May 2018: Wedding Weekend in Texas

We spent our first weekend in May last year in Paris, TX for a Watkins wedding! Patti and Kevin rented a house for us to stay at and it was amazing. An awesome pool overlooking a ranch with lots of cattle!

We had a great time swimming and lounging by the pool 

Looking great for the rehearsal dinner. 

Snuggles with my littlest love. 

Anna was busy with Adell most of the night but I managed to sneak a couple photos with her. 

I love this one...including Thomas' photo bomb. 

 The venue for the wedding was beautiful and even with some rain it was a lovely weekend. 

Family photo!

I don't have as many photos from the actual wedding but it was lovely. The girls loved dancing and it was difficult to get a photo with all the movement. 

They were worn out by the time they left and it was so fun watching them enjoy themselves. 

Kent ladies!

We had a great weekend and we were so happy to be celebrating with Patrick and Haley!

April 2018

April 2018 Flashback!

We spent Easter in Auburn/Topeka like usual. 

We try to dye eggs at my parents every year. I colored so many eggs in this kitchen growing up and it's fun to share that with Anna and Jane. 

Grandma enjoys it just as much and maybe even more than the girls. 

We didn't have our usual egg hunt out at the farm because of the SNOW but we made the best of it and had an indoor egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa's. 

Off they go!

April was also Hailie's first prom! She let me help her with her hair and I was so happy I was able to be a part of her special day. She looked so beautiful!

Anna and Jane loved seeing Hailie all dressed up. 

These are just random but awesome pictures I came across and since they made me smile I had to include them. 

Superhero Sisters!!!

April was also when we moved out of our house and into a super awesome 1 bedroom apartment (it was not super awesome). The girls were sad to be leaving a couple of special trees including this Japanese Maple in the front yard. They loved climbing it. 

It was a good first house and we made lots of memories there. 

We also had Kindergarten Roundup for Anna! It's strange posting this now because we just had Kindergarten Roundup for Jane this past week 😭 I can't believe how old my babies are getting!

It was a really fun evening at Prairie Point Elementary and I still remember how excited Anna was. 

Kindergarten photo booth. 

Jane wanted a photo too of course. 

So far we love Anna's school!

 

March 2018

 I still want to post photos of our old house side by side but I haven't been able to get to that. I keep saying I'm just going to do a couple posts about big events like birthday's and vacations but then I see all the photos and want to post them. I'll try and keep it quick.

We finally got to meet Reed back in March 2018 when Amy came back to Kansas for a visit.  We all fell in love with him immediately of course!

He is such a sweet kid and has the best eyes and smile!

The girls couldn't get enough of him and they would have liked him to stay forever. 

With only a week left before our move we had Easter at our house with Kevin's brother and his family. 

Egg hunts are always fun. 

I love our yearly photo Anna, Adell and Jane all together with their eggs!

There was a big Copp family get together to celebrate various birthdays. I wanted to post this photo of Grandad. He's had so many health issues these past few years and we're very fortunate we still have him with us. This is from year 87 but he's still with us at 88! Grandmom had a health scare last year too but she's amazing and is still doing great as well. 

We had a little fun with some eggsperiments. Reminds me that we need to do this again! 

February Flashback- 2018

My first post of 2018! February last year was hectic as that was the month we listed and sold our house. Kevin was gone for a week in there too and there were lots of last minute things we had to do to get ready. We still managed to have some fun though.

The week of Valentine's Day was the week Kevin was out of town at a conference. It was a bummer having him gone that week but we had some fun with just the girls. We had to do a little baking so we made cupcakes.

Letting Anna and Jane eat some batter is sort of a requirement at this point. 

A couple of super heroes!

In Olathe one of the best sledding hills is right next to the Lowes. We needed something from the store anyway so Kevin loaded the girls up to go down a few times. 

We enrolled both girls in dance last Spring and they loved it.

The cutest little ballerinas!

We met up with some friends and went to KidScape museum. They have an awesome area for kids to do all types of pretend play.  

Jane and her pet poodle. 

The Olathe Library held a Pinkalicious party to kickoff the new PBS kids television show. We didn't really need an excuse to wear pink but we definitely took advantage of the event to wear as much pink as possible. 

Anna and Jane with their friend Riona. 

Our last weekend before listing the house for sale was spent doing some last minute outdoor work. We had to clean up the garden bed and put some fresh mulch down. The girls were a big help. 

They especially enjoyed digging around in the dirt. 

I'm hoping to find some photos from when we first moved into this house and compare them with how the house looked when we put it up for sale. We put a lot of work into the house and all of our efforts really paid off.