nancy and nery's! (or, how I finally learned to stop worrying and take good selfies)

On Saturday we all went to Nancy and Nery's house to have a little get-together with some of our favorite people. Aaron was back in town, near his birthday no less, which was reason enough for us! These parties keep happening more and more frequently at N&N's, and I couldn't be happier about it. ;)

Our hostess with the mostest! ("the mostest" being her now-standard watermelon jello shots :D)

Sweet Vera, who was sweet enough to teach me how to actually take good selfies (The key is apparently to look at your own eyes... ugh, I'm so old!). So, just beware, there are a few more posted from the afternoon...

Sadie and Dakota (Nancy's grand-daughter)

Nancy and Carter (Nancy's grandson, the most serious baby in the world!)

An EPIC photo-series I managed to catch while R and Aaron threw Matthew into the water. AMAZING!

I think I got it!

Vera and I being doggie-bombed by Athos (!)

Dakota may be 5, but this girl is already a picture-taking master! (It was her idea to do a silly face in the middle picture!)

Vera made the best tie-dye messy sprinkle cake to celebrate her daddy's birthday (you know, just add a zero!), and it was deeelicious!

Arguably, the greatest picture of the afternoon, me thinks.

hey, blog! long time no see!

So! Hi! It's been a hot minute. :) But that's what you get when I'm in night school for my real estate license, Meg is graduating early, R3 breaking his leg, moving into a house, getting the littles for 6+ weeks, planning a wedding... you know, the usual! Posting has taken a backseat to all the craziness in the past 6 months, but here we are, alive and well!

I think the best part of this little project of mine is how much my sweet family talked about it in it's absence. "Take a picture for the blog!" "Ky's going to have a lot of blogging to do!" "Can you blog so I can show Mema XYZ?" I always feel so satisfied when I'm posting regularly, but we all know how it goes. :) So, here's a craaazy amount of iPhone photos we've taken since... the last time I blogged? Something like that. :) Kitten birthdays and wedding pictures are soon to follow!

Emily and Richard subtly loving the shit out of each other (video game edition)

Sadie giving her daddy a beautiful make-over (if you ever had any doubt they are actually Agnes and Gru from "Despicable Me")

Emily, with the most epic morning pony ever.

An actual Kylie Scouts date with the girls! It was a small scheduling miracle. ;)

R3, who was literally in this singular position all afternoon while watching YouTube.

Meg helping Sadie skate... (warning: cutness overload ahead)

Richard and I sneaking away to try the lobster roll and fried fish at 20 Feet (which were epic, but my favorite was the coleslaw... game changer!)

Meghan's mirror notes, IE: SHE'S LIKE MEEE.

Getting ready for a fancy dinner with friends at Toulouse. 

And goofy 2AM faces with Nancy at IHOP after our fancy meal @ Toulouse!

Annnd my huge hungover breakfast after after fancy dinner & 2am IHOP run!

I can't remember what was on TV, but this was too good to pass up. :)

Emily and I did homework for FIVE HOURS pool-side (me, real estate; she, TAKS math). That girl was a trooper. Thank goodness it was such a pretty day!

Take the kittens out for a nice family dinner at Enchilada's, and this is what happens... 

 My adorable R, watching "Josie & The Pussycats" one lazy Sunday.

Pie Five in bed, which fixes most.

Couples pedicures with my favorite person. :)

And Emily very diligently painting his nails afterwards... (that headlight!)

Meghan and one of her most adorable friends, Lizzibelle, WHO JUST RANDOMLY TEXTED ME THIS AT SCHOOL TEARS.

Flowers + a dinner at Whiskey Cake for my 26th birthday. Um, Whiskey Cake? It was amazing. Like, so amazing. Like, Richard said, "Thank you for having a birthday so we could try Whiskey Cake!" amazing. YUMMM.

Sitting on our new backyard porch drinking wine!

Mommy-date with my sweet mommy seeing Eddie Izzard (our favorite) at the Majestic on his Force Majeure tour. We were trying to take selfies (we're both kinda terrible at selfies--I don't know where to look!)

Fourth of July at Nancy & Nery's with... watermelon jello shots! On a watermelon rind! (Nancy's a genius)

Watching "Sleeping Beauty" in bed with my girls, a critical part of their Kylie Education.

Backyard chaos before a planned movie night one Friday...

... which went awry when the pipe to the outdoor hose was torn apart by some rambunctious kittens. So the planned movie night turned into an impromptu family date to Home Depot! And daddy fixed it because he's amazing (that's a welder, yes). :)

Richard III, who can still find uses for deflated toys long after they've been broken (Meg just walked in on him like this watching TV in his room)

Sadie's before-and-after, via her sassy new haircut! So in love!

A little preview of the family wedding attire... :)

  

My husband at Steak and Shake after our wedding. :) After an early morning ceremony, a big BBQ/swim party afterwards, and bringing everything back home that afternoon, we went with Hilary after putting the kids to bed. Really sexy, huh? ;P

life lately, according to my iphone

My new personal goal: always get my face-painted when we offer it at work. This time, I texted Meg and asked her what I should get, and she came back with the best idea ever: "Narwhal!" I asked for some additional hearts because it was around Valentine's Day, of course. :)

R3 and Emily giggling while he plays his Nintendo DS.

A movie date with the littles! (Meg was invited, but ceremoniously declined... teenagers!) We went to the Alamo Drafthouse to see "The Lego Movie," and it was every bit as awesome as we imagined it would be. (And then there's the Drafthouse popcorn, too, which is amazing!)

Plenty of picture-taking opportunities inside the movie theatre... the girls will never pass that up! 

My cuties cleaning our cars one beautiful Sunday morning. :)

Studying for my first final exam for my license... whiskey was necessary... and I got an A in the class! Grades don't really matter, but they matter to me, plus it's kinda awesome to have the kittens see me study as much as I do and it pay off!

I was really kinda majorly grumpy this weekend (ugh!) and Emily took me aside to have some Emmy time, and she ended up drawing a mustache on my finger to make me giggle. Then I returned the favor (I was going for "French stick mustache") and we took alot of selfies and texted Hilary about it. I LOVE HER.

and then came february!

I know this Wreck It Ralph song is kinda old news (hey, 2012!), but Richard will go out of his way to play this song because it makes him so super happy, so it makes me really super happy now, too. But don't tell anyone, because everyone knows R's all gruff n' tuff n' stuff, right?!

This year is just flying by! I started taking classes two nights a week to get my real estate license, so I'm pretty much exhausted all the time. All I have to do is blink and then it's Monday again! Meggie's gearing up for her last (!) semester of high-school, and on Wednesday I came home to a blue-haired Richard (just another Wednesday, you know!). I got new popsicle molds, so I've been able to make little treats for the kittens (including rainbow popsicles and a banana/chocolate/peanut-butter fudgsicle that just kinda happened!). We're all stoked for The Lego Movie and I finally got my new little car all fixed with new brakes and tires. R & I are doing really well getting all of our other annoying grown-up chores done and drinking our veggie smoothies, too, thanks to alot of love, appreciations, and extra high-fives. Hilary also came to spend a weekend with us, which was simultaneously wonderful and terrible because it made me realize just how much I miss her all the time. CJ bought me a purse reminiscent of Ulyana Sergeenko (!) and curated an entire set of "I Love Lucy" reaction-GIFs (!!!), both of which are completely perfect and amazing (just like him). Obviously, sleep is never plentiful, but Richard and I always manage to squeeze in a fun date-night, aka The Highlight of My Week, no matter how tired we are. ;)

In sum: very busy with lots of blessings. :)