Ireland Travels

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Off to Ireland! Try this link!

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Let's try this link, whoops the last one didn't work! :)

Off to IRELAND!

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Our Santa Visit 2014

We are ahead of the game this year! We went to "The Village" in Allen to TRY to get a good group pic of the kids for a Christmas card. Incase you are wondering, it didn't work. :) But there wasn't a line to see Santa, so we got to see him! The big kids had no problem sitting in his lap & smiling. Hannah was ok with it, as long as she was on Kate's lap. We tried moving her to Santa's lap, but that just ended with her big time crying! This was the final picture. As you can guess, after they were done with us, there was a nice long line behind us. Oops! Everyone was happy since it includes suckers! Mason said he didn't know what he wanted, Caroline wants a rainbow loom, Kate wants an Easy Bake Oven & iPod touch (hahaha) & Hannah wanted to GET OUT OF THERE!!

New BLOG!

I decided to start a new blog, mainly for my memory! Check it out!
Pictures of my house for each Season & fun things with the kids!
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We went to the Circus!

We went to the Shrine Circus a few weeks ago and had so much fun! It was our first circus! The kids loved it and so did I! We got to see tigers, elephants, camels, a dog show, ladies climbing robes & swinging. These guys jumping rope, I know sounds normal, but it was so much more. Another group doing more gymnastics moves. Guys motor crossing , (loud but good), AND the man was shot out of the cannon! It was worth it! Go to the Circus! 

Tips I learned: 1. The "free" ticket they all received from school was not really "free". That's ok, we still had fun, but they told us that section was full, so their tickets were 1/2 off. When we got in there that section was NOT full. Just an FYI. 

2. During intermission they opened up the floor to kids & parents to ride elephants, camels, have your picture taken with a big snake, pony rides. etc. This is NOT the end of it! Don't leave! 

3. Go ahead and buy the light up toys. We didn't, but I think the kids would have had a great time playing with them through the event. 

4. Might want to plan on going to an early show. We went at 7:30 and were not out until 11:00!!

 We love Cotton Candy!

 Motor Crossing

 Ladies on Ropes & Swings

 See the clowns lined up? You can't see the guy, but he JUMPED over all of them!

Makeup for the Busy Mommy

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Beach and Birthdays

In May we went to Gulf Shores. The weather was wonderful! It was not miserably hot yet!!

The ocean, notice no waves?!?! Just one day, but it was perfect for the kids to adjust to it.

4th of July

Caroline's birthday

We celebrated at Metroplex Gymnastics for all 3 of them this year since they are only one week apart. Everyone got to pick out their own cake for their actual birthday this year.

Pregnant!

Little behind on my updates! I am pregnant with baby #4! Hannah Marie will / should arrive on October 23rd. 3 1/2 weeks to go and she will be here! We are so excited and can't wait to meet her. We thank God for this blessing! The kids CANNOT WAIT! This picture was taken in June, so I have grown some since then!

Italy February 2012

Better late than never right? I went with Brent in Feb. to Padova, Italy on one of his many business trips  there this year.  Ok,  he has really only traveled about 4 times this year I think, but it feels like A LOT to me! Between Italy, Germany, England, China and multiple trips to Ireland it is quite a bit for someone that stays at  home like me. ;) My friend Shannon met us there, so we were able to go sight seeing and traveling while Brent and Sean were at work. Shannon's husband was nice enough to let her go alone while he stayed home working and helping with kids! We stayed in Padova, but took the train to Venice several days. It took about 15 min. with the fast train. I got to travel alone to Venice one day before Shannon arrived, which made me a little nervous since English is not the primary language spoken.  I did make it there and back though!

 Eating out at a pizza place in Padova.

 Train ride back to Padova after our day in Venice, they have a big festival similar to Mardi Gras.

Leather district in Florence. We also went to Rome for a day trip. We could have spend days just in Rome!

I have more pictures somewhere, if I can find them! We got a new computer a few months ago and I am STILL learning how to use this thing! Hopefully I can catch up on all of our news from this year!!

Christmas 2011

Christmas in February, I know. Time has flown by! I was going to write captions under pictures, but under preview, the pics don't show up! Only numbers and letters?!?! So, if anyone that is an expert blogger knows how to fix this please let me know.

From memory the first picture is with Kate, Caroline and Aunt Carole. We got to go deliver Christmas presents, I think it was Christmas eve. The week before we also made gingerbread houses, made cookies for Santa and decorated Pop's room at the nursing home.

The Gregory Grandchildren made a Happy Birthday Jesus cake and Pappy read the Christmas story to them Christmas Eve before the Christmas Eve church service. Along with opening presents of course.

Then on to Mawmaw and Pawpaw's house. Kate had "tea" with Aunt Amy and she made sure that she cut up some cheese for Santa Mouse. Kate and Caroline got Baby Alive dolls for Christmas, they do it all eat and fill up their diapers! Mason got a fun pirate ship. On to fun in February!

The Nutcracker

Last night Kate and I had a big girls night with a few of her friends. Their Mommy and I took the girls to The Cheesecake Factory and then to the Allen Civic Ballet Nutcracker. Kate LOVED IT! She sat on the edge of her seat for most of the performance and clapped and wanted to woo hoo after every act! She is already talking about going back next year.

It is a Blessing to be able to Help Bless Others

Sunday we adopted a family though our church called Scotty's Gifts. There were 4 children ages 12-3. We just dropped off their Christmas gifts to them and to see the excitement on their faces was such a blessing by itself! The kids loved getting to do this too, from picking out toys, wanting to help wrap and then to load them up in the car! We even got to unload everything under their tree this afternoon.

Friday we had a party with some friends each bringing items for this family, instead of another cookie exchange I thought why not spend money and time on something that someone really NEEDS? We had a great time visiting and the kids playing and at the end our friend Kyla took the kids and prayed over the gifts as well. We are so blessed to have such a great group of friends! I actually forgot about the camera till the end of our get together so there are a few kiddos that did not make the picture. (Sorry about that Luke, Kate, Campbell, Peyton & Jack!)

Christmas Mix of Events

Some of these pictures are actually from November, I forgot all about them on the other camera. There are a few blurry ones too, don't know what happened there! We invited some friends over in November for an early Christmas craft day. They got to make lots of ornaments and reindeer antlers, getting ready early!

The next group of pictures is from Build a Bear at the mall, this was the first of December. We really went to watch a group ice skate with Snoopy, but there were so many people we could not see. :( The balloon art was still fun though and we broke down and let them get build a bear animals instead! This will be a one time only thing! So cute, but the $$ adds up fast in that store!

The train pics are from another mall. The train set up all year long, but right now it is decorated for Christmas. They get so excited to ride it is really funny. I am just happy they will ride on it now without crying! When they were 2 they THOUGHT they wanted to ride, but got on and freaked out when it started moving. I guess at 2 they were not quite ready, kind of like the carousel!

Caroline had her Christmas party on Thurs. We got to go to chapel and see Mason & Kate perform again, then went back to her room to party! They were so cute working on crafts and decorating cookies. They ended with a book exchange. They have a sweet group of 3 year olds and great teachers!