Have a great weekend!!

cake topper for bridal shower

just a little something I whipped up...

and another angle

and another...

Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Congratulations Reid!!

Reid had his Kindergarten Graduation today!
He was so proud... but I was more proud! So cute.
His teacher, Mrs. Sommerfeld, is so sweet. She has been so good to him and I know he will miss her after this year.
She put most of that stage together herself, she is just that way. All year she has gone above and beyond to make things special for her class. We love her dearly.
It has gone so fast... how? One day I was swaddling him and giving him a bottle and now he is reading!
Next time I will turn around and he will be looking down at me and yelling, "Bye, Mom!" as he drives away in his truck!
Rip my heart out.
I made it through his graduation ceremony without crying... but then we went back to his classroom, and his teacher had made a slide show for the parents to watch.
And then that dang Taylor Swift song about growing up came on... "oh, darling, don't you ever grow up... just stay this little..." and I was totally undone. I was a blubbering mess from then on.

At least I didn't cry as much as the first day of Kindergarten... right?



Congratulations, Reid... you are such a sweet, handsome, smart young man and I am so proud of you!!

Have a great weekend!!

Hugs,

let me just catch you up...

Here are some fab wedding pictures, all by Jackson Wright Photography. You can check them out on thier website... awesome.

And of course, flowers by MooseFeathers...

Well, it looks like I am down to posting once a month... really nice. I am so sorry.

I have no real excuse other than we have a million irons in the fire right now.

With the end of school and mommy working a bunch, the blog kinda gets left on the back burner. Well, actually we just took it off the stove all together, now didn't we?

My brother Rob graduated last Friday from Texas A&M. He started work this morning. It is still so hard to believe.

This time two years ago he was in a war zone in Iraq. Now, he has finished his school and is moving on with his life...

We sang the national anthem Friday at his graduation... puts things in perspective. He helped defend our freedoms and help keep that flag in it's place. He came home (not injured) and finished school. How fortunate we are as his family that he came back.

So, he sat there with the other thousands of names and waited for his degree. No one really knowing what he has been through, or what he sacrificed of himself, to get to that point.

Words can't describe that amount of pride, as a big sister, of someone who has made himself into someone worth so much respect.

(I want to pat myself on the back for only crying in graduation one time... just so you know.)

Thank you to Rob, and all our service people, for thier sacrifice. Let us never take that for granted.

Blake has very little time left in PreK. 3 days, to be exact. My babies are growing up too fast. The next few weeks will be filled with parties, programs, water days at school... Kindergarten graduation for Reid... I am sure I will shed a few (wink) tears...

I am so ready for summer, and fun and sitting around and having our day start in pajamas!

And, for the folks interested in weddings and flowers, here are some pictures of Chelsea's wedding this past April. So cute! She did lots of the styling herself and I am very impressed with the turn out! They are a cute, funky, artsy couple and had a wedding to match!

Congrats, Chelsea and Andy!!

Y'all have a great Monday and a great week... will try to post more soon!

xoxoxo

Hello, Again!

Hi there! I am so sorry it has been so long for me to have posted!

Life around here has been crazy. We have nearly survived a spring wedding season... Now we are on to Easter, Mother's Day, and prom!

Around the Robinson estate, we have been ripping up carpet, painting paneling, changing light fixtures... It's been wild! But, when you are decorating and sprucing for everyone else, you kinda feel like you should be able to do it just a bit at home, too.

The boys are doing great. Reid is loving school and really growing up right before our eyes! After the 4th pair of school shoes this school year alone, I am wondering if Reid has growth "spurts" or if he is just an out of control bean sprout??

Blake is also doing great. He is excited about Kindergarten at Krause next year, and to be on the same awesome playground as Reid.

Owen is hilarious. He is getting tall and skinny. Both of those words are relative, of course.

He is talking as if he were 5, and thinks he's 10. He will go three mornings in the fall to St. Paul's as a Frisky Frog. I am guessing there aren't many frogs any friskier than Owen.

Here are some pictures of what we have been up to lately.

wedding centerpiece

wedding centerpiece the individually wrapped lavender on the table were the guest's favors to take home Large centerpiece

Centerpieces had: stargazer lillies, daisies, purple iris, roses, waxflower, etc...

centerpieces

square vase with large spray on top

In the garden right now...

everything is so pretty for spring.

A planted wooden box in the garden out back.

a stargazer lilly.

so pretty, who doesn't like these?

It wouldn't be spring w/out a butterfly in your floral arrangements.

A silk floral church spray.

a wreath made for drying

When your roses are done in the vase, stick them in a grapevine wreath, and have a keep sake.

I love potted containers. I alway swear in August when I am watering them, I will never plant them again. But, spring is deceptive, and hopeful, all at the same time. So, here I go again with my pots!

When you are in love with pots, and plants in pots, you probably love old junk w/ your plants and pots too!

The more the merrier!

The garden outside my kitchen window. We sit here and eat breakfast or dinner sometimes.

There is a bird bath and a bird feeder that I try to keep birdseed in.

The boys like to try to name which birds they are.

I like to mix the herbs and flowers in this bed.

It's fun to watch it grow and progress and it's easy to maintain because it's size isn't overwhelming.

Thanks, Granny, for pulling these plants stands out of the garbage! They are awesome, and already cute and worn for me.

How cute is this?

Blake's class made a book about "Thier Favorite Uncle" and he was really proud.

We had to text Uncle Rob a picture.

In case you can't read it... it says

"My favorite uncle is Uncle Rob because... he goes swimming with me at Granny and Pa's house."

Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

A Fun Weekend in Review

Saturday started out really rainy and pretty darn chilly... but it ended up being beautiful.

We made a quick trip down to Houston for the zoo! We have a family year pass b/c we love it so much.

We met Granny and Pa down there for a few hours... Pa is going out of town for two weeks, and needed a grandson fix.

Reid chose the lion for his carousel animal... fitting.

Reid got to feed a giraffe!

In the new African part of the Houston zoo, they have added some really cool stuff.

You can eat at thier new restaurant, feed the giraffes, see the monkeys in thier new home...

it was alot of fun.

Owen is fierce.

Owen says, "I look like daddy."

Owen after the carousel ride.

Blake's rodeo was last week.What a cute little cowboy!

Big hat, little man.

Cute!
I pinched his cheeks like 10 times that day.

This kid LOVES animals.

Mommy having fun on the back porch.

More fun.

And more.

Spring does this to me.

I am ripping the house apart as well... I will show you some of those pictures as I get them!

Have a great week!