Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Spring Pictures a Little Late

Thanks again to Aunt Alex for some great Spring bubbles. The girls are so adorable in them. These are their Spring pictures. If anyone wants copies, let me know and I'll mail them since I forgot to bring them on our last visits home. Sorry





Truly wasn't happy for most of the photo session, there were actually some real funny ones I didn't get, but I thought this one reminded me so much of one Grammy has on her livingroom wall of me and Jennifer. Jennifer is smiling beautifully and I pretty much looked just like Truly. She is a little me.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A New Way to Use an Old Toy

So Kegan has had this baby doll stroller for a couple of years, but has not really played with it much lately.....until now. I am amazed that the girls have not yet torn the fabric, or broken any bones. Truly almost lost a knee to the sofa and pretty much looks like a crash-test dummy, but continued to laugh by the time she hit the door.



While a little slower, Kegan still enjoys having Truly run her into things as well. These girls aren't prissy in the least. Guess that's what we get for having a stay-at-home Dad. Rough and toug little princesses.



Saturday, May 7, 2011

Girls, Girls and more Girls!!!

No, this is not an advertisement for the T&A Cabaret.....For those of you who haven't seen my facebook update from a few weeks ago.....it is another girl. Seems there is something in those Flowers' genes that only makes girls, at least in threes before you get a boy....and I don't know quite yet if we will take our chances with the possibility of a fourth girl. Madison may go mad with all the excess estrogen in the house. The two girls we have are so sweet together, we are kind of excited for another. Amazingly they play together really well and don't fight too much.....yet. Kegan is pretty slick though. I caught her trying to make Truly get out of the stroller she wanted to sit in, so she sweetly started petting her hair and talking real sweet to her, and just like that, Truly smiled and got out.


In April, Madison did the New Orleans 70.3 Ironman, so we took some time to visit my family and his while we were so close. Kegan got some quality time in with her cousins. We even celebrated Ava and Evan's birthdays. This is a picture of the clothes changing bomb the girls set off in Ava's room. They actually didn't even fight. They had the best time. Kegan is still asking to see Ava. She sings songs about her a lot too.







The Ava song...it is a Kegan original



Truly taking her turn driving on our long way home. Apparently she is not buying the whole talking while driving thing as unsafe. She's pretty sassy!







After school sometimes, Daddy treats the girls to 7eleven treats. Kegan has already downed her M&M's by this point, but Truly is still very proud to be working on her Blowpop she picked out.





This is how Truly entertains herself while Kegan is at dancing. The rolls of floor mats are great to climb on.





After a good lunch by Daddy, it is so hard to stay awake for Elmo on Sesame Street. I've never seen her do this. So sweet.





Madison always captures the best picutres that make me smile. He sent me this one when I was stuck late at work.





And this was my morning "hello"





This is the beginnning of the transition which led to the super cheese in the previous picture. Truly got her ear tubes changed out for a long-term set and got her adenoids out. She has been snotty since October and we thought she was just a moody child. Turns out she is super happy all the time and just full of cheesy smiles. She is a different toddler since her surgery.



Sesame Street on Versed must be like Led Zepplin on LSD?



recovery was tough, she was not liking her IV at all, so we kept it covered tightly and she had 3 popsicles and some gatorade before we begged to go home.

The sad ride home with our little post-anesthesia baby!





but, after a nap and some good snuggling, was back to normal




Kegan the daredevil at a race this morning. There was a cool inflatable obstacle course and Kegan did it about 10 times. I didn't know if she was big enough, but she sure showed me!

Sweetly waiting her turn to head out on the obstacle course! our sweet little big girl!




And then there is Kegan's newest musical talent of harmonica playing. Madison got a little one in his race bag from the Miss Blues marathon in January. That darn thing has just surfaced and Kegan is having a blast. She plays and Truly dances. Madison said there was much better performances before this one, but this was all he captured. Still cute.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Family Photos and Some More Catching Up...

We took family photos way back early December and I finally got around to making prints for the house. These are phone picts of the actual photos. They are some of the finest prints I have ever seen. Robin and Dale Weerts do great work. The colors and quality are just super.





Super silly Sam's shoppers


Daddy got me all dressed pretty for school! (I thought so hilarious when I returned home that afternoon to notice the bow that should be tied in the back was in front, but hey....at least it was tied in a bow and not some boyscout fishing knot)


Super cheese pleased with her new outfit Daddy picked out.


She is a true woman. Already multitasking. I guess Madison and I will both look like that shortly when we have to figure out how to tote 3 kids at the grocery store.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Don't be alarmed, we are still here folks!

So this is almost akward to make a post after being absent from blogging this long. I first was having some great frustrations after we updated our browser and I couldn't edit the blog as easily. I am still having issues, but I am learning to work around them. First of all the main reason I have not been blogging is this......

I am harboring a new little parasite.....by choice, but since mid January until now I have been able to muster enough strength to attend work and that is about it. The nausea is finally starting to subside. We are super excited to add another wonderfulness to our family. Kegan asks every day if she can see the baby. Oh, and for all you who hated our suprises with the first two.....we will be finding out the sex of this one by ultrasound. So in about 6 weeks we will hopefully have that announcement.

I am also an amature sonographer and this is a little video I took of our lil punkin. I try to check on it every chance I get. It pays to work around cool equipment and machines sometimes.



A beautiful day on the porch and a snack fit for princesses

.....and just 2 days later we had to dig my car out of the snow. Strange Texas weather......if you ever don't like it just wait around a bit and it'll change.

And with all the crazy changing weather, poor Truly has been sick a lot. We have done several rounds of anitbiotics, but nothing seems to last.


Kegan did try her best to help Truly feel better, "Now Truly you don't feel good and need to see the princess dentist. Lay right here"


Kids always say the darndest things. Kegan dressed her and Truly's arms out then proudly exclaimed to Madison "look Daddy, we look like Pan". Aaron did apologize for any future decisions they may make regarding getting tattoos.

Apparently a DVD box also makes a great sleve tattoo.
Truly sometimes just can't wait until her after lunch nap. This day she didn't even make it to lunch.

We have another new little addition to the family. "Prof" a sweet little corgi puppy given to the girls by their Nana and Pop Flowers. The girls adore him and he loves them.

My 2 little party animals all ready to hit the jumphouses???



Kegan's other new trick is dressing herself like cousin Kelly. This day she picked a slip and rubber boots. Very proud! Another darling outfit she was very eager to pose for.



Kegan will you dry my hair?

Sure Toots, no problem.

Daddy is a silly guy!

These girls love to play and will make a game out of anything.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Thanksgiving week

We had a great Thanksgiving here. We were just too whooped to travel again after Disnyeworld and I was fighting off a nasty relapse of my ear/sinus infection. Making it to work that week was about all I could muster. I could not even begin to think about unpacking or repacking so soon. It all turned out great. We had a great Thanksgiving day at my Nanny's in Grapevine. Paran Aaron was there so the girls are always excited to see him. That night my parents gave us the best suprise by bringing my grandparents from Raceland to visit us. They had not yet been to our house. I wasn't quite sure if they were up for the trip, but they made it just fine and we had such a good time.

our little indian at her school Thanksgiving performance



Madison says our family has way too many birthday's clumped together......I don't know what he means.....well maybe I do. I left my name off the community cake becuase I ran out of room.

Mawma and the girls waiting to get some yummy cake

Kegan watching a movie with her "old Pawpaw"

The day after Thanksgiving we had another wonderful visit. About a month before, I received a letter in the mail from the original owners of our house. Tanya, the mother, asked if while they were visiting family in town, could come and see the house. It was actually a request of her oldest son. It was so neat to meet them and learn how much thought and love they put into building this house. They actually did a lot of work themselves. We found out so many neat treasures about our house.....and some helpful stuff too. Here are some pictures of them while they were here.

The mystery of who all those hands belong to is finally solved

Now that we have met the Moore's they will forever be a part of this home for us. They are such a neat and special family. I think our view of this place is so similar. They dreamed this house up with the idea of raising a family and growing old here just like we do. It is the perfect home!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Disneyworld day 8

Our last day we decided to stay at the hotel. We had to make the bus for noon, and I still had some dreaded packing to do. Kegan had been wanting to go the the pool at the hotel, but we were too busy running around at the parks, so she finally made it to the pool. Funny thing, she didn't make it to the cool big one with the spraying flower. She insisted on jumping in to the first one right downstairs from our room and Madison couldn't convince her otherwise. She is a stubborn little toot! She definitely doesn't get that from me.....ha, ha.

Daddy, it's freezy!

It's a cold walk from the pool, but it sure was fun!

Sadly waiting for the bus:(

Bye Mickey.....We are gonna miss you!



But, on a brighter note, here are a few of Nana's honorable mention pictures from Disney. She sent us a cd with hers. She got some great ones.