Ashley Loses Another Tooth!!

Our teeth over-achiever is at it again.  This time she waited so long the tooth basically fell out when she finally let Daddy pull on it!  It actually did fall onto her shirt!!!

Rascal Flat's Concert!

In a last minute change, we ended up getting tickets to Rascal Flat's instead of showing our new friends how we sometimes view concerts in our golf cart!  Enjoyed a dinner before the concert at Ruth's Chris and then some festivities in the VIP Lounge before taking our seats!  What a concert!   Great mix of old and new songs!

Jen and Joe's kiddos (Ryan 4th grade and Bryce 1st grade) spent the night as they have yet to find a babysitter with just moving to town and we are down to one :). Luckily Micah was great with all 4 kiddos and they slept well...well, until Ashley woke them up at 6:40am to play!

Brian made them a huge and yummy breakfast in the morning.  What is this?  The Holiday Inn?  Yep, anything for our kiddos :). 

August Happenings

Lots of fun happened in August.  We are so blessed by our family of four and old and new friends!  Can't wait to see what this school year has in store for us all!   Remembering how Ashley heard thunder and got a storm bag all ready for us in case we had to go in the tornado shelter, BFF girls night, kids fighting to be right on Mama, our house was in a magazine!, coming out from showering too find the kids playing Candyland!, jumping off the high platform at Defy, basketball and pool time, movies with friends and new babysitter Courtney, date night at Tontitown Festival, all things play dough, new passport pics, birthday party with old friend, low tire en route back from day trip to Tulsa with new friend Jen! (and subsequently the proud new owner of 4 tires), 1st grade craft of Smelly David, car line, family nite at the club, sleeping with Skip It, Sara's new handbag (thanks so much Babes!), walking with Toby, new playgrounds, a full-toothed smile and after school time with our new buddy Ryan! Whew!  All great things :) 

Ninja Warrior, Tumble and Soccer!

Some of the kids activities have started up again!  Dance doesn't start until after Labor Day but here we go with Trevor's competition team at Flip Side Ninja Park (of course Ashley wanted her pic too!), Ashley's private tumble lesson with Miss Annie at Triumph Gymnastics and Rec Soccer for Trevor with Daddy as his coach!!

School Lunch with the Kiddos

Some upsetting news was floating around about a potential incident at an Arkansas school today so Mommy went to have lunch today with the kiddos.  School security was a bit more lax than she would have liked and a lot of kids skipped school but Mr. Allen the VP had his A game on constantly monitoring.  Ashley has lunch at 11:00 and Trevor is at 11:30 so it will be nice this year to be able to eat lunch with the kids more often without it taking up a lot of the day!  (Last year Ashley ate at 10:30 and Trevor was at 12:30!)

Toby's Gotcha Day!

Thank goodness for Facebook Memories to remind us of big important dates - like Toby's Gotcha Day.  Apparently we rescued him on the same day as National Dog Day!  Lucky guy!  So we learned that on August 26, 2014 Toby came into our lives when he was about 6 months old!  Happy 5.5 year birthday Toby!

Sleepover and Fun!

After a little break (maybe a year?!?!) of Ashley and Sophia not having sleepovers due to getting up multiple times throughout the night and then getting up for the day far too early, Mommy agreed to try it again.  They did much better this time, only getting up at 6:30am for the day.  Not too bad. So we got Krispy Kreme for breakfast then some of Trevor's friends came over and we all went to Defy to jump for 2 hours before hitting up McDonalds.  The only meals we ate out the whole time Daddy was in Vegas for work from Friday - Tuesday!  Pretty good!

Lake Atalanta Fun!

Ashley went with some friends to a hike/kayak activity at Lake Atalanta.  We got so many pictures of all the fun they were having on the super hot day!  We heard Ashley was a natural kayaker!!!