K is 5 Years old

Well, not technically. She won't be 5 til July. But we did have her birthday party!
We had her party early because she wanted to invite her preschool friends. This may be last time she sees some of them and most of them go on vacations in July. So we figured having it a few weeks early wouldn't be too bad. So...here is her party rundown
Here is her invite. Ok, even though it was early in the day, it was still hot. Not deathly hot, but almost there. So we did a few things out of order. We let the kids eat first, then do cake. Then they went to play and bounce in the moonwalk. After that we did pinata and ended with gifts!
Her theme was Jessie/Western--because if you try to buy just Jessie stuff, you will not find much! So I had to incorporate western in there. And it worked out perfect! Everything about the party was great! We could have done without the heat though. But I won't complain about that anymore. There was a slight breeze! Moving on...the only thing I wish could have been different was the cake. Jennifer, who usually makes the cakes was on vacation. So we ordered one from Target. And although it wasn't a perfect match of what I wanted, Kayla LOVED it. And that is all that matters! And we didn't even cut the cake at the party! I had ordered red and yellow cupcakes to go with the theme...and there were enough cupcakes for the kids! Ok, here are some of the pics. Of course I have zillions of them, but I don't want to bore you..and Blogger is going really slow as I upload! SO enjoy...

Love this last picture. I can see all these sassy girls in 10 years, looking like this! Anyway, Kayla had a great birthday. She passed out as soon as she got home and slept for 2 hours! So, Happy early Birthday Kayla! Thank you all for coming to celebrate!

Summer Lovin'

The best way to spend a hot summer evening....having snow cones!! I am the happiest person knowing that we can walk around the corner to AJ's Snow Cones and get a snow cone for a $1!! Love it. AJ's will be making some money off us this summer. Even at just a $1 each, we go there way too often! Here are my girlies enjoying the hot days of summer: snow cones, hula hoops, bubbles, and sidewalk chalk! Best time ever!

Valentine's Day/Parties/Pictures

Happy Valentine's Day!

Whew! I mean, really, it's already mid February!? Where is the time disappearing to? Crazyyyness!

Ok, the above pics were taken on Feb 10, the day of Kayla's class Vday party. Her outfit was super cute--I have to brag about it! The skirt I got for about $3 at Old Navy. They had all their Clearance at an additional 50% off, and it was a Christmas skirt for $5.49! Sweet! The leggings were Baby Gap clearance, with an additional 40% off, so those were $6.99. The super cute shirt was not a very good deal--Gymboree, priced at $16.50, I only got 20%! Boo! Still she looked adorable!
Anyway, moving on...

I didn't get to go to her party because I was having a Vday party in my class as well. I made like a 10 minute appearance though! But her party was a rockin'! Enjoy her pics from her party--if they are blurry or out of focus...blame Pat! He was the photographer. But feel bad for him cause Mia was being a little stinker at the party!
Ok, then on Monday morning we went to Leanna's. Hers are always breakfast style. Pat, Mia, and I went to this one. Kayla went to school with one of our teacher/neighbors. So here are the pics from Leanna's party. The first pic is of a few of the mom's planning the next event--but Pat said we were trying to relive Kindergarten!

Leanna was the helper that morning, so she was at the front with Mrs. Camp(the sub that they will have until Mrs. Soders returns from her maternity leave!)

Valentine's night Pat worked a night shift, so the girls and I made him a cookie cake! and we also painted him a painting. Those girls love their daddy!
Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day!

San Antonio Santa Pics

Here are the pics from Santa's set up in Fiesta, TX.
Thanks Lenny for getting us tickets--we enjoyed Holiday in the Park!

Feliz Navidad...Merry Christmas!

***WARNING: Picture Overload***

Merry Christmas from the Landry's!

Our Christmas Eve was spent at my sister's house. We usually celebrate at their house because it's much bigger and can accommodate all of us. We took a lot of pictures throughout the night. We all ate tons of food, hung around, watched the kids open up their gifts, and then we did the grown up gift exchange. We stayed there until midnight. The girls fell asleep on the ride home of course.

Dad and the girls.

This pic begins the family pictures--I love that we did this!

Around 10 pm the girls got in their pjs and still played around. They were excited with all their gifts. And they really love Elida and Juan's house.

~~~~~ Christmas Morning~~~~
Santa made his visit after the girls went to bed. Although Leanna didn't want to go to sleep because she was afraid the reindeer were going to fall through the roof, I finally convinced her that she needed to go to sleep or Santa was going to skip over Pearland!

In the morning, they slept in until 8:30--they never do that! They even had to wake Mia up! I took a picture on the stairs(I'm going to get a pj pic every year I think) before they headed down to see what Santa had brought them. Once they were downstairs, they went to town opening up gifts, sharing dolls, helping each other open up up the next gift, and making a big mess! But the look on their faces was very worth it! They had a great Christmas!
This is at mom's house. Tia Irma got the girls some new books and new clothes.

These are at Uncle Walter's house. We went there in the evening.

And these last ones are from James house. This is where we ended the night. We did a Chinese Christmas there --well, the grown ups did. And we played some Win, Lose or Draw!