Best Big Brother Award!

That's right, the award for best big brother goes to the one and only, Timothy Michael York. This little guy has been so sweet to his sister lately, he always wants to play with her, sit by her, share with her, get food and drinks for her...you name it, he'll do it. He was so good on the airplane when we went to see my family, he mostly just sat and played his Leapster, but Charlotte was another story. She was busy busy busy and hardly even sat in my lap. Most of the time she sat on the floor, but she spent a fair amount of time climbing on top of him and sitting next to him and standing on top of him and he just sat and let her do it, he was such a trooper! Anyway, their new favorite game to play together is called "Lay Down!!" which basically means they lay on the couch and I cover them up with a blanket and Charlotte tells Timothy to "lay down and go to sleep". I know the pictures aren't that great, but they were having fun so I didn't want to mess it up too much!

Trip to WA (finally!!!)

The kids and I were blessed to be able to make a long trip up to WA earlier this month. We got to stay for 10 days and it was so much fun. We went up so that I could go to Britt's engagement party and then we stayed for the week after as well. It was so nice to get to meet her future in-laws and some more of the wedding party and see their new condo, and thankfully we had a wonderful babysitter so the kids had a blast while we were gone for the night!

On Monday we took the kids to get their hair cut and they did such a good job, I really love Charlotte's new bangs and she did so well for her first haircut!! Tuesday we met Candice and her kids at the park and had fun playing, it was a little sad though that it's the last time we'll get to do that, we'll be sad to see them leave :( Later than night we went to see Tyler host his school's talent show, he did such a good job!! Wednesday we went to see Shrek, and thankfully had the theater to ourselves. Charlotte doesn't sit too well in movies and Timothy had more fun running around than watching, the movie wasn't that great so he wasn't too into it! Thursday and Friday we did some shopping and played at Grammy and Grumpy's house. Friday night Timothy had his very first ever sleep over. Heather came and picked him up and took him to Tyler's baseball game and then he spent the night at their house. We all met up Saturday morning at another baseball game and finished off with a cookout at Heather and Kevin's house.

We had so much fun, it was sad to leave, but we'll be back up there soon so it's OK!! I put all of the pictures on facebook, so these are just some of my favorites.

M.I.A.

I promise I'm still here and all is well. I have just been lazy and haven't charged my camera battery so that I could download the pictures from our trip to WA, but the charger is plugged in now and I will have no excuses tomorrow :) Stay tuned for lots of fun stories and pictures and someone's new haircut!!

There's a First Time for Everything!!

Anyone that has known me for a while knows that I have always hated running. I hated it in high school when we had to run for so long at volleyball practice (I mean, really? Why do volleyball players have to also be long distance runners?) and I hated in PE when we'd have to run a mile for a grade. I have always hated running. But, I decided a couple months ago that I needed to do something to get myself in better shape so I started the Couch to 5K program (which works really well, by the way) and this past Saturday I did my first ever 5K!!! I didn't run the whole thing, but I finished it and that's HUGE for me! I would have done much better if a certain little girl and boy had decided to sleep the night before so I could have had a good night's rest...but at least the next one I do should definitely be better, so that's always incentive to keep trying! It was a lot of fun though, and I'm definitely glad I did it. And I'm thankful that Christi and Larena ran it with me so we could all celebrate together. Here are a couple pictures from before the race. I'm planning to do another one in October so I've got plenty of time to build up for that!!

Surprise!!

Last week my wonderful husband turned 30 (hehe) and to help him celebrate I got some friends together for what was supposed to be a surprise party...would have been nice if traffic had been better, but we still had fun. It also would have been nice if it hadn't been so windy so that the (30) candles on his cake would have stayed lit, but again...it was alright! I ended up spending most of the party on the playground with the kids, so that's where I got most of the pictures, but hey, it's all about them anyway on here right?

His party was Friday night and then Saturday we drove over to Houston for Trey's surprise graduation party, so we had a weekend full of surprises! In reality, it was a weekend full of really good food and lots of cake and Hershey bar pie (yummy!!) so it was all good! Here are the few pictures I managed to get and happy late birthday Brandon!!!!

A Boy and a Girl

We were blessed to be able to spend time with some wonderful friends this past weekend. Brandon's best friend since childhood, Trey, graduated from his Master's program and his wonderful wife Christi threw a surprise party for him to celebrate so we loaded up and drove over to Houston to help them celebrate. We're so proud of both of them and happy to have them as friends!

While we were getting ready for church yesterday, I took a quick picture of Timothy and Elyssa (the two of them are just just a few weeks apart) and I was telling Christi that I was pretty sure I had a picture of the Timothy and Elyssa from almost every time we've all been together in the past four years...so I had to check today and share them with you all.

Hopefully one day these will make either great blackmail or wedding photos :) They had both grown from cute little babies into cute little preschoolers, love them both!!

Preschool Program

Timothy's preschool had their graduation program tonight and even though Timothy wasn't graduating, his class still got to perform. I got a video of the songs they sang but I'm having trouble getting it to load, so I'll add it in later. I was able to get a picture of him with one of his teachers, but we couldn't find the other one once the program ended. He really has had such a great year there, his teachers were wonderful, and he learned so much. We can't wait for him to go back next year and I'm just hoping I can keep from bawling at graduation next year!!