BIG news!

The Francis' are on the move…again!  We spent pretty much every weekend in June house hunting in the Houston area!I feel the need to mention the fact that my girls are total troopers in the car.  3 out of 4 weekends in June were spent driving 7+ hours to Houston and 7+ hours back.  Several of the + turned into additional hours because of flooding, rock slides, and just lots of traffic.  Lovely.  They handled it better then I did though!  ;)

We tried to have some fun mixed in with the house hunting...

 and most places had a sweet or two to give the girls!

 We took Phoebe and Star with us most of the time but our big girl had to go to the kennel.  The girls were always so happy to get her back!

 This was our last weekend house hunting.  I think the girls were over it!  lol!

 all is well when you get Chuey's for dinner though!  ;)

It's a good day to get muddy!

So this little princess woke up as a big 4 year old...

 ready to get down and dirty!

 We met up with the Hull boys to have some muddy fun!

 they were excited and ready to go!

 Reese and I stuck together at her pace.  Ryne and Cooper took off and Jeremy and Karie kept up with them!

 always time for a mud pit selfie!  ;)

 She needed some mommy cuddles during the run.  She isn't too fond of being dirty!

 but she loved climbing on stuff!

 this girl was ALL about it!

Reese was excited when we caught back up with the others (we may have skipped over 1/2 of the course!)...

 They were all so excited to do the muddy water slide...

 then Reese saw how muddy it was...

 so we told Karie to give her a little push...

 she was not happy!  lol!

I had to rescue her!

 Coop liked it!

 and Ryne LOVED it!  She did it like 5 more times!

 Yep, she loved it.

 We basically had to drag Ryne out!  She wasn't ready for it to end!  But then they crossed the finish line!

 So proud of my finishers!!

Way to go girls!

Reese is 4!

 Oh my goodness…when did my baby get so big?!  Reese is just about the sweetest thing!  She is also super cute and quite funny.  She is a complete JOY!

 Reese had a hard time deciding what kind of party she wanted.  She was torn between a Princess, Ballerina, Superhero party (all together) or a Safari party.  She made it easier on me and went Safari!  Whew!  I think our little animal lover enjoyed her party!  She was so cute walking around taking it all in!

Cuteness!

 We had it at our neighborhood park and the weather cooperated!  ;)

this is suppose to look like a snack!  haha!

We had a face painter/balloon artist come and he did an AMAZING job!

 He was so fast and good with the kids.  They all loved getting turned into their favorite animals!

 This pull string piñata was HARD!

finally!

 It was SO windy that it took us way too long to light the candle!

 We finally did and Reese basically blew them out.  :)

 The grands came in handy with all those kids!

Reese had so much fun partying with her friends!  After that though, she was ready to open a few presents with the grands!

tired but happy girl!