leaf blowin' dumplins

I just found these on my phone! Over the Christmas break, the littles apparently got the urge to tidy up the leaves in our backyard (which was a welcome change of pace from them causing trouble... they weren't the most well-behaved during this school break!). Thanks to Sadie's iPad and Emily's iPod, Richard and I got a few videos of their (silly) endeavors while we were at work. All in all, they did a pretty good job! ;) (R3 manning the leaf blower just cracks me up! And Sadie's still working on her narrating skills... she's always trying so hard! ;P)

2015 clean-up :)

I'd be lying if I said the end of 2015 wasn't hard. People quitting at work, the general stress of the holidays, Grandpa Jim... it was alot. I was buggin' pretty badly.

I love recapping the year on the blog, answering cute little questionnaires and the like in December... I like being a perfect internet person! But I had to forgive myself this time around because I was just so preoccupied on being exhausted and trying to care for myself and my family. Not really fun stuff to blog about!!

I was able to catch-up on alot of blogging the past few weeks (just old stuff from October, November and December) and I am finally sitting down with the rest of it. After watching a great many HILARIOUS family videos over the holidays, I had the fire/guilt/obsession in me more than ever to build this site as a place for the kiddos to look at in years to come. I've been doing it since 2012, it's kinda my legacy - don't want to have a wimpy legacy!

So, without further ado - the remainder of 2015... with a few bits of 2016 already mixed in!

Lunch with my favorite Sandra!

This is the epitome of the season, from Christmas Eve to Christmas to a few days later. My family and I kept saying "Merry Weird Christmas!"

And then huge storms, tornados - the lights went out at dinner! Merry Weird Christmas!

Baby Judy. :)

Baby Meghan!

Tonya and I trying on sentimental shirts, and R gave me pencil shoes for Christmas!

Sadie, who became a texting fiend after getting an iPad for Christmas. (We were going to Sprouts - no shoes for her at that store ;P).


And Scooterin' Sadie!

New Years Eve attire. #glamourous

And New Years Day potato launchin'! Not picture - fireworks and sweets the night before (thanks to Richard and Stephen - our biggest kids ;P)

Balcony seats to see Cirque De La Symphonie for Richard's Christmas present from Mumsie. :)

And a tour of Firestone & Robertson Distillery in Fort Worth as a part of his presents from moi!

here and there

Celebrating Bob & Nery's December birthdays at a 70s-themed bash in Mesquite. :)

(We gracefully bowed out of costumes... ;P)

The girls spending some time at the park!

And the boys at a Stars game...

(While we them win during overtime watched at home!)
"The Stars have only taken 22 shots." "Actually, it's more like 19-20." "Sadie, you literally have NO idea what you're talking about!"


Meghan and Krystall's gingerbread clusterfuck. ;P


Sadie (and Daddy!) dancing. :D


Thanksgiving at Darrah's with the littles!




Sadie watching Jane the Virgin with me. ;)


Spending time with Miss Macy while her momma and I watch JTV and eat cheesy fries!


And Miss Emmy's band concert!

katya & kennedy at brick

With Meghan, Krystall, Ky & Da at Brick. :)

indoor skydiving!

For Richard's birthday, I got us tickets to go indoor skydiving at iFly in Frisco. It was such a fun experience! It's kinda like skydiving in a fish bowl. ;P We each had two flights, and were the only adults in our group! (Apparently it's a very popular things to do with little ones! We were in a group with a boys' birthday party, and those kids were HILARIOUS - they were so excited!). It was definitely a fun date. :)

santa pictures!

Thanks to Yesenia for inviting us to Ebby. :)

margarita ball

Our first Margarita Ball! Richard and I both rented fancy digs, and had a blast with Bob, Bia, Debbie and Aaron. We went to eat at the legendary Campisi's first, and then took an Uber down to the party. It was such a fun time! I wish we could have danced more, but we spent a hot minute walking around all the different rooms and just soaking in the scene. Beward of picture overload! (We looked smashing, what can I say?)

Meghan, the photographer! ;)

 

early thanksgiving! (and the beginning of vlogging?!)

This year, Tonya had the genius idea to have an Early Thanksgiving for our family. Dan, Brenda, Dana (& Jake!) were going to be in town, AND since working retail during the holidays is terrible let's go ahead and knock it out! It was such a fun evening because it was also Richard's birthday, so we had a great time celebrating and being together. This was also my first foray into making videos for the blog, and it was a little too easy - so brace yourselves! It's officially an option now. ;P

surprise! richard's birthday dinner with kittens :)

He didn't see it coming. :D

New slippers :)

And a toy!

courtesy of Sadie :)

"It's covered in ladies because all the ladies love you..." ;P