Blessed in Boyd Happiness

Two weekends ago we celebrated the marriage of Jon's little brother Joel and his new wife Mary.  We have known Mary for a very long time.  In fact, here's a little story...

First of all, Jon and I led "Rock Groups" in high school when we were first married.  Mary and Joel happened to be in the group together (not dating at the time).  So later, when we heard they were dating, we were excited for them.

When Jon and I found out we were pregnant with JD, it coincided with his older brother David's wedding.  So we decided to share the news over a family lunch at our house the day after the wedding.  Of course, his family didn't know that we were planning this.  At church, Joel approached and asked if he could bring Mary.  We didn't want to say no (seeing as this was one of the first times she had done anything with the Boyd family) and Mary came over for lunch.

As we were praying before lunch, we casually slipped in the baby news.  Everyone was so excited, of course, but Jon and I felt bad for Mary who had unknowningly stumbled into one of those "awkward family moments."  We both hope that she felt immediately part of the family from that point on!

So back to their beautiful wedding...they chose a very pretty park up in McKinney for the ceremony. 

The park allowed us to hold the rehearsal dinner there as well, so we had a "country-style" rehearsal dinner to fit in with the outdoor surroundings with Jon cooking the fajitas for the dinner.  Lots of fun and only a little bit hot!

Mary is a "do-it-yourself" gal and had made all of the decorations herself for the wedding, as well as picked out fabric and designed bridesmaids dresses, groomsmen boutiniers, bridesmaid bouquets of buttons and pretty items...the list goes on and on.  Amazing!

We were so happy to see Joel and Mary start off with such a beautiful wedding and wish them a lifetime of happiness...Boyd style of course!

A Much Belated Blog Post

Well, my big excuse is that I couldn't find my camera connection cord (which isn't a standard USB connection cord).  But of course, my sweet husband literally opened up a cabinet after 2 minutes of helping me hunt and there it was.  I spent at least 2 weeks looking for something that he found in 2 minutes.  And that is why I got married. 

Anyway, we had some major milestones over the past couple of weeks. 

JD had his last day of preschool! 

They had the cutest program with singing and dancing.  JD did such a great job!  I won't bore you with the video, but I have to say that JD was quite the singer and dancer!!  I loved it!

JD with some of his artwork over the year.  He was pretty proud of these projects. 

JD with his teacher Miss Lisa.  He has already been talking about her and how much he misses her! 

Meg and I enjoyed the brief spring weather during JD's last few days of school.  Too bad it is already 100 degrees!  It went so fast!

Meg wanted to try out JD's scooter.

She also learned some new dance moves and likes to strut her stuff!

So much fun!

Coming up...wedding activities!!

Sunday Afternoon

We had such a lovely afternoon outside in our backyard after church on Sunday.  The weather was perfect and we had a cool breeze drifting through, so we never got too warm.  I know we won't have very many days like this left until our backyard turns into a sauna, so we took advantage of it!

I hope there are many more afternoons like yesterday!!

Meg the Egg

We've got quite a few nicknames for Miss Meg (on top of the obvious one that is Meg, short already for Margaret)!

JD's favorite is Megger Beggers
Mine is MegaGirl
We also throw in Meg-ret, Meggy, Megster, Meggy Sue...list could go on forever!

Meg's cousin Madeline likes to call her "Egg," which I thought was very appropriate given the season!

So here are some Megger Egger Easter pictures!

On the Hunt

Our friend Tricia has hosted an Easter Egg hunt for the past few years and JD was looking forward to it all week last week.

Unfortunately, Meg caught a pretty severe virus that left her with a high fever and a rash.  Poor baby girl.

Thank goodness, the fever subsided on Thursday, so that we were able to get the kids looking cute and at the Easter Egg hunt on Friday!

 They were both pretty excited about the party.

 The kids all lined up and ready to go.  Can you believe this is Tricia's backyard??  Beautiful!

 Of course, Meg's first egg is a pink one.

 JD was very proud of his haul of eggs.

 Meg was pretty excited about the whole egg concept.

 Meg and Tricia's son Nolan enjoyed sharing some bunny crackers and a chair together.  They are about 6 months apart in age.

The party ended with some tears from JD because he lost his favorite egg prize and thought that meant the Easter Bunny wouldn't visit him on Sunday to teach him a lesson about losing toys.  JD gets such vivid ideas in his head!  He is a thinker!

We are ready for the Easter Bunny to make a visit this week!!

4 Years and 15 Months

We made it into the doctor late last week to get the kids checked-up'd and recorded.  It was the first time that both kids went in and neither was diagnosed with ear or sinus infections while we were there for a well check.  Of course, both kids have had a virus since then, but whatever...

And to mark such a momentous occasion, we took the kids for bluebonnet pictures...okay, not really, but I wanted to show off my pictures on the blog!

So my big 4 year old measured in at

42 inches tall (yes, he can ride the slide at the Broadmoor Hotel now!) - 85th percentile

42 pounds - 75th percentile

The doctor still says JD is tall and skinny, although that weight percentage always throws me!  He always impresses the doctor with his vocabulary.

My sweet 15 month girl measured in at

31 inches tall - 35th percentile

23 pounds - 50th percentile

Meg is doing great with all of her physical milestones and can pretty much run from A to B.  She can lift her arms over her head when you say "hands up" and loves to say "doh" or no when you ask her to point to her nose, ears, head or mouth (all things she can do but refuses to when asked).  She also stubbornly says "mam" instead of mama, but says a very cute "dada."  She will point to the tv in the car every time and say "Deedles" so she can watch her favorite video of the Wiggles. 

Meg will babble a blue streak and then look at you as if you should know what she said and she will actually get frustrated when you don't respond.  She also likes to color and flip through books (two things that my son was not fond of at that age). 

JD has always loved the "doctor house," mainly because of the toys and the lollipops.  But the 4 shots that he got this time changed his mind.  JD was downright livid that he got those shots and started to cry every time he thought about it for almost a day.  Poor guy!

Meg got her usual 2 shots and screamed, but got over it pretty fast.  But she is always leery of the doctor and hates to have ears, eyes and nose examined.  JD has never really cared about that part.

I'm proud to see my two kiddos growing, thriving and learning new skills with every visit! 

Partyin' with the Potato Heads

For JD's 4th birthday party, he REALLY wanted a Mr. Potato Head party.  Little did he know that most kids his age were into Spiderman, Diego or just about any other character out there and that there hasn't been Mr. Potato Head party goods on the market since around 1989.

That didn't stop me though!  First, we decided that it would be fun to share a party with his cousin Kenna who is just about 1 year younger than him.  Second, we had to go about convincing her that Potato Heads were pretty awesome.  I got her a Mrs. Potato Head as an early birthday present to kind of warm her up to the idea.

Then, we had to decide on a location.  After much deliberating between McDonalds, Bounce Houses and Gymnastics, Gymnastics won, since Kenna had newly started and JD has always enjoyed the parties at the gym.

Next, we enlisted Heather's friend Kristi to design our party goods.  Since she was looking to expand her party portfolio, she offered to help us out! 

Check out Kristi's blog for more of her party design services!  http://kristiskringles.blogspot.com/

The invite...

The favors, which included a Potato Head coloring book, crayons, Toy Story stickers (with Mr & Mrs), Fruit Snacks, and a Mini Potato Head!

 The birthday boy!

 Such a cute cake, designed by a local bakery in Allen

More cute party printables for the cupcakes

Both birthday kids in their potato head shirts!

 

And oh yeah, the kids LOVED the gymnastics part!!

JD couldn't decide what he liked the most about his party - the potato heads, gymnastics or all the friends who were there!  Sounds like a success to me!

Thanks again to all the friends and family who made it to this special event!!