College Girlfriends Weekend

This weekend my 4 closest girlfriends from college were in town- I love this annual get-together!  Brooke, Karie, and Jean flew in on Thursday night and stayed until Sunday!  I didn't get many pics, but we had SO MUCH FUN!  We stayed at Suzanne's house (AKA- the Seidel B&B)... as usual, she spoiled us!  Lots of home cooking, eating out, shopping, chatting, and laughing!  Love these girls so much!

Lunch at Palio's Pizza

Dinner at La Hacienda Ranch- Jean, Kristen, Brooke, Whitney, Karie

Playing in the rain

This afternoon it started raining so my mom suggested that Austin go play in the rain (she knew he would love it!)  Well, it's only so much fun to play alone... so mommy joined in!  Sweet memories :)

Splash!

5 1/2- so big!

Catching rain in a bucket as it comes off the roof

The mouth works too... 

Mommy joining in 

Who can make a bigger splash? 

Playing in the super clean water that collected in the cul-de-sac 

This is right before the water fight started~ 

Mother/Son Movie Night

Tonight our church hosted a Mother/Son Movie Night, so we invited Leah & Reid to join us!  The boys had so much fun watching Despicable Me & eating entirely too much popcorn, candy, and soda!  Sadly I don't have pics of the moms/sons...

Ready to go in and get a seat

SO MUCH FOOD... so much fun!

Tball- GO DODGERS

First tball game- Colleyville fall ball

With Daddy 

With Mommy, his biggest fan :) 

Using Daddy's baseball number 

 Warming up

Pre-game pep talk with Coach Chris 

Playing right field 

 Ready to bat

SO CUTE 

 Getting lined up

Waving to all of his fans..... 

 Way to go Austin!

 Daddy giving advice on playing third base

 Time to get serious

 So grown up- it's killing me.

Grant begging for snacks.  Who could say no to that face? 

The winning team- Yay Dodgers! 

 Final thoughts and congrats from coach

Best buddies, Austin & Reid 

Proud moms- Leah & I 

Last FIRST day of Pre-K

Today was Austin's last FIRST day of preschool!  I cannot believe this is his 4th year at Southlake Christian Preschool.. we will be so sad to leave.  He was very excited to see all of his friends & be "the big kids" of the school!

I asked him to stop squinting and open his eyes- this was the result.  

His teachers in the Big Bugs class, Ms Denise & Ms Mona- I can already tell it's going to be a great year... they are wonderful! 

He was ready for me to leave so he could get started!  

It was a great first day~  he told me all about everything they did & is already asking what day he goes back!  YAY!  Now if only kindergarten is this easy next year... ha!

Acts of Service and Kindness- Week 15 (last one)

Week 15- Buying Target gift cards and giving them away to people in the store.

We decided to spend the final week of our summer random acts of service at our favorite store, TARGET!  We picked up a few groceries and then headed to checkout where we purchased 5 gift cards.  After checking out we gave one to the cashier and one to the woman in line behind us... both were in shock and so thankful!

Next we headed to the dollar section of the store and hid $1 bills (Austin's favorite part.)  In the meantime I found something that I wanted to try on, so we headed to the dressing rooms & handed out another gift card to the woman working in there.  She was skeptical at first, but then perked up once she realized what we had given her.

Then we headed to the toy department and hid the 4th gift card near the spiderman toys!  Finally we checedk out again and gave the last gift card to that cashier (who was new and having a rough day working the cash register.)  She was thrilled and said, "I will  pay if forward" as we left.  Mission accomplished!

While our summer of RAOK is over, we will continue to do things sporadically through the year.  It has been such a blessing to us!

Acts of Service and Kindness- Week 14

Week 14- Taking donuts to the police station and fire station.

Getting donuts :)

Austin & Shane delivering to the police department

Someone was ready for some donuts himself!!

We decided to take donuts to a different fire station in Keller this time~