The Big "5"!

My baby turned 5!!!! I haven't taken any official portraits yet...bad mommy!...but here are some pictures from his actual birthday and from his party.

His birth day was a regular old day with school, tae kwon do and Katie's dance. I did take him cookies at school to celebrate and Katie was able to decorate a cake for him!




Ryan's birthday party was super creepy crawly! His science teacher brought some lizards, snakes, frogs, turtles, a tarantula and even a bunny! The kids loved it!






Happy birthday sweet boy!!!

Ryan's First day of 4's Preschool!

Ryan is beginning his last year of preschool...so hard to believe next year both my babies will be in elementary school. For now I will just charish my baby for one more year. He has some WONDERFUL teachers and I am already seeing more things coming home this year than last. Ryan seems to be enjoying it too which is a great thing.

Another Year brings 2nd Grade!

Oh this poor blog. Life has definitely changed in the past year. Less time for relaxing and picture taking and more time shuttling kids from here to there.

but of course I had to share my big girl heading off to second grade. She seems SOOOO big....way to big with two teachers and switching classes. *sigh*



And along with a new school year comes a new dance year. Can't wait to see how she grows as a dancer this year. Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Leaps and Turns and Company are the classes on her plate. I don't know how she's going to do it but she LOVES dance so we are holding on for dear life and jumping in! I've also included a comparison between her first day of 1st grade and 2nd grade. WOW!!!!!

Ryan and his Yellow Belt!

Ryan has been doing Tae Kwon Do for a few months now and so far he likes it! On Friday he tested for his Yellow Belt which was a huge accomplishment for him! We are so proud!!!!! We were not able to make the big group test so we had to do a private test with Master Cho but honestly I think that was better for Ryan. He did awesome and it was quick. The parts of the test were counting to 5 in Korean, Yellow Belt Forms, Certain Kicks and punches and finally breaking the board. He was in shock that he broke that board! So proud of him!



Video of breaking the board and receiving his yellow belt from master cho.

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Another year of Dance in the books!

We are knee deep in summer camps and all the things that summer brings. One big thing is Katie's annual dance recital! This year she danced both nights which makes for a long weekend. On Friday night she did her Company routine, Land of Nod as well as participated in the Finale production which was awesome! She's always wanted to be in the Finale so this was a BIG deal! I helped back stage with some younger classes so I didn't get many pictures.


Saturday she did her Ballet and Tap routines (Jazz didn't have a routine this recital)as well as round two of Finale! She did AWESOME! I'm so proud!



And here is Katie with her teachers from this year, minus her Company teacher (we still have Nationals coming up in July!). She is so lucky to have such amazing teachers and assistants to learn the art of dance from and look up to.

First and Last Day of First Grade

Where does the time go?????

E-I-E-I OOPS!! A First Grade Play

Katie had her first grade play last week and it was super cute. I purchased the DVD so hopefully I'll be able to share it! For now here are some pictures of my Little Bo Peep. Her Grandma K made her hat, apron and bloomers. So special!

Happy Half Birthday to Katie!

Yesterday Katie had her half birthday! Can't believe we are on the downhill slope to 8. WOW!

Our Trip to Lost Pines!

In March we went to a place called Hyatt Lost Pines, outside of Austin, TX. I had heard wonderful things about it from many friends and new the kids would love it. It was amazing! We had so much fun with all the activitites the resort provided. I wish it would have been a little warmer so that we could enjoy the pools but the kids still managed get in some swimming. We also drove to Austin and saw the bats at the Congress Ave bridge...very neat!

Major Catching Up to Do!

Forgive me family for I have sinned. It has been over a month since my last blog post!!!! ACK! Life has been a little CRAZY lately.

Easter

Ryan stil didn't really want to participate in the whole egg dying thing. But I was able to grab a picture of him looking somewhat happy :)


He did however like the egg hunting ;)


Here are some snaps of Katie and her dance team at their Company's Prevue Show and after one of their competitions! They are so cute!



Katie has been very busy not only with dance but with Girl Scouts. This also means I've been very busy with Girl Scouts lol! They are doing a donation drive for the animal shelter so they had a meeting with the principal of the school to ask if they could go on the school's morning announcement TV and also set up the box in the office. I was so proud of them. In addition to that they also bridged from Daisies to Brownies. So proud of them!

Good Friday!

We had the family over for Good Friday since most were off of work and the kids were out of school. We had an Easter Egg hunt and went and took our annual cousin bluebonnet pictures! Our family is getting bigger and bigger! We added Bradley this year and next year we will add Baby Wilson!

Ryan is 4 1/2!

Ok this post is a few weeks late. :P Ryan turned 4 1/2 on Mar 16...I seriously can't believe 5 is on the horizon!!!!!

Katie's Busy Schedule

Katie has been super busy with all of her activities but Girl Scouts is always a fav. We had a field trip to the zoo where the girls did a scavenger hunt. It turned out really fun! All the girls had a good time.


Here are the girls at the animal shelter and also World Thinking Day.


Finally the Me and My Guy Sock Hop! SOOO CUTE!



Another HUGE thing going on for Katie right now is her Dance Company. She has her Prevue Show this weekend, which is their debut before competition. She is SOOOOO excited. The girls have been working really hard! Here they are all dressed up for their dress rehearsal last weekend as well as a quick shot from her hair and make up run through! This has definitely been quite a learning experience for mommy who feels very out of her comfort zone! HA!

It's Rodeo Time Y'all!

You know you live in Texas when the kids' schools have Rodeo/Go Texan Day :) Here are my cuties!!

Welcome Bradley!

The kids have a new cousin! Bradley was born on Feb 15th! I even pulled Katie out of school early to go down and meet him in the hospital. What a special time. I'm so glad the kids have cousins so close. Katie especially is smitten.



A few days later we went down to see Brooke, who was at school when we visited the hospital. the kids always have such a great time together!

Kids Running For Kids!

Our school district put on a 1 mile fun run and Katie and her friend Sophia had a blast! It was REALLY cold but those medals were totally worth it! So proud of our girls!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Christmas post...finally!

Let's ignore the fact that it's February and I'm posting Christmas pictures. :D

Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Brandon came out here for Christmas this year, even though it was supposed to be our year to go to California. While I really missed being able to see my California family at Christmas I have to admit it was nice to be in our home and not have to deal with the stressors of traveling at the holidays.

Of course no holiday with Grandma Mary Beth would be complete without baking cookies of some kind. :)


I managed to get almost everyone to church Christmas Eve ;)



The kids of course got their traditional Christmas Jammies from Bert the Elf on Christmas Eve! They also got Christmas ornaments from Grandma and Grandpa. Right before bed we sprinkled reindeer food with special sparkles to be sure they didnt miss our house!




Christmas Morning!



It was a wonderful Christmas!