Michele, Drew, Anna, and their puppy Buddy arrived in Dallas at 4:00 today!  We are so happy they are home!!!

Anna Kate and Anna with Fancy Nancy and Drew and Noelle giving each other sweet hugs!

The cousins all played together so well at the airport and then afterward at          Chick-fil-A!  Even though they haven’t seen each other in over a year, it was like no time had passed.  At dinner, Brother Man said the prayer… then Noelle said, “My turn!” and said a little prayer… then Drew said, “My turn!” and said another precious prayer… and then Anna said, “My turn!” and said the final prayer.  So cute!  When we got home, Noelle heard me telling Mike about it, and she said, “Mommy, next time, you and Aunt Michele and Fancy Nancy need a turn.  Lol!

One night when Rose was crying, and I was busy doing a million things, Noelle put her bathrobe on top of Rose and patted her tummy until she got comfortable.  She kept soothing her in 3rd person like she always does, “Noelle’s here.  It’s gonna be okay.  Tell Noelle all about it!”  These are my favorite moments of the day right here!

                 

Bekah makes our world a pretty fun place!!!

 

It took Anna Kate a little while to get into playing dress-up after nap time with Bekah, but once she got into it, she loved it!

 

Oh my silly Noelle!  You crack us up!

 

Now isn’t this just the cutest thing ever!?!

Just got this email from Michele:

We’re confirmed to leave Yokota today at 4.  Please pray for a smooth flight and calm heart.  Love, Michele

"We" is Michele, Drew, Anna and dog, Buddy.  That should put them into Seattle at about 2:00 pm Tues.  Then they will have to make arrangements to get to Texas.  There seems to be a bottleneck in Seattle and the Red Cross is helping.

We had Anna Kate’s birthday party on Friday at the carousel!

Happy Birthday, Anna Kate!

 

Anna Kate was checking everything out!

 

Anna Kate was so excited about her party snacks!  Mike and I are always goofing off with the camera – this is one of our silly pics flirting around.

 

Loved how the “Flower Power” theme turned out.

What’s so funny guys?

  

Anna Kate LOVES the “horsies!”

This little party star was hamming it up!

Anna Kate personally invited Ysa to the party when I asked her who she wanted to come – so cute!

Even though Anna Kate isn’t in pre-k yet, she has met so many sweet friends from sissy’s school and from hanging out at the gym!  Kinsey and Ysa are two of her new buddies!

Nancy and John recently moved back to Dallas, so we will get to see them more often! 

Sadie was Anna Kate’s first friend, and it is so fun to see them getting so big together!

Aww… they chose the kitty because of their pet kitty cat, Cheney!

Couldn’t resist one more “party star” pic as Anna Kate hams it up for her biggest fans!

Blow really hard, baby!

Anna Kate enjoying her cupcake!

Anna Kate has a lot of special friends!

This is my friend Tanna, and her little cutie, Brylee~

Noelle, Sydney, and Julia had fun riding on the bench together!

This picture pretty much sums up the day!

 

Bye bye friends!

I love watching Anna Kate learning to be sassy from her sissy!

 

Here’s a picture of the girls before naps.  We all had such a great day! 

I walked into our room today after cleaning up the kitchen from lunch, and Noelle had made our bed all by herself.  How cool is that?  She is such a neat freak!

Elizabeth threw a surprise birthday party for Ty last weekend at Joe T’s… we had SO much fun!  Thanks for having us guys!

Ty took this pic – I was so happy to have a picture taken with my man!

Emme was camera shy tonight, but the girls played and played – Noelle is crazy about her friend Emme!

Mike with the birthday boy and his son, Tate!

 

Rose and Noelle came with us to the party, and Anna Kate had some one on one time at Kay Kay and Grandpapa’s.  Thanks for having Anna Kate Pond grandparents – she had so much fun!  Noelle and Emme loved dancing to the mariachi band!

Ty and E with Ty’s dad, Larry, and mom, Kim.

Thanks for this surprise picture Jon… really makes my mouth water though!  Can’t get enough of this stuff! 

The kids had so much fun tonight!!!