Ready to watch big sister!

Proud of our little tiger! She had such a great preschool year in the 3's class with Ms. Ellen. So thankful!

 We also had a pretty big scare with tornados in the area. One night we had to get the girls out of bed and put them in the tub! Fun times.

3 girlies in a tub!

 A live-in auntie means a date night for David and me once in a while. Thanks sis!

Bye bye kisses

 At the very end of May we broke out the big plastic pool with the built in slide.

Beautiful Keely

Ready for summer!

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On May 11, Claire & Keely's 2nd birthday, we rode the DART Rail train. The girls both love trains and cars, so we thought riding a train would be perfect for them. We waited until David got home from work to go, so the evening kind of got away from us and we got home kind of late. But it was fun!

Claire & Keely waiting for the train!

Daddy & Claire-looking out the train window

Mommy, Keely, Brooke

Keely is 2!

Claire

K & C at Jason's Deli before our adventure! Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby girls. I love you more than I can ever say. The Lord has blessed me abundantly!!!!

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I took a pretty big break from blogging. Sorry about that! At the urging of some of my dear family members, and also because this is my scrapbook, I would like to get back into the habit of telling our story.

I'll begin with the girls' triple birthday bash, a garden themed party set in our back yard on a Friday around lunchtime. Mom & Kelly came in town for the special event and they were a lot of help that day. We had a planting station where guests could pot their own flowers to take home. There was also a "Pin the Bug on the Flower" game, a flower temporary tattoo table, bubble station, and a flower craft. After stations and a sandwich lunch, we came inside and opened presents and ate butterfly cupcakes. It was great! I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to, but I got a few cute ones.

Claire getting ready to plant a flower.

Friends Elle & Sydney pinning the bugs on the flower.

Brooke and her friend Addison

Daddy came home from work for the party!

Daddy & Keely

Opening presents

Keely and one of the party favors.. a fuzzy worm.

Brooke & Baby All-Gone from Grammy

The Cake.. er-Cupcakes!

Claire finds goodies on the table.

Yum!

After the party, the girls, Mom, Kelly, and I packed up in the wagon, swung by the pizza place, and headed to the park for dinner. We got a few more pictures of the birthday girls. :)

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In early May, we took a trip to Mt. Pleasant.

Brooke & Cousin Avery

K&C on the drive

David took Brooke to a RoughRiders Game. She loved it!

Cutest baseball fan ever!

Grammy joined us for Muffins With Mommy at preschool.


 We took a trip to the Dallas Arboretum with Mom & Kelly.






We've hopped a few playgrounds...









Brooke and I took a quick day trip to Cameron for a memorial service for Tommy & Kristina. It's been about 2 and a half years since they died, and since then my parents and Kristina's parents worked to create and place this beautiful headstone. The whole family gathered Saturday and buried their ashes here. It was a very nice service. We miss you and love you both!


Last Thursday, Brooke had her End of the Year Preschool Party.

I was cleaning up sand in my house for days! But they had a great time!

Big girl

Brooke and her amazing teacher, Mrs. Ellen.

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