Kathy's Birthday Party!

Last night several family & friends met up at Kobe Japanese Steakhouse to celebrate Kathy's 29th Birthday. We had so much fun. This was the girls first time at a hibachi table and they LOVED it. Gracie wished all restaurants cook right in front of you and Gwynie was doing her impression of the hibachi chef's knife tricks with forks all night.

Thanks so much for inviting us Kathy. We love you and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

100th Day of School

Today Gracie had to bring in a 100th day of school project to her class. We brainstormed some ideas of different ideals for the last few days. She decided on eye balls...greeeeeat. At first I thought about having her cut pictures of eyes out of magazines or have her take a picture of 100 different eyes and then just display them on a poster board. I talked with Kathy (the best Kindergarten teach ever) and she suggested a t-shirt...so smart. Then after some more brainstorming we came up with googly eyes. The shirt turned out pretty cute and Gracie was really excited to wear it today. Here are a few pictures...

Time to start counting out the googly eyes

okay...we have our 100!!

Now for the fun part, gluing on the eyeballs

Just a couple more to go and...

Tah Dah...The finished project!!!

Gracie on the 100th day of school!!!

Finding Peace Sermon Series

http://www.stphilipsfrisco.org/

Our church has recently started a new sermon series entitled "Finding Peace". I thought I would post the links to the videos here in case anyone wanted to watch them. The sermons are preached by our Senior Pastor Fr. Clay Lein.

SERMON #1: He Is Peace ~ 1/11/2009


SERMON #2: He Knows~ 1/18/2009


SERMON #3: He Is In Charge ~ 1/25/2009


SERMON #4: He Provides ~ 2/1/2009


SERMON #5: He Cares ~ 2/8/2009


SERMON #6: He Has A Plan ~ 2/15/2009

First Ice Storm of 2009

Here are a few pictures of the ice storm that came through late last night and early this morning! I wish I had better pictures, but I am a wimp and it is TOO cold outside so I took these through the windows.

They did cancel school today and well, Gracie was just a tad bit excited...

A Trip to the Beauty Shop!

This weekend Lance watched the girls so I could spend the weekend at a scrapbook retreat. Scrapbooking was great and I got a lot done. I can't wait until the next one!!!

Before I left Lance made sure that I would be home in time to do the girls hair before church. He does a lot of stuff for/with the girls, but when it comes to their hair...he just leaves that one to me. He has in times of emergency done Gracie's hair, but it has been a while and well she has about 4 times more hair now. I know that the girl's hair is not easy so I told him that I would make sure that I was home in time.

Gracie had a birthday party to go to on Saturday. Lance hadn't mentioned anything about their hair for the party, but I didn't really think much of it. Well, Lance being the smart guy that he is took care of it. When I got home today Gwynie told me that Daddy took them to Sweet & Sassy to get their hair done. Ahhhh...brilliant!! He said all the moms at the party were pretty impressed with his solution. Here are a few pictures of the girls after a morning at the beauty shop with Daddy...

Getting your hair done is always fun! But, another fun part about getting her hair done is to see what it looks like after you take it down...

CRAZY!!!

Dad is Great...He let us eat Blue Cupcakes!!!

Imagine the above title being said in my best Bill Cosby impression!

I had a meeting last night for church so the girls got to spend some fun time with Lance. He stopped off at the store on his way home and bought the girls some cupcakes for dessert. There were 3 different colors of icing...white, yellow & blue. If it were me I would have just given the girls the white cupcakes. But Lance being the fun Dad that he is let the girls choose and you guessed it...they chose BLUE!!!

Just look at those faces!!!

Gwynie said her hands were "too messy" so she decided to cut out the middle man.

Mmmm...I love blue cupcakes!!

wow...I'm not sure how much icing actually made it IN her mouth.

After she was done with her cupcake she started chasing Lance around saying "Booooo...I a monster"

The girls had a blast with Daddy!! I am just glad that I got home AFTER bath time. ;)

Knitting with Nana

A few weeks back Gracie decided that she wanted Nana to teach her how to knit. So when Nana & Paw Paw came up for New Years she made sure to remind her to teach her how to knit. So on Jan 2 we headed up to Hobby Lobby to buy some knitting supplies. Nana had not knitted in over 20 years and Gracie tends to get frustrated easily at times so we weren't too sure how it was going to go. I have to admit that I was surprised that Nana remembered how to do it after 20 years and I was also shocked by how quickly Gracie picked it up. Maybe one of these days Gracie will teach me how to knit!!

Getting started...here we go!!!

Knitting along

Oops...need a little assistance from Nana!
Just look at that determination!!!

Gracie did a great job learning and Nana did a great job teaching. The end result was a beautiful bracelet. Her next goal is a pot holder!!!

New Years Eve 2008

Since we didn't get to see Nana & Paw Paw on Christmas we invited them up to spend New Years with us. They watched the girls while Lance and I went to a early New Year Eve party with some friends. Then we came home and make all sorts of yummy snacks and rang in the new year!!

Gracie enjoying the New Years Eve spread!!!

Gwynie eyeing the sausage balls!

After a few snacks we got to have Christmas Morning all over again and open up presents from Nana & Paw Paw + aunts & uncles.

SNOW!!!

The Saturday we were in Amarillo we woke up and looked outside and it was SNOWING!!! Gracie spent the night with Brylie so I don't have any pictures of her in the snaow but here are some cute ones of Lance & Gwynie!!!

The Sun Sets on 2008

I snapped this picture in the car on the way to a New Years Eve party.