Only boring people get bored: Bragging Rights

For New Years Andy and I drove to Houston to visit our amazing friends Keith & Brandy. Incase you don't know them, I went to school with Keith back in my College Station days and he got stuck with me on a life-long basis. Poor him. Luckily we both got married and now the four of us (and our kids) are a big happy family (usually).

Well, to show our old school spirit we attended the Aggie bowl game, which was a blast and brought back a trillion memories. Especially watching the Aggie Band.

It was a good thing the Aggies won, because we all know they haven't been the best team but my hopes are high for them improving in the new conference. I might actually start watching football again.

New Years eve we were ROCK STARS. Went out to eat in the Woodlands and then back to the Texter's for board games. It got pretty wild.

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Twas the night before Christmas...

The girls slept until 8:30. We had to wake them up. Let me just say: this never happens. What kid sleeps *in* on Christmas?

Mona is excited about her loofa.
How do you spell that?

I got my plates! Thank you Santa!

They are in disbelief. Yes, that is a Kindle Fire you guys.

Daddy's favorite toy.

Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!!

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A lot is happening on this merry night!! The girls danced to Christmas music (see the blur), Sydney lost her second tooth, the 2 large trees were decorated and Carlos the Elf AND the tooth fairy make their ways back to the Eye home.

Sydney and Kelli created a parade with the Princess fleece blanket.

Since Mommy's arm is still broken, Uncle Aaron helped drag Her Majesy in from outside.

Midst the chaos... Sydney asked me to pull her second tooth.

Like my hair? Kelli was so enthralled in the emotion of the moment that she grabbed a paper towel, put it inside her mouth and began chanting "look mom. i lost my tooth! look!".

Not being the center of attention is outside of Kelli's comfort zone.

Love her!

That's $10 in ONE weekend. She is saving her tooth money to buy a cool souvenier at Disneyworld.

The big tree!!

Kelli was having trouble getting ornaments to stay on the tree. She kept saying "I can't dooooooo it Mom" But kept trying.

I whipped out the tinsel... and she found herself useful!

Very useful.

I love this picture!!

The girls in their matching PJs picking ornaments.

Not sure why this picture is in the middle of all this. This was Kelli ready for church the next day.

I took it because she looked cute.... now back to the night before...

There was one section of the tree that had PILES of tinsel and ornaments. Looked like a drunk elf just puked on that one part of the tree.

Kelli took a bath. And during a span of time Mommy wasn't in there, she got a hold of the bath water dye tablets. And dumped ALL of them in the tub. (I swear. She isnt that dirty)

Our house is ready for Santa!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Monumental Day for Sydney!

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Fill a tub with water and bubbles and what do you get?

Two little girls conspiring against their mother.

It's easy for me to get even though... all I have to do is wash their hair.

Sydney is running the Lights of Love Kids K! Normally she gets very nervous in competitive things, but this time she was pumped up and very excited.

It was next to a duck pond!

About to start! Right about here is when Sydney began to cry. She was nervous that she'd run but then get lost, and didn't want to take off. I felt bad, I bet that was a scary thought. I assured her that she could run as fast and hard as she wanted and Kelli and I would ALWAYS be able to see her.

I love taking photos of the start lines. This is my favorite so far!

Sydney did great. Her time was 5:09 and she got a medal. It was SO fun watching her go through some of the same emotions I go through in my races.

And as if it couldn't have been a 'bigger' day, we got home and I pulled her tooth out!

Will someone PLEASE stop time here? It is not possible I have a SIX year old who runs races and loses teeth and hosts fundraisers. She was JUST a baby. Like ... yesterday or something.