Showing posts with label Danny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Danny. Show all posts

Friday, June 30, 2017

June Compliation

 6/3 - Fuzin Dinner at BJs Brewery - My sisters and our cousins (Dillon, Tyler, Ally and Andrew) refer to ourselves as the Fuzins (Friend Cousins). Hopefully this was the first of many Fuzin dinners!

 6/8 - These girls are already fast friends

 6/8 - Derek has lost so many teeth, it's hard to figure out how he eats anything!

 6/9 - Heidi is so smiley now! I love it!!

 6/9 - My friend, Holly Duenas, came back to Prosper to visit! It was so fun to catch up with her a bunch of other ladies from the former Prosper 2nd Ward at Frontier Park.

6/9 - First official date night since Heidi was born! We went to McKinney Moviehouse and Eatery to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. It was awesome! We got so many wary looks walking in with a tiny baby but she slept the entire time. Three people came up to us afterward to comment on how impressed they were with our sweet, well-behaved baby. She's a keeper, haha!

 6/10 - This is a very common occurrence. Heidi "helps" Bama in the kitchen when she decorates her cakes. 

 6/13 - This was such a sweet moment for me. Juenessa was one of the counselors at Hope Women's Center who helped me when I found out I was pregnant with Heidi. I was one of the very few women who come to the center excited about a planned baby. She saw Heidi on the ultrasound screen at 14 weeks gestation and it was such a sweet, wonderful experience to share my blessing with these ladies. Juenessa had stayed in touch with me throughout my pregnancy and is such a blessing to the women who come into the center. I'm so glad I met her!!

 6/14 - Back is best, right? Not for this kid. Bama expertly figured out that Heidi is a staunch belly sleeper and she taught me how to safely arrange blankets in Heidi's bassinet and on the couch so she can get some good rest. She's getting so big already!

 6/14 - Oh boy. These two boys are professional toad hunters now. They catch toads in the backyard at least twice a week. Today's participants in the toad hunt were less than thrilled and I couldn't help but laugh at the boys' enthusiasm contrasted with the irritation of the toads, hahaha!

 6/15 - This really happened. The boys, Derek in particular, feel a little left out when I paint Clara's nails and they often ask if I can paint their nails too... and then ask why boys don't wear nailpolish. tired of the constant nagging, I gave in today and painted their nails. Derek had dark blue with a layer of glitter on top and Bryce had light blue with the same glitter on top. They wore it for about a half an hour til the novelty wore off and then sheepishly asked me to remove the polish. Lesson learned, lol.

 6/17 - Heidi is rocking her fluff-hawk as we call it (instead of a mohawk, get it?) and an adorable double chin.

 6/17 - Heidi is 2 months old today!! Slow down!!

 6/22 - Here is the walking definition of Bro-mance. These two are best friends and it is so cute!

 6/23 - Milk drunk after a 2 am feeding, lol. Love those chubby cheeks!

 6/24 - "Take me a picture, Mom!" Puzzle pieces can also be used as blaster guns, haha!

 6/27 - After weeks of 3 hours of sleep at night or less, some days you just have to put your game face on. "Put some color on" is a common Southern antidote for dwelling on your problems.

 6/27 - Derek loves to build things. He was very proud of this car he made, even though he didn't have any instructions to go off of. 

 6/29 - Mitchell asked me to bring Heidi to his workplace so he could show her off to his coworkers. After much deliberation about my outfit, I chose one of my favorite shirts and set off. One of Mitchell's coworkers said upon seeing me, "Oh wow, you match your carseat cover!" Oops. Totally didn't see that coming since I ordered the carseat cover off Amazon and bought my top from LuLaRoe. Guess I really like English roses, haha!

6/30 - Heidi occasionally makes this creepy face when she sleeps. Aunt Bella makes the same face, to this day, haha. 

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Pinstack Bowling with Aunt Mary

We were so excited to hear Aunt Mary is in town this weekend! She wanted to spend an evening bowling and playing games at Pinstack Bowling and the kids were thrilled to be included. I had previous plans with Liz, Jenna, Sereen and Lanae to meet for dinner at Cheesecake Factory and the movie Me Before You. Thankfully I was able to meet them for a delicious dinner and then head over to catch up with the rest of my family. Derek, Bryce and Clara were having a blast running from game to game and all over the arcade portion of the building. Mitchell, Tyler, Andrew and I dominated a couple games of Lasertag. At one point, Bryce snuck off with Aunt Amy and Danny to get some food and he was in heaven having a whole plate of chicken strips and fries to himself, as well as the undivided attention of Aunt "Mamie" and Danny. ;) It was great to see Aunt Mary; Val; Aunt Veronica and Andrew; Aunt Jenn, Uncle Tim, Dillon, Tyler and Ally; Beth, Declan and Jilli; and Gamm and Papa. I think I just missed my mom, but we had a lot of fun hanging out with family and playing games together. Clara turned out to be kind of a good luck charm for Gamm and Aunt Mary at one of the games, Derek scored 500 tickets in a single round of a game, and Bryce was obsessed with the Transformers game. At the end of the night, Aunt Mary took all the kids, (Derek, Bryce, Clara, Declan, Jilli, Ally, Tyler and Andrew) into the prize room to pick out prizes. Altogether, I think we scored over 13,000 tickets! It was a super fun (super late!) night with my family. :)

 Derek loved playing this giant Connect 4 game

 Clara's great-grandma and great-great aunt ADORE her. 

 My lovely sister, Val and my lovely Aunt Jenn!!

 Derek, Ally and Dillon had fun playing this game together

 Mitchell was Phaser 22, I was Phaser 28, Andrew was Phaser 26 and Tyler was Phaser 33. Blue team for the win!

 Bryce loves Danny, Aunt "Mamie" and food. Triple score!! :D

 Who knew fishing was such intense work?!

 Derek's face when he got the biggest fish, haha!

 Mitchell helped the kids with another fishing game

 Aunt Mary, Gamm and I!
 Derek and Bryce loooooved playing this Ghostbusters game. They shot ping pong balls at ghosts.

 Bryce, Aunt Mary, Clara and Derek! :D

 Clara and Bryce took out the Decepticons on the Transformers Game. Mitchell eventually jumped in to help them out.

 Papa kept his eye on Bryce while he perched on the rotating entrance wheel

 Papa, Bryce and Danny

Bryce loves Hulk

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Aunt Amy's Birthday Celebration

We headed out to Keller to celebrate Amy's birthday a little early. Par-tay! We're so glad we live close to family and that we get to see so much of my mom and my sisters. Amy has done a lot to help me get through this kindergarten year with Derek, offering insights, assistance, reassurance and import perspectives from the point of a kindergarten teacher (this was her second year teaching kindergarten). The kids love Aunt "Mamie" as Clara calls her, and were thrilled to help her blow out her candles. :) Happy birthday, Amy!

Nana loves her Clara

Clara kept pointing to the wine bottles and saying, "Milk!" Haha, nopey nope, kid!

Clara likes to play with hair, but it wigs Nana out a little, lol

Lighting all the candles - not quite 24, but we didn't want a fire hazard. ;)

Derek candle-bombed them - he blew the candles out before they could!

Yay! Happy birthday!

Aunt Val let Bryce help shuffle the Phase 10 cards

He preferred to watch, lol

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Derek's First Musical Performance

We were so excited to see Derek in her first musical performance! All the kindergartners participated in the performance called, "Tea with Queen Caroline." The principal, Mrs. Glenda Dophied, played the role of Queen Caroline while the children sang to her and Jack and Jill carried her crown. There were lots of giggles and the poor music teacher had a hard time keeping the children's attention, but that made it all the sweeter for me. I loved seeing how much fun all the kids were having. We were so blessed to have family come out to support Derek. Emeri sat on my lap so she could see better and helped me take pictures on my phone. I loved having that sweet time with her. :)

 Derek's creepy Joker smile. :S

 That's my boy!

 Derek is definitely one of the tallest kids and he did a great job standing still while the music teacher introduced the theme for the musical.

 He made us laugh when standing still clearly became too much for him, haha!

 Me and my lovely assistant!

 Derek did a great job smiling and singing

 Yay family!

 The regal Queen Caroline was serenaded by her sweet chorus

 Derek and his principle, Mrs. Glenda Dophied

We love our family! So glad that they could make it out to support Derek.