Summer? What Summer?

It has rained almost this entire summer. I feel as if there hasn't been a summer at all. I hate that the girls have not really been able to enjoy the outdoors very much and now Skyler is about to start kindergarten. Can you believe that? She will be 5 in August. Oh, yea! 5!!! And trust me she is soooo excited about her b-day party and starting school. How funny is this....she wants school supplies for her birthday. We are going to have her party at Yogi Bear Jelly Stone Park in Waller, TX. There are so many things that kids can do there but it is ALL OUTDOORS, so the rain better stop!
Madison is growing by the day. Her and Skyler are "best friends"...well until Skyler tries to keep her from doing something that she is not supposed to do or picks her up to take her some where. Madison is VERY independent and doesn't like Skyler stepping in her way.
The girls are so different and special in their own way. Skyler, has become such a beautiful, sweet, and good little girl who has always had fear of things. Madison is getting so big and turning into such an affectionate baby who has never known the word fear. She would jump off the roof and never think twice. The ironic thing is that Madison has never really hurt herself and Skyler has broken 3 bones, 2 teath almost busted out and has had 3 surgeries even though she is so careful. Oh, and yes we have 2 baby gates ordered for the stairs in the new house. That was the first thing I thought of since we have one MAJOR accident prone daughter and one that isn't scared of a thing and would probably see falling down the stairs as fun...well until she got really hurt. I don't want to take the chance, no more ER visits for me please!!!
As for the house. The walk through went well and we are scheduled to close and move in on Monday the July 30th. We plan on having a get together once we get in and settled. We will let everyone know and hope ya'll can make it.

House Update

Here is a pic of the house from today. There seems to be a lot that still needs to be done but they are optimistic that it will be done soon. We are doing the first walk through this Wednesday the 25th and if all goes well close the end of the month. We are very hopeful!

Here is Madison being silly...

Astros Game

We took a trip to see the Astros. Schuyler and I enjoyed what little game we got to watch since neither one of the girls cared to sit in one spot very long. We ended up heading to the kiddie area to let them blow off steam. By then we were hot and ready to go but it was nice being able to take them to a game. This was Madison's 1st trip.

House update:

We have our first walk through set for this coming Tuesday 7/25 and we HOPE to close on Monday the 30th. We will see since there still seems to be SOOO much to be done. We are VERY ready. I will post some pics of the house tomoorow.

New Job for Shelley

I started a new job today. We are both very excited. The new job is very close the new house, about 8 miles away! We are still playing the waiting game on the house though. They have started bricking and the inside is coming along well. We are hoping it will be done and we will be in the end of August. I will be up loading some pictures soon.

Broken Nose Again / Memorial Day

Our completely accident prone daughter broke her nose AGAIN! The second time in 6 months. Both times she has had to have surgery to reset it. Scary stuff. She broke her arm a year ago and had to have surgery to reset it as well. All of these surgeries are going to give me gray hair! This time she broke it when at Jelly Stone Park when her friend went down the water slide and Skyler went too soon after her and at the bottom they smacked heads and blood went every where. As soon as I looked at her nose I said "NOT AGAIN". Poor baby!

We went to Matagorda Bay camping for Memorial weekend. We played at the beach, crabbed, and fished. Madison loved the beach, she is our little sand and dirt loving baby. She didn't care much for the water after a wave came up while she was sitting on the beach and knocked her over. After all the warnings about the crabs Skyler must have thought she was invincible and decided to pick up a small sand crab. Lets just say, she won't be picking up any more crabs anytime soon. No boo-boo just a lot of tears. She made us let all the crabs go after that! Here are some pictures.

Skyler's Pre-K Graduation

Skyler's graduation from Pre-K was so cute. It was held at Ellisor Elementary, they wore caps and gowns that they made in class. There was one part where they wore sun glasses while they sang a song, I laughed so hard I cried. As a kid we never understood why our parents made such a big deal about these things but I now understand completely. These moments are the moments parents live for! It was kind of hard getting pictures from so far back and fighting for a spot behind all of the other cameras and video cameras. It seemed liked there were few parents who weren't looking through some sort of lens. This ceremony really made me realize that she will soon be started Kindergarten and my baby is growing up. Why can't they stay small forever???

New House

We are excited to announce that we are in the process of building a new house! Once we signed to start building we placed our house in Montgomery on the market. Well, lets just say it went much faster then we had expected. We had an offer in 32 days and they wanted to close in 2 weeks from the offer day! Crazy I know! We sold it and are now living with Shelley's parents. The house is expected to be done in August and we are very anxious. Here is the house as it is now.