Parties, Parties, and More Parties

Friday morning was Christmas party day here at the Tijerina house.  Let me just say I was not thinking about attending Christmas parties when I decided to have three kids in five years.  It was an early release day at the school, so the parties were morning parties.  So thankful for my sister Blaire aka Aunt Bobo, who volunteered on her day off to come to the kids parties with me to help out.

My sweet and handsome Cooper.

Cooper and some of his buddies.

Ninja Turtle chapstick!

 

This little sticky hand made his day! This may be the best Christmas gift he received.

 

Hagen and his best friends! Cayden and Ryder.

His gingerbread box.

His ornament from Ms. Stokes

Ms. Stokes passing out her ornaments.

Opening Hagen's gift.

He loves Ms. Stokes!

 

After the boys' parties we headed down the hall to Harper's classroom, but not before we stopped for a quick photo in front of the Christmas tree.

Aunt Bobo, Hagen and Cooper.

 

 

Harper and her friends waiting for the party to start, after the party was Polar Express, so the girls were ready in the pajamas and the hot chocolate was warming.  We were in charge of supplying that, so of course we brought red cups, red chevron straws and peppermint marshmellos, what could be better?

Harper, Annabelle and Claire. AKA" her BFF's"

Sweet Friends!

I love how the home center had a Christmas wreath!

They started the party off by walking to the other classrooms and singing carols to the other classes.  I think that all Santa should have purchased for these kiddos is a set of belles, they loved the belles.

They are all such good friends!

 

After the parties, we headed home with Hagen's friend Cayden in tow, to start baking and preparing for Harper's Birthday Party the next day.  I worked on things for the upcoming weekend for hours, and I am SO TIRED by the end of this day.

 

 

 

 

 

Bounce Houses and Basketball

We had a full day Saturday, starting out with Christmas lights on the outside of the house.  I will be adding those soon!  After decorating we headed to our cousin Payton's birthday party.  She turned seven years old.  The kids were so excited to go to one of their favorite places, Royal Jump. 

 

Payton and her Frozen themed birthday party.

 

Hagen playing Hide and Go seek.

Opening her present for the kids.

Harper enjoying her pizza.

 

After the party we headed to Grand Saline, to watch Aunt Mae-Mae's basketball team play in the championship game of their tournament.

 

Aunt Mae-Mae coaching.

                                                           The boys were so excited to get to sit on the bench.

They ended up with a win, and won 1st place.

 

After the game we headed down the road to Edgewood to watch the Panthers boys basketball teams in their tournament, the kids were troopers after three basketball games that day! We enjoyed dinner with friends at a great restaurant called The Lumberjack.  A great Saturday!

 

 

Old Fashioned Christmas

Each year our town hosts an event on Market St. called An Old Fashioned Christmas.  We have been attending for several years now and have a great time each year.  The businesses downtown open up their doors and help contribute to the event.  So Friday night, off we went to Martket Street.

 

Hagen loved train when he was little, and he obviously still does.  He loved the toy train display they had set up in city hall.

 

And of course you can't leave out the man with the "snow" aka..bubble blowing machine on the roof.

 

The archery deer target "aka Rudolph".

Our newest cousin Jase.

 

Visiting Fiona, Donkey and Puss in Boots.

Harper and her friend Claire (behind her) petting donkey.

 

Harper, Drew and Claire.  Harper loves these two girls! Drew is Fiona's daughter!

 

After downtown, we went to dinner at Pit Grill with friends, a great Friday night.

 

 

 

Stop and Smell the Bluebonnets.

Saturday, March 31st was a perfect day for bluebonnet pictures. My mom so thankfully agreed to go with me, since Erik was turkey hunting. I am quite sure Hagen wished he was hunting turkeys with his daddy instead of taking pictures. All the rain this spring has really made the wildflowers beautiful this year. There is a great field of bluebonnets just a few miles from our house.

As you can see...we were not off to a great start. The boys actually were being sweet and very cooperative. As you can see, "Miss Harper" decided she was not going to take part. After about five minutes of patiently trying to get her to cooperate, I decided she was not going to ruin my bluebonnet pictures and we quickly had a " come to Jesus meeting".

My three kids. Hagen and Cooper were being so sweet, of course Harper was NOT going to smile.

Silly Boy.

Getting so big!

Cooper Doop!

Running, Nanny loves pictures of the boys running through the pasture, this one is just for her.

I love this picture. I think her thumb is truly her best friend! And I love this dress and her little red sandals, I will probably keep these shoes for ever!

Telling he "Bubba" all about it. As you can see Cooper was no where to be found, he was unimpressed..

Oh, how I wish Harper's eyes were not closed.

Just a few more...


I am so thankful for the beautiful spring God has given us!

A busy two weeks with no camera!

What a busy but fun December we have had! So so many things going on over the last few weeks, and of course it seems that I have forgot my camera at every event. So, I have decided to write a quick recap of the past few weeks events, just for the record.

November 29th,
The Advent party at Leslie's house. What a blessing this has been during christmas. My friend Leslie invited 24 people to take part in this daily devotional, and hosted an ornament exchanging party at her house. We each made 24 identical ornaments to swap at the party. After swapping each person had a complete set of 24 ornaments matching each Advent story. Every night our family participated in a nightly devotional and hung an ornament on the tree.

December 3rd,
A great day celebrating our cousin's Payton 4th birthday. It was so great to see family from out of town, my cousin Chris and his wife Danielle and there sweet little one year old son Jaxson. We had a wonderful Saturday.

December 8th,
Erik's 36th birthday. We had a great time celebrating at Primos with our friends Lancce and Brennan.

December 16,
Hagen's class Christmas party.. Yes I forgot my camera in the hurrying of running in the school in the rain, and my brand new camera card I had just bought for it. There were so many parents their and Erik even got to come. What a fun afternoon in Mrs. Busby's kindergarden class.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving day, what a fun day. I love Thanksgiving, I feel like it is the official start to the holiday season. We spent that morning cooking a few things and getting ready to head over to my mom and dad's for lunch.

Harper wearing Hagen's turkey hat.

And of course I forgot my camera at Thanksgiving.... A new year's goal will be to be better about remembering camera. I do have a couple of pictures on my phone I will add later.

After, a wonderful lunch at my mom's house, the boys headed to Ballinger for a little deer hunting. They were so excited and even Cooper decided to go this time.

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time....

All tuckered out....

Happy Thanksgiving....Gobble Gobble