the day is finally here! you’re five. FIVE! we’re not welcoming your teens with 13. or celebrating your sweet 16.. or even a milestone like 21. but five.. just seems so BIG!  your 5th birthday means the official end of our full days spent together. running free at the park or riding your bike (almost) around […]

last week we took our big girls, Parker and Jolie, on a mini staycation to Great Wolf Lodge. we didn’t really tell the girls what we were doing until we dropped Baker and Brady with the grandparents and made the 30 minute drive to grapevine for a special treat to celebrate turning 5! we arrived […]

four. FOUR YEAR STATS: Jolie Grace // 41 inches (77th percentile) and 36 pounds 3 ounces (59th percentile) Parker Jane // 42.5 inches (94th percentile) and 39 pounds 9 ounces (80th percentile) — Parker and Jolie’s fourth year has been a year of SO MUCH FUN.  they have gained a rather hilarious toolbox of words […]

I’m sitting here with a blank computer screen and watching Parker and Jolie consume their second and third popsicle in about eleven minutes and I realize that its been FORever since I did a little update on p+j.  my BIG girls.  at three and a half they have changed so much- especially in just the […]

hair bows ..and I’m back.  the combination of a quick work trip + sleep training my six month old had me exhausted last week, but well worth the last four days of her sleeping 7pm to 7am.  thats no joke.  more on that later:) today I’m talking about toddler..err.. my three year old essentials + […]

t h r e e. People tell you that time flies by but until you have kids you don’t understand it. You look at people like they are stupid when they tell you, “Don’t blink. They’ll be grown before you know it.” But those silly people are right.  This last year has been among the […]