama was just a little excited to meet super why! someone had to be …

our smart shoppers had no problem clearing the whole cookie aisle. thanks samuel…

it was a great day together! we ended it with dinner at the hobbit cafe. It was a neat little place, however, i think they could have borrowed some of our party decor… just sayin 😉

happiest of birthdays to my love.

xxoo

felicity is t w o!

August 10, 2014celebrations, friends

this weekend we headed out to the country again for a very special little girls birthday! i don’t know how but tomorrow this little bit turns

t w o !

thank you so much for letting us be a part of your special birthday party! as always we love, love the break away from the city 🙂 jack and samuel loved the trampoline!

they loved all the little friends you have to play with!

and your yummy birthday cupcakes 🙂

it has been so much fun watching you grow! you are such a big girl now… happy birthday felicity rose! here’s to another exciting year ahead!

xxoo

cousins?

August 7, 2014celebrations, sisters, vacation

nah, more like best friends 🙂

my sister came home for a few weeks and we celebrated the whole time! i can’t imagine the memories that were made for these little guys these past few weeks. gramp’s yard took a beating but i think it was totally worth it. if you’re looking for a story about our non-stop three weeks, well it is, as always, best told in pictures…

can you tell i just wanted to capture their whole visit? these kids were inseparable and that was my absolute favorite part of holly’s visit. how blessed are we that basically eight kids under the age of eleven were completely happy for three weeks straight. so sad that this means another summer is coming closer to an end but as always we can’t wait to see what next summer has in store for us!!

we miss our cousins already!

xxoo

sweet summertime…

July 15, 2014celebrations, kids

yes, this will be a huge lump sum of photos from the past month really 🙂 from pool time to play time to a little mama get away and zoo time… we have been doing nothing but relaxing and having fun here. we had a scare of chicken pox which kept us home for the fourth of july. it turned out negative after all but we had our own fun. samuel you enjoyed the fire works! you also enjoyed running in the street. jack tried his hardest to be excited about them but ran inside and found a tv channel to watch them on.

jack and samuel you are the best of buds this summer. “you jump, i jump” is the motto you live by daily. 🙂 you two are nothing but “non stop” entertainment. i love your adventurous sides this summer!

here’s to one more month of summer adventures! i hear there are a lot more in store!! 🙂

xxoo

thirty something.

June 17, 2014celebrations

another birthday came for mama 🙂 we enjoyed celebrating with a noon mass at st. michael’s and a burger at a park near by.

an older woman stopped me outside of the church when i was taking the boys picture. she asked if she could take one of all of us. i was actually really excited! it was my birthday why not!?

on the way home from the park, jack you were quite upset we hadn’t gone to my birthday party yet. we decided last minute you could help me plan a party for us that night. we stopped off for cupcakes… (we conveniently were near a cupcake bakery). daddy picked up a pizza for us that night and we ended the night playing candy land together. it was pretty perfect. thank you so much for making it so special! also thank you to everyone who sent messages and called, it always makes a birthday so special!

loving this time of my life!!

xxoo

another graduate in the family!

June 17, 2014celebrations, cousins

on the last weekend in may, samuel and i made our trip out to chad and mendy’s for taylor’s high school graduation. it seemed like such a fast trip, as my little lap buddy was on my lap, hip or bed almost the entire time. oh my samuel, how we all learned a little more about you this weekend. you are very head strong and you can get louder than everyone thought you could 😉 you also ended up not feeling so well. as excited as we were to get away, we were ready to get you back home to where you are most comfortable.

our stay was so wonderful. i love love love seeing all these girls together and it makes my heart so happy to hang out with chad and mendy like old times! mendy always knows how to host her guests. the graduation was so special and the party was just wonderful! taylor, you are such a beautiful young woman! be so thankful for what our lord has blessed you with. this weekend proved He surely has blessed you!

taylor, seems like yesterday you were the size of a carry on 🙂 can’t believe you are college bound… even if you still feel ten. you will do so great! continue to make us proud! thank you chad and mendy for hosting all of the family. we wouldn’t have missed it. we made great memories…love and miss you guys more than words could say! even though i was ready to get samuel home and happy, it was so hard to leave you guys!

xxoo

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