Happy 60th Nana!

We went to Dallas on Friday, September 15th to join in for the festivities for Nana's surprise party. We stayed with Holly and Jason on Friday night. On Saturday morning, we went to the church and waited for the limo to pick us up. It took us to Nana and Papa's house where Nana was waiting for Jason and Holly to get there to go to lunch ( so she thought). Bryce and Dylan walked up to the door with roses in hand and rang the bell. Nana was so surprised when she opened the door. It was very exciting. We then blind folded her and drove around in the limo for awhile so she wouldn't know where she was headed. Little did she know it was a few blocks away at her church where about 40 of her friends were waiting to surprise her. Once we were there, she was very shocked but very happy! It was a great surprise. Very well done Holly and Mr. B! We spent the next couple of hours getting to hear friends tell stories or blessings to Lois. We also had a special guest video from Emma, Clara, Clint and M'Liss who are in Africa! It was a great day! I think this will be one birthday Nana won't soon forget!

A day with friends

Bryce and Dylan spent a day at the zoo with their friends, Georgia and Cooper Davis. Later, we all went to a Fall Bizarre and they got to tour a fire engine and play on inflatables. They wore themselves out running around the hay bales but enjoyed every minute of it!

More of our nephew, Jake.

More Labor Day pictures....

Our pool house opened this weekend also! We were very excited. It has an indoor pool and 2 big water slides! The kids really enjoyed this! I think the BIG kids enjoyed it more though! We had friends and family over and grilled out and let the kids swim for many hours! It was a great day and we enjoyed having everyone over!

Visitors Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Labor Day weekend 2006- Our family came to see us finally! Ha! I guess they got tired of waiting for me to put pictures of the house on here so they had to come visit! That's ok because they brought our sweet, little nephew with them and we loved every minute of it!
Jason and Holly, we really enjoyed our visit with you! I hope Jake got back on schedule when you got home! We loved having you and your room is always available here! Love you guys!

This 4th of July, we got rented a pontoon boat and stayed at the Lake. We enjoyed our company for the long weekend! Mandy, De and Baby De; Brenda and Shannon; and Uncle Stevie and Stephanie came up to visit! We had a great weekend. It was fun and was great to see everyone!

Our Carnival Friends....

Mark and I also met some very wonderful people on the cruise. Unfortunately, we didn't meet them until mid-week but we really enjoyed the few days we did get to spend with them. The two couples we met were, Maria and Joaquin Galindo, and Mandy and Mike Underwood (honeymooners)! Maria and Joaquin are from Miami, FL and Mike and Mandy are from Jacksonville, FL. We were sad to leave them but are looking forward to all meeting up again someday and until then we are keeping in touch via e-mail! Miss you guys!
We also sat with some wonderful people in our dining room! Patrick, a.k.a Grandpa, Marissa and Cara. Those girls took to Bryce and Dylan from the first night! They were so sweet and the boys loved them. They reminded us a lot of our Alyssa and her friends the way they treated the boys! We are also keeping in touch with them via e-mail! Tell Grandpa hello girls! We miss you!

Bryce loved swimming in the pools on board the ship, other than the fact that the water is ocean water that is pumped in each day. He did not like the salt water at all.
Dylan on the other hand enjoyed the 24/7 ice cream machine the most. He would find anyone he could to get him a cone!
The boys also loved Camp Carnival. They made new friends and did many activites! They were Shrek and Donkey in the below picture. The camp counselor was laughing because Dylan was missing an ear and noticed that it had been chewed off! Leave it to Dylan! :)
The other picture is Mark and me in St. Maarten. After snorkeling at an old ship wreck and another reef, we boated over to the French side of the Island and went to the downtown shopping area. It was so beautiful!

And there are more....

More vacation pictures.....

Billingsley vacation 2006

We just got home Sunday from vacation. I must say we had a wonderful time! We took the boys on a cruise. We were on the Carnival Valor for 7 days! It was amazing. The boys loved it. We left from Miami, FL and went to Nassau, Bahamas. Then, on to St. Thomas, USVI and St. Maarten, NA. The boys got to play in the water with dolphins at Nassau. Then we spent the day at Magen's Beach in St. Thomas. Mark and I spent a day by ourselves at St. Maarten on a boat going snorkeling and shopping downtown. Enjoy the pictures!

Ok, so there is not much new to report. I will get house pictures on here soon! I promise.

Here are a few recent pictures of the boys! They are getting too big! Too fast!

Enjoy!

Catching up.... I have a lot to do!

Ok, yes, we have moved in. I still don't have the pictures to put on here! :) I will, I promise.
While I have been putting that off, I have got behind on others. So here they are.

For my birthday this year, I got a new puppy. Her name is Abby. She is a teacup Yorkie. She is a sweetie! She is only supposed to get to 3 lbs. In these pictures, she is barely 2 lbs. She and Bailey have grown to be wonderful friends! I think Bailey enjoyed her time by herself with us after Reilly died, but she now seems much happier to have someone to wrestle and play with!



What else is new?

Here are a few pictures from my trip to St. Louis for Arbonne's National Training Conference. 4 days of girl time and no children. When I say girl time, there were over 17,000 of us there.
We had a wonderful time. There were lots of new products introduced and many wonderful speakers. We left very motivated and ready to get going!
What is Arbonne you ask? If you don't know, e-mail me! I will fill you in!

Ok, ok. I know I put a ton of pictures on of the house before it was done and I haven't put one on there since. We are finally settled to a point where I think I can share a room or two with you. Ha! Here is our formal dining room! There will be more pictures to follow. I have lots of catching up to do! Happy Easter!