My, how the time flies by....

Well, I've done it again and gotten behind on my blogging. I knew this would be a long one, so I've been procrastinating and choosing sleep over my usual late night computer rendezvous. The last 3 weeks have been a busy blur, but I will try to re-cap them the best I can remember.
The BIGGEST thing is that our babies turned 3 years old!!! They are officially little people now, and it has been hard for me to come to terms with that. People have always told me that when you get older and have kids that the time will fly by and they'll be all grown up before you know it. I "get" what those people were telling me now because it's so true! I literally feel like just the other day I was pregnant with them, reading baby books to prepare for their arrival. Now, here I am holding conversations with them about what they want to eat for dinner, and reading them books that they pick out for me. When did this happen???? I know when they were younger, I used to look forward to them getting older and them being able to do new things such as walking, talking, feeding themselves, etc......Now, I wish I could just stop time for a while. Obviously I can't do that, so I am going to try my hardest to embrace and cherish every little moment I have with them. This is such a fun and entertaining age....it's amazing some of the things they come up with (especially together). I don't take for granted how truly blessed we are to have such healthy, beautiful children and I thank the Lord every day that he has chosen us to be their parents!

Here's some pics of the birthday weekend--

Day before birthday party, opening up gifts from mommy and daddy:

Hannah getting her first Barbie
Hunter's tickle me Ernie

Hannah requested Care Bears....didn't even know care bears were still around!

Hunters new fascination is Toy Story

Their big gifts from us this year were the bean bags. They loved them!

We had their birthday party the next day at our community clubhouse pool in our neighborhood. The last few years we have had everyone at our house, so it was nice to have a little bit more space to spread out. The weather was perfect...hot, but nice and breezy. We did pizza, fruit, cookie cake, and cake balls this year....keeping it easy. I think everyone had a great time chatting and watching the kids play. We were also excited that Kevin's Grandma and Grandpa Leveritt and his Grandma Hutchins were able to make it to the party.

playing in the kiddie pool

looks like Hannah's trying to snatch something of Hunters...

mouths full of jelly beans...I think

tearing into the gifts

taking a goldfish break at the picnic table with Adalee

floatin'

Adalee pushing Hannah

just relaxing

cookie cake and (my attempt) at cake balls

The next big thing is that Kevin turned 35!!! The kids birthday is on August 27th and Kevin's is on August 29th, so needless to say that for the last 2 years he has kind of taken a back seat to all the celebration going on with the kids. I've felt kind of bad about it, so this year I surprised him with tickets to an acoustic Vince Gill concert at the old Crieghton theater in downtown Conroe. We had a nice dinner and then went to the concert, which was amazing! He had no idea what we were doing, so I was excited to surprise him for a change!

my two 3 year olds, and my 35 year old