Reese's 6th Birthday Party

Baseball Birthday Party...again 3 years and running;)

So Fun!  Reese is gonna be 6 on October 27th so we decided to have his party a few weeks early due to the busyness of Halloween and fall festivals and blah blah blah:) 

He was so cute.  So happy to be the center of attention!  I loved watching him greet all his friends (he invited ONLY boys:) and open his gifts.  I must say he's a pretty good gift opener too.  He would open the card first, look at the person and smile then open the gift, give a HUGE reaction of glee:) and then say thank you....I was SUPER proud!

We really didn't do too much except play baseball, eat cake and open gifts but that's what my boy wanted so I obliged:)  

All the boys had a blast (I hope;) and the dads enjoyed themselves too...thank you to Greg for all your hard work in the recreation/entertainment department, you did great!

It was a great party! Hope you liked it buddy!

Reese,

Happy Birthday sweet boy!  I love you so much and everyday I thank God that I get to be your Mom.

You have such a joy and zeal for life, everything is an adventure and I'm so blessed to get to be a part of who you are becoming.   These past 6 years have been so much better with you in my life.  I pray we have many more and that with every year you "will grow in wisdom and stature in favor with God and man." Luke 2:52

Always remember to keep Christ first, love others more than yourself, give of yourself and never hang onto anything too tightly.

I love you buddy,

Mommy

I just love this picture...so sweet!

Singing Happy Birthday!

Reese-What if the candle blows out?  Me- We'll re-light it silly:)

 

Bring on the cake!

Look at me...I'm so funny;)

Legos!  Look at that excitement!:)

Nerf gun!! Yay!

So excited to get Tom and Jerry silly bands!

Reese's First Field Trip!!

Today Reese's kindergarten class went on their first field trip.  Reese felt so big and was very happy I got to go with him. When he left this morning he wore his watch and kept asking me when I would be there so we could leave...very cute:)

The class walked to Tom Thumb, a grocery store that's near by, and had a tour of the store and got a class pumpkin.  It is always a ton of fun to try and get 21 kindergartens to walk about 3 blocks to a grocery store and cross a very busy intersection....thank goodness we only had one girl fall and skin her knee and another kid threw-up his orange juice and bread that he got from the bakery--oh joy:)  I just love kindergartners;)

Reese's favorite part was walking into the big freezer.  His hair was so cold when he came out and he thought that was hilarious:)  The manager of the store asked me to close the freezer door on them and honestly it was kinda disturbing closing that door with my kid inside!  I decided I am claustrophobic even when it doesn't involve me...I don't even like someone else being in tight places:)  Ha!
Well I was so glad I got to go with him and I got to learn everything you could ever want to know about grocery stores--yippee;)
I got some good pictures--he's so cute.  You can see how excited he is...

Ready to go!

Walking to the store

Let the tour begin!

Goofy boys!

Reese's class

Rangers Playoffs!!!

This weekend was SUPER busy!  We had tickets to the Ranger/Rays playoff game on Saturday at 4pm so we left the house at 2pm (naturally:) to fight the traffic and "tailgate" (if you will:).  *I come from Kansas City where we Chiefs fans really know how to tailgate so sitting in the back of my SUV eating peanut butter and jellies and chips out a bag just didn't do it for me...ha:) ~jk
Anyways the game was electric and was everything we thought it would be and MORE!  *More meaning we got to sit in the brutal October sun (90 degrees) and bake....honestly it was pretty miserable but we sacrifice for our boys!  Now sadly they didn't pull out a win but that just meant we got to come back on Sunday, which we had tickets for...of course:) This time we left the kiddos back with Greg's parents because it was a 12:07 game and we were gonna roast (which we did..ouch!)
Sundays game was not as "electric" and exciting but it was still super cool!  I am so glad my husband is willing to sell a lung to get us tickets (just kidding:) He has been waiting YEARS for these games and I am so happy we are able to afford to go to all the games...thank you Dave Ramsey:)


Now I would love to report here that the Rangers won Sunday's game but as you guys probably already know we lost 5-2.  Now we could either freak out and get all depressed and be Debbie-downers OR we could just be excited to see the Rangers win tomorrow night!  I pick to be excited and can't wait to see the Rangers come back with a VICTORY!  Go Rangers....WE BELIEVE!!!!

View from Sunday's game...we were pretty high but good view!

Game time!

Saturday's game Aunt Annie and Abby had the same shirts on!  So cute!

The whole family got tickets.  None of us got to sit together but we got to meet up before the game!

The long awaited walk!  These three guys have been waiting for these playoffs for YEARS!  So cool!!!

View from our seats Saturday--left field foul pole. Ian Kinsler's homer landed 4 rows behind us.

It was crazy full...people were nuts!!! 

Aw he was SO excited! 

Go Rangers!!!

Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch

Friday the kids had the day off school so we headed to the pumpkin patch after breakfast.  It was so wonderful....so beautifully full of big plump pumpkins....sigh...I love the Fall:)

The kids were excited about going but when we got there I realized that my "little babies" are getting all grown up:(  They weren't as excited as they used to be.  The maze was too easy, the moon bounces were alot smaller than they used to be and the hay ride didn't give them that twinkle of childlike excitement like it used to.  It was sad actually:(  They are just getting bigger and the toddler things just don't do it for them anymore....so weird to have grade school aged kids now---where did the time go?? This means I am getting older too huh?  Dang!;)
Well we still had some great company with my friends Cari and Kortney and their kiddos.  We had a fun picnic and took some great pictures!  Thanks for the pictures Cari...they turned out great!

Reese liked this pumpkin...he looks so big here!

On the hay ride...See! Where's the twinkle???:)

Look at their faces?  Too funny!

 They loved to climb...right up their alley!

Reese liked these

...and these....goof ball!

All the kids together...notice the baby in front.  That is Mason and his sister Mayce was "holding him up"  aka was "hanging him"- Ha! No worries he wasn't injured!

Now I better be thinking about what my "big kids" will want to do every fall from now on huh?  Any ideas from all you older kid Moms???

It's TIME!!!!

BIG- BIG- BIG Day at the Stamps house today!  First play-off game for the Rangers!  We are crazy excited...we can hardly contain ourselves!!  We took the kids out of school at noon so we would be home and ready for the first pitch at 12:37! (yes, we are the coolest parents ever...you know you're thinking it;) jk!)
Well we are up 2-0 over Tampa Bay as of right now and we have been going crazy!! Go Cliff Lee....Go Rangers!!!
Snacks for the game: Frito chili pies or nachos (they had to pick;) and D.P. floats.....yep, we do it right here at the Stamps house!
Gotta go....got a game to watch!!!!
WAIT NELLIE CRUZZZZZZ.....HOMERUNNNNNN!!!!  OH YES,  I really gotta go!!!!:)

Abby and all her friends watching the game:)

Too of the biggest Rangers fans I know!!! 

Us trying to do the CLAW!  We tried;)

Now that's the correct way!

Celebrating the Rangers scoring!!! We go crazy...I wasn't kidding!:)

Words of Wisdom

Abby:  "Mommy I want to go to TCU."
Me- "That's a great school...start saving your money!" :)
Abby- "Well actually I wanted to go to Texas Tech but my friend Addy (from school) told me it's a party school."
Me (and Greg)-- "pahahahaha!! That's hilarious where did she hear that???"
Abby- "????"

~Where do kids get it???  Wait, I know....their parents!!! Too Funny!!!
At least they listen sometimes:)  ha!

The Great Urban Race 2010

Saturday Greg and I competed in the Great Urban Race here in Ft. Worth.  It's basically like the Amazing Race TV show but instead of finding clues all over the world it's just all over the city.  It was so FUN!   What we didn't realize was what we were getting ourselves into, we probably ran a total of 7 miles after all was said in done:)  I was very proud of Greg because he's not a "runner" and he kept up quite well:) Way to go sweetie!
We started the race at 12:00pm and finished in 2 hours and 16 minutes!  We didn't realize how good we did until we crossed the finish line.  We were the 6th team to cross out of 259 teams!  WOW!  We were shocked!
We had to turn in all our clue results and had everything EXCEPT:( one of our pictures didn't take so we got a penalty!  BUMMER!  So we were the 6th team to cross the finish line (15 miles behind 1st place)  but with the penalty we got 30 minutes added to our time...boo!!  We found out today that that put us in 23rd place and the top 25 qualify for Nationals in Las Vegas...wow right?? We are so excited but it ends up we can't go because Abby's birthday is the same day:( ~ that's ok we now know we can kill it:) and we'll win first place next year!!   So fun...I am so glad we did it!  I think we should go on Amazing Race don't you? ha!

Us right before the race...we had no idea what we were getting into to:)  So sweet...ha!

waiting for the games to begin...

and waiting...together.

alot of people dressed up in silly outfits...maybe I'll get Greg to be a bumblebee next year??:)

one of the clues had us take a picture in front of this sign

high five someone in uniform....there is a policeman in there

we had to go to a kids art studio and paint a picture of Mona Lisa with two modern objects in the picture.  Greg painted headphones and sunglasses...good job Gregory!:)

This is actually a pretty funny story.  We were running along and we just happened to pass a custard (like ice cream, but better) place.  Now I hadn't eaten any lunch and we were super hot AND had been running for about 45 minutes SOOO ok yeah we stopped and shared a bowl...we were hungry and it was yummy:)  We got a few funny looks from some other contestants but we have no shame...apparently;)  It reminds me of high school when I ran cross country.  We would have to run 7 miles after school and about 4 miles in there was a Dairy Queen...yep, we would stop and get one from time to time and run the rest of the way back to school....ha that makes me smile every time I think of it;)  oh the memories!  Anyways while we were waiting to get our custard we turn around and low and behold there was a fountain and one of the things we had to do on our clue sheet was pretend to dive into a fountain....I think it was fate--well, if I believed in that that's what I would have thought it was;)  I think God wanted us to have this custard...don't you? ha!

I can hula hoop all day:)  For the clue I only had to do it 3 times....easy shmeazy ;)

We had to feed each other cookies...they were pretty good.  Yes, Greg was cramming it in my face;)  Thank you very much!

all done and waiting for the bus.  During the race you could only use your feet or public transportation to get around.  We didn't figure out the bus system very quickly but were able to catch a ride back to the finish line...yipppee!!!

ALL DONE...wow, thank goodness what a workout!