and time keeps a flyin' by

We have had a BUSY week/weekend! I have been away from my computer all week and then today I have been going non-stop. I am trying to take a few minutes out to post about what's been going on in our lives.

This past week we went to the DFW area to visit some great friends. Holly watched my girls for me on Tuesday while I went to the eye dr & dentist. I was able to visit with her in between my appointments. After leaving the dentist for a cleaning, I find out I have to have some cavities filled AND a root canal! AHH! All of this was AFTER I bought myself a new pair of glasses. I went into "feel sorry for yourself" mode. I was pretty bummed. I shed some tears over the phone with Kent. My teeth have always been bad- then I plateaued and was doing great. THEN I had two pregnancies back to back..... and it was down hill from there. Anyways, enough of that. :) Wednesday I had to go to the dentist for my dental work so Whitney kept the girls. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I didn't really get to visit with her at all on Wednesday because we headed back to the house after my appointment because the girls were pretty tired. We ended up eating with my friend that we were staying with. Thursday Whitney & I took the girls to the Ft Worth Museum of Science and something else. :) They just re-did it and added a children's part, from what I understand. The girls had a blast running around. My biggest gripe (and SURELY this will be something that will be "fixed" in the near future) is the lack of ease for moms with strollers. It was horrible. No automatic doors.... the restrooms were a NIGHTMARE to get my double stroller (or what I like to call my BUS) through. Luckily all businesses are required to have handicap entrances to their facilities or else I believe this place would have had 3 stories worth of stairs to get into the entrance. No joke. Now with all that aside, the place is great for kids. Here are a few pictures of the girls.

And we can't forget miss Kallie!

These are the only pictures I took all week. I'll get some of Maddox & Kensley playing when Holly & Lance come up for their mini vacation! I know Kensley will love having Maddox at our house.

We are back at my parents' house now. Kensley was SOOOO excited to get back! We visited Nonnie at work and when she saw her, she was running to her yelling "nonnie!!!". It was cute. She saw her Grumpy outside and was so glad to see he and Nana. She really loves it here. And I love her being able to spend so much time with everyone. We're really going to miss everyone!

Today we have been going NON STOP! We are trying to get things ready for Kensley's 2nd birthday next weekend. We are having a luau. I had planned on doing kabobs, so we wanted to try them out today.... WELL----- we are now doing hamburgers! It was a LOT of work and didn't turn out great. The marinade was YUMMY (Landry's Hawaiian marinade). I'll be buying some of that when I get back home, for sure! Along with our food endeavors, I tried out making a cake. I'm just making Kensley a small one this year- I've spent way too much money on decorations and stuff like that (WHY?!?! I don't know) so I'm going to save on the cake. I did a test run- it wasn't good. I learned a LOT! Here's the picture of that... go ahead.... laugh it up :)

And here is the cupcake stand I had my dad build. I have a friend that is AMAZING at decorating. Her daughter's 2nd birthday was ladybug themed.... SO CUTE!  So I got this idea from her- but I made it a little bigger (but not on purpose!) My dad and I bought some plywood and round poles and he put this together today. It's a big one!!! I'll be able to use it for all of our parties now--- just decorate it however I need to.

I would post the picture of the cake I ATTEMPTED to do.... but I'm to embarrassed... so hopefully the "real" one will turn out better. 

So there you have it! Our week/weekend in a nutshell.... sort of :)