Santa sent a letter and an elf to our house!!

 

I have one excited boy!!

Birthday fun for Cohen

Chuck E Cheese at 10am - ROCKS

 

Player Number 4 just turned 5!!  Happy birthday Cohen

Rhett, Lindsay, Cohen and Chris

 

T used to hate the mouse... now, not so much!

G slides in for the fun

birthday cake time

 

T sings his heart out for his buddy

Trying to teach a little one about being Thankful... one leaf at a time

Well, I read this really cool blog about being thankful and being mindful of our blessings.  So I've tried to get T, Holt and myself to write on the back of a leaf what we are thankful for.  It was pretty awesome to get a fee download of leaves with Scripture on them. 

You can find the info here

 

Then on Thanksgiving you get to read Scripture then flip over your leaves

and remember your blessings!

 

But..........the other day........... leaves were missing.  Missing??  Yes... MISSING

 

So I drilled T...nope - he had no clue.  Holt...nope - hadn't seen them.

 

Then... it happened.  Simba's tail hit the branch ... slowly in dramatic fashion a leaf fell to the floor.

 

*GASP*

 

(but wait....this solves...nothing)

 

They are nowhere to be found.  Not around the tree, under the table or on the floor.  (She thinks "If he just knocked them off they surely would be sitting there.")

 

*TRIPLE GASP!!!!*

 

In that same moment, ASLAN walks over and sees the leaf on the floor.  Then... without an ounce of hesitation... HE EATS the leaf...the string... our prayers - ALL of it.  He ate ALL OF IT.  GONE!

 

Darn dogs!  How could they!?  I mean, I took a lot of time to find, cut and get my family sharing.  A lot of effort.  Now... my tree has just a few leaves but I'm reminded...

 

I should be thankful for SO much more - every day... not just ONE thing but ALL things.

 

My boss said the other day "What would tomorrow be like if you only had what you thanked God for today"  OUCH.

 

So while this thanks giving tree serves as a reminder... I don't need to see the tree, I just need to REALLY open my eyes and look around me.  I have much, I am blessed.  Dogs or no dogs, leaves or no leaves... I can be and I am thankful.

 

 

 

Happy Grandparent's Day!!

Today was Grandparent's Day at Grace

 

 

Bebah was able to make it (Grandpa got stuck in traffic!)

 

and my Mom was sooooo sad that she wasn't there... that I made sure she was!!

Look at Grayson... he was so excited!

 

 

Tristan sang his little heart out and even did all of his hand motions!

little cutie!

 

 After the program we had a special program in each of the classrooms...

 

Tristan made a special piece of art for his Bebah!

 

Best buds

 

 

Oh these two...

 

 

 This is them singing their Grandparent Song

 

even had hand motions!!

I should have been a teacher - I didn't want to leave!!

 

 

I don't think she did either

When we got home...I showed Bebah that I had "her face on a stick" just in case she too couldn't make it!

Great job T, thanks for coming Bebah!  This kid sure is proud!!

That's my boy!!

He is trying SO hard to use good listening!  So proud of my boy!!!

 

 



Growing so fast...

My sweet handsome boy... I love you Tristan!

Grace Academy of Dallas

2013-2014

Happy Halloween

We went Trick-or-Treating with the Mays

 

Taylor was so cute!

 

 

 

and she loves her Daddy!

 

T and G raced around the backyard

 and Cully chased them

BestBuds

everyone adored her

and she said tick-a-tee  - it was SO cute!

boys started getting tired!

beautiful area to walk around... loved this woman's house

 

the boys at the "spooky house"

we didn't think to bring water... they were a tad thirsty!  Thankfully we stole ice from the beer cooler!

then back home to hand out OUR candy.  We had a blast, such fun!!

Thanks for having us over Mays!

My decs...

pretty darn fun!

and yeah... I rode  my broom to work that day! ha!