Tuesday, August 13, 2013

January - July 2013

Whew... we moved back and took off running!!

Here's a photo journal of what we've been up to since we moved in at the end of January through the beginning of July 2013.

We moved into our new house!!! Our sweet friends picked up the keys for us and created a wonderful greeting!
 
Reading with Oma (Zee on the left and Lee on the right)

We've played with the Lilleys LOTS!! (Zee in the wagon)

Played with more friends! (Andrew and Leah Lovelace)

We've seen lots of Nino!
 
Dressed up with friends (Caleb, Eliana and Shiloh)
 
Love my chalkboard!! Thank Tina!

We love Nino!

Played with Daddy!

I love our Coffee Bar!

We've had to child proof our house
 
I found out one of my best friends was pregnant!

we've played at the park (Lee up top and Zee bottom)
 
 We love Andrew
 
 Love our church! (Zee in pink bow, Lee in white bow)
 
Girls first pig tails (Zee on left and Lee on right)

Swinging sisters (Shiloh, Zee & Lee)

Playing with Jaden (Jaden, Lee & Zee)

We joined a local organic fruit and veggie co-op!

McKenzie is styling

Matching French braids with our best friend Eliana!

Always on the go these days (Shiloh, Zee up top and Lee on the slide)

 Our kids can have their own "Big Kid Table"... time sure flies
 

Celebrating Easter

Our family Easter Sunday (Zee in the middle & Lee on the right)

We started our garden

The King to all of our Hearts with one of his many princesses

Mimi visited (Zee on left and Lee close to Mimi)
 I LOVE Dallas Summer Musicals- date night to Mary Poppins

Being silly!
 
and the silliness continues
 Snuggling with Levi
 We frequent the Perot Museum (Shiloh & Zee)
 
 Zee in the "Construction Zone"

Close up of Kinley at the Perot
 
Giving Mommy a bouquet at the Perot

Daddy Snuggles

Playing with Pops and Cousin Ali
 
 Cousins! (Lee in the back and Zee in the front)
 I believe we are caught up with every illness that has gone around the area... sadly we've caught quite a few things since we've been back
 
Tri Delta Alumni Tea with Nino

Kite Flying with special friends at the Park
(In this picture Shiloh is in the pink dress flying the kite)
 
Shiloh took a ballet class with Evie
 
Dancing in class
 
We had a special night with Nino

Dressed like twins with our neighbor Brynn
 
 Played outside lots! (Zee on top and Lee on bottom)

We love dress up...here Shiloh is a nurse like my best friend Sami
 
We love swimming in our pool!

Reading with Emma and Rylee outside
 Celebrating Marc's and Jon's Birthday at a pub
 Shiloh's 2nd Hair cut

Reading stories with Daddy
 
Zee and Lee living it up, while poor Shiloh is sick
 
Sick again :(
 
This time everyone was sick :(

All better and Kinley giggling with Daddy

Eating Sno-Cones (Zee on the left and Lee on the right)
 Kenzie Snuggling with Mommy

Shiloh moved into the twins room
 
Face paint at Brynn's and Emmerson's Birthday Party

Zee dressing up and Lee dressing down
 Papa and Mimi Came to Visit



Friends at the Perot
 Daddy painting everyone's toes
 
 Moved them into big girl beds
 Dancing with Daddy
 We went to Colorado with my moms family
 July 4th Parade in Telluride (Lee in the skirt and Zee in the shorts)

 They napped on the lawn in the middle of hundreds of people
 My family on the gondola (Zee on left and Lee on right)
 With my mom on the gondola (Marc has Zee and I have Lee)
 
Me and my mom
 
Group shot (I have Lee and Marc has Zee)

All three girls shared a bed on the trip
 
 Pic of the girls (Zee, Lee & Shiloh)
 
The Monday that we came back from Colorado, Shiloh started Art Camp!
 
That is my photo-journal of our move back to TX until now August 2013.  I love being home and am so grateful the Lord has brought me back here!!!
 
News in the Smith family:
- the twins will be 2 in less than a month!!! I CANNOT believe that!
- I'm working furiously to get their baby book finished because I want them to have it by their 2nd birthday.
- I think I'm going to have a job this year as a Mother's Day out teacher.
-McKenzie and McKinley have been talking more and more.  Lately you can find McKinley telling everyone what to do and McKenzie playing back and forth between Shiloh and McKinley.
- I love that the twins finally call each other by name (they say Kenzie and Kinley) and Shiloh still cannot tell them apart at all.
-My highlights of life these days are watching the girls interact and doing "Mommy School" with Shiloh.   I have some workbooks that we do everyday and we call it Mommy School.  Shiloh loves it and I'm not sure if she has any clue how much she is learning!!  Part of Mommy School with the twins involves our letter of the day and number of the day activity and games.  I hope to keep it up while I'm teaching, but  we will see. 
- Lately, Kinley is Mrs. Boss and I'm always laughing. She loves telling everyone what to do and letting me know when people do not obey her.
-Kenzie's little nuance that keep me on my toes... she is really obedient, but if she decides to be disobedient she looks around and tries to be sneaky about it. 
- Kenzie's a little sweet heart who typically shares with Shiloh and Kinley and constantly tries to laugh with them.
-Kinley is pretty independent and loves to wear Shiloh's shoes around the house!
-Shiloh goes back and forth from LOVING being a big girl to still wanting to be the baby.  She loves her sisters so much and tries to help me take care of them.  She loves to pretend to be mommy.
-All three girls LOVE dolls these days and love to take care of them.
-Marc- he has been doing a great job at balancing his work-home life schedule.  He's been a great daddy from dancing with the girls to even painting their toe nails! 
-Marc starts volunteering with the youth group at our church soon and I'm so excited for him to pour into some of the guys!!

That's all I've gotten for now!

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