Taylor is a high school graduate

Taylor is done with High school!  Finally!  She was so ready to be done.  She is going to Arkansas with Gentry Sutherland from church.  They are going to have a great time and take good care of each other.  She had a week off of school while others were studying for finals.  Her last week, she had a senior ceremony (pictured below with Clarissa).  Her graduation was on Tuesday, June 2nd at 7pm at UNT.  Kristen and I went and met my parents. Carleigh was there too because she was an usher.  She also cut her hair just a few days before all of this - it's so cute!

When she walked in, Kristen recognized her but I didn't because she had borrowed Carleigh's shoes.  I pretty much know she doesn't wear black heals.  But she looked so pretty and grown up that night.  There were only about 150 graduates for the Argyle HS Class of 2015.  She's in the center of the picture below with blonde hair.  The next picture is Carleigh in the back, being the school rockstar that she is (she is involved in everything).  

When she walked across the stage, we all yelled really loud and she said she heard us.  We are so stinking proud!  I can't believe she is going to college.  She is getting so old, my little sister all grown up.  She has made some amazing friends down here, still has some great friends in Arizona, and I keep promising her that college people are so much better than high school people.  The whole ceremony Kristen and I chatted.  We remembered our high school graduations.  We remembered Dane not going to his.  We remembered the girls with us at ours, so little (Carleigh wasn't born at Krsiten's).  We made fun of the funny things these high school seniors said in their speeches, thinking they were saying important things they knew but knowing they would learn so much more in college.  It was just pretty funny.  

After Taylor walked across the stage, she got to Carleigh in the middle and they hugged real quick.  It was cute.  Not too much emotion for them, but still cute.  Love those two.  I also got to watch Leighton, Kenna, Jessie, Claire (from bible study), Evan, Clarissa, and Sofia (her friends) graduate.  I like that for just a little while I got to know her life there really well.  Plus, afterwards, I saw Karla for the first time in 2 years!

We took pictures afterwards and laughed for like an hour.  She was so happy and proud and relieved that it was all over.  She was beaming!  So proud of her!  Afterwards we had to head home because it was late.  Carleigh had to go study for exams.  And Taylor got to go to Project Graduation.  Such a fun night!

Tay Tay Visits

After Harper's eye surgery, Taylor came up to stay with us for the day.  She had no school for the week because she finished her college classes and had no finals, but graduation was still a week away.  So we were super excited that she was bored and wanted to come see us.  She played with the girls and brought Harper an Elsa crown.  Both girls love her and were so excited to spend the day with her.  She takes tons of pictures and videos all the time so I got some really good ones that day.  The next morning seemed so quiet without her here, so we texted her how much we missed her. 

Rough Riders Game

Kathryn and Mark took us all the the Frisco RoughRiders game the last weekend of May.  We were late because Paige was napping and we weren't really sure how long she would last anyways.  We had the seats in the wheelchair section which was nice because the kids had more room to play and didn't have to sit so still.  But I don't think we really were supposed to be there playing around because the lady who worked there gave us the stink eye every five minutes or so.  We ate hot dogs and the girls ate chips.  Well, the girls ate like 3 bags of chips each and thought it was their birthday or something. The kids had a good time and the adults just were up and down making sure no one got lost or had enough food.  Paige did not like the game.  It was too loud and it was too full of people and the wind was blowing so she pretty much cried the whole time.  It was a quick game and we all headed out.  Grayson ran the bases after with the other kids and loved being on the field. 

Mother's Day with KK

We were in Frisco for Mother's Day brunch with KK.  We just hung out and made breakfast there so the kids could run around and play.  Grayson begged to hold Paige as soon as we got there and he did so great.  He's going to be a great big brother to Ellie soon.  It was a great morning and then we headed back to have dinner with the Hempkins'.  

Grayson is FIVE!

 Grayson turned 5 on the Monday of Memorial Day.  I can't believe this kid is so big!  He is super smart.  He loves to draw and color and he does homework at night (homework!).  He is amazing at sports, especially baseball, and can already hit off coach pitch.  He is an avid sports fan and can name all the Rangers by position.  He can swim by himself and sound out words.  He is such a sweet boy, he is always giving hugs and kisses and even though he's crazy, he's also super quiet and shy sometimes.  He has this awesome sideways smile that he does when he's being shy and he makes me laugh all the time.  I love this crazy boy!  Being his aunt is so much fun!

We all went over to Kristen's for his birthday.  It was still raining so we couldn't swim and had to play inside.  Taylor is always a favorite.  Paige had a bit of a rough night, not sure if she liked being passed around so much.  We all just hung out and the kids ran around having fun. 

After dinner, we had cake and sang Grayson happy birthday.  He "made a wish" and later told Kristen that his wish was that she would play baseball with him every single day.  So cute - but probably won't happen!  He had his plain white cake with white icing and loved it.  His party with his friends was superhero themed, so he had a little of that too.  He doesn't care about cake much, but Reese sat patiently waiting because that girl can put an entire cake down.   

He had so much fun opening his presents.  He opened ours early that evening because I didn't wrap it super well and he knew what it was as soon as he saw the size.  It was the bow and arrow he wanted and he literally was jumping up and down excited.  He also got rangers gear and a lego kit and tickets to go to the Rangers game with the McCools.  He was in heaven. 

We bathed and got pjs on. We attempted a cousins picture which wasn't successful, but was also pretty funny.  On the way out the door, I hugged Grayson and embarrassed him a little, so he tried to ninja chop me.  So it took me awhile to back out the door successfully.  Love that kid.