My purple girls!

They are too cute!

UT game

We try to go to at least one game a season, however due to our growing family size, we might not be able to keep up this family tradition, unless someone wants to donate tickets to us. :) Felicity loved walking around campus and taking pictures before the game. During the first part of the game she was pretty scared because of the loud noises, but eventually she warmed up and had a blast. Josephine was a trooper and made it through her first UT football game like a champ! The cherry on top was that the longhorns won!

 

Nautical Baby Shower

This weekend I hosted a baby shower for my sister-in-law who is due in a few weeks with a surprise! Her nursery theme is nautical, so it was really hard not going too crazy with all of the cute nautical stuff out there right now. We had a great time and she got a ton of gifts and diapers, I think it was a success!

 New favorite thing to have at showers, so tired mommy's don't have to hunt down your address to write thank you notes!

 No party would be complete without a few cake pops!

 These little sailboat jello cups were super easy, cute, and delicious!  

 Malia's cookie lady did awesome as per usual :-) 

Can't wait for you to be here baby Steely!!!

Felicity's Butterfly Birthday Bash

I still can't believe my little girl is 2 years old now! We had a super fun butterfly themed party for her, last Saturday. The best part of the party was the massive bounce house water slide, which I think Kenneth had more fun on than Felicity. Unfortunately, since it was a water party, I decided to wear my swimsuit and cover up... not realizing that it would cause some pictures to be kinda inappropriate. So there's the disclaimer, I wish I could go back in time and just wear a dress, oh well. Other than that the day was great! Here are some pictures from the day.

 Bump buddies!

 Woah. Look at that back swing!

 These girls were serious about designing their own butterflies!

 We gave Felicity a Minnie Mouse bike, I think she almost dropped to the floor with excitement. She didn't want to get off and had everyone push her around the whole house.

Perhaps the biggest smile, however, was reserved for her new baby cousin, Jude. She loves him so much!

Hey there, meet Josephine!

This post is dedicated to my faithful blog readers, i.e. Leigh.
And maybe the handful of other people who have noticed I haven't posted anything since February...

Drum roll please... We have a new child! Meet Josephine Colette. She is a child of God and we are so blessed beyond words to have her in our lives.

 Seconds after she was born. Kenneth was so happy to have another girl.

I was pretty happy too! To have a girl and to be finished with labor.

Isn't she just lovely? 

She was named after the following people:

My Grandpa Joe 

Kenneth's Grandpa Joe

Jesus's adopted father St. Joseph

St. Josephine, who is a fairly new saint, canonized in 2000 by Pope JPII. Read her inspiring story here. 

Her middle name, Colette, is after St. Colette. Her story is equally as cool. 

Valentine's Day Pop-tart Breakfast

It has been so long since I've posted anything because I lost my camera cord that connects to the computer... but that is going to keep me away no longer! I do have a iphone for pete's sake! 

Kenneth has been asking me to make homemade pop-tarts for a while now. He loves cinnamon-brown sugar pop-tarts from the store, but I can never find them without the icing on top, which sends his blood sugar levels through the roof. I found a few recipes I wanted to try and thought that this morning was the perfect opportunity! 

So... this is what I made Kenneth this morning for breakfast. 

He was very excited about his cinnamon-brown sugar pop-tart! 
Here are the two links I used to create this fun treat.

Cinnamon-brown sugar pop-tarts 
Strawberry Heart pop-tart

I didn't have any pie dough on hand, so I made some homemade instead that was too easy! I may never buy pie dough again :) Who knew it is just flour, butter, salt, and cold water? Here is the recipe I used:

Quick and easy pie dough

Happy St. Valentine's Day!!

Austin

Last week I was able to tag along with Kenneth's recruiting trip to Austin. We happened to be there on September 11 and the campus had 3,000 flags in front on the tower to commemorate the fallen. Felicity wanted to pull up all the flags so we did not get to take many pictures. We then happily strolled around campus and stopped by Bevo for another photo op in the Texas Exes Center. It was so much fun being on campus again.