Watch Me Grow

Christmas in Cisco

We had our last Christmas Celebration last weekend in Cisco with the Pugh's. Katie playing with Makenzi!

Katie, Rylie and Presley

Katie, Rylie, Presley and Sloan were checking out the pond...

Presley found an old deer jaw...she was very excited and couldn't wait to show her daddy!

While we were out exploring, Makenzi took a little nap on Julia!

Sloan, Uncle Chris, Nenaw (JennyLee), Papaw (Jim), Rylie, Presley and Katie

Rylie loves to be the big girl and baby little Makenzi!

Sandi, Justin, Grani (Dianne) and Makenzi

Curt and Julia

Aunt Flo and her friend, Paula

Aunt Susan and Jeff

Aunt Allison opening a gift!

Grani brought some fabric for the girls to make their own blanket and we had fun making one!

Presley just had her birthday, so Nenaw got a cake to celebrate all the January birthdays!!

Very Nice Day!!

Grandmother and Papa O.T.

Last weekend, Grandmother and Papa O.T. went over to see the progress on the shop/home and the playhouse... The girls with Grandmother and Papa O.T. in their playhouse!

The progress on the shop/home as of Jan. 23rd.

Rylie doing this cute little hope where she kicks each leg out and back...very cute!

Katie had her first field trip today and her second experience riding a school bus...how exciting!!! Ready to go...
We're here at a Stephen Fite Concert in Garland. He does educational songs that were to a "groovy" theme this year...lots of fun!!

Katie and a few of her friends!

Stephen Fite

Katie getting good at the DISCO!

Katie's teacher, Mrs. Liles, is holding "Thursday" and another kinder teacher, Mrs. Wilson, at our school is holding "Saturday."

Katie with Stephen Fite

Stephen Fite and Katie's Class!

It was a very fun day!

Happy 2nd Birthday Luke!

Luke's party was this past Saturday and it was Texas Ranger style...
Luke and his Mommy, Kodi!

Luke and the girls!

What a cool cake!!!

Katie, Desira and Rylie

Lukes Daddy, Jason, trying out the toys!!

Luke in his new Ranger Tee!

Happy Birthday Lukey Boy! We love you!!

Our Little Girls...

I get so busy and don't always take time to document everything, but that doesn't mean that

our girls aren't always doing things to crack us up, make us cringe or most of all...make us proud!!

I'll start off with Rylie Grace. She has learned to blow bubbles with her gum (of which she is so proud) and skip...it is very cute!! She can write so well and remembers so many words that she can write on her own. She just mastered the number 8 and she likes to show everyone!! Rylie really wants to learn to read and is actually surprising us with how much she picks up on as we are working with Katie on our homework and various things! She gets to read every one of Katie's homework books and it makes her feel so big!

Katie and Rylie were playing school and Katie made up these math story problems for Rylie to complete...which she did when Katie read her the questions. I was putting clothes away in their closet just listening away to all of this and was just shocked at what they could do...

Translation: There was 4 Rylies in the garden. 2 Rylies decided to go to pick flowers. How many are left? Then, Rylie answered and wrote 2.

Translation: There was 5 corny dogs. 2 lemonades came and joined. And that makes ___. Rylie answered 7 after adding them up on her fingers. Katie then proceeded to show her how to use the pictures that she had already drawn.

Translation: If there is two cookies in the cookie jar. Mom ate two of the cookies. How many would be left? Rylie answered and wrote 0.

They never cease to amaze me...we're such blessed parents!

As I've said before, Katie is such a deep thinker, as well. The other night after we read our book and sang our songs before bed, Katie said "If babies can't choose to have Jesus come in their heart...can they go to heaven?" I said, yes they go to heaven because God knows their heart and knows that they haven't had the chance to choose Him. So, with a 6 year old and a 4 year old listening and giving input, we had a very meaningful discussion about heaven and faith. This isn't really a new topic, Katie really brings it up often that God is all around us and asks various questions or just enlightens us with her thoughts.

Mom took this picture right outside the back window of their house. The girls thought it was just too cool!!

Fun In The Snow

Well, we are all so excited when the snow started coming down. This is right after it started... ...they couldn't get their warm clothes on fast enough!!