Victoria In August

Last Sunday we made our way to Victoria for the week to go to VBS.   We tried to go to VBS in Brenham and Seguin but they didn't coordinate with our busy summer schedule.   It was an easy decision for me to help out Aunt Cynthia with crafts and the kids to get an enriching week of  "Jamin' with Jesus".   My pictures are limited from VBS because we worked hard every night.   I snapped one picture of Hannah while her group was doing their crayon cross and that was because I had just cut my finger and blood was dripping everywhere!    We are still living VBS with our CD of  the songs.  The favorites are definitely- Ten Commandment Boogey and Super Star. 

Here's a picture of Hadlee's picture frame and picture that she made on the first night.


Hannah working on her crayons shavings for her stained glass crayon cross.

Our mornings were pretty low key.


We had to run lots of errands during the week.   Every afternoon after they were "angels" during errands I treated them to indoor playground time.

 Hays posing after he got in time-out for screaming on the playground.

We ate our share of sweets during the week.  We had McDonalds and Chick-fil-A icecream every afternoon during the week.


We went to visit Ms. Arnold at the nursing home.  She's been there since she broke her hip in May and was so excited to see the gang.


Mema took us back to school shoe shopping.   She has been doing it since they were 3 years and it still drives me crazy 4 years later.   We managed to get in and out with nothing broken and with new shoes.   Mema had to get a new purse and Hadlee thought she could talk her into an owl purse for herself.....


Hadlee has Orange leaf on her bucket list and we have had Cherry Berry and Spoons this summer.   As far as she is concerned they don't count as her frozen yogurt treat.


Harper sending love to her daddy.


On Saturday all three were in a fashion show at the Victoria Mall.  A couple of weeks before Harper and I were having a shopping date together.  Dillards had a sign up looking for people to be in a back to school fashion show so we signed her up.  The other two really wanted to be in it so I asked if they could when they contacted me about Harper.     
Harper was nervous before her time on stage.  She did a great job!  You would have never known that she was so scared.   The kids had a fan club- Nana, Aunt Sue, Mema, Papa and me.


Hadlee was super excited to be in the fashion show.


Hays walking the runway and his fans are cheering him on.  He loved doing the fashion show and enjoyed the experience.   I didn't get a picture of him falling off the stage.  He fell off the back part of the stage and came up with his hand up saying, "I'm fine, I'm o.k."


They still aren't too old for some Elmo lovin'.

July 2012 in Pictures

We started the month and finished the month in Brenham.   The kids loved their time in Brenham this summer, more on that later.
 

Hadlee loves making lunch.

If you want to find Hays just look outside and you will find him playing baseball.

Thanks to Mema and Papa, we're finally playing in the backyard.

Hadlee wanted bangs in her hair so she did what any 7 year old would do??............

Tye-dye nails by Mommy.

The kids got a baby pool from Aunt Ro and have played in it like they are 2 years old again.

I took these pictures one evening but they play in the pool at least 5 times a day.

Hays enjoys the pool the most, probably to cool down after his one player baseball games.

Lunchtime.

After hanging out at Garner, this was how Hadlee dressed for an entire week.

Hays decided to sleep in his sisters' room again and so did Coffee.


Hays and Harper enjoying the library. 



Our gigantic sunflowers that got taller than us.


The girls and I joined in on a 5K one Saturday.  It went right by our house so we got our walking shoes on and started walking the route.   We crossed the finish line at 49:32, then we had to walk back home.


We spent more time at the Frio and enjoyed every minute of it!



Smores fun!

The girls are really into wearing their eye shades, it cracks me up!


Hadlee and I were killing time at the nail salon while Harper had her turn.   It took two hours to get our nails done but they sure did look pretty.



Playing ball in his PJs.


Girls night out to see Annie.   They loved it!  



Celebrating the baptism of Carson!


We are keeping the tooth fairy busy this summer!



Did I mention that Hays loves baseball?



We toured the new dorm at TLU and thought that maybe we could start them in college a little early.



We started and finished the month picking figs.    We have fed the neighborhood and more with the figs our tree produced.  One night while we were eating dinner we saw a fox getting some figs.