The Fabulous Five

Our dear friend Christie flew in to visit with us this past weekend. She had the honor of being our first overnight guest in the new house! She was SO wonderful and knew that I wasn't going to be able to "slep" around and do too many things. We went to Kemah for lunch and sightseeing one day, and then spent the rest of the time cooking, watching kids, playing games and just relaxing. It was so great! She helped me out so much! One of our favorite things to do is get a good bottle of wine and sample a bunch of fancy cheeses (she started that idea a long time ago!) The Kroger's that is right by our house has an awesome speciality cheese/olive section, so we went mini tasting and brought back alot to munch on! Unfortunately, I had to go "sans" wine, but it was still yummy and fun nonetheless! Christie also bought the twins their first slinky which they are totally enamored with! Thanks for being such a good friend, Christie, we are so lucky to have you!!
I love this picture because they were having so much fun running around the boardwalk, that they cried and screamed when we tried to pick them up to take this picture and leave!

The boardwalk was really devasted by Ike. All the the attractions are closed down and there are many walking piers that were basically left to sticks sticking up in the water. They were working on everything. Hopefully, before too long we will be able to enjoy it.



They sat and ate at Babin's for such a long time . . . it is always up in the air how they are going to act at a restaurant.

Christie is an amazing florist in Denton, and she had this beautiful arrangement sent to our house! It is so gorgeous and it makes the whole house smell fresh!

The girl's room is coming along and I thought I would wait until the new year to debut her name:


Hailey Alyssa S.

This little baby has been Hailey, since even before I found out she was a girl! Everyone kept saying, "Oh, you know it's a boy!" and for some reason I just KNEW it was a girl! I even had a dream about her and her name. It is just another one of those things that is so different this time around. With the twins I never had a "feeling".

She and Avery are going to be sharing a room (after Hailey is sleeping through the night!) So really, Avery is going to have her room for quite some time! We are doing a flowers and butterflies theme in, of course, pink! Pete is really adjusting to being in his own room too.

We went a little late to get our year portraits done. When you are standing there watching the pictures being taken, you think "I don't think any of these are going to work", but as you start to see them I couldn't believe how beautiful they turned out. We have the perfect wall picked out for 2 of the portraits (and we're leaving a blank space for a our new addition's year portrait!) and all we have left to do is get them framed.
Avery just ate it up and loved every minute of it. Pete really didn't like any of the bright lights or the flash.



These are the two we are getting put up on the wall. You can see my arm in Pete's but in ours they cropped it out! Someone had to hold that boy still!!!