summer fun part two

Highlights from the second half of our summer...

We celebrated the Fourth of July with sweet friends!  We did dinner and swimming at our house followed by a fireworks show.

Rhett loves America...

We loved celebrating our niece and nephew at their Tiaras and Trains birthday party!

Reid and Georgia Kate had a great week at TBarM day camp!  This was GK's first year to go and she had a blast!

We left camp and went straight to Surfside for our annual Preston beach weekend!

Guinny's great-grandkids...

Snowcones in our pajamas made a late night urgent care trip a little more sweet.

Alli and I had a girls' night with Tiffany and Amanda!  The little girls that we used to babysit are now 25 year olds!

Chris and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary!  

Reid and Georgia Kate went to an art camp one afternoon and had a wonderful time creating!

Reid and our neighbor Riley have played an ongoing summer baseball tournament.  They are out there almost every afternoon in the heat!  

We loved spending a weekend at Sue and Christie's new beach house in Port Aransas!  

Reid loved his first boat fishing experience...

Georgia finally got to try gymnastics at a two day clinic.  She really liked it!

Rhett completed a month long swim lesson with Mr. Juan and turned into a little fish!  We are still doing a lesson once a week for maintenance, but this boy can swim!

We saw Toy Story 4 and all loved it!  This was Rhett's first theater experience.  

We hosted a wedding shower for Rebecca at Alli's house!

Rebecca and her flower girls...

We took a day trip to College Station to watch practice and meet the yell leaders and football players!

I wanted to take Georgia back to school clothes shopping because I loved doing that as a little girl.  In reality, I mostly just ordered her some clothes online, but I did let try on and buy one outfit at Target.  I loved watching her look at herself in the mirror. :)

I celebrated my 36th birthday!  I have so much to be thankful for. 

We spent many hours with cousins and friends at various pools and doing water related activities! ;)

That's a wrap on Summer 2019!  It was a good one and we were sad to see it end!

Celebrating 6!

We had a full weekend of fun celebrating Georgia Kate's 6th birthday!  First up on the agenda was a flamingo themed roller skating party on Saturday the 20th with some of the birthday girl's sweet friends.  She had been looking forward to this for SO long and was just giddy with excitement.  

On the morning of her party we painted her nails and curled her hair with hot rollers like Mommy. :)

The birthday girl had the BEST time.  I just kept watching her and thinking how HAPPY she looked!  Grandma and Grandpa got her roller skates for her birthday and gave them to her the night before her party so she could wear them. She did great out there!  The girl has some skills! ;) The girls skated, played games on the rink with the party hostess, skated some more, had pizza and cake, and then skated even more!

That night I gave the birthday girl my Felicity doll.  We were going to the American Girl Store the next morning so I thought it would be fun for her to get to bring Felicity (like she did last year with my Samantha doll).  She appreciated it so much more than I thought she would.  

The American Girl Store was so much fun.  This was our second time to go and I just can't get over how cute and well done everything is!  First, we shopped!  Musmie bought the lucky birthday girl some special presents.  Next up was lunch, including a birthday dessert!  We finished up our visit with a salon appointment to "modernize" Felicity.  Georgia Kate chose her hairstyle, nail polish color, and even got Felicity's ears pierced!  The lady that did Felicity's makeover was darling and made it an extra fun experience!  It was such a memorable day with my girl!  

By the time her actual birthday rolled around on Monday, we were all a little partied out! ;) She got donuts for breakfast, a new bike from Mommy and Daddy, and then spent her birthday afternoon at a gymnastics camp with her friend Chloe.  She had been begging to try gymnastics, so this was super fun for her to get to do on her birthday!  We ended the day with dinner at Beck's Prime with all of our family (I forgot to get a picture).  

This girl is so loved and I think she felt very special all weekend!  We loved celebrating her!!! 

Georgia Kate is 6!

I can hardly believe that our little Georgia peach is 6 years old!
  She surprised us 6 years ago (when we heard, "It's a girl!") and continues to surprise us every day.

*She is a free spirit with a STRONG will.  She is so different from me and while these things challenge me daily, I absolutely love them about her.  

*She has such a loving and generous heart.  She is (usually) quick to share.  She loves being hugged and giving hugs.

*She is a great "middle".  She loves her brothers and they love her.  She's also pretty tough!  

*She loves creating, roller skating, dancing, being read to, watching her shows, playing with her dolls, cartwheeling around the house, and spending time with her friends.  She loves all things girly!

*Much to my delight, and much to her dismay, she hasn't lost any teeth yet.  I'll hold onto her little girl smile as long as I can!

6th Birthday Interview

What is something you loved about Kindergarten?  my teacher and all my friends
What is your favorite food?  hot dogs, spaghetti, lollipops, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
What is your favorite thing to do outside?  ride my bike and roller skate
What is your favorite color?  pink and purple
What is your favorite show? Frozen and Fancy Nancy
What is something you are really good at?  balancing on the balance beam (?) and riding my bike and roller skating
What is your favorite animal?  flamingos and panda bears
What is your favorite type of toy to play with? Polly Pocket and my dolls
What is your favorite book?  the goose one (Petunia - a random library book we checked out last week)
Who are some of your favorite friends to play with? Chloe, Aubrey, Evie, Audrey, Audrey, Evie, Emery, Jillian, Maggie-Jaymes, all of them 
If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?  China because there's cute little pandas, New York, and Disney World
What is your favorite holiday?  my birthday and Christmas
What is your favorite thing to drink?  lemonade
What is your favorite snack?  cookie bars and goldfish
What do you want to be when you grow up? a ballerina and a gymnastics and watch tv (pretty sure she said this the last two years)
What is your favorite outfit to wear?  t-shirts
What is your favorite thing to do with Reid? play the "bwa game" (basically jumping on each other)
What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?  dino shadows
What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy? color and play
What is your favorite thing to do with Rhett?  all he does is wrestle

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY, Georgia Kate!!! We love you so much!!!

6 year old stats:

Height - 49.5 inches (96%)

Weight - 64.2 pounds (96%)

summer fun part one

We are already well into July, but here are some highlights of the first part of our summer!

Reid had his very first sleepover at a friend's house for Pierce's (and Emery's) birthday!  He was nervous, but ended up having the best time.  

Lots of cousin time!

A week of football camp and a week of basketball camp for Reid and his buddies!

Jazz camp for this girl!

Eloise has been a sweet dance friend for a couple of years!

We went on a day trip with the Browns and had a blast!  Two moms and six kids crammed in a borrowed mini van!  Our first stop was at the new Aggieland Safari outside of College Station!  

I love this girl!

After lunch at Blue Baker we headed to Brenham to stop at the Bluebell Factory!  The kids loved the observation deck and of course eating their ice cream.  

We had a week of VBS!  I taught Reid's class this year. 

We visited the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Sugar Land and our dino-loving littlest boy had the best time!  

We took Perry (and Rhett) on her first Auntie B & Uncle Chris birthday outing!  Build-a-Bear, a carousel ride, and Chick-fil-a made for a fun time!  We loved it!

This boy got his second set of stitches. :( He was so brave!

And just because I love these pictures of our little Georgia Peach in her peach top... :)

We love summer!!!