Happy Birthday Emmitt!

Emmitt is 10!  Double Digits! 

For his birthday party he chose to go to IFly with Taeya.  Its an indoor skydiving place.  They absolutely loved it and did great.  Afterwards we all went to Jasons Deli.  Then on his birthday he enjoyed his presents and chose Culvers for dinner. We had a family dinner on Sunday and he chose to copy Braydens traditional birthday cake so we had a Reeces peanut butter cup cake.  It was yummy!

Homecoming

 Makenna got asked to Homecoming by her friend Mason Neddo.  Its kind of a big deal in Texas.  We had the mums and garters and everything and they went with a fabulous group of friends.  Since there was no actual homecoming at school (thanks Covid) they had their own.  They went out to eat at a fancy restaurant and then had a dance at someones sport court in their backyard.  Then hot tubbing and general hanging out.  From what I hear and what I saw- It was a lot of fun!

Hey guys it's kenna I would just like to add in a few key points that my sweet mother appears to have excluded from this post. Homecoming was a blast. However, this post does not mention that my nose bled. Twice. The first was literally right before we were about to take pictures. I was all ready and in Mason's car waiting for everyone else to get there when I felt it coming and was like "hey mason got any tissues" and he was like "uh I don't know why" and I was like "my nose is about to bleed." Then my nose proceeded to bleed profusely. Luckily between the time of my warning and like five seconds later when my nose actually bled Mason was able to find some napkins so I only got a little blood on my dress. I called my mom who luckily had a roll of paper towels in her car and was on her way already with the Thomases to take pictures. We were able to get the blood out of my dress enough to not be noticed in the pictures and even though it wiped off some of the make up Annie had so kindly done for me, you couldn't really tell in the pictures that my face had just been covered in blood. Natalie came up to me while we were taking pictures and was like "I came here to embarrass you but I didn't even need to it looks like you've got that part taken care of yourself." It was a good time. After that slight little road bump the rest of the night when without complication until I was in the hot tub at someone's house for the after party and my nose bled yet again. I could tell it was about to before it happened so I got out and ran for the door to get some tissues just in time, so no major damage was done there. Also, when I texted my mom just a minute ago that her post left this oh so crucial part of my hoco experience out she said feel free to add it and while you're there put that mason hates you now so you don't forget it. So I would also like to include that mason hates me. Anyways that's my little spiel I hope you have a lovely day :)

This is the "mum exchange" which happened a few days before Homecoming

Makenna and Lucas

Brielle's Birthday

 Brielle is officially a teenager.  Her birthday events were as follows: friend party at six flags with Kennas brownies, presents with the fam- (the guitar was the big reveal), and family birthday dinner at Torchys with the Thomases who arrived on her birthday to accompany us to a BYU game in Houston.  Cheesecake after Torchys.

These fun people accompanied the party to six flags but kept away from Brielles friends (as instructed)

New Carpet

 The day finally arrived.  Ever since we moved in I have wanted new carpet and 6 years of pet ownership has proved that more true than ever.  I really love it!  Feels so new and clean!  Heres a stair pic for comparison but the new carpet is everywhere that there is carpet.

Weekend in Utah

 Makenna and I got to make a quick trip to Utah to visit Brayden and just have a little fun!  We arrived on Friday night and spent that evening visiting my cousin Ginger. We went to dinner and then made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies to take to Brayden.  Saturday we woke up and went to breakfast with Ginger at Kneaders.  Then we drove down to Provo.  Brayden wasn't back yet from camping so we killed some time shopping (which was fabulous).  Then we met up with Brayden,  went to lunch with him and his "girlfriend" Kaitlyn, did some shopping at Walmart, did a little walk up to Bridal Veil Falls, ate some cookies, and then went to the Hemas which is where I was staying.  They are friends of ours that used to live in Texas.  That night Makenna did a sleepover with her friend Evie Biggs.  Sunday we visited and went for a hike up into the Uintah mountains.  Then later we got to see Braydens dorm room and spend more time visiting.  It was a really lovely trip and so nice to spend some time with Brayden again. We miss him but we are glad he is having a good ol time at BYU (despite Covid trying to ruin all the fun).

Sweet 16!

 Makenna had a fabulous 16th birthday!  She started the day with crepes and presents.  Then she skipped school to spend the morning at the DMV and walked away with HER DRIVERS LICENCE!!!  Wahoo!

As always Makenna was happy to share the birthday spotlight with our two birthday doggies.  Gracie turned 2 and Dallas turned 7.  Dallas seems to have caught on to this day with presents for her and presents for him.  He was so excited.

This is her just after passing her test!  She did it!

For dinner we went to the Cheesecake Factory and had a delicious feast.

Other birthday festivities include a dinner with her friends at The Yard in McKinney.  And she just got instagram and got an abundance of birthday wishes on it.  And one of her presents was going to Utah to visit Brayden so more pics of that to come...

Makenna's new gig

 Over the summer Makenna got a job at "The Cookie Rack."  Its a super delicious and cute shop that we heard was opening in Prosper.  So Makenna started to work a bit at the Frisco location until the Prosper shop opened and now she works just five minutes from home.... and she gets to bring home all the extra cookies when she works a closing shift.  So we have all been enjoying her new job ;)