Random Birthday Party Pics

I've taken my camera to the shop (sniff, sniff)... I have no clue when it will be fixed, but I was tired of taking rotten pictures. Hopefully I will have it back before September- when Henry starts school. (sniff, sniff)

I need to do a beach post, but haven't uploaded all the pics.

In the meantime, here are some pics of the kids at some birthday parties.

1st off-

Raney's 2nd Birthday Party (back in May)

The sweet Hogan Family (who now has one more girl added to their crew)

Minnie Mouse was quite the entertainment and the kids had a lot of fun playing at the park in Dallas.

Margaret, who was a little leery of Minnie, preferred chasing ducks.


Henry partook in Minnie's activities- singing, dancing, and a parachute.


Margaret got her first taste of Cheeto puffs... which came in handy after she wacked her eye on the corner of a park bench. Dr. Sara was there to prescribe more Cheetos... worked like a charm.

Her eye the next day.

Charlie's 1st Birthday Party

(back in June)

My camera went on hiatus that day, but I did get a few pics.

Here is the link to Liz' blog
Go check out his Peter Rabbit Party!

My dear godson. SO glad I was able to celebrate with him!



Henry gets very excited about Liz's cookies



(Peter Rabbit's jacket- could she be any more talented?!?)

The kids decorated pots and planted seeds.

Margaret liked playing in the dirt.

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Somehow flung dirt all over her face. Sweet, sweet picture Liz captured though.

MG couldn't keep her hands off the stuffed bunnies.

Brinley's 2nd Birthday Party
It was the same day as Charlie's, but luckily at different times.
Here is the link to Amy's Blog
Brinley's Popsicle Party was just as sweet as the birthday girl herself!

Henry coloring his popsicle

And MG eating her chocolate covered pretzel... too bad the heat was melting the chocolate faster than she could eat it.

It's good to have a big brother

Looks like he's got his sister in a head lock....

... Nope. Just trying to style her hair.

Father's Day

Father's Day started out early.

The kids and I snuck out of the house while daddy dearest was still asleep to pick up some donuts and kolaches.

Tom didn't want his picture taken :) so here are the kids enjoying their delicious breakfast.

After church, we enjoyed burgers at a local place, then kids took naps and Tom went to work from home.

PatPat and PawPaw with the Wood cousins came over for dinner.

PawPaw cooked steaks on the grill and we enjoyed a nice meal- even Tom, who didn't get any calls during dinner... I was afraid he was going to have to eat his meal in our dark bedroom by himself while looking at MRIs.

Even though it was their special day, they didn't stray from their husband duty of cleaning dishes.

I'm very thankful that PawPaw is such a great example of a dad/husband to Tom.

A random game of "PawPaw Says" to end the evening.

Henry made a "My Daddy Book" at church:

My Daddy's favorite color is.... Red. (Henry's fav)

My Daddy's favorite food is... Hot Dogs (???)

I like it when my Daddy.... hugs me (ahh)

My Daddy is so strong he can.... (no answer-ha)

My Daddy laughs when.... he sees a Gorilla (???)

My Daddy likes me to... vacuum (no clue)

Thank you God for my Daddy!

Lake Trippin'

A couple of weeks ago, we joined our med school friends at the McAdams family lakehouse in Brownwood. We were the first family to arrive, so after the kids' nap, we headed out to the boat with Rocky, Amy, and Brinley.

As long as Henry was shielded from the wind, he was good to go.

The next morning, we had some backyard fun while Tom and Rocky played golf.

Before lunch, the Warminskis joined us and we headed out to the crappie house.

Kids really enjoyed floating in their life vests.... which was surprising. Margaret did have trouble balancing in hers, which kind of annoyed her- she wanted to be independent. Finally figured it out the last day.

Saying prayers before lunch- love how Brinley's head is bowed.

She could have done this all day.

Sweet girls

Burkharts arrived on Thursday and

the next couple of days were filled with more swimming, lots of eating, and playing around.

Playing with Play Doh... Margaret tried to "dip" her cracker in it.

Finger Painting

S'mores!

Attempt at a patriotic kids' pic

Luke and Henry playing baseball

Birthday crew

Really wish you could see the group pic of us when we first came 5 years ago- things have changed! (I was wearing gaucho pants- would those things please come back in style!)

We missed the Hartzlers!!

We are so blessed by this group of friends!!!

Thanks, Amy and Rocky for hosting! (blog title is a shout out to your email about our 1st trip to Brownwood)