A Sleepover and Camping Out

Emily was so excited to have her very first sleepover!! She had her best friend Elyse stay the night back in September. I didn't take as many pictures as I should have to document the event. We started with dinner at McDonald's and then headed home for a bubble bath.

The girls all clean and ready for a sweet treat!


We had some yummy chocolate chip cookies........


and then a story and everyone was ready for bed! (we did this on a Friday night, so after a long week at school the girls were both really sleepy)


Lucy was just as excited as Emily was to have Elyse at our house!


It took them for ever to fall asleep!! And then at 1:30 in the morning I had both girls in bed with me because they were "scared". ( I think Emily was having trouble sharing her bed with someone, and she actually woke Elyse up to come downstairs with her! Aggghhhh!!) At least Lucy stayed in her bed all night! In the morning everyone was up very early ready to play....and head to the donut shop!


While us girls were busy with our sleepover, the boys went on a camping trip! Cooper has been begging to go camping so this worked out perfect! One the of the local churches had a father/son camp-out about 30 minutes from McKinney. Some friends went with them and they all had a great time!

Richard said there were a ton of people there!


Eric and Luke had all the camping gear and were so nice to share all their stuff with Richard and Cooper!


Sweet boys!


Eating S'mores!


First time for Cooper to sleep in a tent. (I think he looks a little scared)


After a good nights sleep, everyone woke-up and had a yummy breakfast and worked on their archery skills.


The boys had so much fun and are looking forward to doing it again!

September Fun

At least one night a week I decide we need a sweet treat! I am trying really hard to quit this tradition, but this night we made brownies (Lucy and Emily's favorite part is to lick the bowl!) Lucy looks like she got more on her face than she did in her mouth!


This was the morning of the first Razorback game of the year. I can't remember why Emily was crying (she is SO dramatic!!), but you can tell in the pictures that she was upset about something. Richard loves when the whole family dresses-up to cheer on the Hogs!


Cutie pie in pig-tails!


Silly pictures with Daddy.


Cooper and Richard went to a play at church one night and Cooper picked out his own outfit (I thought he looked like Justin Bieber). I think this will be one of those pictures that he looks back on in about 20 years and says "Mom, why did you let me wear that!" But for the record he did look really cute and stylish!

Busy Little Lucy

I remember back about a year ago when I did a blog post titled TROUBLE...of course it was all about Lucy. Lucy is still always up to something! Several of these pictures go back to earlier in 2011 and some happened during the summer of 2011, but I have to post all of these pictures so that I never forget how "busy" Lucy was as a toddler.

How could this sweet face every do anything wrong?


One of her favorite things to do is to go into Emily's closet and very quietly pull all of her clothes off of the hanger!! She knew she was in trouble in this picture. (at least I caught her before she had pulled ALL of the clothes down!)


She has not done this in a while, but she used to think this was really fun....(those are the big flowers that are in Emily's room, she pulled them all out of their pots and the grass too!)


she got in trouble for this


A lot of times while she was "busy", she was busy being cute!

Like coming downstairs dressed like a bunny rabbit!


or making funny faces while I try to get a picture


or getting all dressed up and telling me it's time to go!!

or climbing on top of the desk and showing me pictures of her on the computer!


or jumping off the diving board at the pool about a 100 times, sometimes when no one was there to help her swim to the ladder!



Sometimes things weren't cute or even funny. Sometimes little Miss Lucy can really scare her Mommy!!

Like the time she walked on the hot driveway with no shoes on and got 2nd degree burns on the bottom of her feet!! ( the pictures do not show how bad her feet looked--poor girl!)


And definitely the MOST scary thing she did was pull her dresser over in her room. I was not in there and I only heard a small crash. I thought she had fallen, but I didn't think it was any big deal. When I finally made it down to her room, this is what I saw............

I was so glad she was not hurt! But still to this day, I can not figure out how she did this!!

But then there is the sweet side of Lucy that melts my heart. Probably one of my most favorite things, was when I walked into our closet on night and found her little shoes put perfectly on daddy's shoe shelf......melt.my.heart.


And before we took her paci away back in August, this is how she would sleep every night. One paci in her mouth, and then one on each index finger. SO.CUTE.!!!


We love our Lucy!! She definitely keeps us on our toes....and we wouldn't have it any other way!

Football, Dance, and Green Hair

So....I am still playing catch-up since the first day of school. I figure that since it is almost February now, I better hurry up and get caught up before I have to post the last day of school pictures : ) I really am going to try my best to make it a top priority to get this blog up to speed!!

As soon as school got started, so did the activities. Cooper started his second year of flag football and Emily started taking a jazz and hip-hop dance class.

Richard coached Cooper's team again this year, but they changed their name to the Super Heroes! We started off a little slow, but by the end of the season they were all playing so much better.


Two of Cooper's biggest fans!


Cooper in action


By the end of the game, this is what Lucy looked like.....

It was sooooo hot!

The kids love to run through the tunnel of parents at the end of the game!



Emily likes to dress herself and I never know what she is going to have on. When she goes to dance class I think she feels the need to be extra sassy! I think she looks so cute!


MawMaw happened to be in town for dance this day, so she got to pose in some pictures and watch our future hip-hop star : )

little cutie


I love how Lucy is looking up at MawMaw in this picture!



Cooper's school has Wacky Wolford Week every year. One this day they had Crazy Hair day. We sprayed Cooper's hair green.


Of course these 2 wanted green hair too!

First Day of School for Emily and Lucy

Emily started Kindergarten this year. She is going to a little Christian private school and it has been wonderful! She loves her teacher and has a great group of kids in her class. Since she has a summer birthday, she will be going to kindergarten again next year at our neighborhood public school.



Lucy is going to mother's day out. She is going 4 days a week....I just can not get anything done when she is at home with me, so this works well for us right now. She LOVES to go to school and her teachers say that she is such a great helper.


this is the face we get when we ask Lucy to smile for the camera


sweet sisters!


for some reason I forgot to take pictures of the girls with their teachers. I will have to remember to do that during the holiday parties.