Father's Day Mustache Bash

Sunday, we hosted a Father's Day Mustache Bash in honor of two very special fathers. We had a backyard blast with my Zellner family. I sure do love these ladies and gents.

I loved being able to celebrate these two men. What a special first official father's day for my love. I am truly thankful for my husband, best friend, and baby daddy. Aubrey and I are so blessed that he is ours:) In addition to a fun Father's Day celebration, we also celebrated my FIL's 71st birthday as it was the next day. So with mustaches on our faces, grilling tongs in hand, and fun with family, enjoy some pictures of our Father's Day Mustache Bash!

 

{The gents in their handmade crafted grilling aprons}

{SIL Rachel and her handiwork}

{Auby style'n the stash} 

 {Love'n the stash!} 

 

 {Father's Day Grilling Feast}

 {The lovely ladies} 

{Celebrating 71 amazing years for my FIL}

Here's to the fathers in our lives that continue to set such a wonderful example. We are so excited we were able to celebrate with you. To our Zellner family what an incredible Father's Day Mustache Bash.

Jesus Loves the Little Children!

All the children of the world!

This past week, I had the privilege of teaching 11 preschoolers at VBS. I think my Facebook status said it best, "Last day of VBS at the Heights. Praying for all of these sweet kids this summer and all that God has made for their journeys ahead!"

This was my first summer to teach Vacation Bible School. I am so thankful for this opportunity to see how God moves in the lives of His children. I had so much fun working with these sweet friends from my ABF, Erin and Julie. They too are teachers and love kiddos.

So here's to a summer filled with fun! To loving our God and to all our adventures along the way!

See You Later Mrs. Zellner

 

I don't think I could say it any better. It's almost the end. See you later Mrs. Zellner.
On Friday I said goodbye to 17 super special kids. I always find saying good-bye to be the hardest. I truly love my job and even though I may have my ups and downs, I could not be more thankful that God lead me to teaching. I feel it is exactly where I am meant to be at this time in my life.


Friday was a half day for my class. Teachers will return for Monday and Tuesday. Then school is out for summer. It was absolutely bittersweet. I truly had such an amazing year with these fun little personalities. I will miss them dearly. But I could not be more excited to be a summer stay at home mommy with Miss Auby.

On Friday, we enjoyed a special treat. Ray brought Aubrey to visit and read stories to my classroom. The students were more fascinated with her than me or the stories. They really just wanted touch her little toes. It was even said that maybe we could play a quick game of hot potato with her just so she could be passed around so everyone could see better of course. Hey they wanted to share right;) I have to say this year has been truly amazing. I've laughed, cried, and a little bit of everything else in between.

At the beginning of the year I didn't know exactly what this year would hold. Being 8-9 months pregnant and worrying if your water was going to break any moment was a bit of a challenge, but my kids were so sweet and helped in every way that they could. After a few weeks, I was full on waddle, wearing house slippers at school making excuses why I couldn't do jumping jacks with my kiddos. Thank goodness they understood. In October baby girl was born and I said good-bye for a few months. I returned in early December and have been working each day ever since. Like I said, I've laughed, cried, and a bit of everything in between. What a great year!

Good-bye classroom... until next year!

Auby's Month-iversary Series: 8 Months

Dear Auby,
Happy 8 months dear baby. You are so fun! You have so much personality and make me laugh more than I could have imagined. You are getting so big. I am so proud of you sweet angel in all you do and enjoy watching you explore all the newness of life.  I absolutely love this stage of babyhood and am so excited about the new adventures we will have this month together.

Date: 6/7/2014
Age: Eight Months
Measurements: I'll have to check at our next appointment. I assume 17 or 18 pounds. But am completely guessing as your next appointment is not until 9 months.
Clothing: You are officially in 9 month clothes except for a few long sleep onesies. Mommy still loves little dresses, shorts and skirts, and of course it all finished with a sweet bow.
Eating:  We are eating lots of new foods this month including fruits, vegetables, crackers, puffs, and even some meat. We've tried blending lots of different foods to incorporate more veggies, but you are not exactly sold just yet. Daddy still loves to make your food. He made strawberry, apples, and beet baby food. You weren't exactly sold, but we found that mixing anything with sweet potatoes including peas, you will eat right up.

You also love your sippy cup. You have two right now. One for daycare and one at home. Your daycare teachers tell me that you also like borrowing some of your sweet friends. You also enjoy drinking water from our glass. You like to be such a big girl. If we aren't watching, you may even pull ours at a table. We are definitely on watch now sneaky girl. You are also still taking formula. Your amounts have changed this month. For some reason, you only want 4 oz when you first wake up. We pack three 6 oz bottles for school not that you drink all of it. Most days you drink between 4-5 at school this month. You also eat oatmeal or other food and puffs at school. We feed you a dinner meal and a bottle before bed.

Sleeping: You really are doing ok. You have had a few ear infections and seem to be teething right now which make these nights hard. Poor baby. For some reason over the past few weeks you have been fighting bed time. You sit up, pull up on the bars of your crib, and cry. We will work through it. Your bedtime is 8PM. We had to move it back so that you are tired enough for bedtime. On nights that you fall asleep in our arms, we hold you extra tight. We love any extra snuggle time with our babe.

New Activities and Random Tidbits:
 - pulling up on everything
- more mobile. You've become a speed racer at crawling on all fours
- You like to chew on pacis backwards. You really don't like them the normal way.
- blowing raspberries on mama
- saying ma-ma 6.7.14. Talk about melted mama's heart
- You like to turn pages in board books. Many times this is to close it so that you may eat it or you turn the pages back to the front, but hey it's the thought that counts.
- We baby proofed the house and even added two gates to our downstairs
- You sit up in your stroller now

- You sit up in your high chair when we go to restaurants.
- You love "talking." I love hearing your
- You enjoy playing with the kiddos at school and at church. What a beautiful social butterfly we have on our hands
- Aubrey you love giving sloppy open mouth kisses.
- We enjoyed celebrating daddy's summer belated birthday at Klyde Warren Park.
- You and daddy came to visit my first grade classroom on the last day of school. The kiddos absolutely LOVE you! They did want to know why you weren't walking or reading stories just yet. You are still a little too young for that I explained;)

Likes: mommy's phone, pulling up and moving around objects, blinds, blowing raspberries and making mouth noises, stuffed animals- Ah Dog and Jake the teddy bear, solids, dancing, making new sounds, baby Einstein toy, music, ABCs, Mommy and baby's morning songs, crawling on all fours, touching everything, splashing in the bath tube, chewing on everything, exersaucer, see and say, shape blocks, crawling under the exersaucer, and so much more:)

Dislikes: car carrier- it's hot, Nose Frieda and anything having to do with wiping your nose, if you cannot get a bottle fast enough, peas, barking that wakes you up, the garage door opening during nap/bedtime, changing clothes because it keeps you from moving.

Watch sweet baby girl grow!

 

Surprise Food Truck Belated Birthday Fun

So this guy turned 30 back in April. Due to the craziness of schedules at our home and with friends, we had joked that a summer birthday was what we needed. Today we had the privilege to surprise and celebrate my main squeeze for some food truck fun at Klyde Warren Park. We want to thank our dear sweet friends for coming and celebrating this special afternoon in the park with us.

 

{Today was also baby girl's 8 month birthday. I may or may not have taken a few extra pictures. I cannot believe in 4 short months she'll be one. Where does the time go? I love this picture with daddy and baby.}

 

Here are a few pictures taken from this afternoon. We are so thankful for sweet summer moments, for surprises, for special visits, baby friends, delicious treats, and lots of birthday love.  Enjoy the picture post.

 

{Family Fun... oh how our lady loves balloons}

{Celebrating with the Ogles and baby girl Eva Mae}

{Our Brushwood bunch}

 

It was so special to see our Brushwood bunch. While they are here for only a short visit, it was so fun to catch up with them. We are truly blessed by friends that are like family.

 

To my birthday boy, I wish you an amazing 30 years. May your next 30 be just as blessed and filled with lots of adventure along the way.



#heightsdatenight

I have to say I am so thankful for a church that promotes dating your spouse. On June 6th, the Heights held a church wide promotion for its monthly date night. They provided a list of restaurants with free goodies and even a list of fun questions to ask your significant other. It was a fun way to spend a night out with your love. As a part of our special night out, they also asked for you to go to the place that you got engaged or a place that represents your engagement night.

While a drive to Oklahoma was a bit out of the question, we used the bench at the church to reenact our engagement. It is amazing to think that next month it will have been five years since this glorious day where my husband dropped to one knee at a bench to ask me the most important question in our lives and thirteen years of dating. He still has my heart!

 For our date night, we asked for a few suggestions and were told to go to Casa Milagros in Richardson. It was really good. While we dined in, it had an adorable little outside patio. We even got this cute little picture taken for us. I do have to make a little side note that Ray is wearing the same shirt that he proposed in. So fun! After dinner we decided to stop at a yogurt shop for some more conversation and hand holding. Then we were back to church to pick up our little beauty. I am so thankful for this sweet night with my love. I'm thankful for a church that shows just how important it is to have this time away and for the ladies that loved on our little lady until we returned. Here's to more date nights in our future!

Jump'n & Jiving in June 2014

 
{Loving on our new pal, Sophie}

Each week I take countless photos on my phone of all the goings on in our little household. I love all the fun moments captured over the past week and a half. With all the craziness that has been taking place, it is so fun to have these sweet little tidbits in life. With the this school year coming to a close, the beginning of VBS, and traveling back to the land of sugar, we have our hands full these last few weeks. So enjoy a picture post of all our Jump'n & Jiving June tidbits.   

 

{Party of 6- Babysitting our Fantlets and Auby. Oh how they loved being pulled around in the red wagon}

{Wednesday bible study- Love that these little sweeties will have such sweet friends so close in age}

 

{This melts my teacher's heart. I love that she loves books, or at least loves to eat them right now. We will work on it:)}

{Smiles from the back seat}

 

{Reminded of my sweet friend, Duckee, who of course is not for sale}

 {Our attempt at new foods. She is not a fan} 

{This is the last week of school with my first graders. What a bittersweet moment as it will be hard to say good-bye to my class but so exciting to start my summer role as a stay at home mama for the summer at least}

 {Like Father Like Daughter. Auby sure loves the computer}

 {Yummy first bites of watermelon, grapes, and pears}

 {Early Saturday morning workout, healthy 21 Day fix breakfast, walk in the rain, and one happy lady} 

{Early morning workouts. Loving my new mint nail polish}

 {A friend's surprise 30th. A phone/camera turned this fussy baby into a super happy one. Excuse my lovely and way too excited open-mouth smile}

 {Assembly performance for the First Grade Beach Girls} 

{Excited about my summer adventures as a stay at home mommy}

 

So here's to taking way too many pictures, to maxing out my photo allotment, and to capturing sweet and special little moments such as these. Happy June and beginning to our summer!