Our little family

Our little family

Monday, August 24, 2015

Our New House, Jayda's 8th B-Day & First Day of School!

This little sweet pea loved swimming in her baby pool this summer.  We put up "Avery's pool" every other day it seemed and she had so much fun playing in it!  She is certainly a water baby!

We moved into our new house in the middle of July!  We were all so excited to finally get in our own house again!
Woo-hoo!!!!!

Ta-dah!!!  It's our new house!

Jayda was super happy to get her very own room back!  She's been sharing a room with Sydney for the past 2 years since we've been back in Huntsville.   She loves her own space. :)

Avery was pretty darn excited to get her own room too!  She even got her very own closet, and doesn't have to share with Mommy anymore. :)

Sydney loves her new room!  She was so happy to get her own room after sharing with Jayda for the past few years.

Jayda turned 8 years old over the summer on July 24th!  She is getting so big and grown up!  The morning of her bday she went to art camp with her BFF, Gabby.  They had lots of fun that morning and finished painting all of their pottery pieces that they had made over the week.  After art camp Jacob picked up Jayda and Gabby and brought them to our house.  I had made lunch for everyone so we ate and then enjoyed some yummy cookie cake and ice cream for her bday.  Jayda opened all of her bday presents and then we headed off to Splashtown!  All that Jayda wanted to do for her bday was to go to Splashtown with her best friend, so luckily we made that happen. :)

Opening her bday presents.

Birthday cake time!!

And then it was back to school time!  It seemed like the summer went on forever in someways, but in other ways I can not believe summer is already over!  The girls met their teachers last Thursday.  They both really like their teachers and I think they are going to have a great year!

Heading out the door to meet and greet last thursday evening.  
Sydney's kindergarten teacher is Mrs. Alton. 

Jayda's 3rd grade teacher is Mrs. Moss.

And  then it was the first day of school!  It's so crazy that summertime is already over! 
I can not believe that we now have a 3rd grader!  Holy moly, time is flying by so fast!  Jayda is growing up into such a sweet and mature little girl.    We know that you are going to have a great year and we love you so much Jayda Michelle! 

And of course they had to get a picture with their little Daisy dog! 

It does not seem possible that our little Sydney is already in kindergarten!!!  I was absolutely not ready for this day to come!  Sydney is quite the little mommy's girl and has enjoyed her time at home with me.  Last year in pre-k she dropped down from going 3 days a week to going 2 days a week so that she could be home with me. :)  She is such a sweet girl and has such a good heart.  I am so sad that I won't have my little buddy around all the time, but I know it's time.  It's time for her to spread her little wings and grow up.  She is so excited about kindergarten and had a great first day.  Mommy is going to have some adjusting to do, but hopefully I will get used to it soon.  We are so proud of you Sydney Anne and love you to the moon and back!

Sweet sisters on the first day of school!


Walking to school on their first day with Daddy.


First day of 3rd grade and Kindergarten!

Sydney's first day of kindergarten.

Jayda's first day of 3rd grade!

Leaving school with only one little munchkin.  Sniff, sniff....

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Last swim meets of the summer!

The girls finished up their swim season back at the end of June.  Unfortunately our lives have been so busy I am only just now getting a chance to post these last swim meet pictures.  Jayda and Sydney both did a great job and finished the season strong.  They qualified for the post season invitational meet in The Woodlands and both swam super fast!  Jayda got 1st place in her age group and division in freestyle, and broke 20 seconds for the first time!  Sydney swam her fastest backstroke time of the entire season at that meet too!  We were so proud of our little swimmer girls!

Jayda in the water about to swim backstroke at the College Station meet.

Go Jayda go!

Sydney on the blocks before freestyle.

Sydney and Camryn on the ready bench at the College Station meet.  It was SO hot that day, these poor girls were burning up!  They sure were little troopers though!

Jayda and her buddies playing games before getting on the ready bench.

Jayda finishing up one of her freestyle races at our last home meet.

Sweet girls, Jayda and Heidi at one of the last home meets.

Love this picture of Sydney with her friends, and relay buddies, Camryn and Holly!

Miss Avery had to make an appearance too of course. :)

Sydney on the blocks for backstroke.

These girls had to wait forever to get on the ready benches at the the post season invitational meet, so naturally they played lots of games while they waited.

Jayda being walked down to her lane at the invitational meet.  This pool is super nice and feels like a college swim meet.  There are touch pads at the end of the pool and a digital board above the pool telling that says who is in which lane and what place they get.  It is so neat.

Looking for her fans and getting her goggles adjusted!  She was always so excited to see us in the stands cheering for her. 

Jayda's relay team.  These girls swam so good in the freestyle relay and meadley relay!

One last pic after their final relay.  They did an awesome job and placed around 7th in both of their relays out of a total of about 40 or so teams!

They finished building our house in the middle of July and just before they finished I ran over and took a few pictures.  We love it so much and are so glad that we have already been able to move in.  Hooray!!!!!

The kitchen.

Mud room bench in laundry room.

Hallway bathroom tile.

Hallway bathroom sink.

Our bedroom.

Master bathroom.  Not quite finished yet.

Dining room.

Living room.

Game room.

Girl's bathroom sink.

Girl's bathroom tile.

Back porch.  One of my favorite places in the whole house! :)