~ Life In The Garden with The Flowers Family ~

Friday, October 1, 2010

Emily Moments

At church we have a time during the second service when the elementary aged children go to a worship time - Kids Life Live. Each week a child gets an opportunity to be onstage. The same songs are sung all month. Emily was excited one of her favorite songs was Inside Out by Hillsong.

She captivates my heart.

Hanging with one of her best friends - Denali.

After school fun at the park before going to get her brother.

We went to the local Barnes and Noble late Sunday afternoon. A "cold" front came through over the weekend and cooled us down to the upper 70's low 80's during the day. To us Texans that is heaven on earth. The wind picked up that evening while we were in the store. Of course we had to get a hot chocolate and a treat on the way out. As we get to the car I turn around to help Emily into the van and catch her just enjoying the moment. Life couldn't be better than her favorite drink, a book on her favorite topic-horses and a treat to top it off. Yes, I travel with my camera everywhere to catch moments like this.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

A Grand Day - Emily Style

So, Emily has been after me almost all summer to have a just for fun tea party.
So we set the date and got the word out. Emily had a definite plan.
She wanted to serve a mud (ice cream) pie, pumpkin pie, strawberry shortcake
and decorate-it-yourself mini cake. We used my grandmother's china tea cups.
Better to make memories than let them catch dust in the cupboard. The girls had so much fun!

~The Hostess with the Mostess~

Beautiful girls
Mari, Bella, Denali, Emily.
Fun times!

The table all set for the girls!

Ice skating with Denali .The girls had a blast!
While their brothers attended a church event from our church,
Emily and Denali enjoyed this one with Denali's church.
Those girls tore it up!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

~First Day of School~ 2010

The first day of the 2010/2011 school year went great!. Emily was so excited for school to start. Although she enjoyed summer break she was more than ready to get back to school. Emily has an awesome teacher (again) and more familiar classmates this year. God definitely answered our prayers! Seeing her truly thrive and overcome the challenges from last year has been amazing.
Ethan and middle school agree with one another so far. He is loving his new level of independence. Watching him grow up is bittersweet. I am glad its a gradual process.I am so proud of him and who God is molding him to be.

2nd grade and 6th grade - here we come!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Houla and the Pizza Box

The Houla is a very vocal thing and the saying "The squeeky wheel gets the oil" very much applies to this critter. The only part is we don't (always) give in to the demand no matter how much he squeeks. Usually when I make dinner he is right by my knee and feels he complusion to bark intermitently as if to say "Hurry up!" "Don't forget ME!".
I was making pizza for dinner and place the box by the trash can to go out later. Houla gets a whiff of the pizza box. After a few unsuccesfull attempts at trying to get into the empty box, Houla decides to plop himself on the floor and be patient while I finish up dinner.
He does well for a bit and then I turn around from the sink and see he has scooted himself to the box. The pictures show the progression. It was such a "had to be there moment".

That Houla makes life and bold adventure! :)

Closer.....

a little bit closer....

Uh-oh!

Score!

Houla and the Frisbee

So, the Houla needed some play time. We got the frisbee out and skid it across the floor. Buddy chases right after it. However, he could not get it flipped over. He scooted and scratched at that thing like a woman trying to pick up a coin with solar (fake) nails. Oh, did we laugh! Poor thing got so frustrated and started this funny little bark directed at us and the frisbee. That made us laugh even harder. Fun Times with the Houla!

The Bark!