Happy Birthday Paige!

Two years ago today Paige Alexa was born(sniff, sniff). I have absolutely loved these past two years with Paige, and it makes me sad that they have gone by so quickly. Now she is talking like crazy, sometimes too much for her own good and convinced she is old enough to do just about everything. I have probably said this a million times, but I LOVE this age and I just want to freeze her right where she is. She is so sassy but so sweet, it doesn't matter how naughty she is I just can't be mad at her. I have noticed with Addy and Ethan that as they approach the age of 3 they get pretty "terrible" and I can tolerate less, so I better enjoy it while it lasts.

Happy Birthday my Beautiful Blonde Baby!

Happy Easter!

Easter is over once again and my kids are bouncing off of the walls with loads of sugar running through their veins, not to mention my veins- however I only wish it had the same effect of extra energy for me(not so much). Dave has about a million different projects going on, one being putting together the new play structure in our backyard for the kids and rebuilding our side fence so I decided to give him some time and go it alone with the kids to Easter egg hunts on Saturday. The first stop was Albertson's, which we were late to so the kids didn't get much just the few eggs their friends gave them so they wouldn't feel bad. Then I was off to the Stonebridge Ranch annual egg hunt only to find out that I wrote the wrong date down and it was actually the previous weekend- ugh my day was not going so well. So, I decided to brave the mass amounts of people and head to the McKinney Eggstravaganza. We got there early which was a very good thing because the kids were able to spend a lot of time at the petting zoo which I could not pull them away from. I was bummed that I left my camera in the car and didn't get any good pics of them holding the baby chicks and rabbits-so cute!

They had a bunch of games for the kids to play and win candy or small toys. They also had a bounce house, face painting, etc. We mostly just participated in the stuff that you didn't have to stand in line all day for.

Finally after 2 hours of fighting crowds, having to go pee, and practically starving to death the egg hunts began. They had it split up by age group so Paige went first. She was just interested in the candy that had fallen out of the eggs, she didn't care one bit about grabbing those eggs she just wanted to eat a piece of candy.

Ethan had his egg hunt next, which went so fast. He ran out there as fast as he could but there were so many kids he only got about 8 eggs, he was happy though.

Ethan with his friend Ashton.

Addyson had her egg hunt last and there was some real competition, after we went over some strategies she was off to do some damage- she did pretty well! Although I was really wishing I had asked Dave to come along, the kids had a great time and that is all that counts right?!




Easter Sunday the kids woke up and were on a hunt for their baskets. I made strawberry crepes and we got dressed in our Easter best and were off to 8:30 church, late of course.

Here are their Easter outfits, I only have the best looking kids ever.

Ethan got his first suit, which he was so excited about, now he gets to look like Daddy every Sunday.

Later that day we drove out to Arlington to spend some time with my brother and his family and my mom and stepdad. We thought it would be fun to have the kids have an Easter egg hunt so we filled more eggs with more candy and hid them in the house, it was really muddy outside because it rained all night and most of the day. Then we had a great Easter dinner and went home fat and happy. It was a pretty great weekend and we are sad it is over.

My baby is no longer an it!

Because patience is not one of my strong points I began trying to find out what this baby was as soon as I knew those little genitalia were forming. I am lucky to have access to an ultrasound machine at my work. So, when the ER gets slow I just mosey my way into the trauma room and play around with the ultrasound machine and check out my little growing fetus. One night I took an excessively long break because I was on a mission and even though I never got the money shot I was pretty sure it was a girl because after 45 minutes of looking I never saw any boy parts. So, I was still holding out hope for a boy but I was prepared for them to tell me it was going to be another girl. I had my ultrasound yesterday and as she went from head down to check for any abnormalities I was anxious to know so I just said "okay, so is it a girl"? And what was it..................................................................................................................................
When I told Ethan that he wasn't going to have a brother he buried his face in my friends couch and cried, then he hit me- like it was my fault. That is your daddy's fault boy!! I am of course happy with anything but it would have been nice to have another little boy. I just always thought that I would have a bunch of boys, I grew up with 3 brothers and I always had mostly guy friends when I was growing up. Now I have to worry about 3 teenage girls with extra emotions and hormones- yay:) The part that I am having the hardest time with is naming her. Seriously, Lee is the worst last name for having a girl, for so many reasons. I can't pick a name that ends in an e sound or one with l's or a single syllable name- when it comes to girl names, or ones that I like that leaves ummmm.... nothing! I had the hardest time naming Paige and it still doesn't sound as great as I would like it to. I not complaining though, we are of course happy that there are no abnormalities she is healthy and very active. If any of my peeps out there have heard of a great name that actually sounds good with Lee, help me please!!!!