Friday, August 20, 2021

Summer 2021 Highlights

GK and Perry enjoyed an "under the sea" themed art camp!

Reid had a blast at the Katy High School basketball camp.  

Rhett and Perry attended Camp Cover for a week (basically a week of preschool), but sadly I don't have any pictures!

Mumsie spent some time teaching Georgia Kate to sew - eeek!  She loves it and is very excited to do a sewing class at school this year.  


We were able to get together with people we love, but sadly don't get to see often throughout the year. 

Pool day with the Morrises

Beach Club with Courtney, Pamela, and the kids (GK, Reid, and Penny were there too) :)

Visit with the Olivers and Joiners


July 4th fun with friends!



TBarM (day camp) was in July.  The kids had been looking forward to this for two years, since it was cancelled last year.  Sadly, Georgia only got to attend the first day because she came down with a high fever and was out the rest of the week. :( She was so disappointed!

Excited about her first (and only) day!

A few action shots of Reid... He had the best time!!







Alli, Perry, GK, and I had a fun girls day at the Junie B. Jones play!  It was super cute!



The same day, the boys went to an Astros game with Chris and Grandpa!


We said goodbye to the Jones family as the headed off to Denver!  This family was a special part of our homeschool year.  


We took the girls to American Girl for Perry's birthday!  It was her first visit and Georgia was thrilled to go back!  




Chris and I were able to sneak away to Midlothian for a night to attend the wedding of one of my former students!  His mom and I also taught together.  It was such a special night!  


The boys attended a week of Ninja camp and loved every second of it!  Rhett got 1st place in his age group at the end of camp competition!  
 
Georgia attended gymnastics camp the same week and had lots of fun!

We spent a day at Typhoon Texas with friends!

Rhett was excited to hang out with his preschool friend, Canton.  

We had our Preston Surfside weekend!  We were so excited to see everyone after having to cancel last year's weekend.  


The lineup of Guinny's great-grandchildren continues to grow!  

Chris and I went straight from Surfside to Cabo to celebrate our 15th anniversary!  We had the most relaxing trip and were so thankful for the grandparents that made it possible.  

Cheers to 15 years!

Our view from our room/plunge pool.

We hosted a bridal shower for Amanda!


Promotion Sunday at church, sporting our new school colors!  

Matching Boy Cuzzies :)

After living in Firethorne for 8 years, Chris and the kids went fishing in our lake!  They were pleasantly surprised with their catches!  



We celebrated my birthday and it was a sweet day!

We braved the heat and went to the zoo with Alli and Luke one day in August!

The kids and I went to Main Event for bowling and arcade games (after KISD started school) and pretty much had the entire place to ourselves!  

We took the kids to the first Aggie game of the season!  It was a special game and we all had the best time! 


Whew!  Summer 2021 has been fun!  We are winding down and all getting excited about our new school adventure!  

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Celebrating Georgia Kate's 8th birthday!

 We loved celebrating our birthday girl this year!

A few days before her birthday we had a jewelry making party with some of her sweet friends!  Multiplicity in old Katy did a great job with the girls.  







On July 22nd, GK woke up to her birthday table!  We had donuts and she opened her gifts!  She was SO surprised to find out that she was going to get her ears pierced for her birthday!  She had been asking for months and I always told her she had to wait until she was 10.  She was so, so happy!!  We had an appointment for the next day.  We gifted her a pair of silver heart studs from James Avery, which are the same earrings my parents got me when I got my ears pierced 28 years ago! 


She spent the rest of her day rollerblading (her gift from Grandma and Grandpa), having ice cream for lunch, going to her tumbling class, and then having a family birthday dinner at Lozano's! 






The day after her birthday, we went to Target to have her ears pierced by a wonderful nurse with a company called Rowan!  The nurse made it easy and as pain-free as possible.  There were no tears and we had a very happy girl! :)


It was a fun few days celebrating our fun-loving birthday girl!  

Georgia Kate is 8!

Georgia Kate is EIGHT!

 I always say that Georgia Kate is one of the biggest surprises of my life (because I was truly shocked when the doctor said she was a girl) and she continues to surprise me every day!  We are SO different from each other, so I feel like I'm just always surprised by learning new things about her all the time.  I love it!!! 

Here are eight things about our eight year old girl!  

*Georgia Kate loves fun!  She loves having something to look forward to and gets excited about things easily.  

*She has a great sense of humor and has a great laugh!  She loves reading funny books.  Her current favorite series is Junie B. Jones.  

*She is very wiggly and always moving.  She has a hard time sitting still.

*She is our best eater and will try almost anything!  She loves helping me cook and bake.  

*She loves playing with her dolls and barbies.  Her floor is basically covered in barbie and doll accessories at all times.  

*She is very social and friendly!  She's never worried about knowing someone ahead of time at a camp or activity.  She just says she'll meet new friends there.  I've realized over the last year and a half how much she loves spending time with friends.  I'm really hoping that she forms great friendships at school this year!  

*She loves school (see above) and can hardly wait for it to start on the 7th.  She will tell you that she hates math (which was always my favorite subject), but likes everything else.  She loves to learn and loves to have fun with classmates!  

*She loves trying new things!  She's dabbled in a lot of extracurricular activities over the last couple of years.


Have fun being EIGHT, our sweet Georgia Kate!  We love you SO much!!!