Thankful Day 1-12

I am doing the 20 day Thankful posting on Facebook and I wanted to share it with everyone on here too...here is the first 12 days!!!

Day 1- The BEST husband in the world.

Day 2- My beautiful Daughter, Lily.

Day 3-The Conroe Police Department for hiring my husband.

Day 4-My parents!! Without them I would not be who I am toady.

Day 5- My Saturday's off!!

Day 6-My church...Family Faith Church.

Day 7- (I guess I forgot to do this one) This is was a Monday...I got coffee before school, so I will say I am thankful for Starbucks...they get my mornings start just right!!!

Day 8- I am thankful to work at a wonderful school but hate the commute.

Day 9- I am thankful for my great teaching partner...Kacy Bunte

Day 10- I am thankful that Thursday was over (long day) and Friday started my mini vacation to my parents house.

Day 11- I am thankful for the men and women who have served and still serving in the military.

Day 12- I am thankful for the wonderful house I live in...helping my parents move makes me not want to move EVER again!!!

I hope you enjoyed my 1st 12 days!!!

Hello

For my 3 readers that are out there...sorry I haven't updated in forever...I will try in the next week and do that:)

My Sister is MARRIED!!

My Sister got married on June 25th...she was a beautiful bride!!! This is an overload on pictures...sorry:)

Our Day started at the spa with manicures, pedicures, getting our hair and make-up done!!

Before we got pretty!!!

The Girls are ready for the wedding!!Jennifer and our parents!

The Whole Family.
Mom and Son...Jennifer and Aidan.



With our Grandparents...Granny Starks, Jennifer, Grandparents Moore

Grandparents Moore with Kinslee, Aidan and Lily.

Cousins

Kane and I before the wedding.

Aidan and I walking down the aisle.

Our dad walking Jennifer down the aisle.

My older brother Eddie and I at the reception.

Cutting the Cake.

My younger brother Tommy caught the garter...it was the first time he has caught one...he was beyond excited about it.

The Newlyweds leaving the reception.

It was a great wedding and I am glad I was part of it!!! Congratulations to Jennifer and Leonard.

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to the best two men in my life...my dad and Kane. I do not have one picture of my dad and I on my computer:( That means I do not take enough pictures of my dad!!! I need to get on that!!! Well, today we did not do much. We hung out at the house and then took Kane out to dinner for Father's Day. We are leaving to go to Galveston tomorrow!! It is our family mini vacation!! Then we are off to my mom's house for my sister's wedding!!! Here are the pictures I took today!!!

Kane and Lily before dinner!!

Lily and I at dinner!!

Home

5 Minute Friday is always so much fun over at The Gypsy Mama...unfortunately I haven't had anytime to do any blogging:( So, here are the rules:

Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
Ready, Set, Go...9:48

Home...
Home is here...we have lived in our current home for 4 years now.Before that we lived in Las Vegas. That wasn't really home to us. It was where we lived, but it wasn't where we wanted to raise kids. Now, here in this home, is where we will raise our kids. Here in this home, is where we will spend many holidays, birthdays, anniversary's, tears, laughs, and family get together's. I can't believe that almost a year ago we wanted to sale this home:( I am glad it didn't sell because we already have too many memories in this home that I can never replace.

However, this home needs some work:( Right now it needs to be cleaned, the toys need to be picked up, the laundry needs to be done, the dishwasher needs to be ran, Lily's playroom needs t be cleaned....but ALL that is okay, because that is what makes my HOME!!!

STOP!!!!

Now go link up and join in on the fun!!!

MUDD Run...Let's Get Dirty

Houston MUDD Run...Let's Get Dirty!!

We had a blast...I can't wait to do it again:)

Bruce, Me and Kane before the race!!

Us ladies...Andrea, Cathy, Miriam, and I before the race!! We are missing Maria in this picture:(
Kane and I after the race...alittle on the dirty side!

Bruce and Kane!

Bruce, Me and Kane

Us Ladies afterwards!!

Lily and I after the race!!

We had a great time running the race!!! I can't wait to do it again:) The best part was running it with my wonderful husband who helped through the obstacles and some fantastic ladies that I teach with!! It will defiantly be something I will do again!!!

Snails

So our big event for the year is Nature Trails and Snails. The kids LOVE the snails!! Each of them wanted to hold it and play with...they really enjoyed this activity. Here is our snail activity in pictures....

One of the snails!!

Measuring how long the snail is...

Our Snail Book where we tool ALL our notes!!

What does the Snail prefer to eat? Grass, Carrot, or Lettuce...they went for the Carrot!!

One of my students with a snail crawling up her arm!!

The kids had a wonderful time with our Snail adventure!!!

HECK YEAH!!

Kane got the Job!!! All he has to do is get through the Conroe Police Academy!!! Have a Wonderful Day:)

4th Birthday

My cousin Callie's oldest son Noah turned 4 years old this April. I still remember when her mom, my Aunt Vicky told me she was pregnant. Here are some pictures from his birthday party.

Lily jumping in the jump house.

Going down the slide.

Baby George. Noah's baby brother.

The Birthday Boy with his Superhero Birthday Cake!!

My Crazy Daughter!!

All the kiddos in their super hero capes. My Aunt Vicky, Noah's grandma, made all the capes!!

My super hero daughter!!

We had a great time. I can't believe Noah will be 5 next year...time flies when you are a "Super Hero"!!

Easter Egg Hunt

We have taken Lily the last three years to the church Easter Egg hunt. Her first easter she was only two weeks old, so no easter egg hunting for her!! The second year she didn't really understand the concpet of an easter egg hunt. She had more fun picking the eggs up and throwing them back out of the basket!! The last two years she really has had alot of fun hunting easter eggs. I am looking forwarded to many more years of hunting easter eggs with Lily.

Lily her first Easter-Two weeks old March 2008

2nd Easter-April 2009, 13 months old
3rd Easter-April 2010, 2 years old
4th Easter-April 24th, 3 years old

Hunting for the Easter Eggs

Posing with her Easter Eggs

Look at ALL those Easter Eggs:)

It was a great Easter.

NO Easter Eggs HERE-Part 2

This year instead of making hard-bolied Easter Eggs I decide to make Resurrection Easter Cookies with Lily. I found the idea from Lauren at Modern Day Knights. When I would make the traditional Easter Eggs I would be the only one who would eat them afterwards, so I figured instead of wasting the eggs this year I will teach Lily the reason WHY we have Easter. This will be a tradition that I do every year with Lily and eventually our other children:)

These are the ingredients you will need to make the cookies!!

Lily beating the pecans just the way Jesus was beaten.

Add the egg to show how Jesus gave up his life for our life. Between this step we added the vingear to show how the soldiers gave him vingear to drink instead of water and the salt for his salty tears that Jesus and his followers shed.

Adding the sugar to show the sweetest part about this is that Jesus loved us!!

Getting ready to mix it all up.

Using tape to seal up the tomb. (oven)

The cookies in the tomb.

You leave the cookies in the oven all night. The next day you unseal the oven and pull out the cookies.

Lily opening the oven to get the cookies out.

They are supposed to be hollow on the inside. I don't think I made the peaks stiff enough. They still turned out somewhat hollow.

Finished cookies!!

Lily had a great time making the cookies. I am so glad I found the post Lauren wrote about these cookies. I think it is a great way to teach young children that Easter is not just all about the candy, eggs and easter bunny. That Jesus gave his life so that we could have ours!!! I can't wait to do this again with Lily:)

Stay tuned to Part 3!!