ECC Staff Appreciation Lunch

Today we had a staff appreciation lunch at Barrett's school. I woke up bright & early to make chicken salad sandwiches and lemon squares! Yum! Our theme was pink flamingos, "We're tickled PINK, about our staff!"









Here are just a few of the teachers & staff.





It was fun being able to have lunch to celebrate ALL if their hard work!! We have GREAT teachers and Staff!!

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Our First night at Rough Creek

This past Saturday night, we spent our first night at Rough Creek!! The boys were SO excited!! It is not complete yet, but they couldn't wait any longer!! We still have to finish the cabinets in the kitchen & the stone on the fireplace. My parents cabin is complete, and they stayed the night also.



Here are my boys watching a movie before bed!! They have never slept in the same bed, but they did great!!



Here is our room...we still have to hang pics and decorate, but we are almost there!!
It was a great first night for everyone!! The boys were up bright and early, ready to play!!



Barrett has started driving the ranger by himself!! I was watching him thinking, " how has this happened?" He is growing up WAY to fast!!


We enjoyed a beautiful SUNday! We all got a little to much sun, ha!!


It was a great weekend with the family!! I know it is just the beginning of many wonderful weekends at Rough Creek!!

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Back to real life!

Hello!! We are back in real life after a great Spring Break!! We had a fabulous trip to the Hill country, I will post on that soon!!

Just wanted to say Yes, we are alive!! We arrived home late yesterday, and the first order of business was to get to the new FRESH by Brookshires. It is a new store here like Whole Foods or Central Market. I have been SO excited about it!!! It just opened last week.






It is beautiful, and did not disappoint!!! The only problem I foresee is my grocery shopping days in Lindale are over, HA!! If you are a local, & haven't been get there NOW!!

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Canton Friday

On Friday my Mom and Christie were here for a visit!! We were meeting Leeanne in Canton for a girls shopping trip. I had asked Ryan to bring me something to drive because we were going to have a few other people with us, and with all the carseats we wouldn't fit in my ride. My hilarious husband sent this ........



Yes, that is a 15 passenger van!! Bahaaa!!! I think he thought we were doing some serious shopping!! My other riders didn't end up going so we had a BIG ride all to ourselves!!

These two enjoyed the ride on the bus!! HA!!

We were strolling around Canton and I looked up and saw Caroline!! I screamed at her and probably scared her to death!! HA!! I told her who I was, a twitter/blog friend and she was so sweet!! Her and her Mom are just precious!!! I love meeting blog and twitter friends in real life, so fun!!

Christie and Leeanne were looking for baby bedding for the new bundles of joy!! I found the PERFECT bunk beds for the boys room at Rough Creek!! This is a picture of a picture, and it will be a twin over full. I think it will be just perfect!!!



Mims and Jack decided to forgo the strollers and ride in SuSu's canton cart!!

We all had lunch at the famous "Dairy Palace", it was YUM as always!!! We didn't come close to filling the van up, but it was a very fun day!!!

Stephen Fite Fieldtrip

Last Tuesday, Barrett had a field trip for a Stephen Fite concert. Ashley and I met the kiddos at the Caldwell Auditorium. The concert was just about what I expected it would be, but I enjoyed spending the day with my sweet boy!!

We were at the back! There were tons of kiddos, it was LOUD and CRAZY!!! It was a GROOVY themed learning adventure.


After the concert we signed the boys out and took them to lunch at Chick Fil A. They wanted ice cream for dessert so we headed to our fav, Orange Leaf!! We happened to run into our friend Beth and her daughter there. The kiddos had a blast playing together there, and the yogurt was delish!!!


Abram and B!!! Yes these crazy boys were on top of my car!! We were waiting to pick up the little boys and they climbed out the sunroof!! With boys, it's never dull!!

After we had all the boys we headed over to my friend Leslie's for a Matilda Jane trunk show! Matilda Jane is a girls clothing company that has a cult following, HA!! Now, I'm sure you are wondering why us boy Moms were going to a girls clothing show?? Well they have fabulous Mommy clothes too!! I got some precious things!! My boys had a blast playing with Leslie and Ashley's boys, Jack was covered in mud!!! It was a great day!!!

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Floors at Rough Creek

Last Sunday we drove down to Rough Creek to see the finished floors!! It is so exciting that we are getting so close to RC being completed!!!!! We even moved the first piece of furniture in, our bed!! HA!! I find it fitting seeing how my wonderful husband has worked SO hard on the place!!



The fire place is ready to be put in!! It is HUGE!!




Our bed is in!! I can't believe we will be able to sleep there soon!!


The boys had a blast as usual and were covered in RED clay!!!

Take me out to the Ball Game

Last Wednesday we drove to Tyler to watch Uncle Kolby play against Tyler Lee. I love that it is baseball season again!!

Barrett was all about trying to catch the foul balls. He patiently waited on his perch above the stands, unfortunately he never got one.


We met Nana at the game, she was finally feeling a little better after a week of two different types of flu!!


Kolby had a great hit at the beginning of the game that we missed. He had got another good hit later and brought in a few runs!!



Lufkin won 10 - 0!!! Go Panthers!!!