Dazzler Spring Show

Emma has been doing Jazz this last year and has loved it. Much more upbeat for her! She did a great job and looked fabulous doing it! Here she is with a couple of the girls in her class after their STELLAR performance of "knock on wood".

Emma's Baptism Day

I am definitely playing catch up today! Our computer crashed last month and I was so upset because I had not saved Emma's baptism pictures. Luckily Emma and her cousin Hayley were baptized on the same day so I at least got a few from Emily. Still sad that I don't have one with just Emma & Ryan or a family one :( Ohe well...moving forward, I will be forever good at backing up my pictures so this doesn't happen again!!! Here are a few from her very special day!

May 2, 2009
Looking beautiful and all grown up in their matching white dresses

We were so happy that we were able to have so much family join us in celebration of the girls

Skipping happily along after after a great day spent with family & friends. Just seeing her all dressed in white made me teary-eyed thinking the next white dress will be a wedding dress. Where is the time going???

good ole' crawfish boil

Since we were still in Louisiana on Memorial Day we tagged along with my parents to their ward crawfish boil. This was my kiddos first introduction to the southern delicacy. If you aren't familiar with crawdads, they are are boiled live in a large pot with seasoning and other items such as potatoes & corn on the cob. I used to love them growing up but have discovered this year that I haven't really missed them much since moving to Texas. It was a lot of work for a little meat. Still fun though and very much a "social food"...fun to eat with friends. Glad the kids could try it for themselves.

Grandma teaching Seth & Emma the proper way to eat the tail of the crawfish. No headsucking!
Seth was a little weirded out but still ate it.

Emma was just freaked out and thought it was gross.

In the end everyone was a trooper and tried something new and unique to their Louisiana heritage.

The girls!

julie & nick

The new Mr. & Mrs. Burton!

Julie looked beautiful in her dress! The little girls were in awe of her and all wanted to help hold the train of her dress as she walked around the temple.

The kiddos all rushed the new bride and groom as they came out. Being the youngest in both families has always made them both the cool aunt and uncle.

It was a busy day. After the wedding which took place in Dallas at the Temple here it was off and over to Shreveport for a reception in the evening.


I love this pic of the bride & Seth! Seth actually ended up getting sick that night and spending a lot of time resting on the couch. Glad we got a few pics of him with a smile on because he looked so handsome in his tux.

The kids all loved getting dressed up!

Julie has great taste! I loved her colors - black, white with splashes of yellow.

The reception was at the Burtons home and of course it was lovely! The only thing that could have been better was if the rain had held off - but no such luck. Ironically, the rain seemed to come just in time for the reception and other than that it was a beautiful weekend! The patio looked great so we did get one pic after the rain had gone.

My men in tux's! So handsome....I love it!

Me with my Grandpa Harry. See the resemblance?

Mother of the bride with my sis Laura. Mom was rather emotional as now all of her girls are married and they are officially empty nesters. At least Julie & Nick will continue to live in Shreveport!

My sis Mandy with her littlest Fox! I love weddings! They are just big fun reunions! We had a great time visiting with family and friends and sharing Julie & Nick's special day!

the night before the big day

The night before the big day, all of the Burtons & Thompsons gathered for a fun evening at Gatti-town! Pizza & games! It was great, especially since between us all there were 11 little ones full of energy.

Sisters.....all with new last names now! 2 Burtons, a Barrow & a McClellan

My little sleeping beauties!

Catching Up.....

Ok....so boy do I have some catching up to do!!! Life has been CrAzY lately and to top everything off our computer has crashed :( So I am hoping that I can recover the pictures that I had just downloaded so I can document some other big events that have been happening like Emma's 8th birthday and baptism. She & Hayley shared their special day. All of her grandparents were able to attend. Hopefully I can post pics of that soon, she looked beautiful in her white dress!
We have also moved! Not far...still in Allen just in a larger home. We were so suprised at how smoothly everything we went. We went looking at homes and fell in love with this one so we thought we would just see what happened by putting our house up for sale and we were pleasantly suprised when within 4 days we had a great offer! So we are still working on getting settled in. I still can't park in the garage though....that's where everything is hidden!! I can't wait for the summer to have a little more free time to clear it all out.

Happy Birthday Dear Erin.....

Erin celebrated her 3rd birthday in May! She is getting to be such a big girl! She still loves to swing as you can see but at least has learned to pump herself this last year giving my arms much needed rest!

These are just a couple of pics from her birthday. The summer concert series in the park has started so we took pizza & cupcakes to share. Erin & Maleah loved blowing bubbles and dancing!

Aunt Emily & Hayley made Erin a cake - all pink, of course!!