Queen Ta Ta

Ta Ta kept Mary Bratton and Beau while Tal and I were at small group on Sunday. When we walked in we found Queen Ta Ta.



What a good sport she is. Mary Bratton loves to pretend. She said that they pretended and played for over 2 hours.
Thank you Queen Ta Ta!

Paw Dad's 70th Birthday

Tal's daddy turned 70 on Monday and we gathered at his house in Deerfield for a little birthday party.


Singing Happy Birthday!
All of the grandchildren with Paw Dad
Tal's sister Lucy holding Laney , Catie (in the gold) holding Beau, Paw Dad,
in the front - Will, Madeline & Mary Bratton

Tal, Beau and Tal's big brother Tommy

Tal and Beau!
Beau has been in daddy mode this week!!

Bringng the fun inside!

Mary Bratton went over to play with Bryant and Mary Grace for a few hours on Saturday. It was raining so Stacy let them ride bikes and scooters in the house - Mary Grace too (how cute is she!) They had a pizza party on the floor and made a fort upstairs with blankets and toys. Mary Bratton had so much fun with her sweet friends. And thank you my sweet friend Stacy for having her!

The days of cute smocked dresses and big bows are over. Unless I want a battle everytime I get Mary Bratton dressed.
Before she even comes out of her room in the morning she gets herself dressed and she picks out her own clothes.

This was today's pick - she wanted to make sure I could get a picture of her shoes. her flower girl shoes that she wore in Sarah's wedding. She likes to put them with tights and a mini skirt. And she wanted a blue plastic barrett in her hair. She said that the white shoes match her white tights and the blue barrett matches her blue mini skirt.











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This was a week or so ago. She was just playing dress up here.

Pictures from Keifers

Beau's first trick!
We ask him
"How big is Beau.......?"
He raises his hands...
SOOOOOOOO BIG!










Mary Bratton loves MS. Jennifer!
I think this is a sweet picture















Mary Bratton wanted to hold Raylin. She was singing her lullabyes!

Mary Bratton talked all day about what she was going to wear to Mary Katherine's birthday party. She is very into matching her clothes and her shoes. It is very sad for me because I don't get to dress her how I want anymore. :( She now has an opinion about everything she wears! she wore what she calls 'her princess dress' and 'her flower girl shoes' - the ones that she wore in Sarah's wedding

Mary Katherine's Birthday

My sweet Mary Katherine's Birthday!!!!
We all went to Keifer's tonight to have a birthday dinner!


This is Chad, Camp & Mary Katherine












Her cookie cake - but we forgot candles!
But we pretended!

















Ta Ta, Mary Bratton, Me & Mary Katherine

Jennifer & Eugene O'Donnell

Dinner at Keifers

Brigg, Christie & Baby Raylin













Chad, Andrea & Hank Edwards









Stacy, Mary Grace & Bryant Seago











Jeremy, Garrett, Sha & Graham Jackson

Pictures from Monroe

Aunt Suzy and Mary Bratton

















Aunt Suzy ( the funny, crazy sister) bought all of the kids whoopie cushions and nasty fake teeth. They loved it. Ta ta said wait until she has grandchildren!

For those of you who met my cousin Jessica - this is her mom. And she also has a son named Jared - they are both in school at Texas State







































Beau and Nasson! Nasson is so sweet to Beau!

Dancing FOOLS! :)

Mary Bratton dancing with her daddy! You can see how much they look alike !






















Ta ta and Nasson dancing!

















my cousins Maria & Alex doing some serious dancing! :)


















When they weren't playing music that Mary Bratton could dance to, she she would go in the lobby AND DANCE. Here is aunt Suzy, Nasson , Mary Bratton and Aunt Mary Gayle.













Take a bow

Symphony pictures

Tal, Beau eating beads, me and Mary Bratton



















My cousin Natalie, aunt Gabriella, my cousin Alex











Me and my aunt Suzy

























Mary Bratton said that she wanted to see mommy and daddy dance. She has done that before. She just sits there and smiles and watches us dance! It is so sweet!

symphony

We all sat at 3 tables at the very front of the party. We were all VIP's thanks to my Uncle Ray!
From left to right
Uncle Ray's friend Lanelle, my cousin Alex (Atlanta), aunt Gabriella ( the best gourmet in the entire world), my uncle Ralph (Mary Bratton called him Uncle Roof Roof), my cousin Maria, My uncle Ray and his friend Pat.



























My brother's beautiful family! Angela, Nasson, Ron and London


















Ron, Mom & Me

Symphony Pictures

We went to Monroe, LA this weekend to celebrate my Aunt Mary Gayle's 50th Birthday. We had a blast. Alot of the Armstrongs came to celebrate.


Here is a picture of all of the sisters
My Aunt Mary Gayle, Ta Ta, and my Aunt Suzy. Aunt Suzy flew in on Thursday from Austin, TX to surprise Mary Gayle!











We went a Symphony gathering that my Uncle Raymond helped plan and Mary Bratton wanted to dance! Here she is dancing with my Uncle Ray.












Mary Bratton, Uncle Ray and Nasson





















They pulled my Aunt Mary Gayle to the front and sang her happy birthday!

Laundry

Dirty Laundry. This is the way we do it these days!

Love my boys!!!

Who is that baby?

I was looking through old photos b/c Mary Bratton had a project at school (her star) that needed to included photos and her favorite things. I found photos of my sweet nephew Nasson that looked so much like Beau. We were at my brother and sister in laws tonight and were looking at Nasson's baby pics and it blew my mind. They really do favor each other.





The top 2 pictures are of Nasson around a year old

The 3rd picture is Beau at Thanksgiving.

The last picture is Nasson (and mary bratton) at the end of October. Look at Nasson's skin at the end of October. If we are lucky enough for Beau to be as handsome as his cousin Nasson ... he will definitely be a lighter version!!