Crazy Christmas Break and Celebrating Katie Jane

Life is going back to normal today after a crazy couple of weeks.  We are finally home with no plans to go out of town in the near future.  Out of the last 15 nights we have only been at home for 6 and those weren't all in a row.  We spent a night in Vivian for Christmas, made two trips to Baton Rouge for a total of 6 nights and spent 2 nights at the hunting camp for New Years.  In between the first Baton Rouge trip and New Years at the camp Lilli had surgery to have a birthmark removed so part of our time at home was for her recovery.
She got very silly after they gave her medicine to relax.  Matt and I
were laughing so hard.  She didn't even look back when they rolled her
to surgery.
She handled it so much better than any of us adults would have.  She was jumping on a trampoline 2 days later.  The pathology report came back yesterday too and everything was benign so now this Mama can rest easy.

We just got back from our 2nd three night trip to Baton Rouge yesterday.  My family from Texas that didn't make it in for Christmas was there and they also threw a shower to celebrate Katie Jane.  We got in on Thursday and the chaos started! There were six kids and five of them were old enough to run around and play together.  Chance is only 7 months but he'll be right there with them in the next year or so.  Dad cooked spaghetti for everyone that night and we had a great evening.
 
 
 

Friday we took all of the kids to Bouncing Tigers for some fun that morning before we went to lunch at Casa Maria.  We met Matt at Dad's when he got in and then headed back to Jen and Ryan's house to let the kids play some more.  All of the kids great aunts, uncles and grandparents helped us parents out that night so that the cousins could go out to eat without the kids tagging along.  It was crazy crowded but so nice to have a chance to have some drinks (well, of course I was DD) and catch up.
Anna, Lilli, Drew and Daniel

Saturday morning was the shower and I can't thank everyone enough for it.  I told them it wasn't necessary since we have most things we NEED although there are definitely things we want.  Of course they weren't going to let Katie come without some sort of celebration and my family never misses an excuse to get together for a party.  It was only family but there were 24 of us.  We had a delicious brunch and then we got to open our gifts.  It was a "gift card" shower because most of the things we want are larger items so this way we can just put them together for what we want.  I can't wait to start shopping and working on the nursery this week!

 
 
Allie decorated part of the dessert with her initials for us
 
 
 
 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Summertime!

Image
Yesterday was Bossier’s last day of school, but we’ve been in summer mode since they got done LEAP testing a couple of weeks ago. It’s honestly so dumb that they had 10 days of school after testing because they did NOTHING. There was a whole lot of movie watching and playing on computers. On top of the fact that grades were due over a week ago, so it’s not like there was much they could have done. We stayed out on school nights, had pool days and skipped half days to hang with Pops, or friends or just to bake.  Katie had her awards and field day last Wednesday. She ended the year with Straight A’s and a member of National Honor Society. It was so fun to watch her compete in field day events and get to meet some more of her school friends too I checked Katie, Madison and Britney out of school when it was over, and they spent the afternoon in the pool and then we all (with Koy and Lil) went to Josie’s Tball game that night. It was the second one we’d been to in a week and I swear it’...
Read more

Last Day of Summer

Image
That’s a wrap. Summer 2019 is done and tonight is a school night. It’s been a great one. We went to the beach, Did lots of swimming, spent time with all of the cousins. But it’s time to go back and they are excited. We had Shaleigh and Lily over and went to the pool for a few hours. They had it to themselves and it was fun to spend several hours swimming and getting in one last day of play. It was also meet the teacher. Katie has Mrs. Wilhelm (top) but she is still on maternity leave until Labor Day. So for the next month she has Mrs. Huckabee who she knows because she subs and she had her several times in kindergarten. Both of Lillian‘s teachers are new to Apollo this year so we are not sure what to expect but they seemed very nice. Mrs. Winans is her homeroom and then she switches for math and science. It’s a welcome change to only have two teachers this year. Three teachers in third grade was a little much and in fact they’re not even doing that anymore. Back to school also means ba...
Read more

Bar-J and More Baseball

Image
For Christmas last year, Pops and Honey gave his 3 daughters and 4 granddaughters a weekend at a “dude ranch” for a gift. We picked the weekend because it was Anna and Piper’s spring break and it’s harder for Anna to miss school as a Junior than the other 3. The weather couldn’t have been anymore perfect and the timing worked out perfectly for us to celebrate Allie’s 40th birthday on the 4th too. They came in Thursday and Matt grilled steaks for her actual bday. I didn’t get one picture that night but it was a nice evening. The next morning, we got up and drove to El Dorado to the ranch. It was the “rancher’s experience” and we got in 3 rides, plus the kids got to help care for all the animals Dad has his own cabin and all 7 girls were in a bunk room together. After we were settled, we went to catch the horses in a field to take them to the stable to be saddled  The wranglers were very patient considering there were 8 of us and none knew how to help very much. But there was lots of...
Read more