Swimming with the Vaughan's

We always love getting together with Robert and the girls for summer swimming. The girls had a blast jumping, whipping their hair around, and playing games in the pool. Mariana like's to copy everything that her big cousin does :)

Dirah's Prom

Nadirah searched and searched for the perfect dress with no luck. She ultimately borrowed Lynzie's dress and it was perfect on her. She looked beautiful and no one else had a dress like it :)

Meet Charlee

This our new golden retriever, Charlee. Bailey has wanted a dog since she was a little girl but Jeremy and I aren't really animal people, so we held off as long as we could. Finally, we gave Bailey a stray dog that Colleen found. He is a really good dog, but not a fun dog for her. So the begging started again!!! We had been looking and couldn't find one that was reasonably priced and not a lab until I stumbled across Charlee on Craigslist. Her first owner's have three small children and the mom quickly realized it was way too soon to have a pet. We drove way out into the country to meet her and immediately fell in love. The couple was so happy to find a family that really wanted her they gave us her, her crate, toys, bowls, leash, and food all for free! We brought her home to surprise Bailey and she cried she was so happy!!! She's a good and fun dog and we all love her. We had some issues naming her though. Her original owners named her Lily, which is cute but also the name of our niece so that couldn't work. Then we called her Chloe for a day and Riley decided he did not want to yell that name out in public :) Finally, we all agreed on Charlee. The first picture is one that we re-created for Bailey...long story. The second one is Bailey painting Charlee's toe nails (Riley was again not a fan) and finally the bottom one is Charlee now at 5 months.

Track Banquet

Riley decided to wear a bow tie for the track banquet, which sounded great until we tried to tie it ;) Of course we waited until he was getting dressed to try and figure it out. Well, that turned into a not so happy Riley. He tried first, then Jeremy tried, I tried, my friend Mickie was over so she tried, we pulled up youtube to try and nothing was working. I wasn't sure he was going to figure it out. Ultimately he figured it out once he calmed down and they looked so cute!!

Jill's Graduation

I finished my degree this May :) I completed three years in two, so there were many semesters that I took 18-21 hours but somehow still managed to graduate Magna Cum Laude. I was very undecided on actually walking, but decided I didn't want to regret it later if I chose not to participate. I was way more excited about finishing since it's been a personal goal than I was about walking, so I didn't think to take pictures of me in my cap and gown at school. My mom text me as we were headed home and wanted to see pics, so we stopped by the Keller administration building, I put my cap and gown back on and got the pics. We figured it looked like a campus building anyway so no one would ever know ;) To celebrate we went to dinner at The Woodshed in Fort Worth. It's a new, green restaurant that sits on the Trinity River.