June 30, 2012

Dad's Birthday

Today we celebrated my Dad's Birthday!


I made the cake. A chocolate cake with chocolate sprinkles. My wonderful brother said it looked like a chocolate cake with rat or roach turds on top. Leave it to my brother to have 100% honesty! To be truthful, it sort of looked like that! I have so much to learn about cake decorating!



HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD!!!

June 23, 2012

Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day and my Grandpa's Birthday at my Grandparent's home in Willis! For some reason, I didn't take many photos! Here are the one's I took!




Happy Father's Day!

May 26, 2012

Brooklyn's Birthday

For Brooklyn's 3rd Birthday we had an Ariel Swimming Party at our neighorhood pool.



Aunt Vanessa did not come prepared to swim! But, she was pushed in anyway!
 We ate pizza and cupcakes!

May 13, 2012

Mother's Day

After church on Mother's Day, we went to Gringo's for Lobster and Shrimp Fajitas!! TALK ABOUT AMAZING!!!! Richard had to work, so I celebrated with my In-laws!
 Brooklyn made this for me at Sunday School!




Later that evening, I celebrated Mother's Day with my Mom!



Sweetest Cousins in the WORLD!!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!

May 12, 2012

Graduation

We arrived at the Reliant Arena at 9:00 in the morning, along with 9,000 other people!
The ceremony didn't start until 10:00 and Richard had the daunting task of saving 10 seats with Brooklyn, by himself. After listening to a long-winded speech given by a nun named Sister De-De, which included approximately 56 points, I finally received my unofficial diploma!!!

After the ceremony, we went to Spaghetti Warehouse! Since, my sister-in-law was also graduating at the same time my in-laws were unable to be there. My sister also had to photograph a wedding. But, my grandparents, Aunt and Uncle, brother, and brother-in-law were all there to celebrate with me!
 Thank you, Harley for making me change your diaper TWICE while we ate lunch!
 Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end! Brooklyn had been wonderfully behaved during the ceremony, however, lunch was a different story! These are the only photos that she would let me take!



Here is the cookie cake that I made!


To my family: Thank you so much for taking the time to celebrate with me!
To my parents and In-Laws: Thank you for watching Brooklyn and letting out Bo, so that I could attend classes while Richard was at work!
To my Husband: THANK YOU, for being so supportive and for reading my papers when I was brain-fried! I could not have done it with out you!

I now am the proud owner of a MASTER'S degree in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Thomas.
I graduated with a GPA of 3.97. I was so mad that I had one class with a A-, all the others were A's.

May 5, 2012

Baywood Park

After Saturday night dinner, we walked down to the neighborhood park.

Harley was showing us his new sign language skills! "I" or "Eye", we're not really sure which one!



Brooklyn and Uncle Bobby had a blast climbing on the jungle gym and swinging! Bobby almost broke the swing set. It made such a horrible creaking sound that we were afraid it would break at any moment!





Yes, this was quite awkward for all of us! None the less, it was absolutely hilarious. It took him about 1 minute to work his way down the slide.

April 22, 2012

Washing the Car

While Richard washed my car, Brooklyn played in her pool, and I lounged around and watched them both!


What a Cutie!

April 20, 2012

Abc's



Brooklyn is growing up SOOOOOOO quickly!!! We were in the car on our way to dinner and Brooklyn started singing her ABC's. It brought tears to both of our eyes!

(Sorry for the bumpy video, we were in the car!)

April 19, 2012

My Birthday

Richard had to work on my Birthday. However, he still surprised me for sending a beautiful bouquet of lillies and roses to my school. Afterschool, Ron and Wanda took me out for dinner at Gringos!


What a wonderful way to spend my birthday!

April 18, 2012

Jesus Loves Me



Before we go to bed we either read a book or sing Jesus Loves Me from a book.
This video is of Brooklyn and Daddy singing Jesus Loves Me.

Children are so precious! Especially when they singing with total praise and worship in their heart!

April 8, 2012

Easter at The Wollard's

Later Easter afternoon, we went to my parent's house. Brooklyn got to hunt eggs for a 3rd time in one day!





 After Brooklyn found all the ggs, we went inside and told the True Meaning of Easter through the clues found in each Easter egg. (That was my sister's idea!)



What a wonderful way to spend time with your family!