Happy July!!

I would say Happy Fourth of July, but I kind of missed that mark.... Anyhoo, here are some pictures from the parade we went to in Canyon.

Doesn't this picture just scream "all American" to it!?

They had a block party thing on the town square so we walked around there for a bit before the parade started. Here is Regan enjoying her time in the bounce house. I love the way her ponytail is flying behind her! :)

The kids, gearing up to watch the parade.
My husband is so stinking handsome!
Where else but Canyon, Texas, would you find an old tractor as the main attraction in the Fourth of July parade!?
Hope you had a happy Independence Day..... straight from Texas!!

VBS

This year was Regan's first official year at VBS. She was in the 3 year-old class (along with twenty-one others!). Each day they had a "special" theme and for crazy hair day, this is how I fixed Regan's hair.

I did it while it was wet and I had originally planned on taking it out and having it all fro-like, but then I figured it would be hanging in her eyes all day, so we just left it. She even won honorable mention for her "crazy" hair!

If I had known this was how it would look when I unrolled it, I probably would've gone with this....

And this was the finished product....

This is the final program at the end of the week. That would be our daughter standing there screaming her head off until I took her off stage. The little girl next to her, covering her face, is Hannah. (I took her off the stage too, and she was so scared, she was shaking. Poor Hannah!)

Grant hung out in the nursery all week so I don't have any cool pictures of him, but here he is helping me fix Regan's hair!

Have no fear

Super Girl stopped by a few days ago to save us from the very bad spider. Unfortunately, just as she landed, the noble civilian Daddy turned on the vacuum cleaner. (Super Girl is not a fan of the vacuum cleaner.)

Have No Fear....

Batman is here!
(and he thinks the noble civilian Mommy is quite a hoot!)

You've Got Mail

I decided to update a few more things around the house since the lights turned out so well.  Our mailbox is a bit bo-ring, but have you seen the price of a new mailbox lately!? Holy moly, those people are out of their minds if they think I'm going to pay $30 for a new mailbox!

That's okay, though, because with a little bit of blue painters tape, a whole lot of patience....
..and some antique white craft paint... the mailman now has something a bit spicier to look at as he drops yet another piece of junk mail into the mailbox.

PS  Somehow I just noticed the little lines on the side of the mailbox -- I'll have to get those tomorrow!

A few years ago we inherited this ugly, swing arm brass lamp from a relative. Since we don't have an overhead light in our living room, we need all the help we can get from lamps, so we've kept it.

And I hated it.

And then a few days ago, I decided to do something about it.

I forgot to take a before picture, but here's one with a cute little Cinderella in it! :)

I just hit that sucker up with some alcohol to clean all the finger prints off, slapped on some Rustoleum Metallic spray paint in Espresso, added a $15 lamp shade from Wal-Mart and voila!

She's a lot prettier to look at now, don't you think!?

The flower girl....

This past weekend, Regan was a flower girl in a good friend's wedding.  She was absolutely beautiful and did a great job although she forgot to drop the flowers... oops!

At the rehearsal.  Regan is reminding Ms. Billie that you have to be quiet during the wedding.  That's baby Isaac with Billie.  Look at that adorable red hair!

Practicing for the future, hmm....?
Regan and Hudson double checking to make sure the jelly beans are as good as they look.  That's really Hudson's smile -- isn't he hilarious!?
Regan's gorgeous hair before the wedding.
Regan and Anne Marie, the. most. beautiful. bride. ever.  Seriously.  When I say beautiful I mean I don't think there could ever be a more beautiful girl in the entire universe.  She was stunning and her dress... I about drooled it was so gorgeous!!
Regan and Hudson in their pre-wedding chill out spot: the nursery.
Eric took this as they opened the door.  The other flower girl, Taylor, saw her dad at the end of the (very long) isle and took off running and screaming.  It was so cute.  Regan and Hudson both had trouble getting started, but once they saw the jelly beans at the end of the isle, they headed straight for them!
At the reception.

DIY from the weekend

Last weekend, Richard and Nancy came out.  We loved spending time with them and Richard and Eric even accomplished quite a few projects Eric's been needing help with.  They installed some lights that shine on the trees and the flag, but I haven't gotten a picture of those at nighttime yet, so I'll show those later.  They also replaced something in the light fixture in the office, but it wasn't all that exciting.

For me, the most exciting thing was Richard replacing the light fixtures in the entryway and hallway!! We've had the new fixtures for over 2 years.  I know.  Seriously.  2 years.  I happened to mention that to Richard, and that afternoon he got busy replacing them for us.

The old fixture in the entryway.  The hall one was the exact same.

The newer, updated fixtures!

Thank you so much for all your help, Richard!!

A Republican Evening

Michael Medved.

That's all I'm going to say.

Roller girl

The first weekend in June, Regan is going to be a flower girl in one of my friends' wedding.  I've been trying to figure out how to fix her hair for the event, and I've had these sponge curlers in the closet for awhile.  So, this past Saturday night after bath time, I thought it would be fun to roll Regan's hair for Sunday, mostly so I could try it out for the wedding.  Mom used to roll our hair a lot when we were little, and even up into high school, I remember her rolling it for big events (homecoming...a cute boy in church...).  Let me just say, I have so much more appreciation for Mom after rolling just one little girl's hair.  I can't imagine doing it for three squirmy girls!

Regan was so excited and cute about it all.  I warned her very sternly to not take the curlers out, and she didn't.  I was really shocked because she always plays with her hair when she's falling asleep, but she didn't seem to have any problems with it.This is right after I took the curlers out.  She had on the cutest Navy dress that she got for her birthday from Nana and Papa.  She looked like a blonde headed Shirley Temple!

After I brushed all the curls out.  This would be the point that Eric walked in from church rehearsal and this is what he saw.  The look on his face was priceless.  Of course, I may have played it up and gone on and on about how cute I thought it was, and it turned out exactly how I wanted it, blah blah blah.  It was pretty funny.  I think the look on Regan's face is hilarious!
And here it is after a few squirts of detangler to loosen it up. 
Our curly-q...
I think it turned out pretty well, but I'm also going to experiment rolling it a few different ways before I decide on a particular look for the wedding.

So You Think Grant Can Dance?

Eric has been busy writing marching shows for next year -- he's writing 3 shows from start to finish and then the drum book on 2 others.  Grant is really digging the opener he wrote for Randall.

Pokey Pokey!!!!!

Finally!! I got blogger to finally download Regan's Pokey Pokey!!

Happy Birthday Regan!!!

It's hard to believe Regan turned 3 last Wednesday.  I get all sappy every time I think about my little girl growing up.  I just can't believe that she's already three years old.  Wasn't it just last summer when she would sleep all day and stay awake at night watching the Game Show Network with us?   And didn't she just start talking a few months ago?  Seriously.  Sappy, people.

We were going to have an all-out bash, Dora the Explorer style, but for several reasons, opted out of that and chose instead to take Regan and her friend, Emma, to Jump n Jive.  It's an old department store that is full of those huge blow up bounce houses.  Nana even got to come into town the night before Regan's birthday, and she and GiGi came along with us.  It was so much fun and the girls had a blast.  So did a certain Daddy, who played just as hard, if not more so, than the girls!  Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, but here are a few pictures of the little shindig afterwards.  We ate pizza and cake and opened presents.

Regan with all of her loot.
Opening her Disney princess sand shovel from Great-Aunt Janie, who was in town visiting.  She and Grandad got to come over and eat some pizza with us, and we sure enjoyed visiting with them.  Regan and Grant (who got a Cars sand shovel too) LOVE their buckets and have played outside with them every day since they got them.  Thanks, Aunt Janie and Uncle Robert Lee!
Emma gave Regan a fairy dress up kit.  It was a major hit for both girls. :)
Happy Birthday, Regan Renee'!!  We love you so much!

Happy Mother's Day!

I'm so grateful that God chose these two precious babies to be MY children.  I'm blessed to hear them call me Momma and am thankful for the wonderful and amazing woman that I call Mom.  I'm also so thankful that God gave me the absolute BEST mother-in-law in the world!!  Happy Mother's Day to all of the mother's in my life!!

Here are a few pictures of the kiddos... (because, you know without them, I wouldn't be a momma!)

Grant has definitely taken after his daddy.  He loves to sit at the piano and play while Eric writes music.  He will do this for the longest time... I really think we might have another composer on our hands!

We have had beautiful weather the last several weeks so the kids and I have been playing outside a lot.  I think this is the sweetest picture! 
Could they be any cuter!?
Both of the kids like to brush their teeth (when I remember to have them do it!).  Grant just chews on his toothbrush while I dress him, but Regan is becoming quite the big girl, and she insists on brushing her teeth "all by herself".  She does a pretty good job, too!

I still am having trouble getting the Pokey Pokey video to download, but I'll keep trying.  And maybe next time I post, I'll have pictures of our new nephew!!!!  Karen is scheduled for a c-section on Thursday morning, the day after Regan's 3rd birthday.  I'm SO excited -- we can't wait to see the little guy!

Grant's funny face

A couple of nights ago, Grant kept making this funny face at supper.  Sorry about the shaking, I kept laughing and couldn't keep the camera straight! :)

I have another video of Regan doing the Pokey Pokey, but blogger is taking forever to do videos, so I'll try to post it later on.

Boys will be boys....

"Don't worry, Mom.  They do this on Survivor all the time."