Homecoming Parade 2012

Every year we attend the Cleabrook Homecoming Parade. In the years past Gene would ride in the parade with his guys and the kids would stand on the sidelines catching candy like everyone else. This year Gene wanted the entire family to ride on the golf cart in the parade. It was a lot of fun and everyone said we should have won because we had the cutest kids! I have to agree.

Mom and the crew! Trace was eating a blue ring pop courtesy of Mom who didn’t think about the awful mess it was going to make!

My little ladies man with the cheerleaders!

My boys!

We usually sit with The Brewer's and take fun pics of the kids on the curb. Well this year the Brewer Boys rode with Dad in the parade and I received a text message from Kim with Karsyn on the curb by herself. It was fun riding in the parade with our little family, but I missed our friend traditions!

Trace

There really are no words for Trace these days. I hate to say he is my “middle child”, he is “just bad”, he is “hard to handle”, I am “ready to sell him on e-bay”, I don’t “understand why he does what he does ALL THE TIME”. Bottom line is he is Trace and he does what he does when he wants to. He is independent, aggressive, smart and most of the time very caring. I love my little middle more than life it’s self, but he can do things that just make you Shake Your Head.

For example:

Climb into the kitchen sink, fill it with water and soap with all of his clothes on!

or the opposite:

Take off his pants & diaper and dance on the patio table

 

Trace’s favorite place in the whole wide world is in the backyard. I open the back doors and he will play outside with Slugger for hours! Lately we are working on potty training so he feels the need to run around naked. At this point in my life I pick my battles. We have hard wood floors & tile so an accident is not totally tragic. And if he goes outside well that’s one less thing Gene has to worry about teaching him!! We love our Trace and we wouldn’t change him for the world!

The Future Mr. & Mrs. Jones

So my best friend just moved back to the Houston area a few months ago. Her hubby works out of town so Miss P and I packed up and headed to Magnolia for a girls night! Peyton had not met her future husband Cannon yet and we felt it was time. It was LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!

Cannon was so sweet to share his play mat with Peyton. They really did hit it off. It was so cute to watch them coo at each other and I was really excited that Peyton played so well on the floor. We don’t get a lot of floor time at home thanks to her 2 older brothers!

I couldn’t decide which picture I liked more so you get to see both! It’s funny how our girls nights have changed. We used to get all dressed up and go out on the town. This time we were in Yoga pants and switched babies for the night.

I love having Jaime so close. We really want our kids to grow up together & although I have 2 olders she has always been in their lives. Cannon & Peyton make the cutest couple and their wedding will be BEAUTIFUL (that is after they graduate college and BOTH have careers!)