20 Questions

Interview with Saige at age 4. :)

1. What is your favorite color? pink and purple
2. What is your favorite toy? Abby and Bitty Baby Twins
3. What is your favorite fruit? Pineapple and grapes
4. What is your favorite tv show? Olivia
5. What is your favortite thing to eat for lunch? sandwich
6. What is your favorite thing to wear? shorts and shirts
7. What is your favorite game to play? Candyland
8. What is your favorite animal? sea lions
9. What is your favorite snack to eat? goldfish and veggie booty
10. What is your favorite song to sing? Everlifting
11. What is your favorite book to read? Pinkalicious
12. Who is your best friend? Lilah
13. What is your favorite cereal to eat? Fruit loops
14. What do you like to play outside? with addison
15. What is your favorite drink? chocolate milk
16. What is your favorite holiday? Halloween
17. What do you like to take to sleep with at night? baby (it's a lovey)
18. What is your favorite breakfast? cinnamon rolls
19. Where is your favorite place to go out to eat? Gringo's
20. What do you want to be when you grown up? A mommy

Cell Phone dump

My friend has kept Saige for a few Wednesdays because of Reese being sick. They got their ballet and tap costumes for recital. Then she treated them to lunch. Such cuties!!!

 

We spent some time at the park on Saturday, just me and the girls. fun! They love feeding the ducks.

This is a bunny picture Reese (on the left) and Saige (on the right) drew. If you look closely at Saige's you can see eye's, nose, mouth, ears. It's the first time (at almost 4 years old) that she has drawn a picture of something. Go Saige!

 We are serious about playing babies over here. It's like a daycare. :)

Gymnastics Show (and pneumonia)

Reese had this on and off fever for almost two weeks. It would come at 101-102 and then go away after a few days and be gone for 4 days and then come back. Long story short (and a chest x-rays, bloodwork, and urine test) she had "walking" pneumonia. We were going to her gymnastics recital thingy but that idea got squashed. So, while we were out of town for the MS 150 my mom got to take her to it. She was very excited to still get the chance to go. Here are a few pictures my mom so kindly took. Reese was OVER the moon to get a trophy. She just loves gymnastics!!

MS 150 pictures from the website

These are a little more professional pictures taken while the guys were riding.

The ride

Here are some pictures of us getting up at 3:45 AM to get to the stadium. We made shirts to wear :)

We tried to follow the bikers to each rest stop but after a few problems we decided that wasn't safe for them OR us so we went to the lunch spot in Belville. Later we went to La Grange and watched them ride in. This was the ending point for the day. I believe they rode 85ish miles that day. The fair grounds were set up with tents, food, people, dogs. Lots of fun.

We then went to hotels to spend the night. I had tire issues and had to leave my car. I rode with a friend the rest of the time. (STRESS) We met the guys back at the second day lunch spot in Bastdrop. It was pretty crowded. This is what we did a lot of while waiting for the guys to ride in :)

We took pictures at the lunch spot. This was right after the guys rode a lot of hills.

And then we went on to Austin to wait at the finish line.

After the ride we all gathered for more pictures, talking, and a prayer. It was an awesome time and we are so proud of the guys!

MS 150 Celebration Dinner

The night before the big ride we had a dinner in honor of our husbands. Most of the kiddos (we have 16 all together in our group) weren't going to make the trip because it was a lot of driving and a lot of waiting, so we wanted to gave a way for them to be apart of the ride. The guys like to "carb load" before the ride so we threw them a pasta dinner. Salad, lasagna, chicken spaghetti, ziti, bread,mini pizza's rolls, cookie cake YUM! We even played a game :) It was a lot of fun.

Swim Lessons

I put the girls in swim lessons for two weeks. It has been good but very tiring going every day. It's in the middle of the day and in Katy so it takes thoughtful planning (snacks, clothes packing if we're somewhere before...things like that).

Reese has done great. She is starting to making big arm strokes when swimming, learning to dive, things like that. She really enjoys going and I can see growth in this short time.

Saige is also growing a lot as a "swimmer." I was planning on her being able to swim without floaties after these every day two week lessons but it doesn't look as though that will happen. She was very afraid of putting her face in the water and going under. So day 1, 2 and 3 she learned float on her back. Day 4 and 5 he started making them put their face in and go under. Girlfriend got SCARED. Bless her heart she screamed and kicked and told her coach no. But he pushed her and now she isn't scared anymore. See, growth :) He is the sweetest young man too. I can tell he is giving Saige extra sweet care. He even kissed the top of her head one lesson. She likes her coach and so do I.

And many days this is how we look driving home. VERY tired!!!