Update

Well not to much to update on for the weeks, both kids have been at the Doctor sick but are feeling better now thankfully.  Payton had his yearly check up (long story on why so late! LOL) but all went well other than weight loss, so keep him in your prayers that we can find a solution and make him understand he has to eat!  That’s been a big frustration for us all lately but we will get through it and hopefully it too shall pass soon!   School’s been going well for both kids and I’m busy teaching every day pretty much.  Dance is going great for Savanna and she absolutely looks forward to Friday’s classes!  They both have Valentines parties on Friday and Savanna has a dance Valentines party as well so she’s super excited.  Payton’s had baseball stuff starting up and John’s coaching that again this season.  They should have a very good team this year so were excited about that!  Also the big thing the COUNTDOWN to SPRING TRAINING 2010!  We are so excited.  In exactly 3 weeks from Thursday we head out and are very ready!  Payton, Savanna and John went to fan fest the weekend I was in Colorado and they had a nice talk with Josh Hamilton so that was great and everyone is ready to get the 2010 Baseball season on the road!!!!!!!!!!!!  GO RANGERS!  This is their year no doubt !

Also I’ve started getting stuff together for the Great Strides CF Walk for Payton’s Players ready.  The walk will be June 13th this year so mark your calendar if you would like to join us!   Were excited this year and hoping to surpass our last years fund raising!

Anyway here’s some misc. photos of the kids ready for school.  As you can tell they are usually phone photos as I send themto the parents daily as we head to school and daddy too!  I’m a nerd I know but their so cute you can’t have enough pictures of them!

Yep they were cold, maybe one day they will listen and put their coats on! HA

Payton playing his favorite game on his DS.  They both love to play their DS’s on the way to school!

If not the DS they are reading!

and here’s the kids talking to Josh…

And the kids sporting their new Ranger gear they got while they were there! Aren’t they cute and READY for Spring Training???

And just in case I didn’t mention it, here’s the countdown clocks! LOL

Swing Set

John put up the kids new swing set a few weeks ago and they are LOVING it!  Here’s a few pictures of them on it as well as playing golf in the backyard.  Just a few random shots, nothing exciting!

And there you have it, two future golfers! HA

Colorado

A few weekends ago I headed to Denver, CO with my brother and Lindsay.  They had wedding details to work on and I got asked to tag along! It was fun and I also got to see one of my best friends Sunny and Aaron and meet their new little girl Mayleena Irish and boy was she ADORABLE!!!!!  I also got to spend time with my cousin Kindle who moved out there several months ago.  So it was a great trip.  Sorry not to many pictures but here’s a few!   Thanks Mat and Lindsay for inviting me to come along!

Mat and Lindsay wanted toes in the water pictures so here’s Mat taking off Lindsay’s new boots! LOL And next time they might think about shoes off pictures in the summer NOT winter (notice all the snow! LOL)

Here we are timing the bride walk to the ceremony!

The next morning there was a bridal party get together at Lind’s sisters house.  Look at the yummy cake and cupcakes!

Poor Mat had to sit through all the girl talk.  Here he is with Crista, one of Lindsay’s sister.

And this is Baby Mayleena…how CUTE is she!?!?!?!?!  I’ll post some of me with her once Sunny sends them to me!

And Kindle and I looking a bit tired…it was a late night and early morning!

And here’s a few shots from my flight home!

Thanks again Mat and Linds for inviting me and thank you to Lindsay’s parents, Sunny and Kindle for giving me places to sleep!

The Dentist

Payton, Savanna and I all three had dentist appointments this week.  Payton and I went at the same time so only got photos of Savanna but she was a CHAMP and did awesome at the dentist.  She’s been going since she was under 1 but this is the first time they gave her the full out cleaning, the last few have been more of teeth brushing and how to’s!

Way to go guys and NO CAVATIES for any of us again! WHOOOOOO!

Galveston

Last weekend we decided to take the kids to the beach in Galveston.  We had a great time and great weather and more fun that expected with it being Mardi Gras Weekend. Anyway we had a great time.  The weather for Friday when we got there was sunny and in the low 50’s, the same for Saturday and cold and windy the day we left so great timing!  We couldn’t have asked for better weather for a February!  Anyway enough on that, here’s photos from our trip!

Here we are just arriving and fixing to head to the beach for a little while.

We had the top floor of the condo, so it was 73 steps to get there.  No one complained so yea for that! LOL

There were TONS of shells so the kids had a great time picking those up!  I must say we made it home with ZERO of them! HA HA  So far we’ve been lucky no one has asked where they are! Aunt Chris couldn’t save them this time! LOL

The kids each wrote their own names in the sand!   Payton started it and Savanna followed!

And obviously by the time we went back the kids were dirty and wet so it was bath time!  This picture just looked too funny to not share…she’s a crack up “relaxing” in the tub.  Her favorite thing about taking a bath!

The next morning we were awoken by Payton at 7am yelling “Hey mom and dad, I pulled my own tooth!” and sure enough he had!  Go figure!  Anyway after that we decided to take the kids back to NASA.  Since we have seasons passes and lord knows Payton could teach a few classes there and with the shuttle going off the next morning he was determined to get to Mission Control to see what was going on!  Well he made it there of course full of excitement.  On the way there though we saw this car, yes it was truly driving on the street, never seen anything like it before in my life!

Even the inside was completely decked out!  NUTS!

After leaving NASA we decided to stop at Kemah on the way back to Galveston.  The kids rode a few rides and then it was that time again, Savanna wanted to face her fears and PET the Sting Ray!

Here’s the one and only picture of me from the trip, had to prove I was in fact there! LOL

This was the first ride Payton’s rode since getting his button, he had to have the attendant come loosen the belt as it was right on it, after that all was fine!

And here we go into the string ray room! Will she do it????????

Looking pretty excited about it so far!

SUCCESS!!!!!!!  Savanna over came her fear of the sting ray! LOL

So excited and VERY PROUD of herself!

Proud Princess with her NEW String Ray!

And after all that excitement she was out cold for the ride to the condo!

Of course the parade for Mardi Gras was fixing to start when we got back to Galveston so we stayed to watch it and the kids had a BLAST collecting beads!

And let me just tell you, they were a CRACK UP dancing…both of them and everyone of course loved Savanna’s hip shake! LOL

Payton was on the front row dancing and jumping and Savanna was on John’s shoulders most of the time!  Payton would check in with us between floats to show us how many he got while up there!  Hilarious!

And after all that we were all pooped and headed home to bed!  The next morning the waves were coming in more so due to the cold front coming in.  Perfect day to leave a wonderful family weekend away!

The Last Few Weeks

Well I’ve been a slacker on the blog and I apologize.  So now I will update the last few weeks since school got back in session.  Savanna got moved up to the big girl class as she calls it.  She was So excited about it and is now with her buddy Haiden and he was such a BIG helper her first day showing her around.  Of course she was so excited to be in Mrs. Austin’s class she asked every day of the break when she could go to Mrs. Austin’s class.  So here she is on her first day of big girl class and of Haiden being such a good friend!   Thank Haiden!

Payton as well was glad to be going back to school to see his friends.  He got his semester report card to show nothing less than a 97 in all subjects including 2 99’s in his Spanish taught classes (Social Studies and Science).  We are very proud of him and his reading level is well above grade level.  Go Payton.

Other than that things have been busy as normal with the normal stuff.  The rest are just random pictures from January.

And of course Sassy is still LOVING dance in fact won the dance competition at her school.  She was quite proud and they were loving her dancing!  Said it was very impressive! HA HA HA

This month we’ve actually had another round of small snow and LOTS of record lows.  Check this one out on the morning to school, to a lot this is nothing, but in Texas its something !LOL

Notice I was NOT driving while I took it! HA HA HA

The kids were ready for the bowl game with Texas.  Nothing only are they Texas fans but Payton was leading the bowl picks so this was a big to him.  And did I mention out of the 150+ people who put into the bowl Payton WON?  YES he won the entire bowl in first place by himself!  Go Payton!  It was too funny especially since the bowl was a benefit for Payton’s medical bill.  (a HUGE thank you to GranStan, GranDotty, Rusty and Mary for doing this for us, you have NO IDEA what help and a blessing it was…it was our Christmas Miracle!!  THANK YOU!)

And here’s Savanna in one of her favorite outfits.  She likes to wear it to dance b/c it twirls so well! HA HA

And well she likes to shake her hips!  Sorry it took me so long to get a blog out but there was the first half of our January! I pretty much subbed every day and the rest well its history !!!

MLK Day

On Monday the 18th the kids had off from school for MLK day.  We took full advantage of the day by having the Hobbs over to play and the weather was so amazingly good we headed out to the park and had a blast!  Here’s some photos of our day!  While at the park we ran into several of Payton’s friends from his class and they all played together great and had a wonderful time!

And this is another reason I love when Maddie comes over….I get to play Volleyball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not quite sure what it is about water that attracts kids, but well it did!

And it went downhill from here!

I’d like to say this is as bad as it got…but NOPE, not the case!

And it was a short ride home thankfully but a WET one! HA

Thank you guys for coming over, we’ll have to do it again REAL soon!!!!!!!!!!!

Just Savanna

Well Savanna was in rare form as I took her pictures for her Valentines Card so will share a few, of course not the ones I’m using on the card but a few anyway! LOL She was a crack up!

You’ll notice the bruise on her chin, well that’s what happens when you don’t listen to the Don’t jump on the couch or you’ll get hurt comments~! HA HA

The flower in her hand (which she wouldn’t put down) played music so she of course had to dance! HA

And there you have it, all about her! LOL What’s not to love about this girl!

Baby Emma

The other day I got to do newborn shots of Baby Emma who was only 2 weeks old.  Won’t show you all the shots as her mommy hasn’t seen them yet nor the announcement but I will show you my favorites! Savanna was in LOVE with her and the entire time she was here was saying can I please take a picture with her, can I please hold her and so forth, so we promised her a picture when I was done!  Seeing as how Emma was only 2 weeks old there was NO WAY I was letting her hold her! LOL

Here’s two of my favorite ones!

And Savanna with Emma Grace.  How cute is she!

The Villages

The week of Christmas the kids, John and I headed to Tyler for a little get away.  They had an indoor water park and all that fun stuff and thought it would be a good time to go!  They however messed up our reservation so they extended our stay as well and therefor since my Grandmother was in town they came up to join us for a night.  We had a good time and enjoyed the family time with the kids!   The weather ended up being great, not cold not warm but our final night there we had major storms and tornado’s.  But all turned out fine!

We spent lots of time on the play ground.  That’s Savanna’s favorite place to be!

I love this picture of Payton!

Played Lots of games in the game room!

Can’t go to the condo’s without playing miniature golf!

This picture makes me laugh, so close yet so FAR away! HA HA

And this one, apparently Payton wouldn’t let her do it herself so she had to pout! HAAAAAA

And finally we got into the correct room so yeah!!!

This is John and I’s room.

And the kids had their own suite which they were entirely excited about!  They wanted their fridge stocked and everything! haha

And the view from our room.

And then we headed down to the beach to play some more on the playground!

And you know my girly girl, can’t be getting her pants dirty! HAHA

And there is ALWAYS time for baseball!

I love how both my kids play ball with their tongues out! HA

The next day my parents and grandmother came up for the night so they could see the kids play in the water park.

Grandma Jean taught Payton how to play solitaire.

And Savanna just kept wrestling with Grandpa.

You tell me who won?

Then it was finally time for the water park.  It didn’t open till 12 noon. It was pouring rain all day long so was the perfect day to use the water park!

This was also the first time Payton had swam with his button so we were curious as to how he would feel about it and do with it.  I brought him his water shirt thinking he would want it.

Savanna had just as much fun, since she was under the height mark she had to wear a life vest.  Bummer!

And apparently I was wrong on wanting the shirt, he could have cared less!  I  was so proud of him.  It was like no big deal to him and honestly he was as comfortable as ever!  So proud!!!!!!!

As you can tell its dark now, my parents and grandmother had left and we went home to let the kids rest for a few hours then came back after dinner to finish off the night.

And there you have it, our week in Tyler.  We left Thursday morning to head to Uncle Brian and Aunt Sissy’s for Christmas Eve Stevens Family Christmas.  That you will see next and boy did the weather change!!!!!  We drove through snow and sleet the entire way and well, that’s for the next blog!

Also there were more photos if you care to see here’s the link!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28643021@N08/sets/72157623070732452/