Fishing Tournament Pics

Here are some pics from our day at the annual Big Bass Fishing Tournament we went to a few weekends ago. We had a lot of fun, the guys got to see all the big pro's and the big weigh-in.....I went for Blake Shelton (who was AWESOME)!

This picture just makes me smile. These kids LOVE their grandparents. I know their Pa-pa's shoulders were sore after all this, but he did it anyway b/c they were loving it.

Childrens Museum

I'm still trying to catch up with my posts, but last month I took the kids to the new Woodlands Children's Museum with their new friends Kara and Kenneth (also twins), and their mom Debbie. I met Debbie through a mother of multiples group that we are both members of, and randomly figured out by the online forum that we use, that her family is about to be moving from Houston to our neighborhood. Needless to say, I was thrilled to find out there would be kids close to Hannah and Hunter's age for them to play with, not to mention another fellow mother of twins to hang out with!
The museum was a hit for all the kiddos, and we will definitely be going back soon!

Hannah at the painting station...this was BY FAR their favorite thing there...messy though

look at that concentration...artist in the making

Hunter playing in the sand tables...another hit with all the kids

Hannah picking out veggies at the grocery store

Kara dressed up as a firefighter at the costume center

Hunter and Hannah in the dirt pit...looks just like dirt, but it's rubber so no mess!

Kenneth and Kara playing kitchen

riding in the fire truck

more kitchen time....Hannah was baking cookies I think...notice the oven mitt

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

Hannah's 1st "Real" Haircut

So we finally did it, long overdue....Hannah got her first "real" haircut! In my attempts to let it grow long, I had somehow let it get to this strange half-curly, half-mullet stage, so I figured we should go ahead and have it trimmed. She has had a couple "at-home" cuts that didn't really turn out so well, so this was a pretty big deal for us!

I took her to Snippets at the mall because that's where I always take Hunter and I knew she would be excited about the suckers and prizes. When we got there I overheard the lady next to me in the waiting area ask the receptionist if she could request to wait for the next lady to cut her son's hair....I quickly figured out that it was a new guy that had only been there for a week or so. At that point I almost did the same thing as she had done, only because I know how shy Hannah is with strangers...especially men for some reason, but I decided to just go with it and take our chances. Sure enough, about a minute later "Tim" walked up and called our name. Let me just say that he did an amazing job with both of them. Hannah turned on the shy bug immediately, but he was so good with her, and I knew she was lovin' it. Hunter did awesome too, this was the first time he didn't scream when they turned the clippers on! I felt kind of good when we left and the lady who had passed him up was still waiting for her child to be called.....

Tim (he kind of reminded me of a cross between Jack Black and Will Ferrell), and Hannah putting on her saddest face....I mean could you get any sadder?
Hannah, still trying not to smile....I knew deep down she was lovin' it

I think I see a little smile.....

Yep, there it is!

One braid and three stickers in the hair later, the much anticipated sucker...pink of course!

Fishin'

Kevin decided to get the kids their first fishing poles recently, so a few weeks ago we went over to his parents and took them fishing off the pier. Hunter caught one the second his cork hit the water, and Hannah got one a few seconds after that. They had a blast and talked about it for a week, so I'm pretty sure we have many years of fishing in our future!