For My Chicks...

What a great day. So blessed to be a Mother. It was a great day of being together with our extended family...always fun. This year 2 of the chicks were MIA but close in my heart.


I thought it would be fun to sift through a few pictures (I love sifting) and try to share a couple of then and now moments. Most of you know that I am not very technical, so pictures are copied to my iPhone and then transferred to the blog...losing a LOT of quality - sorry. Hopefully you still get the idea.


I always have so much fun looking at pictures. I had a couple I really wanted to use but knew at least one child would stop speaking to me! The pictures bring back so many memories.


The journey has been so good. We have been through a LOT! Cheerleader tryouts, practices, Nationals, football games, pep rallies, tennis matches, basketball games, soccer games, hockey games, baseball games, school plays, school awards, church activities, church plays, HS graduation, countless slumber parties, church lock ins, church camps, mission trips, ski trips, family vacations (fun, fun, fun)!


We've been to the ER, been in the hospital, spent countless days together at Tender Ages (family business child care), put on Christmas plays, mended broken arms, collar bones and even a few broken hearts. We've cried tears of joy, wiped tears of pain, buried 3 family dogs and 2 rabbits.


We've survived 3 student drivers, one night of "mudding" in a non-mudding vehicle (you decide who did that), 2 chicks moving "out of bounds" (further than Dallas), Jolly Jills (don't ask), raising 2 girls, raising 1 boy...enough said on both counts, multiple prom nights, 1 chick attending college near Bourbon Street, girlfriends, boyfriends...the list goes on.


We've celebrated one wedding - adding one more nut to our zoo, 2 college graduations (whoop! x 2), *one more college graduation to come, work promotions, new jobs, moves to Austin, move from NY to Dallas, signing with Tulane baseball, signing pro-baseball with Giants, cancer remission, first houses, new puppies....the list is long and still growing!


We fuss over pictures for the Christmas card every year, but you always give in! Thank you, those pictures mean the world to me...YOU mean the world to me.


I'm not sure why God blessed me with all of you...my cup runneth over!!! I recently read a sign that sums up a little something of how I feel about the privilege of being your Mother..

~I have children. I have lost my mind but found my soul~

Thank you for making the word Lois, Mom, Mum, Mommy, Danny, Mother, Crazy,...music to my ears.

xoxo,

Mom

Tiffany, Kristen, Taylor

Fun at Six Flags!

My little posers!

Say Cheese!

And then you have to go and grow up...sort of :)

Time to grow the nest

Vacation time...

Christmas Card Pic...I love it!

Loving you then...(with my big girl hair)

Loving you now...