Austin's Wedding

A few of us brothers and sisters were able to make it down to Houston for Austin's wedding. I flew in Friday afternoon and flew out Sunday morning, so it was a very quick trip, but it was super fun. It was really weird not having spouses or kids around, but so fun to just laugh (something we do a lot of in my family) and talk and just hang out together.
Bryce and Janae and I flew in around the same time so Austin and Jenny took us to dinner at a really yummy Mexican place. Jarom and my parents got in late that night. The next day was the wedding and we got up and went to breakfast with Jenny and her family then we had most of the day and the hotel had a great pool so we went back and swam and hung out until the wedding.
The wedding was so beautiful and I am so glad that I got to go, and that I have such a wonderful husband who would let me go. Here are all the siblings, I thought Austin looked so good in his Air Force attire, and you can't really see it in this picture, but Jenny's dress was one of the prettiest dresses I have ever seen.
I had so much fun going. Congratulations to Austin and Jenny they are so cute together and they are both so happy to have each other.

Saying Goodbye

We said goodbye to Kelli and Lance and the kids a couple of weeks ago. It will be sad not to have them around especially for the kids they loved to play together. We went over the night before they left to hang out and say goodbye. Janie and Braysen had their first bath together, I guess probably their last too. They haven't gotten to really spend too much time playing together.

The girls sure will miss Brinlee, Lizzy especially. They always had so much fun playing together.

Nellie is really going to miss Braxton, she really loved him and He was always so sweet with her. We will really miss all of them and wish them the best!

Janie Bug

Janie isn't a baby anymore! So sad. But she is so much fun! I really think that this is my favorite age, from about their first birthday until they start the tantrum throwing, although she is starting to do some of that. She is still really different then the other two were, she is really mellow, but she is starting to show that she is not a pushover. She will not let Nellie push her around and ever teases Nellie a bit too. One day she kept putting her legs up on Nellie when they were watching TV because it was making Nellie mad. These jammies were Nellie's and she loves them because they are silky. She is really into the silky things. She likes to rub her belly when she wears them. She loves that I let her pick out her clothes and she really has an opinion on what she wants to wear. She also can almost put on her clothes by herself, which is so weird to me because the other two took much longer. In fact sometimes Lizzy still wants me to help her get dressed. Silly girl. But Janie has a obsession with putting stuff on any clothes she finds lying around the house even mine and Kevin's she tries to put on. She is also way into her blankie, if she is sad at all you just have to give her her blankie and she is usually all better.

She really thinks she is a big shot and just as old as her sisters. One day we were waiting in the car for a while so I let her out of her seat and she went right back and climbed in Lizzy's and thought she was so big. Of course now she always wants to sit back there so every time we get in the car there is a major meltdown when I strap her into her seat.

I cannot leave my purse down because she loves to dig through it. She is at the unloading stage right now. I came into the living room one day to find her like this, she had put on my glasses and she was just hanging out watching shows with her sisters wearing them.

She is still a really great eater, so we will keep our fingers crossed on that one. She seems to like treats, obviously, but not as much as Nellie does so that is hopeful, I don't know if I can handle another treataholic like Nellie is.

We got this little pony for her for Christmas and she was too little then that she didn't like it, it scared her to sit on it, but I knew eventually she would love it, and sure enough she does. She will drag it out to the living room and push the ear because the pony sings and just go to town rocking on it.

Kevin has gotten Janie addicted to Pepsi too, I guess she wouldn't be part of my family if she didn't like Pepsi, it is funny because if she sees his cup she will get all excited and say "tetsi!"

I just love this little girl, she is my little cuddler, she will sit on my lap and pull my head down next to hers and we will just stay like that for a while. I love it! I have never had that before, (my other two were too busy) and it is the best.

Preschool Graduation

The girlies both went to Preschool this past year, Nellie was in the 3 year old class and Lizzy was in the Pre-K class. Their teacher couldn't believe how opposite they were, but she said they were both her best and favorite students. They had their preschool program a few weeks ago, ( Of course I am way behind in posting.) Grammie and Papi came and watched them and the girlies had Papi read some books to them before we left.

I can't believe that my little Nellie has already finished a year of preschool, and that she will be four next month!

Nellie was the best behaved in her class her teacher said. Shocking I know, but I guess it is good that she is good for other people at least.

Lizzy in her little graduation hat. She was quite the performer, We all got such a kick out of her singing and dancing, she REALLY gets into it! The funny thing is that Nellie could care less about the performing and she really doesn't like to perform, one minute she will be singing, and the next thing you know she is gone and you can tell she is thinking about something else (probably Diego).

If I can get the video of Lizzy downloaded I will post it because she hilarious in it. I can't believe that my Lizzy is starting Kindergarten next year, but she will be almost six. I just can't believe how fast they grow! She is so excited about going to Kindergarten,she wanted to go last year because so many of her friends did. She is so mature she would have done great so she will do awesome this year.

A New Roof

We have been planning on putting a new roof on our house for quite a while, and since we are putting our house on the market in a couple of weeks we decided we had to get it done, so we had saved our tax return and were planning on using that, until someone told us we should see if insurance would cover it because there was a bad hail storm last summer. So we called the insurance and had them come out and take a look. I thought for sure they would say sorry your roof in too old, but the guy came to my door and said, well it is a complete loss, we will mail you check out. Two days later we got a check in the mail for more than the price that it would take for us to do it ourselves. That right there was a tithing blessing. So a couple weeks later, Kevin his dad, four boys from the school and our Branch President, came and replaced out roof. They worked so hard. We are so grateful for all of their help. It took a few days longer than we thought it would, but things like this usually do. If you want to see a before picture you can go here.

This was the crew on the first day tearing off all the layers.

This is when they were loading the shingles onto the roof.

Here is the roof all done, it makes such a difference in how the house looks, and should really help us sell this house. Wish us luck!