Lezlie Andrew Photography

Last summer, for my birthday, my MIL and SIL surprised me and had pictures taken of my kids in a park in Amarillo. One of Carey's friends is a photographer as a side job so she offered to snap them up.

To this day, those are my absolute favorite pictures of the kids. I think I love them so much because I see nothing but beauty when I look at them. I don't see the sweat and tears it took to get them or the stress that we all went through either- because I wasn't there. It takes a lot to photograph 4 children so I appreciated them taking the initiative to get their photos and I've since decided that this is the BEST way to get my children's picture taken each year.

This summer, Carey wanted to get a few of Olivia Claire at 6 months and so I offered to pay the bulk of the fee if she would be willing to have it done while they were visiting in Amarillo. She offered and this is what they got...I am so pleased!

My favorite of Olivia Claire...those little lips are perfectly puckered!

Lezlie Andrew Photography

New Years and Christmas in Amarillo

What a blessing it is to have in laws you actually like! Jerrod's family is fun to hang out with so New Year's and Christmas with them was no different. The kids must have asked over a million (no, trillion) times to open presents after we landed in Amarillo so we made a b line to the house, ate dinner and got right to the good stuff. Again, no one was let down... Blessings abound!! Here are a few pictures of the mess that we made: After we opened presents, we all tried to make it to midnight as a family. We lost Teague first and then, it was Bailey. Emma followed behind shortly and that left all the adults and Jackson. He thought it was super cool to sip sparkling apple juice with all of us out of plastic champagne glasses (thanks Jerrod for picking up the sparkling juice, champagne and cool glasses!) and even cooler when everyone started going around saying, "cheers!" and tipping their glass. You could tell from his face- he felt so priveledged!! haha It was the first thing he told the girls when he woke up the next morning. What a memory!!

Amarillo and airports

Meet our newest family member...Olivia Claire Moore. We had a fabulous girls weekend celebrating the impending arrival of our new baby with my in laws! It was a super special event with a lot of family and friends. Carey got tons of good stuff for Olivia. She will be set- I am certain of that! And check out the cake! I see another one of these in my future- awesome design.

Bailey and Emma felt like "big girls" at the party and for the first time, they actually acted like big girls. They never act bad, but you know how hard it is to get the kiddos to sit still, eat their food with their mouths closed, etc. and our training may have finally paid off (or I scared the boogers out of them with my threats...haha)!! Emma got the majority of the threats since she has been known to act like a dog, start to pet me, etc. in public...super silly. She didn't even lick her plate and I was most impressed! Seriously...good going Emma and Bailey! We had a great time running around town in Amarillo and spending time with family! Fun, Fun!

I did let my hair down a bit and the girls got to ride on the luggage rack at the airport. They begged to do it again last night when we landed at Intercontinental Airport, but there were just too many people there. That's going to have to be Amarillo event since it's a smaller airport (and we don't know anyone else). We only let the kids jump on the hotel beds so I guess I'll have to explain this the same way- someone else's airport! Ha!