Typical Minister’s Kid

This last weekend we went to Texas for my cousins wedding.  Adlee tore up the dance floor at the reception.  Before anyone had even started dancing Adlee warmed up the floor. 

Jerred couldn’t make the wedding so Uncle Markie filled in and let Adlee dance with him and his girls. 

Dancing with cousin Johnnie.

This is Mark holding ALL 3 girls!!  He said the high pitched squeal was ridiculous!

Grandad and Lydia getting down.

I think Dad and Mark wore themselves out, but these girls were not hanging up their dancin’ shoes just yet.

Cousin Abbie joined in the fun!

Notice the older girls watching Adlee, she really was just in her own world dancing her heart out! 

Beyonce’s song, All the single Ladies, came on which is Adlee’s favorite.  I went out there to sing and dance with her and she told me to sit back down.  Needless to say I did not leave my seat again that night.

A slow song came on, so Adlee just decided to take a minute and have a special dance with Minnie.

Since then she has told me several times how much she loves to dance.  You know those Church of Christ Minister Kids…they are t.r.o.u.b.l.e. 

I wanna be a cowgirl!

I have an amazing Dad!  Every Friday my Dad goes to the Coffee Creek Riding stables to help kids with special needs ride horses.  You can check out more about the stables here.  That is right, my Dad is the greatest.  This is of course just one of those things about my Dad that I love!! 

Last Friday, Adlee and I had off school so my Dad jumped at the chance to get Adlee at the center to hang with the horses.  She was a little apprehensive at first. 

She got to brush and pet several horses.

This one gave kisses(licked) just like Sadie!

And then we decided to push it by putting her on a horse!

And it was over!

She cried until we left.  We got in the car and then she cried because she wanted to go back to the horses and Grandad.  I asked her if she would go back and play with the horses to which she said yes.  She was very specific though, she likes to pet the horses, not ride them! 

Love is in the air

I will interupt my normal Adlee posting for a little update from first grade. These are some poems that were read today in my class. They were allowed to write to anyone they wanted, Mom, Dad, other family, or friends.

Roses are red, rings are blue. The sun shines on you, Sally.

Dear Sally I hope you are good. I like your hair, and your clothes. Your hair smells like roses and violets. I like you as strong as my heart.

For the reputation of first graders in my class the names have been deleted. These were written by 2 boys to 2 different girls in my room. I must admit I had a hard time keeping a straight face when these were read in class today.

Happy Valentines Day!!

Snow much fun!!

We have had about 12 inches of snow this week, and I think added to that this morning. I don’t know for sure, I cannot watch the network news anymore. Hopefully I will get over that soon. I just don’t want to feel like I see the news anchors more than my family.

Adlee has been a little sick, but you wouldn’t really know it. She has bronchitis and got on meds yesterday. She is already sleeping better. She has REALLY wanted to play in the snow, but I knew it wouldn’t be good for her with her sickies. But yesterday after we had to get dressed to go to the doctor we went ahead and played for a few minutes. She LOVES the snow.

I also, for scrapbook purposes, wanted to mention some things I have heard from her all week.

“I have a question.” Proceeded with nothing, because she doesn’t know what she is saying.

“I have an idea!” Again followed by nothing.

“Guess what?!?!” Followed by silence.

Talking about Sadie, “Is that MY dog?!?!”

“Will you come color with me?” Mostly to Jerred. She has also played with her Mickey and Minnie dolls all week. Today Mickey had to sit in time out because he kicked Minnie. She only knows that puts you in time out from experience.

Adlee with her redneck Daddy…HA! His hunting clothes are his warmest! I forgot she has also realized in the last month or so that Mommy and Daddy are also known as Jerred and Brook. So she has been calling us those names from time to time this week. Not a fan of this, although it is funny!

We have had a fun time being home this week! Love our family time, I know Adlee has loved having both of us all day!

New Friends!

Adlee has been very into playing babies lately.  I think this baby sister is coming at the perfect time!  She has named the babies and there names haven’t changed yet, I was a bit surprised by this!

From left: Olivia, James, Adlee, Ryan and Ellie

2 of these are her boy cousins the other 2 are names I am not sure she knew.  I guess Olivia came from the tv show, but still out of left field.  She cracks me up!!

Four Days in my P.J.’s

So we have had quite the week!  I guess I would have to back up to last Friday to begin.  We were leaving at 1:00 for our yearly youth trip to Winterfest.  This is a trip that Adlee and I have gone on in the past, but we take my car.  We had 2 high school girls in the car with us and were a little past Norman when Adlee decided to get sick.  We immediately walkie talkied the vans and told them we were making an impromptu stop.  I knew she hadn’t really felt 100% but had no idea that was coming, poor Rae and Erin who were with us.  They are such champs!!  I decided it would be best for Adlee and me to turn around and come home…alone.  Jerred of course had to go with the teens.  That night Adlee seemed fine, she took a long nap and woke up happy.  We ended up having a fun weekend with no sickies! She was still sad there was no winterfest!

Fast forward to Monday morning (Jerred got home on Sunday night), I woke up ready for us to have MLK day off and to have a fun family day.  Jerred and I both got sick.  TERRIBLY sick!!  Jerred had the flu and I ended up in the hospital with a stomach bug.  Being pregnant I was struggling to keep hydrated.  I had 2 bags of fluid and 2 rounds of meds…ICK!  Then with Jerred having the flu we could not come home because neither Adlee or I had it!  So we had to stay at my parents house until yesterday (Wed.).  So far Jerred has been the only one infected.  My parents, Adlee and I have all been on tamiflu since Tuesday to help protect us! 

Poor Jerred still has a terrible cough, but hopefully that will get better tomorrow!  Today we got to stay in our pj’s because we had a snow/ice day!  Since we all have been cooped up inside since Monday we had to get a little creative today with our activities!

Sadie even got to come in!

We got out our markers (color wonder are the only ones allowed in this house)

Played dress up.

Played babies…and played like babies.

Painted

More dress up, look at that beautiful mess in the background.  It just screams fun!

And we made and played with play dough!

We had a fun day, despite Daddy not getting to do much with us.  He is still trying to keep from hugging and kissing, which is very hard for this Adlee, she is a MAJOR Daddy’s girl!  He has had to take her to bed last night and tonight, she will NOT let Mommy do it.  If I try she throws a fit, I guess his night night praying is better than mine! 

I think Adlee and I are both ready to go to school tomorrow and get back to some normalcy!  It doesn’t hurt that it’s a Friday and then we will be done for the week, ha!

Christmas!!!

We had 3 fabulous Christmas celebrations..well, I guess 4 including our little family’s!  I, however, have become the world’s WORST about taking pictures.  I have GOT to get better!  Luckily for my family’s 2 Christmas’s I have Teresa and Brooke who I can steal pics from. 

First up, Mimi and Pappy England’s house! 

Puppy from Jerred’s Aunt.  Adlee LOVED it!

Getting the hang of opening “pwesents.”

Reading with Mimi.

This is back at home showing her loot.  She got furniture and accessories for her dollhouse that she got for her birthday!

Next up: Santa came to our house!!

Adlee got all kinds of furniture for her babies, plus some extras with her stocking!

Timer family shot , give us a break we just woke up.

Wiley Christmas

“And I am done, got what I wanted.”

James’s loot, well not ALL of it :)

More dollhouse stuff!

Probably more for me than Adlee, her first American Girl doll.  Just an itty bitty baby!

“A Dora Adventure Hut?!?!  Mark and Teresa you are the BEST!!”

“Thanks for making me a new blanket MeeMaw. Mom this Christmas is wearing me out, I need to go to bed now.”

Grandad went to Jared.  Nice work!

No time was wasted, the Dora hut had to go up.

Lydia got a DS, Adlee is helping.  Sweet Lydia just lets her!!

Christmas in Texas!

On the day that we left for New Braunfels we had an ultrasound at 8 AM.  It was the day we found out we are having another GIRL!!  We didn’t tell anyone on my side until we got down there, and then we let Adlee tell!!  It was really fun that everybody was together for it.  It made it more special for me. 

But, because of this I forgot my good camera.  We had rushed around that morning and got everything but the camera.  I had my little one and I was also able to get pics from other people.

Here is Adlee getting her back rubbed, one of my favorite things there too :)

We were able to open presents at Roger and Amy’s house.  Super fun because they have toys for everyone!  It was also a beautiful day outside, so we spent a lot of time there!

Opening Presents.

Woo Hoo a Tricycle!!

We still haven’t quite got down how to drive it yet, but she’s workin’ on it.

The big girls and Ryan got skates!  Of course, Grandmommie didn’t want Adlee to feel left out.

Jerred played in Ryan’s room a lot of the time.  He was saying how our girls won’t have car toys, so he had to get it out of his system!!

Jerred also played troll, and locked the kids up in the fort to eat their toes. 

Ryan decided he wanted to be a troll too.

Grandmommie and her greats!

And I will leave you with the cutie outfit Grandmommie got Adlee for Christmas.  How cute is that?!?!