Ready to Be Myself

Brady did a cover of Uncle Dave's newest single, "Ready to Be Myself."  And if you haven't bought the new album (For the Life of Me), go straight to itunes and buy it!  (After you watch my video first.)  :)

Happy Belated 2012!

Is this really the first post since Christmas?? My apologies. Guess I've been a tad busy.

I'll try to catch you up...

We brought in the New Year with our besties, the Voskamps. We realized how lame we were that we were tired around 9:30.

Annalee had her first Awana Grand Prix...she had fun making and racing her own car.

We got to go visit the ranch we sort of own now (long story) that's just northeast of town, called The Nail. It has a really cool man-made pond complete with a zipline, a shooting range, a gazeebo, and a large facility to be used for parties...even has a kitchen & bathroom. Gonna spend a lot of time there this summer.

Brady is still really into puzzles!

Lee took Annalee & Addie to a Daddy/Daughter Valentine's dinner at church. It was precious helping the girls get ready...they wanted everything to be perfect for Lee.

Brady has become quite the singer. He spontaneously bursts into song throughout the day, and is more than happy to put on a concert for you. Here he is singing along to Uncle Dave's Papaya song.

Addie can read!

On a whim today, I pulled out one of Annalee's 1st grade easy readers and handed it to Addie, asking if she wanted to try to sound out a few words. Whelp, she showed me...she read the entire thing by herself! But she wasn't proud of herself or anything...

Then I got out Annalee's kindergarten easy readers and she got through the first 3 in about 10 minutes with very little help. Here's a video.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

As we've done the past several years, we went to Lubbock to visit my fam on the 22nd and came back Christmas Eve. We like to do as much as possible while we're there...

Science Spectrum

Dawson was fascinated with the electric train...

...but he was quite leary of the life-like T-Rex that moved & roared.

Waiting to board the Polar Express

playing with new presents at Nana & Papaw's

On to Christmas Day...we couldn't believe we woke up to a White Christmas! The 3 older kids were so excited, it didn't seem to bother them that they couldn't ride their new bikes (girls) and big wheel (Brady).

We had an awesome snowball fight at Mimi & Pop Pops' house...although it would've been so much better had it been the Midland year for the rest of Lee's siblings! :)

Awww, mean Daddy!

taking a break to taste the ammunition

Brady made a snow angel.

Never eat yellow snow.

SNOW!

Well, the weathermen came through with their snow prediction! Our first snow of the year was perfect for throwing, eating, and picture taking. As I look out my window now, it is still coming down pretty heavily, and has been since late last night.

The kids couldn't eat breakfast fast enough...they got their snow clothes on in a hurry and went outside to play. Happy Snow Day!

Annalee got ambitious and built a snowman in our backyard...all by herself. I think it's pretty good!

old blog address

Just in case you ever want to see older posts, you can still go to our old blog address: www.aboyandhisgirls.blogspot.com. I added a feature that lists the top 10 most popular posts from the past 4 years to the bottom of the sidebar on the right.

You found it!

Welcome to our new blog address! This is where you will find all future posts. And lookie...to the right over there on the sidebar ------> you will see a new feature I added where you can get e-mail updates when a write a new post (thanks, Keith!). Neat-o!

Here's a super-cute video of Dawson reading his favorite book, Llama Llama Red Pajama.