Eight Years Old!

We just celebrated the girls eighth birthday! I can't believe how quickly time flies. To celebrate their birthday, we had a party with their friends, fun with cousins and fun with family!

Getting Supergirl shirts for their party.

Build A Bear Party

Cousins!

Great-grandma!

Grandma, Great-Grandma, the girls and I

Birthday breakfast

Lizzie and her cheesecake

Gracie and her cheesecake

We took the girls out to dinner for their birthday. The waiter  brought them out each a huge piece of cheesecake. They ate almost all of it! They loved being celebrated!

Busy May!

This month has started out so busy! We started the month with the girls last choir performance and sharing program at church. Then we moved on to Mother's Day, Legoland school field trip, and recital pictures! We have had some fun in between.

Sharing Program

My momma and me

My grandma and I

Sweet Cousins

Sweet Cousins

My niece and I

My sister and I

Sweet Lizzie

Waiting for onion burgers at the Onion Burger Festival

Legoland

Summer is coming!

Fun Dinner!

Go Stars!

There is more to come this month! We are only half way through!

Bluebonnets 2016

It's spring and the bluebonnets are in bloom!

 

Easter 2016

We spent Easter with family in Oklahoma. We had egg hunts, ate tons of food and went to church. It was a great weekend of fun and remembering the reason we celebrate.

Easter is such a hard concept to grasp. God sent his son to be crucified, die and resurrected. Grace woke me up one morning this week with a serious question, "what is resurrection?". Not what I expected to answer first thing in the morning. The best I could muster was a caterpillar and how it changes into a butterfly. I told her that Jesus died and then went to be with God to forgive our sins. She seemed to accept my answer but I still felt like it wasn't good enough. It's a tough concept to take in and believe. But as the pastor at my family's church said, to believe is a leap of faith. She had the faith like a child to believe. One of my favorite Easter hymns was written by Charles Wesley and I love to sing it each Easter.

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

verse 2

Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia! 

Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!

Lizzie hunting

Give me a push!

Grace on the hunt

The haul!

Easter morning

We were lucky that my grandma and Nana could be there.

The Potters

Great-grandma and her great-grand daughters

Grandma and Papa

Dental Work

Well, Gracie is having all kinds of fun in the new year. Our dentist here wanted her to see an orthodontist for her teeth. Grace had two teeth that were occupying the same spot. He thought she might need braces to get them straightened out. 

Over Christmas, we took Gracie to see my childhood dentist for a second opinion. We made the five hour drive to Ponca City to see Dr. Jim Highfill. He straightened out my teeth and is a great dentist. 

From the Internet research I had done, I thought it looked like it was an extra tooth. But I thought, what are the chances that she would have that when only about 5% of the population has that happen. 

When we went in December, Dr. Highfill confirmed my suspicions. She had what they call a mesiodens or extra middle tooth. He told us that it needed to be pulled and that it might help correct her issues. We left thinking we would find someone in Dallas to pull it. I told Grace that she was so smart she grew an extra tooth!

The more we thought about it the more we decided to go back to Ponca and have Dr. Highfill do it. We trusted him and I knew he would do great with Grace. 

Which brings me to today, we headed back to Ponca and had the tooth pulled. Grace was so awesome. He just numbed the tooth and pulled it. She didn't hurt at all or cry. Afterward, she was as bouncy as usual. I was so proud of her. She amazes me with her strength! 

With her tiny extra tooth. It's behind the front tooth.

No more extra teeth!