The Luckiest Girls in the World

Because they have this guy for a dad, and he really is the best!! He loves us more than anything and works hard to give us a great life. The girls go nuts when the garage doors open when he gets home from work. He spends time with each of the girls playing and listening to their stories. Happy Father's Day Billy we love you!!
The girls also love their Grandpa Fuentes, who always puts up with there jumping on him and lets them beat him at thumb wrestling. You are a great dad and I have learned so much from you. And Pop-Pop Bown, with his exciting Pony Rides and stories about Cobs and Eyeball monsters. I couldn't ask for a better father-in-law. Happy Fathers Day to you too!

Happy Birthday Regan

This little kiddo turned 3!! She is so fun and crazy, we are just doing a family party for her and asked her where she wanted to go to dinner; with some help from big-sis she said Chuck E Cheese so tomorrow is her day. But wanted to put some old pics and see how much she has changed and grown. I do have actual proof she is growing a little. We love you Regan.

Regan at 1

Newborn, it goes by so fast!

Dance Dance

Lots of pictures because she looked so cute, Lynlee had her final dance recital today, she was in tap/ballet class and did two dances. She loves to dance and loves the stage, no nerves at all and I'm so sad that she wants to try gymnastics next year. This is her ballet outfit, and we got her some flowers and she got a trophy.

Her tap costume, I'm pretty sure she is going to be wearing these costumes all summer.

And her friend Faith, she made some great friends in her class.

She is all over getting dolled up and I'm just too happy to let her do it.

Her teachers, Miss Danielle and Miss Emma, Lynlee loved both but especially Miss Emma who is a student teacher from the Dance Company.

The whole show lasted about 2 hours, Regan and Kenna were both really good, Regan liked watching all the other dances, and Kenna fell asleep, I love seeing all of Lynlees hard work and it makes it all worth losing every tuesday night to dance.

Six Months Old

Wow, where did half a year go?!?! But my little McKenna is growing and growing, she is so sweet and shy, if you dare raise your voice around her, she bursts into the most heartbreaking cry ever. She has been enjoying baby food and loves to spit it everywhere. She weighed in at 17lbs 13 oz, and the doctor even called her a healthy chub. She is 23 in long. She totally sits up on her own and has started the whole rocking back and forth thing so crawling is not to far off. She still loves her sisters, but has started that whole, I only like mom to hold me thing. I love this babe!!

Summer Plans

Lynlee's last day of school was yesterday, I can't believe she is going to be in the 1st grade, but amongst all the hundreds of papers they sent home the kids made a list of their plans over the summer break. Lynlee's list made my laugh, and I'm not sure where she plans on traveling to, but we can probably do everything else on the list. (And her #8 is my #1)

**gRiN**

I like to take lots of pictures of the girls, mostly because they are all so vain and are always saying take a picture mom and then immediately want to see the picture and laugh at how funny they think they are. Taking individual pictures is pretty easy and I can usually get a good one of two girls but ALL three, forget it!! It's always the same, Regan smiling but looking away, McKenna distracted by something, and Lynlee striking a perfect pose. As I was scrolling through this round of pics I was taking Saturday, I found this little gem and it just makes me smile. This is definitely one for the screen saver.

Hidden Potential

Our new favorite thing is finding trash furniture, painting it and furnishing our house with it, basically turning trash to treasure (not really treasure but let's pretend). It all started with the awesomeness that is our dining room table and then we stole/took an old table our neighbors set out in the trash. Every place we have lived has had those big garbage cans provided by the city, if it didn't fit in the can they didn't take it!! Not here in Texas, you put it by the side of the road they take it. They being the garbage men, or anyone else how wants it. Back to the story, we took a table the neighbor had out in the garbage, Billy painted and stained it and it is now our desk in our study.

This next one has a really really good story. I was at the park in old Katy with my neighbor (not the table neighbor) and we were driving home and this little yellow number was calling my name. So I had to ask my neighbor I'm just kind of getting to know if we can pull over and if she would help me load this piece of crap in my car, to my surprise she said YES!! So he hopped out and trying to be fast, because it was the middle of the day we tried to make it fit in the car on top of the giant double stroller, about twenty minutes later, and after some guys stopped to ask us we needed help, we got it. We brought it home to a not so excited husband, but after some brainstorming he totally had a vision. I just wanted to use it as a dresser for the guest bedroom but Billy had other plans:
He chopped it in half and added a top to the bottom drawers, the side with the three drawers: he attached two drawers together and cut the bottom out of one. A little sanding, primer, a coat of black paint, some new handles and WAHLA!!

Some filing drawers for the office, and now the only thing we have ever bought for the office is a bookcase, the desk and these were out of the trash.

Here's how the two bottom drawers look attached, it works great, and I'm glad Billy has a little creativity in him, we make a great team and are for hire!!! This one is missing a handle because we just grabbed the number of handles we needed but one was a different kind. And no these are not ALL bills, we are not in that much debt. Now I am on a mission to find two more dressers and some nightstands, forget garage sales or craigslist, trash day is Monday!!