A year in photos::2014...

 

 

~January 9, 2015~

 

 

So here it is. Some highlight photos of 2014! 

 

 

January started off with the kids and I out to watch the Fort Worth Stock Show Parade.  It was cold as usual, but we had snacks to keep our minds off the temps as we watched the parade.

The kids participated in the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby.  They both got 3rd place!

The Fort Worth Stock Show was great as usual!  The kids love to see all the animals...and the food and snacks are yummy!

 

Hunter celebrated his 9th Birthday February with family and friends at Altitude Trampoline park.


(a Nerf theme for this party)


Also in February Emma and Daddy attended a father daughter dance. A special night for just those two.  Sweets and dancing!

 

Daddy gave Em a corsage.  I love this photo!

 

Hubs and I celebrated our Birthdays with family at Razzoos in March! Yummy Cajun food and a fish bowl drink! Always good!

 

 

Em took gymnastics again.  She loves it!

 

 

Easter was fun.  Look at those loaded baskets!  

 

Easter Egg hunting at Grandma's. They look so nice! Love these two turds!

 

 

Spring time means camping starts! Bubba putting up his tent at our spring cub scout campout.

 

Em also took dance again.  Her recital was so adorable!

 

 

Dancing...and singing! HA!

 

 

Hunt did great at field day at school! Go Bubba!

 

 

 We said good bye at the end of the year to a great 3rd grade teacher. Mrs. Jones.

 

Em got her first pedicure! A great treat for starting off Summer and vacation!

 

(less than 24 hours and she already had polish off a few) 

Vacation with friends at the Coast...Port A!

Texas State Aquarium...we love going there!

 

Brothers and sisters and friends!!! Movie night!

A morning bingo game at the beach house.

Splash pad...Hello summer!

 

 

Our annual keyhole garden.  

 

 Bubba enjoying archery at day camp.

 

Hunt had a first this year...his first away camp!!! This mama missed him so much! He went to Camp Tahuaya for 4 days with some of his Cub Scout friends.

 

 Bubba's camp group. (Daddy did go to help)

 

Getting ready for his first canoe trip at camp.

 

Someone got braces in 2014! Oh boy!

 

 Still my handsome little man!

 

 Along with bottle rockets, Bubba tried his luck at Rain Gutter regatta with his Cub Scout friends.  It was hot!

Before we knew it it was July4th!!! We stayed the weekend at our friends' Lake House. Thanks Ken and Kelley! Love and miss yall!

 

 Of course we swam in the lake...

 

 And shot off and watched fireworks with friends!

 

 Sparklers!!!

 

 Our first trip to NRH2O with friends.

 

Emma and Emma! 

 

 A day at the deer lease was fun, but so so HOT!

 

 

 We shot some skeet! I love love!!!

 

PULL!!!!! 

We surprised the kids with a trip to the Lego Fest! There was some cool things there! Here's Emmet! So neat!!! All Legos.

 

 

We love the library story time! Em with two of her good friends! All with "E" names!

 Another Cub Scout campout in October!  Worth Ranch is so awesome! I love it there.

 Goofy boys! Look at these two!

 

 Sister helped out with the scouts learning "scout skills". She didn't mind!

 

My two kids climbing the rock wall at our cub scouts rally. 

 

Before long summer was ending and it was getting close to back to school time. Bubba meeting his 4th grade teacher. Mrs. Walker. 

 

First day of 4th Grade. 

 

 

 Em started Pre-School this year. Here she is meeting her teacher Mrs. Paola.

 

Emma's first day of Pre-School. She did great! Mama...not so much. Why do they grow up so fast?

Look at her! So sweet and innocent.  Her life ahead of her!

 

October...and Em turned 5 this year! 5!!! Seriously?! 5!!!! How can that be? She had a super fun Brave party.

 

She chose a skating party. 

 

 

Em had her first field trip.  Her class went to the pumpkin patch.

 

 She was SO excited to ride in the "bus"!

 

 

Then I took both kids to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch for some great photos and fun!  We go every year! We have gone every years since Hunt's first Fall!

 

Bubba earned his Webelo patch and Paint stripes!


                                            Way to go Bubba! Look how big he is getting.

Daddy attended a Wood Badge Course.  And earned his neckerchief and woggle! YAY!

Look who we saw at Halloween time...An Egyptian Queen!  Em wanted to dress like Katy Perry on her music video for the song Dark Horse! She looked so adorable! Her class trick-or-treated around the office where she attends pre-school.

 

Along with our Egyptian we also had a Snow Trooper from Star Wars.

And later that evening we Trick-Or-Treated with some friends.

 We heard about and visited a cool park. There we found some statues of a Wooly Mammoth and a Saber Tooth Tiger.  Right up Hunt's alley!

The kids and I stopped by Peppi le Potter to paint ceramics. And a few weeks ago I heard that they were closing.  Dang!!!

 

Thanksgiving was nice. We spent time with family and had yummy food and decorated cookies.

 

 These kids really dis-like Christmas! Ha!  And tree decorating.


                                                                               Look how great our tree was!  We did a good job!


 Hunt and all the 3rd graders had a funny Christmas program. 


Hunt was Comet and had 3 talking part!  He did GREAT!!!!


 Em's class had a book gift exchange for their Christmas party.


And sang us Christmas songs!  How cute it was! She was not shy at all.  Way to go Em!!!


 We talked Daddy into joining us this year for Breakfast with Santa at Bubba's school.

And look who Jingles the elf brought back from the North Pole. Meet Belle! Em named her.  Now we have 2 elves to watch over us at Christmas time...and to report to Santa on our behavior and good deeds! 

 

Hunt and Em participated in an International Gift Exchange.  What fun it was!  We mailed gifts to our 2 exchange friends Elsa in England and Evan here in the US. And we received gifts from them!

 

LEGOS!!!

 

Grandma treated us to a trip to Gaylord Ice!  How cool and beautiful!  Bubba had been twice before a couple of years ago.   This year's theme was Frosty the Snowman.  Look at these 2 in those big'ol coats! 

 

The best part was the ice slides at the end!

 

 The kids slid until all their turns were used up!

 

 We had such an awesome Christmas!  Some really good gifts!

 

 During December the kids and I decorated HUGE gingerbread men cookies!  Wow they were BIG!  And fun to decorated. 

Here are the 4 that we did. Pretty good job!

 

 

Christmas at Grandma's was awesome as well! Lots of goodies and clothes.  Everyone made out nicely.

 

I didn't take photos on New Years.  We celebrated at home with the kids.  Santa brought our family a karaoke machine, so we had a blast with that.  We had mini ice cream sundays with sprinkles and rootbeer for the kids.  We played 2 games.  Em didn't make it to 12am.  She was gone about 20 minutes before.  And Bubba made it just at about 12! 

 

We are so Thankful for a healthy and safe 2014.  We did lots of fun things and have many memories to. I am always thankful for the things that we have and we get to do. We are blessed!

 

2015 I know will be just as great!!!

2015, day two...

{January 2, 2015}

 a new year, day two

It's rainy and COLD here in North Texas! Bubba and hubs are leaving for  Cub Scout camp out at Sid Richards in a bit. Usually I would be a bit sad I'm not going, but not this time! My girl and I will sit this one out! It's too cold and muddy for this mama to be out tent camping. 

If the weather sinks to 32 degrees or less they will earn their polar bear patch! (A good chance of that tomorrow night I here) Hubs got a new tent from Santa that they are trying out on this trip. And Hunt got an Osprey (camelback) type pack to. I'm guessing that when that pack makes its' way back home the mouthpiece will need to be replaced.  The way that child chews on things is ridiculous! Just hope his braces stay intact...at least until next week when he has another orthodontist appointment!

I've decided instead of doing resolutions for the new year, I will be doing a 2015 bucket list. Things that I want to do or accomplish in this new year.  Some things I've done before and want to do again and some things new that I have never done.
With that said, here are a few I've been thinking about...
::Updating this blog diary regularly
::Paddle Boarding
::kayaking
::Be more physically active
::Learn to "shake it off" and "let it go"
::Slow down and enjoy life more

Before I go too far into 2015, I want to post highlights of 2014...coming on my next post load.

Until then...

Hello to a new year...

2015...what do you have in store for us? 

Look what I found... This was New Years 2 years ago! 

what again...no photos...

~January 6th 2013~

Well poop!  Either I'm at my photo limit...AGAIN...or something is amuck! Geez!  I hate this! Blogger is not letting me upload photos from my computer! UGHHH!!!!!

It ticks me off to no end...it really does!

So anyway...{breathe}....

This past Saturday Hunt had a cub scout event at Sid Richards ranch called Cub-O.  The boys learned...somewhat...how to use a compass and how to read a topographical map.  Then they had a contest/race to see who could find the most flags in a 2 hour time limit.  Let me tell you...this chunky girl was a bookin it! We were walking{a FAST pace}, climbing hills, going down hills and summits.  Some of the guys and boys were even running.  Not me though...I know when too much is too much for me! I wasn't trying to have a heart attack.  And the terrain was rocks and cactus...everywhere!!!!
Each flag had a different punch.  When you got to the flag you punched your map on that flag number and headed for the next one. 42 flags in all. There were a few accidents.  Some thorns in shoes. A fall on a knee going down hill and a few other mis-haps, but the boys did great!  Little troopers they were! 
We ended up with around 205 points.  We decided, before we got our map, that we would head for the flags that were worth the most points first.  Meaning that these were the ones further out and up on hills and down in ravines. The one I got Hunt a photo of punching was the one on this big summit/hill.  Glad we did it.  It was way up there, but you could see for a ways. 
When everyone made it back we had exactly 1 minute and 1 second left!!!! WOW...almost missed the time, but we didn't! We'll find out soon who the winners were I hope. 
Some of the boys and dads camped out there...us...uh NO!  Something about sleeping in a tent when the temps drop to below freezing just doesn't sound like fun to me! We drove in on Saturday morning and just attended the day's events. Still a fun time for the kids!

Hopefully I can get some photos uploaded soon!...Hopefully!!!{cross ya'll's fingers for me}.....

Catch ya'll on the flip side........

a hunting trip and snow...

~January 3, 2013~

 

For those of you that know us well, you know that hunting is a big deal to the men of our house. So with that said I wanted to warn you of the following photos...they aren't terribly gross, but do show a harvested deer.

The weekend after Christmas Hunt and hubs headed out to the deer lease.  This was Hunt's first trip this season, so as you can guess they both were pretty excited! And hubs saw a chance at this buck and took it.  It was a nice one.  We'll have deer in the freezer and a beautiful mount on the wall.

Below are a couple of photos...

 

Hubs with his buck.

And Hunt with his PaPa and the buck.

It was a special treat for Hunt to be there on that lucky day.  There with Daddy, hunting, having "guy" fun, and helping Daddy bring home some meat.  Well...no meat yet...in a week or so.  It's at the processors still.

We got snow on Christmas day here in North Texas!  What a nice surprise it was! Happy Birthday Jesus! Em and I ventured out to enjoy it for just a minute.  Brrrrrr...and about a minute was enough for us.  We weren't dressed for it that's for sure, so we enjoyed it the rest of the time from the indoors!

Christmas was a bunch of fun and the kids got some awesome goodies as usual!

I'll be posting Christmas photos and stuff on my next entry...be prepared! HA!

Until next time.....

re-cap of our New Year's Eve...

~January 2, 2013~

2013...Day 2

So I said yesterday that I would post about how I kept my kiddos busy and awake on New Year's Eve. 

I found this awesome idea...on Pinterest of course.  You make hourly bags. The kids open a  bag every hour.  I started mine at 7:00pm and made one for every hour up to 12. I included crafts and fun ideas as well as a prize and yummy treats! They looked forward to opening them each hour..in fact, the little one kept asking and bringing them to us.  We had to keep telling her that it wasn't time yet. HA!

Here's the bags all ready along with some streamers and noise poppers. On each bag I made a clock face with the hour.

Our first one had some gummy bears in it and this note. Instead of buying party hats we made our own out of news paper.

Daddy help Em with her's.

Then they decorated them with foam stickers.

Party Time!

And what is a party without balloons?! I made some confetti balloons.  I only had small ones though. The kids liked them just the same. How pretty!!! I filled them with paper dots, sequins and stars.

8:00's bag said for us to play board games.  Em picked Candy Land of course first.  They love playing board games. 

Me and my baby girl!  Love her to pieces!!!

9:00's was to make a necklace!

Here's Bubba's!

And Sister's!

Em especially loved making these.  She made several through the night. 

Banjo enjoyed hanging out with us from time to time. Silly kitty!

Thumbs up on the rootbeer! They rarely get rootbeer, or coke/soft drink for that matter.

Chugging it down to! Goodness!

Hubs with his New Year's Eve drink.  The man loves his Crown!  Let's just say he was feeling pretty good by 12! What a goof ball!!!!

Bag number 10 was a gift and ice cream!

I made both kids some non-skid socks.  Hunt's was LEGOs and Em's was a gumball machine.  I made a few pair for Christmas gifts in December.

Yummmm...Ice Cream!!!  Look at hose mini cones!  I saw these at the store and thought...oh cute look baby cones!  Well needless to say they were very mini! The kids loved them, small and all. To an adult, it's more like just enough to make you mad. HA!

Then it was dance time! Here's Miss Em dancing with her dance partner...Daddy! She had a blast and was laughing the whole time! Daddy was having fun to. So cute!

And the dip...

Hey Bubba! I love him so very much! He's the greatest!!!

And 11:00's...make a noise maker!

Made from toilet paper rolls, construction paper, rubber bands and beads.

[shake...shake...shake]

Em decided she needed to play the guitar and sing us a song.  Look how she's getting into it! A little entertainer, that one!

Shortly after the BIG 12:00 came around!

 Here's my champagne..a Korbel sweet rose`...I remembered it from last year.  I'm not a champagne fan, but this one isn't bad.

 

Look at that sweet face! Such a doll!

And A Happy New Year!!!!!

The kids got to have a new year's drink to...some cran-grape juice! And pop streamers of course!

It was a great night and I hope the kids had fun! I know some people don't let their kids stay up until 12:00 hits, but I do...and why not? We didn't have plans for the next day.

On the 1st we hung out at home. Didn't do anything special really.  We had planned snacking on chicken salad dip and other snacky items and have a big dinner. Around 10:00 I had a mimosa.  Very good to! I'm not sure why I don't have them on the weekends more often. HA! Do I sound like an alcoholic?

So here are some photos of our dinner.  Not sure what I was thinking...all this food! Geez! 

Steaks, Lobsters and Baked potatoes from the grill...Thanks Hubs!!! And I made the asparagus.

And of course brussel sprouts...as our cabbage.

And black-eyed peas...because it's just tradition!!! 

And for dessert...I made some Boston Cream Pie cupcakes!  Pretty tasty little darlings!

So now that I've caused you to bang your head on the wall looking through all these photos and hearing me ramble on...how was ya'll's New Year's Eve and your First Day of 2013 ?1?!?!

Catch you later my sweets.....

it's a New Year!...

~January 1, 2013~

Happy New Year Friends and Family !!!

My first post of 2013...Woo Hoo!!!

The entire Harvey Household stayed up and rang in the new year. 

On my next post I'll show you how I kept them busy and awake New Year's Eve.

Hope everyone has their BEST year yet!