A look at our Valentine parties

Nolan had his party 1st...

Zane & Nolan

SOOO many treats!

Lane felt pretty big playing Valentine Hullabaloo


Nolan's Valentine....Mrs. Surritte

the kids sang a Valentine song to the mommies

Hard at work!!!

(don't mind the spill we had on the shirt)

The boys & I ran home for a quick nap before leaving to go to Kyendy's Party

Kynedy's teacher, Mrs. Deacon was not able to be there. Unfortunately she is out for 2 weeks because her home was completely destroyed in the tornado.

Going through her valentines...

Her best friend..Jake

Edmond Tornado

So...ONE of my greatest fears is being in a tornado...you know BEING in one. I have horrific visions of only having two hands and holding on to all 3 of my children and having to battle it out with the force of mother nature! God was with us on Tuesday!!! I had JUST left to go to the church to pick up Lane from MDO so I had him and Nolan with me. As I was picking him up the schools went on lock down because the first of three tornados was comming! As I gathered in the church hallway holding both of my boys I was trying to stay calm and I imagined my poor Kynedy's face, as I knew she was school without me! Luckily Will was at the Home Depot (RIGHT down the street from this pic!!!) and her school is 1 mile away & he went to be with her. We were about 4 miles away (at the church) our house is about 5 blocks!!!! For those who have been to our home....This is on the entrance to our neighborhood from PENN.

Again...I say a prayer to our Almighty and thank him for his protection.

This is SO funny....& pathetic

Again I got this 'group' on my Facebook and I just had to share it with my fellow Midland bloggers! It is funny, pathetic, and a slight bit trashy...but that is what I love about a 'home-town' the quirky things that are a strange comfort to you...I smiled and laughed the whole time I read it!

(yes mom....I should be doing laundry....)

YOU KNOW YOUR FROM MIDLAND TX WHEN...

►When giving someone directions, you always start with "Get on the loop"
►The loop isn't a complete loop
►Before prom you either went to Venezia's or Luigi's
►In high school, everyone came back from lunch drunk
►Football comes before education
►You were friends with someone until you found out they were from Odessa
►On the weekends, everyone from your school is at T&T or Whataburger and they're all drunk
►You see a truck limo and you automatically know it's a Quincinera
►Every Friday night around 9:30 you see a mass of junior high kids walking from the movie theatre to Rosa's
►The week of the big game your lunch time got changed
►During high school, you went to the mall for lunch on Fridays
►When you have to pick someone up from the airport, you gripe because it's "SO far away"
►You heard there was going to be a DisneyWorld built between Midland and Odessa
►89% of your graduating class went to Tech
►You think it's weird that other schools didn't have off campus lunch
►Two words: Water Wonderland
►You think it's abnormal that in other cities the freshman are at the high school
►The closest big city is 5 hours away
►You get unnecessarily excited when a new restaurant opens
►The only thing to do after midnight is go to Whataburger or IHOP
►When you started your freshman year, your mom bought you a can of pepper spray in case you missed the bus
►The first time you went to a big city, you were shocked to see homeless people
►The entire town stops when someone sees a snowflake
►It rains for 3 minutes and Wadley becomes a river
►The student parking lots have nicer cars than the teacher parking lots
►Brightly painted buffalos are considered works of art
►It takes you 5 minutes to walk around the entire mall
►When someone asks you what body of water your town is near, you say "The lake behind Putt Putt"
►A high school, a duck pond, and a cemetary are all on the same street
►You eat Rosa's twice a day
►Chili's is considered a nice restaurant
►Your idea of a traffic jam is when you have to wait twice for the light to turn green
►Your town is nicknamed "The Tall City" but there is only one building over 20 stories high
►Cops pull you over just to ask you who won the game
►You look down on people who aren't fully clothed in Abercrombie or Hollister
►You see at least one person you know everywhere you go
►Your dad is in the oil business with everyone else's dad
►The biggest celebrity to come out of your town is Cedric Benson
►If you didn't play football, you must be gay
►The opening of the Super WalMart was historical
►Your mom thought Dr. Compton was dreamy
►It's a big deal to see Horace Brown in public
►You spent your elementary days at KC Nutty Roller
►More people attend Belle Ball than prom
►You've had your picture taken with Juice the Moose
►Going to Odessa is considered a road trip
►The opening of deer season might as well be a school holiday
►You're shunned if someone in your family doesn't drive a pickup truck
►You brag that you know people in "Friday Night Lights"
►You ever bought a candy bar off a band kid
►A small part of you died when the Midland Angels became the Midland Rockhounds
►You've had Mr. Duhan for a substitute
►Your teachers let you leave class to go to T&T as long as you promised to bring them back a pig in a blanket
►If you want to see that slightly controversial movie, you have to go to Odessa
►The mall carnival outshines the St. Anne's fair
►You went car shopping at the dealership inside the Odessa mall
►Everyone comes home from college for the Pat Green concert
►You've ever parked in the highway median to get to watch the baseball game fireworks for free
►People get in fist fights just for fun
►It was an unspoken rule that if you're walking alone at school, you better have a T&T cup in your hand
►Mullets are still in existence
►You honestly believe that if Jay Hendrix said it, it must be true
►You're considered a liberal if you don't drive a pickup truck
►The night after you got an MIP, you got drunk because there was nothing else to do
►If you're not wearing boots, you're wearing flip flops
►The entire school gets inducted into NHS
►You were shocked the first time you saw a squirrel
►You have to go to Lubbock to buy a prom dress
►You end up turning on your air conditioner the same day it snowed
►You've paid ten bucks just to leave for lunch 5 minutes early
►During the summer, you've run through the sprinklers to cool off
►The closest thing to a zoo is the peacock farm in Trinity Meadows
►You've played in the downtown fountain
►If you wanted your senior picture in the yearbook, you had to go to Sam Hollis
►In junior high, you always ate hot cheetos and a giant cookie for lunch
►Crosswalks don't mean a thing
►You freaked out because, at first, there wasn't anything about OSCAR'S on this list

A beautiful day!

The Zoo

awww...BrOtHerLy LoVe

my own 2 monkeys...

Nollie what do you see?

Rhinos

a family pic

what Lane does when he doesn't want to listen.:)

Thanks Daddy for doing all the work...

Just hangin' out in the wagon

no really Kynedy...don't get up.

I'm sleepy

like my glasses?

A Mini Photo session

He smiles???

such a serious little guy

I cannot believe how big she is!

giggles with Dad

they love her...

he really wants daddy to listen

my blue eyed girl

now THAT is some brotherly love

A Birthday Party!

Happy 5th Birthday

Cade & Coleson

a TEXAS cutie
my Picaso

my friend Kristen & her mama

Kynedy & Kennedy

Cade

Coleson

ANOTHER sad accident...

Well...at least it wasn't TEETH! Our sweet Nolan had to get stitches! To tell you the truth...I am surprised he lasted until 5 years old! He is such a dare devil...crazy about mountain biking and skateboards. Would you believe that it was NEITHER of those things... On Wednesday night we were eating at church and Nollie saw a friend of his. He went to go sit with his friend and I was cleaning up our table...I heard him crying and looked up to see blood squirting from his head, running down his face and and all down his hands!!! I grabbed napkin and put it over his head and rushed him over to the 'kitchen' area to get ice and a towel. Trying to just calm him down ( he was a little freaked out by all the blood) I got him cleaned up and finally was able to pull the rag down for a few seconds to get a look at what we were dealing with. As soon as I saw it I knew...stitches without-a-doubt. Of course Will was not there, I had to call him at the gym and have him 'paged' out of his Spin class...I told him to come to the church that Nolan had a hole in his head....I wish I could have said cut...but it was a full blown hole!
So...back to the story....while he was getting up from the table with his friend they could not resist a quick game of 'tag', he tripped and fell smack into the corner of a table and it literally stabbed him. I did ask for the good ole' super glue that they now use for most situations but apparantly when you can see the 'skull' you have to use stitches...

Our sweet boy & a boo-boo