Colette's 6 Weeks Awards (In other words, I'm super behind...)

Six weeks ago, we went to Colette's 6 weeks awards ceremony. She got all A's!

Gavin's Birthday

My son, Gavin, turned four on 11/7. We had a small get together for him at his Meme's house. We had a moonbounce, pinata, and BBQ (we live in south Texas, so it was still 80 degrees out). We had a lot of fun, but we did miss Daddy (he is in Florida at tech school).

My not really an advent calendar...

I made a special calendar for the kids today. It's sort of an advent calendar, but not really. Like most kids, mine are very visual. They like to look at the calendar every day, and count down the days to whatever event is coming up next (currently our trip to Florida to see Daddy).

So I wanted to have a calendar that had the months of November & December all together, so we don't have to flip any pages. And I wanted it to be big, and easy to read.

What I ended up with is a simple calendar, but the kids love it. They looked over every day, and Colette read all the events to me. We are going to cross off every day with a sharpie.

Way behind (4th of July)

I have a bunch of pictures, but I haven't had a chance to post any of them in a long time. We have been so busy, it's insane.

Jeremy & I have 12 days before we leave for boot camp. We have been packing our things & moving them into storage. We also had to deep clean the house we were renting before we moved out. Add a bunch of errands on top of that, and it's been pretty hectic!

Now we are trying to spend as much time with our kids as we can. We are staying with my stepdad & his girlfriend, in a small town outside San Antonio. It's a little different for us, but we're having fun.

These pictures are from the Fourth of July. We went to my cousin Daniel's house. He lives on Medina Lake, and the neighbors always have an awesome fireworks show.

The kids had fun hanging out & playing with sparklers.





Daniel & Carrie of course made funny faces when I took a picture of them.



The boys had to game it up for a little bit:



I got a pretty good picture of Angela, Katie & Cade.



The sunset on the lake was beautiful.









And I got a good picture of Kris & Morgan too.

So Behind...

So, I know I am super behind on posting pictures. Life is crazy!

On Father's Day (yes, I know that was forever ago!) we went to Matt & Dara's new house for some hamburgers. The food was delicious (Matt cooked on his new grill) and their house was beautiful and huge.

I didn't get too many pictures (I was eating!) but here are some.

The dogs playing:



Shannon with the kitten:



Eating!





Colette insisted on wearing her winter hat:



She loved playing with the kitten:



And Poopie with his puppy, Schatzi: