My Loves

This year I carried on a tradition I started last year. On Valentines, I make a special dinner for the family. We all love fondue, so this is usually the one time of the year I make it. Cheese fondue with bread and apples, steak and salad was the main menu.

Dinner is made and table is prepared.

 My Valentines enjoying their dinner

 My favorite two little people.

 After dinner, the girls went upstairs to take their baths and I made dessert. Chocolate Fondue...in my opinion the BEST part of the dinner. Yum!

I honestly...can not...get a simple pictures of my girls anymore. They were really enjoying their chocolate with their strawberries, bananas and marshmallows.

This little one hung out around that table and ate and ate and ate. For her to be so tiny, I don't where she put it but she put it somewhere. She kept telling me "Mommy, you're the best cooker ever". LOL

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine and that you felt loved in some way by some body.

Our Award Girl!

Yep....count'em...3 awards is what our smart cookie got for the first semester. Friday was the award ceremony at her school. About a week before we got a invite saying Katie would receive an award. She was so excited that she was getting an award. When it came time for her class to be called, they announce she was receiving the Perfect Attendance Award, Music Award and Chinese Award. We are so proud of her and how she loves to learn. She was over the moon that she not only got one but three awards.

The principal told everyone that how the awards for specials (music, PE, Library, Chinese, etc) are decided is that the teachers of these classes get forms and they are to pick someone from each class the show exceptional attitude towards learning.

What's funny is that she talks alot about both her Music and Chinese class so it was great that she got awards in both, because these seem to be the ones she loves the most.

Way to go Katie, we couldn't be more proud of you!!!!!

Girls Day!

On Saturday I had a day just with my girls. Chris had to work so we decided to make it a fun day for the three of us. I decided to let the girls decided what they wanted to do...as most girls their minds kept a changing. We started out with going to Chuck E Cheese, the it was Jungle Rapids in Wilmington. So we headed to Wilmington and as we got closer they both said they just wanted to shop. So shopping it was. We hit up all the favs...Clarie's, Justice and Barnes and Noble.

Bree was checking out some books...they both love the kids area and looking at books.

 Sisters shopping

 After some shopping are bellies were growling...so we went to Red Robin for lunch. I love their burgers and the girls were very impressed as they both cleaned their plates. Katie even asked for us to come back here for her birthday dinner. While we were waiting on our food we killed time taking photos.

I love this picture

 Being silly...what comes naturally.

 After lunch we shopped a little more and checked out a place called Sweet and Sassy. Katie wants to go here for her birthday. It is a spa for kids. We walked in and it looks like a rainbow busted inside. I have never seen so many colors, sparkly things, etc. Katie was beyond excited to go in a couple of weeks.

Before we left we stopped for some ice cream.

 What??? Do I have something on my face??

 Trying for one good photo of us three. Bree of course had to do her sad face...oh well, still the three of us.

I hope the girls had as much fun as I did. I hope it is memories that they remember and keep close to them cause I know I will. I love that I can have special days like this one with them. They mean the world to me. 

Birthday Boy!

Samson kicks off the birthday month in the Reneau household. He turns 2 today. Happy Birthday Samson!

Doesn't he look happy...I think he is feeling his age. :)

 A little happier now...he got his "birthday cake" bacon and cheese filling for his kong. He will be happy for the next 20 mins or so.

The girls were so excited for his birthday. I had to tone down the plans they had for him. Balloons, card, birthday cake, ect. They love their "brother" as they say. They settled with buying him a couple of treats.

Katie giving Samson a birthday hug after they gave him his presents (which they wanted to wrap). Love them, but had to explain he would be unable to unwrap them. I am sure after school we will be playing a game of keep away (his favorite game to play) with his new toy.

Samson is a great dog. He is so sweet and gentle with girls and a good sport, seeing they dress him up in their dress up clothes. He is also great company for me during the day. He has been a great addition to our family!

Wonderful Weekend Weather!

We had amazing weather this weekend! It was almost close to 70 on Saturday and Sunday was in the 60's. Sunny and beautiful. I have to say...I love that it is late January and we can still break out our flip flops and short sleeve shirts. We had lots of play time outside.


They still love to drive their car around. I had to take a picture because they are both so big now, trying to ride together in this car. When they first got it, they both were small...Bree only wanted to ride in it, but not drive.

This is two years ago in Oklahoma..

Today, they are shoulder to shoulder when they sit in this together. They kind of look like they are driving one of those small clown cars. :)

 Our neighbor Mariah came out to play with us. She is about 4 months older than Bree and both girls love to play with her. Katie and Mariah went for a ride. Mariah got a Jeep for Christmas so they ended up out on the road racing. I love that we live on a cul de sac...very little traffic.

 Bree headed out on her trike....trying to catch them. :)

I have been loving our weather lately. It so nice to be able to get outside and play and enjoy the sunshine. 

Yucky Sickness

I have done really good this year, not one cold...UNTIL last week. I started feeling bad on Wednesday. I had lots going on that day, so I just tried to ignore it. We had our Life Group from church coming over that night and I had to prepare some food.

Thanks to my friend Joy, she gave me some super easy ideas for appetizers. Everyone must have agreed that they were yummy, because there wasn't much left.

By Thursday morning I was definitely sick. I spent all day Friday and Saturday in bed. I know I am thankful for my family, who takes such good care of me. On Thursday evening Katie did so good helping watch and take care of Bree while I rested. Then on Friday morning, I was feeling really bad, but knew I had to get the girls out the door to school. Sweet Katie got Bree up, helped her pick out her clothes and get ready. I was down stairs getting their breakfast ready when they came down stairs. They look so cute and Katie so proud of helping out I had to take a pic.

On Saturday Chris had to go into work for a few hours so Katie once again helped out a great deal and so did Bree. They both played really well and both even took naps for me so I could sleep. Chris did all the laundry and even cooked dinners all weekend for me. It was so nice to be able to just rest and get better. You will probably see a similar post on my other blog...this is one thing I am thankful for, the love of my family and how they take care of me when I am not well. 

Lazy Weekend

This is a post from last weekend. We had a really lazy weekend, not much going on which was nice.



Bree starting off her morning warming up by the fire.

 staying in their pj's watching a movie.

 I got out to run.  I love the view from our subdivision of the Inter coastal waterway. This pic doesn't really do it justice, but it so beautiful and I love to run this part of our subdivision, very peaceful.

 Bree did have a birthday party to go to. All ready and excited to go.

 They were very sweet to include Katie as well. She had fun playing on all the inflatables. I think she has been feeling a little left out as Bree has had two back to back bday parties recently.

 All the kiddos in the inflatable, should I say deflatable, chair. :)

 Bree and the birthday girl Katelynn.

 This is Bree and her other good friend Nyla. She is such a sweet little girl.

Other than the birthday party, we pretty much had nothing else to do but just hang out at home and be lazy. It was nice to not have a laundry list of things to get done in a weekend. :)