Wow!

Ok, I am terrible. It has been way too long since I have posted anything on here. Quick synopsis of what has been going on with the Greathouse family.....we moved into our house the first of June and are really loving the area and being near everything and everyone. About a month after we moved we found out we are expecting baby #3. We are still pretty shocked and can't believe we will be adding another little Greathouse to this already crazy family. I am due February 24 and we will find out in about a month if it's a boy or girl. We have had a fantastic summer and I can't believe it's almost September but I think we are all ready for some cooler weather. We took a trip to Port Aransas with our Supper Club group and all our kiddos and had a great time. The kids have been asking about the beach ever since we came home. We went to Sea World first to split the trip up, they loved it.

Steven is once again looking for a job. His current position will probably end at the end of Sept but he can extend it if he wants for a few months so he is taking his time trying to find something else. The kids have both started taking gymnastics and Audrey is going to start taking dance classes next week. So cute!!! They are also going to start their new school and I am so excited for that. I am going to continue working a couple of days a week while they are in school but after #3 gets here I'm not sure what we will do.

Well that is a short version of what has been happening. Here are a few pictures. I don't have many b/c I dropped my camera in the stinkin ocean and it obviously no longer works. Whooops!

I will try and get on here and post more often. I got in trouble from Papaw that I needed to put some new stuff up here so I better listen.

Sea World at the Shamu show

Audrey Kay taking a break from the pool

Gavin in his doo rag...long story

Audrey pouting but lookin pretty as always

Tired baby girl on the beach

This was supposed to be a little hug and turned into a strangle of the sister

Boys in doo rags

The Fam

The kiddos looking out at the view from our room

Supper Club 2008

The Big Move

We are about to make a huge transition in the Greathouse world. We are moving back to Fort Worth in 3 weeks. Steven and I are so excited we can't stand it. Steven's job will eventually be moving to Dallas so we thought we should move a little closer so he can have a shorter commute. But in all actuality it will only be saving him about 10 minutes. But we don't really care at this point, we are ready to be back in the city. We sold our house a few weeks ago and then something fell through with the buyers so they backed out. So we are back at square one trying to sell our house. We are still going through with our new house near TCU but we will have to have 2 houses for awhile until we sell the Aledo house. Hopefully it will sell fast.

Gavin thinks he is an explorer most of the time hence the Diego pajamas and accessories. Audrey is his sidekick.




Papaw and his grandbabies. Miss Audrey just couldn't get close enough to him that night. She is all about her Papaw and he gets lots of love from her when he comes over.

Day at the Farm

We had a mini family reunion at my cousin Brett and Nancy's house. They live in Grandview and have cows, horses, a donkey, goats, 6 dogs and a lake to fish on. What fun!!! The kids had a blast!We even went on a hay ride and went to see some old airplanes.

Papaw and Gavin fishing

Audrey fishing with her Barbie fishing pole

Pop-O and kids throwing rocks in the water

Brother and Sister

My cousin Matt is a photographer and took lots of great shots. Here are a few. These pictures make mine look so boring.

Gavin and Mr. Cow

All the little ones in front of the cool airplane

On the hayride with Carla and Bates

Uncle Parker petting the horse. Such a pretty picture.

Easter at the Grandparents

First of all, let me explain the black eye. After the zoo on Friday, the kids stayed at Mama Lizz's so we could go to Jessica's birthday dinner. When we got back the kids were wired tired and crazy. Gavin was upstairs, not paying attention and took a tumble. His eye immediately bruised. Poor guy...I'm sure it will be the first of many.
Another Easter Egg Hunt, this time at the Grandparents. We had a delicious lunch with Grandma, Grandpa, Patrick, Papaw, the kids and Bob's cousin was in town as well. The kids are pretty rotten and got another load of candy and goodies that I in turn have been eating on all week. AHHAA!!

(Pictures are totally out of order, ooops!)

Good Friday Zoo Trip

We decided to go to the zoo on Good Friday during Spring Break along with the other 17,000 people. We went with Mama Lizz and her clan. Kevin, Lizz's beau, and all of his kids (he has five) along with their better halves and kids. It was a lot of fun and the kids were worn out. Gavin's favorite part of the entire zoo were the reptiles. I couldn't believe it, he loved the snakes and lizards. When we told him we were going he said he was scared of the snakes and we reassured him that they would be in cages and wouldn't be able to get him. He acted very scared about it. As soon as we got there he wanted to go see the snakes..."When are we going to see the snakes?" He asked about every 5 minutes. I didn't think we were going to get him out of there once we did get there. It was pretty hysterical!! All in all a great time. They both fell asleep in the stroller on the way out. Success!!!!

Slovak Easter Egg Hunt

Steven's side of the family has Easter the weekend before so we had our Easter this past weekend. What a turnout! Someone said they counted 22 kids. They ordered 25 large pizzas and there were bags upon bags of candy filled Easter eggs. Audrey wore her bunny costume and I just realized that I didn't take any pictures of her in it before she wanted to take it off. Bad mom! They came home with a full grocery bag of eggs and candy. The kids had a blast, as did the parents. We look forward to another fun filled Easter this weekend with another hunt for the kids. Happy Easter!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

A friend of mine from work had a St. Patrick's Day party that was filled with a parade, green beer, green cotton candy, green tree painting, green jello shots (kids and adults), etc. The kids had so much fun and did not want to leave when the time came. I hope we can go next year too!!

Butterfly Exhibit

There was a Butterfly Exhibit at the FW Botanical Gardens so we decided to take the kids. In my head I imagined thousands of butterflies swirling around and how much fun the kids would have with that but of course it wasn't anything like that. There were quite a few butterflies but you had to really look for them and try and get the kids to look in the direction of where one was. It was definitely not as exciting as I had hoped. One landed on Audrey's arm at one point and flew away by the time I got the camera ready. She loved it and held her arm so still. Gavin for the most part was terrified and holding on to me the entire time. I got a few pictures, one of all of us that didn't turn out very well and one with the kids outside the gardens on an iron butterfly chair. I don't know if it was worth the $30 that we spent but we got a few cute pics out of the deal.

Snow in March???

Oh my goodness!!! Who would have thought...snow...March...Texas... It was quite a surprise and we had such a fun time playing in it. Audrey didn't know what to do. It was pretty windy and still snowing and she didn't like the snow hitting her face so she didn't last very long. Gavin on the other hand had a blast. I wouldn't even try to guess how many snowballs he made and threw at all the kids and parents out playing. We tried making a snowman, but of course Gavin thought it would be funny to jump in the middle of it. So we gave up on that idea. After about 45 minutes of playing in it he looked at me and said,"Mommy, I'm ready to go inside. I'm almost freezing." So stinkin cute! I'm so glad we had some snow and the kids got to have a little taste of what it's like. Maybe next year we will have 2 days of snow...you never know.