Third Birthday Letter to Quinnie C

Dear Quinnie Rue,

Happy birthday Mrs. Q! My baby is three! You are a little ball of sunshine. I love love love watching you create new things. You are always asking to color, play with play doh and build with blocks. Actually sometimes you ask for it haha usually you'll just go get the stuff needed yourself. So many times I'll look over and you have all the play doh out and you're already making stuff with them. I love how much you love it. Most often you can be found with markers and paper and you'll be spread out on the kitchen floor just coloring new pictures. You can do it for so long and never get tired of it. You're so creative and you love showing everyone your new crafts. I don't know if I've ever had another kid so easily entertained by coloring and creating as much as you. You love Minnie Mouse and Paw Patrols and you love having your hair done. You like things put together and looking nice which I really relate to haha. I super love you and this whole growing up business is bittersweet but it's also such a joy to be part of your life. Thank you for letting me be your mama. Happy birthday and I love you so much.

Love,

Mama

Third Birthday Letter to Rylee Girl

Dear Rylee Girl,

Happy birthday sweet girl! I love you so much. You are hilarious, quirky, and full of personality. You're so funny to watch. You definitely like to switch things up and add your own style to it. This past year you went over a month where you wore the same hat every single day. It didn't matter if you were going to church, the store or to bed it would be on your head. It was the cutest thing ever. You love to add suspenders and tutus to your outfits and often times you can be found wearing a costume as well. I super love it. You have discovered that you LOVE pink. You always ask for the pink fork or the pink plate and are sad if it's dirty and you have to use a different one. You also love to color pictures and that's also been adorable. You adore Minnie Mouse and ask for it every morning. You're in a really fun stage and I can't help but feel blessed that I get to experience watching you grow up. I love you so much Rylee Gene. Keep being exactly who you are! 💗

Love,

Mom

Birthday Girls!

Today these two turned three!! We love these girls so much. I'm so glad they came together. They really have been so much fun. We had an early celebration for them yesterday after church since tonight was kind of taken over by soccer. It was the first practice of the season for Addie and Hudson. Grant will have his first practice on Wednesday. We wanted to make sure Rylee and Quinn both felt special so yesterday they were able to open some gifts from us. They started off with these soccer balls from Grandma Donna and Grandpa Dave. They wanted them to have their own little balls to play with since the older three have their own. Their gifts from us were mostly clothes that will fit them better since they're growing up so fast. Nothing too exciting but very much needed. We planned on them getting actual toy presents today which turned out awesome but quickly let's get back to yesterday. We sang Happy Birthday to them and ate from two different 'cakes'. One was an Oreo Ice Cream cake and the other wasn't a cake at all but some kind of chocolate pie that turned out to be pretty good.

Last night as two year olds.

Today was their actual birthday and they were definitely loved on. Danny stayed home from work because he wasn't feeling too good over the weekend and the girls were so happy to have him around. We took the girls to Target for their own little shopping spree. They thought it was heaven to walk around like big girls because they've always been contained in the cart before (this might backfire on me moving forward). They were able to pick out whatever they wanted (within budget of course) and they loved it. They both picked out a couple new toys they were really excited about.

We then went out to Torchy's Tacos which might have been more for Danny and I but that's okay because our dinner was definitely their choice. After lunch their little friend Taylor stopped by to give them some some drawings she drew. It was really cute. 

Quick outfit change and then soccer took up most of our evening but as promised after that was done we all went to McDonalds which is what the kids always ask for every chance they get. They loved that we ate inside because of the play place. We normally don't but made the exception because of Rylee and Quinn. Happy birthday girls. We're all pretty smitten with you two.

They LOVED this train.

Dinner

A little look back at year one and two.

They seem so little. 😍

365 Day Streak

I've reached a year of studying Portuguese daily. 

Next goal is 500 days. 😁

Galentine's Ghost Tour

A friend from church has connections to a ghost tour in San Antonio called the Sister's Grimm Ghost Tours. She's actually the sister of Sister's Grimm. Her sister is the owner and named it after their relationship. Anyway she planned a Galentine's night for us girls and it was a lot of fun. We got home around midnight last night so it was way later than I'm used to but still an enjoyable night. Unfortunately nothing crazy happened and no ghosts were sighted (at least not with me) but I had fun anyway.

Our phones have a cool night mode feature where it takes your pitch black surroundings and makes them look like it's daytime. In reality all of these pictures were taken in the middle of the dark night.

Full moon.