Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms and Motherly examples in the world.  I hope you all have a wonderful, blessed day.  I woke up this morning and the kids surprised me with a sweet card and pedicure gift card.  I’ll definitely be looking forward to that 🙂  These two give my life so much joy and love – along with crazy days and sleepless nights– it’s all worth it!

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Christmas is always a busy season for us.  A lot of things were especially limited this year, but we still had an amazing time at some of our favorite places around DFW.

This is one of my favorite photos from the Bingham House in McKinney, Tx.  We all enjoyed a lovely breakfast with Santa. Pictures with Santa were a bit different this year with Santa behind plexi glass.

Some pretty pictures of my Heidi Bug 🙂

And my almost 11 year old Connor. Oh my goodness!

This is one of my favorite pictures from Luminova in Arlington, TX this year.  The lights were so pretty!

2020 Christmas tree

Some fun pictures from the Gaylord Texan.  We sure did enjoy this walk through experience of our favorite movies.  Like Elf, A Christmas Story, The Polar Express, and Christmas Vacation.

Our Christmas card photo

More photos of breakfast and storytime at the Binham House with Santa.

Pictures from the lovely lights at Luminova!

The beautiful Gaylord Texan.

We hope you all had a lovely holiday season…and as always you can follow me daily on the GRAM! xoxo Becky

I’m a bad blogger these days.  I started back to work full-time during a pandemic and I LOVE my new job….but gosh it sure doesn’t leave much time for writing my thoughts down these days.  Regardless I’m thankful to be gainfully employed at a job I love and hope that now that Heidi is a bit older I can carve in some more time at the computer.  I know Instagram is the place you’ll find me most days, but there is also something to be said about the art of writing it all down too.

Here is Connor and Heidi on Halloween 2020.  A vampire and his little batty sister.  I can’t believe Connor is over half way finished with 5th grade and next year we’ll have a middle schooler on our hands.  He’s a great big bro and they love and annoy each other just as I imagined 🙂

Heidi at 15-16 months old.

Pumpkin patch pics 2020.  We love our home and the fact that we live right across from a pumpkin patch every year is just as fun!

We had a great fall despite all that is going on in the world right now.  Praying this next year is full of happiness, health, and a much brighter outlook.  Incredibly blessed by my family and friends and forever grateful for each one.  God is so GOOD!

Next up….All the Christmas recaps of 2020!!!

I have been the worst blogger in the history of bloggers.  So much has happened that I can hardly keep up with everything, let alone sit down and write it all out.  But….alas….here I am writing for the sake of writing and the memories we made.  I remember the days I used to blog every single day, but a lot’s change in 10 years, so these days you’ll mostly find me over on Instagram.

So, for the sake of memories here I am with a crap load of saved photos from this crazy long summer (aka the longest spring break ever).

We spent a lot of time in the pool and barbequing burgers.  Heidi took her first official dips in the pool this summer too and she loved the water.  

We got out to eat at an actual restaurant on the 4th of July and even burned a few sparklers 🙂

Connor and I had the best time at the Gaylord Hotel over the summer for their Summerfest.  It’s definitely something we’ll plan to do again.  Everything was so nice and the rooms were super clean.  The hotel took every precaution to remain clean and sanitary and we felt very safe while staying there.  It’s been awhile since I’ve spent some one on one time with Connor since Heidi was born, so he spent the night with Mama and we ordered room service.  He was so excited to order room service and felt incredibly important and “fancy” in doing so.  It’s the little things in life y’all.

Heidi came for the day to swim in the water park.  We had the best time and love that the Gaylord Hotel is right in our own city.  The Christmas ICE festivities will be a bit different this year, but you can read more about that on their website too!

The most ginormous cookies EVER!!!

Thank you Gaylord Texas for the BEST STAY EVER!!!  The memories we made are priceless.

Next recap is our trip to Arkansas to see family.  We were blessed to drive this 2020 Toyota Highlander for our trip and it was a dream.  Did I mention we actually got a new car too???  Terence got a 2020 RAV 4 Hybrid, and so far is loving it!

With two kids now the more room the merrier.  I love the cream interior and the third row seating option as well.
Heads up display

A backup camera that is waaaay more than just a back up cam.  It’s like a drone hovering over your car.  Super cool!

REAR AIR.  Need I say more…this is summer in Texas.  This is my absolute dream to have one day!

Pull down sun shades for the kiddos.  I love this car, maybe someday I can upgrade to this because the Highlander is exactly the kind of SUV I’d want.

When we reached Arkansas we had a great time visiting family.  The boys favorite thing was visiting the creek and going swimming.  I grew up swimming in the creeks every summer, so it was awesome to be able to take my kids and let them experience that too.

Connor and Jarrett jumping off the rocks

Beautiful waterfall The boys eating their smore’s on the farm.

We had a birthday cake for Heidi too in Arkansas and it was so delicious!

Lunch at our favorite place YaYa’s in Little Rock.

Farm tomatoes the BEST ever….

Heading back home to Texas

I also recently left my job of 5 1/2 years to go back into banking.  It was a bittersweet day, but I will always have the best memories from Oliver Dental.  They are like family and mean the world to me!  I love my new job and it’s nice to be back to work full time and I’ve met so many wonderful people in the process.  God is always watching over me and I’m excited for what the future holds.

Of course it’s hard to leave my kiddos every day and I’m not as involved at Connor’s school, but hey it’s 2020…so who is 100% these days?  I’m just thankful for God’s provision and and a great new opportunity.

 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11Well, that is our summer in a big old nutshell.  I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of stuff…but I’ll try to be more diligent with this whole blogging thing.

xo, Becky

Connor James it seems like I have documented every milestone of your life on this blog.  Although I haven’t been as frequent at blogging as of late, I sure am glad you have all these memories stored somewhere.  I need to make it a point to post more like I used to for both you and Heidi.  Someday when I’m old and gray you both can read what Mama wrote and laugh about it all!

I’ll recap our summer (or the longest spring break ever) in another post…but I wanted to post your first day of 5th grade picture.  You look like a grown man!  TIME= THIEF!!!

Flashback to your first day of Kindergarten.  Seems like yesterday.

Heidi is almost walking.  You saw her stand this weekend and were so excited!  We had fun in the pool this past weekend.  It’s so incredibly hot here in August.  It’s been over 100 degrees outside, it sure is nice to have a pool to dunk into….especially in times like these.

Love you sweet boy.

Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:33 

I can’t believe a year has flown by so fast and yet so slow at the same time!  Heidi…my sweet angel girl you turned ONE on July 1st and of course Mama is behind on everything these days.  This has been the craziest year, so we weren’t able to throw you and big party like your brother’s HERE.  Poor baby you kind of got the second child shaft….not to mention the dang Covid!

So it was just me, your Daddy, Connor, and Auntie Ellen.  We sure did celebrate you though and you enjoyed your cake unlike Connor who screamed and wouldn’t touch it.  Ha ha!

You are my little ray of sunshine.  My rainbow baby after a heartbreaking loss.  I love you more than you’ll ever know!

Some things you love:

• Baby Shark
• Dancing to any kind of upbeat music
• crawling and climbing on ANYTHING!
• You can say “Mama” and “Dada”
• You love your bottle and are little Miss Independent
• Yogi Melts are your favorite
• You are pretty much eating table food, but love noodles and pasta
• You have two teeth, but are cutting so many others right now.  They need to come in already!!!
• You are sleeping in your crib through the night and doing a great job!
• Your curly hair and raised eyebrow are my favorite things
• You LOVE to cuddle and give hugs

Here are some pictures of our little celebration.  I know this year hasn’t been the best, but you are certainly a blessing and a gift from God.  I thank God every day for you and your precious life.  I never dreamed I’d have another baby, let alone a sweet precious girl.  I love you my forever best friend.

Happy Birthday “Heidi Bug” you are the sweetest girl ever.