Goodbye Birch!

We have officially moved out of our first home! We moved in when I was pregnant with Savannah...the first week in the new house we found out we were having a girl! It we had lots of great memories on Birch dr! We brought both babies home in this house! We close on this house on Friday and on the new house in a couple weeks. God is good! Thank you Birch dr for all the memories!

Our lives

Sorry I have been few and far in between with posts this summer so far. These are just a few things going on:

-close on our home Friday (tears will be shed)

- move everything into storage

- move in with sister and bro-in-law

- visit Harvey's for the 4th

- close on our new home

- leave the next day for vacation in CO

- while we are gone new tile and carpet at new home

- get back Friday the 19th

- move the 20th

- get new house unpacked!

CRAZY CRAZY! So thankful to family for letting us crash with them for a couple weeks and praying for all the crazy to go smoothly!

Wordless Wednesday

Some of our great family photos by Aubrey Stopa!!!

Addisyn's 7th birthday surprise!

While we were in Houston the kids traveled with Papa and Nana to Dallas. My niece Addisyn is turning 7 tomorrow and her gift from my parents was a weekend at Great Wolf lodge!

The kids had a blast and can't stop talking about it!

Uncle Ryan and Aunt Samantha joined them for the fun and took pictures for Mommy.

I love this picture of Bruce!

My brother is such a great Daddy!

Bruce and Papa on the slide

Bruce loves Addisyn!

Aunt Samantha surprised Addisyn and Savannah with an afternoon at the spa :)

Happy Birthday Addisyn! We love you very much and can't wait to see you again! Our family is taking a big family vacation in July together and we can't wait!

Best Friend Trip!

We met Jason and Jill Jennings 4 days before I gave birth to Savannah! We quickly became friends and today we call them our best friends! They love us just the way we are and love our kids more! In fact they are known as Uncle Jason and Aunt Jill to Savannah and Bruce! 

We are truly blessed by their friendship and we love them very much! We have been talking for 2 years about taking a trip together and we finally put it together! This year we decided to stay cheap so we took a little vacation to Houston! We were able to stay with our good fiends the Dupre's and enjoyed lots of laughs and fellowship! Here are a couple pictures from our trip:

We were able to go visit NASA Saturday and had a blast!

Jason and Andy are nerds but we love them!

Mission Control-Houston we have a problem!

Jill and I in front of one of the rockets!

We had a blast and can't wait to go on another trip with them!

Stay tuned for our kids adventure with Papa and Nana!

Girls weekend!

AThis weekend Amy and I surprised Randi with a girls weekend! We left Austin Thursday morning and headed to Bridge City to drop of the kids. Friday morning we got on the road early to surprise Randi in Florida! 

She was so excited and shocked to see us! We had a great time and are already planning next years trip!

This is right after her surprise!

Headed to the beach Saturday morning!

After the beach we headed to Jerry's drive in! The hamburgers were amazing and we topped it off with this:

Amazing banana split!

After eating we went back to the hotel for showers. Then we went Antique shopping and shopping at the mall before heading to McGuire's pub!

We had finger-licking good ribs! I can not even begin to subscribe how good the ribs were!!

We told them we were celebrating Randi's birthday so they brought her ice cream and a brownie!

We had a blast! So blessed to call them sisters!!!

Wordless Wednesday!

More weekend fun!

Since lots of family were in town this weekend we also took advantage of having some more fun!  Friday night William, Amy, Andy and I had a date night downtown to Esters' Follies.  I highly recommend it if you ever come to Austin!

Saturday morning the kids decided to wake William up :)

We also had a local carnival by our house...so of course the kids wanted to go.  They had a blast and were exhausted afterwards :)

Looking forward to more summer activities with lots of family and friends :)

Retirement!

This week my parents both start a new adventure in their lives.  My mom has given 21 years of service to the state of Texas and my dad has given 37 years of service to teaching and coaching!  Ryan and I wanted to do something special for them but with limited money we decided to just have a come and go party at pluckers and then family at our house that night. 

 We had a great turn out at pluckers and I was bad and didn't take many pictures.  I spent most of the time talking to everyone and enjoying watching my parents in their element :) 

 Saturday night we had a family and friends over to the house and again didn't take to many pictures :)  These pictures are of my parents getting the gifts that Ryan, Samantha, Andy, and I got them :)

So excited for my parents and can't wait to hear and see what the next phase of lives bring you!  We love you!