My life in Moments & the Closing of a Chapter

 

Life is the collection of moments. Moments that define us, challenge us, grow us, become us. I do it all for this. It's for the ups, downs, and all the moments in between. It is for the cheers, the tears, and all the years given. God has an amazing plan for each of us. We are but one part of this amazing story and while I am not sure what will happen in my final chapter, I definitely want to live each day like it is a page turner, filled with excitement and with wonder. So here's to my life in moments. Here's to my final two weeks as a first grade teacher as I will stay home with my two favorite little students. Again, I'm not sure where my story is taking me, but I do know I want to make it a good one!

 Our rainy day after church lunch date with my littles.

 Dinner equals music and dancing, rock'n my little, Ray cooking with the help of his adorable sous chef.

Library puppets & story time with our dragon

 My beautiful butterfly princess! 

 Aubrey surely loves her role as big sister. 

Outdoor play and chalk dates with the littles

 Hope Park fun

 This face!

 Auby has eyes for her daddy.
Jason's deli & dessert dates after church

 My girl style'n up in daddy's sun glasses

 Sunday Family Portrait & Liam's first day in the nursery

 The many faces of my 10 week old.
Liam Love

 Tomorrow a chapter will close and a new journey will begin. Teaching has been a work of heart! I am so thankful for the opportunity to grow the hearts and minds of over 100 children over the past 6 years. But now I have the chance to do the same for my own little loves as a stay at home mommy. I am so thankful for the amazing staff and parents I have come to know and love! I'm both excited and anxious about my new job but know it is where God is calling me to be! Sending love and best wishes to all my teacher friends on your final days of school. And while we don't just color all day we truly are changing lives of our little kiddos each and ever day! Here's to new adventures!!!

So you know that day that your team dressed like dinosaurs for a co worker's birthday. Yeah this happened! Love you Keri!

Celebrating my last watermelon feast on field day with my first graders and firsty team. I'm so thankful for these fabulous ladies and for being able to love on these babies for the next few days until summer!

First Grade Selfie fun with Keri

 

 First Grade Team rock'n our final assembly! We're ready for summer!

I loved working with this girl! She understood my love for sweets, watched my class during my billion pregnancy bathroom trips, and could literally read my face! She always put a smile on mine.

 Last day of school smooches for my munchkin!

 Last night's end of the year celebration with the family looked a little different than last years! Mamahood is all about balance! #winning!

It is absolutely true no matter how cliche the saying is... Life's not about the number of breaths we take but the moments that take our breath away! Here's to the closing of a chapter as a new journey begins! Happy summer!

Dat's Aggieland Mommy!

The whole trip to College Station, I heard my big girl saying, "Dat's Aggieland Mommy!" My heart skipped a beat as she repeated these very precious words, but of course my head knew that she really didn't understand what "Aggieland" was. For all we knew she could be thinking we were going to see my parent's dog, Aggie. But regardless we were all very excited about our family of four's first trip to sweet home College Station. It surely was an adventure!

Our 3.5 hour trip to Aggieland was perfection. Little man slept (praise) and our big girl talked, looked at books, and watched a few of her travel favorites on the ipad (I'll come back to this later). This gave Ray and I a chance to have a few hours of couples conversation, which to be honest has mainly been filled with newborn and princess talk these past 2 months. Upon arrival, it was lunch time. We knew both littles were very ready to be out of the car and Liam was definitely overdue on his next feeding. So of course our first stop was Fazolis. It is our travel favorite. You can't beat fast food italian (that doesn't taste it) with the most delicious breasticks. Yum!

 Liam's face tells it all in this picture! Delicious!

My little girl who was a bit on the grumpy side was not wanting pasta and refused her meatballs. Anyone who knows my child would be shocked as meatballs are her "chicken nuggets." She LOVES pasta and meatballs (insert a funny way of saying meatballs) With a hungry and tired toddler a sudden downpour of rain and loud thunder made our dining experience a bit more interesting. My mind of course already realizing the cute, memorable family portrait under the century tree was not exactly going to happen as planned. While we waited out the rain, we ordered cheesecake, cuddled in the booth while Aubrey then told us that God made the "funder," and chatted about our college days. When we were down to a slight sprinkle, we decided it was time to go to the car and at least drive around campus. We visited some of our old favorites but of course had to make it out to Aggieland Outfitters for some adorable Aggie gear for the babes.

 

If Auby had her way, I'm sure she would have bought out the store. "Dats Aggieland mommy!" I'm so in love with this cute little Aggie LOVE shirt that we found. When did my baby get so big?

 I couldn't resist this adorable piece of A&M monogrammed baby boy gingham. 

Gig 'Em Aggies

Once driving around campus we realized that parking would be tricky as this weekend an Aggie baseball game was being played. We then parked closer to Northside as we made our way past the old dorms, cafeteria and Underground (shout out to my place of work), and then to the campus to my absolute favorite spot, the Century Tree. It was of course soaked with water and mud was caked on the side walk all around, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I did; however, feel pretty guilty bringing my 8 week old out in the rain. He was covered by the stroller. Aubrey on the other hand LOVED the rain. She jumped in every puddle and was all smiles.

 Century Tree with Daddy

I am so thankful to have captured these special moments with my two loves. It will be so fun to make these special memories with Liam as he too gets older. It was a wet and wild adventure of a trip but taking it all in as our littles won't be this little forever.