Guess what?!?

We have a big announcement!  The girls were...well, just a TOUCH thrilled when we told them!!

Our family is growing!!!  That's right, this "infertile" couple is overjoyed to share that a little one will be joining us in March!!  Just when it think God can't possibly have a more amazing plan for us, He does!  We are so, so thankful for this baby because we didn't know if a fourth was possible.  I have been horrible at keeping up with the blog, but if there are still some faithful readers who don't know us in real life, I'll give you a few days to guess before posting our gender reveal!!  💕💙💕💙

Happy Father's Day!!!

What a fun Father's Day!  We celebrated all weekend!

We started off with dinner at one of Mark's favorites, Rudy's Barbeque!  The girls were all smiles!

After dinner, of course I wanted to get a picture of Mark with the girls!  I just started snapping away, hoping for a good one when I realized Tatem was happily talking on her plastic phone!  The second picture shows EXACTLY what she thought of me making her put it down!  haha!!

 

 

Sunday we went to church, then met my parents for Mexican food early that evening.  Landrie sure loves her P-Pa!

I love my dad too!!

 

Such a sweet one of everyone!

 

I can't believe that on Mark's 5th Father's Day he's already a dad to THREE girls!!  He is SUCH an AMAZING dad!!  They absolutely adore him!  One line that they pray almost every night at dinner is "...and thank you, God, that Daddy came home!!"  unless it's the weekend, then it's "...and thank you, God, that Daddy is home ALL DAY LONG!!"  :) 

ChickFilA Day

This year was the first year we tried out Chick Fil A's customer appreciation day, and it was a huge success!  The girls had a ball dressing up like cows, complete with cow ears and black spots!  Landrie especially like to check herself out in the mirror:).  At the end of our meal, the giant CFA cow came out to greet everyone.  The girls couldn't believe it!!  Tatem was excited to meet him until he got close.  Then she looked up at him in awe and said, "Him's REAL!!"  Only Landrie was brave enough for a picture. :). Maybe next year we will even convince Mark to dress up with us...haha!

Cousin time!

Look who came to visit us!  Just WEEKS before we found out we were moving away from Fort Worth, Mark's sister Megan and her family moved just a few minutes away from us.  We were so sad to leave our "neighbors!"  My brother-in-law had to come to Houston for work, so Megan and the kids came along and we got to play!

The Houston Children's Museum is AMAZING.  I think it's my favorite thing in Houston for kids!  That's where we spent the day!  Here's the whole crew after 5 HOURS playing there!

Landrie and McKinnan ready for the superhero show!

Tucker was helping them find the villain!

Tatem was too, but at this point she was waaaay too tired to take her thumb out!  haha!

Tucker, Cade, Colson

Tatem, Harper and Megan

Landrie and McKinnan went up on stage afterwards to dance with the cast!

Excited!

Tucker got to love on his tiniest cousin!

These 3 had a ball together!  This was right after McKinnan painted everyone's faces. :)

All the kids made their own SLIME!

This cutie was a trooper! 

Cade showed Tatem how to do her own computer animation. :)

We love y'all!!

Florida!!!

We waited for ages to go to FLORIDA to see Mark's parents!  It seemed like everyday that the girls asked, "When are we going to Florida??" 

We were a BIT overwhelmed with traveling with three little ones and all their STUFF!  Mark dropped me at the curb with the 3 girls, their 3 car seats, and our bags.  I was finished curbside check in when he got back from dropping the car at the remote parking lot!  It was suprisingly easy!

Mark had 3 bags full of snacks, electronics, games, and toys.  The girls did great!!

Harper slept most of the flight in the Moby Wrap!  Of course, she made lots of friends with the folks around us when she woke up. :)

 

Mark's parents live outside of Orlando, and the guys had a big fishing trip planned a few hours away in Tampa.  We all headed out there and played at the beach for a few days!

 

Mark with one of his many catches of the day!

 

Mark and his dad had an amazing time!!  

 

A little family picture after dinner one night

Harper enjoyed hanging out with Ama in the shade at the beach. :)

This beach was on the gulf side of Florida, and it was beautiful! 

 

We spent a few days back at their house, then took one more beach trip to the Atlantic side!  This time, I actually remembered to bring my "real" camera.

This sweet girl LOVED the beach!

 

Happy girl!!

 

Tatem immediately say down and poured wet sand all in her hair.  She never stopped giggling!!

 

Landrie adores the beach too!!  She cracks me up.  In a pool, she is often hesitant about getting her face in and takes awhile to start swimming around.  At the beach, he only problem was that her eyes kept stinging from keeping them open underwater!!  Silly girl!  She has no fear about the waves!

 

Harper loves her PonPon!

 

Wahoo!!!

 

Top: Harper 2014

Middle: Tatem 2014

Bottom: Landrie 2009

 

When packing for the beach, I packed the same bathing suit and sun hat for Harper that Landrie wore on her first trip to Florida.  I knew I had to get a picture!  This was Tatem's first trip to Florida too, so I stuck the hat on her, thinking I might get her to take maybe one picture for me.  She thought it was hilarious and wanted to take tons!!  haha!

 

Mark and I even got a date night out!! 

(Of course, Harper came along with us!  She's still reallllly attached to her mommy!)

 

The girls LOVE their Ama and PonPon!!

 

So sweet!!

 

With our hearts full, we headed home on another great flight!!

 

We love you, Ama and PonPon!!

 

 

 

First day of BALLET!!

The girls were SO excited to start ballet classes today!  Landrie hadn't been since we moved, and this was Tatem's first time to go.  Tatem is in a two and three year old class, and I love that her teacher said, "Now when does Tatem turn four?" Haha!!  My tall two year old won't be four anytime soon😊

As we were getting dressed, Tatem told Harper, "When you get big, Harper, you can wear ballet clothes and do ballet too!    And wear big girl panties too!!  Yes, Harper, you can!!" 

Love these sweet girls!!

Happy Easter!!

We had such a great time celebrating Easter this year!  

We started off at a local festival.  Landrie was the only one brave enough to pose with the chick!

We accidentally ended up in the area for the 6 year old hunt with our 4 and 2 year old right when it started.  I began walking them in when a sweet volunteer told me all parents had to be outside the (huge) fenced in area.  I gave them the option of staying or going and they both wanted to stay!  The hunted with several hundred six year olds.  Landrie stayed right with Tatem and helped her the whole time.  Look at their faces as they ran towards us at the exit at the end!  LOVE!

 

They danced at the Radio Disney stage, pet a SNAKE, checked out a fire truck, and even got to sit on a motorcycle!

Meanwhile, Harper snuggled and slept through the whole thing in the Moby Wrap!

 

 

The next weekend was Easter, and after celebrating at church (complete with face painting for the kiddos!) we headed to my parents.

Our Family! 

My parents:)

Poor Tatem got an ant bite on her foot and did NOT want to take a picture, but it sure is sweet of everyone else!

 

 

Just like when we were kids, my parents hid candy in different rooms for each kid.  Landrie LOVES candy, but I am so thankful that at 4 years old, she's really starting to understand how much God loves us and the true story of Easter!

Tatem, well, she's still learning!  I posted this on facebook one day:

We've been teaching the Easter story to the girls. As I told the familiar story, I kept pausing dramatically so the girls could fill in the next part. It was going great when I got to the big finish and dramatically put my hands up on my head! (inadvertently touching my headband)  "When they looked in Jesus' tomb, they found...!!!??" Tatem shouted, "a headband!!"  haha!! 

While the big girls searched for candy, P-Pa snuggled with a happy little Harper!

After the candy hunting, we got started on lunch, and my mom whipped up some of her famous guacamole!

The girls helped me make a bunny cake and we brought it over.  After several attempts, this was the best picture we got!  Ever since Easter, Landrie has been telling me that she REALLY wants a bunny cake for her next birthday!

After lunch, the little ones took a nap and Landrie got to do this 4 foot puzzle with my parents. 

puzzles + grandparents = a happy Landrie!

We so enjoyed spending the afternoon celebrating our risen savior with my parents this year!