Last few days of summer break

 Summer break is winding down.  The girls and I  start school next week!!!  We worked in a couple more fun things for the girls.  We met Leigh and the kids out at Sugar Land Town Center last week. The girls had fun playing near the fountains.

 Kaitlyn, Jillian, Kennedy (Waiting for the Fox's to arrive)

The kids got an ice cream treat and played outside for a while, then we headed back to Leigh's house. Kennedy and Kaitlyn were going to sleep over! :) We decided to let Jillian stay late (with her pj's on) but we took her home. Even though she thinks she is big, we felt she was still too young for a sleep over.  She wasn't too happy with this decision.  

 All the kids in their pj's watching a movie. 

Jillian loves baby Colin and apparently had a secret to tell him. :)

  We let Jilly have a "sleepover" in our bed since the big girls were with Ryan.

 I took this picture in the morning before she woke up. Sweet thing.

 The twins had a great time at their sleep over. They said their favorite part was staying up late, watching a movie and having popcorn. 

On Friday and Saturday, I worked at the uniform resale at FBCA. Since I worked it, I was able to get "first choice" to buy the uniforms I needed for the twins. Uniforms for FBCA are quite expensive, so this helped a lot!  

 Today, we decided to take the girls bowling and have a little family day!  We went to the Palladium right by our house and let the girls have lunch there.

 Kaitlyn and Jilly waiting for their food.

 Kennedy

The girls have never been bowling before and really enjoyed it!

 Kennedy bowling for the first time.

 Miss Jill

 Kennedy

 Kaitlyn

 This is how the girls bowled. :)

 I loved watching them. The ball would go sooo slowly down the lane, but they were so excited to watch it.

 Jillian needed help holding and throwing the ball, but thoroughly loved it. 

 About to bowl! Love her excited face.

 

 Watching the ball roll!!

We played one game and I think they wanted to play more. Kaitlyn seemed to enjoy it the most. :)

 The girls got a sweet treat after bowling. 

Kaitlyn and Jilly shared a cupcake with rainbow sprinkles.

Kennedy and I shared a red velvet cupcake (her choice)

Yummy! 

Tony got a gelato.

Tony and I have both been at school off and on this week. We are also trying to do last minute errands and get things done around the house. The twins are super excited about starting first grade. I'm excited to start teaching Kindergarten...but I know it's going to be hard to get up early every day (since we have been sleeping in this summer....so nice!)

Soaking up every last minute of summer! :) 

 

San Antonio trip

 This past Monday, we headed out to San Antonio with the Fox Family for our last little vacation for the summer!  We went to the JW Marriott Resort and Spa and got adjoining rooms with them.
Ryan rode in our van so the girls could have some fun on the way up.

 Of course, we had to stop at Buc-ees! :)

 We finally arrived and while the guys were unloading and parking, I got a quick picture of the kids! They were sooo excited.

We got checked into our hotel, changed into our swimsuits and headed to the pool. The hotel has a huge splash pad for little kids, an enormous pool for the family, a lazy river and some huge water slides! We had a great time trying it all!  After a few hours of swimming, we changed clothes and headed outside again for some free smores! 

 Waiting in line for smores

 My girls!

 We got our marshmallows and started roasting! :)

 Yum! (The twins like to eat it all separately)

 Jilly likes it all together!

We stayed out late letting the kids run and play and then we headed to bed. 

The black-out curtains must have really worked, because we all slept until 8:30am. (My kids are early risers, so this was super rare!)

 After breakfast, we headed out again! The kids had so much fun together! We stayed out a few hours in the morning and then had rest time in the hotel. Then we went back out to the water.

 After a full day of swimming we headed out for a late dinner.

 The kids table

 Silly Ryan and Kennedy

 Sweet Jillian enjoying her pizza

 Tony and me at dinner

 Matt and Leigh

The next morning, we woke up at 9:15am! That's a record!!! 

We got dressed and headed downstairs to a yummy breakfast buffet.

 Ready for breakfast

 Breakfast time!!

 Sweet thing...she loved all the yummy breakfast foods

 All the girls loving on Baby Colin!  :)  What a sweet baby!

After breakfast, we changed and got ready for our last day at the pool!!

 A cute picture of the kids, but poor Colin wasn't in the mood.

 Jillian stayed in this green floaty the whole time. She just floats around and has fun! (Even though the pool was shallow enough for her to stand)

 Having fun in the water

 Kaitlyn

Tony and me

Around 3:00 (Wed), we loaded up and headed back home. The kids were sad to leave.
We stopped and got a late lunch and the kids watched movies and played games on their leap pads most of the way home. They did a great job!

 

 

 Yum! Lunch and movies in the car! :)

The girls always get sad after a fun trip, but a good night's rest helped them. What a fun trip! We want to do it again next year! :)

Loving summer

 Summer is just plain fun! I love the free schedule and just being able to "get up and go".  It's coming to a close fast, but we are packing in the fun.

 This past Tues, we traveled to The Woodlands to visit my college friend, Laura. We were roommates at HBU and I haven't seen her in about 5 years. We let the kids play together while we talked and caught up.

 She was sweet and helped all the kids make their own pizzas!

 After lots of toy play time, they found her craft stash and got very creative! 

 She has a 9 year old little girl, Lindsay, and a 6 year old boy, Alton.

We took a quick picture before we had to leave. 

We had such a nice time getting caught up! Promise not to let so much time go by next time!

The next day, my wonderful neighbor helped me make a wreath for my classroom door at school.  :)
I say "helped".. but it's more like "made it for me while I sat with her and handed her things!"

 Hanging on my door at school.

My classroom is a zebra theme with blue and green accents! :) 

The next day, we had a photo shoot with our good friend Becca, who is an excellent photographer!!

 Here's a sneak peek of our shoot. Can't wait to see all the pictures!

 Thanks Becca!! You rock!

On Friday, one of my co-workers from school invited Tony and me out to the shooting range. That was quite an experience for someone who has never held a gun before! I got the hang of it eventually and even got a bulls eye! :)  Tony did awesome (better than me!) and enjoyed it too.

Later that day, I took Jillian out to run a few errands, but ended up at Town Center and she sweet talked me into some fun! :)

 She liked the fountain and wanted a picture

If you know Jillian, ice cream is her favorite thing in the whole world! 

 So we had to get some. :)  

Vanilla with gummy bears and sprinkles, of course.

On Sunday before church, Kennedy lost one of her top teeth. I now have a snaggle-toothed little girl...but hey...it will help the teachers at school tell the twins apart!  I love it when they start loosing those top teeth...so cute. 

We will be going on a trip to San Antonio soon! Loving summer!!

Girls's night and first sleep over!

 The Fox family was out of town for the twin's birthday party, so when they came back in town we decided to let the girls have a girl's night and sleepover with Ryan. The girls were SUPER excited!!

 Leigh brought Ryan over to our house about 6:15pm and we loaded up the van! Every time we took a picture we said "Girl's night!" instead of "cheese!"

We headed to La Centerra and decided to eat at Grimaldi's! Pizza!!

 We opted to eat outside (even though it was quite hot) because it was an hour and a half wait for an inside table and we were way to hungry to wait that long!  Luckily, we were near a pond with sand, rocks, fish and ducks! The girls had a lot of fun while we waited for the pizza to arrive.

 Kennedy and Ryan posing with their food and drink! :)

 I think this is my favorite picture I have ever taken of these girls! 

 Such good friends.

After dinner we decided to walk to get dessert. Of course, we had to stop and get more pictures. "Girl's night!!!"

As we walked, the girls sang (quite loudly) little silly chants that they must have learned at school.

 We finally made it to the Nestle Toll house cafe! 

What a yummy place. Everyone got ice cream except Kaitlyn...she got a chocolate chip cookie. 

 There were fun areas for kids to run and play so this picture was taken after many cartwheels and handstands were completed! :) It was about 8:30 when we decided to head back home. We knew we were in for a late night with some hyper little girls!!  They were having sooo much fun!!

We drove back home and everyone took a quick bath and then settled in to watch Tinkerbell.
 We started the movie at 9:30pm.  My girls thought they were sooo cool to stay up so late! (They usually go to bed at 7pm)

 Kennedy, Ryan and Kaitlyn watching Tinkerbell.

 (Jillian was sitting in the recliner and I thought for sure she would fall asleep.....but she didn't!!)

I think it was about 11:15 when the girls finally all fell asleep. They had a good night (aside from the bad dream Jillian had at 3:30am)

Everyone was up at 6:30 am ready to go!!

 Breakfast!!!

The girls played and played before Ryan had to go home around 11am.  They played "Just Dance Disney" Wii game for a long time. It was adorable seeing the girls dancing!! 

The girls were so sad to see her go and are begging for another sleep over. I'm so glad they had such a fun time!!