Alex is 8

On March 11th, Alex turned 8 years old! We celebrated the occasion by going to Ninfa's for dinner & having a friend sleep over.

The following weekend, we had a family party in Vidor.

The theme was Super Mario Bros & everyone donned mustaches! 

We sang Happy Birthday, 

ate cookie cake

and Alex opened his presents.

It was a fun time

with family

and friends

in attendance! 

To close out this post, here are a few of Alex's favorite things at 8 years old...

Best Friend: Eren

Favorite Color: Blue (Cyan to be specific)

Favorite Food: Pizza

Favorite Show: Dan TDM Makes a Big Scene

Favorite Youtuber: Dam TDM

Favorite Game: Sonic the Hedgehog

Double Digits!!!

It's hard to believe it but Addy turned 10 this year!

On her birthday, June15th, we went to my friend Nikki's house & went swimming

and celebrated with pizza & cake.

Later that night, we celebrated again with cookie cake

and a special performance by The Amazing Mysterio!

And then on Saturday, June 18th, we had a pool party for Addy at the Sienna Resort Pool.

The kids had fun swimming & sliding for about an hour.

We sang Happy Birthday

and ate cookie cake during the first safety break.

Shortly after the break was over, it started raining so everyone had to get out of the pool. 

Addy made the most of it though by quickly setting up a game of musical chairs!

Because what's a party without party games!?!

Unfortunately the rain did not slack up. Matter of fact it got much heavier & turned into quite the thunderstorm! So parents were called, kids were picked up & home we went.

All in all though, it was a good time!

And now my baby girl is not a baby anymore. 

She's DOUBLE DIGITS!

Life As We Know It...

Between work & school & everything else, we've been super busy these past couple of months! Here are some of the things we've been doing...

Alex had his tonsils removed!
Between September & December of last year, Alex had strep throat 5 times! So... the doctor recommended that he have his tonsils removed. He was adamant that he was NOT HAVING SURGERY, so it took a lot of discussions to get him to agree to it. But once he did, I called & scheduled it & on Friday, April 1st he had it done.

We had to be there super early, so I took Alex while Nick got Addy to school.

I got him checked in & back to pre-op we went.

Once in pre-op, we killed time by playing games 

and goofing off together.

Then it was time for the procedure. After all his worrying beforehand, Alex was calm & ready in that moment. I, on the otherhand, was a wreck! Luckily, Nick arrived shortly after I headed to the waiting room so I wasn't alone. After about an hour, the nurse came & got us & led us to

our sleeping baby boy.

He stayed in post op for about an hour & then we were able to take him home.

After the procedure, he had throat pain on & off for about a week. (But he got to miss a week of school so to him it was all worth it!!)

Addy had a lemondade stand!

All of 3rd grade had an assignment to have a lemonade stand on lemonade day. So our Girl Scouts decided to have one together.

Alex took karate lessons. 

I bought a 10 class package to try it out. He said he really liked it but after about 4 classes he was done! Glad I didn't sign him up for 6 months like they wanted me to!

I went to New Braunfels.

 My mom, my sisters & some of my nieces & I all went for a girls weekend.

The place we stayed was right on the river

and had some animals roaming around it including goats

and a rooster!

We went shopping in Gruene, ate at the Gristmill

and had bookclub while we were there.

(Don't you love our book club shirts that Brooke had made for us!)

Alex went to a birthday party at The Glazery.

While he was there he painted a cupcake trinket box.

And when he got home he painted his nose! Lol

Addy bridged to Juniors!

After 2 years as Brownies, Addy & her Girl Scout troop all bridged to Juniors!

We had a sweet little ceremony at the church where we have our meetings. We had a flag ceremony, a slide show with pictures from our activities, some of the girls recited a poem & then all the girls walked over the bridge one by one.

And we ended with our Girl Scout circle.

After the bridging ceremony, we went to one of the girl's houses for swimming & pizza!

And I kissed a girl & I liked it!

As I was leaving the school one day, I saw a small crowd of people across the street. So I walked over to see what was happening. 

The Gator Squad was there & they were in the process of catching an alligator.

And it wasn't just an alligator, but a 9 ft female alligator that was aggressive & not afraid of humans. Not a good combo for an alligator that lives across the street from 1000 kids!!

So they reeled her in, tied her snout up & before they took her to live somewhere else, I got to kiss her!

And that's our life as we know it!

Happy Birthday A-Man

Alex turned 7 on March 11th.

The very first thing that he did when he woke up on his birthday was ask if he could open his presents. No big surprise there! Lol

His favorite present was a big o' pile of poop!

Since it was a Friday, he unfortunately had to spend his birthday at school. (Something this girl with a summer birthday never had to experience!)

Later that evening we went out to dinner for his birthday. We let him pick where he wanted to go & he chose Ninfa's. (Again, no surprise there! He loves his Mexican food, just like his mamma!) He kept telling everyone in the restaurant that it was his birthday & was so excited when the waiters sang to him.

The next day, we had a family party for him at our house.

We went with a Star Wars theme & Addy made all the cousins play party games, including musical chairs & a Pin the Antenna on BB8
that she whipped up that morning!

Here are a few pics from the day...

A few days later, he had another party, this time with his friends, at Stomping Grounds in Sugar Land. It's the same place we had his party last year, but he had so much fun that he wanted to have it there again.

He had a lot of fun running around with his friends & boy was he hot, sweaty & tired by the end of the party!

It was a great couple of days celebrating his birthday & he's already told me what he wants to do for next year's party. (He told me that he wants a surprise party. And it's a whole year away so he won't even remember that he told me he wants one & so he'll still be surprised! Lol)

And to close out this post, here are a few things about my sweet sweet boy...