Mother of the Year

For those of you out there who thought you were receiving this award, you are sadly mistaken!!! Here are the top 5 reasons I think that award belongs to me...


#1~ I allow my child to pursue his dreams! He is trying out to be the next Twilight baby! I believe he has a great chance...
(that is marker, not blood!! look also at his hands)
#2~ I think that it is a great idea to NOT check on your children during nap time! This gives them the opportunity to explore without adult supervision! I wish you could see the beautiful art work on the carpet with markers. Truely remarkable!

#3~ I allow Grant to climb, climb, climb! He can climb into his highchair, onto bar stools then onto the counters, on top of his dresser! It is great for his physical growth!

***Here are just a couple pictures of him saying "CHEESE" again that I wanted to throw in***

#4~ I always lock him out of the bathroom while I am taking a shower! It is good to teach children modesty, and that they can make it on there own if need be!

(Beau took these pics)

#5~ And last but not least, once your child is able to say the word "bath", they also are able to decide their own bath times....

So there you have it! I hope I can count on your votes for this awesome award, that is unless you think you can beat my top 5!

For the Love!!!

Ok I know most of you right now are thinking "For the Love, it has taken her FOREVER to post!" and you would be correct! It is soooo hard to keep up with my job at school, at home, facebook, and blogging! I am pulled in so many directions!:) Anyway here are a few pics from this morning at church that I thought would be fun to share! Let's face it, you probably won't hear from me again until Halloween so take your time looking at this post, just let it all soak in!!!

Uncle Trent and Aunt Mindy sent Grant this blazer a couple weeks ago and he wore it this morning to church! This is his face for EVERY picture now. If you can't tell he is saying the word cheese while pretending to smile. So we show up at church at the exact time as Addi. Grant has a little bit of an obsession with her. He walks around the house all day saying her name and carrying a picture around. Sometimes at night he calls her on the phone. He loves her to say the least, and she is precious enough to put up with him.

In this picture you will notice him looking down at their hands. He had just made her change the way they were holding them to the 5 finger lock! I am not kidding, you can not make stuff like that up!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!! Addi looks like a supermodel!

Grants poor eyes look a little sad in this pic but I still love it! Last week he had fever for 6 days and this week he had a double eye and double ear infection!

Todd, Julie, Sarah, Michael, and Steven came and stayed the weekend!! They are so good with Grant and he loves them!!!!

This is not a new trick but one I have been wanting to post for a while. When it is time to eat we simply tell Grant to go get in his chair, and this is what he does....

The Whole Month of August:)

Ok so summer flew by WAY to fast!! I started back to school August 10th, but enjoyed myself up to the very last minute!
Grant and I spent quite a few days at the Club Campbell pool! Here is Addi and Kennedi ready to go jump in. Grant was supposed to be in the picture, but was standing at the door yelling "outside, outside" instead.
Here is a quick video of my amazing child who can already swim, that is with the help of about 20 different floatation devices...

Monica, a.k.a Auntie Mo/my sister, invited Grant and I to come spend our last few days of our summer vacation with her and her fam! It was fabulous! I got to go to one of their neighborhood pools everyday with Emma to become some bronze beauties!!

My brother Todd and his boys, Michael and Steven, were there two of the nights that we were! Which was fun, UNTIL....

Every adult decides they have somewhere they have to be and you get stuck with a 11, 10, 7, 3, and 18 month old to get up, dressed, fed, bags for the day packed, shoes on, and buckled in the car to take swimming. Then when you get to your mom's friends house with the amazing backyard and pool, the 3 year old is running around the edge to scared to get in while I am terrified he will fall in, and the 18 month old thinks he is actually 18 years old and can jump in and swim without assistance while the 11, 10, and 7 year olds are doing back flips and cannonballs off the diving board! Don't worry though, some more adults showed up about 40 minutes later when the 10 year broke out in hives and needed to go in for a shower, while the rest of the children chased geese in the backyard! No I'm not bitter!:)


I will say the drive to the pool made it better! We cranked the radio to some Fergie and danced the whole way there!

THE CHILDREN, a.k.a my son and wonderful nieces and nephews..

Chasing geese...

CHUCK E. CHEESE

Precious Hope was sweet enough to take Grant through the climbing tunnel slide thingy...

Monica and I after doing the dance machine game thing 3x's in a row...

Nieces, nephews, and cousins...

Kado, Hope, Brooke, Thumper, Michael, Steven, Lexi, Emma, and Grant

Road trip to Uncle T and Aunt Mindy's house, just me Emma and Grant. We made a quick stop at Target to buy some sunglasses and then decided we couldn't go empty handed to see sweet Gracelyn...

Grant talking to either Mimi or daddy, anyone to keep him from screaming....

Yes we were driving down the interstate, Monica don't freak out!

Ok for those of you who don't know I totally grew up on a farm, and am a complete farm girl! Not really, I did grow up on a farm though, but don't know much about what happened on it:) Anyway, while we were at Trent's Grant and I spent Saturday morning at my dad' s house. Grant had the BEST time! Here is dad getting Grant his little bucket of feed...

Here is Grant helping to feed the calves....

I really do LOVE horses!! I tell Beau all the time to buy me enough land so I can have a couple of horses to play with!!

You can tell in this pic that Grant is focused on something...

it would be on this tractor. Dad thought that he would enjoy riding in it, but Grant crawled up in this wagon, sat down, and kept saying "no, no, bye bye, bye bye"

He loves to climb

The outfit Emma and I got Gracelyn...She is so darn cute!!!

COUSIN THATCHER CAME TO STAY WITH US!!! I am yelling this because it was that much fun!!!!! It makes me sad to see all these pics of him because we miss him so much!

Every night he would lay with beau to watch his "shows" before he went sweetly to bed!

Mitzy sent these adorable personalized t-shirts with their names!!! Love it!!
We played A LOT outside, and always had to take a break for a capri sun and Popsicle...

On a walk at our park around the lake....Playing at the park...Chasing ducks... Last night Beau and I had a date night with our good friends Chris and Tammy! We had soooo much fun. We didn't even eat dinner until 7:30, and then went to a movie at 9:50, and got home at 1:20 in the am:)!!! To some of you that might not sound unusual, but for us it was crazy! A usual night for us is dinner around 5 (sometimes 4:30), and bed by 9! Embarrassing, yes! I love you beau and had a Great time on our date!!

This was actually just taken about an hour ago!! I got some of him smiling sweetly, but this expression seemed to match the outfit! He was dressed and ready to go look at some cows and goats with daddy at one of our friends farms! He LOVES to go out there!!

Well there you have it August wrapped up in a day!! I need to get better at this again, but at least I am doing it some!! Love you all

The WHOLE month of July!!

I hope you have time on your hands, because this could take a while! Since I haven't posted at all this month, I thought I would catch up by putting everything into this one post! Good luck keeping up! Here we go...

First of all I have now been doing this blog for one year! I found out through friends that you can publish your blog, so that is what I did! Here is the finished product, and I love it!

Next is the Fourth of July! The Presley's along with some of our college kids from church came over and shot off fireworks.

Like mother like son...

Ok, since June I have been taking a cake decorating class with my friend Tammy for fun. To pass course 1 you have to make a "Test Cake", which you copy from a picture! Beau's parents, a.k.a Doodaa and Pops, came to visit the second week in July so I made my test cake to say Happy Birthday Pops. And yes I made those roses, and yes it is so hard!

Every morning Pops wanted to go work out, and I went with him 4 mornings, and Beau went with him once. Here is a pic of Beau soooo excited to go workout with Pops!

Beau and his mom Doodaa, or as Grant likes to call her, Doodoo...

Grant loves his Pops! I have tons of pictures of these two together throughout the week!

Now moving onto the third week in July, Ft. Worth! Beau was supposed to be in Honduras for this week, but because of scary things happening there they had to cancel his trip. I planned on going to spend the week with Meredith during the same week, and did NOT cancel my trip!

So here is a glance of our week with our friends Mere and Blake...

Here we are at the mall play place where it was hot and gross, but the kids had a great time!

I love this picture because it shows the difference in skin tone! B is so tan and Grant just isn't! Right after I took this picture they kissed and Blake did her sign and said the words "more, more"! Too precious!

I LOVE Mere's backyard, and so did the kids! I love this pic of Grant standing on the fence. This is the same fence he flipped over the top of into the mud on his head! The joy of having a boy!:)

Our sweet babies playing sweetly outside. Notice Blake with a tan line, Grant the same color all over...

We decided to take a little road trip to Abilene for the day. Mere was filling the car up with gas and getting me coffee, while I was sitting with the kids in the car...

My precious friend Kim was sweet enough to let us come and eat lunch and play at her house. This pic is just a glimpse of the future with these two! Hopefully Grant will have j-o-b and be able to pick up the tab!!:)

I absolutely love this picture of the boys squishing sweet Blake, and her loving it!!

This is Jake, Jack, Blake, and Grant...

Here is Kim, myself, and Mere. Kim is now pregnant with their 3rd child, and this time it is going to be a GIRL!!! I am soooo excited for you Kim!!

After lunch and play time, Mere and Blake went to take naps at her parents house, and I went and spent the afternoon with Beau's sister Kristy and her family! She has a beautiful pool, so obviously we skipped nap time and spent some time in the water...

After swim time, Kristy and Doodaa were sweet enough to watch Grant while Mere, Kim, and I went out for supper at Abuelo's!! It was so great to have a little bit of quiet girl time!!

Because Grant had NO nap, he had a little bit of a hard time settling down on our way back to Ft. Worth. Being the fab mom that I am I decided to get back there and try to comfort him. I was driving so I pulled over to let Mere take over, who was cracking up at the thought of me trying to fit in between the two car seats, but I did it! While I was back there, Grant was screaming and Blake was dancing and singing to her songs!! I couldn't help but laugh!

Here is Mere posing for a pic while driving down the interstate...

Here is a little game B and G liked to play
More pics of the kids playing sweetly outside...

Taking time to cool off...

A little T.V. time....

Right before we left on Thursday morning Grant decided to dump a WHOLE box of cheerios for Mere to clean up...

Mere and I are kind of known to take 50 too many pics of ourselves, but this time we only had this one! I wish we would have chosen one of the days that we chose to shower and get ready, but that would have been too fake:) This is truly what we look like when we are together..

I love you Mere and B!! We miss you like crazy, and wish we were neighbors!! Thanks Ryan for being so awesome and letting me take over your house!



Ok so if you know me very well you know that I am a little bit of a brat. I can own it, I am not ashamed!!:) Well I was not ready for my vacation to be over, so I called Beau and told him to meet me about an hour from home, and get a hotel so we can play in the pool, and then go shopping!! This is what my AWESOME husband did...

He found this cool hotel! Grant thought that all of the concrete balls out front could bounce, but soon found out he was wrong...

We were next to great shopping, and a Chuck E. Cheese. This was our first experience there, and we loved it!!! Grant had a great time!!!

On Saturday we went to Grant's best friend Addison's birthday party. She LOVES cows, so her mom Tammy threw an awesome barnyard party. I told her she reminded me a little bit of Kate Gosslin! Here is the cake...

She had games for the kids with prizes! Here is find a prize in the haystack...

Here is the duck pond...

She also had pony rides..She also had cowboy hats for all the kids to wear...

It was the most precious party!! We can't believe you are already two Addi!! We love you so much and are so thankful for you and your family!!

Grant's Big Boy Room

Yes I know that he is only 17 months, but he is a climber! It will not be long until he is able to get out of his crib. He can already climb in and out of his port-a-crib! Anyway we have had fun starting to put his new room together, and he LOVES it! He goes in there everyday and reads books on his beanbag!

My big boy...

On father's day some friends inviting Grant and I over for lunch and swimming since Beau is in the mountains somewhere! We had so much fun! These two pics don't show him in the water, but trust me he loves to swim!!!

I have never had problems with this child wanting to sleep, EXCEPT for yesterday! For some reason he did not want to take a nap! I ended up just letting him play, and finally at 2:20 this is what happened...

I have some friends that are from Missouri like myself, and got Grant this precious Mizzou shirt...

Side note to Monica: I will post about the GREAT time we had at your house when Tammy hurries up and gives me the pictures!! It is soooo her fault! WHAT?? I know!!!

I'll Post More Later...

We just got back from a week in Kansas City, but my camera wasn't working so I am waiting on a cd of pics from our friends that went with us. So for now I will just share a couple of sweet pictures.

Here is my handsome boy before going to VBS...
This is what happens EVERY night. We watch either the Backyardigans, or Wonder Pets (both awesome shows) and then go lay him in bed. Grant will lay with either Beau or I but he always wants his momma to lay him down!!:)
Ok, here is something that Grant has been doing for a while now, and everyone has told me to get it on video. He walks with his hands behind his back! It is the cutest thing...

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Hanging out on the deck, our favorite place in the spring time:)

Ok back in 1999 I began babysitting for a precious family, the Blairs. They had two little girls, Chandler (which Beau refers to as 2nd grader or Chanandler) who was then in Kindergarten, and Caitlin who was in the 3rd grade. I quit babysitting for them in 2003.

Now fast forward to 2009 and these are the same girls, Chandler 16 and Caitlin 19!!! I know that not everyone will be blown away like I am, but time really does fly by!!! Obviously they are both beautiful, but they seriously are just as beautiful on the inside!! I love them so much and am so proud of who they have become!!

They, along with their parents Greg and Jan, came to our house on Saturday and stayed through Monday. After they left, Beau and I talked about how they are not just friends to us, but family. We love you Blair family so much and are so thankful God placed you in our lives!!!!!!

Now some random videos that I thought were cute...

Pure Talent: Whistling, running, and a little break dancing!

It's never too early to train your children to help out with things around the house, including walking the dog...

Who needs a playhouse??