Our Last Summer Vacation of 2011

The week before school started we went on a quick vacation up to Alamo to visit Grandma and Grandpa Biggs.  We all had a great time, like usual.

We rode horses.

Fall Festival

Kitchen Chairs

I was getting tired of non kid friendly fabric on our kitchen chairs so after much searching I found new fabric that both Robert and I agreed on and recovered them.

An up date...

So I know I didn't update anything over the summer.

Four kids = SUPER BUSY!!

So this is how we spent our summer:

The boys had hockey.  It was so fun to watch them improve each week.  Michael was pretty good at the end of the series of classes.  I really enjoyed watching them and enjoyed the ICEY COLD AC!

Here's the team photo:  Michael is in black on the left end.  James is in the front row third from the right in black.  They did so awesome!!

Lilly

Lilly is 10 months old, oh how time flies!
She is crawling and climbing all over.  She walks around the furniture and holds hands while walking, I'm sure she will take off and run any day now.  She has one tooth on the bottom.  Her hair is just barely long enough to put a little ponytail right on top; it's cute.  She is happy and likes to smile at everyone.  She says momma, dadda and bye-bye.  She loves it when her siblings play with her, especially Michael, she gets VERY excited to see him and play with him.  She's chubby and so cute.  We love her so much!

Here are some more pictures.

Hair Cuts

The boys had their hair cut in preparation of school starting.

Katie felt left out...so she gave herself a hair cut...

And then a few days later Michael decided to try his hand at cutting her hair...

I'm sure glad she has curly hair it isn't very noticeable because it's gonna be awhile before it grows out. 

Summer Fun Updates

We have had lots of fun in the past few weeks.

Robert and I got new phones...we, for the first time ever, have smart phones, texting, data, everything!!
I'll let you guess who's phone is who's.

This is the first summer the kids have had swim lessons and they are doing so well.  I can see huge improvements in such a short amount of time with all of them, including Lilly.  (Lilly LOVES the water!)

We have had some monsoon storms to enjoy.
(Taken by me out our bathroom window.)

Guest Room Transformation

Now that we have four kids we no longer have a guest room and it was time for a makeover on James and Katie's Room.  I forgot to take the before picture.  But it was a...humm...perhaps you could call it a mint greenish pastel  (it was a great oops paint find)  But I found another oops paint, a nice grey color.  Then on the wall it looked purple.  So after some mixing of other random colors we came to have this color:  (more of a bluish grey)